Revue de Presse / Press Review (2010/04/15)

J’avais vu l’information sur Google Goggles mais comme pour l’instant ce n’est disponible que sur les cellulaires avec Android je n’y ai pas porté trop attention. C’est toutefois à surveiller…

Sensodyne ad

December 13, 2009 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

J’ai toujours cru que ce genre de publicités utilisait des acteurs pour passer leur message. Quelle ne fut pas ma surprise de découvrir mon propre D.N.A. (dans ce cas-ci c’est mon “dentiste ninja adoré” !) dans une publicité de Sensodyne. Je la partage avec vous via Blip.tv:
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ou Youtube:

The Cosmos is singing

September 30, 2009 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

I just found this really cool music video that someone made using some clips from Carl Sagan’s tv series “Cosmos”:
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Cute cat animation

December 30, 2008 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Salon du livre de Montréal

December 1, 2008 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

La 31e édition du Salon du Livre de Montréal s’est terminée en début de semaine. Comme à toute les années je suis allé y faire mon tour, document.write(“”); histoire de jeter un coup d’oeil sur les nouveautés, y trouver quelques idées de cadeaux pour Noël et renouer contact les gens du milieu de l’édition.
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Le vendredi 21 Novembre, j’ai fait un premier survol du salon à l’occasion de la Journée des Professionnels. J’aurais bien aimé ramasser quelques catalogues mais la plupart des éditeurs n’en avaient pas ou plus (c’était pourtant juste la troisième journée du salon et ils auraient dû penser à s’en garder pour les professionnels du milieu de l’édition). Ils y avaient également quelques ateliers et tables rondes (Le feuilletage Numérique et la Recherche en Ligne, Communication-Jeunesse: Des Livres qui ont du Genre, Édition Numérique et Monde du Livre: Entrevoir l’avenir, Les Revues Culturelles à l’Heure du Numérique) aux quelles j’aurais bien assisté si j’avais reçu mon carton d’invitation à temps. Mais bon, j’ai tout de même recueillis de la documentation et quelques catalogues, observé les nouveautés manga, salué quelques amis, découvert une nouvelle collection intéressante et économique, Librio, un magazine manga, Canal BD Manga Mag, ainsi qu’une nouvelle librairie spécialisée en BD, PlaneteBD. Cela valait donc tout de même la peine.

Je suis repassé au salon le lendemain pour deux raisons.

D’abord, pour passer quelques heures au kiosque des Éditions Alire (dont le site internet n’est malheureusement toujours pas équipé pour les commandes en ligne!) et rencontrer quelques-uns des merveilleux auteurs de science-fiction et fantasy Québécoise et Canadienne-Française: Francine Pelletier, Daniel Sernine (qui a d’ailleurs fait l’object d’un récent article dans La Presse), Jean-Louis Trudel, etc. J’ai également pu rencontrer et discuter avec les trois auteurs derrière le blog Fractale Framboise: Éric Gauthier, Christian Sauvé et Laurine Spehner. Vous trouverez quelques photos de mon samedi chez Alire sur ma Gallerie MobileMe.

Ensuite, pour assister à une table ronde organisée par la Librairie Monet, sur “Le livre électronique: L’avenir du livre?” Je dois avouer que la discussion était plutôt rhétorique mais elle a tout de même soulevé le point important que l’édition électronique fait partie de l’évolution inéluctable du livre et qu’elle préoccupe de plus en plus les éditeurs. La preuve en est les nombreux ateliers du salon (et même un récent article du Devoir) consacré à ce sujet. Personnellement, je ne crois pas que le livre imprimé disparaisse de si tôt, mais j’ai la conviction que l’internet et l’édition électronique sont des outils essentiels à la diffusion du livre et des revues culturelles et littéraires. Protoculture Addicts est d’ailleurs disponible en format électronique (eBook en format PDF) depuis de nombreuse années—sur le site de Drive Thru RPG—et nous étudions en ce moment de nouveaux formats possible pour une diffusion plus large. Le kiosque de la Librairie Monet faisait également la démontration de la technologie e-Ink et de plusieurs lecteurs électroniques: le iRex Illiad, Les Echos e-paper, et le (laid mais pourtant si cool) Amazon Kindle—absent de la démontration mais pourtant incontournable, je dois noter le Sony Reader Digital Book et le polyvalent Apple iPod Touch. Vous pouvez visionner la table ronde en son entier (une cinquantaine de minutes) sur ma page Blip.TV:

WAKE UP, FREAK OUT – THEN GET A GRIP

September 12, 2008 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

On ANN community forum I found this interesting video:
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Duration: 11:34 Recorded: 10 September 2008 Location: Edinburgh, document.write(“”); Scotland, United Kingdom

A short animated film about the feedback loops likely to lead to catastrophic climate change, by Leo Murray.

The script, with extensive peer-reviewed references and additional information and links, is available at http://wakeupfreakout.org/

Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip
Uploaded by lmmesq

Someone also suggested this link: http://www.wecansolveit.org/

Tony Curtis at the World Film Festival

August 28, 2008 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

This is the highlights of the Tony Curtis press conference at the Montreal World Film Festival 2008, document.write(“”); held on August 24th. With his wife he was introducing their movie “The Jill and Tony Curtis Story.” (19 min. out of a 48 min. conference).
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You can also view it on my BlipTV page.

Montreal World Film Festival 2008

August 5, 2008 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Today, document.write(“”); in a press conference, the Montreal World Film Festival has announced the program for its 32nd edition. The festival will be held from August 21 to September 1st in four locations (at the Imperial Theatre, Maisonneuve Theatre, Quartier Latin Cinema and Cinema ONF). Tickets are sold for $10, but are available in 10-coupon ($60) or 30-coupon booklets ($150). A Cinephile Pass is also available for $300.
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This year the festival will offer 234 feature films (105 of which are world or international premieres), 13 medium-length films and 208 shorts. That includes 32 films in World Competition (20 features, 12 shorts), 17 in the First Films World Competition, 30 Hors-Concours, 192 in the Focus on World Cinema (84 features and 108 shorts), 63 documentaries, 15 tributes movies, 18 in the Cinema Under the Stars, 15 in Our Cinema at Radio-Canada and 73 in the Student Film Festival!

The Festival will offer a posthumous tribute to Mrs Kashiko Kawakita, founder of the Kawakita Memorial Film Institute, for her work promoting Japanese Cinema abroad. To commemorate her 100th anniversary, the festival will be presenting a sampling of significant works by prominent postwar Japanese directors, each a winner of the Kawakita Award:

Gishiki (The Ceremony) by Nagisa Oshima (b&w, 1971).
Hukushu Suru wa Ware ni Ari (Vengeance is Mine) by Shohei Imamura (1979).
Ikiru (To Live) by Akira Kurosawa (b&w, 1952).

There will be ten Japanese films shown at the festival. Two are in Official Competition:

Okuribito, directed by Yojiro Takita (Onmyoji, Mibu Gishi Den, Ashura). A young cellist who suddenly finds himself out of work when his orchestra disbands, moves back to his hometown and takes a job as an undertaker. It’s not a job his wife appreciates, but his daily encounters with death teach him about life. ( IMDb / Official web page )

Dare mo Mamotte Kurenai (Nobody To Watch Over Me), directed by Ryoichi Kimizuka (writer for Parasyte Eve and the Odoru Daisosasen TV series & movies). The Funamaras seem a typical suburban family until the police knock on the door one day and arrest their 18-year-old boy for murder. His teenage sister and the cop assign to protect her must hide out from a relentless public braying for blood. ( IMDb / Eiga Wiki / Official web page )

Three in the First Film World Competition:

Der Rote Punkt (The Red Spot), directed by Marie Miyayama, is a Germany/Japan co-production. ( IMDb )

El Regalo de la Pachamama (Pachamama), directed by Toshifumi Matsushita, is a Bolivia/Japan/USA co-production.

Yume no Manimani (Dreaming Awake), directed by Takeo Kimura. (Trailer / Asian Media Wiki / Official web page )

One in the Hors-Concours / World Greats category:

The Magic Hour, by Koki Mitani (Uchoten Hotel). A gangster having an affair with the wife of his boss is found out, but promises to save face by recruiting a famous hitman. Instead, when he can’t find the real thing, he hires an actor to fill the role until he can find a suitable replacement. ( IMDb / Wikipedia / Official web page )

And four in Focus on World Cinema:

Umikazi ni Fukarete (Carried on a sea breeze) by Tokishi Sato.

Hyakuman Yen to Nigamushi Onna (One Million Yen Girl) by Yuki Tanada, starring Yu Aoi. ( IMDb / Eiga Wiki / Trailer / Official web page )

After School by Kenji Uchida. ( IMDb / Eiga Wiki / AsianMedia Wiki / film.com / Official web page )

Yashi (Tears) by Sano Shinju (a Kazakhstan/Japan/Russia co-production).

More details will be added as soon as they are available.

Here’s the highlights of the press conference (10 min. out of the 60 min. conference — in French, sorry):

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And a picture of Serge Losique (Festival’s president) and Danièle Cauchard (Directeur Général) with this year’s poster:

[Updated 2008/08/15]

Video Experimentation

July 1, 2008 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

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Earlier in May, document.write(“”); I got myself a Canon Powershot S5IS as birthday present. It’s quite an improvement on my FujiFilm S 3100: I’ve doubled the zoom (12x) and the megapixels (8), it has face detection and image stabilisation, a bigger & adjustable LCD monitor, lots of shooting mode (including manual) and the flash is a little more powerful — but the camera also has a hot-shoe to add an external flash when necessary. I’ll do a full review when I have a little more time. All I can say for now is that it takes pretty nice pictures. So far, I tried it at one convention, a couple of family events, a walk at the Botanical Garden and I am very satisfied.

The zoom is quite impressive:

It also takes good video (with stereo sound!) which I couldn’t do with the Fuji (poor quality video and no sound). I have just started experimenting with video. I still have to try doing some editing and I am looking for the best way to showcase my footage to family and friends. On YouTube? On my .Mac web gallery (with .Mac/MobileMe increasing to 20 Gb of storage that could be a solution)? I’ll do some more tests and I’ll see.

First, the test on YouTube. The first thing I notice is that the encoding dramatically reduce the resolution. It’s rather disappointing. Anyway, judge for yourselves. Here’s a family of ducks spotted last friday at the Montreal Botanical Garden (just beside the Japanese Pavillion):

[Updated 2008/08/25 with the zoom pic]

Johanne Pelletier (1954-1983)

June 28, 2008 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Requiem eternam dona eis, document.write(“”); Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Te decet hymnus, Deus in Sion
et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem.
Exaudi orationem meam,
ad te omnis caro veniet.