Art: Poetry: French-language poet Michel Godin des Mers

Portrait vidéo: Michel Godin des Mers

The Artisan Poet of Paris (en français)

Portrait vidéo sur Michel Godin des Mers: l'artisan poète de Paris !
Acteur, ancien mannequin, novateur, bricoleur, autodidacte
Michel veut créer une "place publique" afin d'échanger des idées, des opinions et lancer des discussions parmi le "peuple souverain".

Michel vous donne rendez-vous tous les vendredis de 20h à minuit sur la passerelle Saint-Louis derrière Notre-Dame, et tous les 14 du mois place de la Nation de 16h à 20h.

Avec en guest star lors du tournage: Nikos Aliagas !!!

Une réalisation de Cédric Barbier
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Michel Godin des Mers, l'artisan poète
Portrait vidéo sur Michel Godin des Mers: l'artisan poète de Paris !
Acteur, ancien mannequin, novateur, bricoleur, autodidacte
Michel veut créer une "place publique" afin d'échanger des idées, des opinions et lancer des discussions parmi...

Music: Satire: Dark humour propels "Merry Christmas, you filthy animal" but contrasts with "Night of our lives"

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Song: "Merry Christmas ... you filthy animal"
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in contrast with this song,

Song: "Night of our lives"

  

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Music: Pop: English-language musicians-singers Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominoes

Hat Tip to Daniel Coelho's for his recent music list,
mostly a Yardbirds / Eric Clapton / Cream discography
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1963 Sonny Boy Williamson and The Yardbirds (com Yardbirds)

    1964 Five Live Yardbirds (com Yardbirds)
    1965 For your love (com Yardbirds - coletânea americana)
    1965 Having a Rave Up (com Yardbirds - coletânea americana)
    1966 Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (com John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers)
    1966 Fresh Cream (com Cream)
    1967 Disraeli Gears (com Cream)
    1968 Wheels of Fire (com Cream)
    1969 Goodbye Cream (com Cream)
    1969 Blind Faith (com Blind Faith)
    1969 Best of Cream (com Cream - coletânea)
    1970 On Tour with Eric Clapton (com Delaney, Bonnie & Friends)
    1970 Live Cream (com Cream - coletânea ao vivo)
    1970 Eric Clapton
    1970 Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (com Derek and the Dominos)
 
1971 The Yardbirds Featuring Performances by:
          Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page (com Yardbirds - coletânea)

    1972 Live Cream Volume II (com Cream - coletânea ao vivo)
    1972 Heavy Cream (com Cream - coletânea)
    1972 History of Eric Clapton (coletânea)
    1972 Eric Clapton at His Best (coletânea)
    1973 In Concert (com Derek and the Dominos) (ao vivo em 1970)
    1973 Clapton (coletânea)
    1973 Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert (ao vivo em 1972)
    1974 461 Ocean Boulevard
    1975 There's One in Every Crowd
    1975 E.C. Was Here (ao vivo em 1975)
    1976 No Reason to Cry
    1977 Slowhand
    1978 Backless
    1980 Just One Night (duplo; ao vivo em 1979)
    1981 Another Ticket
    1982 Time Pieces: Best Of Eric Clapton (1970-1978)
    1983 Money and Cigarettes
    1984 Too Much Monkey Business
    1984 Backtrackin'
    1985 Behind the Sun
    1986 August
    1987 The Cream of Eric Clapton
    1988 Crossroads (caixa)
    1989 Homeboy
    1989 Journeyman
    1990 The Layla Sessions (com Derek and the Dominos) (caixa em comemoração aos 20 anos de lançamento)
    1991 24 Nights (ao vivo em 1990)
    1992 Rush
    1992 Unplugged (ao vivo em 1992)
    1994 From the Cradle
    1994 Live at the Fillmore (com Derek and the Dominos) (ao vivo em 1973)
    1995 The Cream of Clapton
    1996 Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies (CD quádruplo, gravações ao vivo de 1974 a 1978)
    1998 Pilgrim
    1999 The Blues (álbum duplo)
    1999 Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton
    2000 Riding With the King (com B.B. King)
    2001 Reptile
    2002 One More Car, One More Rider (ao vivo em 2001)
    2004 Me and Mr. Johnson (versões de músicas de Robert Johnson)
    2005 Back Home (álbum de estúdio)
    2006 Road To Escondido" (álbum gravado com JJ Cale)
    2007 Complete Clapton
    2009 Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood (Live from Madson Square Garden)
    2010 Eric Clapton Clapton (2010)

Arts and Faith: Trend: Songs, danceable, for the Festival of Lights (Hanukka)

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Washington, DC — Put on your boogie shoes —the new Hanukkah songs are here! 


What last year seemed like a happy coincidence has become a hip new Hanukkah tradition: groups of harmonizing young Jews releasing seriously Jewish, yet seriously danceable, songs for the Festival of Lights, which begins at sundown on 20 December.  The Maccabeats, who scored more than six million hits on YouTube last year with a song about flipping potato latkes (pancakes), a traditional Hanukkah food, are back this year with a boppy reggae tune, Religion News Service reports. "Miracle" explores the spiritual meaning of Hanukkah, which commemorates the successful revolt led by Judah Maccabee against an ancient king who tried to quash Judaism. 


— Ecumenical News International

Ars: Indymation: Using 3D figures made of clay, rubber or plastic and videos by likes of covertoperatives

Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of big-screen movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, 

starring William Harrison, Jeff Gurwood constructs and animates in miniature
a remarkable video drama-short. The genre is called Stop Motion Animation.

Sometimes using clay, it was called Claymation, but the medium coud as well
be rubber, plastic, and/or other materials. — refWrite video columnist,
Audiovisiotor, commenting.

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SportsUSA and Canada: Basketball: They tell me the game is on tonite, but where?

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After the long lag of the lockout and labour negotiations, I had troubled rezoning my brain for B-ball lust.  But she's back, she's back, they tell me.  But where, where.  Well and ESPN tweest is only so long, so I have to set forth to find a game and one that's broadcast in Toronto and the time, and of course the teams as any fan can tell you, a team shoud glam you enuff that ou'll prioritize it for your viewing. So I have to do some research.  Can ESPN help me.  Dunno. 
— Sportikos on the Basketball Seson

tweet It’s just preseason, but tonight, there is 

              NBA basketball.  

              Oh yes, there is basketball!

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Music: Blues guitar: The masterful B.B.King playing 'Blues Boys Tune'

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Music: Great sounds: Jazz & Blues & World Music by Tinariwen

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Music: Orthodox Jewish song: Matisyahu Miller, the guy with the beard no longer has one

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Huffington Post (December 12, 2k11)
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Matisyahu [Miller] shaves his beard, and cantor-watchers speculate on its symbolic important.  Has he left Hasidism?  and with it, left his role as "Hasidic reggae superstar'?

Sorry folks, all you get is me…no alias. When I started becoming religious 10 years ago it was a very natural and organic process. It was my choice. My journey to discover my roots and explore Jewish spirituality—not through books but through real life. At a certain point I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity…to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person I needed rules—lots of them—or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.  — From the performer's website.

"The always-irreverent Heeb Magazine claims this leap of face means that the musician has gone completely secular:"  And: "We take Miller’s words to mean that he’s done with Orthodoxy and is going to trust his own inner-spirituality.  He is also no longer calling himself Matisyahu and intends to rebirth himself as a secular, albeit spiritual, musician. "  Probably not so, it turns out.  He simply shaved his beard and continued his daily Orthodox observances.  

Last year, Huff Po explained the context of Matisyahu's overture:

Hasidic Reggae Hanukkah Tour Opens 

Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, which begins in the evening on Dec. 1, is all about exposing what is hidden, uncovering mysteries and embracing unbelievable miracles. Matisyahu, the hometown Hasidic hero of New York City and a cultural icon for Jewish America, crafted his own light-filled musical mystery at the Brooklyn Bowl on Nov. 29, opening his nine-night Festival of Light tour with a nearly non-stop, two-hour set that covered the span of his career while peeking into the unknown future. 

This show was the first spark, the shamash of Matisyahu's touring menorah. Let me explain: There are eight days of Hanukkah, which celebrates the miracle of one day's worth of oil lasting for eight days as the successful revolutionaries of the Maccabee family rededicated the once-desecrated Holy Temple. Modern Jews celebrate the holiday by lighting a nine-branched candelabra, called a menorah, the number of flames increasing with the number of days. 

So why does the menorah have nine branches instead of eight? There's a special commandment that one may not use the lights of the menorah for any practical purpose other than proclaiming the miracle of the holiday. An additional flame, the shamash, is needed to symbolically help the other flames be revealed in the world. Hence, eight days, nine flames. So too, if each show in Matisyahu's Festival of Light is it's own unique flame, then the shamash, this opening show, was a helping of pure holiday fire. 

Other parallels abound. Born Mathew Miller, Matisyahu took on his Hebrew name after becoming religious in 2001, and it is that moniker that has become a household code name for observant Judaism in the face of cultural and spiritual Jewish assimilation. In that context, there's nothing new about a Matisyahu today because there lived, more than 2,000 years ago, another Matisyahu, also a symbol for strengthening Jewish roots in a spiritual desert. He, of course, was the father of the Maccabean revolt that reclaimed the Second Temple in Jerusalem from unholy Hellenist hands and therefore created a new Jewish festival.  — Josh Fleet (November 30, 2k10)

Hanukkah begins a week from today at sunset on Tuesday, December 20, 2011, and ends at sunset on Wednesday, December 28, 2011.

Music: Hymn Video: Johnny Cash and group sing Where you there when they crucified my Lord?

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Sports: College Football USA: Winning touchdown Baylor 45 vs Oklahoma U 38

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"With just seconds remaining, Baylor's Robert Griffin III hits [throws to]Terrance Williams for the 34-yard touchdown. The Bears upset the Sooners, 45-38." 

Technics: Social Media: Business blunders on the Internet

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Social Media email newsletter (December 12,2k11)
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The year's 10 worst social media meltdowns
A number of brands and celebrities found out this year that all it takes is one slip-up to quickly turn their social media fans into foes. Among this year's biggest blunders: then-U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner's ill-advised tweets, Gilbert Gottfried's post-tsunami jokes and Kenneth Cole's overreach on tying its products to the "Arab Spring" uprisings. Other big mistakes include a Chrysler ad agency's tweet cursing Detroit's bad drivers, Netflix's failure to secure the Twitter handle for its short-lived Qwikster brand and Ragu's tone-deaf attempt at reaching out to "dad bloggers." Advertising Age (tiered subscription model) (12/12)     

Sports: Water propulsion and lifting: Lots of equipment but visually engaging for a few minutes

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Music: Video: Basketball celebrity Michael Jordan demos new shoe by Melo, bringing advertizing to a h+ art

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Hat Tip to Ric Bucher via Bob Vanguard
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Melo new shoe ad by Jordan
Jumpman Melo Explosive Flight BTS
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JUMPMAN: MELO EXPLOSIVE FLIGHT BTS from klipcollective on Vimeo.

Music: Guitarless band: A jazzy version of rock with vocals

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A lot of rock bands visit the NPR studios with maybe a fiddle or two in tow. But Miracles of Modern Science are not a typical rock band. The group boasts a mandolin, upright bass, cello, violin, drums — and absolutely no electric guitar.
Evan Younger, Josh Hirshfeld, Kieran Ledwidge, Tyler Pines and Geoff McDonald met in college, where they bonded over a shared love of jazz, rock and classical music. But even more important to their chemistry, McDonald says, is a belief that those genres can play nice together, with satisfying results.
"There's sort of a thaw in the music community now between people who play classical music, or whatever you want to call it — concert music, art music — and what we do in music clubs," says McDonald. "And that's a really great thing. You see lots of people doing imaginative things from both sides of what was [once] a divide."
Miracles of Modern Science piled into NPR's Studio 4A to speak with Weekend Edition Sundayhost Audie Cornish, and to perform songs from their debut album, Dog Year.

Music: Christmas: Choral song from Westminster Cathedral Choir (Palestrina)

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Fashion: Tel Aviv, Israel: Haute Couture mixes Palestine and Israel cultural motifs

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......   On Sunday night [Dec11], the fashion collective Three as Four opened its highly anticipated exhibition “Insalaam Inshalom” at the Beit Ha’Ir Center for Urban Culture in Tel Aviv, bringing to fruition a project over two years in the making. Covering the walls of the four-story building in fabric printed with their spring collection’s central motifs, which are made of a mix of Muslim and Jewish symbols, the designers Gabi Asfour, Adi Gil and Ange Donhauser invited 10 artists to show works that relate to the project’s central notion: that Judaism and Islam can live side by side. “We’ve accumulated the energy of artists and performers who are like-minded,” Asfour said. “We tried to balance things from all sides, though it’s always difficult.”

“Insalaam Inshalom” runs through March 10 at the Beit Ha’Ir Center for Urban Culture, Bialik Street 27, 011-972-0-3-724-0311; beithair.org.

Sports: Pro BaseballUSA: Ryan Braun hot young baseball star branded as druggie

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Ryan Braun Tests Positive 

For Performance-Enhancing Drugs 

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Milwaukee Brewers slugger Ryan Braun tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug and faces a 50-game suspension at the beginning of the 2012 season, according to ESPN's "Outside The Lines."

Per the report, Braun was notified of the positive test about a month before he was named the National League's most valuable player.

The 28-year-old is disputing the test and has claimed that he has never knowingly taken any banned substances. A representative for Braun released a statement on Saturday:

There are highly unusual circumstances surrounding this case which will support Ryan's complete innocence and demonstrate there was absolutely no intentional violation of the program. While Ryan has impeccable character and no previous history, unfortunately, because of the process we have to maintain confidentiality and are not able to discuss it any further, but we are confident he will ultimately be exonerated

Based on the ESPN report, it would seem the "unusual circumstances" that Braun's statement refer to relate to a second test shortly after he was informed of the initial failure. As Jeff Sullivan ofSBNation points out, though, the key is the time lapse between the pair of tests.

According to the ESPN report, Braun's failure of the PED test was triggered by an elevated level of testosterone. In 2009, Manny Ramirez failed a urine test due to an elevated testosterone level.

Jon Heyman of MLB Network tweeted that Major League Baseball has no announcement on the matter planned.

The four-time All-Star batted .332 and hit 33 home runs, leading the Brewers to their first division title since 1982.

Further Reading

Ryan Braun of Milwaukee Brewers tests positive for performance-enhancing drug - ESPN

Ryan Braun Has Positive Drug Test For PEDs, Is Appealing: ESPN

Ryan Braun Has Positive Drug Test For PEDs, Is Appealing: ESPN