Le billet présente et classe les géodispositifs fictionnels du célèbre film Indiana Jones et les Aventuriers de l’Arche Perdue /\ The posts presents and classifies the fictional geographic apparatus from the famous film Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
L’Atlas Farnèse est une sculpture romaine qui représente le Titan Atlas portant une sphère céleste. Elle mérite un examen un peu détaillé. /\ The Farnese Atlas is a Roman sculpture depicting the Titan Atlas carrying a celestial sphere. It deserves a closer look.
Pour Carl Ritter un globe terrestre sollicite autant l’imagination que la réflexion géographique /\ For Carl Ritter, a globe stimulates both the geographical imagination and reflection.
Le module SPHEROGRAPHIA explore les représentations environnementales mondiales à travers Mafalda et son globe /\ The SPHEROGRAPHIA module explores global environmental representations through Mafalda and her globe.
Les globes terrestres jouent un rôle central dans le récit de L’assassinat du Père Noël de Christian- Jaque (1941). /\ Globes play a central role in the story of L’assassinat du Père Noël , the Christian-Jaque’s 1941 movie.
Troisième et dernier billet consacré au n° 2 de la revue de cinéma Cinétrenss sur cinéma et cartographie : une analyse de la géographie singulière La vie privée de Sherlock Holmes, chef d’œuvre abîmé de Billy Wilder. /\ Third and last post dedicated to the issue #2 of the Cinema Journal Cinétrens about cinema and mapping : an analysis of the singular geography of Billy Wilder’s broken masterpiece : The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
Spécimen: Le globe terrestre dans le hall central du Caire /\ The terrestrial globe in the main hall of the Cairos’s airport
Sur les 37 œuvres connues de Vermeer, plusieurs comportent des cartes accrochées au mur des intérieurs représentés. S’agit-il de simples objets de décor ou de symboles à la signification plus ou moins évidente ? /\ Of the 37 works known to Vermeer, several are containing maps, hanging on the wall of the interiors depicted. Are they simple elements of decoration or symbols with a more or less obvious meaning ?
Tout en haut du monde est un film d’animation réalisé par Rémi Chayé qui relate l’aventure d’une jeune fille russe partie à la recherche de son grand-père disparu pendant une expédition vers le pôle Nord à la fin du XIXe siècle.Les cartes y jouent un rôle central. /\ Tout en haut du monde is an animated film directed by Rémi Chayé, that tells the adventure of a Russian girl in search of her grandfather that disappeared during an expedition towards the North Pole at the end of the 19th century. Maps play a central role in the film.
Mona Hatoum’s exhibition, held at the Centre Pompidou until the 28th of September, gathers over 100 works of this internationally renowned artist, in media as varied as performance, video, installation and sculpture. A dozen of these works give a particular overview of Mona Hatoum’s fascination for maps, which she represents as figurative images of real…
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…
Donjon is a series of satirical fantasy comic books created and supervised by two famous French artists, Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim. Many other talented designers have contributed to this collective work: Manu Larcenet, Christophe Blain, Blutch or Andreas. The world of the series is extremely complex and changing, and the question of mapping this…
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…
Before Google Earth there was WorldWind and Keyhole (the company that created the application used to develop Google Earth). Before Keyole, there was the movie Powers of Ten (dir. Charles and Ray Eames 1977). Indeed, one of the co-founders of Keyole – Avi Bar-Zeev – recognized the inspirational dimension of Power of Tens in the…
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