VBS travels to West Africa to rummage through the messy remains of a country ravaged by 14 years of civil war. Despite the United Nation’s eventual intervention, most of Liberia’s young people continue to live in abject poverty, surrounded by filth, drug addiction, and teenage prostitution. The former child soldiers who were forced into war have been left to fend for themselves, the murderous warlords who once led them in cannibalistic rampages have taken up as so-called community leaders, and new militias are lying in wait for the opportunity to reclaim their country from a government they rightly mistrust.
The Vice Guide to Liberia
http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel/the-vice-guide-to-liberia
mercredi 28 avril 2010
jeudi 22 avril 2010
Marc Chagall, I and the Village 1911 Oil on Canvas
Marc Chagall, French, born in Belarus. 1887-1985
I and the Village. 1911
Oil on Canvas, 192.1 x 151.4 cm
Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Foundation
Painted the year after Chagall came to Paris, I and the Village evokes his memories of his native village, peasants and animals lived side by side, in a mutual dependence here signified by the line from peasant to caw, connecting their eyes.
The peasant's flowering sprig, symbolically a tree of life, is the reward of their partnership. For Hasids, animals were also humanity's link to the universe, and the painting's large circular forms suggest the orbiting sun, moon (in eclipse at the lower left), and earth.
The geometries of I and the Village are inspired by the broken planes of Cubism, but Chagall's is a personalized version. As a boy he had loved geometry: "Lines, angles, triangles, square, he would later recall", "carried me far away to enchanting horizons." Conversely, in Paris he used a disjunctive geometric structure to carry him back home.
Where Cubism was mainly an art of urban avant-garde society, I and the Village is nostalgic and magical, a rural fairy tale: objects jumble together, scale shifts abruptly, and a woman and two houses, at the painting's top, stand upside-down.
"For the Cubists," Chagall said, "a painting was a surface covered with forms in a certain order. For me a painting is a surface covered with representation of things... in which logic and illustration have no importance."
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=78984
I and the Village. 1911
Oil on Canvas, 192.1 x 151.4 cm
Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Foundation
Painted the year after Chagall came to Paris, I and the Village evokes his memories of his native village, peasants and animals lived side by side, in a mutual dependence here signified by the line from peasant to caw, connecting their eyes.
The peasant's flowering sprig, symbolically a tree of life, is the reward of their partnership. For Hasids, animals were also humanity's link to the universe, and the painting's large circular forms suggest the orbiting sun, moon (in eclipse at the lower left), and earth.
The geometries of I and the Village are inspired by the broken planes of Cubism, but Chagall's is a personalized version. As a boy he had loved geometry: "Lines, angles, triangles, square, he would later recall", "carried me far away to enchanting horizons." Conversely, in Paris he used a disjunctive geometric structure to carry him back home.
Where Cubism was mainly an art of urban avant-garde society, I and the Village is nostalgic and magical, a rural fairy tale: objects jumble together, scale shifts abruptly, and a woman and two houses, at the painting's top, stand upside-down.
"For the Cubists," Chagall said, "a painting was a surface covered with forms in a certain order. For me a painting is a surface covered with representation of things... in which logic and illustration have no importance."
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=78984
mercredi 14 avril 2010
Russian Parallel Cinema Part 2 of 3
This is the second part of the Movie Russian Parallel Cinema made for VBS.TV. Vice’s Shane Smith travels from Moscow to Saint Petersburg for some crazy shootings along with the Russian artist / Necro-Realist film director Yevgeni Yufit.
http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-film--2/russian-parallel-cinema-part-2-of-3--7
http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-film--2/russian-parallel-cinema-part-2-of-3--7
mardi 13 avril 2010
Russian Parallel Cinema Part 1 of 3
For 60 years, Russian film was dominated by the state-approved imagery of Socialist Realism: stark scenes of the proletariat; working, farming and soldiering. Making movies outside this milieu meant risking life and limb at the hands of the KGB. When the Soviet Union collapsed, and that threat diminished, Russian filmmakers released six decades of pent-up creative energy. The films that emerged were an insane mish-mash of booze, violence, surrealism, and insanity. Thus Parallel Cinema was born.
To learn more about this bizarre and wonderful school of film-making, Vice’s Shane Smith travels to Moscow to interview the motley cast of characters that founded Russian Parallel Cinema. We meet Gleb and Igor Aleinikov, two of Parallel Cinema’s most prolific creators; Oleg Kulik, who spent a year as a dog; Andre Silvestrov and Pavel Liabazov, founders of Alcho-Cinema; and notorious “Necro-Realist” Yevgeni Yufit.
Learn about this truly unique filmic tradition that, given Russian’s present volatility, may not exist for much longer.
http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-film--2/russian-parallel-cinema-part-1-of-3
To learn more about this bizarre and wonderful school of film-making, Vice’s Shane Smith travels to Moscow to interview the motley cast of characters that founded Russian Parallel Cinema. We meet Gleb and Igor Aleinikov, two of Parallel Cinema’s most prolific creators; Oleg Kulik, who spent a year as a dog; Andre Silvestrov and Pavel Liabazov, founders of Alcho-Cinema; and notorious “Necro-Realist” Yevgeni Yufit.
Learn about this truly unique filmic tradition that, given Russian’s present volatility, may not exist for much longer.
http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-film--2/russian-parallel-cinema-part-1-of-3
dimanche 11 avril 2010
Travel to Germany - Weekend in Berlin
I just came back from a fantastic weekend in Berlin capital of Germany. This was my second time there. Sumner 2002 I got to spend a whole week in Berlin to make photos for this travel catalog of a Portuguese tour operator.
Photo by Iñaki Lasa Rodríguez on http://www.panoramio.com/photo/472901
Cheap flights to Berlin are easy to find but I decided to go on the high season so I payed €87.99 for the outbound ticket and payed €107.99 for the return ticket. Usually prices are cheap to fly to Berlin. A total of €197.98 using EasyJet company.
http://www.easyjet.com/ | (Easy Jet Official Website here: Easy Jet)
EasyJet is a British airline company with its headquarters at London Luton Airport in England. EasyJet serves 500 routes between 117 destinations in 27 countries throughout Europe and the north of Africa.
Berlin is a fantastic city to make photos and to spend a couple of days enjoying monuments, its night life and several concerts as there's always something happening in the city worth seeing.
Photo by Iñaki Lasa Rodríguez on http://www.panoramio.com/photo/472642
Berlin Landmarks and Berlin Monuments
I stayed on this nice youth hostel in Berlin which is a former nunnery with a unique atmosphere. It was full as Berlin got to have tons of tourist during the high season of April 2010. Rooms are clean, practical and I had a nice window view to the patio and surrounding building and trees.
I stayed on a 4 beds room and payed €17 per night. Toilets and showers are just outside the door. I had this crazy Japanese dancing hip hop no my room until 2am.
Berlin Hostel Contact Information
Hostel Address: Stresemanstraße 66, Berlin 10963, Germany
Phone Number: +49 (0)30 - 32 66 29 55
http://www.three-little-pigs.com/ (Three Little Pigs Youth Hostel Official Website here: Youth Hostel Berlin)
Other websites with Berlin information and photos
Photo by Iñaki Lasa Rodríguez on http://www.panoramio.com/photo/472901
Cheap flights to Berlin are easy to find but I decided to go on the high season so I payed €87.99 for the outbound ticket and payed €107.99 for the return ticket. Usually prices are cheap to fly to Berlin. A total of €197.98 using EasyJet company.
http://www.easyjet.com/ | (Easy Jet Official Website here: Easy Jet)
EasyJet is a British airline company with its headquarters at London Luton Airport in England. EasyJet serves 500 routes between 117 destinations in 27 countries throughout Europe and the north of Africa.
Berlin is a fantastic city to make photos and to spend a couple of days enjoying monuments, its night life and several concerts as there's always something happening in the city worth seeing.
Photo by Iñaki Lasa Rodríguez on http://www.panoramio.com/photo/472642
Berlin Landmarks and Berlin Monuments
- Berliner Dom
- Reichstag (Parliament Building)
- Gendarmenmarkt
- Victory Column (Siegessaule)
- Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche
- Neue Synagogue-Centrum Judaicum
- Olympiastadion
- Soviet War Memorials
- Checkpoint Charlie
- Topography of Terror
I stayed on this nice youth hostel in Berlin which is a former nunnery with a unique atmosphere. It was full as Berlin got to have tons of tourist during the high season of April 2010. Rooms are clean, practical and I had a nice window view to the patio and surrounding building and trees.
I stayed on a 4 beds room and payed €17 per night. Toilets and showers are just outside the door. I had this crazy Japanese dancing hip hop no my room until 2am.
Berlin Hostel Contact Information
Hostel Address: Stresemanstraße 66, Berlin 10963, Germany
Phone Number: +49 (0)30 - 32 66 29 55
http://www.three-little-pigs.com/ (Three Little Pigs Youth Hostel Official Website here: Youth Hostel Berlin)
Other websites with Berlin information and photos
Importance of Vitamins, Why Vitamins?
Vitamins help the body turn food into energy and tissues, creating a regular and normal healthy system function giving us health. The importance of vitamins is a key factor to have a prosper, happy and health life, so you shouldn't neglect this issue. Because our body doesn't store most vitamins, we must consume them regularly to avoid deficiency.
With few exceptions, the body is not able to synthesize or manufacture vitamins so basically we need to consume them externally, from food or beverages in order to have a healthy life.
Vitamins are important and vital to a normal body function as they are absolutely necessary for our growth, general-well being and vitality both physical and mentally.
There are 13 vitamins total: vitamin A; the vitamin B complex, which includes thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6, folic acid, vitamin B12 pantothenic acid, and biotin; and vitamins C, D, E, and K.
Fat-Soluble Vitamins are: Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Vitamin K and Beta carotene.
Water-Soluble Vitamins are: Vitamin C, Thiamin (vitamin B1), Riboflavin (vitamin B2), Niacin (vitamin B3), Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12 an Folic acid (folate).
For the most part, vitamins are obtained with food, but a few are obtained by other means. For example, microorganisms in the intestine—commonly known as "gut flora", produce vitamin K and biotin, while one form of vitamin D is synthesized in the skin with the help of the natural ultraviolet wavelength of sunlight.
Humans can produce some vitamins from precursors they consume. Examples include vitamin A, produced from beta carotene, and niacin, from the amino acid tryptophan.
With few exceptions, the body is not able to synthesize or manufacture vitamins so basically we need to consume them externally, from food or beverages in order to have a healthy life.
Vitamins are important and vital to a normal body function as they are absolutely necessary for our growth, general-well being and vitality both physical and mentally.
There are 13 vitamins total: vitamin A; the vitamin B complex, which includes thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6, folic acid, vitamin B12 pantothenic acid, and biotin; and vitamins C, D, E, and K.
Fat-Soluble Vitamins are: Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Vitamin K and Beta carotene.
Water-Soluble Vitamins are: Vitamin C, Thiamin (vitamin B1), Riboflavin (vitamin B2), Niacin (vitamin B3), Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12 an Folic acid (folate).
For the most part, vitamins are obtained with food, but a few are obtained by other means. For example, microorganisms in the intestine—commonly known as "gut flora", produce vitamin K and biotin, while one form of vitamin D is synthesized in the skin with the help of the natural ultraviolet wavelength of sunlight.
Humans can produce some vitamins from precursors they consume. Examples include vitamin A, produced from beta carotene, and niacin, from the amino acid tryptophan.
Quick Strawberry & Banana Vegan Milk Shake
Finding solutions to have tasty things to eat and drink is always on my mind. This morning I prepared a vegan milk shake using water and a bit of oat flakes. This created some sort of milk.
Oat flakes mixed with water are a good alternative to normal milk, and gives this nice smooth beverage that can be used in many recipes, or just being used as regular normal milk alternative.
Quick Strawberry & Banana Vegan Milk Shake
So I added 2 bananas, 10 strawberries, water, oat flakes and blended for 1 minute. That was it. Perfect, fresh and tasty. Enjoy.
Oat flakes mixed with water are a good alternative to normal milk, and gives this nice smooth beverage that can be used in many recipes, or just being used as regular normal milk alternative.
Quick Strawberry & Banana Vegan Milk Shake
So I added 2 bananas, 10 strawberries, water, oat flakes and blended for 1 minute. That was it. Perfect, fresh and tasty. Enjoy.
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