by Pier Marton | May 6, 2011 | Art, Asia, Care, Death, Film, Photo, Poet
Refresh your knowledge of that beautiful language that Turkish is – and of Ceylan’s skils as a master storyteller. Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | May 1, 2011 | Art, Care, Ego, Exp, Film, Health, Humor, Ideas, Photo, Poet, Popular, STL
On the last day of class I asked my students what they had learned in my beginning level video production course. With almost half of them just Freshmen, I was surprised by their responses – fortune cookie size pearls of wisdom! I had told them jokingly at...
by Pier Marton | Apr 18, 2011 | Afri, Antisemitism, Ego, France, Photo, Poet, Racism
Louis Armstrong in Paris by photographer Ervin Marton (with Pearl Bailey?). From Wikipedia: He worked for a Lithuanian-Jewish immigrant family, the Karnofskys, who had a junk hauling business and gave him odd jobs. They took him in and treated him as almost a family...
by Pier Marton | Apr 18, 2011 | Afri, Care, Death, Film, France, Human Rights, Idées, Native, Poet, Politics, Theater
Une vidéo: & de Fespaco: Le comédien et dramaturge burkinabè Sotigui Kouyaté s’en est allé le samedi 17 avril 2010 à Paris en France, des suites d’une maladie pulmonaire. Ce griot et grand homme de culture âgé de 74 ans, a touché à plusieurs métiers et avait du...
by Pier Marton | Apr 17, 2011 | Art, Audio, Dance, France, Future Tech, Humor, Poet, Sound
Sur France Culture (avant que ça ne disparraisse). Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Apr 16, 2011 | Afri, Care, Eco, Ego, Film, France, Human Rights, Music, Native, Poet, Politics, Racism, Theater
Peter Brook writes: Sotigui was, for all of us who knew him, who worked with him and who became close to him, an absolutely unique person, incomparable with anybody of the past or present, in the same way that Shakespeare and Mozart were their own individual human...