iPad 3 rumoured to launch on March 7th

Apple has recently sent journalists invitations to an event in San Francisco.

According to Guardiantech, and a tweet by New York Times’ Nick Bilton; Apple has sent out invitations stating: “We have something you really have to see. And touch.” with an image of an ipad.

What to expect on ipad 3? Well, Apple didn’t provide any details on the new device but most reports have suggested that the new iPad will have a “retina display” screen, with four times as many pixels as the current model, and could include 4G connectivity for US high-speed networks.

The event will be at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, where the company holds larger launch events at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST).

Ben and Jerry’s Launches Greek Yogurt Line

I always keep up with Ben and Jerry’s and they recently revamped their frozen yogurt line by dropping all their current yogurt products for their new line of Greek yogurt. Greek yogurt now accounts for one quarter of all annual yogurt sales so it didn’t take Ben and Jerry’s long to try and move in on that market. In their corner they have really balanced their patented premium ice cream with tons of mix in style with the greek yogurt instead of the ice cream. The styles already sound awesome. Raspberry Fudge Chunk, Peanut Butter Banana, Strawberry Shortcake, and Blueberry Vanilla Graham. All those styles remain true to their identity as a company. I really look forward to trying these as soon as they are in the supermarket.

All I Own

A swedish photographer, Sannah Kvist, had the idea of shooting all the stuffs a person can have. She choose some participants who compose and build a sculpture of all his or her possessions. The result is amazing : is a life really contain so few things ?

Obviously, we’d better like the value of simplicity over material goods.

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The New Spielberg

The new film of Steven Spielberg is in room and speaks about horse!

War horse tells the history of Joey, a horse requisitioned during the first world war to evacuate the injured men of the forehead. Albert, the boy who raised Joey, searches it everywhere. Across their double history, the film shows cataclysms of war and small battles of entrainés people in the torment.

Attention: it is a hard film, with violent stages, recommended in the biggest only.

the youngest and sensitive souls will love the novel!
out by  junior Folio, the friendship between Albert and Joey takes all its force in the course of lines. And if you used vacation to read it?

Who Doesn’t Want a Naked Golden Man?

Last night the 84th Annual Academy Awards was in full swing, it aired on ABC. All the celebrities showed up and dazzled as they walked the red carpet. Those who weren’t in attendance at the award show were at the Vanity Fair viewing party or Elton John’s annual viewing party.

Octavia Spencer accepting Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in The Help

The big winning movies of the night were Hugo (Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Visual Effects, and Best Sound Editing) and The Artist (Best Picture, Best Actor{Jean Dujardin}, Best Original Score, and Best Costume Design) each winning 4 oscars. Other big winners for the night included:

Best Actress: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady

Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners

Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, The Help

Best Orginal Screen Play: Midnight in Paris

For the full Oscar nomination/winners list please click here.

Gwyneth Paltrow, Rooney Mara, Shailene Woodley

Big Red Carpet Trends on the Academy/Viewing Parties red carpets included: Ellie Saab, White, Black, One Shoulder, Low Cut Backs, Nude/Beige, and Emerald Jewelry. My personal favorites and best dressed nominees are Michelle Williams in Louie Vuitton, Rooney Mara in Givenchy Couture, and Viola Davis in Vera Wang. All the celebrities looked brilliant last night, there were no misses at the prestigious Academy Awards. According the celebrity tweets some people are still recovering from the after parties!

Emma Stone, Stacey Keibler, Michelle Williams, Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, and Milla Jovovich

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Dujardin , What else ?

French film “The Artist” has swept international awards worldwide turning it into a serious contender at today’s Oscar’s including for French Star Jean Dujardin. Bookmakers predict he will beat George Clooney and other contenders for the category for “Best actor in a Male Performance”.

This is the story of a guy who knew nothing else to do. Even his friend MarcLievremont, former coach of the XV of France, must admit, he who pretends tohave him play the ball on a rugby field, “Thank God John has chosen to make films …”
Jean Dujardin, the youngest of a family of four brothers, three of the names of apostles, was not good at much. Whippersnapper, mute, no school, unable to write on the lines as to read in continuity, all the symptoms of dyspraxia. In rugby, it was better for him to run fast not been dumped by his brothers. ”What will wedo with him?”, Is anguished mother. It was called ”John of the Moon”. He dreamed. ”I was not at all unhappy, he says with that smile fatal point where aslightly shifted right canine. I was fine in my little world. I watched, I was drawing.At the end of the years, I imitated the teachers. the class laughed and I was happy. All I knew to do was play. ”

If to date only 2 previous French Female stars Simone Signoret for “Room at the Top” and Marillon Cotillard for “La Vie En Rose” have won the prestigious award in the past, no male French actor has ever won the Best Actor award. Dujardin may indeed make history tonight as France holds it’s breath …

Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep.

This blog needs no other title other than the two words that mean everything good in this world…Meryl Streep.

I don’t see any reason to interrupt my daily movie theatre blog other than to pay tribute to one of my favorite human beings to ever walk this earth.

I have a number of favorite actor and actress and singers. But I have 3 heroes. Julia Roberts, Cher, and at the top of the list…Meryl Streep.

I’ll save Julia and Cher for another day because they each have their own story of why they’re on that list and they all deserve their own special, unique post

When I turned 18 I started college. I didn’t know anybody, I was commuting from Westchester Tuesday-Thursday…taking the 10 am train in and not getting home until around 11pm and knowing that the next morning I had to do it all again. I HATED it. I had never commuted anywhere before and would just go all day basically not speaking..sitting on the train…sitting through class…walking through the city…eating lunch by myself…sitting on the train. And then doing it again the next day. I quit my job at Blockbuster before school began because I was doing work study so I didn’t even have that to keep my social. And all my friends moved away to school so I really had nothing. I was going through other stuff as well so I was just miserable all the time.

Then on Christmas morning Mamma Mia! was sitting underneath the Christmas tree. I watched the DVD that day and as the cast were dancing and singing to the finale song “Waterloo”, I remembered why I was doing it all. I remembered that the greatest medicine for anything is always a great movie and it just woke me up and snapped me right out of it. I rediscovered my love and passion for film that I didn’t even realize I had forgotten.

I watched all her movies within a month (thank you Netflix) and bought all all her films on DVD (even the ones out of print) within a few months after that (thank you high school scholarship money). If I was only allowed to watch one movie for the rest of my life it would be Mamma Mia! (but I would sneak The Bridges of Madison County in my pocket..because I ain’t about to live without that one either). She is literally the greatest actress on the planet and I got the facts, figures and stats to back up that claim if anybody wants to challenge it … haha….but seriously I’m up for a debate if needed.

What she does can’t be considered acting because she is literally dozens of souls wrapped up in one beautiful, elegant package and the fact that she went 20 years before winning her third Oscar tonight is the biggest sin ever committed on this planet as far as I’m concerned. But tonight she did win and I’m pretty sure she heard by screams all the way at the Kodak Theatre when her name was called out.

So here is a list of my personal favorites which also happens to coincide with what should be everyone’s list of greatest movies of all time. If you haven’t seen these movies you owe it to yourself to rent them, or buy them or Netflix them because they will change your life…

Mamma Mia!
Bridges of Madison County
Postcards from the Edge
The Devil Wears Prada
It’s Complicated
Marvin’s Room
Doubt
Out of Africa
The River Wild
Silkwood
Sophie’s Choice
Adaptation
Angels in America
Death Becomes Her
A Cry in the Dark
Falling in Love
Ironweed
Kramer vs. Kramer
One True Thing
Theatre of War

(this is just my personal favorites of her movies…you should all really see all her movies before you die..add it to your bucket list.)

Winning tonight’s Oscar gives her 3 Academy Awards. She needs just one more to tie the record for most wins by an actor in the history of the Award. That record is currently held by Katherine Hepburn with 4 Academy Awards. But considering Streep holds the records for most wins and nominations of Golden Globes and most nomination in the history of the Academy Awards…it is just a matter of time before she hits four and then breaks through the glass ceiling piling on more golden statues and solidifying herself even more as the greatest actress this world has ever seen. She’s an exemplary actor and a magnificent person and it may sound dramatic and all and I know it is but I’m dramatic so whatever…She really brought light into a really dark time in my life and brought my first love back into my life…film.

I’m forever indebted to her for that and I really hope one day I get to work with her or at least meet her so I can thank her for all that. But for now, I’ll just blog about it and try to spread the Streep to ya’ll

#TeamMeryl

‘Garden State of Mind’ – MoRuf

Moruf is an up-and-coming ‘hiphop groovy rapper’. I dont know exactly how or what to label him as but his music isn’t like anyones ive heard before. Hes come straight from New Jersey. Part of a group of young musicians named Jersey Klan, he definitely stands out. This past tuesday Moruf performed at the Dominion NY. More and more he is poppin’ up, performing at New York and New Jersey venues. Have a look & listen below.

Follow him on Twitter & Tumblr.

For more music click here.

Enjoy !

The Raw Art

I can’t afford to love NY (pictured below) is a great piece of art work by the artist Mariano of Argentinean descent. When shopping at the  Bryant Park holiday shops a couple of months I was so impressed with this piece of art. Everything else in the shops looked so generic it was like walking through a mall, which was very disheartening for me. I loved going to the holiday shops looking for unique and special things, and I almost walked out thinking there were no special shops left thankfully my eye caught Mariano’s work right before I walked out of the shops and he proved me wrong. His work is sort of pop art meets NY meets graffiti (NY isn’t graffiti anymore). Pictured are some of my favorite pieces. Mariano also does custom pieces. I really want one like the Marilyn Monroe one but with Dame Elizabeth Taylor emphasizing of course her eyes! And as conceited as it may sound I want one of myself also like Marilyn Monroe’s emphasizing my red lips. It was such a wonderful find and I plan on purchasing some pieces real soon. Mariano lives in Brooklyn you can get in contact with him and or purchase his works either through his Etsy or Facebook pages.

 Xx Ana

Google Ocean : The heart of the Great Barrier Reef

By the fall of 2012, Google Earth will plunge us into the Great Barrier Reef with a new mapping tool, 

Google Ocean.

An access to over 50 000 images which enable the public to travel the 2 600 km of the largest coral reef in the world “Marianne grave”, located in Australia, without getting wet !

Divers will capture these 360 degres’ images while moving at 4 km/h and by recording their position every 4 to 6 seconds. The underwater cameras reach dephts inaccessible to human.

This tool tends to educate the public on preserving species, it is also especially design to record data for the scientific purposes. In fact, they want to rebuild the damaged coral there and measure the impact of global warming.

The cost of this big project has not been reveal yet but if it works, other big projects may be born after !

Willis Earl Beal Has The Blues

This is Willis Earl Beal. His story is about as interesting as his music. Less than two years ago Beal, who is now 27 years old, was living in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he had been since leaving his home of Chicago, Illinois in 2007. He is an artist in many disciplines. He draws pictures, he makes blues music, and he writes short stories. While out in New Mexico he began putting hand drawn flyers around town with his name, number, and information about himself in an attempt to find connections with people, something he really enjoys doing. He has claimed he’s always been a loner and is prone to depression. He quickly linked up with a music making couple and began writing songs. He would leave his music on blank CD-R’s around Albuquerque. Before long one of his flyers made it’s way to the hands of Davy Rothbart who runs a magazine called Found which focuses on found notes and other objects. He put Beal’s flyer on the cover of the #7 Issue and the response was overwhelming for a completely unknown artist. Since 2010 Beal has moved back to his grandmother’s house in Chicago where his younger brother also lives and has also finally released a collection of his music, writing, and drawings. He has signed with powerhouse independant label XL Recordings and will release his debut album titled Acousmatic Sorcery on April 3. The most interesting part about Beal though is that he still encourages his fans to contact him. If you visit his official website at Willis Earl Beal you can get his information on how to write or call him. If you write him he will send you a hand drawn picture and if you call him he will sing you a song. I have yet to try it but his marketing tactic has certainly caught my eye. I will be waiting eagerly for his album.

PARIS VERSUS NEW YORK – VAHRAM MURATYAN

I always dreamed of living in New York one day. So when I decided to leave, I wondered if I would miss France. During a visit in Paris, I walk the streets adjacent to the American Embassy and I found a small English library, Rue de Rivoli.

When I entered the shop, my eye was immediately drawn to this little yellow book,vs. Paris. NYC. I say it was a good way to know if I would have liked to live in NYC. I turned the pages of the book and I laughed.

First a blog, then exhibits at Colette in Paris and at the Standard NY, then a book, Paris Versus New York is a friendly visual match between two cities told by a lover of Paris wandering through NewYork, viewed by Vahram Muratyan.

Vahram Muratyan is a designer inspired trendy and cosmopolitan. He was born in Paris, lives in New York, and between the two myths, its core darn scale. Then he made a book dedicated to all lovers of the two cities.Through photographs (the stick against the bagel), symbols (one bulb - for the City of Light - against an apple) or symbolic figures (Godard against Woody,represented by their pairs of glasses), he had fun compare Paris and NYC, the leading one and the other to a duel.

A two-page, two simple sketches, colorful and geometric, figurative and two worlds clashing merrily. Graphic quality, spirit and humor are waiting for you in this strange and brilliant artistic object, hit her to unknown in France. Now boarding and change of scenery: the journey is worth the trip, and says more about the two cities that all tour guides in the world.

I invite you to visit (at least) the blog to discover the works of Mr. Vahram. Parisian like New Yorker, you will learn more about your city.

See u !

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ANDRE SARAIVA – LOVE LETTERS @ HALF GALLERY

Hey everyone,

This week, I suggest you go take a look at the exhibition of Andre Saraiva at Half Gallery. The opportunity to discover a French artist who made his first-ever solo exhibition in New York.

Andre, whose real name is Andre Saraiva, is a French graffiti artist born in 1971 in Uppsala, Sweden. He is the creator of a pink character called Mr. A, he draws on the wall throughout the world, and is characterized by asymmetry of the eyes (eyeround, the other being a cross).

 

It outlines a series of works painted by hand very personal and very clever.  Incorporating romantic quotes by Jacques Prévert and Henry Miller, André’s works are both sentimental and salacious. Colorful drawings that transports you directly into the world of Andrew, owner offamous nightclubs, Le Baron.

He is an artist to follow closely, up from the streets of Paris to New York galleries,without any problems.

Have a look at the pics!

Don’t forget to share your opinion about his work !

See u !

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Love Letters is on view through March 3, 2012.

HALF GALLERY
208 Forsyth St.
New York, NY 10002

Map!

Comptoir des cotonniers : Brand of Parisian !

Comptoir des cotonniers  is a brand of a ready-to-wear clothing french, which developed a particular concept: create clothes going by couple mother-daughter. To Comptoir des cotonniers, the girl is so in join with her mother, without being for all that certified true copies… An innovative concept, and which actually is all the rage !

Perennially fashionable, feminine clothes, to mix to make a SMART OR POSH look, is the concept of the brand Comptoir des Cotonniers.

Born in 1995, it knew how to be made the real place  interprêtant the trend  with elegance, by imagining a strong concept which, of clothing claw in musical universe (a compilation of a mother and her daughter), sticks on a reality of our time.  Mothers and daughter, the relation of filiation strengthens through this brand…

Trendy or classic, sharp or basic, collections seduce a wide clientele of women. The family spirit of the brand is also present in its  identity as in its products.

WAR HORSE

Synopsis :

According to the children’s book War Horse by Michael Morpugo.

At the eve of World War, the Young Albert leads a quiet life in an English farm with his horse Joey. But Albert’s father decide to sell Joey for the British cavalry. The animal then begins an extraordinary adventure in a big conflict.

Despite the obstacles he encounters at every step, Joey will change the live of those he crossed paths. Unable to forget his friend, Albert left the farm and joined the battlefield in order to find his horse and bring him home.

Why this movie ?

It is thanks to Katheleen Kennedy, the Producer of Steven Spielberg since 1982, that the filmmaker was aware of the play « War Horse » taken from the novel by Michael Morpurgo a British author. Steven Spilberg liked it and decided to transpose it to the screen.

 Fourteen different horses ! For the main rôle of the horse, Joey, fourteen different horses were used by the production. They were trained together to ensure their symmetry and each little mark or stain was reproduced on all horses in order to hide différences between them.

A Holiday movie...

The output of Warhorse in United States was scheduled for mid-August 2011, but once the film was ready and the whole team was able to see Steven Spielberg himself was surprised at the result, which resembled , according to him, “a great holiday movie.” DreamWorks Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures have decided to postpone the release date to December 28, 2011, according to the holiday season.

Produced by : Steven Spielberg

With : Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Peter Mullan

http://youtu.be/QhueHIXbTF4

The Longest Way

The first guy that made a time lapse video was awesome. Time lapses are videos where you take a picture of yourself every so often, usually everyday, and then edit them together to see how you changed within a year. After the first video though the idea became stale and overplayed almost immediately. This video I found a few years back however, takes the time lapse concept and runs far beyond the pictures of oneself for a year in their room videos. The video is called “The Longest Way” and it features a young man traveling over 4,500km on foot through China in year. It captures all the essential elements of standard time lapse but he also takes things to the next level by introducing numerous same day sequential shots and captioning the film with his locations and activities. His journey took place from November 9th 2007 November 13th 2008. This video went on to become the #8 viral video of 2009 according to Time.com and also won countless Independent European film festivals. At the end of the video the young traveler flashes back to the first picture he took and makes everyone ask themselves the same question. After a year of events, people, and places influences out lives, are we even the same person we once were? For more information on The Longest Way visit the official website at http://www.thelongestway.com/