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Culture générale Illustration

Closer to Van Eyck

Comment mettre en avant la restauration d’un tableau… En le mettant très près!

The website Closer to Van Eyck: Rediscovering the Ghent Altarpiece presents the results from Lasting Support, An Interdisciplinary Research Project to Assess the Structural Condition of the Ghent Altarpiece. This project ran from April 2010 through June 2011 and consisted of three main segments: an urgent conservation treatment, an assessment of the current condition of the altarpiece, and a campaign of technical documentation. Its goal was to establish whether a full restoration treatment of Van Eyck’s famous polyptych was necessary in the near future, which indeed turned out to be the case.

At the initiative of The Getty Foundation, the main sponsor of Lasting Support, the project’s findings are made available through this website. You are invited to rediscover the Ghent Altarpiece in incredible close-up through thousands of new, high-resolution images, both on and underneath the paintings’ surfaces. Several texts are also made available for downloading, such as the report on the urgent conservation treatment and the findings from the dendrochronological analyses.

 

restauration

Closer to Van Eyck.
Le lien direct : http://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/#home/sub=altarpiece

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Culture générale Documentaire Vidéo

 » 8 « 

ça c’est du casting…
« 8 »: A Play about the Fight for Marriage Equality – YouTube

Featuring an all-star cast including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Martin Sheen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jane Lynch, Kevin Bacon and others, « 8 » is a play written by Academy Award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and directed by acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner. It is a powerful account of the case filed by the American Federation for Equal Rights (AFER ) in the U.S. District Court in 2010 to overturn Proposition 8 [LINK], a constitutional amendment that eliminated the rights of same-sex couples to marry in the state of California. Framed around the trial’s historic closing arguments in June 2010, 8 provides an intimate look what unfolded when the issue of same-sex marriage was on trial.

"8": A Play about the Fight for Marriage Equality – YouTube.

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Culture générale

Que se passe t’il dans le monde?

RSOE EDIS - Emergency and Disaster Information Service

La carte de tous les incidents, accident, catastrophes du monde… en temps réel…

RSOE EDIS – Emergency and Disaster Information Service.

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Durable

Du rouge à lèvres au plomb

Ça se marie bien avec le collagène…
Lipstick

A new study from the Food and Drug Administration may have you thinking twice about your morning make-up routine. As The Post’s Dina ElBoghdady reports, four hundred types of lipstick were found to contain lead.

Lead in lipsticks: Which brands are the worst offenders? – The Checkup – The Washington Post.

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Culture générale Documentaire Penser

Mademoiselle on vous utilise

Je ne sais pas s’il faut appeler les femmes madame ou mademoiselle dans le cadre professionnel mais je sais que la pub ne se pose pas ce genre de question : mademoiselle, madame, on vous ment et vous utilise.
Killing Us Softly 4 (2010) – 1/2 – YouTube.

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Pistaches premium – emballage éco

Pourquoi ne voit on pas cela dans les rayons de nos magasins : un emballage à 90 cents qui doit en paraître plus et être écologique… A quand la fin de l’alu et du plastique?

emballage à 99c

This goal of the project was to create packaging for a product that would cost only 99 cents, doing so in a manner that would make it appear to be worth more than its cost.

In this 99 cents worth of pistachios, Oneighty presents a great snack both in taste and health. The name Oneighty, the ideal heart rate, gives hint to the complete turn around you can find in this nutrient-dense snack. Break the seal. Crack it open. Pour the nuts, and make a friend as you use the shell itself as a serving bowl.

Student Spotlight: Oneighty Pistachios – The Dieline: The World’s #1 Package Design Website –.

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Year of Less » sbdc

Voici une idée intéressante, courageuse et surtout organisée et documentée  : se débarrasser d’au moins une chose par jour. Sean Bonner vient de se lancer un défi pour l’année 2012 : se séparer d’un objet au moins par jour, pendant un an. Il peut jeter, recycler ou donner ces objets. Il ne peut s’en acheter qu’un par mois et le remplacement d’un objet se fait au prix de 2 objets similaires. L’idée me plaît bien mais l’organisation rigoureuse (fichier excel) me bloque un peu…

The Year Of Less: Day 1

Preface: Towards the end of 2011 I started blogging about my desire to reduce the amount of “stuff” that had built up around me recently. (If you are curious to see the thought process you can read those posts here, here, here, here and here, but I’ll recap the important parts in a moment.) This isn’t actually a new thing for me, I’ve been writing and talking about it for sometime, but I was beginning to feel that over the last year or so things had gotten out of hand and I needed to take drastic measures to get them back on track. I’ve learned that having a ton of stuff around me really freaks me out and the more of it that piles up, the more shaky I get so I needed to come up with a plan to correct things. And so I did, and I created this year long challenge for myself which until today I didn’t have a name for – though now I do, welcome to The Year of Less.

Here’s the plan:

  1. Addition: I can only buy one new thing a month. That’s 12 for the entire year. This will force me to really consider what kind of purchases I’m making, and hopefully completely eliminate impulse buys.
  2. Subtraction: I need to get rid of (at least) one thing every day.
  3. Replacement: Should something I need break beyond repair or get lost somehow and I feel the need to replace it, I can only do so by getting rid of two similar items. This is a little bit of a loophole that allows me to add an item but still results in a net decrease in items I own.

Year of Less » sbdc.

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Culture générale Penser

Pourquoi les parents français sont « supérieurs »

Un long article (en anglais) sur les différences entre l’éducation parentale américaine et la française.
Un avis étonnant sur comment l’éducation « française » peut être perçue par une famille américaine…

Why French Parents Are Superior by Pamela Druckerman – WSJ.com

While Americans fret over modern parenthood, the French are raising happy, well-behaved children without all the anxiety. Pamela Druckerman on the Gallic secrets for avoiding tantrums, teaching patience and saying ‘non’ with authority.

Why French Parents Are Superior by Pamela Druckerman – WSJ.com.

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L’aiguille radioactive et la botte de foin


http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/10/ff_radioactivecargo/all/1
Montagna, dressed in a polo shirt, jeans, and an orange safety vest, grabbed his radiation monitor — a tan Ludlum Model 3 about the size of a toaster. He plugged in a heavy sensor wand and set the device on the ground 20 yards away from the containers. The Model 3 emits a high-pitched beep every time it detects a radioactive particle; Montagna turned it on, and the meter’s needle swung hard to the right, burying itself past the maximum reading of 500,000 counts per minute. Instead of its usual staccato chirps, the machine was whining continuously and frantically.

That didn’t worry Montagna. The port’s humid air sometimes corroded his monitor’s connections. He turned the detector off, swapped out the cable between the sensor wand and the box using a spare he kept in his pocket, and turned the device back on. It started wailing again. Montagna was being bathed in radiation.

As he stood in the morning sun listening to that sound, Montagna realized that one of the containers in front of him held a lethal secret. But was that secret merely a slow-motion radioactive industrial accident — or a bomb, one that could decimate the Italian city’s entire 15-mile waterfront? Montagna ran back to his car to get a less sensitive detector. He didn’t give much thought to protection; at those radiation levels, he would have needed lead armor 5 inches thick to stand within a couple of feet of the source for very long.

Montagna took the new meter and walked up to the sealed boxes, circling each one in turn. Halfway down the second row, a crimson 20-footer with “TGHU 307703 0 22G1″ emblazoned in white on its side jerked the dials. As he passed a few feet from the box’s left side, Montagna was absorbing radiation equivalent to six chest x-rays per minute.

He looked around the bustling port. Montagna could hear traffic from the highway several hundred yards away and could see the nearby hills of the city. He summoned the safety officer on duty and asked for a stacker, a sort of crane on wheels with an overhead arm that can clean-and-jerk a 50-ton box like a child’s toy. Jumping in the cab next to the driver, he pointed to box TGHU 307703 0 22G1.

“Move it,” he said.Andrew Curry (andrew@andrewcurry.com) wrote about the board game The Settlers of Catan in issue 17.04. Additional reporting by Gabriele Ferracci.

via Wired

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Culture générale

Greenpeace Detox Challenge

Greenpeace continue le lavage…
Après Volkswagen façon empire dans Star Wars, voici le nouveau challenge pour Nike et Adidas
Nike vs. Adidas – Greenpeace Detox Challenge

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Culture générale Écouter

Comment ‘ne pas’ faire des royalties chez une major

Une explication des contrats des majors qui permet aux majors de ne reverser aucun droit aux artistes…

RIAA Accounting: How To Sell 1 Million Albums And Still Owe $500,000 | Techdirt

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Culture générale

BabyNes : Nestlé vous rend accro à la dosette dès le berceau | Rue89

Nestlé, inventeur du lait en poudre et des capsules de café, a eu l’idée de génie de croiser les deux concepts. Et vient de sortir cette blague qui n’en est pas une : le biberon en kit, alias BabyNes. Mercredi 25 mai, depuis son siège mondial de Vevey en Suisse, le géant de l’agroalimentaire a lancé sa dernière innovation, disponible pour le moment uniquement en Suisse et au Lichtenstein. Rendons au mastodonte ce qui lui appartient : c’est Henri Nestlé qui a inventé la formule du lait infantile en poudre il y a un siècle et demi, offrant ainsi la première alternative à l’allaitement. Et ce sont aussi les génies du marketing maison qui ont crée les machines à café en capsules il y a plus de trente ans. Comme pour Nespresso, on glisse une dosette dans une machine (évidemment, une machine à usage exclusif, on ne va quand même pas inventer des engins multi-tâches, quelle aberration). On appuie sur un bouton. Et on attend que le breuvage coule tout seul dans un récipient. Il s’agit juste de ne pas se tromper : sur le socle de votre machine, « what else », vous posez une tasse. Et sur celui de BabyNes, un biberon.

BabyNes : Nestlé vous rend accro à la dosette dès le berceau | Rue89