MIXED MEDIA
JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
The idea for the film started off as a personal tribute to him as he was approaching his 80th birthday, and then it grew into a major initiative to capture this man’s life both in a film and a book. My intention was to leave a lasting memory of him that would inspire young people and re-inspire the older generation of hairdressers, as well as the millions of people in the world to whom the name Vidal Sassoon is either familiar or personal or evocative. Due to the fact that hairdressing’s impact on society has not been very well documented or recorded, much less respected because of the lack of any serious written material, I am hoping that this is something that every hairdresser in the world will want to share with everyone they know. by Michael Gordon
For full access to The movie click the link bellow:
http://www.vidalsassoonthemovie.com/home.php
VIDAL SASSOON THE MOVIE: How One Man Changed the World with a Pair of Scissors, Director Craig Teper, USA, 2010, 93 Minutes, Documentary, Video.
Born in 1928, Vidal Sassoon spent six years of his impoverished London childhood in a Jewish orphanage. Beginning as a shampoo boy at age 14, Vidal eventually became the most in?uential hairdresser in the world. This documentary, produced by Bumble and Bumble founder Michael Gordon, is a trip to Carnaby Street, Mary Quant’s mod look, the invention of the mini-skirt, geometric haircuts, and more. Why not take the afternoon off and come as your 60s self?
The full link to the Jewish Film Festival :
bjff.bside.com/2010/films/
Adriana Sassoon with her children, Isabela and Ariel, at Coolidge Corner Theatre.
(Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe)
Click the link bellow for the full article:
http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2010/11/11/fashion_and_film_fill_the_bill/
*Many thanks to Sara Rubin and to Jayme Saks, for including the movie at the The Jewish Film Festival Boston.
iMAGINE
iMAGINE
Masstige and Überpremium!
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Yves Saint Laurent
As Coco would say.
Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.
Coco Chanel
FANTASY
FANTASY
“Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly,”One must have sunshine, freedom,and a little flower.”
Hans Christian Andersen
Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, and/orsetting. Many works within the genre take place in fictional worlds where magic is common. Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction in that it does not provide a logical (or pseudo logical) explanation for the scientifically impossible events that occur, though there is a great deal of overlap between the two (both are subgenres of speculative fiction).
In popular culture, the genre of fantasy is dominated by its medievalist form, especially since the worldwide success of The Lord of the Rings books by J. R. R. Tolkien. In its broadest sense however, fantasy comprises works by many writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians, from ancient myths and legends to many recent works embraced by a wide audience today.
Fantasy is a vibrant area of academic study in a number of disciplines (English, cultural studies, comparative literature, history, medieval studies). Work in this area ranges widely, from the structuralist theory of Tzvetan Todorov, which emphasizes the fantastic as a liminal space, to work on the connections (political, historical, literary) between medievalism and popular culture.
Every woman has a place, in her heart there’s a space, and the world can’t erase her fantasies.
Take a ride in the sky, on our ship fantasy, all your dreams will come true, right away
And we will live together, our voices will ring forever, as one.
Every thought is a dream, rushing by in a stream, bringing life to The kingdom of doing.Take a ride in the sky, on our ship fantasy, all your dreams will come true, miles away.Our voices will ring together until the twelfth of never,we all, will live LOVE forever, as one.Come see victory, in the land called fantasy, loving life, a new decree, bring your mind to everlasting liberty!
DANGEROUS BEAUTY
DANGEROUS BEAUTY
Veronica Franco
Veronica Franco (1546–1591) was an Italian poet and courtesan in 16th century Venice.The daughter of another cortigiana onesta, Franco learned the art at a young age from her mother and was trained to use her natural assets and abilities to achieve a financially beneficial marriage. While still in her teens, Franco married a wealthy physician, but the union ended badly. In order to support herself, Franco turned to serving as a cortigiana to wealthy men. She quickly rose through the ranks to consort with some of the leading notables of her day and even had a brief liaison with Henry III, King of France.
A well-educated woman, Veronica Franco wrote two volumes of poetry: Terze rime in 1575 and Lettere familiari a diversi in 1580. She published books of letters and collected the works of other leading writers into anthologies. Successful in her two lines of work, Franco also founded a charity for courtesans and their children.
“When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours; and although we may be delicate and soft, some men who are delicate are also strong; and others, coarse and harsh, are cowards. Women have not yet realized this, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.”—Veronica Franco
Quotes
“I’m just a person trapped inside a woman’s body”. Elaine Boosler“Women belong in the house… and the Senate”. Unknown“Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge”. Unknown“Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage”. Unknown“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths”. Lois Wyse“Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors”. Evelyn Cunningham
THE 11th DIMENSION
THE 11th DIMENSION
How about the eleventh dimension?
Science and religion are poised to come face to face as physicists begin to realize that this planet we call earth and the universe it resides in, are a part of an infinite number of universes all residing in the eleventh dimension.
In the early years of the 20th century, the atom long believed to be the smallest building block of matter was proven to consist of even smaller components called protons, neutrons and electrons, which are known as subatomic particles.
Beginning in the 1960s, other subatomic particles were discovered. In the 1980s, it was discovered that protons and neutrons ( hadrons) are themselves made up of smaller particles called quarks.
In the 1980s, a new mathematical model of theoretical physics called string theory emerged. It showed how all the particles, and all of the forms of energy in the universe, could be constructed by hypothetical one-dimensional “strings,” infinitely small building-blocks that have only the dimension of length, but not height or width. Further, string theory suggested that the universe is made up of multiple dimensions.
As we are familiar with height, width, and length as three dimensional space, and time gives a total of four observable dimensions. However, string theories initially supported the possibility of ten dimensions the remaining 6 of which we can’t detect directly. This was later increased to 11 dimensions based on various interpretations of the ten dimensional theory that led to five partial theories as described below. Super-gravity theory also played a significant part in establishing the existence of the 11th dimension.
Quantum theory is the set of rules that describes the interactions of these particles.
THE BIG BANG
THE BIG BANG
We are Powerful Beautiful and Extraordinary.
Big Bang is the prevailing cosmological theory of the early development of the universe. Cosmologists use the term Big Bang to refer to the idea that the universe was originally extremely hot and dense at some finite time in the past and has since cooled by expanding to the present diluted state and continues to expand today. The theory is supported by the most comprehensive and accurate explanations from current scientific evidence and observation.
Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe, although he called it his “hypothesis of the primeval atom“. The framework for the model relies on Albert Einstein‘s general relativity and on simplifying assumptions (such as homogeneity and isotropy of space).
QUEEN VICTORIA
QUEEN VICTORIA
Victoria was the daughter of Edward, the Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg.
She was born in Kensington Palace in London on May 24th, 1819.
In 1837 Queen Victoria took the throne after the death of her uncle William IV. Due to her secluded childhood, she displayed a personality marked by strong prejudices and a willful stubbornness.She’d met her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, when they were both seventeen. When they were twenty, he returned to England, and Victoria, in love with him, proposed marriage. They were married on February 10, 1840.
Victoria had traditional views on the role of the wife and mother, and though she was Queen and Albert was Prince Consort, he shared government responsibilities at least equally. His death in 1861 devastated her; her prolonged mourning lost her much popularity.After Albert’s death in 1861 a desolate Victoria remained in self-imposed seclusion for ten years. Her genuine but obsessive mourning, which would occupy her for the rest of her life, played an important role in the evolution of what would become the Victorian mentality.
Prince Albert was the son of Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in Germany… Victoria and Albert had nine children.
Albert was the beloved husband and trusted advisor of Britain’s Queen Victoria.A man of progressive and relatively liberal ideas, Albert not only led reforms in university education, welfare, the royal finances and slavery, he had a special interest in applying science and art to the manufacturing industry.The Prince joined the Society of Arts and became its President in 1843; in this capacity he encouraged the application of science and art to industrial purposes. Around this time two important figures, (Sir) Henry Cole and Professor Ludwig Grüner (1801–82), became closely involved with the Prince.
As an influence on architecture the Prince was significant:
Albert himself was involved in a number of design projects, including the Italianate Osborne House, (with the London builder Thomas Cubitt from 1845), the Royal Dairy at the Model Farms at , alterations at , and (an essay in the Scottish Baronial style executed by William Smith (1817–91) of ). However, Prince Albert’s importance in the history of design lies in the immense improvements that became apparent from the time of the 1862 London Exhibition, which he encouraged, but did not live to see realized.
The former became Chairman of the Society of Arts, and promoted model designs commissioned from artists which coined the term ‘art manufactures’: he was an energetic organizer, becoming Prince Albert’s chief lieutenant for the remarkable Great Exhibition of 1851 in Paxton’s Crystal Palace, Royal Albert Hall, Victoria and Albert Museum, Albertopolis of which the Prince was an enthusiastic promoter.
Albert was also President of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, and helped to encourage the building of exemplary dwellings: the Society erected four ‘Model Houses for Families’ as part of the 1851 Exhibition, designed by Henry Roberts and paid for by the Prince.
Victoria & Albert Movie 2001.BBC older version, is more detailed.
http://www.freemoviestheatre.com/free_movie/7669-Victoria_And_Albert_2001.html
THE 10th DIMENSION
THE 10th DIMENSION
Imagining the Tenth Dimension
WHATCH VIDEO BELOW.
The ultimate goal of string theory is not only to unify quantum mechanics with general relativity. The ultimate goal is to explain the spectrum of particles and forces observed in nature.
ANOS DOURADOS
ANOS DOURADOS
Anos Dourados, para a maioria das pessoas que viveram naquela epoca, signinifica “Anos encantados.”Nos anos dourados acontecia à literatura de Kerouac, o rock de garagem, os movimentos feministas.
Os movimentos civis em favor dos negros. Surgiram os Baianos e o Tropicalismo, a alegria, a vanguarda, a Pop Rock e o Brasil inteiro se deliciava com a batida ligth e o canto nasal da Bossa Nova.
Era moda demonstrar sinais de liberdade e Mary Quant incentivava a mini saia nas garotas de corpinho esbelto e de pernas bem torneadas.Veio a magreza de Twiggy, os batons claros em bocas tropicais, o cabelo Franjão e a velocidade do avião Concorde.De celebridades como Marilyn Monroe,Presidente JK, Marlon Brando, Dean Martin,Martin Luther King entre tantos outros.
ADRIANA SASSOON 