Around Tintin - The ultimate tintin & Snowy Picture

En route to the Black Island

I allready had a portrait of the famous duo, tintin and snowy and was a bit frustrated as there were so much adventures that couldn`t fit into thoses two portraits.

So i've decided to go for a larger picture, big enough to fit the whole 24 Albums serie, well i think i'll need a 10 square meter canvas and 1 year work, So on this 30cm by 30cm, i've been able to put the essentials of the serie, picking up the high times of eqch adventures and putting them up on the portrait:

Tintin et Milou

The picture started at the top of tintin's head and going clockwise, witht he soviets, in congo safari (disguised in a girafe), arriving in U.S:A by sea, cigars story, rowing in amazonia, meeting his friend Chang, his journey to Scotland chased by dupond and dupont, walking on the moon with haddock, calculus and biance, big mushroom on a mysterious island, marlinspike and the unicorn, etc, etc...
The print is availalbe on my Etsy shop here : snowy and tintin

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

American Success

Oprah is the best example for an illustration of the american Succes : from nothing to the worldwide recognition.
She grew up in a poor village, raised by her grand mother, then sexually abused, pregant at 14 and loose her baby.
She then have found what she loved at school : communication, and she was good at it : she became the most popular girl at her school.

She have been then working for a radio channel,  did well and raised the ladder, step by step. Promotted to a talk show in Chicago with flat audience and strong competition.
She put the basis of her program called "The Oprah Winfrey Show", wich became years after years, the most viewed show on T.V on all time !
I didn't knew lot of things about her, and realised that all theses big interviews were made by her : the Michael Jackson interview, and more recently, the Lance Armstrong Confessions.

Revolution of the Talk Show

Oprah is like an hypnotiser, she can make the people speak, she make feel confortable, she isn't arrogant, help to get the words getting out of the mouth, and she applied that to her show, making events of the the real life becoming incredible. She build an empire around that, with her Talk Show, Magazine,T.V interviews, press, etc....

Passion for Handbags.
 She is rich for sure and have a passion for Handbags, so she wants to buy the cream of thoses. We eventualy saw stories about winfrey wanting to buy a Hermes bag in Paris and denied to enter the store by an unpolite doorman.(she isn't famous in France, and parisian are unpolite). I've check the story into know that she wanted to buy the "Birkin" bag wich is done upon request and is worth a fortune (she allready have 12 of theses.... rich people caprices...)

More Recently in Switzerland, somebody refused to show her a 38.000 € bag as she couldn't afford it. When you are rich but unrecognisable for some people and black, but she cope with that with class!

Well, you can browse her portrait now and try to find all theses stories....

Why Leo Messi will stay in the Barca...

Leo Messi

During the mercato season, we always got theses crazy numbers about how much a club would have to pay to get the argentinian player. Even if the figures are too high here is the little thing you should know about Lionel Messi and the barca :

When he was a child, Leo was an incredible soccer player but had a very rare dicease : he wasn't growing like the other little boys.

The treatment was relatively expensive and the family couldn't ccope with that at this time.

1,11 Meter high

 So the deal was that the FCBarca will take all thetreatment fees in charge and make the little "pulga" grow normaly in exchange of mobing to barcelona and enroll into the massia, the barca training program.
So if he is now 1,69cm high  and not 1,11m it partly due to the Barca.


So even if you had these millions (billions next year), you can't unlink this relation between messi and the barca ! It's not about money, it's just about loyalty.

Nelson Mandela - Did You Know That ?

Nelson Mandela

What is the "46664" number ?

Nelson Mandela was in jail on Robben Island; he entered in1964, and was the 466th prisoner to arrive that year.
He has been wearing this number ofr almost 25 years.






Did you know about the Mandela Day ?

Nelson Mandela details

Every 18 July, you are asked to give 67 minutes of your time to fight for social justice. What nelson mandela says about that :

"Nelson Mandela has fought for social justice for 67 years. We’re asking you to start with 67 minutes."

"We would be honoured if such a day can serve to bring together people around the world to fight poverty and promote peace and reconciliation,"