And Forth

I am leaving this weekend for India where I'll spend the next 3 weeks in Bangalore. More indian news to come soon ! I'll also be stopping for a weekend in Bangkok on my way back. Expect some news here during the trips.

Back

I flew back from the US last week after 3 days in San Francisco for work and a 3 days weekend in New York city. I had great weather in California and even better in NYC. I walked a lot through both cities, with Rajani in SF and with Aamer and friends in NYC and took many pictures of bridges as you can see here:

Golden Gate, San Francisco


Brooklyn Bridge, New York City

For more pictures, you can go to the usual "cremerie" :). Now I am waiting for the Indian Embassy to stamp my passport to go back to Bangalore.

Hello from California

After an uneventful but long travel, here I am, in Sunnyvale CA for a few days of meetings.

Comic books list

This is not so much of a blog entry, but I figured that having my list online would help me and others when purchasing comics for me :p.
So here we go:

Alef-Thau (Jodorwsky): l’integrale 1
La brousse en folie (Berger): 8
Carmen + Travis (Duval): 1,2
Carmen Mc Callum (Duval): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Carnets d’Orient (Fernandez): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
La caste des meta barons (Jodorwsky): l’integrale
Le Chat du Rabin (Joan Sfar): 1x2, 2x2, 3x2, 4x2, 5
Code Mac Callum (Duval): 1,2
Le combat ordinaire (Larcenet): 1,2,3
Complainte des landes perdues (Dufaux): 1,2,3,4,5
Chroniques de la lune noire (Froideval): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Chroniques de la lune noire - Ghorgor Bey (Froideval): 1
Le cycle de Cyann (Bourgeon): 1,2,3,4
Le cycle de Cyann : La cle des confins (Bourgeon)
Le decalogue (Giroud): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Le decalogue – le XI eme commandement (Giroud)
Djinn (Dufaux): 1,2,3,4,5,6
Druuna (Serpieri): L’integrale
Les forets d’opale (Arleston): 1,2,3,4,5
Gaston (Franquin): 19
Gorn (Tiburce Oger): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Le grand mort (Loisel): 1,
Le grand pouvoir du Chninkel (Van Hamme)
HK (Morvan): 1.1, 1.2
Kookaburra (Crisse): 1,2,3,4,5
Kookaburra universe (Crisse): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Lincoln (Jouvray): 1,2
Les maitres cartographes (Glaudel): l’integrale
Maus (Art spiegelman): 1,2
Les passagers du vent (Bourgeon): 1,2,3,4,5
Persepolis (Satrapi): 1,2,3
Poulet aux prunes (Satrapi)
La quete de l’oiseau du temps (Loisel): 1,2,3,4,5,6
Tetralogie le Sommeil du monstre (Bilal): 1,2,3,4
Thorgal (Van Hamme): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27, 28,29,29bis
Travis (Duval): 1,2,3,4,5,6.1,6.2,7,8x2
Travis Karmatronics (Duval): 1
Le triangle Secret (Convard): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Le triangle secret INRI (Convard): 1,2,3,4
Dans le secret du triangle (Convard)
La trilogie Nikopol (Bilal)
Hors jeu (Bilal)
Le troisieme testament (Dorison): 1,2,3,4
Universal war 1 (Bajram): 1,2,3,4,5,6
Vlad (Swolfs): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Xoco (Palma): 1,2,3
Yiu (Tehy) : 1,2,3,4,5
Yiu premieres missions (Tehy): 1,2,3,4

US comics
Daredevil : The Devil Inside and Out – 1
Moon Knight: The Bottom – 1

Hyperactive March

This is it, March is gone, and I barely have seen it pass in a blink. During almost the whole month I have been going around with visitors, enjoying their company, showing them great places and making them meet each other. It first started with the great Fifille, followed one week after by Thomas, then by Michelle's Dad and Aamer that came to work one week with me (he ended up staying two). One of the achievements was our day in Jerusalem that all these people so unlikely to meet spent together.



Working during the week, visiting during the weekends... in order Nazareth, Kfar Nahum, Ramat Gader, Akko, Jerusalem, Ein Gedi, the Dead sea, Massada, and Jerash in Jordan.

Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem.
Aamer succeeded in going in for the evening's prayer, and Fifille and Thomas succeeded on sunday morning where I had been failing forever, getting on the Temple Mount.

Dead sea and haze, from Massada

Jerash main street, Jordan

I am too lazy to tell you all the stories but one that will remain is that Michelle's dad really would have been a great archeologist. He found (and notified the sites authorities) two roman pots, one in Caesarea and one in Beit Shean, and while we were visiting Jerash his agile eye spotted roman glass between 2 fallen columns. A few hours later, after having been all around the site we had a hand full of pieces of opalescent glass up to 2cm on the side. We couldn't believe how much of it was left around.

Last weekend, we still went for a short visit in Beit Shearim, a 2200 years old Jewish necropolis not far from Haifa, and we rested :).

Eagle on the Lion's sarcophagus

You can find plenty of pictures on my Zenfolio in these galleries: Fifille's visit, Dead Sea, Jerash, Beit Shearim