The holy 24 minutes exercise at PFC.

Yesterday and today, authors and students did the classic “24 minutes” exercise (kind of the grand-grand-son of the 60 minutes et 30 minutes exercises). They will do it every day of the week, they have to adopt the routine!
They have to produce 3 pages in 24 minutes time only. Each page contains 6 frames. One frame has to be produced in 4 mn by 3 authors working together…Ok, to be clear, they have to draw in the rush to finish in time.

Les auteurs et étudiants en pleine action pendant l'Exercice des 20 minutes.

Authors and students during the “24 minutes” exercise.

Les 20 minutes par Rosemay, max de Radiguès et Eleanor Davis.

One of the 3 “24 minutes” by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, Max de Radiguès and Eleanor Davies.

Les 20 minutes par Pierre Ferrero, Brandon et Lisa Hanawalt.

One of the 3 “24 minutes” by Pierre Ferrero, Brandon Hugues and Lisa Hanawalt.

Les 20 minutes par Leigh, Lilli Carré et Geneviève Castrée.

One of the 3 “24 minutes” by Leigh Luna, Lilli Carré and Geneviève Castrée.

Les 20 minutes sont terminées m'sieurs dames !

Time’s up, ladies and gentlemen!

Jugglers art show opening @ Co-Exhibitions, meet & greet @ French Alliance, Pretty Ladies live…

Crazy, crazy evening.
At first, after a long day of working on plenty of many exciting exercices, all the PFC#4 residents went over downtown, for some Meet & Greet little talk offered by the French Alliance, which is one of our precious partners for our little adventure here.
Most of students PFC#4 related class were also here, and people from ChiFouMi did their best for showing and explaining what PFC was all about to the thousands of francophiles who came, and most of our various actions : screenings of exhibitions, meetings, workshops, residency and all were done, including some the two shorts films that our great friends at Kaméléon Prod in Besançon and Aurélien Pou7 Jeanney did a few years ago.
Seing pictures of La Saline, here, in Minneapolis, was something quite moving for us, we gotta admit. While we’re on this subject, we would like to take this opportunity to say hello to our friends from ChiFouMi in France : Lionel, Pablo-Paquito-Ramon, Charline, Alcor, Marina, Max, Nadine, Bob, Juliette, Mathilde, Emilie, Marie, Philippa, Steve, Nancy, Christophe, Florence, Caro, Adeline, Bruno, Chloé, Anne, Fabien, Nono, Raph, Raph 2, Auria, Stéphanie, et of course to all the people who helped in one way or another our various actions. And of course, we wanna make a big hug to our loved president Gil-Loup. We think about you everyday here, dear friends.

Oh ! And Geneviève Castrée helped us on the english translation, too. Thanks to her once again !

After this, Benoit Preteseille did a little presentation of the ION Exhition happening there :

But ! This stirring tuesday was just at its beginning : after the meeting at French Alliance, everybody crossed the Mississipi river and went up north east for getting into the opening of the “Jugglers” exhibition that Anders Nilsen planned for months at this super cool Co-Exhibitions place.

What can we say ? Combining so many talented artists in this dope place was the idea of the year.
“From Sculpture to Animation and Songwriting to Design: An exhibition of 10 cartoonists from two continents. with music by Zak Sally’s Pretty Ladies”. Well, we were supposed to know how great it got to be. And well, it was !

And all of this finished with some impressive live act courtesy of Zak Sally and Shawn Walker : together, they’re Pretty Ladies. And they did a set that we’ll probably remember for a long time, including some contribution from the public that was asked to draw on some paper wall made for the occasion. The music was a great source of inspiration. And still is.

Thanks to Anders, Zak and her Pretty Ladies.
And PFC#4 is still gettin hot and hot ! Check us 24/24 online here…
Insane technology !  Crazy cartoonists ! Free coffee !
Let’s go.

Aesthetic Apparatus is in the place !

We have the incredible pleasure to get some of the best silkscreen printers ever aboard !
Aesthetic Apparatus will print the amazing collective book that everybody work on since monday morning. You can get a reminder of what it’s all about here, and for being sure this accordeon book will kick ass, we didnt took any risks and asked Dan, one of the great guys at Aesthetic Apparatus, to come visit us to tell about the technical specifics, and he was kind enough to comes over here.

Can’t wait for seing the whole result !
And we got a thought for our friend Nono and the Demouj’mouj’ family, yo !
More soon.

You want some PFC#4 exercises ? Here it is.

Chacun y va de son exercice et de son crayon : Ressac, exercice du carré, exercice du téléphone etc, on hallucine déjà de voir à quel point les esprits fusent et le pire (façon de parler hein), c’est que ça ne fait que commencer.

“L’exercice du carré” proposé par Benoît Preteseille et poursuivit par Jim Rugg, Max de Radiguès et David Libens.

Un objet mystérieux qu'Eleonor Davis nous concocte...

Un objet mystérieux qu’Eleonor Davis nous concocte…

“L’Exercice de téléphone” consiste en une sorte de bouche à oreille mais dessiné, évidemment. Un auteur fait une première case qu’il passe ensuite à une deuxième personne. Cette dernière recopie le dessin puis le cache sous sous un post-it et donne la page à une troisième personne qui recopiera la première copie du dessin et ainsi de suite… Allo vous suivez ? Non ? Bon c’est pas grave, nous non plus.

“L’Exercice du téléphone”.

Les esprits fous sont tous à PFC ! Ici, Kevin Huzenga et Jim Rugg proposent un exercice semblable à celui proposé par Ibn Al Rabin les années précédentes… flippant mais puissant.

Connection de l'esprit.

Connection de l’esprit.

Studious working atmosphere…

Some “atmosphere” pictures …

Ici, John Porcellino, Jim Rugg et Jean-Christophe Menu en pleine discussion.

John Porcellino, Jim Rugg and Jean-Christophe Menu are having a talking about some dope new exercise.

Pierre Ferrero... super précis le mec.

Pierre Ferrero… super precise guy.

Zak Sally au premier plan, John Porcellino au deuxième... tout est dit.

On the foreground Zak Sally, John Porcellino behind him… Nuff’ said.

Geneviève Castrée dessine la musique.

Geneviève Castrée is drawing the music.

Jim Rugg et Eugène Riousse ensemble pour le bouquin collectif.

Jim Rugg and Eugène Riousse together for the collective book.

LA carte indispensable.

The one and essential card.