Excuse my french ? A shortlist. Links from AEIOU (french version), and links that you might not find elsewhere :Archives > Juin 2005The death of a gentleman activist
Posté par Sandor le 30.06.05 à 16:07
Aeiou team is sad. François-Xavier Verschave just died yesterday from cancer disease. Very smart, this fellow was also much useful in today French society : he wrote several books in the last few years to denounce the economic relationship between French politicians and African dictators, mostly based on African oil ressources extracted by Elf, the huge French oil company. Thanks to guys like him, French people were more aware of the illegitimate way their government is dealing with former colonies. Verschave was an economist, the BBC reported some news about him, here and there (in good English !)
LINK A wiki story of net art Jacques Perconte just launched a wiki story of net art, bringing Natalie Bookchin's a story of net art (1999, open source) to the joys of mutli-publication. Starting in 1994 with Hot Pictures - curated by Alexei Shulgin - where will all that take us to ? Change, edit, mystify : on the Internet, nobody knows you're a historian.LINK I'm looking for a hard bearded woman
Posté par le 24.06.05 à 16:33 | 2
 "I had a splendid beard, curly, abundant, which opened out in double panache". The Journal of Clémentine Delait was found recently by an old man in a boot fair (story - in french - and photo). Clémentine Delait was proud to be bearded. In 1904, she had to ask the government for special permission to wear men's clothing. An incredible life for a incredible woman (take a look at this page, in french). Hope her journal will be edited...LINK Microsoft vs. Sony : The Laundry Battle
Posté par le 21.06.05 à 18:23 | 19
 Promoting it's new PSP (the platform is not yet available in France), Sony opened a showroom called "The Factory" in Paris, Place de l'Etoile. Just accross the road stands a laundry (right, on photo). With a touch of espieglery, Microsoft hired the place to stick big ads on the shop (left), saying with quite a sense of humor : "Keep your forces for Winter". Of course, that's when the Xbox 360 is meant to come out. And of course, this type of advertisement displeased Sony... After one day of corporate blasphemy, the stickers were removed (right photo again). No lawsuit, no scandal, just a big cheque from Sony. This nice story of laundry battling made the laundry worker a bit richer. Which is a good point. LINK Palais de Tokyo
Posté par Puck le 21.06.05 à 15:24
Palais de Tokyo, youngest contemporary art Museum in Paris, had an old website. Here's the new one for summer. Take notice : Translation, an exhibition designed by M/M, begins tomorrow.
LINK Mostra cortografica
Traveling around the world as ever, the famous comics hero Corto Maltese decided to stop for an exhibition in Sienna, Italy, until August 28th. Wanna go and see what it looks like ?
LINK Collectif Odessa
Posté par Puck le 04.06.05 à 00:00
They are five photographers, living in Toulouse. They are called Odessa and compose one of the most interessant independant collective in France for photo-journalism. I love them.
LINK All Stars Remix
Posté par Puck le 03.06.05 à 00:00
Interactive flash player. Jon, Uma, Christopher, Harvey, Julia and friends go deaf. Who - and what - do you (they) say ?
LINK Flash festival in Paris
Posté par Life on Mars ? le 02.06.05 à 00:00
A few URL's for your plugs. The winners are...
Art & Graphism : Rimbaud Arthur (Watoo) Art NetArt : Sonoises (Permeable.net) Animation : Suicid (Incorect) Animation : La Jungle des automates (Matthieu Gueritte) Corporate presentation : Issey Miyake (Incandescence) Game : Ma langue au chat (école de designe Nantes Atlantique) Peoples's voice winner : Un noël vraiment zinzin (Kartel) Grand prix 2005 : Anonymes.net
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