The air is hot. Camille’s already in bed, but she can’t sleep. Mum has allowed her to read a little in bed as long as she doesn’t fret too much. * Louise is tidying up. She pulls the lunchbox from […]
Author: Albert
Breakaways
The reptiles had chosen the slow, collective option. In their early times, they had played a lot on many variations, and things like growing fins on one’s back, or a disproportionate neck, was considered amusing, if somewhat tasteless, whims. So: […]
THE BENEFACTOR
This text, written by Albert Aribaud <albert.aribaud@free.fr> was published in 1996 in issue 11 of the French fanzine Dragon et Microchips by l’Oeil du Sphinx and is reproduced here by kind permission from Philippe Marlin, of l’OdS, as (slightly) edited […]
My Daily Sketch Challenge submissions for November 2018
The Daily Sketch Challenge consists in one drawing topic every day for a whole month. If you want to find out more about it, look for the #DailySketchChallenge hashtag on Mastodon. These were my Daily Sketch Challenge submissions for November […]
My Daily Sketch Challenge submissions for September 2018
The Daily Sketch Challenge consists in one drawing topic every day for a whole month. If you want to find out more about it, look for the #DailySketchChallenge hashtag on Mastodon. These were my Daily Sketch Challenge submissions for September […]
Ave Fortuna
(French version originally published on May 30th, 2010; reproduced and translated here on June 6th, 2018, fixing a link dead since.) Yesterday, May 29th 2010, I was at the Toulouse Zénith. Not in the audience this time, but as a […]
My Daily Sketch Challenge submissions for May 2018
The Daily Sketch Challenge consists in one drawing topic every day for a whole month. If you want to find out more about it, look for the #DailySketchChallenge hashtag on Mastodon. These were my Daily Sketch Challenge submissions for May […]
Empathy
This text, written by Albert Aribaud <albert.aribaud@free.fr>, proofread in French on the (late) Atelier de Création Littéraire, is published under Creative Commons by-nc-nd (attribution, no commercial usage, no modification) license; for any use incompatible with this license, contact the author. The attribution constraint implies keeping this paragraph just before or just after the text title. The text may be reproduced in any file format as long as it does not contain any digital rights management mechanism.
I am sitting at the terrace of the café, savoring the fact, firstly that there still are some cafés left with a terrace to sit at, and secondly that this one is close enough that I can stop there from time to time on my way to work.
My coffee (decaffeinated, for health reasons) is kindly waiting for me to finish drinking it, while I read my morning paper and wait for for a lab colleague whose arrival I check for with a quick glance after each news item.
As I cast one of these glances, I notice the individual stationed on the pavement across the street. Stationed is the word : he is staring at me, unmoving among the passers-by. His gaze crosses mine, and that is, I am sure, what sets him in motion toward me […]
Robot Poker
[initially posted on https://mastodon.art‘s May 2018 Daily Sketch Challenge on the topic of HOPE.] R42 (left on the picture): “To a robot, intuition is just uncontrolled sensor information processing, and uncontrolled statistically never wins against controlled. Also, humans have bad […]
The new Icarus
The new Icarus takes flight. Drawn for the May 1st, 2018 Mastodon.art Daily Sketch Challenge, topic: “NEW”. Done with Krita, using a Huion 1060PLUS tablet.