A month and a week~~~
Let’s see how well I did!!!
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Wow~~~ Long time~~~ included some very varied films and short films. ;P
Have you been watching any lately???
I just saw the new commercial for Chanel N5 featuring Audrey Tautou directed by Amelie fellow-director Jean Pierre Jeunet. I personally think they work great together, visually their work is stunning… and this ad is no exception.
I think perfume commercials are very pretty to look at, even though I don’t really buy their products hahaha, but I gotta give them props for them. Anyway, the ad made me think of other perfume commercials I have previously enjoyed watching…
I finally got to see Tsumiki no Ie (or La Maison en Petits Cubes)!! This year’s Academy Award-winning animated short~~~ I remember I had only read the synopsis, after watching all the other four nominated shorts, and thought “Wow, that’s a pretty interesting write-up. I’m giving it my vote” and then it WON. Woohoo!
Well, perhaps it was just chance~~ After watching it, I feel it was very deserving. To tell you the truth, I’m a little tired of 3d animation, so watching this was like a breath of fresh air. It’s a quiet little piece that explores the memories of an old man that was forced to ‘bury’ part of his history… I liked it. It made me feel very melancholic~~ NO dialogue… though I’ve read the Japanese version has a voiced-over version (by Masami Nagasawa… which surprised me a little.) – However, I don’t think the piece needs narration~~~
Check out the shorts after the break,
Continue Reading…
I have a once-a-week message for some of my Facebook friends, where I share some new music with them. I was bad these past two weeks, and today I remembered~~~
Coeur de Pirate ~~~ I think you can download their album on iTunes (at least Canada) x3
Enjoy!
Nelson Mandela, Queen Rania, Paulo Coelho, Luis Jaime Cisneros V. have come together with others around the world like Natalie Portman, and Dakota Blue Richards (The Golden Compass) on this global project for education.
You can head over here to read some of the stories (in English, Francais, y Español~~ some even in Arabic… but why not in Chinese, Japanese and Korean? I could do some Japanese easy to read stuff~~), and add your name to the list~
For Part I of this post, click away~~
Okay, today is not really early either… but this will have to do because I only have 3 years to go. In case you haven’t read the first part, or are lazy to read it now that I’ve given you the link… I got a little mad remembering films that should have won in years past~~ which include Tekkonkinkreet, and/or Paprika getting nominations in 2006 (or 2007, pick your release date issue).
So just after the break, I will be talking about 2005, 2007 and 2008…
Most often than not, there’s a lack of foreign films in the Animated Feature (and in any other) field~ So how many times must we pass over great animation (not only for kids) to open our eyes? I started out with a qucik search for 2006 released animation (because I was discussing that year with a friend), but that didn’t do anything except make me skim through an article stating that “2006 was a great year for animation” – NOT! That there were 2 or 3 animated (3d CG) films each months totaling more than a dozen films of pretty much crappy quality… and if they were lucky they were worth a straight-to-dvd release is NOT a great year for animation. That just makes it a great year for movie business…
2006 was the year I began hating 3d animation, because everyone seemed to be releasing their 3d films JUST to cash in.
I ended up at the Academy Awards site to search all animated films nominated since the category began in 2001 with Shrek (the original not sequels) won. I also ended up on IMDb and their ‘Power Search’ tool to search for animated films with feature releases from the year.
Wow, my iPod has some old music~~ haha. I decided to do a list by year, and foudn that picking a song a year is tough!! And it was a long list, so I thought I could split this up in a few other mixtapes. This one it’s a more varied one starting from 1940 with Carmen Miranda, and ending in 1969 with the Jackson 5. xD After that, I have enough music to do a 10-track mix per decade (one per year). You think?
- Carmen Miranda – Mamãe Eu Quero – 1940
- Carmen Miranda – Chica Chic Boom Chic – 1941
- Carmen Miranda – Não Te Dou a Chupeta – 1942
- Edith Piaf – La Vie en Rose – 1946
- Edith Piaf – Padam Padam – 1951
- Edith Piaf – Bravo pour le Clown! – 1953
- Yma Sumac – Indian Carnival – 1954
- Edith Piaf – Non Je Ne Regrette Rien – 1960
- West Side Story Cast – America – 1961
- The Beatles – Hold me Tight – 1963
- The Beatles – Can’t Buy me Love – 1964
- The Beatles – Help! – 1965
- The Mamas and the Papas – California Dreamin’ – 1966
- The Beatles – With a Little Help from my Friends – 1967
- Simon & Garfunkel – Mrs. Robinson – 1968
- The Jackson 5 – I Want Your Bacl – 1969
Esta es la traducción de inglés -> español del artículo que escribí para YAM 003 titulado “Too Foreign for your Own Good. Please Sing in English” en el que hablo de los más recientes lanzamientos de artistas de no habla inglesa estrenando material en el idioma para entrar en el mercado.
Como el artículo es un poco largo, pueden leerlo después del break.
