31/10/2012

Julien Brunet's gemstone skulls - Trivia!


 31 Oct 2012 



On display until November 30, the young French artist known for the reconstruction of lines and colors, is showing his highly visual 3D computer art of chiseled precious stone skulls at the Boutique 16ème Sud in Paris.
When we saw Julien Brunet's Gemmologie collection, currently on display at the Boutique 16ème Sud on the rue Saint-Roch in Paris, we could easily imagine the young French artist hard at work in his shop surrounded by envious treasures like deep green emeralds, sparkling diamonds, red rubies and other scattered gems.

And to our surprise, this is where Julien Brunet's optical illusion plays with the senses, as the beauty behind his collection lies not in the carat weight of his stones, but in the collection's true medium: a broad palette of digital pixels. With an attentive eye, steadfast perseverance and advanced digital research, the artist created these three-dimensional skull images from a luminous game of digital media, recreating an uncanny resemblance to the sharp, carved edges of precious gems, without ever holding one in the palm of his hand.

Even if the tangible emerald head exists only within the mind of Julien Brunet, he nevertheless used all of his creative power in the merging of digital space and reality for a truly exceptional and unique collection of contemporary pieces.






An absolute must-see visual experience, the collection will be on display until November 30 in the French capital's first district, or on the artist's website at



Anne-Sophie Mallard. Translated by Genevieve Hartmann.

Source: vogue.fr

LALIQUE inaugurates their new shop on Rue Royale in Paris



2012 October





Last September 6, LALIQUE inaugurated a historic new boutique on Vogue Fashion Night, the “must” event for key players in the worlds of fashion and design.

On 6 September 2012, over 500 guests joined LALIQUE CEO Silvio Denz at a glamorous Paris address:
11 Rue Royale. Also on hand were famous French musician Jean-Michel Jarre, English designer Lady Tina Green and renowned global wine expert James Suckling, celebrities with whom the LALIQUE brand has exclusive partnerships while maintaining their own distinctive and exceptional know-how.

One of the highlights of the evening was the unveiling of the Limited Edition Black Aerosystem. Developed with Jarre Technologies, this limited series of just 999 premium speakers combines the finest crystal craftsmanship with the latest in technical innovation. Also spotlighted was the “100 points”, an exceptional wine glass that is as gorgeous as it is functional. Created with wine expert James Suckling.

A new collection of “Venice” theme decorative objects echoing the baroque architecture of the Italian city, were admired by collectors of this outstanding traditional brand.

The jewelry collection “l’Odyssée du Feu Sacré” blazed and sparkled in all its glory, drawing gasps of wonderment from all those present.









Source: NEWS ARCHIVES

FRANCE2 Television Show "Tenue de Soiree" Live from Cannes 2007

 
Show "Tenue de Soiree" Live from Cannes. Location: Cannes, France. Date: May 19 2007.




Jean Michel Jarre in The Lumière Film Festival , Lyon - France - 17 Octuber 2012



Lumière Film Festival

The Lumière Film Festival is a film festival held in Lyon, France annually since October 2009. The festival is named in honor of the Lumière Brothers, inventors of the Cinematography.

The festival awards the Lumière Award.

Lumière Film Festival - WIKIPEDIA

Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière - WIKIPEDIA



VIDEO - JEAN MICHEL JARRE, CHARLOTTE RAMPLING...

Lumière 2012 (Bande annonce) by Festival_Lumiere





 


Thierry Fremaux, Andrei Konchalovsky and his wife, Jean-Michel Jarre and Bertrand Tavernier at the Lumière film festival in Lyon, France.







FESTIVAL - LUMIERE

Jean Michel Jarre Interview in Metro.co.uk


Jean Michel Jarre's new album Aero is unlike anything you've heard. Recorded and fully constructed in 5.1 Surround Sound, it is a submersive experience. Jarre has tirelessly pioneered new technology for the past 20 years, selling 60million albums and playing record-breaking concerts with electronica, video and pyrotechnics from Paris to China to the banks of the Thames.
You sound swamped.
I've had quite a hectic day. I work very hard. When I go to bed, I dream about getting some sleep.
Is it the music that drives you?
Music has always been what I have been excited by, and also frustrated by. But it is the feeling there are so many unfinished works out there waiting to be improved upon that haunts me. I have done many mock-ups in my life - things that I have always thought I might improve upon one day. That is the main engine that drives me.
You sound like a perfectionist.
I don't like the word. It's got a negative tone. I am a perfectionist in the way that if you build a plane, you just know you have to get it right. You have to be a bloody perfectionist. If you don't, you kill a lot of people. I'm not suggesting that my music will kill, but...
But it does trigger physical reactions in people...
I have always thought music should be elemental - that it should be something you immerse yourself within. It's organic, sensual - almost sexual. I like music that talks to my body, my tummy, my skin. Music is first physical. Before it is emotional or intellectual, it is physical. In Oxygene, I tried to bathe listeners in sound but the technology wasn't up to speed yet. It was static stereo and wasn't ready yet to do what I wanted it to. Surround Sound provided me with the medium I always wanted. It lets me revisit the music and make the version I always wanted to make.
So with Aero, did you improve on your original hits?
More than. When I had finished, I thought this is the original. This is the true first version. Before that, I knew they weren't finished the way they were meant to be.
It's a dangerous thing re-upholstering history...
I know and I trapped myself a little in this project. I wanted to make entirely new music but I ended up reconforming some of my existing tracks. I was so into the process of listening to my music for the first time, with all those fresh feelings.
The medium (5.1 stereo) is definitely exciting, but isn't it elitist?
No, no it's not elitist. More than 25million families now have home cinemas with Surround Sound, and the number's growing. I parallel it with the move from mono to stereo and then stereo to CDs. I always believed that with CDs we lost something at an emotional level. CDs weren't as generous or warm or sexy as vinyl. But with Surround Sound, it has all that warmth and high definition. DVDs aren't just for watching films, there's a wealth of musical possibility we can tap into.
Are we ready for the next generation?
Yes, our senses are ever-evolving. In the 21st century, we have higher expectations than our grandparents. If we saw the next Ridley Scott movie and it was a silent movie shot in grainy black and white, I think he would have trouble finding a distributor. Likewise, after you have listened to Surround Sound, it's hard to go back to stereo.
You've always put on big, free music extravaganzas. Is it important to be democratic with your music?
I blame it all on a socialist mother.
Why all the fireworks?
Basically, when it's just a guy behind a laptop twiddling knobs for two hours, you need something more, non? My parents used to say they were going to 'hear' some music and there would be a quartet up on a stage and that was enough. Today, people say they are going to 'see' some music. There are visual expectations inspired by the opening up of it as an artform and I always strove to put electronic music on the stage and make it exciting. If you have some visual stimulus, it makes for a better listening experience. It invites people to share more fully.
Do you get a buzz from performing?
I love that there's no second chance in performance art. There's a complicity with the audience and a magic to the whole thing. When I used to go with my grandparents to the village square, we would watch the circus. They would come, pitch their tent, set up shop, perform and then be gone the next morning. It was cloaked in mystique and I love that.
Which has been your best concert?
There have been so many. But I'd have to say the best was in Lyon, my home town, a few years ago. I put on an event at exactly the same place where the circus used to perform in the market place. Exactly where they pitched their tent. It was a strange feeling. Very special for me.
What is your greatest fear?
Being ill and losing my health. I don't have many fears actually. I have doubts and anguish but not real fear. I have dissatisfaction too with much I have done, and I look forward to being satisfied with something. Does that qualify?
More than. What advice would you give your younger self?
That being an artist is wonderful but it may not be the easiest way to be happy. Your life will be full of passion but full of frustrations, too. It's not always great for your private life. You may end up double-booking children and relationships with work. Perhaps, if being happy in life is really your priority, you shouldn't go the artist route.

What should you be?

I'm not sure. Perhaps a carpenter? Yes, a carpenter would be good.
 
SOURCE: metro.co.uk
 

Intriguing Masque de Femme - LALIQUE




The Masque de Femme panel created by Rene Lalique in 1935 to adorn a fountain embodies the imaginative power of its creator who was fascinated by women and nature. Both vintage and avant-garde, the Masque de Femme box reinterprets this piece of art Which reveals the face of a mysterious woman with delicate features, surrounded by aquatic fauna. Its graphic lines and the purity of its crystal highlighted by black lacquered hand made wood display style and minimalism.




Lalique Woman Mask Box, Black

Also see the Woman Mask Box in White, or the Woman Mask Panel, or view the entire Masque de Femme Collection.








The iconic beauty of Rene Lalique's Masque de Femme has been interpreted in a deep red votive candle holder.

A rich warm color that awakes the senses, red has strong symbolic meanings: love, life, spirituality, energy, powerful emotion, “joie de vivre” and optimism.
Evoking images of the femininity and love, using flowers, this delicate collection reflects the intensity, passion and heady atmosphere of the garden of Eden with its forbidden fruit.

Developed in “Rouge à l’Or”, a deep and captivating crimson red, which is the result of a secret mixture of pigments and gold powder, this collection leads us into a strange world where Pleasure, Temptation and Boldness combine to create a unique and bewitching sensation.


View the entire Rouge Collection,



 
Facts about Lalique:

René Lalique became synonymous with French Art Nouveau decorative arts. René Lalique was born in 1860 and first began designing fine jewelry in Paris in 1881. Lalique pursued increasingly more innovative experimentation in glass commencing around 1883. Early works used the familiar "lost wax" technique by which the model is made in wax while a mold is formed around the model. Then, the wax is melted and molten glass is poured into the mold. Lalique glass was made in this manner until approximately 1905 at which time the factory was redesigned for a larger production.

As such, the individual uniqueness of each example of Lalique glass came to an end with the end of the one-time only molding technique around wax models. The success of this venture resulted in the opening of his own glassworks at Combs-la-Ville in 1909. During the art nouveau period, Lalique was well known for a wide variety of objects including perfume bottles, vases, inkwells, decorative boxes, and bookends.

Lalique glass is lead based, either mold blown or pressed. Favored motifs during the Art Nouveau period were dancing nymphs, fish, dragonflies, and foliage. Characteristically the glass is crystal in combination with acid-etched relief. In addition to vases, clocks, automobile mascots, stemware, and bottles, many other useful objects were produced. While not well known, Lalique also experimented with bronze and other materials as well.

Crystal Classics is one of only a few authorized Lalique retailers online.


MASQUE De FEMME


HISTORY OF RENE LALIQUE GLASS
 
René Lalique became synonymous with French Art Nouveau decorative arts. René Lalique was born in 1860 and first began designing fine jewelry in Paris in 1881. Lalique pursued increasingly more innovative experimentation in glass commencing around 1883. Early works used the familiar "lost wax" technique by which the model is made in wax while a mold is formed around the model. Then, the wax is melted and molten glass is poured into the mold. Lalique glass was made in this manner until approximately 1905 at which time the factory was redesigned for a larger production. As such, the individual uniqueness of each example of Lalique glass came to an end with the end of the one-time only molding technique around wax models. The success of this venture resulted in the opening of his own glassworks at Combs-la-Ville in 1909. During the art nouveau period, Lalique was well known for a wide variety of objects including perfume bottles, vases, inkwells, decorative boxes, and bookends. In 1921 a larger factory was established at Wingen-sur-Moder in Alsace-Lorraine. By the '30s Lalique was world renowned as the most important designer of his time.

Lalique glass is lead based, either mold blown or pressed. Favored motifs during the Art Nouveau period were dancing nymphs, fish, dragonflies, and foliage. Characteristically the glass is crystal in combination with acid-etched relief. Later some items were made in as many as ten colors (red, amber, and green among them) and were occasionally accented with enameling. These colored pieces, especially those in, black, are highly prized by advanced collectors. During the '20s and '30s, Lalique designed several vases and bowls reminiscent of American Indian art. He also developed a line in the Art Deco style decorated with stylized birds, florals, and geometries. In addition to vases, clocks, automobile mascots, stemware, and bottles, many other useful objects were produced. While not well known, Lalique also experimented with bronze and other materials as well. Most glass was clear or opalescent glass and signed via engraving or in the mold "R. Lalique". The R. Lalique signature was only used until 1945 with the death of René. At that time, René Lalique's son Marc took over the company. Production of many pieces produced prior to 1945 ceased following René's death although some are still in production albeit with a different marking. The firm is still in operation today.






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SOURCE: Lalique Collection

30/10/2012

14 listopada 2011 - Jean Michel Jarre spotka się z fanami w warszawskim Empiku Megastore Junior.





 14 listopada 2011

Na spotkaniu, które rozpoczelo się o godzinie 15.00, artysta  podpisywał płyty i plakaty. Przy okazji zostala mu także wręczona Złota Płyta za sprzedaż albumu "Essentials & Rarities". Longplay ukazał się w maju 2011 roku.


Album "Essentials & Rarities" jest hołdem Jean Michel Jarre’a dla jego mentora i pierwszego, długoletniego wydawcy - Francisa Dreyfusa. Na krążku "Essentials" znalazło się 15 najbardziej znanych kompozycji francuskiego artysty, natomiast na płycie "Rarities" zamieszczone zostały utwory, które nigdy nie zostały wydane w wersji kompaktowej - między innymi: "La Cage" i "Erosmachine" z pierwszego singla Jean Michel Jarre'a wydanego w 1971 roku, z albumu "Desert Palace" z 1972 roku, który nigdy nie trafił do regularnej sprzedaży, a także "Happiness Is A Sad Song" – pierwsza kompozycja Jarre'a z 1968 roku!

 
 
 
 
Jarre otrzymał oryginalny prezent od Krzysztofa Kizlicha - statuetkę przedstawiającą harfę laserową.  



Source: EMPIK

Warto dodać, iż wszystkie kompozycje zostały poddane masteringowi w technologii HD z oryginalnych taśm analogowych!!!