In the evening I discovered one piece of two famous blues guitarists. Eric Clapton featuring B.B. King. They sing a songs, « Riding with the King. » The word « King » of the title refers to BB King is considered the king of the blues. I love this songs where the two guitarists are in perfect harmony. Their voices go very well together. This is a great blues songs! What do you think ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5T5qDRxbpM
Robert Allen Zimmermann (alias Bob Dylan) is an author, type-setter, interprets, musician, painter and American poet from the XX century. He has been one of the major figures of the popular music for five decades. He has several kinds musical like the rock’n’roll, the folk, the blues, the country and the country rock’n’roll. Bob Dylan plays also several instruments: the guitar, the harmonica, the bass and the piano.
I chose to speak to you about his song “Blowin’ in the Wind” because it is one of the major songs of Bob Dylan. It’s a protest song. Bob Dylan is like a spiritual guide of the movement of the civic rights.
I think that everyone should know this music because it’s very important but also beautiful at the same time. I propose to you a video, don’t be missed!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGO8snK98l0&feature=kp[/youtube]
South Africa became a dominion in 1910. After the African National Party won the elections in 1948, it established Apartheid in South Africa, I mean a system of racial control and separation between blacks and whites. Blacks were exploited and lived in poor conditions, mixed marriages were banned, and the regime became oppressive. It was only in 1994, when Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa, that the country’s Constitution became fully democratic.
The years of Apartheid marked a lot of South Africans writers, who used themes as the relationship between races, the confrontation with violence and violations or the rights of whites writers to speak about the blacks rights. In this category we have a lot of writers : John M. Coetzee, Lewis Nkosi, Zakes Mda, Nadine Gordimer, André Brink and many more.
Jéremy Schneider is a french illustrator who draw realistic works of art all in black and white. He use black chalk on Canson to obtain more shades of black (he said « a darker black »). He like to do very precise works with a lot of detail as in his sketch named « bear »:
He collaborate with Commune De Paris, a clothing store, on a serie of pattern shirt dealing with the revolt of the 19th century. He drawn the face of few bourgeois horified by the view of the workers’s movement. They all have an exaggerated expression that make them look ridiculous :
He likes philosophy and readind and inspire himself of Nietsche, or Willialm Shakespear, especially in his work named « king lear » ( not hidden reference…at all…)
Shakespeare often went to London to go in his native place: Stratford-upon-Avon. In this city he met Mrs Davenant of the Oxford Crown. She had a son who is the godson of Shakespeare.
One day, Shakespeare was going to visit the family but the child was in school. A teacher asked the boy why he wanted to go home with haste. The boy said, « To my godfather, Shakespeare ». « Fie, child, says the old gentleman, « why are you so superfluous? Have not you learned yet that you should not use the name of God in vain? ».
We see that in the sixteenth century, people were already admiring of Shakespeare.
Since may 6, the Quai Branly museum presents a retrospective aubout tattoos and their history. Named « Tatoueurs, Tatouées », it is the first exhibition showing the tatto as an artistic movement. The aim is to show the evolution of tattooing over time from the first civilisation that uses it to express their belonging to a religion or mystic movement, to our civilisation where, after being a sign of social or cultural difference, it is now consider as a banal thing.
Composed of more than 300 work of art, you can find different kind of works: sketches on paper or kakémone, photo series, books criminologists, tattoued members of silicone body and… true human skins!
It also represented all continents thanks to their history ( japanese yakuza, french prisonners,etc…)
It ends the october 18 so you have all the summer to jump on a train and go to the Quai Branly museum! Don’t miss it!
a small bonus for lovers of tattoos:
We have watched three videos at school about the act 3, scene 2 from As You Like It, adaptations of the pastoral comedy written by Shakespeare, the famous english poet, playwright and actor.
I’ve selected two videos and I want to compare them.
In my opinion, this play is my favourite because the play of the actors is good.
The second play is good too but it’s more in a modern life – for example, she smokes.
Even if the costume – we clearly see that it is artificial (the mustache for example) in the first play while the woman who is disguised hasn’t a costume : it is natural in the second play – and the landscape is better in the second play – there are many colors and it’s realistic, I prefer the first one for its adaptation.
And you, what play do you prefer?
Having start a course on Shakespeare, the urge came to me to read the play Romeo and Juliet in English and it turns out that it is quite difficult to read Shakespeare. I’ve also watched Romeo + Juliet Baz Luhrmann film released in 1996, even if it is a modern even very modern, it traces well the play by William Shakespeare. Whether in the book or the film, I still have the same expectation of the famous replica of Juliette who is: « O Romeo, Romeo! Why art thou Romeo!
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if you do not want, let me simply vow of love
I cease to be a Capulet. »
Rare are those who do not know the balcony scene.
« I hold this world for what it is: a theater where everyone has to play its role. « William Shakespeare.
If you love literature and John Lennon I advise you, his first book « In His Own Wright » which you can read in French and English. In this small paperback, there are poems, short stories and drawings by Lennon. It contains a lot of humor and some nonsense, (that’s why I’m talking about this book). The title is a pun on the English expression « in his own right » and « in his own write ».
http://www.google.fr/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/In_His_Own_Write.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_His_Own_Write&h=240&w=240&tbnid=Yl8OQLFlbiayXM:&zoom=1&tbnh=98&tbnw=98&usg=__X4A38R6PIuMkH87cbo0ZVdOV_KY=&docid=68cEZ9mkD_c48M&sa=X&ei=-7drU92vL8Kc0AWptYGgDw&sqi=2&ved=0CDYQ9QEwAA&dur=325
Impossible love… It speaks to everyone and, if love is a recurring theme, the impossible love is equally. That’s why a lot of writers use this Gimick in their books, here is a few examples:
Of course, there are many other examples in the french literature or outside the literature in general. If you see another examples, don’t hesitate to leave a com’.
hello !
I want to tell you about a website exclusively about Shakespeare: its name is « Absolute Shakespeare ». In addition to read Shakespeare’s biography, we can read Comedies, (17, including As you like it) , Histories, or Tragedies. Each time, there is an explanation, it’s very interesting ! there are also Shakespeare’s sonnets, Poems, Quotes (like « To be, or not to be: that is the question » Hamlet (Act III, Scene I), « O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? ». Romeo and Juliet (Act II, Scene II) etc)
this website is also useful because you can read summary and commentary about many famous plays; Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Othello, the Moor of Venice, Romeo and Juliet or The Tempest for example! And if you are reading a Shakespeare’s play, a glossary can help you to understand !
The website here -> absoluteshakespeare.com
William Shakespeare, a famous poet, writer and playwright, is born in April 1563 at Stratford Upon Avon and dead the April 1616 in the same town. He was one of the few playwrights who praticed comedy than tragedy as well. He is mainly famed for writing the most famous works like Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet.
During my school trip in England 2 years ago, I visited the Globe Theatre and the Shakespeare’s house, it was a great experience for me because it’s like to live like Shakespeare, it’s a good memory. During the visit, I saw his bedroom, dining room and his kitchen, this is a different house compared to our also I can imagine how he live a that time.
I have read a saga, during 4 years entitled Beautiful Creatures (16 Lunes in french).
This saga belongs to the southern gothic genre. This genre was born in United States of America, more exactly in the south. It’s another genre of fantasy but with some elements of gothic genre. In fact there is a plot all along the novel, punctated by supernatural, oniric or unusual events. Grotesque situations, places or characters are present a lots.
Beautiful Creatures written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl and published in 2010, tell the story of Ethan, a teenager who lives in Gatlin, a little village of South Carolina. One day a new young girl, called Lena, settles in this village and Ethan falls in love with her. But Lena hides a terrible secrets, and her family too, there are Casters (Enchanteresse) and they have special powers. Ethan, Lena and lots of other characters are dragged in a war between Light Casters and Dark Casters, but humans can be hurt too !
I adore this saga and I read all the four books, I advise you to read it if you like fantasy !
But don’t watch the adaptation, there is very bad and doesn’t look like the novel !
buy windows 11 pro test ediyorum
