January 6, 2022 (Solaison, France). Two trees, two different species. The one in the background is a mobile phone mast, designed as a tree. The locals think it looks like a “morille” (morel) mushroom, but they reported how it was helpful for kids during COVID lockdown (zoom calls and on-line schools).
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Spaceship dock or Bespin?
September 3, 2021, Skyway Monte Bianco (Courmayeur, Italy). The upper station of the cable car, feels like a spaceship dock (or the back of a fishing boat as mentioned by my friend Matthieu Duperrex). This big metal construction and the sky here made me think of Bespin, the cloud city of the Star Wars universe.
Historical reenactment in the Alps
August 28, 2021. Quick a long hike to Mont Buet, near Chamonix in the French Alps with the Laboratory for the History of Science and Technology (Swiss Institute of Technology, Lausanne). Thea idea was to reenact a scientific expedition made in in the 18th Century by scientists from Geneva (Deluc, Saussure, Pictet and Bourrit) with a group of researchers and artists (Pascale Favre, Olga Cafiero and Joëlle “Verveine” Nicolas) as well as Stéphane Fischer, the curator of the Musée d'Histoire des Sciences. Fischer brought two replicas of Deluc's 1770 barometer (picture), as well as several other scientific instruments.
Why blogging this? Aside from taking this as an opportunity to visit a mont that I’m less familiar with in the area, the idea is to produce a scenario about this for the Chamonix role-playing game I’m working on with Sabrina Calvo and Etienne Mineur.