Beauty ...

Perfume by Nina Ricci.

This advertisment shows a charming, attractive, and very sensual beauty. This photo exploits woman's adventages, stressing  her elegant and feminine forms. She looks  a little wild, with her black gloves and her black ears, she looks like an animal. Then, the colors of this picture are very smart, distinguished, and glamourous : Pink &   Black. This mixture of colors is characteristic of  seduction and provocation.

This  photo is  "kitsch" , mysterious  but it expresses a feeling of strentgh and of fascinating beauty. It intends to seduce people.

Perfume by Nina Ricci.

This picture is an advert for the same perfume : Nina Ricci. This one expresses the natural strentgh and beauty of woman. The white color symbolizes purity and freedom. It's a picture which is astonishingly natural.

   Comparing both pictures, we notice that on the second one there's no useless accessory. This picture is not intended to seduce ;  we are just admirative in front of so much strentgh and simplicity.

  Looking at the first picture, I can see a desperate woman trying by all means to hide her true face under a "mask".

                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                   J.B

Raymond Briggs

1/ What is his profession ?

     
    Raymond Briggs is an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author too. He produced humour for children and adults too. 

2/How important is it to him ?

      His profession illustrated his whole life. His work was the only very important thing  in his life. He devoted all his efforts and his hopes to his job.

 

3/ What is his house like ?

   His residence looks like a gigantic comic strip because his house's walls are covered with his drawings.

   

4/ How does his home reflect his personality ?

  His house reflects his real personnality because there are posters of his work of art. Then, in his house there are many books, photos, paint-works, paint and pencils. 

   So his house "overflows" with colors. Therefore, it's a real artist-residence.

 

5/ How does  he talk about himself, his  parents, the characters he has invented?

 

  Raymond Briggs is very modest. He is rather peculiar,  apparently with a  weak personnality. But when we see his house, we understand he  has an "oversized" personnality, very developped and fantastic too.

  Actually, he created  his parents' characters in his fantasy, and in this intervew, we can see he put these character on the top of a cupboard. It shows us he respects, loves them a lot. And, when he talks about his parents, we can notice he's very  upset. R.B he's still thinking of them.

 

What words do you use

I don't use the same language with my friends as with my parents. I think, if teenagers don't use the same language as their parents, it's just because they want to be "different " from their parent's generation. They expect to find their own identity. And, we, teenagers, we use for instance some words like :

- Arrête, tu me fais baliser !
- J 'ai le sum...
- J'ai pas le goût là.
- ça va ou quoi ?
- J'avoue
- La même
-J'ai au taquet ( de sous)
- Sale tepu =) [verlan]
- C'est un tebê fini celui-là !
- Il a le cul mais pas le I : " - T'as perdu ton I,  je te donnerai pas mon cul !"  [ expression perso.-message codé danseur ! ;  ) ]


And many other things !

I am as I am

I am as I am
I'm just like that
When I feel like laughing
Yes, I just burst out of laughter
I love the one who loves me
Is it my fault ?
If it's not the same one
That I love everytime
I am as I am
I'm just like that
What do you want more ?
What do you want from me ?
I am born to be loved
I can't change it
My heels are too high
My waist is too slim
My breasts are much too hard
My eyes too tired
It doesn't matter

It's none of your business
I am as I am
No matter who loves me
It's none of your business


What  happened to me ?
Yes I loved someone
Yes someone loved me
Like children love each other
Children know how to love
Love love ...
Why do you ask questions ?
I'm here to be loved
I can't change it.