Games Of Thrones, the better serie in the world.

Nominated twice for a Golden Globe, Emmy Awords 13 times, « Game of Thrones » has been widely extolled by critics and the public.

Two seasons were enough to make Game of Thrones a phenomenon that is beyond the scope of the small screen. This is the series you must see or have seen, the one we always heard being discussed at the coffee machine or during meals with friends, that you should wait with a hint of impatience. The film character of Game of Thrones is obvious. By the means implemented by the number of actors and extras, for directing the actors and film locations. What is proposed is nothing less than a film about ten hours taking into account our increasing ability to absorb the story, to melt into a universe and explore territories that seemed far inaccessible.

GOT is by far my favorite series. Not that I’m sensitive to dragons, to sexes to horror movies or race for power. This is the dialogue, the plot, the characters, the reflection of our society that are found inside, this is that makes me upset and hang saliva every week since the season 4 is out.

Thanks Hbo,

Emma

Exposition « Papier glacé »

Elegance and seduction, excellence and artistic sense are mind Condé Nast. For a century, the press group plays a key role in the field of fashion photography.

The exhibition, a century of fashion photography at Condé Nast draws from the archives of Condé Nast New York, Paris, Milan and London, to raise one hundred and fifty prints for the most original, the greatest fashion photographers of 1918 to days.

Fantasize the women body to the readers dreaming. Condé Nast, publisher of Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour and W, understood early on the importance of fashion photographers. From the beginning, they had carte blanche and important means. This exhibition is an opportunity to rediscover the work of eighty photographers on the edge of their careers. Organized thematically, it helps to highlight the heritage of these photographers that shape over the pages, the identity and history of Vogue. The exhibition starts with a photograph from 1919, Baron de Meyer. A model strikes a pose: it is fixed, mannered.

Several photographs have left the pages of magazines and have become legendary. Some were shocked. Considered too immodest, the cliché of Deborah Turbeville published in 1975 in American Vogue, showing lascivious women in a shower, had resulted unsubscriptions. Similarly, in 1993, the series of Corinne Day on Kate Moss undress had provoked controversy.

 

When I walked into this room full of fashion photos, I was filled of joy. I loved most of the shots but I also hated others. The woman can be beautifully embelit as horribly as shown object.

To enrich of this event it’s better to see with his own eyes that speak.

Emma

New simulator makeup on smartphones from l’Oréal

Decided to conquer the market of beauty connected, L’Oréal has launched its makeup simulator available on mobile augmented reality on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival.

With this new–downloadable free on the App Store-, phones (iPhone), changes also are mirrored through augmented reality, allowing users to test any product makeup cosmetics in real time, choosing just as proposed by the application or by scanning the barcode of a product in the store catalog.

Innovation rather well thought–the Android version is expected in late 2014 – at the beauty connected. In fact, each year, nearly 4 billion queries directly related to this topic are recorded by Google.

Note that in March L’Oréal appointed Lubomira Rochet (formerly Microsoft in particular) as « chief digital officer » to lead its digital operations, a newly created position.

Step 1: Turn on your application, tuck your face in the round on the screen and press the « calibrate ». Your face is spotted, even in motion.

Step 2: scan the barcode of the product to try or browse the product catalog to start trying the products.

Step 3: Select the product and the desired color and press « add to my look« .

Step 4: behold the result! Makeup is applied to your face while in motion. Want to change your look? Simply press « wipe clean me! »

This new application will score the run apps. Indeed it girl does not dream of being without really trying shape with all types of makeup, hairstyles, clothes?

Jean Paul Goude, the God of advertising

Jean Paul Goude is a french artist: photographer, illustrator, director of commercials, graphic designer and drawer.

He began his career in fashion working as an illustrator for the chain stores Printemps in 1964. In 1970, he took the direction artistic of New York magazine « Esquire ». It was during this time that he met and reveals Grace Jones, who became his muse and the mother of his son.

Jean-Paul Goude also met with great public success with the advertising campaign, a cult, Kodak. With this new awareness, it offers its expertise and daring to many brands as diverse as Citroën, Perrier or Chanel. The French government asked him to imagine a parade on the Champs-Elysées, the bicentenary of the Revolution in 1989. In 2001 he became the artistic director of the Galeries Lafayette for its advertising campaigns. It will then be the turn of Laetitia Casta to be highlighted by the talented Jean-Paul Goude.     

 

      For thirty years, the characters created by Jean-Paul Goude, explains Alain Sayag, « continue to shake the canons and rules of representation … They are now part of our Pantheon. »

The world of John Paul Goude takes me to a happy parallel universe where the eccentricity is to reign. His commercials combine with creativity and form a perfect whole.

 

Loneliness – or society problem well hide-

     For many years, with the industry and economy in development or in restriction, a psychological problem occurred and is currently on the rise. Loneliness.

Although there is evidence that being alone is good for himself because it allows sober reflection, to sit back and learn more about himself. In overdose, the loneliness can be a real pain.

The French Federation of Cardiology says: loneliness and isolation are the enemies of the heart.

She explains that the lonely persons or without social relations are two times more likely than others to develop severe pathologies such as cardiovascular diseases. Isolation can indeed, after some time, lead to physical inactivity, weight gain, increased stress, which can trigger smoking, poor diet, or lead to higher blood pressure on alone people.

Young people are increasingly affected by loneliness, after old people. Indeed,

18-35 years give three main reasons to the birth of this feeling:

* the lack of money (35%)

* relationship problems with others (31%)

* lack of time (27%)

In frontline: women (58%) and the paris region (29%) often complain of being alone.

( lacroix.fr)

With the social media, this phenomenon is amplified.

On the Web, friendship remains theoretical. The lonely people report having an average of 178 virtual friends on social networks against only 7 « real » friends.

   Despite press articles, medical reports or the therapy, loneliness remains a real problem in society today.With advanced individualism, it will do amplified with time. Learning to live with for those who suffer, remains a real learning. Knowing how to live, smile, presence can already helped a lot. The most important is to observe and open our ears to detect this weakness in others for their help. 

Emma

Guy Bourdin, the photographer

Guy Bourdin was born in 1928 in Paris and died in 1991 in Paris. It is a French fashion photographer and advertising.

He is trained in photography during his military service.He began to exhibit all of the drawings and paintings in 1950 in a Parisian gallery. Then, he met Man Ray who writes his preface to the catalog of his first exhibition of photographs in 1952 and then began working for Vogue, which will publish its first fashion photographs.

Between 1967 and 1981 he created advertising campaigns for Charles Jourdan which enable it to be known to the general public, in addition to various publications in international magazines. After his death, several exhibitions and publications devoted to him, including a retrospective in London in 2003 or the release of the book « A Message For You«  containing previously unpublished photographs.

His work is characterized by disturbing images,

often provocative and yet mysterious,

which introduced a radical change in the approach to advertising campaigns in the field of fashion;

they also had a significant influence on many contemporary artists.

He built his images as scenarios of black films,

he gave the nail the appearance of blood,

he invented hidden behind too blue pools to be honest crimes.

I am passionate about his work, not because he is known in the world of fashion, but for the stories and feelings that manages to transmit a glance.

Emma

My vision of fashion…

Fashion has always been important in my world.
From my early age I stole my mother’s magazines to cut my favorite images and collected in binders.
I wanted to know: the name of the photographer, the brand name, the name of the models …
Absorbed by this enchanted world, almost evil itself, I keep wanting to learn more and more. For his art, not his « glam » side.

I love the beauty of women, that they generate by their postures and their elegance.

To me, the natural simplicity is paramount and must prevail. How to behave as a free and natural woman when wearing a pink mini skirt and a tight yellow tank top revealing all our chest?

Our appearance is a reflection for foreigners. Everyone knows that this is the first impression that emerges is of silk, as it incontralable by our personality, our physique can be controlled with a minimum. I do not want you to think for me the physical is most important, a poorly dressed person is uninteresting. This is not the case. Not at all. I love coming evil wearing, dressed in jeans and a pair of basketball, as I feel natural and well, this is the most important. But I love watching the behavior of others, their clothes, how to stand, speak, watch. I capture these multiple image in a corner at the back of my head and I am inspired.

It is certainly that which has taken me to love me and practice photography.

 

Emma

The truth about elephants in Thailand!

All elephants in thailand seem dead inside, like zombies who have lost their souls, sad, depressed.

To satisfy tourism demand (but it’s not the only reason they are also used for their meat), all these elephants have been trained. But tame such a force of nature and an intelligent animal is not easy … The solution is found by local violence, or to be precise, the torture.

Elephants are handled by mahouts (trainers) from an early age (2-3 years). Demand is strong calves and capture wilderness, though illegal, is widespread. It is estimated that four adult elephants are killed on average every baby caught.

Phajaan torture: This practice is nothing more than the push to the point where torture elephant accept anything just to relive this traumatic time. They established in their memories irreversible fear of man. To hit other trainers use between a bullhook (or goad). This ancient tool like a sharp or rather an ice pick hammer.

Many elephants did not even survive this treatment since about 50% die during phajaan. On the half that remains alive, much of them going crazy or custody disorders experience … so they are killed.

In tourism. There‘s an elephant ride but even more ridiculous activities such as elephant soccer, painters elephants, acrobats elephants … the eyes of any tourist elephant looks fun and the moment is unique … but in reality it is nothing more than a kind of punishment to which the animal is forced under threat of new abuse …

If you want to meet elephants there are several solutions respectful of the animal:

• See wild elephants away with a guide in a national park Khao Yai as Thailand or Chitwan in Nepal.

• Go to a central collection of animals like Elephant Nature Park where you can rub shoulders with these large mammals without their cause wrong.

At this rate, the race could disappear within 30 years, so please have mercy on those poor animals and think about your actions.

 

Emma

 

HOSTAGES, the new series you need to know.

In Israel, thay call it « Bnei Aruba » but in the occidental countries, we say Hostages. Created by Rotem Shamir & Omri Givon and produced by Haim Sharir, it takes us into its culture, not so far as ours, in an extreme adventure.

This is a story of a woman renowned surgeon. She is chosen to operate the Israeli Prime Minister, gunmen creep home and hijack her husband and children. They threaten to kill all his family if she refuses to kill the politician during the operation. Save her family and become deadly or risk the lives of her family but to protect the government, a Cornelian dilemma is the thread of the series.

Even before the series is broadcast in Israel, a remake of Hostages was born in the USA. My opinion: I would advise against it, unsuitable and too bling bling for real. Incomparable to the Israeli series.

   Canal + bought the series and broadcasts two episodes per week from Monday, March 17. After Homeland how to resist this new synopsis so attractive. If you want to make a nice trip while you relax, you now know what to do.

 Emma

 

 

Terry Richardson, the dark men

Since few years, the fashion famous photographer Terry Richardson is face to scandals, sexual scandals.

Fashion means, generally: luxury, glamour, models, beauty, clothes, brands, show, celebrity, paradise…

But not for everyone. Indeed, models live in a dark life. Between the problem with their weights, they have to accept some shootings with psychopath photographes asking by their agencie. Even if Terry Richardson is the most famous photographer in this middle, he don’t have all the rights. But his notoriety fact that everybody wants to work with him in order to raise their careers thanks to the image it returns: the untouchable man.

 

They are called: Rie Rasmussen, Jamie Beck, and most recently, Charlotte Waters. They accused Terry Richardson of exploiting young models. Thay believe he abuses his power to put young girls into compromising positions.

“His ‘look’ is girls who appear underage, abused, look like heroin addicts . . . I don’t understand how anyone works with him.”Rie Rasmussen says.

« But after he made me unbutton his pants, then he took out his penis, and the descent into hell began …  » Charlotte Waters.

These confessions have led to a slew of the most horrifying than the other models from very young and often anonymous testimony.

In the middle we do not call « sexual predator«  for nothing. Girls parade in front of the camera undress or completely nude in his studio in New York.Richardson has such an influence on the stars, the press, the world of fashion and showbiz in general, we said nothing, all is forgiven. It seems untouchable. This is a shame. 

But Richardson empire is it faltering? A petition has been launched by Alice Louise designeuse jewelry and activist on Change.org. It calls on brands to stop using the work of Terry Richardson for their campaign.From the outside, these accusations do not seem to be addressed with great seriousness, they also seem not examined at all. They seem downright ignored.

We need to change the things. We need to scream our rights like women. We are human, anybody is an object.

Emma