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VAMPIRE WEEKEND Spent my saturday sleeping after I’ve seen...

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:09:00 -0400

VAMPIRE WEEKEND

Spent my saturday sleeping after I’ve seen Vampire weekend at an accoustic session yesterday night in a breath-taking Parisian apartment. Here is their new song “Horchata”, they performed it twice.

The video of that “soirée de poche” should be fantastic. I cried. Twice.

LISTEN Mixtape meet music explanations. French Group...

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:52:26 -0400

LISTEN

Mixtape meet music explanations.

French Group PHOENIX.

MUSICVISION PHOENIX PLAYLIST
01-Blue monday people / Curtis Mayfield
02-Can’t let go / Evie Sands
03-Sell your love / Iggy pop & James Williamson
04-Flash forward / Serge Gainsbourg
05-I’m glad you’re mine / Al Green
06-Don’t turn the light on, leave me alone / CAN
07-Mesopotamia / The B-52’s
08-Ruby don’t take your love to town / Kenny Rogers
09-Slow night, slow long / Kings of Leon
10-Leur plaisir sans moi / Jane Birkin
11-In and out of the shadows / Dion
12-Victory garden / The Red Krayola
13-Escape from New-York main title / John Carpenter
14-We almost lost Detroit / Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson
15-Darlin’ / The Beach Boys
16-Peace like a river / Paul Simon
17-A song for you / Gram Parsons
18-The fairest of the seasons / Nico
19-Who was that masked man / Van Morrison
20-La smortina / Coro della SAT
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21-City lights / Phoenix

xx librarysciences: Dear Steve McQueen, sigh.

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:49:38 -0400

librarysciences:

Dear Steve McQueen, sigh.

Twilight New Moon Soundtrack

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:17:43 -0400

What the fuck happened to the Twilight people? They think they can put some really nice music in a very shitty movie. Bad bad bad bad.

amandalynferri:

andrewfutral:

. Death Cab For Cutie – Meet Me On The Equinox
2. Band Of Skulls – Friends
3. Thom Yorke- Hearing Damage <— WHAT?
4. Lykke Li – Possibility
5. The Killers - A White Demon Love Song
6. Anya Marina – Satellite Heart
7. Muse - I Belong To You (New Moon Remix)
8. Bon Iver and St. Vincent – Rosyln <— WHAT??
9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Done All Wrong
10. Hurricane Bells – Monsters
11. Sea Wolf – The Violet Hour
12. Ok Go- Shooting The Moon
13. Grizzly Bear - Slow Life <— WHAT?
14. Editors – No Sound But The Wind
15. Alexandre Desplat – New Moon (The Meadow)

NOT ENOUGH PARAMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Soirée de poche (or how to put a concert/accoustic session on...

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:11:34 -0400

Soirée de poche (or how to put a concert/accoustic session on your blog and it rocks)

This video is probably one of the most beautiful accoustic session I have ever seen. Ok I may sound over enthusiastic but just click play and you’ll figure out what I meant.

Andrew Bird is obviously a talented singer/violin player/whistler but that’s the second part I like the most. Because St. Vincent (Annie Clark) does a duet with him and there’s something happening. A unique music thing. That could not happen twice.

Of course it’s brilliantly shot, in a Parisian appartment, which brings an even more peculiar atmosphere. And the light just add more intensity to the whole thing.

WATCH IT. Oh and RE-WATCH IT.

Courtesy of ArteLiveWeb and La Blogothèque

Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, ...

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:50:00 -0400

Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.

Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person - to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.

In a world where fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, the computer is our indispensable but far from infallible assistant. Personas demonstrates the computer’s uncanny insights and its inadverten errors, such as the mischaracterizations caudes by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name.

It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world, where digital histories are as important if not more important than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant.

Personas was created by Aaron Zinman, with help from Alex Dragulescu, Yannick Assogba and Judith Donath.

Journalism Students Need to Develop Their Personal Brand

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:46:20 -0400

Journalism Students Need to Develop Their Personal Brand:

In the journalism of today, the personal brand is becoming increasingly central to the prospects of a young person starting out on a life of reporting. So it is important for students at journalism school, and those starting in the fall, to develop the professional brand that will set them apart come graduation. Some reporters may bristle at the idea of thinking of themselves as a brand, considering it the equivalent of selling out. This overlooks the fact that a journalist’s identity has always been a part of the job, otherwise why have bylines?

via meghanasha

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:23:03 -0400

via meghanasha

La Route du Rock This week end I was lucky enough to go to La...

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:53:09 -0400

La Route du Rock

This week end I was lucky enough to go to La Route du rock. Thanks to my truly cool collegues at Arte live web, I am at this splendid, bloody fucking good rock Festival and discovered some pretty cool people. Like St Vincent, the girl is solo. She rocks. Just check what she does.

While I am there I can watch every single gig with access to backstage whenever I want.

See below a little gig recorded on the beach of Saint Malo with Marissa Nadler. Kinda cool.

Courtesy of ARTE Live Web and La Blogotheque

Journalism-is-dead.com

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:45:25 -0400

Journalism-is-dead.com:

Best quotes from media experts saying I have no future.

Voilà.

Mouahahahahah. I would just put guys instead of girls and that...

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:11:45 -0400

Mouahahahahah.

I would just put guys instead of girls and that would work too.

nicolo:

via www.stacken.kth.se

How to get people to follow you on Twitter

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:04:22 -0400

How to get people to follow you on Twitter:

farhad:

This guy tried out several different ways to ask people on his site to follow him on Twitter. The most effective: “You should follow me on Twitter.”

Beau. davemorin: The largest hot-air balloon gathering in the...

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:31:25 -0400

Beau.

davemorin:

The largest hot-air balloon gathering in the world, Chambley, France (via gbatistini)

"managing your online reputation requires a whole new skill set, including monitoring the online..."

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:18:17 -0400

“managing your online reputation requires a whole new skill set, including monitoring the online conversation and engaging with customers and the tech-savvy to promote yourself in the best channels. These skills are becoming essential for mainstream businesses. According to a survey by the Opinion Research Corporation, 84 percent of Americans say online reviews influence their purchasing decisions. (Still not convinced? Tell us why.)”

- Managing Your Small Business’s Online Reputation - NYTimes.com (via transnets)

Sea, sex and sound. Indie music meet french...

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:36:00 -0400

Sea, sex and sound. Indie music meet french beaches.

Voilà.

Courtesy of ARTE Live Web and La Blogothèque

Vimeo: The Youtube for Artistes

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:31:14 -0400

Vimeo: The Youtube for Artistes:

About 73 million people visit YouTube every month, according to the traffic-monitoring firm Compete. Vimeo gets just a tiny fraction of that horde, fewer than 3 million. But the content looks like it comes from the Web’s most talented lot. Vimeo attracts a high-art, film-buff set—the kind of people who, when making movies for the Web, pause to consider such virtues as cinematography, framing, music, and composition.

What can journalism learn from I Can Has Cheezburger?

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:27:06 -0400

What can journalism learn from I Can Has Cheezburger? :

The task news reporting has shifted toward filtering. My view is that winners in the Internet era of news journalism will be the people and companies who, like Cheezburger, ReadWriteWeb and Amazon, develop systematic ways of filtering the flood of user-generated content and sources down to those with the best content. The result will be higher quality news and information, that is more relevant and on target with the audience, at a lower cost.

I am a huge fan of Phoenix and like kpu’s tumblr blog a...

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:40:00 -0400

I am a huge fan of Phoenix and like kpu’s tumblr blog a lot. She doesn’t know it yet but soon, she will be on my blog. Or at least, I hope so.

Luv Phoenix

In a creative state of mind I have ideas like I’ve never...

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:06:00 -0400

My photo-J teacher David Rees

Friend and mizzou roomate Cha Pudlo

In a creative state of mind

I have ideas like I’ve never had for the last six month. I eventually got some new gadgets to develop what I try to work on.

In the next coming weeks, this blog and the french one will be updated more frequently with new contents.

Yes that sounds cheesy but that’s the mood I was in one year ago, precisely when I started this tumblr blog.

To be continued…

Photo: at the J-school of the University of Missouri last October, where Brian Storm did a presentation about MEDIASTORM (brilliant multimedia pieces, a source of inspiration)

Bastille Day Special: French Films in a Nutshell

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:25:52 -0400

As a French girl, I am tempted to say that this French film scenario (see below) might actually work well. Except… there’s no food involved!!! People across the Atlantic, come on. At least we need some wine to spice things up!

caro:

twentysomethingtales:

In combination with browsing the French Films section [of Netflix] and watching several of them, we came to realize that French movies fall into the following categories, almost exclusively:

1. Post WW2 stories of war heroes, or reconnecting, rebuilding. Fair enough.

2. Teachers, usually in the countryside, who are failed artists or geniuses, who expose the great talents of one or a body of students, and thus reclaim their glory.

3. Pools, which are often coupled with murder and questioning of sexuality.

4. Lesbians, threesomes, bisexuality, coming-of-age sexuality stories, which make up the bulk of the French films on Netflix. Sub-category: Strippers.

5. Cyrano de Bergerac, and other 17-18th century historical figures.

6. Gérard Depardieu. Self-explanatory.

(Note: Of course, this list applies mainly to contemporary films, and ignores the New Wave, Catherine Deneuve, and Brigitte Bardot. This is because these films are actually good)

So, knowing these themes, I have come up with the plot for France’s next blockbuster hit. It is as follows:

In 1946, Jean-Claude Dupont, a swimming teacher at a small school outside of Strasbourg has a secret: he is gay. Nightly, Napoléon appears to him a dream, telling him that he is a coward for hiding his sexuality, that coming out is nothing in compared to Napoléon’s conquests, and if at the 30 years of age, he could conquer and rule the French, then so too could Jean-Claude become master of his own world. The roles of Jean-Claude and Napoléon are played by Gérard Depardieu, naturally. But the overbearing town preacher, Père Moreau, is on an anti-homosexual tirade, constantly addressing its sins in his sermons. Yet, even under the watchful eye of the Catholic church, Jean-Claude struggles. As a swimming teacher for the boys of L’école de St. Clément, the young Jean-Claude struggles to look at his students without a rumbling in his loins. As a distraction, he concentrates his efforts on Audrey Tautou, the History teacher, who, in fact, has a dark sexual persona. She is a lesbian who moonlights as a stripper in the local speakeasy. One night, Jean-Claude follows Audrey Tautou to her strip job, and the two experience a connection, one that is brought about by a third party, an androgynous transsexual. All three fall in love and decide to shock the townspeople by declaring who they are. Le Père hears their cries in the town square, and comes out with a spear to kill them, stopping only before he jabs the heart of Jean-Claude, dropping his weapon, and commencing to cry, because he, too is gay. The threesome flees the town happily, off to Paris, where they rent a room in a huge apartment on the Canal St. Martin filled with International bohemians, that they love and come to call L’Auberge Espagnole.