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• Super Bowl commercials : Pepsi with Lee Brice

  01 février 2014 ( #ads, #American Football, #commercials, #Lee Brice, #Pepsi, #sports, #the Super Bowl, #the USA )

  Who is Lee Brice? Lee Brice (born June 10, 1980) is an American country music singer signed to Curb Records. His highest-charting single is "A Woman Like You", which reached No. 1 in April 2012. He also had Billboard's Top Country Song of 2010 with "Love...

• Zombie?

  19 octobre 2013 ( #fear, #fun, #halloween, #religion, #scary, #vocabulary, #voodoo, #zombie )

  Zombie craze continues to infect popular culture (from the BBC News site) (...) But some media critics and cultural commentators have begun to wonder whether this explosion of zombie enthusiasm is, as well as a bit of fun, an expression of something else....

• Idée radio : comment connaître un peu mieux les USA?

  12 octobre 2013 ( #Amérique, #Banksy, #graffiti, #hip hop, #Keith Haring, #rap music, #street art, #the USA )

  Aujourd"hui samedi 12 octobre, en direct, l'émission parle et décrypte le "street art". http://www.franceinter.fr/emission-si-lamerique-metait-contee-le-street-art-0 D'autres thèmes traités dans les émissions précédentes (à podcaster sur le site de France...

• Behind the Photo: Robert Capa's D-Day - June 6, 1944

  01 juin 2014 ( #D Day, #photo, #photography, #Robert Capa, #Time Magazine, #war, #WW2 )

  The story behind Robert Capa’s iconic shot of a soldier in the surf at Normandy, one of the most celebrated pictures of the Second World War, is nearly as complex as it is incredible. In 1944, Capa, later a co-founder of the photography collectiveMagnum,...

• "On Board", Jérôme Brézillon

  22 mars 2014 ( #arts, #exposition, #Jérôme Brézillon, #livre, #photography, #the USA, #train )

  Disparu en mars 2012, à l’âge de 47 ans, le photographe Jérôme Brézillon se passionnait pour les grands espaces américains. Il a parcouru les États-Unis en train et projetait de faire un livre à partir de cette expérience. Si sa disparition prématurée...

• Artistic murder ! Graffiti mecca 5 Pointz erased overnight

  22 novembre 2013 ( #5 pointz, #art, #destruction, #erased, #graffiti, #new york, #street art )

  Even Banksy couldn’t save this graffiti landmark. Furious street art fans were in mourning Tuesday after the owners of 5 Pointz had the graffiti Mecca in Long Island City whitewashed overnight. “They’ve officially painted over 5 Pointz @5PointzNYC – my...

• Duke and Duchess of Cambridge get 'married' coat of arms (from BBC News)

  28 septembre 2013 ( #coats of arms, #England, #royal family, #the Queen, #the royals, #traditions, #UK )

  The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have a new coat of arms to represent them as a married couple, Kensington Palace has announced. The conjugal coat of arms was approved by the Queen earlier this year. It combines Prince William's coat of arms and his...

• Most parents "lie to their children" (from BBC)

  26 janvier 2013 ( #children, #china, #education, #lie, #parenting, #parents, #the usa )

  The most frequent example was parents threatening to leave children alone in public unless they behaved. Persuasion ranged from invoking the support of the tooth fairy to telling children they would go blind unless they ate particular vegetables. Another...

• Rap along - A Tribe Called Quest

  16 janvier 2015 ( #1993, #A Tribe Called Quest, #ATCQ, #Midnight Marauders, #rap, #Steve Biko )

  Steve Biko (stir It Up) Lyrics from Midnight Marauders Midnight Marauders Other Album Songs "Steve Biko (stir It Up)" is track #9 on the album Midnight Marauders. It was written by Fareed, Kamaal Ibn John / Jones-muhammad, Ali Shaheed / Taylor, Malik...

• Taking Style to the Street (from the New York Times)

  13 décembre 2014 ( #hairdresser, #homeless, #humanity, #people, #the NYT, #the USA )

  Mark Bustos. CreditRamsay de Give for The New York Times Mr. Bustos often wanders around Union Square, the Lower East Side and Midtown, where he has gotten to know some of the homeless by name. “See that guy over there,” he said, walking down the Bowery....

• The 25 Most Influential Teens in 2014

  10 novembre 2014 ( #famous, #influence, #most powerful teens, #popular, #teenagers, #teens )

  Teens today might have a mixed reputation, but there’s no denying their influence. They command millions of fans on Twitter and Vine,start companies with funds they raised on Kickstarter, steal sceneson TV’s most popular shows, lead protests with global...

• 9/11 Museum

  16 mai 2014 ( #9-11 Museum, #memory, #New York, #NYT, #remembrance, #World Trade Center )

  In a vast underground hall beside twisted and graffiti-adorned steel remnants of New York’s twin towers, President Obama and other dignitaries joined rescue workers and families of Sept. 11 victims Thursday to dedicate the new National September 11 Memorial...

• Shoreditch snapshots

  30 mars 2014 ( #Brick Lane, #discover, #London, #neighbourhoods, #Shoreditch, #travel )

  Shoreditch Snapshot, August 2012 Shoreditch, an area of London in the London Borough of Hackney, is regarded as one of London’s most creative and vibrant areas. It is home to hundreds of design studios, tech companies, galleries, independent shops, bars...

• La Découverte du Nouveau Monde (France Inter)

  23 mars 2014 ( #Ameisen, #Amérindiens, #Darwin, #France Inter, #Native American, #the USA )

  Darwin, statue du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Londres © corbis - 2014 / Philippe Lissac / GODONG Le Grand Prix des Médias 2013 de CB News a décerné le Prix de la meilleure émission de radio à « Sur les épaules de Darwin » de Jean Claude Ameisen. Merci...

• The Queen's Christmas Broadcast 2013

  26 décembre 2013 ( #broadcast, #Christmas, #December 2013, #speech, #the Queen, #traditions )

  I once knew someone who spent a year in a plaster cast recovering from an operation on his back. He read a lot, and thought a lot, and felt miserable. Later, he realised this time of forced retreat from the world had helped him to understand the world...

• Edvard Munch's iconic artwork The Scream sold for $120m

  15 novembre 2013 ( #arts, #auctions, #Le Cri, #Munch, #painting, #The Scream )

  Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch's The Scream has become the most expensive artwork sold at auction, after it fetched $119.9m (£74m). The 1895 pastel was bought by an anonymous buyer at Sotheby's in New York. Bidding lasted 12 minutes. The work is...

• Taylor Wessin Portrait Prize Winner (The Guardian)

  16 novembre 2016 ( #photo, #photography, #prize, #taylor Wessing, #winner )

  An apparently simple and straightforward picture of a boy in his school uniform has won the Swiss-Italian photographer Claudio Rasano a major portrait award. Judges for the 2016 Taylor Wessing prize said Rasano’s picture of 18-year-old Johannesburg student...

• Elie Wiesel is Dead

  03 juillet 2016 ( #Auschwitz, #books, #Elie Wiesel, #Nobel Peace Prize, #redemption )

  Elie Wiesel, the Auschwitz survivor who became an eloquent witness for the six million Jews slaughtered in World War II and who, more than anyone else, seared the memory of the Holocaust on the world’s conscience, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan....

• Flag referendum (New Zealand)

  11 décembre 2015 ( #Australia, #new flag, #New Zealand, #referendum, #results )

  The black, white and blue silver fern flag has come out on top in the first flag referendum - but only just. The flag, designed by Kyle Lockwood, won in the fourth round of voting according to preliminary results, taking 50.53 per cent of the vote, the...

• This Peter Lik photograph reportedly just went for a world record $7.85 million

  14 décembre 2014 ( #arts, #Australia, #Melbourne, #Peter Lik, #photography )

  This week, he sold a photograph named Phantom, showing a shaft of light cutting through a monochromatic Arizona landscape. The price: $US6.5 million ($7.85 million). That's reportedly the most ever paid for a photograph. (The identity of the buyer wasn't...

• The Queen in Paris

  09 juin 2014 ( #flower market, #Paris, #renaming, #the Queen, #visit )

  The Queen was paid the ultimate compliment by the people of Paris on Saturday, when a flower market was named in her honour to reflect the “enormous affection” in which she is held by the French. In the city that executed France’s own monarch in 1793,...

• Travel : Castles of Kent, England

  30 mai 2014 ( #castles, #culture, #England, #history, #Kent )

  http://www.visitkent.co.uk/things-to-do/heritage-and-gardens/castles-in-kent CASTLES IN KENT Having served on the front line, discover the spectacular castles in Kent Crowning the white cliffs high above the port, the mighty Dover Castle was started by...

• On Board - Zambia (from the White House)

  04 juillet 2014 ( #Dr Biden, #school, #the White House, #visit, #Zambia )

  Shalom Community School in Lusaka, Zamba is a primary and secondary school established in 2008. A total of 558 students attend the school. Part of the population of the school is 39 orphans, 173 children who have lost one parent and 239 highly vulnerable...

• Self-driving cars now legal in California

  29 mars 2014 ( #California, #cars, #Google, #legal, #sel-driving cars )

  (CNN) -- California is the latest state to allow testing of Google's self-driving cars on the roads, though only with a human passenger along as a safety measure. Gov. Edmund "Jerry" Brown signed the autonomous-vehicles bill into law Tuesday afternoon...

• The Shoreditch Tales

  30 mars 2014 ( #culture, #London, #neighbourhood, #Shoreditch, #The Shoreditch Tales )

  http://shoreditchtales.com/ ABOUT THE BOOK The Shoreditch Tales gives the history of Shoreditch, Hoxton and Haggerston from the earliest times to the recent past.. Living memories and historical documents are used to tell sometimes humorous, sometimes...