Louis le Déboucheur has been involved in all unblocking work for nearly 30 years, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
Sewer or plumbing problems? His teams circulate permanently throughout Brussels with televised sewer camera inspections and unclog and clean sewers, sinks, bathrooms, toilets, kitchens, drainage networks …
In recent years, Louis’s televised sewer camera inspections have found a second life as inadvertent experimental video works, viewed by some as comparable to respected film artists such as Stan Brakhage and Michael Snow.
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Dubois L. ★★★★★
I was very impressed by the services of Louis le Déboucheur. Contacted in the morning I already had an appointment for the same day indicating the approximate time of arrival of the technician as well as a price range for the intervention. The technician arrived with all the necessary equipment and proceeded with the work while very professionally explaining all the required steps to me. When he was done he absolutely wanted to clean everything up so that the place was spotless.
Marie ★★★
I hired Louis le Déboucheur to unclog my sink because I am a fan of his videos. When working with him it became clear to me that he has no artistic intentions whatsoever.
Alaver ★
Sloppy, ineffective in more than eight days and obnoxious when you dare to complain! 159 € quickly, poorly done!!
Inspection par caméra du rampant WC handicapé au rez-de-chaussée, vers la chambre de visite au niveau des égouts.
Chee de Gand
A4334 – C90375
Inspection par caméra de la colonne d’eau pluviale en vue de trouver la cause de l’infiltration d’eau à l’étage inférieur.
Cette vidéo traite d’une inspection par caméra en direction de la rue après débouchage
C34616
Inspection par caméra de la colonne d’eau pluviale depuis la toiture.
A 3620 / C89204
Inspection de la conduite des eaux usées
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p.s. RIP Israel Regardie. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Yeah, I thought that Chapmans piece was too obvious, but I always forget that most people don’t follow contemporary art closely if at all and that what seems ubiquitous to me is probably total news to a lot of blog readers. I need to stopping so stringent or something. Hope your toe is righting itself to the point that that boot will become excessive ASAP. ** Dominik, Hey, D!!!! Glad you dug it and the Creeds in particular. Yeah, it has to stop some day, right? The hacking thing, I mean. I guess? Ugh. Ha ha. I was craving split pea soup yesterday morning for some reason, and I don’t know why Iggy got the de-aging gift. This morning, you’re right, a smoothie sounds like just the thing. Well, that particular smoothie. Love transforming the real world into a Japanese anime and Japanese anime into the real world, G. ** Ian, Hi. T, if you’re reading this and didn’t already know, Ian had some Russian author ideas for you in yesterday’s comments. The post-novel slump. Dude, I know that one. It’ll wake up. Strangely, or maybe practically, I still make my preparatory novel graphs and stuff on paper, I think mostly because I’m an utter know-nothing and klutz with the kinds of apps whereby I could do that on my computer. Mm, I have to find them in my piles and piles of papers and scan them. I’ll see if I can. Thank you asking in any case. Do you do preparatory things for your novels and other works? ** David Ehrenstein, Morning. Everyone, Mr. Ehrenstein’s FaBlog takes on Milo Yiannopoulos’s self-de-gaying. Here. ** Steve Erickson, Being inside ‘Enter the Void’ sounds fun. Well, it depends on which part of the film, I guess. Everyone, Here’s Mr. Erickson: ‘Trouser Press published my SOPHIE overview as part of their online record guide today’. Here. I have absolutely no idea about the mirror blog thing. It might not seem like it, but my understanding of how anything online works is quite primitive for some reason. ** Brian O’Connell, Hi, Brian. Yep, Hell is one of the most successful and ugliest scams ever, for sure. I’ll look for those Manuel Chili figures, thanks! The amusement park non-interest is totally understood. I love coasters, but mostly I just love being in the parks and experiencing their dreamy architecture and ambitious atmospheres. Dark rides are my ultimate favorite. Yeah, nose to the grindstone. Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you, and all of that stuff. Obviously pleased that your friend liked ‘Closer’. Thanks for sharing it with him. My today will be spending the entirety from a few minutes from now until curfew all the way across Paris supervising another test shoot of the ‘Jerk’ film, which will be more of a ‘nose to the grindstone’ kind of experience than it probably sounds. Twinkling > grindstone to you. ** Gus, Hey, Gus. I’m obviously happy to hear that the blog is better than the Meghan/Harry coverage. Jesus, what a silly world we’ve made. Ha ha, that’s nice. The ‘Daydream Believer’ thing. I did have the feeling, or he might have even said, that he mostly or only writes on his phone, which makes prose look long and skinny like a poem, so maybe that story will be in that book. ‘Bad Moon Rising’ is a monster, for sure. Mm, it’s too early to do press and stuff for ‘I Wished’. I guess I will when it’s closer to the time and do readings and stuff. I’m not a huge fan of doing readings, but they’re part of the expected deal. I like doing interviews though. It’s nice to talk with people. I send you Paris’s greatest hits! ** Jeestun, Hi, Jeestun. Cool, I liked the Lu Yang things particularly too. I hope you find that jolting source. It’s gotta be out there. ** Mark Gluth, Me too, about books vs. devices, but being way over here where books take forever to arrive by post, I often just go for the device versions both out of impatience and because I sometimes have no choice. Thank you for the peek into what you’re working on. Needless to say, that made my nerves jangle. I may have mentioned this kind of strange novella thing that I’m co-writing with Zac. I feel like it’s working, I don’t know. It’s taking a lot of fooling and experimenting to get it functioning right, but I think it might be close or at least closer now. ** John Newton, Hi, John. Oh, right. People I knew, myself, always assumed this particular bad stomach effect in acid was strychnine, but it doesn’t surprise me that it was something else. I always thought the McKenna/Leary/Ram Dass writings on LSD were total nonsense. Your experiences sound crazy and kind of invaluable. Yeah, it’s good to know when enough is enough. Those are interesting obsessions. Huh. No, my blog is hosted by WordPress. My former blog that got murdered by Google was via Blogspot. Yes, the 9th Circle was one of my biggest hang out spots, in the 80s particularly. My friends and I were there all the time. It was singular. Happy day. ** Right. I feel pretty confident that you’re not familiar with the videos of Louis the Plumber. Have at them, why don’t you? See you tomorrow.
______________ Dennis OppenheimAttempt to Raise Hell, 1974 ‘Dennis Oppenheim moved away from performance and body artworks in the mid-1970s toward contraptions, machines, and installations. In Attempt to Raise Hell, he replaces the performing persona of earlier body and action pieces with a puppet figure clothed in a dark suit. Its silvery head with closed eyes and upturned palms protrude from the limply hung clothing, but otherwise its body seems to have withered and disappeared. With a spasmodic jerk the motorized marionette lurches forward, ringing a bell suspended in front of its forehead. The resultant peal is sharper and fuller than we might expect from a mechanism initially so innocuous and toy-like.’
______________ Dash SnowUntitled (Hell), 2005 Digital C-print, 50.8 × 50.8 cm (20 × 20 in)
______________ Wat Rong KhunPit of Hell, 1997 ‘When you first find yourself standing in front of the temple, you are confronted with a cluster of desperate hands. This is hell – the endless pit of desires and human cravings, according to Buddhism. Once you cross the bridge above the “hell”, you are greeted by the statues of the heaven guardians. There’s no turning back by this point, the way is only forward. In fact, the guard employed at the temple would actually shout at you if you tried to go backward. The symbolism of crossing the bridge from “hell” to “heaven” signifies the Buddhist path to enlightenment.’
______________ Annette LemieuxHell Text, 1991 ‘A large-scale red canvas, Hell Text, which is seared with a text of memories of the Holocaust by survivors.’
______________ Makoto AidaBlender, 2001 ‘From afar, the blender appears to be mixing up a concoction of grainy peach, black and cranberry objects. As the viewer moves closer to the painting, the subject matter shifts from the large blender to the individual human bodies. Thousands of naked young women with expressionless faces being cut up in the machine, it draws attention to a pressing, but tabooed problem stemming from Japan’s sex industry resulting in the fatality of Japanese women through consumerism in their own society in an unconventional, shocking, and disturbing way.’
_____________ Arnulf RainerHell, 1973 ‘All my photo revisions are self-portrayals, reproductions of the self that is not yet known to me. The method: First, the perpetual attempt to grasp a point of pure identity. Second, the attempt to transform oneself completely, to alienate oneself in the infinite multiplicity of the possible. There is not only one person within me, but all this should become only one. So I investigated my limits and my centre point, but I only found that I could expand anywhere and everywhere. Since then, my wish has been to unfold myself infinitely, but at the same time to occupy a fixed spot like granite.’
_____________ Liga SpundeWhen Hell Is full, the Dead Will Walk the Earth (The Mirror), 2020 ‘“The Mirror” is an animated projection on a screen made out of polyester resin. The inspiration for the object, is the magic mirror from the Disney film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. In the movie the mirror played the role of a passive spy – it retold and replayed the murder of Snow White to the queen. This is similar to what the computer screen does nowadays. The role of the character and its purpose in the famous fairytale made me think about the world of Dark Net today.’
_____________ Paul GerrardConcept Art From Alex Proyas’ Never-Made Paradise Lost, 2010 ‘In February of 2012, Legendary Pictures pulled the plug on Paradise Lost. It was to be a loose adaptation of John Milton’s 17th century poem of the same name. Director Alex Proyas, who is best known for directing The Crow, planned to use the most advanced motion capture technology to bring the biblical saga to life. Budget concerns proved to be too much to overcome. Legendary, tried numerous times to rework the numbers to get the budget below $120 million, but it was too difficult a task. Most of the budget would’ve went to the enormous celestial battles that involved massive aerial warfare between the angels and the demons. The cast included: Bradley Cooper as Lucifer, Benjamin Walker as the archangel Michael, Casey Affleck as Gabriel, Diego Boneta as Adam, Camilla Belle as Eve and Dijmon Hounsou as Abdiel the Angel of Death.’
______________ Andy WarholHeaven and Hell Are Just One Breath Away, 1985 synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, in two parts
______________ Seth PriceHell Has Everything, 2018 ‘My Country tis of thee, the Human Beat Box/sound soup with Mj demos/ bilitis…) earthbeat Herbie Hancock, time n space Pink Siifu, lady on the train Irene Xero, work the flow RP Boo/Cathedral van halen, threat misses juke ya girl, Kenji Yamamoto metroid main, Zulu P see you when i get there, crying (Kode 9 remix) roots manuva Sandrose underground session chorea, hear my heart Antoinette Marie Pugh+jeff phelps Jon Appleton Georganna’s Farewell Detroit Summer DJ Assault The Formula The D.O.C./Eric B Just a Beat/Jay’s Game JMJ/Megamix I&II D.ST., Nights Over Egypt The Jones Girls/Live Pistoia+Bariazioni Su ‘Angeli Di Solitudine’ Albergo Intergalattico Spaziale/Decoder Pt 1: Muzak for Frogs psychic t.v. nada sagrado Angel rada, germfree adolescents X-ray spex, A Little Soulful Tune taj mahal/massa confusa Archaïa, otis g johnson Come Back’
______________ Le Gentil GarçonWhere Da Hell Are We Going?, 2004 Polystyrène, fils électriques, néons, patins à glace, mousse expansive
________________ Erin M. RileyPure Hell, 2005 – 2016 ‘At age 13, Erin M. Riley started plucking her hair as a way to relieve stress caused by her family’s substance abuse problems. Throughout her childhood on Cape Cod, her dad used drugs and her mom drank. When she reached college, her urge to pluck, known as trichotillomania, became debilitating. At that point, her older sister and her younger sister were both addicted to heroin. “During college, I was waiting for the call that they were dead,” says Riley. “Anytime my mom called, I wouldn’t answer. I wouldn’t listen to voicemails.” Her sisters’ addictions consumed the entire family. “But I never felt allowed to be upset. Because I wasn’t the addict; I wasn’t homeless. I was in college, you know?” Curious about tapestries, she enrolled in a weaving class as a freshman at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Riley, who had never seen a loom before, was immediately hooked. Inside the beautiful old room, eighteen wooden looms sat on a hardwood floor. Light spilled in from tall windows, and hefty spools of color-coordinated yarn filled the shelves of one wall. She loved the feel of the yarn in her fingers and the music of the looms. “When the full class was weaving, it sounded like an odd orchestra,” she says.’
_______________ Tim Noble and Sue WebsterPuny Undernourished Kid & Girlfriend From Hell, 2004 ‘Noble and Webster have created a series of light sculptures that reference iconic pop culture symbols represented in the form of shop-front-type signage and carnival shows inherent of British seaside towns, Las Vegas and Times Square. With the aid of complex light sequencing these signs perpetually flash and spiral out messages of everlasting love, and hate.’
_______________ Jim ShawDonald and Melania Trump descending the escalator into the 9th circle of hell reserved for traitors frozen in a sea of ice, 2020 ‘The central figures in the painting are Trump and Melania. And they’re on an escalator descending. But here you have them descending into an icy or frozen lake. It’s quite an apocalyptic landscape. The background is from a theatre backdrop, printed in white on top of the theatre backdrop, so you see a certain amount of the backdrop content, but most of what you’re seeing is this sort of fake Gustave Doré etching of hell inspired by Doré’s etching of Dante’s Ninth Circle of Hell. The set and figures are essentially based on Doré’s, but instead of having a head, the devil is a vanity with three mirrors, because he’s typically seen to have had three heads in hell. Instead of a cavern, the hellscape is a defunct, flooded mall in Thailand.’
_____________ Paul FryerHeaven And Hell, 2009 ‘Symbolism, the occult, a blasphemous surrealism and the clash of religion and science dominate this selection of Paul Fryer’s (b.1963) visual work. The Leeds born and reared artist is not confined to any particular genre, shifting effortlessly from a detailed scenes from the Passions of Christ, to a huge engineered tuning fork, uncannily resonating through the viewer’s thoracic cavity as a future religion’s symbol. Electricity, the role of science and natural phenomena underline Paul Fryer’s designs.’
______________ Alex CecchettiNuovo Mondo: Tour Guide of Heaven and Hell, 2016 ‘’Nuovo Mondo: Tour Guide of Heaven and Hell‘ is the third episode in Alex Cecchetti‘s ongoing artist‘s novel, Tamam Shud. It is also is a performative walk through the concentric circles that descend and ascend through the building of the Królikarnia Palace in Warsaw. What is hell for many can be heaven for some.’
______________ Barbara KrugerUntitled (What Is Hell Like?), 1994 engraved magnesium, 12⅛ by 11⅞ in. (30.8 by 30.1 cm.)
_______________ Nobuyoshi ArakiAlluring Hell, 2015 ‘Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki (*1940) got his first camera at the age of twelve. After studying photography and film he first worked in commercial photography. In 1970 he self-published his first xeroxed photo books. To date, Araki he shot tens of thousands of photos and has published over 400 books of his work. He is notorious for his alleged emotionally detached photos of nude models bound with rope in Kinbaku style. Araki plays with paradigms of submission and emancipation, death and desire. He steadily moves between serenity and shock. The ambivalence of his photos earned him the blame of being pornographic and misogynist, on the other hand they move between the poles of creation and destruction, life and death, fact and fiction, reason and passion.’
_______________ Patrick HallMad as Hell, 2018-19 spirit bottle, LED lighting, electrical cable, glass, plywood 120 x 60 x 11 cm
________________ Lu YangWelcome to LuYang Hell, 2017 ‘Lu Yang’s multimedia installations combine video, sculptural elements, lighting, and soundtracks made in collaboration with different musicians. The videos themselves are fast-paced, delivering various types of information at once: highly detailed and sometimes intense digital imagery layered with moving graphics, voiceovers also available as subtitles in translation, and high-energy soundtracks ranging from techno to opera to death metal. The installations can be immersive and overwhelming. Viewers are left with strong impressions, but to grasp the videos in all their detail, viewers would probably have to watch them multiple times. Or you can let them wash over you – colorful and keyed-up, like a music video or a futuristic educational film.’
________________ T. V. SantoshHowndingdown, 2007 ‘In Santosh’s installation, a group of thirty chrome dogs are arranged in a grid, sentries guarding words which slowly scroll in three digitised displays at their feet. The dogs conflate various beliefs and mythologies associating the animal with death. In the Hinduism of Santosh’s native India, the dog is seen as a messenger of Yama, the god of death, and guard the doors to Heaven. The ancient Egyptians depicted Anubis, guide and protector of the dead, with a jackal or dog’s head, while the great dog Amt stood sentry at the gate to the lower world. Cerberus, the three-headed dog of Greek myth, guarded the entrance to hell. On the back of each of Santosh’s dogs an electronic clock performs a silent, never-ending countdown, the flickering red digits reeling perpetually towards unspecified calamity.’
________________ Ewan CreedUntitled, 2019 – 2021 ‘Recent drawings on paper. The work is the residue of a process. Some may find this kind of work to be what’s wrong with contemporary art. I say to hell with those people.’
_______________ Hrafnhildur ArnardottirVanity Beast from Hell, 2009 ‘Immediately upon entering, one is confronted by Vanity Beast from Hell which, on first glance, appears to be a bearskin rug. Upon closer inspection this object reveals itself to be a bear’s head rendered with intricately plaited human and synthetic hair, like that used to produce cheap cornrows. Combined with glaring glass eyes, the effect is quite disconcerting. Shoplifter has defamiliarised this ‘bearskin’ from viewers’ accepted notions by sharply juxtaposing references to urban and rural identities.’
_______________ UnknownÁnimas del purgatorio, 1840 – 1880 ‘The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that the existence of Purgatory is a ‘truth of faith’ revealed by the Holy Spirit and sustained in Sacred Scripture, which, as Catholics, we cannot doubt. Many saints have been allowed to see Purgatory in vision, and they say that although there the souls enjoy knowing that they will go to heaven (they passed, as the students say ‘in the belly’), they suffer a lot because they already wanted to see God . The souls in Purgatory cannot leave by themselves, but we can help them, praying for them and offering Masses, indulgences, Rosaries. In fact, the Church dedicates the entire month of November to praying for the souls in Purgatory. Its purification is similar to what happens when a craftsman polishes a precious metal on fire. You keep an eye out, and you know you’re ready when you can see yourself reflected in it. So it is with the souls in Purgatory . He who has created them in His image and likeness, purifies them there, until they recover their purity and can be seen reflected in them.’
_______________ Joe ColemanVictory of Hell, 1995 ‘In “The Victory of Hell,” a six-armed Lucifer in the form of a hermaphrodite presides over a scene of utter depravity.’
_______________ Markus CopperKursk, 2004 ‘Markus Copper’s Kursk tells about the tragic destiny of the submarine Kursk, which raised strong feelings all over. The divers who came to rescue the Kursk crew must face the impossible. The artist has noted to aim at causing real rumbles to sensitize people every now and then. Characteristic for his art is mechanical motion, motorized constructions and noises torturing one’s eardrums.’
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p.s. Hey. ** __Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. What is the NHS WiFi blocking standards, can you tell? Is it just sexual content, or does it block sites and places because of politics or something? Strange. My magical vibes if any are oriented towards propelling you in the direction of the day room. ** Misanthrope, That document sounds like seriously no fun, but god love the income it triggers. No doubt: Kayla having sun. Bridge of sighs. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Yeah, I increasingly think the hacking thing is random and probably part of some assault on a bunch of WordPress blogs and sites, looking for sites that the bot can get into easily. The problem, in that case, is that when it can’t get in, it doesn’t give up. I feel like this could keep going for months or years. I’m trying to ignore it, but it’s not easy, and the blog is functioning noticeably more slowly on my end — it can take minutes to upload a jpeg now that used to take 10 tops seconds, for instance — apparently as a result, which is a massive drag. But … blah blah. Oh, your love is scary in a cool way. We have lots of pigeons living around my window, so it’s easy to imagine too. Love de-aging Iggy Pop 40 years and serving him a big bowl of split pea soup, G. ** David Ehrenstein, I’m so sorry about your friend. That’s terrible. I watched him sing in your video, and it was lovely. Hugs. ** Tosh Berman, Ha ha, I just read this exact comment on your Facebook page not 1 minute ago. It’s like your yesterday’s press release. I like it: trippy. Most of my friends in LA have been hardly going out if at all for, like, a year, whereas here in Paris everyone has been going out, riding the metro, looking at art, seeing friends, etc. pretty much since the first lockdown was lifted last May. Completely different attitudes towards pretty much the same situation/ restrictions. Very interesting. ** T, Hi, T. Really nice to see you! Other than the hacking thing and its stressfulness, things are pretty okay considering all the you-know-what. Very nice about the rent thing. Wow, not bad. And you have brand new surroundings, which I hope is as refreshing to the senses as it seems. I’m happy those books jumped out at you. ‘Crime and Punishment’ … I read that so long ago I don’t remember almost anything about it. I’ve been in Moscow three times, but not for quite a while. I found it oppressive and depressing for the most part, but it seems to have transformed a lot recently. I … can’t think of any Russian authors I’ve read in recent times, which is an absence I should rectify now that you mention it. So, no on the current front. Historically, I’ve liked, well, Nabokov obviously, Bulgakov, Gogol (I think), … I remember really liking M. Ageyev’s ‘Novel With Cocaine’. Take care, my friend, and enjoy the windfall and the re-contextualisation. ** schlix, Hi, Uli! Awesome! You good? Warmest and healthiest wishes and vibes from here to you. ** Steve Erickson, Interesting. Are people doing DMT a lot nowadays? I can’t remember the last time anyone I know (of) said they did it. Everyone, Steve has reviewed the … and I quote … ‘lame Netflix thriller…satire?…whatever’ ‘I Care A Lot’. Sounds like his review is a lot more highly recommended than the thing. ** Jack Skelley, Ah, a Skelley reverie thanks to Mr. Glove! I hope he knows. I’ve been thinking about re-listening to ‘Get Up With It’, and your mention puts that in the fated category, so … You were at Napili recently, wow! I don’t think I’d recognise it much, or at least the surroundings. Like on the other side of the road were nothing but pineapple fields forever, and I looked at photos at some recent-ish point, and they’re all gone and replaced by MacMansions and shit. We can talk trips on Zoom and bore all those lightweights to death! Sure, my Franciosa story is yours, all yours, yours alone even. ** Mark Gluth, Hey, Mark. Very happy he made his goal! I seem to still be far from the vaccine. They’re very picky over here. Spring has kind of sprung here too, and, yeah, it’s pretty welcome. I read a new novel by Jim a while back — he and I email sporadically. I liked it a lot. I wonder if it’s the same novel. I don’t remember images but I could be spacing. How is your work going and what is it? ** Brian O’Connell, Brian, hello! The ‘Class Action Park’ doc is fun, but, you know I’m a huge amusement park guy, so I’m easy, but, yes, I think I can say it’s fun. I saw ‘All About Eve’, but, really, so long ago that I don’t remember such about it other that it being good. Yeah, I have all kinds of problems with Facebook like any sane person does, but the connectivity there, such as it is, is pretty valuable and keeps me. My Tuesday wasn’t much as the planned things got delayed, but it was, you know, not unpleasant. Anything dazzle you today? Or even twinkle you? ** John Newton, Hi. I only took LSD back in the days when it was pretty much high grade and pure-ish and not cut with much other than a little strychnine. I can’t imagine that the LSD today is in the same realm, but I don’t know. That bad trip lasted about 8 hours, and I don’t remember much about it, and I didn’t remember much about it at the time. A friend, also on acid, stayed with me to try to steer me through it, and I vaguely remember being aware of him sometimes. I was seriously wiped for a couple of months afterwards, could hardly talk for weeks, but then I got real again. My obsessions? Too many to list, really. I have lots. Between the blog and my books, I think they get pretty much laid out. Yours? Mm, since I was a young teen my mantra has been ‘Confusion is the truth’, and I think that was what I learned from LSD. And I got a lifelong distrust and lack of belief in generalisations. Both of those were hugely helpful. But I didn’t have any big revelations on LSD mostly due to the LSD revelation that generalisations are bullshit. ** Right. I’m sending you to a kind of hell today. You’re welcome. See you tomorrow.
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