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Tuesday 19 April 2011

When classic music meets breakdance

If you ever wonder yourself what would look like the result when classic music meets breakdance, check this out :


Yo-Yo Ma VS Lil Buck from Yo-Yo Ma VS Lil Buck on dailymotion.

What do director Spike Jonze, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and dancer Lil Buck have in common? Not a lot, but it doesn't matter, because they just managed to perform an amazing and entertaining collaboration here. In this video, shot during a gala aiming to promote Art in american schools, 马友友 and Lil'Buck interpret « The dying swan » by Camille Saint-Saëns. Some will maybe interrogate themselves to figure out if this unexpected cooperation is art. To those people I will just say the following : if this demonstration give you some thrill, that means you have been touched by the performance, and only Art can do that.

Yo-Yo Ma is a French-born American cellist, virtuoso, orchestral composer of Chinese descent, and winner of multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. He is one of the most famous cellists of the modern age.
(Source : Wikipedia)
(Source : thedailybeast.com)

Friday 17 December 2010

Black Panther, the comics

Black_Panther

I like comics, but I am not a big fan. As a neophyte at comics, I never heard about Black Panther. So when I read this article I could not help myself looking for more information about the first black superhero ever appeared in a mainstream American comics. The Black Panther aka T'Challa, is a fictional character from the Marvel Comics universe. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and penciller-co-plotter Jack Kirby, he first appeared in Fantastic Four #52 (July 1966).

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Saturday 31 July 2010

MuseoGames: from Pong to Pokemon and beyond

MuseoGames_Xbox

Nowadays in terms of turnover, video games have just overtaken the world cinema industry. It has also a great impact on our society and our entertainment habits. Now, there are even international competitions and some on-line games involve millions of passionate gamers. Video games are not a trend, it is finally a mature industry and the market will continue to grow. Whatever they are casual, serious or "hard-core", there are games for everyone.

However, few people really know about video games "glorious" history. Perhaps because it is a very young industry, much younger than cinema (1892). Indeed, Pong, the first mass market video games has been released in 1972... So what a very good initiative to hold an exposition about video games history, and certainly a still better idea to visit it.

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Saturday 20 March 2010

The Wire : rough immersion into the US society

The Wire (HBO)

"The Wire" est une série télévisée américaine créée par David Simon et co-écrit avec Ed Burns. Elle a pour sujet la criminalité dans la ville de Baltimore, à travers la vision de ceux qui la vivent au quotidien : policiers, trafiquants en tous genres, politiques, enseignants, journalistes, résidents de Baltimore, etc... Avec un aspect de quasi-documentaire par son réalisme et son non-manichéisme, la série est acclamée par la critique, bien qu'elle n'ait pas connu un succès commercial important. La série est diffusée durant 5 saisons du 2 juin 2002 au 9 mars 2008 sur HBO.

La série a reçu d'excellentes critiques et est même considérée par plusieurs journaux (Time Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Newsday, The San Francisco Chronicle, Variety, The New York Post, Entertainment Weekly et The San Jose Mercury News) comme la meilleure série de toute l'histoire de la télévision américaine. Elle est aussi reconnue pour son réalisme proche du documentaire, ses ambitions artistiques, son approche anti-manichéenne, le travail et l'évolution de ses personnages et son exploration profonde de divers thèmes sociaux. Metacritic, qui regroupe les diverses chroniques officielles publiées dans la presse ou sur Internet pour les transformer sous forme d'un score en pourcentage, a assigné la note moyenne de 98% pour la saison 4, ce qui est le plus grand score jamais réalisé par une série télévisuelle. L'écrivain Stephen King a déclaré que la série était définitivement rangée dans « les grands classiques » de la télévision aux côtés de The Sopranos et du Prisonnier. Pour sa part, Barack Obama déclare que cette série est sa préférée et qu'il trouve le personnage d'Omar fascinant.

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Sunday 17 January 2010

Here the kind of "afroptimistic" TV show that I like

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

It's been a while since I was surprised by a TV show. Saturday afternoon, my cousin introduced to me a brand-new (at least for me) comedy-drama series produced by the BBC and the american television network, HBO. In a TV landscape where it is quite difficult to fall on something really amazing, I felt in love with "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency", a program inspired by a series of ten novels by British author Alexander McCall Smith.

The main character, Mma. Ramotswe, is performed by Jill Scott, a very famous and respected american soul singer. The detective agency is located in Gaborone, capital of Botswana, and the 7 episodes were all filmed on location in this beautiful country which welcomed for the first time a major film production.

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