Retouches photo, invention et réalité

It’s funny that Jen chose transformation for a theme. At that very moment, at the other end of the World, I was hosting a meeting with Joe Pine (photo on the right), he who coined the expression ‘Customer Experience’, in which he was describing five major economy levels. The first one was ‘commodities’ and the last one was… transformation. And just at that moment when Jen posted her piece, I was showing Joe our little Friday exchanges.

Éphémère beauté du monde et temporalité

All we do and build in this world is temporary. We don’t look at it this way and yet, with hindsight, once we are dead and buried, who will remember us and what we’ve done. What will become of this website and the 2,000+ blog posts which I have written, not to mention the thousands of pieces written for clients and other blogs and sites. Even our books. Eve our houses, one day, will end up like this one, possibly a stately mansion at the beginning of the twentieth century, yet it’s crumbling to dust now.

Architecture brutaliste à Ivry

Lorsque ma femme m’a annoncé que nous nous rendions à Ivry-sur-Seine pour visiter l’architecture brutaliste du lieu, j’ai cru qu’elle était folle à lier. Pour moi, « années 1970 » était une expression qui voulait dire « moche à pleurer ». En de rares…