Full Movies in English 6 : Science-Fiction or Fantasy

The Shawshanks Redemption
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WPb5sBaWT4

Memento 2000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_E1tWBAnCs

Artificial Intelligence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIq0-J7ppUU

Being a free mind ...

All morning today, I have been reading articles, pages and generally looking for resources on mind mapping. I don't know what will come out of it but I'm going to keep this video on the side in case I need it.  

 

It's because of this other video by Ken Robinson that the concept of mind-mapping came back to my mind. Although I don't share every idea in this video, it is very engaging.

Try something new for 30 days !

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" (Lao Tzu)

A truly inspiring video, now what fun thing could I do  for thirty consecutive days ? :)

Yet another talk says not to tell your goals to anyone because sometimes talking replaces doing....

A Moveable Feast with Allen and Hemingway

A few weeks ago, I went to the movies to see the latest film by Woody Allen : Midnight In Paris. It was really funny because when I went out of the cinema it was nearly midnight and I was in Montmartre, the perfect setting to see a vintage car coming out of the fog to take you back in the twenties with Hemingway, Picasso, Dali and the like :)

 I really enjoyed the movie, even if some pictures were too cliché to bear, many cameos made the film hilarious : Adrian Brody as Dali, Gad Elmaleh as a private detective who's going to be decapitated in the French revolution etc.

Woody Allen placed many allusions to famous books and movies in his characters' mouths and it made me buy the book by Hemingway called "A Moveable Feast" to put it in my summer reading list. I love Paris but Hemingway is not my favourite author. I hope that the book will reconcile me with him.

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."

 And to finish here is his Nobel Prize acceptance speech where you can hear his very determined style :

Cy Twombly : Graffiti as Art

This American artist has just died at the age of 83.

Not that I knew much about him but his interest in Italy touched a soft spot in me since I love Italy and at an oral exam that I failed, I had the topic of graffiti to discuss...Also like many of these Modern artists, you need to scratch the surface to understand the meaning of their work. I learnt that the Gugenheim museum in Bilbao has a series of painting by him, so I'll try to check them when I'm over there. One of them is shown below :

The painting above is in El Prado Museum, and the next is on one of the ceilings of the Louvres Museum, it looks less like a graffiti but has such a lovely blue colour :

In the Tate Modern, they have twenty-three, maybe one  will be on display when I go this summer...I'm dying to see some paintings at the moment...Strange how this taste came to me. :)

I really would like to go and see the Mac Val summer exhibition called Itinéraires bis, their permanent collection has a new theme : memory and fidelity. I'll try to go as well this summer :)