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• Christams gift! JK Rowling's plans for her fans!

  06 décembre 2014 ( #book, #Draco Malfoy, #fans, #Harry Potter, #JK Rowling, #release, #series )

  JK Rowling has revealed to fans of her seven-book Harry Potter series that she is writing new material for her dedicated all-things-Hogwarts website, Pottermore – and a special tale out on Friday 12 December will bring subscribers up to date with what...

• As Manchester United ban iPads from Old Trafford, what else should go? (from The Guardian)

  12 août 2014 ( #ban, #England, #football, #football stadium, #iPad, #Manchester, #Old Trafford )

  Manchester United fans are no longer allowed to bring iPads and “large electronic devices” to Old Trafford. In an email circulated to supporters before Tuesday night’s friendly against Valencia, the club instructed fans to leave their tablets at home:...

• Travel : What it's like to be in New York?

  19 mai 2014 ( #city, #meet a city, #NY city, #people, #streets, #travel, #visit )

  Published on Oct 15, 2012 Places featured in the film: Queensborough Bridge 0:00 5th Ave. Central Park Buildings 0:36 Times Square 1:50 Lefferts Gardens 4:04 Dumbo (clarke St. Station) 4:55 Brooklyn Bridge 5:56 Grand Central Station 7:00 168th Street...

• William Barton brings the didgeridoo from the history book to the concert hall

  15 février 2014 ( #Aborigine, #Australia, #culture, #didgeridoo, #music, #OZ, #sharing )

  Sound is generally invisible, but when William Barton plays the didgeridoo, producing a low moaning note that is unearthly and ethereal, you can practically see the long vibrations leave the end of his lacquered, wooden tube and slide their way across...

• AMERICA : Painting a Nation

  24 décembre 2013 ( #America, #American, #arts, #identity, #New South Wales Gallery, #painting, #Sydney )

  What makes Americans American? See the art that defined a nation in the most ambitious survey of American painting ever seen in Australia. With many masterpieces shown here for the first time, the exhibition brings together over 90 works from major artists,...

• Chinese teen migrants talk about living in New Zealand

  20 mars 2014 ( #decision, #life, #migrants, #migration, #New Zealand, #parents' decision, #teenagers )

  Dianna Gui (16), Vivian Luo (16) and Saffron Huang (15) students from Macleans College in Howick, Auckland, talk about their parents' reasons for moving to New Zealand and what their first impressions were when they arrived here. Saffron laughs about...

• Are you Minnesota?

  27 novembre 2013 ( #a state, #correspondants, #discover, #Minnesota, #pen pals, #the USA, #vidéo )

  Minnesotans aren't mean, exactly, but sometimes our "nice" can be a little...back handed? In this episode of "Are You MN Enough?" Stockade Films takes a look at how nice "Minnesota Nice" really is. "Are You MN Enough?" is a web series produced by Rewire,...

• Sydney Boys High School Gender Equality Project

  31 octobre 2013 ( #australia, #gender equality, #high school life, #men, #project, #sydney, #women )

  A group of Year 10 students at Sydney Boys High School (an all-boys, selective, public high school in Sydney, Australia) chose, as part of their High Resolves Community Action Project, to raise awareness about gender equality. They created a compelling...

• Outsider Whose Dark, Lyrical Vision Helped Shape Rock ’n’ Roll (from the New York Times)

  28 octobre 2013 ( #artist, #death, #Lou Reed, #music, #New York, #nyt, #the Velvet )

  The cause was liver disease, said Dr. Charles Miller of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, where Mr. Reed had liver transplant surgery this year and was being treated again until a few days ago. Mr. Reed brought dark themes and a mercurial, sometimes aggressive...

• A powerful commercial

  22 octobre 2013 ( #ad, #cheesy, #commercial, #communication, #emotion, #thailand, #tv )

  Thai telecom company TrueMoveH has created a masterpiece of a commercial. Similar toanother Thai mobile company, the three minute ad packs in real drama and emotion. Rather than advertising their hottest smartphone on the market, TrueMoveH sends a different...

• Royal baby news sparks media mania (from The Guardian)

  05 décembre 2012 ( #kate middleton, #pregancy, #prince william, #royal couple, #the royal family, #uk, #william )

  And so it begins. The pregnant Duchess of Cambridge remained in hospital on Tuesday morning, while outside the massed ranks of the international media waited – for developments. Frankly, there were few facts for the rows of weary presenters filling airtime...

• Sweatshops / After Bangladesh

  19 mai 2013 ( #Bangladesh, #culture, #factory, #slavery, #sweatshop, #textile industry, #world )

  BACKGROUND This cartoon by Chappatte from "Le Temps" relates to the clothing factory collapse inDhaka, Bangladesh, which killed 1127 people. Following the disaster, western clothing companies which use such factories to make cheap clothes were criticized...

• Banksy captivates New York with guerrilla graffiti art blitz (from The Guardian)

  21 octobre 2013 ( #arts, #Banksy, #graffiti, #new york, #street art, #the USA )

  Famously jaded New Yorkers are getting swept up in the hype overBanksy, the renegade graffiti artist who is leaving his mark across the city this month. Known for his anti-authoritarian black-and-white stencilled images, which have sold at auction for...

• Banksy captivates New York with guerrilla graffiti art blitz (from The Guardian)

  21 octobre 2013 ( #arts, #Banksy, #graffiti, #new york, #street art, #the USA )

  Famously jaded New Yorkers are getting swept up in the hype overBanksy, the renegade graffiti artist who is leaving his mark across the city this month. Known for his anti-authoritarian black-and-white stencilled images, which have sold at auction for...

• Banksy captivates New York with guerrilla graffiti art blitz (from The Guardian)

  21 octobre 2013 ( #arts, #Banksy, #graffiti, #new york, #street art, #the USA )

  Famously jaded New Yorkers are getting swept up in the hype overBanksy, the renegade graffiti artist who is leaving his mark across the city this month. Known for his anti-authoritarian black-and-white stencilled images, which have sold at auction for...

• Banksy captivates New York with guerrilla graffiti art blitz (from The Guardian)

  21 octobre 2013 ( #arts, #Banksy, #graffiti, #new york, #street art, #the USA )

  Famously jaded New Yorkers are getting swept up in the hype overBanksy, the renegade graffiti artist who is leaving his mark across the city this month. Known for his anti-authoritarian black-and-white stencilled images, which have sold at auction for...

• Banksy captivates New York with guerrilla graffiti art blitz (from The Guardian)

  21 octobre 2013 ( #arts, #Banksy, #graffiti, #new york, #street art, #the USA )

  Famously jaded New Yorkers are getting swept up in the hype overBanksy, the renegade graffiti artist who is leaving his mark across the city this month. Known for his anti-authoritarian black-and-white stencilled images, which have sold at auction for...

• Banksy captivates New York with guerrilla graffiti art blitz (from The Guardian)

  21 octobre 2013 ( #arts, #Banksy, #graffiti, #new york, #street art, #the USA )

  Famously jaded New Yorkers are getting swept up in the hype overBanksy, the renegade graffiti artist who is leaving his mark across the city this month. Known for his anti-authoritarian black-and-white stencilled images, which have sold at auction for...

• Banksy captivates New York with guerrilla graffiti art blitz (from The Guardian)

  21 octobre 2013 ( #arts, #Banksy, #graffiti, #new york, #street art, #the USA )

  Famously jaded New Yorkers are getting swept up in the hype overBanksy, the renegade graffiti artist who is leaving his mark across the city this month. Known for his anti-authoritarian black-and-white stencilled images, which have sold at auction for...

• Banksy captivates New York with guerrilla graffiti art blitz (from The Guardian)

  21 octobre 2013 ( #arts, #Banksy, #graffiti, #new york, #street art, #the USA )

  Famously jaded New Yorkers are getting swept up in the hype overBanksy, the renegade graffiti artist who is leaving his mark across the city this month. Known for his anti-authoritarian black-and-white stencilled images, which have sold at auction for...

• Banksy captivates New York with guerrilla graffiti art blitz (from The Guardian)

  21 octobre 2013 ( #arts, #Banksy, #graffiti, #new york, #street art, #the USA )

  Famously jaded New Yorkers are getting swept up in the hype overBanksy, the renegade graffiti artist who is leaving his mark across the city this month. Known for his anti-authoritarian black-and-white stencilled images, which have sold at auction for...

• Are you over-connected? (+ audio / BBC)

  23 mars 2015 ( #communication, #connected, #dependence, #over-connected, #phone, #technology )

  Little wonder that we are transfixed; that the faces in Pulman’s images ripple with such emotion. We are free, if “free” is the right word, to beam stimulation or distraction into our brains at any moment. Via the screens we carry – and will soon be wearing...

• Who is rich enough for a Picasso?

  13 juin 2015 ( #art market, #arts, #Gauguin, #Picasson, #prices, #the NYT )

  Has the world’s most expensive art ever been so expensive? And if it hasn’t, what does that tell us about the world we live in? These were two questions worth asking after the sale of a Picasso last month at an auction in New York for $179.4 million....

• TimesTalks : Robert Pattinson and David Cronenberg

  04 février 2015 ( #cinema, #Cosmopolis, #David Cronenberg, #interview, #Robert Pattinson, #TimesTalks )

  Robert Pattinson and David Cronenberg sit down with New York Times journalist David Carr -- www.timestalks.com. Actor Robert Pattinson ("The Twilight Saga," "Water for Elephants") and award-winning director-writer-producer David Cronenberg ("A Dangerous...

• School in the mail-box (1946)

  29 janvier 2015 ( #air school, #Australia, #education, #mailbox, #outback, #school )

  From the Film Australia Collection. Made by the National Film Board 1946. Directed by Stanley Hawes. Nominated for an Academy Award, this film looks at how Australians tackled the tyranny of distance to educate the children of the outback by correspondence....