13 August 2013
Thanks technology ! On a regular basis, we’ll let the webcam catch what’s happen here at the moment, in the main workroom. Movements from everyone will altern on this very website with blog notes that will allow everybody to check how the emulation is already rules here !
Live video from your iPhone using Ustream
More soon !
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12 August 2013
Looks like it’s starting ! Everybody is here now, and introduce himself to each other, the residency finaly starts. At last !
More soon !
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11 August 2013
Today, a pretty great bunch of cartoonists from the US, Canada and Europe finally arrived at Minneapolis. It was saturday, everybody was kind of getting jetlag, so we figured out that the best to do before the rest of the residents come around tomorrow should be : just hanging around !
What we can do tell at the moment :
– some artists are so excited they actually started to work on collaborative stuff together at the airport around 5:00 in the morning ! And they even kept on doing it during the flight, which means that well, we got motivation here (and we saw/read it, and that was really good !).
– Deb’ (is it correctly spelled ? probably not) and Barbara did some of the best potato salad we ever had, while Zak did a great job with the saturday night kind-of-firt-meeting barbecue. Thanks guys, that was an impressive meal we got there !
Eleanor Davis, JC Menu, Zak Sally, Sandrine Martin, Charlotte from ChiFouMi, Pierre Ferrero.
David Libens, Zak Sally, Anders Nilsen, Charlotte from ChiFouMi, JC Menu, Sandrine Martin, Pierre Ferrero (and no, Eleanor Davis didn’t take a nap on the MCAD grass !)
Eleanor Davis, Charlotte from ChiFouMi, Pierre Ferrero and Sandrine Martin.
Watch out ! Back : Jaime Willems (from the MCAD bunch of precious helping people), JC Menu, Jack Kotz (some other precious MCAD guy who just spent the day grabbing everybody at the airport and taken them here), David Libens, Mandie Brasington (another MCAD super awesome nice helping girl too), Pierre Ferrero, June, Fabien Texier (from Central Vapeur in Strasbourg), Eugène Riousse, Marc Bell.
Front : Sandrine Martin, Zak Sally, Barb Schulz, Eleanor Davis.
Sandrine Martin (France), Anders Nilsen (US) and Marc Bell (Canada).
Hello Minneapolis !
We’ll get more people to grab at the airport in the hours to come so… Stay tuned for more !
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6 August 2013
Today, the workshop/class we got with Minneapolis College of Art & Design students just started.
Of course, it will be directly connected with the PFC#4 thing as soon as it will start, so we try to dig a bit deeper into the ways of dealing with narrative construction into the comics form ; which means : oubapo constraints, formal restrictions, collaborative works, individual creation, and ophthalmic migraine !
Attending the class is a bunch of people who know already how to deal with all of this, so this is real pleasure to exchange about the various oubapian stuff that could works here too.
Of course, ChiFouMi wants to thanks the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and especially Barbara Schulz
and Zak Sally for making it happening. More coverage real soon, as this is only the beginning of a 2 weeks
workshop !
And during this time, we are also spending times on the PFC#4/Autoptic project. It’s a question of days before everything starts here, and there’s clearly some electricity in the air : here, Anders Nilsen and Zak Sally are just giving the sunday evening treatment to some particular step in this soon-to-happen PFC#4 thing…
Of course, we can’t wait for that. Oh, didn’t we said that before, already ? Anyway : can’t wait for that.
Stay tuned for more news from Minneapolis !
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4 August 2013
Ok, let’s be honest : we’re running out of time here as there’s only one chifoumist at the moment, and well, between some workshops to prepare, the residency to adjust, and all the many, many rendez-vous that are making this very huge timetable, let’s say it clearly : this will be something, guys, that we hope will be as great as we feel it at the moment.
The ChiFouMi gang will be ready and in full effect in a few days and the news will start to invades this website (as for our facebook and twitter pages…), and before that, a few news things that comes up these last hours, after a long, slow roasting :
Our man Anders Nilsen did it again. Not only he managed to get some art to show from this incredible bunch of talented artists that will be part of the PFC#4 thing, but he found out crazy ways to share it with people. Jugglers will happen at Co-Exhibitions, and the reception (with probably all authors and people involved in PFC#4 and Autoptic !) is tuesday, August 13th, from 7pm to midnight, as there will also be music for your ears, thanks to Zak Sally‘s Pretty Ladies latest awesome project.
Minneapolis, we are already totally in love with you.
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