Casecamp

This picture was taken last week after we’ve been attending the first Casecamp event in Montreal. A bunch of marketing people around me, i could have felt at the wrong place – but no, listening to case studies from people working in a different field then mine was quite inspiring and it got us to think a little more ‘out of a box we so well know‘ since most of the information exchanged there was about a field we do not directly work in.

Best of all was Andy Nulman’s presentation. A little research on wikipedia and google once back home and we learned about Airbone entertainment and Andy’s intense background (from where we also understood why his presentation was also oh-so intense!).


Posted: July 12th, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Medias, Weblinks and tech stuff | Comments Off

Inspirations graphiques par Guylaine Couture

Prof de design qui m’a inspirée profondément lors de mon DEP en design à Verdun (circa 1996), Guylaine a été celle qui par sa passion contagieuse pour la créativité et tout ce qui fait bouger les neurones du cerveau droit m’a inspirée à jouer et sortir des grilles.

Je lui donne carte blanche, vous pourrez donc maintenant la lire ici. Elle colorera Vu d’ici en partageant ses trouvailles et inspirations.


Posted: July 10th, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments Off

L’Elektrik au Festival d’Été de Québec

Propos recueillis par l’Elektrik Erik pour Vu d’ici.

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J’ai été mandaté par M-C à ceci : ‘j’aimerais bien avoir ta collaboration pour parler de musique locale – cd ou show de la semaine, découverte musicale, comme tu veux.’ Alors j’ai décidé d’accepter l’offre et de faire un Olivier Robillard Laveaux (voir le Voir) de moi-même et de me jeter dans cette scène locale que j’apprécie tant.

Ironiquement, pour ma première entrée ce sera des suggestions spectacle de nos locaux, hors Montréal, c’est-à-dire dans la vieille capitale pour le Festival d’Été de Québec (6 au 16 juillet 2006). Voici un horaire sélectif des Montréalais que j’aime bien qui se produiront là bas.

√áa démarre ce jeudi avec le rockeur Xavier Caféïne (21h15-L’Impérial de Québec) et le prince noire de l’électro Jordan Dare (22h00-Dagobert). Vendredi, le guitariste héros Sunny Duval, seul (21h20-L’Impérial de Québec) et avec ses Breastfeeders (22h40-L’Impérial de Québec). Samedi, celui qui m’intrigue (et seul que je n’ai pas vu en spectacle), Navet Confit (18h30-Scène Molson Dry), le chouchou Pierre Lapointe (21h45-Scène Molson Dry) et celui qui fait bouncer le gros, Ghislain Poirier (22h00-L’Impérial de Québec) sont au programme. Dimanche sera punk avec Le Volume Était Au Maximum (19h00-Scène Molson Dry) et les Vulgaires Machins (21h30-Scène Molson Dry). Ensuite on saute à un milieu de semaine rock avec Karkwa (18h00-Scène Molson Dry) et Malajube (19h30-Scène Molson Dry) mercredi. Le jour de paie sera passé ailleurs à dépenser notre argent, car pour 25$ le laissez-passez qui donne droit à tous les shows c’est toute une aubaine. On termine avec un vendredi pop-rock-commercial avec Mobile (18h30-Scène Bell) et le jour du Seigneur en compagnie des Besnard Lakes (19h00-Scène Molson Dry).

Si j’habitais à Québec, se serait pratiquement mes Francofolies. J’assisterai au premier week-end du festival. √áa va faire changement des salles habituelles et visage familier.


Posted: July 10th, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments Off

Musique locale par Elektrik Erik

Ami et blogueur sur la go, l’Elektrik Erik est maintenant collaborateur sur Vu d’ici. Si vous suivez ses instructions à la lettre, ou au verre, vous vous retrouverez au coeur de la scène musicale locale, et avec unpeu de chance, vous pourrez avoir un portrait de vous en sa compagnie.

Je vous poste sa première entrée, avec quelques jours de retard – mia coule pas.


Posted: July 10th, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments Off

Culture byte: Malcolm McLaren

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Malcolm McLaren (born 22 January 1946) is an English impresario and self-publicist who is best known as being the manager of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols.

He had been attracted to the Situationist International movement, which promoted absurdist and provocative actions as a way of enacting social change.

In 1971 McLaren and his partner, the designer Vivienne Westwood, opened a London clothing shop called Let It Rock on the Kings Road. The shop sold Teddy Boy clothes and McLaren and Westwood also designed clothing for theatrical and cinematic productions

McLaren travelled to New York City for a boutique fair in 1974 and it was there that he first saw the New York Dolls. He convinced the band that he could do a better job of managing and promoting them. McLaren designed red leather costumes for the group and utilized a Soviet style hammer and sickle motif for their stage show as a provocative feature in promoting them.

By 1975 McLaren had started to manage The Strand, the band who would later become the Sex Pistols.

His solo career has been highly innovative and conceptual, with each album representing a new idea or musical novelty, similar to later years career of Madonna, though several years ahead of her style changes.

In 1983 McLaren released Duck Rock, an album which mixed up influences from Africa and America, including hip-hop. The album proved to be highly influential in bringing hip-hop to a wider audience in the UK. Two of the singles from the album (“Buffalo Gals” and “Double Dutch”) became major chart hits on both sides of the Atlantic.

He then turned his eyes to electronic music and opera in the UK top-20 single, Madame Butterfly, based on the opera. The track is arranged with drum machines, atmospheric synthesizers and spoken verses – a format which was the blueprint for house music-inspired songs by bands like Pet Shop Boys (and especially their 1986 single West End Girls, New Order and Beloved.

In 1998, he created a band called Jungk, consisting of three Asian females intended to emulate appeal of the then popular Spice Girls. However, this project was not a commercial success.

In the 70s, McLaren and his wife were devotees of Macrobiotics, the radical vegan diet.

from Wikipedia.


Posted: July 8th, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Arts & Craft | 1 Comment »

Portraits de blogueurs

Interview

J’ai eu le plaisir de m’entretenir avec Philipe pour la sixième édition de la série ‘Portraits de blogueurs’. Vous pouvez visionner l’entrevue ici.


Posted: July 5th, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Blogs and people | 1 Comment »

Boyfriend remote control TM

Most of arguments between me and Chris are about silence – there’s much happening inside my head but i do not need to communicate all of it live to another human being, but Chris does. Too many ideas and thought, and i have only 2 ears and one head to assimilate all this information, this is why i created the ‘Boyfriend remote control TM‘. Using 5 simples buttons, Play, Pause, Stop, rewind and forward, this tool has got a major impact on our relationship.

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It is cheap, and easy to build – BUT – always bear in mind that the play button is xtra sensitive, and could be dangerous.


Posted: July 3rd, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Daily thoughts | 5 Comments »

oh m-c where are you

probablement en train de travailler sur mon balcon, accompagnée de mes nouveaux amis nommés dans l’ordre, Orchid, Andrew et Bjork:

Balcony family

Micheal Jackson et Thom Yorke sont aussi présents, et d’autres plantes n’ont pas encore été nommées – des photos suivront sous peu.


Posted: July 3rd, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Daily thoughts | 1 Comment »

The whitest boy alive

The whitest boy alive

I once thought i could be in love with Erlend Oye, ’till the day i met him on St-Laurent street. A genius he is, but i now seriously doubt he’ll ever sing a song for me.

Berlin based The whitest boy alive is one of his new project:

‘The whitest boy alive started as an electronic dance music project in 2003. it has slowly developed into a band without any programmed elements.

Members 2006:
erlend √∏ye – guitar and vocals
marcin oz – bass
sebastian maschat – drums
daniel nentwig – rhodes and crumar’
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I bet you want to hear ‘Burning’ and dance along, if so click here;
myspace page;
visit their website.


Posted: July 1st, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Music | 1 Comment »