Rethink Creativity

Grood video by Rory O’Sullivan and Simon Bruyn

Rethink Scholarship at Langara 2010 Call for Entries from Rory O'Sullivan and Simon Bruyn on Vimeo.

France – aide à la création d’entreprises

Je dois dire que la France à fait des efforts bien dirigés pour aider a la création d’entreprise. Chapeau!

Cette semaine je reçois mon avis d’imposition sur mon chiffre d’affaires (RSI). Première fois pour moi alors je m’applique. Je remplie les cases minutieusement, je fait les totaux, re-lis mes factures encore et encore et puis je calcule. 13%.
C’est ce que je dois payer (impôts et charges comprises). Ça fait une somme sur un trimestre. (Une petite somme dans l’absolue mais quand même).

Et puis d’un coup, je me souviens vaguement d’un papier que j’ai rempli au moment de la création de l’entreprise. Ma demande auprès de l’ACRE. Ah! Quelle joie. ACRE: Aide à la création et à la reprise d’entreprise. Vite dit: une réduction d’impôts sur les trois premières années.
Je fouille dans mes papier (plutôt bien rangé avec tout ce que je reçois / envois) et la oh bonheur je regarde avec émerveillement mon précieux document.

Alors?
Alors grâce à l’ACRE je ne paie que 3%! 3% au lieu de 13%, et 6% au lieu de 13% l’année prochaine, et 9% celle d’après. Alors je me félicite de cette aide bien utile surtout en ce moment délicat de lancement d’entreprise.

Irena Suchocki

Anything is possible, originally uploaded by IrenaS.

Paper bottles

A short video on the 360 paper bottle from a company I like – BrandImage. (The video on there website is better but cannot be embeded)

Slick end titles

So you have a look at the end and you want to see the beginning. The circle of life. The new Guy Richy movie – Sherlock Holmes – seems not so bad after all.

Le Rallye

Je pense qu’il est important de garder l’esprit vif et les sens alertes. Une façon efficace de rester affuté est de se lancer des défis. Des petits challenges difficiles et impressionnants de prime abord, mais gratifiants une fois accomplis.

Aujourd’hui j’ai le plaisir de vous faire part d’un tel projet – auquel je ne participe pas puisque je suis un garçon – mais qui soulève mon admiration tant il me semble ambitieux. Une amie à moi va participer au Rallye des Gazelles qui aura lieu dans quelques mois au milieu des dunes et du ciel africain. Oui, oui.

En résumé le Rallye “Aïcha des Gazelles” est une course avec des filles, des voitures, du désert Marocain et des cartes (pas de GPS). Tout ça pour l’association “Coeur de Gazelle” et dans le respect de environnement etc.

Enfin elles ont quasiment bouclé leur budget mais si vous vous voulez les aider (financierement ou autre), si vous voulez faire une bonne action ou si vous avez du budget en trop… A votre bon coeur.

Entire population of Miami, Mienapolis and Las Vegas in Jail

What’s in my mind?

I like the idea that all the texts I read and all the images and films I watch and that I memories randomly throughout my life will be useful someday. I like this idea because it makes me feel like I have some culture, some knowledge of the world and the cultures that surround me; that I exist because I learn.

It’s not often that I have the opportunity to use that trivia. A few years ago, six or seven to be precise I went to my first pub quiz. Blinded by my young and too powerful ego, more shiny than useful, I thought I was going to finally get all that knowledge out of me and impress everyone. Surprisingly, I failed in great lengths.

Throughout the years I have been sometimes in average positions, sometimes in worst ones but overall this has been a big disappointment to me. And I felt like all the knowledge I had in me was not the right one, not the useful one.

Back in Paris, I have started to attend some pub quiz again, with some better results… and yesterday we finished second out of 23 teams. It’s not about being second, it’s not about the champagne bottle we could have won, it’s about hope, it’s about believing that we can. Yes Yvan! I believe I can do it.

I can say it now without being too pretentious: One day I will win that pub quiz. May be not next week, or next year, but one day I will sip that glass of champagne with sparkling bubbles tasting like my sparkling mind that has been set to sleep for too long.

(Pub quiz at the Green Linnet, Paris – With Páraic Maguire as quiz Master who does a extremely good job: “Stern but fair”)

The circle of life within life

It’s funny how things seems to evolve a lot and then you realize all of a sudden you are back at the same point.

Take me, for example. Four years ago, I started my first job in The City (London) in a new office, new industry and new skills… Since then I worked two years there, decided to change job, industry and continent and arrived in Africa. Learned new skills, in a new industry, in a new world. After that, I decided to go back to my first loves, back to Paris, start my business in yet a new industry.

One might the position I am in today say it’s completely different than the one our years ago.

Well it’s not. And the reason is named: Carmelia. I am back at the same spot because I just bought a plant for my new desk and I named it Carmelia…

Carmelia next to my desk in Paris

Well this reminds me of something I wrote more than 2 yeard ago.

Dive into my life

So this is it, after only a few months I am done. Or actualy I am only starting. I have spend the past six months working in my bedroom on my computer or on the phone, calling, design choosing, dismissing, buying, typing…

And now I am finaly ready to open my own little shop. My Own Little Shop, four words very simple, incredibly dull but so important to me. I have created a brand, an image, a shop, an atmosphere, a proposition for people out there on the net looking for cool clothes and cool itms to inhance there interior.

The shop is www.PirartSociety.com it sell clothes for men, pop and cool, snazzy and trendy. Some toys too or sculputures, or art design. Everything is done by Tany, handmade (for the big part). Only limited series because it’s made for the happy few…