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Daniel Tammet & Jérôme Tabet
Jan. 31st, 2015 10:07 am
Daniel Tammet FRSA (born 31 January 1979) is an English writer, essayist and autistic savant. His best selling 2006 memoir, Born on a Blue Day, about his life with high-functioning autism and savant syndrome, was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association. Tammet met his first partner, software engineer Neil Mitchell, in 2000. Tammet lived with him in Kent, where they had a quiet life at home with their cats, preparing meals from their garden. Tammet and Mitchell operated the online e-learning company Optimnem, where they created and published language courses. (P: jurvets. Daniel Tammet, 2011)Tammet now lives with a new partner, Jérôme Tabet, a French photographer whom he met while promoting his autobiography. Although he has said that he did not think he would be here if it were not for the love and support of Mitchell, more recently he noted that he used to live a rigid existence aimed at calming his many anxieties—"I was very happy, but it was a small happiness"—whereas now, as the subtitle of Embracing the Wide Sky: A tour across the horizons of the mind asserts, he believes that we ought to seek to liberate our brains—a belief reflected in his new life:
My life used to be very simple and regimented but since then I have travelled constantly and given lots of lectures and it just changed me... It made me much more open, much more interested in, I guess, the full potential of what my mind could do... Because of that change I grew and in a sense I grew apart from my long-term partner, so we parted amicably in 2007, and a short while later I met my current partner, who is from France so I decided to go and live with him in Avignon.Tammet's second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was described as one of France's best selling books of 2009 by L'Express magazine in its March 2010 edition.
Daniel Tammet is an English writer, essayist and autistic savant. His best selling 2006 memoir, Born on a Blue Day, about his life with high-functioning autism and savant syndrome, was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association. Tammet lives with his partner, Jérôme Tabet, a French photographer whom he met while promoting his autobiography. Tammet's second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was described as one of France's best selling books of 2009 by L'Express.
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Born in 1980 in southern France, Jérôme Tabet entered the university to study History of Art In 1998, discover the masterpieces of modern and contemporary painting - Manet, Matisse, Cézanne, Klein, who will have a great influence on his how to photograph the landscape - and wrote, two years later, a memoir on the issues of the film adaptation, and obtained a Masters in Cinema.In addition, he has volunteered for three consecutive years to the Short Film Festival of Aix-en-Provence, to be in direct contact with the current film trend and absorb, analyze and discuss it.
To feed his ambitions and acquire photographic and video equipment, in 2003, he led a series of cultural projects for the Victor Vasarely Foundation in Aix en Provence. It organized them for four years: various art workshops combining contemporary art, performance, video and photography, often for disadvantaged groups, and participated in the implementation of temporary exhibitions.
In 2007, under the pseudonym Rrose Selavy, he paid tribute to Marcel Duchamp, the Dada movement and Serge Gainsbourg by making the video as Beau oui comme Bowie, where two narcissistic, androgynous characters, dance in a blue fishbowl among daffodils and stars.
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