Category Archives: European culture

Dessins Erotiques – Bertrand

Dessins Erotiques II (1971) – Bertrand

 

While Bertrand is not exactly canonical to me (too Giger-esque for my tastes), he was published by Eric Losfeld (and anything published by Losfeld is of interest to me). Besides, I quite like the grotesque eroticism on the cover above. Tip of the hat to John Coulthart, who appears to be new to me. I’ll try to find more on Bertrand and Hubert Juin, who wrote the text to this volume.

Here is the first series of Dessins Erotiques

Dessins Erotiques (1969) – Bertrand

This one has an introduction by cinema critic Raymond Borde.

Genetologic Research, Very Short Novels and Cinema 299

I am not particularly a fan of “internet memes“, the internet equivalent of chain letters. The “Thinking Blogger Award” is a case in mind which was analyzed most satisfactory by Surreal Documents. However, the current meme started by Broken Projector in response to the work of David B Dale is too good to ignore. Apparently, Gautam of Broken Projector discovered Very Short Novels, an experiment in constrained writing by David B Dale, and liked it so much that he decided to write a 299-word piece on cinema, called Cinema 299. David D Bale responded by writing Surprise Ending, a “very short novel” on cinema, making the circle complete.

From memes to genes is a small step, I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce the work of Maarten Vanden Eynde and Koen Vanmechelen.

Genetologic Research is a blog by Belgian/Dutch artist Maarten Vanden Eynde, subtitled “The Science of First Things”. Randomly picked, interesting posts include Mice and Men, Black Hole House, and The Cosmopolitan Chicken, a work by Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen who cross-breeds chickens. His work is currently on display at the Verbeke Foundation.

P. S. Although I stated that I am not a big fan of internet memes, I was very proud and honored to receive the “Thinking Blogger Award” in the past from Tales from the Reading Room, Beyond Groovy Age and Tim Lucas.