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Specimen : Cartographie des nuages
Specimen : Cartographie des nuages
L’article Les géodispositifs au cinéma : l’espace mis en action qui vient de paraître dans le numéro 118 de la revue Mappemonde est une des premières traductions scientifiques « formelles » de l’activité du site (e)space&fiction /\ The paper Les géodispositifs au cinéma : l’espace mis en action just published in the issue 118 of the magazine Mappemonde is the first « formal » scientific production of the website (e)space & Fiction.
Un exemple très récent de matérialisation est le défilé de la Fête des Morts à Mexico, invention du dernier James Bond. /\ A very recent example of maeriaization is the parade organized in Mexico during the Day of the Deads, pure invention of the last James Bond film.
A l’occasion du Libé des Géographes, ceux-ci listent 20 villes de fiction du monde entier (en fait du monde occidental) /\ In the French newsparer Liberation issue dedicated to the Festival de Géographie in Saint-Dié, geographers describe 20 fictional cities all over the world (mostly occidental).
A l’occasion des 7 ans d’existence de (e)space&fiction voici un bilan de l’activité du site /\ (e)space & Fiction started 7 years ago. Here is an assessment of the site activity.
Pour rendre hommage à Michel Butor, le plus géographe des écrivains, éternel nomade parti définitivement la semaine dernière, nous reproduisons la carte qu’il a dessinée en frontispice de son roman L’Emploi du temps, paru en 1956. /\ To pay tribute to Michel Butor, one of the most close to geographers among writers, this eternal nomad who left us last week, we reproduce the map he drew as a frontispiece for his novel Passing Time, published in 1956.
Un point clignotant sur une carte et se déplaçant à l’écran pour signaler qu’un individu est pisté à son insu est devenu un plan cliché des séries policières ou d’espionnage. Dans le plan final très court de l’épisode 10 de la saison 2, la série House of Card renouvèle la figure d’une manière originale. /\ A moving dot flashing on a map to signal that a person is tracked has become a cliche of crime and mystery TV series. With the short final plan of the 10th episode of the second season, House of Card proposes something new and original.
Un joli et original géodispositif graphique accompagne le texte de La cache, le roman de Christophe Boltanski /\ We find a beautiful and original spatial machinery in La cache, Christophe Boltanski’s novel.
Une visite de la base secrète de Batman dans Street View /\ A tour in the secret base of Batman
Local Materialization of Fiction: ‘Le passe muraille’ (Pass through the wall) is a short story of Marcel Ayme published in 1943. It depicts « an excellent man named Dutilleul who had the singular gift to pass through walls without any trouble. He was a third class employee at the Ministry of Registration and wore a pince-nez…
This post about Procida, a small island in the Bay of Naples, is the first of three dedicated to relations between places and cinema written after a trip through Campania. Ce petit tour sur l’île de Procida, dans la baie de Naples, inaugure une série de trois billets tirés d’un voyage en Campanie, qui décrivent…
Here are a game and a smartphone application proposed by the CAUE of Isère. The goal is to find the exact location where the artist was standing when he painted or photographed a scenery shown in the works of several museums of Dauphiné. Then people are invited to produce replicas of the work from this…
(e)space&fiction already mentioned the London Underground map that Albert Dehousse learned by heart to enhance the credibility of his false engagement in the Resistance. One can found another very brilliant sequence later in the film when the « hero » travels to Germany for a military mission. Nous avons déjà mentionné dans (e)space&fiction le dispositif de la carte du…
The scene where Walter White throws a pizza on the roof of his house in Breaking Bad is one of the cult moment of the TV Series.It has recently become an interesting materialisation of fiction (see below). Le lancer de pizza sur le toit de sa maison par Walter White dans Breaking Bad est une scène culte…
As a souvenir of Terry Pratchett En souvenir de Terry Pratchett
The Conference « Littérature et géographie. L’écriture de l’espace à travers les âges » will be held at University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 les 12 et 13 mars 2015. The engaging program is already Online. Un colloque « Littérature et géographie. L’écriture de l’espace à travers les âges » se tiendra à l’Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 les 12…
On peut qualifier Patrick Modiano, récent Nobel de Littérature, de romancier géographique. Ses romans entrelacent d’une manière unique temps et espace dans des enquêtes à la fois pointilleuses et inabouties aux ambiances brumeuses. Les livres de Modiano sont remplis de lieux, essentiellement parisiens, d’adresses, d’itinéraires très précis, où l’on suit souvent un enquêteur croisant archives…
A quoi je prête attention dans les films : 1) l’intrigue, les personnages (très peu) 2) les écrans d’ordinateurs qui apparaissent brièvement à l’arrière plan (principalement). « – Attends! Sur cette carte floue derrière le général on voit qu’un des vaisseaux extra-terrestres se trouve au Groenland ! Pourquoi le Groenland ? – STP, est-ce qu’on peut…
Superpowers might give superheroes a very specific experience of space. Some examples of spatial machineries in comic books and movies confirm this idea. The superheroes are often confronted with original cartographic issues and often invent very precursory geospatial devices. So here are already Supermap and Batmap, before possibly, if you dig into your old Marvel magazines to find…
Après Fred, il y a quelques mois, voici qu’un autre de la bande à Hara-Kiri se fait la malle. Dans les journaux bêtes et méchants qu’il a dirigés pendant 50 ans, Cavanna a écrit sur tous les sujets. Il a raconté sa vie dans les Ritals et les Ruskoffs. Il est l’auteur d’un nombre astronomique…
Chinese puzzle, the latest film by Cédric Klapisch is certainly not the first film to put Google Maps on screen. We did not attempt a systematic inventory of the Google map service apparitions in movies, but in 2010 Where are the Morgans? already used a sort of fake of Google Maps. Chinese puzzle may be…
We have gems in our « Cabinet of curiosities » that deserve some comments. This cartographic scene from the season 4 of the politically incorrect series Weeds is one of them. This is a prelude to the love affair between the valiant mum, Nancy Botwin, trafficking cannabis to support her family and the powerful and dangerous Mexican…
Here is another example of participative literary mapping proposed by the Ivres de livres bookstore in Strasbourg. The idea is to submit an excerpts of literary work evocative of a place. You can access the excerpts an author index or by a map. The technical option of a mapping module that add a location to…
There is no representational spatial machinery in Gravity, the very impressive film by Alfonso Cuarón. No map, no device for locating characters, no screen for designatind targets. There is no computing tool in this sophisticated but somewhat abandoned technological world where manuals are in binders and where you crank up the retrorockets. In Gravity, you…
A novelty in (e)space & fiction, the reference to a map in a film not yet released and not even shot! If you were in August nearby the campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, you could attend the first rehearsal of the shooting of the film Tomorrowland, whose release is scheduled for…
Here is an exhibition of Centre Pompidou in Metz which seems specially designed for (e)space&fiction. Views from above considers how an elevated perspective, from aerial photographs or satellite images, has transformed artists’ perception of the world since the mid-nineteenth century. A gold mine of images and ideas we have to visit later in details. L’exposition…
(e)space & fiction invites you to join the new Cinemaps session that will be held on Wednesday, 12 June 2013 from 18h to 20h during the SIG La Lettre meeting at ENSG in Marne-La-Vallée. An open contest is organized on this occasion. Post images or videos of cinemaps or geomechineries you have found in movies…
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), pioneer of abstract painting, is not in theory an artist inclined to evoke real places in his works. Since 1913 and the discovery of cubism in Paris, Mondrian has made it a goal to find out a visual language for reporting the abstract reality behind the natural one and looking for the…
We present here two recent French projects of cultural mapping. The first is developed by the association of libraries of the Ville de Paris. The second named Géoculture, a very ambitious cultural Web and mobile service with a mapping tool that aim to give access to the cultural works of a region. . Les initiatives…
Fred passed away yesterday and everyone is sad : Philémon, Barthélémy, Anatole, the Manu Manu and all of those who loved Fred and his logically crazy / madly logical poetic universe, always and never following him « to the letter » should we say. At (e)space & fiction we say good bye to the artist, inventor of…