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Best Contemporary World Music Album at the Nominee Reception
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Best Contemporary World Music Album at the Nominee Reception
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Images: Think Contemporary Surely you’ve gotten the urge at least once — passing by an anonymous pile of discarded furniture pieces curbside, you feel a compulsion to rescue some forlorn credenza from landfill purgatory and to make it something ‘new’ and beautiful again. Dublin-based interior design company Think Contemporary seems to have heeded the call, launching a line of upcycled furniture that appears to have found its own unique voice…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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‘Portable Pelt’ 2009 by Tara Baoth Mooney, one of the curators of CCANW’s Fashion Footprints exhibition. Photo: Sean Michael In an effort to highlight the major social and environmental impacts of the fashion and textile industries, the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World ( CCANW ) and graduates from the MA Fashion and the Environment at London College of Fashion present “Fashion Footprints: Sustainable Approaches,” which opened this weekend at CCANW’s Project Space, in the heart of Haldon Forest Park (Exeter, Devon, UK). The interact… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Deep in the Forest, an Eco-Fashion Exhibit Visually Links Textiles with the Environment (Photos)
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‘This was a really great opportunity for him to shine,’ James Mangold says of his leading man. By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise in “Knight and Day” Photo: Twentieth Century Fox and Regency Enterprises Superheroes, all-encompassing CGI, in-your-face 3-D effects — these are the predominant trends in this year’s summer-movie season. What a surprise, then, to find “Knight and Day,” an action flick not based on an existing entertainment property, one not shot within the confines of a green screen and one featuring an actor who’s a member of that increasingly rare breed: the traditional Hollywood movie star. The movie, in fact, has as much in common with old-school pictures like “North by Northwest” and “Charade,” and for two hours, its stars (Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz) are more reminiscent of Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn than other contemporary film stars. Director James Mangold recognizes the throwback factor to “Knight and Day” — and, as the guy behind heady fare like “Cop Land” and “3:10 to Yuma,” he welcomes it — but that’s not what pulled him into the production. Rather, it was the chance to work with Cruise and Diaz. “When I first read it, I thought it was a really promising idea for a movie, very charming idea for a movie,” Mangold told MTV News. “But what really intrigued me was that Cameron was attached — she’s someone who I adore and have known for a long time — and Tom was curious about it.’ Mangold had met with Cruise around the time he was developing “Yuma,” but both men agreed the actor wasn’t right for the film. When they did end up working together, they wanted it be on something that wasn’t so damn serious. “There was a lightness to him and a charm to him,” Mangold said of Cruise. “I hoped he’d make a choice to make a picture that exploited that even more. This was a really great opportunity, I think, for him to shine, still being the leading man and still being capable but getting that other side of him out.” That’s exactly what he does in “Knight and Day,” ditching the solemnity of his characters in films like “Valkyrie” and “Collateral” and returning to the type of manic comic territory he explored in “Jerry Maguire” and “Risky Business.” Once Cruise signed up, the script began to change. The story went from a comedy vehicle to something that merged high-octane action with comedic jabs. And the film continued to morph even as filming was under way. “There were days we’d show up and we’d completely rewrite what we were doing while we were going it,” Mangold said. “There’s a lot of jazz to Tom.” Check out everything we’ve got on “Knight and Day.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com .
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A rare exhibition of North Korean art is taking place in Vienna's MAK Museum. The museum says it is the first time major paintings from the Korean Art Gallery in Pyongyang have been shown abroad. North Korea, in this exhibition, is a land of smiles. More than 100 oils, water colours and traditional Korean ink paintings, dating from the 1960s to the present day, have been brought from Pyongyang to Vienna's MAK Museum for Applied Arts and Contemporary Art for the show, called Flowers for Kim Il Sung; Art and Architecture from the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea. The works show beaming farm women feeding geese and ducks, or plump, rosy-cheeked children wandering through fields of flowers. There is also a soldier lying in the snow, grinning as he looks up from his gun, untroubled by cold or fear. BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10134478.stm# The MAK, the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts and Contemporary Art FLOWERS FOR KIM IL SUNG Art and architecture from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea 19.05.2010 – 05.09.2010 MAK Exhibition Hall The exhibition offers for the first time insight into the contemporary art, poster production and architecture of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which hitherto was mostly not on show in international exhibitions. The exhibition in the MAK was prepared in cooperation with the Korean Art Gallery and the Paektusan Academy of Architecture. What can be seen is a culture that is alien to us and that is stamped by an overwhelming veneration of the “Eternal President” Kim Il Sung, who died in 1994, and of his son Kim Jong II , presently in power; the culture is also rigidly marked by the Chuch’e ideology, a specific interpretation of socialism. Kim Il Sung adapted the traditional Marxist-Leninist doctrine to the Korean situation. The Chuch’e ideology which thus arose interprets Historical Materialism as a form of voluntarism, thereby emphasising the country’s autonomy in every respect, whether ideological, political, economic or military. Korean nationalism thus assumes a central ideological role. The show contains around 100 oil and ink pictures, a representative selection of posters, and a model of the ”Chuch’e Tower,” the landmark of Pyongyang, and is rounded off by architectural drawings and photographs. For the first time, 16 portraits of the two most senior leaders of the country, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong II , are exhibited. Generally they depict father and son together with representatives of the people, including factory workers, soldiers and peasants as well as children, and in a variety of settings. In the paintings, it is mainly the heroic acts of the revolution that are depicted, from the beginnings of the Democratic People’s Republic and the creation of the “Workers’ Paradise”. So-called bourgeois forms of art, such as for example abstract art, are the subject of critical opposition, comparable with the situation in the former Soviet Union. Socialist Realism was long considered the prevailing style. Exhibition Peter Noever Curator Bettina M. Busse Consultant curator Christiane Bauermeister Project coordination Dunja Gottweis ' http://www.mak.at/mysql/ausstellungen_show_page.php?a_id=867 added by: zichi
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Copious amounts of sand and surf is a traditional prescription for recharging depleted emotional batteries, but we’ve found nothing better for relighting that creative spark than sinking your hands into a fresh, exciting project. “That’s all fine and dandy,” you mutter with stress-tinged annoyance, “but I don’t exactly have time to indulge in arts and crafts.” Except … with a summer session, you do! Even if you’re not the artsy, craftsy type, never fear—we’ve got ideas that will pique the creative interests of just about any battle-hardened worker bee. John C. Campbell Folk School The leader in immersive arts and crafts education, this traditional rural center in North Carolina has been teaching arts such as book-making and weaving since 1925. Penland School of Crafts Another North Carolina gem with courses ranging from bedwork to woodworking. Vermont Woodworking School Wait, did someone mention woodworking? This school can handle your aspirations, whether you’re a beginner or an experienced woodworker. Zingerman’s Bakehouse If you’ve always had a hankering to bake bread (or pastries, if your tastes run a little sweeter), try a two- to four-day workshop in front of the ovens in nice, cool Michigan. Pilchuck Glass School From stained glass to sculpture in Washington state. Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Looking for something more central? This contemporary arts and crafts center is located in Tennessee. Haystack Mountain If dodging the summer heat is on your agenda, try this center tucked away up north in Maine. (Photo credit: neadeau, SXC )
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eng.pozdrav.ru As we close this day of Saturday,let us all rejoice for the rising of our Lord Jesus Christ. Let u take time to read and feed our souls with His words. Here are some Easter quotes: “He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word. And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.” – Matthew 28: 6-10 KJV “And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.” – St. Augustine “He is risen; he is not here.” – Mark 16:6 “This is the promise that He hath promised us, even eternal life.” – 1 John 2:25 “The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice.” – Henry Knox Sherrill “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.” – John 11:25-26 “Now let the heavens be joyful, Let earth her song begin: Let the round world keep triumph, And all that is therein; Invisible and visible, Their notes let all things blend, For Christ the Lord is risen Our joy that hath no end.” – John of Damascus “Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.” – Pope John Paul II “Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.’” – John 11:25-26 NIV “But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.” – Acts 2:24 NIV “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.” – 1 John 3:16 NIV “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” – John 3:16 NIV “Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned.” – Henry Drummond “No man can follow Christ and go astray.” – William H.P. Faunce As we close this day of Saturday,let us all rejoice for the rising of our Lord Jesus Christ. Let u take time to read and feed our souls with His words. Here are some Easter quotes: “He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word. And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.”– Matthew 28: 6-10 KJV “And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.”– St. Augustine “He is risen; he is not here.”– Mark 16:6 “This is the promise that He hath promised us, even eternal life.”– 1 John 2:25 “The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice.”– Henry Knox Sherrill “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.”– John 11:25-26 “Now let the heavens be joyful,Let earth her song begin:Let the round world keep triumph,And all that is therein;Invisible and visible,Their notes let all things blend,For Christ the Lord is risenOur joy that hath no end.”– John of Damascus “Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”– Pope John Paul II “Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.’”– John 11:25-26 NIV “But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.”– Acts 2:24 NIV “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.”– 1 John 3:16 NIV “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”– John 3:16 NIV “Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned.”– Henry Drummond “No man can follow Christ and go astray.”– William H.P. Faunce Rejoice! Rejoice! 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After working with Lil Wayne on She Wolf, the singer reinforces her hip-hop cred with Cudi. By Jocelyn Vena Shakira Photo: Ben Hider/ Getty Images Shakira has once again proved that she’s got some hip-hop cred
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