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Entries Tagged as 'Arts & Culture'

Autoportrait

July 13th, 2008 · No Comments


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Tags: Arts & Culture · Environment · Humour · Personal · Photo

A Polaroid a Day

July 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

There was an artist called Jamie Livingstone who took a Polaroid photo every day for 18 years, right up until the day he died of cancer in October 1997. The whole collection has been put online here.
 
I’ve been taking a lot of Polaroid photos recently. After playing around with digital photos and videos for the […]

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Personal · Photo · Technology

Mamma Mia, here I go again!!!

July 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Last summer, Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Julie Walters were in the Greek islands of Skopelos and Skiathos, as well as Pilio for the filming of the movie “Mama Mia!.” Considered as one of the most successful musicals of the past decades, “Mama Mia!,” which premiered in London in 1999 and is responsible […]

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Photo · Travel · cinema

Gay Pride à Istanbul

July 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Dimanche 29 juin, un millier de personnes s’est réuni à Istanbul, sur la principale avenue piétonne de la ville, Istiklal Caddesi, pour la traditionnelle marche de la fierté gay et lesbienne.

Cette année, la marche avait un goût particulier… très gaie et colorée contrairement à la situation sur le terrain. La principale association de gays, lesbiennes, […]

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Gender · Photo · Politics · Sexuality · Society · Uncategorized

Lebanon’s glamour summer is here

June 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments


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Tags: Arts & Culture · Personal · Photo

Weekend: two sides of the same page

June 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Friday night
Saturday morning

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Personal · Photo · Sexuality

Stars parade in Cannes

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments


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Tags: Arts & Culture · Photo · cinema

Waxed Chests and Long Legs: Eurovision 2008

May 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Don’t ask why, after two months of revising for exams, my first Saturday night of freedom ended up in front of an oversized television watching the results of the Eurovision Song Contest come in. For those of you who missed it (and honestly, I only saw the last half hour), the highlights include:

Blind-making amounts of […]

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Humour · music

Cannes: La reine du cinema

May 23rd, 2008 · No Comments


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Tags: Arts & Culture · Photo · cinema

Moufida Tlatli, “La Marraine”

May 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Tunisienne, Moufida Tlatli, la marraine du Pavillon « Les cinémas du Sud », est une femme dévouée au cinéma. Issue d’une famille traditionaliste, elle a découvert le cinéma grâce à son professeur de philosophie. Mais, le succès n’a pas été rapide. Depuis 20 ans avant d’entreprendre une carrière de réalisatrice, Moufida Tlatli a travaille au montage de […]

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Photo · Profile · cinema