Travelers

“This activity of the artist, the model-of-time of man that ultimately, inexorably but gently, animates us all.”

Quote from Stan Brakhage (1933-2003).

Using inspiration engines is very important. Do not hesitate to do so.

It’s never too much. If I do a lot of things, it’s because I’m inspired, and that’s very respectable.

When it comes to music, I feel like I suck, that I don’t know the rules, that I should know how to play, that I should know all the technique, etc.

When in fact, I just understood my way of making music: I record things, rushes, as I do with images, as I feel, and whose value is in what is happening in a unique way at the moment I record them. I feel that a magic is possible, and that’s (...)

A tagged life

Living exhibition of 30 photographs.

A “living” online exhibition of 30 photographs, which proposes a narrative in images and words and varies several times a week.In the website www.benoitlabourdette.com, each of the articles, films, conferences... is associated with “tags”, (...)

In the wake of you

Not to restrict myself anymore. Make films, show them. Never force myself, do what I feel.

Moonlight

Words sown on images

Series of 30 photographs illuminated by words.

On my proposal, people have written words opposite images chosen from the thousands that I propose on my website, those that “jumped out at them” and gave birth to words, which illuminate them and dig them, or sculpt them, in return. (...)

Touched

The fact that I create a lot of things, it’s not a problem at all, it doesn’t take away the quality of each thing.

I realize this by listening to Max Richter: he does what he feels, he does it a lot, and it’s very good. It’s an abundant work, in which you can circulate, it’s great. He assumes his power of work.

The cat

“The Long Tail”: Cultural Diversity in the Digital Age

Tool for the design of cultural projects.

The “long tail” is one of the essential concepts of the Internet economy. Contrary to popular belief, on the Internet it is the great diversity of a myriad of confidential works that produces an essential part of the revenues, and this over the (...)