Disney Rejection Letter, 1938
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This letter originally belonged to my grandmother. After she passed away we discovered it and were surprised at how well it was preserved for being nearly 70 years old.
The letter speaks for itself and it remarkable to note how times have changed since then.
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THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF HOKUSAI’S BIRTH EXHIBITION
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http://www.mitsui-museum.jp/exhibition/index2.html
Hokusai is undoubtedly one of Japan’s most famous artist, if not THE most recognized through his wood block print depictions of Fuji, The Wave of Kanagawa or Views od Edo. In celebration of the 250th Anniversary of his birth, Nihonbashi’s Mitsui Memorial Museum is exhibiting 170 prints from collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts. The exhibition includes one of Hokusai’s most well-known works, ’36 Views of Mount Fuji’.
“The 250th Anniversary of Hokusai’s Birth: Masterpieces from the Honolulu Academy of Arts”
April 4th – June 17th
Mistui Memorial Museum Website
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New Honda commercial “We’ll Never Lose” features a fleet of over 20 old models
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A fleet of over 20 old vehicles make a comeback in 1 single camera pan. Titled “We’ll Never Lose,” the 60-second spot first aired on April 2nd.
Narration (translated by Spoon & Tamago):
If you try hard enough, your efforts will be rewarded.
If you wait long enough, your dreams will come true.
That’s an illusion.Usually your efforts aren’t rewarded.
Usually the hero doesn’t win.
Usually your dreams don’t come true.These are all everyday-realities of our world.
But, so what?
That’s where you start.If you try something new, you’ll undoubtedly screw up.
You’ll get annoyed.
But that’s why – instead of sleeping and eating – you do it over and over again.Now…it’s time to better than who you were yesterday.
It’s time to be better than what Honda was yesterday.
It’s an honest, hopeful message that extends beyond Honda, to all the hardships that have befallen Japan. Check out the making-of video below, which is also pretty great.
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NASA | Evolution of the Moon
From year to year, the moon never seems to change. Craters and other formations appear to be permanent now, but the moon didn’t always look like this. Thanks to NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we now have a better look at some of the moon’s history. Learn more in this video!
This video is public domain and can be downloaded at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?10930
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Louis Vuitton – Marc Jacobs exhibition opens in Paris
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Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs: two men of intuition that have marked the history of luxury.
The exhibition Louis Vuitton – Marc Jacobs at the Arts Décoratifs Museum tells the story of two men in exceptional course. Each in their time, they changed the fashion industry. Men of their time, who were able to express in the moment, what was happening around them.
In 1854, Louis Vuitton, specializes in “Packaging of Profiles,” from the beginning and maintaining a close relationship with the fashion world. A wise choice because the guards will accompany the evolution of the female dresses, which will continue to grow in various outfits and accessories.
Settling in the epicenter of Haussmann’s Paris, and enjoying the great influx of World’s Fairs, it offers exceptional visibility.
Marc Jacobs for his part, in its infancy, is facing the internationalization of the fashion industry. He had to take into account the new demands of globalization.
He wrote the story mode of the House, appropriating one of the monogram, and the French know-how of the House, to create the Louis Vuitton woman: free, chic, modern, and so spontaneous.
The creator of the universe so eclectic and poetic, is expressed in the exchange and collaboration. His “world” is represented by a wall of screens and fascinating images. Transgressing the codes, he reveals the magic of the merger of the more distant universe.
The exhibition Louis Vuitton – Marc Jacobs shows the greatness of a meeting between two exceptional men, who entered the House in the history of luxury.
A large French House, marked by creativity and intuition.
Louis Vuitton – Marc Jacobs
9 March–16 September 2012
Les Arts Décoratifs – Mode et textile
107 rue de Rivoli 75001 / +33 (0)144555750
Written by Guest Blogger Elodie Leconte.
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Children of the Tsunami - 60 minute documentary trailer
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Watch full film here: http://vodsite.journeyman.tv/store?p=4751
For Downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=62940
On March 11th 2011 Japan woke up to a new and very frightening world. Through the eyes of the children who managed to survive the terrible disaster we see the pain-tinged environment in which they have to forge their futures. From the child who has forgotten how to speak to the eight-year-old who wants to become a radiation researcher, it is in turns a touching and horrifying vision of Japan’s tsunami generation.
“It crashes down with full force that knocks you off your feet. Then you’re pulled back and die”, one child tells us, his hands a whir as he acts out the movements. He, like so many of the other children, relays his memories of the event that changed his life forever matter-of-factly. “My legs were shaking a lot,” one girl says, a little smile on her face; “it was scary.”
Despite their bravery in the face of earthquakes and monstrous waves, the children’s lives have plunged into daily melancholy in the aftermath of the disaster. “Now I get the feeling they are just a little bit more…unhappy”, especially for those who have remained close to the exclusion zone. “Upstairs had the highest radiation, so we’re not allowed upstairs. But I would like to go there to play”, Shirose tells us. Not only can he not go upstairs, but also he can’t play outside or drink the water.
With some children the toll of the tsunami is more outwardly visible. “Mum is a bit worried about Toyishuki. Since the disaster he can’t speak properly anymore”, Toyishuki’s brother tells us. For their mother her children’s anger and pain register, but uncertainty and despair is more overpowering. “I just wish I could return my children to the way they were before the disaster.”
And for the school teacher who didn’t move his children up the hill behind the school the burden of guilt will never go away. “Why did so many children have to die here?”, an angry parent shouts at teacher Junji Endo, the only survivor of the school. The room erupts with anger. Junji, crying and with his head bowed, has only one response: “I’m deeply sorry.” But the venting doesn’t seem to heal much. “Blaming people doesn’t bring the children back. Anyway there’s no one left to blame. Everyone is dead.”
Inside the evacuation zone are cities with no people. They are frozen in time, decaying monuments to the disaster. Still covered in the sludge and rubble that the wave brought with it. “I lose heart thinking this place is increasingly becoming unfit to live in.”, says one girls’s mother on a rarely permitted ‘home’ visit to her house inside the zone. For she and her daughter, they just want to move back and begin their lives again. “It was a bit messy but we’d been there all my life so I want to go back there.” But moving back doesn’t seem to be on the horizon and the daily routine of dislocation and radiation is a tough burden to bear. “It feels like things have gotten worse, not better.”
For the bright, smart young children of the tsunami the lessons of their time are clear. “I want to be a radiation researcher. Because we have been through this experience, and so it does not happen again.”
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Who Knew? Winston Churchill’s Life Pod
Way before Michael Jackson and a lot of today’s athletes slept in oxygen chambers, good old Winston Churchill has his own magic chamber. On top of that, his was made for his plane but was actually a pressure chamber to allow him to fly above 8000 feet as his doctors worried about his age and health. Another interesting thing about this story is that he could still smoke his cigar in the chamber as well as receive calls. You would think his doctors would have told him no smoking if they were that concerned!
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of 1940s New York City
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Very interesting images of New York in the 1940s by iconic film director Stanley Kubrick.
“Before Stanley Kubrick was a filmmaker, he was a New York City-based photojournalist for Look magazine. His photography career began in 1945 when Kubrick sold a photo to Look (he was just 17 at the time.) From 1946 to 1950, Kubrick worked for the magazine, completing more than 300 assignments documenting the sights and people of New York City.”
“It was during this period that Kubrick’s respected—and often-imitated—style first became apparent. His photographs are vintage Kubrick: a complex blend of composition, drama, light and mystery.”
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Emile Cohl - Fantasmagorie 1908
Émile Cohl created Fantasmagorie in 1908.
To make this film, Cohl placed each drawing on an illuminated glass plate and then traced the next drawing-with variations-on top of it until he had some 700 drawings. In 1908, chalkboard caricaturists were common vaudeville attractions and the characters in the film look as though they’ve been drawn on a chalkboard, but it’s an illusion. By filming black lines on paper and then printing in negative Cohl makes his animations appear to be chalk drawings.
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Tight Rope Wedding - Dangerous 1950s Wedding Ceremony!
A Bizarre and Dangerous Wedding. Filmed in Toulouse, France, this couple have decided to get married on a tight rope, high above the ground. There is no net and the vicar climbs up a fireman’s ladder. All very weird and dangerous! Date Unknown.
Not the only tight rope wedding to have take place in France. Check this out: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=35418
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New work from Olly Moss.
