Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Giant Marionettes in France

The latest performance by the French mechanical marionette street theater company Royale De Luxe - with some remarkable pictures of their latest creation. Nantes, the home town of Jules Verne, is situated in western France. Here, near the river Loire a giant deep-sea diver sleeps gently, waiting for his task to begin. Sadness marks his face even as he sleeps. He has been searching the world over for his missing niece and although he may not know it, the end of his search is coming. The diver or scaphandrier as he is known in French will be paraded through the streets of this historic city at the beginning of the Estuary 2009 arts festival. The biannual festival gives the French mechanical marionette street theater company Royale de Luxe the opportunity to unveil their latest creation.

Vinyl Faces Art

Vinyl records or CD are less and less used, even by the DJ's. Now a new trend comes to the rescue of our good old vinyl or at least their sleeves. Taking a picture of a vinyl record sleeve is furiously trend. Since about a year, people began posting "sleeveface" pictures everywhere on the Internet. According to Wikipedia, "Sleeveface is an internet phenomenon wherein one or more persons obscure or augment body parts with record sleeves, causing an illusion. Sleeveface has become popular on social networking sites." The results are sometimes striking but always fun.