In a city
dedicated to beauty, style, and magnificent art, the arrival of a new
kind of museum is sure to attract people, even the ones who would never
set foot inside a traditional museum - they will go and see this one.
The concept is not new in France, a majestic cave in Provence has had
digital shows for years, and the sheer splendor of the location has
much to do with the exhilarating novelty of the viewing - as the Carrières des Lumières is located inside an old limestone quarry in a tiny village of France.
The gigantic
tall walls of white stone are covered with vibrant images of such
artists’ works as Matisse, Chagall and others. The grandiose view of
such masterful paintings makes is almost overwhelming to walk the caves.
The Cristal Baschet was built in 1952, by Bernard and François Baschet from France.
It is playing by rubbing glass rods with wet fingers, working like
bows. The vibration of the glass is passing on to tuned blocks of
Duralumin wich make the notes, then amplified by fiber and metallic
cones.
Twenty two years after losing his lower right arm as a child, French
tattoo artist JC Sheitan Tenet has become the first person in the world
to be fitted with a modified prosthetic arm that can double as his
tattoo gun.
"There is a light that never goes out. It dwells deep inside us, giving us motivation and shaping our path. That light is the flicker of creation. The spark of an idea. The outline of a design. It is the desire that stokes our passions and makes us strive to go further. This internal fire feeds our dreams and puts a glint in our eye. It is the energy that ignites our creativity. It tills the land. It shapes and gives life to the medium being crafted. Every creation is imbued with the being that created it, as if the medium is breathing in the spirit of the craftsman. Isn't that the most beautiful way of leaving a trace of our existence, of our time on this earth? To create is the only way to traverse time, to wander through the ages. It is the only way to become immortal, to be infinite. If this light goes out, we die." The Glint from Mathieumaury on Vimeo.
This is my first short film for Guillaume Drapier, Founder of Comete Motocycles.
Shot in one day, achieved without any budget.
Shot in raw with Magic Lantern on a Canon 5D Mark III Director / Editor : Mathieu Maury
Cinematographers : Romain Decomble, Eudes Quittelier
Color Grading : Eudes Quittelier
Text : Lise Beuve
Narrator : Paul Bandey
Music : A.Taylor – Nostalgia
Mixing: Jesse James Rosquin – Studio Apollon XIII
Actor : Guillaume Drapier Big thanks to :
Ores-group, Nicolas Guittard, Julien Boulard, Stanislas Giroux, Nancy El
Bahrawi, Julien Scussel, Anaïs Deféver, Jonathan Cj Tassin, Ewald
Wilson, and all my friends and my family.
Word on the street is that Reno Divorce has been killin' all the stages they came across in Europe. Here are some photos from club Le Tigre in northern France's city of Reims. This is a damn great venue and a great place for a show to catch if you are in that area of France. All the great photos were taken by Gnikoner.
The fellas are playing stages far and wide for their three week trek across the pond. One of the big highlights was playing to over 2000 folks in downtown Berlin. Here is some info coming in from the fellas over on their news section of RenoDivorceBand.com
5.3.12
"It's hard at times to truly be able to
give fans and family a good perspective of life on the road unless you
have been out here with us. I know that most of you live from a
perspective of, those guys are just on one big long vacation of endless
parties countless adoring fans and an imaginary road crew that travels
with us so that we just walk out on to the stage.....as good as that
sounds it is very far from the norm...we work extremely hard out here
with no days off most of the time, all in the hope that more than 25
people will show up to the club that night to enjoy the show along with
buying up some merch so that we will have enough gas to get down the
road to the next city. The shows in the Czech Republic were ones that I
thought would be some of the biggest, but in the end turned out a
little light, which manly has to do with promotion and the fact that we
played on the same night as one of their favorite holidays, but a HUGE
thanks goes out to all the adoring CZ fans that came out those nights to
watch us. Now please, do not take from this that i'm complaining at
all, as a band we have done things that most bands back home would beg
to do, but at times I fill my head with doubt and wonder if the hours
and hours that I have spent away from my, our, families and friends is
paying off.....then we are treated to the show we had in BERLIN!!!
Reno Divorce at Kuz Kreuz in Germany
Strolling through Dresden, Germany
We did not expect this show to be as big as it was. A few years
ago we were fortunate enough to be asked to play at the With Full Force
Festival, which a band at our level was very lucky to play, we performed
in front of more than 3000 out of control german fans, which thus far
has been the highlight of our careers. Now the show in Berlin I
predicted at best would be a small festival where we played on the grass
underneath a tent....I couldn't have been more wrong. We were set up
on a mobile stage right in the middle of downtown Berlin where I'm
guessing at least 2000 watched and more than 6 to 8000 people passed by
as we played. "Mayday" in Berlin in like nothing I have experienced.
We saw at least 60 to 80 police vans and 500 or more cops dressed in
full riot gear....it was fucking insane. See what I mean....the turn
around.
The gig
that was played here in Zlotow, PL at the Generator club was rad!! This
is a town that we have never played before and had no idea how it would
turn out....Thank you to all the new fans that came out and to the
hospitality of the promoter and his crew. I can only hope that the
pictures come out showing the crowd at different times during the show
lifting Brent and I up to crowd surf while we were still playing come
out, that was a first for both of us. Now, I'm not saying that while
this was happening my guitar playing was any good but I did give it my
all and was praying that they weren't going to drop me on my head. This
is an area without a doubt that we want and will come back to.
So tonight we are off to Warsaw and without jinxing anything I only see blue skies ahead"
Timmy giving the horns on some downtime backstage on the road in Europe
Reno Divorce catching up on all things promotions and email on the road in Europe
Timmy, Brent, Reuben and Tye of Reno Divorce
4.27.12
"So the first time we were in Italy was
over 2 1/2 years ago, when we played only one date while on tour with
the US Bombs...So the first 5 dates of the tour (aside from the first
one in Timelkam) started in Italy.
The first question I had was answered extremely quickly, "Will the
Italian's coffee reputation hold up?" Oh my GOD, it surpassed all my
expectations and the best part was the price. It was much cheaper than
we normally pay at home. Now the bad news is that I'm going to have to
go back on regular coffee which before was very enjoyable but now fails
in comparison to it's Italian counterpart.
Reuben, Timmy and Tye of Reno Divorce at the Coliseum in ancient Rome
Tye, Reuben and Timmy of Reno Divorce at the Coliseum in ancient Rome
We want to give a huge thank you to all the fans that came out to
these first 5 shows. Playing during the week is usually hit and miss
anyway, but everything ran very smooth and being able to have a little
bit of time to visit the Colosseum in Rome was also a huge treat. There
are so many things that the band would like to have time to stop and
check out but when you have 5 and 6 hour drives everyday it normally
just isn't possible.
The first gig was in Kaltern which is actually a german speaking
region, day 2 in Massa, day 3 in Rome, day 4 in Montecchio, and the
final day in Rho/ Milan. All of the promoters treated us with tons of
respect and are looking forward to the next time we come back. We also
were very fortunate to make friends with a band that has been touring
Europe for a while....THE MAHONES!! This is a great band and just a
wonderful group of people to hang out with. At last years Sjock
festival in Holland we only talked with them briefly before they hit the
stage, so this was a cool opportunity to be able to play a few shows
with them. I know that from our end, we would be more than happy to be
able to do more shows with Finny, his wife Katie and the rest of the
boys!!! Thanks guys
Food to go in Italy, small salad of Mozzarella and tomatoes
Fans in Italy were stoked to see the band
Italy brought an amazing welcome reception to Reno Divorce
Another great highlight of these shows was the gig in Montecchio in
which we played a show with the legendary punk band 7 Seconds. Kevin
and the guys could not have been nicer to us and we are really looking
forward to our gig with them tomorrow in Fulda. Most of their set
consists of their earlier music from the first two albums....Lots of
energy and a pleasure to watch..
To close out, our close friend Doug who is here with us to help out
with the merch is still here and the good news is that he made it past
the first week without taking the first plane back to the States. We
win....anyway look for another tour update in a few days......L8R
Reno Divorce at Kutna Hora
Reno Divorce after their show in the Czech republic
Found this posting over at Neatoramawhich then added it from Bibliodyssey about these amazing copper plate etchings from the 1730's by French illustrator Bernard Picart. The images were produced in a book called Neueröffneter Musen-Tempel, (Temple of the Muses) with 60 copperplate engravings, mostly illustrating stories from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Bernard Picart (or Picard) (1673-1733) was a French book illustrator and one of the outstanding engravers from the first decades of the 18th century. His most famous work - see: Designer Religion - was an enormous compendium of the world's religions.
In 'Neueröffneter Musen-Tempel', a collection of mythological fables and stories (most notably from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses') is presented, accompanied by sixty copperplate engravings by Picart. The illustrations are superior in quality, even as they appeared in 1733 in the fading light of the Baroque tradition. The fabulous ornate border patterns lend the compositions something of a formal quality like framed paintings; indeed, Picart drew inspiration for a number of his engravings from mid-17th century works by the Rubens student, Abraham van Diepenbeeck. But the majority of the designs are by Picart himself.
'The Temple of Muses' was published in France and Germany simultaneously in 1733 and includes captions in English, French, German and Dutch below each illustration. The images above are from a 1754 edition published in Amsterdam.
The Chaos Of The Origin Of The World
Achelous in the shape of a Bull is vanquished by Hercules
Hell
Ulysses and his companions avoid the charms of the Sirens
Amphion builds the walls of Thebes by the Music of his Lyre
Arion preserved by a Dolphin
Atlas supports the Heavens on his shoulders
Bellerophon fights the Chimaera
Transformation of Cyguns into a Swan and Phaeton's Sisters into poplar trees
Glaucus changed into a Sea-God
Hercules' Combat with the Hydra
Ixion's wheel
Sisyphus's stone
The Dioscuri or Castor and Pollux the Guardians of Mariners
Another raving review just came in from the French. They completely agree that Hellbound Glory needs to tour in Europe and that the latest album "Old Highs & New Lows" is pure scumbag country and made the way real country ought to be made. For those of you that can speak fluent French, get buck wild and translate the review. If ya can read French, the first person to post up the correct translation will win one brand new "Rooster" shirt from us. We do want a "correct" translation and not just a cut n' paste from any translation site...
Ce n’est pas que je n’aime pas Hellbound Glory. Non. A vrai dire, ils me laissent absolument indifférent. Pourquoi? Parce que je ne suis pas américain. Parce qu’il y a longtemps que je n’ai plus envie de jouer au cow-boy et parce que je ne conduis pas de camion.
Hellbound Glory est un groupe country/bluegrass originaire de la ville de Reno, dans le Nevada. Et ces quatre cow-boys ont beau passer pour des ‘outlaws’ dans leur pays d’origine (NDR : leurs lyrics pas vraiment ‘politiquement corrects’ ne sont pas avares de ‘fuck’ et de sujets qui requièrent probablement un avis parental), pour le commun des Européens, Hellbound Glory, ce n’est pas du rock, enfin pas plus que Dolly Parton ou Emylou Harris. Pourtant dans leur bio, les Américains avouent être influencés par le rockabilly. On n’en retrouve malheureusement aucune trace sur leur second album, « Old Highs & New Lows ».
L’année dernière j’avais pourtant passé un très bon moment en écoutant l’album « Killer Grass » d’Hayseed Dixie et ses reprises country/hillbilly hilarantes de Black Sabbath, Queen, Allman Brothers Band et bien d’autres. L’écoute d’« Old Highs & New Low » constitue donc un véritable calvaire pour mes oreilles réfractaires à tout ce qui s’approche de près ou de loin au générique de la série « L’homme qui tombe à pic ».
Si les disques de Hank Williams Senior, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, David Allen Coe, Merle Haggard et Willie Nelson ornent les rayons de votre cédéthèque, nous ne sommes probablement pas amis. Cependant, il y a de fortes chances pour que la musique d’Hellbound Glory vous fasse frémir le stetson et vous donne envie de chevaucher un pur-sang à travers les étendues sauvages du Far-West.
