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Thursday, April 7, 2011

55 Photo "Bird's-Eye" karya Yann Arthus-Bertrand

One interesting trend we have noticed recently is the use of a bird’s-eye view to take photographs. Modern photographers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with their work. Although not yet the most common trend, still, as new design styles come up and more and more photographers notice and make use of them, it promises to be an interesting area.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer and environmentalist who has a tendency toward stunning bird’s eye view photography. Revealing Earth from above, Yann Arthus-Bertrand reveals wonderful symmetry and color. The scenes captured by his camera are fresh because of their unusual angles.

WSB Support Race Crash

Mad runaway bike after a bad crash at the crainer curves in the superstock race before WSBK race 1. This was taking on a camera which is why its of poorer quality compared to my other wsbk videos.© haxims.blogspot.com

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

L'imagination extraordinaire...

Le souffle extraordinaire (Luc Besson)

http://designyoutrust.com

Il s'agit d'un film publicitaire! À propos des nouvelles voitures électriques et de l'impact qu'elles peuvent avoir sur l'environement. La campagne publicitaire appartient à Renault.

Le souffle extraordinaire est un film d'animation en 3D dont la version longue dure 4 min 54, et la version courte, 3 minutes. Le film s'inspire du concept de l'effet papillon : que se passe-t-il quand un petit événement entraine un enchainement d'événements extraordinaires

Le film d'animatiom en 3D créé par Digital Project d'après une idée de Luc Besson:

Le souffle extraordinaire

http://designyoutrust.com

Synopsis:

Dans un Paris gris, un bourdon se repose aux abords d'une voiture électrique. Le véhicule démarre et ne laisse derrière lui qu'un doux chuchotement et un souffle extraordinaire lié à l'accélération.

Ce courant d'air provoque l'envol de quelques feuilles mortes et embarque contre son gré le bourdon vers les toits parisiens où deux pigeons somnolent .

Les deux oiseaux furieux d'être réveillés se lancent à la poursuite du bourdon, qui tel un pilote chevronné cherche à éviter à tous prix ces 2 adversaires et les nombreux obstacles de la ville.

Cette course poursuite entre nos 3 héros crée un tourbillon de pétales de fleur, de feuilles... Un véritable ouragan de couleur se forme au fur et à mesure de leur passage.

La tornade s'amenuise et un Paris calme, comme nous ne l'avons jamais vu, plein de douceurs et de parfums agréables a désormais remplacé la grisaille de la capitale.

Le Souffle Extraordinaire (2010) de Edouard Salier

Luc Besson est un metteur-en-scène, scénariste et producteur français très célèbre dans le monde du cinéma.

The Fifth Element

http://ia.media-imdb.com

Le film le Cinquième Élement, un film de science-fiction avec Bruce Willis a fait l'ouverture du "Festival de Cannes 1997" et a reçu le "Cesar" du Meilleur Réalisateur.

Arthur3

http://ia.media-imdb.com

Il est aussi le réalisateur de la trilogie Arthur, film d'animation dont Arhur3 vient de sortir en DVD-Blu-Ray.

Luc Besson est le fondateur du studio Europacorp.

Éducation:

Professeurs d'Arts: faire voir la vidéo "Un souffle extraordinaire" dans les cours d'Art, Art & Design ou Art & Cinéma pour illustrer "l'art de la créativité"!

Professeurs de Littérature: faire voir la vidéo dans les cours de Littérature et inviter les étudiants à la création d'un script qui pourra servir de texte base à un projet vidéo.

G-Souto

06.04.2011

Crédits: vidéo Digital Project

Références:

Luc Besson

http://www.luc-besson.com/

Groupe Bleu, Cas Renault, campagne publicitaire, distribuiton en France

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqgf7Vmg9GI

Monday, April 4, 2011

Gestures and books

Gestures from João Machado on Vimeo.

Gestures meet the three tests for a semiotic domain (implicitly) laid down by Gee (2003:23):

They allow us to experience (see, feel and operate on) the world in new ways.
Such gestures are shared with groups of people who carry them on as distinctive social practices.
They allow us to gain resources that prepare us for future learning and problem-solving in the domain (and perhaps related domains).

Interesting the semiotic study about books and gestures!

Education:

Display the video in the classroom of Literature and debate with your students the importance of gestures on reading a book or an e-book.

G-Souto

Credits: video JoaoMachado

References:

Gee, J.P., What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2003

Friday, April 1, 2011

Music as social inclusion for kids

Roger Waters, Pavillhão Atlântico (Lisbon)

The Wall

Photo: Rita Carmo/ Espanta Espírito

http://blitz.aeiou.pt

Roger Waters began his European tournée "The Wall" on March 21 (International Day of Poetry), with a fantastic concert, in Lisbon. You can admire some photos on Blitz.

Rolling Stones, U2 are fantastic in their show but only Pink Floyd and Roger Waters are able to mix images, scenarios, lights, music and technology with such harmony, even such poetry!

Roger Waters & Coro Juvenil Cova da Moura

The Wall, Lisbon

http://imgs.cmjornal.xl.pt

And Roger Waters did more! Much more! He asked for the presence of a project of social inclusion for kids to be with on stage.

Sixteen ethnic kids from "Associação Moinho da Juventude da Cova da Moura" were on stage in a special participation with Roger Waters and his fourteen musicians.

Cova da Moura choral group
Lisbon

http://imgs.cmjornal.xl.pt

Whassysa, social assistant, 27 years old, who motivated those kids to participate in such an important concert, told media that the choral group has only a month and kids and teenagers (8-16 years old) were very excited about the participation in the concert.

The Wall - Lisbon (Portugal)

http://mediaserver.rr.pt

Kids (boys and girls) were so motivated - said Whassysa - that they were not missing a single day in the rehearsal, during two weeks.

They did not know the lyrics, even less English language. And they learned the lyrics in English.

The video below is in Portuguese language, but you have the gesture language to follow it...

Kids engaged very seriously in the project, they made some research about Roger Waters and Pink Floyd. It was the first time that they heard about The Wall, Roger Waters or Pink Floyd.

And March 21-22, 2011 when the classical theme ‘Another Brick in the Wall - Part 1’ began, kids appeared on stage singing. Watch the video below.

What an audacious project to change the future of Cova da Moura young people Mr. Roger Waters welcomed on the stage!

It was very kind of him to invite a choral group of vulnerable young kids to participate in the concert.

Education:

We all know the importance of music as social inclusion for kids. There are fantastic projects all over the world! And Cova da Moura project is one of them!
It has the potencial to achieve social transformation of those kids.

The success of this participation and the work of the cultural assistant aims the long-term – including hopes that children will be driven towards higher educational achievement and, ultimately, out of poverty – are impossible to evaluate at the moment, but it had an overwhelmingly positive effect on the children involved.

The holistic immersive approach of music (rock, pop, classical) and the engagement of important and experencied musicians is central to achieving significant transformation, particularly to the lives of the most vulnerable children.

G-Souto

01.04.2011
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