Lovin' & Laughin'. Journaliste mulimédia indépendant basé à Montréal. J'♥ les voyages, les mots, la photo, la vidéo, les publicités intelligentes et ce qui est artsy. Agnostique. Végétarien.
I never watch hockey games, but I saw this (s)hit.
We might wonder if Chara did it on purpose or not, but I think this is not the real question, at the end. The real question’s gotta go back to the source of the problem, which is the allowed violence in hockey. And I’m not talking about intensity, but the unnecessary hits and fights.
If you’re a North American, you’re probably used to this violence in hockey. But start explaining to someone who doesn’t know about this sport that you have the right to stop a game, fight with an opponent until someone falls on the ice, and then only get a 5 minute penalty. Absurd at the end, isn’t it?
I might not watch hockey, but I love playing it. And sometimes (I feel the same when I play water-polo), a little bit of a physical game is welcomed. As long as nobody gets hurt. Well when you allow in a sport to fight or hit someone, chances are that this kind of accident happens. I guess you can’t always have fun playing russian roulette.
So what about playing with the same rules as in the Olympic Games?
There, no fights nor body or board-checking allowed.
Oh. Maybe because lots of people like them fights and hits?
Lors de la 4e édition du «Défi des neiges» organisé par FitSpirit le 18 février 2011, Nick Mantello (mon boss à DON magazine) et moi sommes allés à Stoneham, au nord de Québec, pour couvrir l’événement.
Il pleuvait, alors c’était assez désagréable pour filmer le tout, mais j’ai fini par réaliser une vidéo dont je suis bien fier!
J’aurais pu faire un reportage journalistique classique pour résumer la journée, mais j’ai laissé les autres médias qui étaient sur place le faire
Je me suis donc permis de faire quelque chose… de plus artistique
Since I’m on Twitter, I don’t use my blog to only embed videos, without adding extra value to it.
(Some do to get more clicks on their website, and I find that ridiculous.)
But this video translates so well what I have in mind, that it’s as if I was saying it myself.
And like I said when I first tweeted that video: “wow wow wow WOW! #respect”
it has been done for a long time.
it has been done everywhere.
it has been done in different circumstances.
book burning.
but it’s almost always done for the same reason:
stoping information from spreading around.
in other words: controlling it.
controlling the information, controlling the population.
while reading (and watching) pictures from the 2010 december’s edition of “Reporter Sans Frontières”s album, dedicated to David Burnett’s work, I came around this picture. it’s not my favorite of his work, but it made me think about the internet restrictions we’re now seeing in the Middle-East.
because Facebook is able to easily rally people.
because Twitter is able to quickly get messages around.
Même si je ne travaille plus officiellement à l’IEIM, on m’a demandé de compléter cette animation que j’avais commencé à l’époque.
Quelques dizaines d’heures de travail plus tard, voici le résultat de cette animation que j’ai conçue et dont j’ai eu l’idée originale!
Et j’en suis bien fier!
p.s. vous y verrez les activités majeures qu’il y a eu à l’Institut depuis sa création. cette vidéo servira principalement à promouvoir l’IEIM, mais aussi à jouer en fond lorsqu’il y a des conférences à Montréal.
Plus de deux ans après avoir fait ce road-trip avec des amis de mon bac en journalisme, je re-visite mes photos pour les mettre «officiellement» en ligne!
Ce voyage (fin mars 2010 début avril 2011) était principalement pour le travail, mais j’ai quand même réussi à visiter la ville et de prendre quelques photos.
Avion, palmier et cathédrale du Sacré-Coeur, avec au loin la mosquée Hassan 2.
(photos de la mosquée lors d’un autre voyage au Maroc à venir sous peu)
The weather is getting cold, but let’s still go to Jenness beach, New Hampshire, for some surfin!
After all, with a wetsuit on, it’s really not that bad!
Waiting for the wave is part of taking the wave.
(picture taken in Ibiza, Spain, in 2007)
Here are some cool facts or funny stuff I’ve seen during my weekend trip (september 2010) with three friends of mine: lire la suite // keep reading
They consume affected or dead areas of the skin, so they can be used for medical purposes!
But not only: this can be done as a simple treatment for the body, not only the feet.
Reportaje muy interesante!
And this is how it looks down there!
Camera under water
And from the same crew (ahora en español), this is another crazy treatment for the body, again involving animals.
Con sierpentes (muy adrenalina!)
Pretty cool symbiosis!
Would you do one or the other!?
So did you hear about the Nissan Leaf? Or iAd?
This is a cool mix of both.
Nissan Leaf iAd
I’m really not a big ban of the iPad (especially for reading books: wtf?).
(Unless, it’s crazy interactive, like: Alice on iPad , tks to Alex Hartunian for the correction of me saying it’s boring!)
But this seems just GREAT
TIME on the Tablet
And a concrete example. (a little bit less interesting actually)
TIME on iPad
And while we’re talking about the future, let’s just go crazy a little beat.
p.s. thank you Japan!
This week’s cover of TIME, showing an Afghan woman whose nose and ears have been cut off by the Taliban, is disturbing, but the reality it shows in Afghanistan is something from which we cannot turn away.
Photograph by Jodi Bieber. Article by Aryn Baker. Read more.
The left image is the original issue’s front page, and the one on the right is my answer to it. Feel free to use this comparison anyway you want!
p.s. André Gunthert analyszes this TIME’s cover thoroughly on his blog. He first compares her (in different ways) to Kim Phuc, Neda and Sharbat Gula. He then fears that in a couple of months, the Americans will help Aisha get plastic surgery and use that new image to “prove” that this war was a good war.
, tks to 