ROBIN RIMBAUD



Your favourite virtue ::
Compassion

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
Intelligence, good humour, sensitivity, honesty, humbleness, tolerance, cleanliness, good shoes

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
Intelligence, good manners, humour, warmth, sensitivity, femininity, cleanliness, freshly washed hair

Your favourite occupation ::
Helicopter pilot

Your idea of happiness ::
A quiet place with an expanse of light, all the books and music that I require and fine company

Your idea of misery ::
A dark confined waiting room, with no watch, no timetable, nothing to do

If not yourself, who would you be ::
the slighly slimmer, more sensitive looking person in the mirror

Where would you like to live ::
New Mexico

Your favourite colour and flower ::
Yellow and sunflower

Your favourite prose authors ::
B S Johnson, Samuel Beckett, Paul Auster, Georges Perec, Joan Didion

Your favourite poets ::
Robert Lowell, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Dylan Thomas, Simon Armitage

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Stephen Hero,

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Mrs Dalloway

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Brueghel, Bosch, John Martin, John Dowland, Arvo Part, Max Richter, J.S. Bach, Sebastien Tellier, Tricky, Burnt Friedman

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
Those that care without ego, who battle on

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
Those that care, without ego, who love selflessly

What characters in history do you most dislike ::
I decline. A negative use of energy

Your favourite food and drink ::
Lentils and rice. Cranberry juice

Your favourite names ::
Clapantha, Audrey, Maudlin

Your pet aversion ::
Anything with fur, I'm extremely allergic

The reform which you most estimate ::
Connections between people, digital technology, overwhelmingly so

The gift of the nature which I would like to have ::
To fly with the delicacy of a butterfly

How I would like to die ::
With dignity, with those that I love around me

What is your present state of mind ::
Focused, taught, energetic

For what fault have you most toleration ::
Indeterminacy

Your favourite motto ::
Dulce et decorum est

22 décembre 2006

Scanner - British artist Robin Rimbaud traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways

As well as producing compositions and audio CDs, his diverse body of work includes soundtracks for films, performances, radio, and site-specific intermedia installations. He has performed and created works in many of the world’s most prestigious spaces including SFMOMA USA, Hayward Gallery London, Pompidou Centre Paris, Kunsthalle Vienna, Hanoi Opera House Vietnam, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Tate Modern London and the Royal Opera House London.

He doesn't drink alcohol, tea, coffee, smoke or watch TV but he does have an addiction to fresh bread and milk, and has kept a diary every day since he was 12 years old, never missing a daily entry.

Website :: Scannerdot

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890

OLIVIER UMHAUER



Your favourite virtue ::
The endurance

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
inventiveness, elegance

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
elegance, inventiveness

Your favourite occupation ::
to evaluate

Your idea of happiness ::
to find the correct respiration

Your idea of misery ::
taboo question

If not yourself, who would you be ::
somebody else

Where would you like to live ::
where the reception is pleasant

Your favourite colour and flower ::
My favourite flower ? Coffee tree blossom,
and my colour is the one of Joao Gilberto

Your favourite prose authors ::
André Suares, Léo Pérutz, Itsuo Tsuda, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Alexandre Zinoviev, Léon Bloy, Oscar Wilde, Georges Steiner, Simone Weill, Bernanos, Flaubert, Saint-Simon, Shakespeare, Berlioz, Elie Faure

Your favourite poets ::
La Fontaine, Céline, Genet, Verlaine, Marie Huot, Desbordes-Valmore,Von Hofmannsthal, Hölderlin, Pessoa

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Men

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Women

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Bach, Soul, Klee, Schubert, Dalerci, Mahler, Rothko, Pergolese, Ravel, Motherwell, Soulages, Vermeer, Hindemith, Poulenc,

Your favourite heroes, heroines, in real life ::
Those not prisoners of their gregarious instincts, those assuming their happiness, those conquering the
smile inside

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
I've got no energy to waste in disliking

Your favourite food and drink ::
passion fruit, water and wine

Your favourite names ::
Sesame

Your pet aversion ::
Rat

The reform which you most estimate ::
I 'm asking myself...

The gift of the nature which I would like to have ::
To be

How I would like to die ::
As usual

What is your present state of mind ::
Work in progress

For what fault have you most toleration ::
The off-side

Your favourite motto :
A+bon sang (en français dans le texte)

15 décembre 2006

Olivier Umhauer is Photographer, author of songs, and currently living in Cherbourg - France

Blog :: Olivier Umhauer

Portrait by Didier Soul

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890

DANIEL MAZE



Your favourite virtue ::
discipline (I wish I had more of it)

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
honesty, modesty

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
charm, humour

Your favourite occupation ::
music - soundtrack composing,solo works,arranging and producing

Your idea of happiness ::
family, creative productivity, peace of mind.

Your idea of misery ::
fear, depression, illness

If not yourself, who would you be ::
I can't possibly imagine being someone else - I just want to be me, although
perhaps with a little more money.

Where would you like to live ::
Barbados

Your favourite colour and flower ::
orange, sunflower

Your favourite prose authors ::
Hunter S Thompson

Your favourite poets ::
RG Anstey

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Kojak,Captain Haddock

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Foxy Brown

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Franz Kline,Mark Rothko,Alex Colville,Jackson Pollock,Alexander Calder,Lalo
Schifrin,Miles Davis,Robert Wyatt

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
the genuinely unselfish ones who actually care about people - believe me
they can be hard to find.

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
mothers

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
racists,power hungry political leaders

Your favourite food and drink ::
oriental and greek food, coffee, exotic teas, gin

Your favourite names ::
Milosh, Vladimir, Klaus, Silas, Philemon (names for pets - past and future)

Your pet aversion ::
snakes,rats,tarantulas

The reform which you most estimate ::
cure for all known disease

The gift of the nature which I would like to have ::
gift of the gab

How I would like to die ::
old with peace of mind and with my boots on

What is your present state of mind ::
I dunno - anxiety I think, maybe its the coffee

For what fault have you most toleration ::
eccentric behaviour

Your favourite motto ::
"Monkeys!"

1er décembre 2006

Daniel is musician and currently lives in Vancouver.
Besides his solo recordings, he arranges and produces other artists,
as well as composing music for film.

Website :: Daniel Maze

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890