[Fun] Clarinette on Rola Bola

I have been practicing a show where I play the clarinette on the Rola Bola.
I won't publish till ready, but here you can see some practice with another tune.
Thanks to A. for the filming and the laughing ;)

[Red Noses] Suspicions of an Epidemy in Santiago, Chile

Specialists say that "the existing information about the infection vector is confusing at best, since there seemed to be both local and foreign components in the infection".

The officials are praying that this won't go viral: "Chile is a very small country: even if such an epidemy touches only one person in, let's say, five, it could very well bring a genuine smile to the remaining 80%, and that would really be the end of Chile as we know it!".

We will keep our readers updated as the situation evolves.

[Santiago] Brown Air

Wednesday I went to an Astronomy observatory one on of Santiago 's hills in one of the "good"  neighbourhood, for a meeting. I took the following picture :

[Cooking] Winter Pies

I woke up at 5:30 full of energy, worked 1.5h, and felt exhausted and cold and depressed, yet unable to sleep... The remedy: pinging on Skype each of my brothers, putting music on louder than usual (not so loud as to wakeup the neighbours who parties all night!), and baking pies to warm up the appartment (it's winter in the South Hemisphere).

I made a Mango pie with the last can of Mango pulp that my PhD students brought me from Cuba. Drew what I remembered to be the symbol for Homesick in Mandarin (turned out that I  remembered  wtong...). It looks good! 

I made a Lemon pie with some lemons and oranges that where hanging around: my neighbour Gloria had requested one for her birthday anniversary, which is today. Turns out that she is not there, she went to visit her family out of Santiago: I will make her another one another day... 

Now, to find people to help me to eat those pies! 

[Caricatures] Various supports for caricatures

Here are some caricatures that I realized on various supports for a couple, Jacques and Marilu:

I first did the  design on paper, and implemented it on tee-shirts :

I implemented an extract of it on two hats:

Jacques wakes up at night to take medecines, and likes to have hot water ready, so I made a thermos mug for him: he loves it! 

Of course, I did the same for Marilu with my caricature of her:

Then, I etched those drawings on glasses to complete the set:

I could actually burn the caricatures on wood spoo s to really complete the set, but they will move soon to a new house so I will wait a bit :)