1st Argentine Film Festival 2012
March 28th, 2012
London has it’s first Argentine Film Festival, I’m looking forward to “Chinese Take Away” with the cool and talented Ricardo Darin (‘Nine Queens‘, ‘The Secret of Their Eyes‘. The festival runs from 18th-22nd April, in the meanwhile I’ll be wondering whether Ricardo Darin is Argentina’s answer to Amitabh Bachchan.
ᔥ Alan Mitchell
Loft Resumes
March 27th, 2012
Feeding my inner design freak led me to Loft Resumes, I know they say your cv content is what counts, but hats off to anyone who goes the extra mile for presentation.ᔥ Swiss Miss
Presenting the Kolker & Corbata Show…
March 26th, 2012
I couldn’t stop laughing at the antics of Oliver Kolker & Rodrigo “Joe” Corbata when I watched this, someone please give them a show. Alejandro Rumolino you should do one with them!
Caramel
March 25th, 2012
Caramel is a beautiful story written and directed and starring the even lovelier Nadine Labaki,who brings an Almodovaresque style tale of life, love and pain to the screen with lots of great female characters. Extracting the image of a war-torn Beirut, like the caramel used in the film for epilation, you’re drawn into their lives through the usually hidden setting of a ladies beauty parlour in Beirut.
Pic: ᔥ Slant Magazine
A Lebanese style tango features on the soundtrack which carries the sweet and chewy theme through the film which when you’re watching for a while seems to have an added softness to it, maybe that’s the sweet sound of Lebanese Arabic, though I can’t understand a word of I could listen to endlessly.
So excited to see this come back onto the iPlayer, if you miss it you can pick up the DVD here.
The Curator’s Code, because nothing is new.
March 23rd, 2012
“To be realistic one must always admit the influence of those who have gone before.” -Charles Eames
I’m an avid reader of Maria Popova’s blog Brain Pickings. A ceaseless torrent of inspiration, books to put on my Amazon wish list, every week through her newsletter she presents topics for deeper reading and exploration, (thank you Maria!). As a seasoned curator of a library of life, philosophy, science and the arts, Maria has the grace and the sense of fairness to credit her sources. This has led her to develop the Curator’s Code an easy way to show your point of inspiration with a Hat Tip ↬or reference with a Via symbol ᔥ. I’d like to propose a double symbol to show my support for your project on my blog, don’t stop picking brains! ↬ᔥMaria Popova
↬Brain Pickings
- Via symbol ᔥ -Indicates a link of direct discovery.
Hat Tip symbol ↬ – Indicates a link of indirect discovery, story lead, or inspiration.
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