In the early 70’s, the young Maxime le Forestier, 21, spent a month in a house of San Francisco, experiencing the life of a hippie community. One or two years later, this stay inspired him to write the song San Francisco: « There is a sky blue house/Built right up against the hill/ They all come…
On the occasion of the 25th International Cartographic Conference, an Art & cartography exhibit will take place in Saint-Mandé (near Paris). Under the title « Artists visit again the representation of the world the exhibit gathers several artists : Michel Granger, Hervé Baudry, Ghislaine Escande, Philippe Favier, Michel Guéranger, Jean-Michel Hequet Vudici, Emma Malig, David Renaud, Nathalie…
The Killers (Siodmak,1946) is truly a classic of film noir. The opening scene is famous. Two men are sitting in front of a car driving at high-speed through the night. Then the camera scans the road and a sign shows up in the headlights: Brentwood, New Jersey. And below, in an ironic mode considering what…
(e)space&fiction Info : the post about Isla das Floras has been edited and completed by including the comments of POM and TJ . (e)space&fiction Info: le billet sur l’Île aux Fleurs a été remanié et étendu en intégrant les commentaires de POM et TJ.
At the last minute, an invitation to the exhibition Le monde physique (The Physical World) featuring works inspired by geological and climatological data and maps at the La Galerie Contemporary Art Center in Noisy-le-Sec. Please note that it ends on Saturday, April 23. In extremis, une invitation pour l’exposition Le monde physique avec des œuvres …
In Meangirls, a 2004 American teen comedy film, we find an interesting example of social mapping. Cady is a new student who does not know anyone yet in North Shore high school. Janis draws for her a map of the cafeteria that presents the various groups of students and where they sit. It is indeed very…
In Tunis, the suburban rail service TGM (Tunis-Goulette-Marsa) leads from the Tunis Marine station to the beaches of La Goulette and Mersah via the very picturesque and touristic village of Sidi Bou Said. Several stations serve the very large site of the ruins of Carthage. The first one is Carthage Salammbô, name that evokes of…
Of course place matters in this story where a modern hospital built upon a swamp is subject to a supernatural menace coming from the past. Bien sûr le lieu a de l’importance dans cette histoire qui raconte comment un hôpital moderne construit sur des marais est soumis à une menace surnaturelle venue du passé.
Imagine that the lines of the New-York subway system became the strings of a cello plucked by the trains. You would have the musical map of Alexander Chen. Et si les lignes du métro new-yorkais devenaient les cordes d’un violoncelle que viennent pincer les trains qui les croisent ? Cela donnerait la carte musicale d’Alexander…
Filmed in 1966, The Swimmer by Frank Perry was a commercial failure when it was released in 1968 and has long been misunderstood. However, it is an intense and disturbing masterpiece. One morning between late summer and early autumn, a man in a bathing suit (B. Lancaster) enters the garden of a beautiful house and…
Just a short notice about an update of the post « Did you hear about the Morgans ». The Making Of on the DVD gives more information about the map of Google that appears in the movie. Une simple annonce à propos du billet sur « Où sont passés les Morgan » dont le contenu a été actualisé grâce…
The Little Prince created by Saint-Exupery has become a universal character. Translated into more than 200 languages, the poetic and philosophical tale written by the French aviator touches the hearts of people all around the world. Were you aware he left his planet to materialize on the Earth ? Do you want to know where and…
Short Cuts, another movie of Robert Altman (see this post about The Gingerbread Man), is adapted from short stories of Raymond Carver transposed to Los Angeles. When the stories of Carver about several couples were independent, Altman connects them by inventing family or neighborhood links or by making a character the cause of events that…
Lola is a sort of abstract ballet movie whose the scene is the town of Nantes. The film is about wait and boredom, planned departures and expected returns . There are two world maps in the film, both of them related to the character Roland Cassard. Both are a bit mysterious and fully cinematic. Both…
Suggestion proposed by M. Miller in this comment. In John Wyndham’s science fiction novel, The Midwich Cuckoos, 1957 (later filmed as The Village of the Damned, 1960) a circular line is plotted on a map to determine the area around the village of Midwich in which people are mysteriously falling unconscious. One watching private stepped forward…
As a first example of a local materialization of fiction, we present the cell of Edmond Dantès in the Chateau d’If, near Marseille and, more specifically, the tunnel that this character of the Count of Monte-Christo, novel by Alexandre Dumas, would have made to get Abbé Faria, his prison companion. Le premier exemple de matérialisation…
Some news It’s been a year or so that (e)space & fiction exists, even if the pace of publication remained fairly slow during the first months. We are now 4 contributors and we have written no fewer than 75 posts, not counting those that are almost ready for publication. The site is reasonably frequented if…
A lovely article by Gérard Lefort in Libération takes us on a tour of Jacques Demy’s Nantes, on the occasion of a tribute exhibition in the filmmaker’s childhood city. See also this post about the maps in Lola. Un joli papier de Gérard Lefort dans Libération qui nous fait visiter le Nantes de Jacques Demy,…
« The Social Network » . Excerpt of the trailer – Extrait de la bande-annonce How to visualize a virtual network in a movie? It is the question the director David Fincher had to answer with his new film The Social Network, that tells the story of the young and famous Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg. There is…
Via the excellent pop-up-urbain.com, here is an amazing map of the places cited in Rap lyrics, offered byRap Genius, the site that helps to decrypt the words of Gangsta Rap. New-York, and overall Manhattan, stand at the top of the locations. The space of Rap lyrics is – unsurprisingly – mainly urban and almost exclusively…
With the release of their new album The Suburbs and the beginning of their new concert tour, the Montreal band Arcade Fire offers an interesting geospatial and interactive experience. By entering a place of your choice on the site, ideally your childhood home address, you generate a custom clip based on images from Google Maps…
Between Toy Story 2 and 3, eleven years have passed and mapping techniques have tremendously changed. The inevitable G* Maps has replaced the paper map. Incidentally, is it possible to localize Tri County, the place of the movie, in the United-States ? Entre Toy Story 2 et 3, onze ans ont passé et les techniques…
WithTournée (2010), M. Amalric received the Award for Best Director at Cannes Festival. This road movie tells the story of a team of New Burlesque US strip-tease performers on a tour across western France. The comedians hope to visit the country before to go to Paris, but they are puzzled by the erratic and irritable…
The professional cartographer Jonah M. Adkins met the challenge of geographically depicting the fictitious Island of the TV Series LOST. Here is his story. Le cartographe professionnel Jonah Adkins a tenté de décrire géographiquement l’île fictionnelle de la série télévisée LOST et d’en dresser une carte. Voir cet article en français sur le site Ecrans…
A really great idea ! Luke Lewis locates famous Rock ‘n’ roll album sleeves with Google Street View and begins a musical mapping of London. Une très jolie idée de Luke Lewis : localiser sur Google Street View les albums des groupes des années 60 et proposer ainsi un début de lever cartographique musical de…
The stylistic innovations that made the success of the TV series 24 are now influencing movies. A very clear example is Greenzone, the movie of Paul Greengrass. It is saturated with maps, navigation softwares, satellite images and many other representations of the space of action. Of course Green Zone is based on a true story…
Suggestion proposed by Mathias in this comment and completed by Gaëtan in this comment In Waterworld, movie by Kevin Reynold released the 28 July 1995, the young Endola has tattooed on her back the map that she will use to find Dryland. Any supplementary information is welcome. Suggestion proposée par Mathias dans ce commentaire et…
In The Ghost Writer (2010), Roman Polanski creates a captivating scene by using a GPS navigation device. For more details, click on Read More. Be careful, if you have not seen the movie yet. I reveal some elements of the story. Roman Polanski crée une scène d’anthologie au moyen d’un GPS dans son film The…
Everybody knows or thinks he knows Mona Lisa, the most famous painting in the world. But it is also a mysterious work that has given rise to many rumors and speculations. We propose here an original interpretation that considers the painting as a sophisticated spatial and cartographic arrangement. We first build our reasoning upon an…
Fantastic Mr Fox is a great animated film by Wes Anderson. It incorporates several space machineries, mostly master plans and battle plans. One of them takes the form of an animated map. The most original is certainly the picture painted by Felicity Fox to support the fight of « wild animals » against evil farmers. She uses…
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