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PARIS PHOTO will celebrate its 15th anniversary at the Grand Palais — a major step ahead for this renowned international event, which is not to be missed.
117 galleries from some 23 countries will present the best of 19th century, modern and contemporary photography in the heart of the French capital. To complete this panorama of worldwide photography, a selection of 18 publishers will have a dedicated space in the fair. PARIS PHOTO will celebrate African photography from Bamako to Cape Town, unveiling the creative wealth of historic and contemporary African artists.These exciting developments put forward the new energy that PARIS PHOTO is displaying by reinventing itself. Four programmes will articulate PARIS PHOTO'S new identity: Institutions - recent photography acquisitions, Private Collection from Artur Walther, PARIS PHOTO conferences platform, focus on the Photography Book and launching of the PARIS PHOTO - Photo Book Prize.
PARIS PHOTO at the Grand Palais10 -13 November 2011
This morning, I am reeling with excitement over Blogger's new Dynamic Views. Here's a video on YouTube that runs through seven new layouts. Personally, it makes a lot of sense to go this way than it does to implement a timeline for all your content, no matter how trivial on Facebook. This could be a real game-changer. I welcome your own comments and thoughts about Blogger dynamic views. Which ones do you like? I am in the process of trying to figure out which layouts would be more engaging communications-wise and learning-wise.
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This season Nicolas Ghesquiere – who has been at the creative helm of Balenciaga since 1997 - worked with beautiful printed shirts, broad shoulders on suede dresses and vests and high-waisted trousers made from different fabrics – so denim at the front and twill at the back. Legs were narrow on the trouser front and with belts woven through the waist, while mini shorts were cut high on the leg and worked to build up the boxier jacket shapes above.
It was graphic and futuristic at the beginning (with long pockets and panelled jackets of lilac, peach, claret and navy), and then softened later with longer skirts made up from patchwork fabric or dripping with stalactites of metallic fringing. It ended with graphically-cut tabards and wimple hats made from leather to give an ecclesiastical feel – apt given that the audience were all standing as if at a service.
"C’est de chair qu’elles sont faites, intenses mais fragiles, joyeuses mais sanglantes".
At the dawn of the 20th century, in a house of tolerance in Paris, a prostitute's face bears a scar that sketches a tragic smile. Around the woman who laughs, the lives of the other women unfold, with their rivalries, fears, joys and pain. The outside world never enters into this house, where the women remain locked in.
Le monde n'est pourtant pas nié, la maison n'est pas close sur elle-même, la maison est le monde, petit substrat du monde où la totalité du monde se reflète.
L'Apollonide s'articule autour des visions d'une femme données d'emblée. Le début du film dit déjà sa fin. Le film sera l'expérience d'une durée entre ces visions, prises dans un temps cyclique, répétitif, jamais fini. La vision est l'issue qui permet à cette femme de passer de l'éternité (dans laquelle se tient le personnage de Céline Sallette) à l'immortalité. Aussi le film joue-t-il de ce passage : ce que nous voyons, c'est bien le rêve de l'immortelle, mais nous le voyions comme à travers les yeux de la fumeuse d'opium. Les souvenirs se précisent, les durées du souvenir se décalent (telle cette gradation appliquée à la scène séminale du film, celle de la défiguration de Madeleine : d'abord, la lame sur les seins ; plus tard, la lame tranchant la joue ; plus tard encore, la lame enfoncée dans la bouche et faisant sonner les dents – l’effroi se déplace, d’un plaisir partagé à un plaisir contraint, en passant par le sang : le déplacement n’est pas linéaire, le cinéaste ne quête que l’intensité). La volute opiacée est la forme du film, son flux, sa langueur - langueur chargée de fulgurances. Quelque chose d'électrique habite le film, et cette chose tient à la violence de ce rapport : nous savons tout, nous ne faisons rien. L'immortalité est à portée d'oeil. Nous nous tenons dans les fantasmes qu'elle nous inspire. J'ai gardé sur ce film les yeux grands ouverts, il y avait toujours quelque chose à voir, et pourtant rien à faire.
l’exposition L’Apollonide du 15 septembre au 31 octobre chez Blaq Out (52 rue Charlot, 75003 Paris) qui présente photos, objets, bijoux, costumes du film. Une exposition de Bertrand Bonello. Costumes, bijoux et dessins sont signés Anaïs Romand.
This week, I'm ecstatic after doing some experimenting, producing content using my new 4G smart phone and shooting HD video with it. The implications are far-reaching... if you have the right mindset and approach. Having a television background in systems, programming, and distance learning has helped me become aware of just some of the fantastic community-authored television possibilities in a hyperlocalized world:
The smallest micro-business owner who can afford to buy and use a smart phone, with the right help, can afford to produce high-quality web television and other content that can cost-effectively drive traffic to his or her company's website or place of business.
It's now possible for small businesses and non-profits to produce quality content for a web television channel, right on their on their own website.
It's now possible for different kinds of stakeholders to have a web television channel that "speaks" specifically to stakeholder's needs. Just visualize for a moment just some of the possibilities and how much good this kind of community-authored television would do:
Personal Development Channel - We could all use this to address our issues and help us become the people we need to be to make a difference in the world. This channel could make the world's very best local, regional, national, and international subject matter experts, life coaches, authors and personal trainers make themselves available to you to help you feel better, lose weigh, kick a bad habit, transition to the next phase. A youth-centric television channel could spin off from this, communicating and articulating a youthful voice... with a whole lot of guidance and mentoring and community support... of course...in a new from of "social television"
Health & Wellness Channel - This is a powerful new opportunity for those of the right mindset not afraid to do front-running work of quality. It can drive purchase of services as well as products. If people learn how to take better care of themselves, billions of dollars can be saved...as well as made.
Employment Channel - Everything you need that addresses your employment and/or possible career change needs in fresh new ways. If done right you could find a job, or even create your own using the kinds of resources this channel could provide. There's a lot of information out, but the challenge and opportunity is providing and accessing it in a hyperlocalized way.
Small Business Development Channel - Everything you as a small business entrepreneur need to help you move your business forward... delivered by the world's very best local, regional, national, and international consultants. Remote consulting and webinars could be part of the offering... "Green" business development could also be a part of this.
The Non-Profit Channel - This would be a channel that delivers everything that non-profit people and organizations need to turn that next corner, the people and the resources for capacity building, board development, fund-raising in a 21st century world using technology and social media, donor development, social venturing.. the work's.
The Mom's Channel - Everything having to do with being a mom, produced by moms themselves and hooking you up with great people and resources.. even online seminars and information about successfully running a business from home.
Baby Boomers Channel - Wow is this needed. Baby Boomers have a special set of gifts...and challenges that such a channel could address. A great channel with new directions could really help baby boomers and their families with special issues and needs that Baby Boomers and their families have from employment and re-thinking "retirement" to coping with aging parents.
The Edu-Tainment Channel - The Internet is powerful. With an intelligent approach, people of all ages would be able to learn anything they need to, and even take accredited courses and earn special certificates. Intensive learning is also possible through special virtualized 3-day workshops and retreats, where even remote attendees can afford to attend..online. The content would not only be educational, but also entertaining...with reality tv shows that do both.
And many, many more - The mind boggles just thinking about all the awesome possibilities for community-authored television...taken way beyond "old think" public access television and produced in a quality way.
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A designer noted and lauded for his wearable and covetable creations, Van Noten took his inspiration from the architectural shapes of Spanish and Italian couture and combined them with a collaboration with English photographer Christopher Reeve to create the prints in the second half of the show (nighttime scenes of Vegas, London and more), while showing off serene-scapes of palms and all things botanical to begin with.
My knowledge of Victorian era literature is pretty abysmal. But this trailer kind of makes this version of Wuthering Heights seem like a horror film. It’s mostly dimly lit hand-held shots with no dialogue, underscored by an ominous wind. Then, when we finally hear a line spoken, we get, “you broke my heart… you killed me.” I vaguely remember something about the main character in Wuthering Heights talking to or trying to talk to ghosts, but I don’t remember that being a driving force behind the plot.
Jane Eyre using the theme from Suspiria in the trailer despite the absence of anything even remotely supernatural from the story.
Apparently much of the film is shot in this hand-held style, which is what sets it apart from other film adaptations of Wuthering Heights. It will be interesting to see how some of the seemingly non sequitor imagery will be incorporated into the narrative. Wuthering Heights opens in the UK in November, but no word yet on when it might be released stateside.
