Diamond in the dark

   In my spare time, apart from raising some uncommon creatures (as some already know...), another hobby of mine is growing orchids, the genus Pleione in particular.
   It's always rewarding when they finally flower, this one in particular took 8 years before deciding itself, but it was worth the wait.

Pleione Leda

Clouds

Found a really old file...
It's a midi file of something I made as an intro for some really odd stage number back in the late 90s
It feels really weird to me how it sounds out of the limited midi capabilities of my computer soundcard, which is exactly what you can hear now

Little things #3 : Dark skies

Little things... #2

Snow is usually something which has a negative connotation : it's cold, it slows down traffic, can induce failures of the power grid... But it also modifies the light, guides the eye, changes the way we perceive an usual landscape.

Skeppsholmen and Af Chapman (Stockholm)

Work in progress...

Here's the beginning of a melody I'm currently working on.

The Circus

Hej,

Sometimes you work on a melody without knowing where it will lead, and a slight modification of the orchestration just changes everything.
That's what happened with that one, I started as a classical piano piece, and while playing around, just found it was a bit circus-esque.

Musicbox

Hej.

Another old melody.
I intended it as a musicbox lullaby for my little cousin but it just never seemed to do its purpose.

Nevertheless, I still like it and it was an amazing experience, I just love how one can spend weeks with pieces of melodic lines in mind without finding what to do with those, and then suddenly everything just starts to fall back in place and blend together into one.


Since long I feel like putting images together and make a video for it...

“But that is another story and shall be told another time.” (Michael Ende, The Neverending Story)

Little Thomas

Sometimes, I just feel the need to talk to someone, share something, but then, when I try, I just don't find the right words, and I end up not speaking at all. So this time, I'm just gonna write it the way it flows in my mind.

Every saturdays, I take part to a Tale Hour with kids of the children hospital. It's basically just recounting a tale, but making the kids interract with the story, change it, control it, reinvent it.
I may be 35, but somehow I'm still a kid myself, I watch animes on TV on sunday mornings, I always amaze myself in front of little things, imagine magical stories behind every little objects...
But every time, when I come back home from the tale hour, I feel even younger, because most of the kids there seem to be older in their mind than I am (and, in fact, than most of the grownups I know are). One kid in particular always caught my attention : Little Thomas.

Rain

another old melody done when toying... ah.. boredom

Winter Tale

Today, something old...
That was my first attempt using a 3D software, years ago...
The software was called TrueSpace, did not come with a handy "how to", so I just went from scratch, trials and errors mode... and did that overnight (yes, I can be quite persistant -to not say stubborn- when I don't succeed to do what I want).

PS: yes, I know, the moon is not supposed to have a shadow (among other things)...