The Great Map of Movieland
Découvrir la grande carte du pays du cinéma /\ Discover the Great Map of Movieland,
Découvrir la grande carte du pays du cinéma /\ Discover the Great Map of Movieland,
Un appel à communications pour un colloque sur « Le film dans la pratique de la géographie » vient de paraître. L’objet est de réunir les géographes qui utilisent le film dans la pratique de leur discipline. /\ A call for papers for a conference on « The film in the practice of geography » has just been published. The aim is to bring together geographers who use the film in the practice of their discipline
La collection Ciné voyage est une collection de livres pour les amoureux de la ville et du cinéma, et pour tous ceux qui aiment donner du sens à leurs voyages
Un site cartographique qui recommande un livre associé aux stations de métro parisiennes /\ A Web map that recommend a book in association with Paris subway stations.
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.
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.
Le plan du lycée dessiné par Gus van Sant pour tourner son film Elephant /\ The map of the Highschool drawn on by Gus van Sant for the shooting of Elephant.
From 16 October 2015 to 14 February 2016, the Cinémathèque française presents the exhibition « Scorsese, l’exposition ». This exhibition which opened on October 14 in the presence of American film maker Martin Scorsese and the President of the French République F. Hollande, offers an opportunity to return to the life and work of this Sicilian immigrant’s…
For those who didn’t come to Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Festival this year (so am I), I warmly recommend to listen to this radio podcast (french only), which echoes the main topic of this year’s festival : http://www.franceculture.fr/emission-planete-terre-de-peter-pan-a-tintin-geographie-des-pays-imaginaires-2015-09-30 This program touches on many subjects and comic books already mentionned in this blog. Pour ceux qui, comme moi, n’ont…
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…
Since 2013, the Facebook community Paname Urbex makes an inventory of filming locations in Paris, France. Actuals photographs and movies screenshots are matched up, often superimposed. This work is extended to albums covers, in particular those of the French singer Renaud. Note in USA Delta Bravo Urban Exploration Team have the same goal. Depuis 2013,…
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…
The temporary exhibition « Revoir Paris » held on 20 November 2014 to 9 March 2015, offers the opportunity to engage a dialog between the work of François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, cartoonists, writers and screenwriters, with the one of Jules Verne, Robida or Le Corbusier, and, on the other hand, with development projects in Paris and…
From October 1, 2014 to January 18 2015, the exhibition « Hokusai » is held at the Grand Palais in Paris. This exhibition presents nearly 500 works by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), one of the most famous Japanese artists in the world today. Much of the works presented will never leave Japan after the opening…
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…
With the opening today of the World Football in Brazil, the sports news offers an opportunity to discuss a world famous movie: Brazil, a film made in 1985 by Terry Gilliam. Brazil has been seared on the kind of anticipation films, himself taking his legacy of previous genre films, including Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life…
Quand la Google car a parcouru Earl’s Court Road, à Londre, elle surpris le TARDIS, célèbre machine à voyager dans le temps et l’espace, aux allures de « Police Box », utilisée par le Doctor Who. /\ When the Google car mapped Short Earl’s Court Road, London, it caught the TARDIS, famous Doctor Who’s time machine and spacecraft, which looks like a Police Box.
The French artist Séverine Hubard (born in 1977) present at the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg (MAMCS) a temporary exhibition called Village. Work specially made for MAMCS, Village consists of an assembly of 18 « huts », mainly in wood and metal, hung together. This monumental work is eleven meters high. Installed in the…
Avec « Chaos : ordre et désordre » l’édition 2014 de Géocinéma, le festival de cinéma organisé par les géographes bordelais, invite les spectateurs à plonger dans l’abîme et la confusion pour revenir ensuite à la lumière et au monde. Dans un temps marqué par l’incertitude, la figure du chaos révèle la crise de l‘ordre qu’il soit social,…
Ward Ie-IIe siècle et Ward IIIe siècle are two books by French author Frédéric Werst, published respectively in 2011 and 2014. Born in 1970, Frédéric Werst is associate letters. He teaches in a high school in Paris. « By love of literature », the author has invented a new language, Wardwesân, rich more than 10,000 words. This…
Between 22 October 2013 and 24 August 2014, the Cité Universcience (Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie) offers exhibition « Jeu vidéo l’EXPO » on a surface of 1000 m². This is the first major exhibition in France on video games, bringing their world a renewed look. Entre le 22 octobre 2013 et le 24 août 2014,…
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…
The exhibition « Le Surréalisme et l’objet« , which takes place at the Centre Pompidou in Paris from 30 October 2013 to 3 March 2014, reveals, among others, a work by Marcel Jean entitled « La fille de l’horoscope« from 1970. This is a small model (38.5 x 22 x 15.5 cm), such as larger used in sewing,…
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…
Gizmodo.fr website reports a post on Roadtrippers which proposes a road trip for visiting some ‘cult’ locations of the Breaking Bad TV serie, near Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. The route is available on Roatrippers.com, website which uses the Google Map API. Le site Gizmodo. fr se fait l’écho qu’un article sur le site Roadtrippers proposant justement un…
From 16 October 2013 to 26 January 2014, the exhibition « Pasolini Roma » holds at the Cinémathèque française in Paris. This exhibition proposes six sections corresponding to different periods of Pasolini’s life, especially in Roma, which was both the place where he lived from 1950 to his death in 1975, and the place where he made…
From 16 October 2013 to 19 January 2014, the exhibition « Astérix at the BnF » holds at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) in Paris,. This exhibition proposes a wide number of original sketches, videos and many by-products of Asterix’s world. It gives an occasion to pinpoint the use of maps and spatial means in one…
Gizmodo.fr website reports AV Club team’s video, presenting various extracts of TV serie The Walking Dead , associated sequences with the places where they were shot, mainly in Atlanta and Senoia, Georgia, USA (spoiler alert !). It also reports a google map, which reports many locations where the action take place. Le site Gizmodo.fr rapporte…