After rounds thoughts

During a cg (computer graphics) movie production, each artist working on a shot goes through 'rounds' where her or his work is evaluated and given notes to work on.
The degree of precision and meaningfulness of the note depends on many factors such as temperature, mood of the supervisor, color calibration of the monitor, moon cycle, imminence of the final movie deadline, last legislative election results, last supervisor's meal etc... It takes a lot of artistry to correctly interpret and address these surrealistic notes but at the end of the day the kafkaesque finally triumphs, without anyone really understanding what really happened.
As long as everyone is happy that's all that counts no ?

Emancipated yes, but not too much ok ?

The knitting group

At my workplace there was a joke about some people being part of a knitting group which was meeting everyday at 16:00 at the cafeteria to discuss important things.
Not sure what they would discuss, as the group was very secretive. The group is now dissolved.

Important topics are discussed during the knitting group meetings

Trustworthiness

Another cartoon done for a book published for a bootcamp.
This time "Trustworthiness" was the subject.

Holders of a PhD in advanced Mathematics will notice that she should have said:
"You were already married ? Four times ?"

Drawing observations

One more cartoon taken form the bootcamp book. Subject: Drawing observations

Yes, these are dots. So what ?
Ooh wait ! I think see something !

Inspire each other to learn

Continuing with cartoons I drew for the bootcamp organised at my work and for which a book was published, today's subject is: "Inspire each other to learn".

Inspiration O  Inspiration !

The Frenchman

Ever since the Frenchman was created, the world has never been the same anymore.
Was the arrival of the Frenchman on Earth a boon or curse for humanity ? People have strong opinions and are deeply divided on the subject.
At Imprimatuur we don't have any opinion on the subject, as we consider that stuff just happens without necessarily a reason. The thing is there and we have to live with it. That's how pragmatic we are.
A while back we posted How Stuff Works: The Frenchman, which showed the technical details and internals of the Frenchman. However, we forgot to give the definition of this surrealistic species.

Here's the official definition of the Frenchman, so that to clarify once and for all what we're really talking about.

Frenchman [ˈfrɛntʃmən]: noun

• If you see a beret, a baguette and a bottle of red wine popping out from a grocery bag coherently moving together, then the thing holding them together is a Frenchman.

Now things are clear 

The Frenchman is just that

Consensus and Collaboration

Continuing with a series of cartoons I drew for a bootcamp book a while ago, here's another one dealing with consensus and collaboration - essential elements for successful teamwork !

They will go far !

Managing complexity

Yet another cartoon done for a bootcamp book. This time the topic was: Managing Complexity

A tough one

Urgent vs Important

One more cartoon from the book that was published for a bootcamp organised at my work a while back.

Selflessness

Here's another cartoon I did for the lighting boot camp book to illustrate "selflessness".

Will they help their friend get out ? not sure

Presentation Skills II

Another cartoon I did for the bootcamp book for the section about presentation skills.

A key element is to be able to catch your audience attention - among other things.

A tie well tied is all you need

Presentation Skills I

Another cartoon I did for the bootcamp book for the chapter "presentation skills". 

How to keep the audience's attention ?

 This will work, for sure

Self Discipline !

So ok, I know, I said that I would post new cartoons more regularly and what happened ? no cartoons. This is a blatant case of a self indiscipline !
Some time ago, a bootcamp was organised at my workplace. A book was then published on that occasion and I was asked if I could illustrate some concepts with cartoons, which I happily did .
Today's is taken from that book and is very conveniently named 'Self Discipline'.

Discipline starts by clearly defining who's the boss

Imposing discipline can imply taking liberties
with some fundamental laws of physics  

Oh wait, already 2013 ?

Hello folks,

Yeah no need to mention it, I know, I left this blog unattended for quite a long time. To justify my absence, I was going to explain in details that I had been kidnapped by extraterrestrials who didn't have an internet connection aboard their spacecraft, hence the absence of new posts.
However, I refrained to do so at the last minute feeling that the story would cut no ice with my readers (despite the fact that intergalactic temperatures are typically close to a good -273.15 C).

Anyway, we are now in 2013 AD and hopefully more cartoons and music will come.

For today, here's some jazz piece that I recently composed.
I'm not sure if I actually have already heard the theme or a similarly sounding theme somewhere.
If you know of any similar theme, please let me know.
I couldn't find a title, so since I was cooking pasta when trying to find a name, I just named it 'Al Dente'.
Hope it's not too hard on the ears !

La Barque

A little composition that I did over the weekend
As usual, it's not yet finished.
The piece has some sort of arabian music touch but also with some hint of fanfare with a tuba marking the beat.
Ingredients:
- guitars
- drums
- darbouka
- tuba
- fute

Guitars played by me, other instruments played electronically. I wish I could thank individually each transistor who contributed to the piece but I'll probably miss some, so instead I'll thank the microprocessors so that nobody is forgotten.- thank you microprocessor , thank you microprocessor !

La barque

Little compositions

hello folks,
It's been a while that I haven't posted a cartoon, and, like a recidivist, I'm not going to publish a cartoon today either. Instead here are two little composition tests that I did recently using my Boss RC-50 loop station. Still in a metastable state.