venerdì 15 novembre 2013

My favourite actor: Johnny Depp!

John Christopher Depp III was born June 9, 1963 in Owensboro , a small industrial town in Kentucky . As a child he was often next to his beloved grandfather , who died shortly after the seventh birthday of Johnny . The same year the family moved to the coastal town of Miramar , Fla., where his father, an engineer, had found a job as director of public works. Shocked by the death of his grandfather and by the continuous removal ( a dozen, after moving to Florida) that prevented him from visiting friends , Johnny became a boy closed and grumpy . After the divorce of his parents, in 1978, the situation worsened . Not very interested in studies , Johnny Depp did a decent culture on drugs
and soon dropped out of school . In the church of his uncle, a Presbyterian minister , Johnny discovered the music, thanks to gospel music played by his cousin . His mother bought him an electric guitar second hand, and the boy spent much time studying and practicing the instrument , locked in his room . Soon, Johnny Depp became a good guitar and began to play in a band. However, along with love for the guitar also grows its exceptional beauty and charismatic force that convinced him to switch to acting. Still a minor, he began working in nightclubs in Florida and later his group ' The Kids ' opened some concerts of Iggy Pop . In 1983 , Johnny Depp married Lori Anne Allison makeup artist and two years later, already divorced, went with her ​​to Los Angeles. In California , Lori Allison presented her ex-husband Nicolas Cage , who encouraged him to recite . Just twenty-one years , then, here it is already on track to groped climbing movie star. Her first movie is " Nightmare - Out of the night ," where he has a part of the second floor.
But the important roles do not wait , manufacturers understand that long itself in the eyes behind the dark face lies a sex symbol to impose four of us and four eights . Even if the good little chap Depp is not a superficial and mindless , as then showed his artistic choices .
In 1986 in " Platoon" is one of the desperate in the Vietnamese jungle while his first starring role in 1990 finally arrives in the musical " Cry Baby ." The fame comes in the same year with " Edward Scissorhands ," postmodern fable of Tim Burton, the director who transformed the career of the actor, making it in some ways his alter ego . Here Depp is the slicer machine became a man, but his hands still mechanical , which clashes with the "normal" world : the film was a great success and launched the actor 's face from eternal teenager.
In 1992, he starred in " Raising Arizona " , in the role of Axel , who rejects the American dream offered to him by his uncle for a series of wacky friends. The series of personages of gentle soul with " Benny & Joon " (where a mime is a bit ' quirky , which in some attitudes retrieves the sadness Chaplin ) and " Eating Gilbert Grape ," in the shoes of a young man overcome by an unbearable family in a small town in Iowa . Depp exact his character ever in " Ed Wood ", which realizes Burton in 1994 , where he embodies the director of films of the '50s trash , making credible the ingenuity and optimism of the character.
In the same year opposite Marlon Brando in the role of a suicidal and self-styled great seducer , full of fantasy in " Don Juan DeMarco " . Now they want it in many, this innocent young man , loved by women (it's always in the lead in the rankings of the sexiest celebrities ) and directors of worship. In recent years the authors have wanted money as John Badham , Jim Jarmusch , Mike Newell, Terry Gilliam, Roman Polanski , Sally Potter , Lasse Hallstrom , Julian Schnabel and Ted Demme . Someone environment would say, " Sorry if it's just ... " . Movies are always excited by the critics, everyone appreciates its smart choices as its always superb performances (in " Donnie Brasco " Newell duet on par with none other than Al Pacino ) . Moreover, it is fair to say that to film " Benny & June " and " Eating Gilbert Grape " refused successes as safe as "Dracula ," " Speed" and " Interview with the Vampire ."
In 1996 he instead tried his hand with directing, directing and starring in (again alongside Brando ) " The Brave " , the story of an Indian penniless and laconic who offers to play a lethal snuff -movie to secure a future for their families .
After marrying , for a little over a year , Lori Anne Allison in 1985 , he embarked on long conversations and relationships with Winona Ryder and Kate Moss. In 1999 he married pop star actress Vanessa Paradis Alps , which gave him two sons in a short time . Owner of the famous nightclub " The Viper Room", has been arrested countless times for his sudden excesses .
The year 2004 sees the protagonist of the Oscar with the film " Pirates of the Caribbean - Pirates of the Caribbean " ( with Orlando Bloom ), for which , however, does not get the statuette.
In conclusion, it counts as a summary of his personality Pine Farinotti what he wrote in his dictionary of film: " Attractive and definitely has sex appeal , but not prone to narcissism , you know, when the role requires it, to pass these characteristics in accordance with plan , showing ductile and showing great interpretative sensibility.
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The Beatles ♪

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best played together as the Silver Beatles in 1960 in Liverpool. In the summer of that year they performed in Hamburg, Germany, and in 1961 recorded the first 45 laps as a group to accompany the singer Tony Sheridan. In the fall of that year, Brian Epstein, manager-turned-seller records the group manages to get an audition with Decca, where the Beatles are discarded. Epstein try to Parlophone, where George Martin is to take care about the project. After a change of formation - leave Pete Best, Ringo Starr enters, while Stuart Sutcliffe had left the band s
ome time before - the band released the first 45 laps, LOVE ME DO, and a second, Please Please Me, which jumped in head the charts, giving way to an unprecedented success - in fact number one ranking, a collective called Beatlemania fever plaguing teenagers from around the world, change is still crucial to the base of pop and rock - which stops Only eight years later, with the dissolution of the quartet.
The milestones of the group are marked by sensational events, such as the U.S. invasion in 1964 (five songs in the first five places in the standings), two films like "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!" The honor of Baronetti given to the group by Queen Elizabeth II during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace in 1965, the crusade against the group undertaken in the United States after the phrase "We're more famous than Jesus Christ" that Lennon delivery in 1966. These are the years of success as A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, BEATLES FOR SALE, HELP, RUBBER SOUL, and songs like "I want to hold yor hand", "Ticket to Ride," "Yesterday", "Yellow Submarine", both for mention a few titles in a production well known.
Despite the worldwide success, the group - in the late sixties - begins to suffer from fatigue also marked by a certain discontent among the various components. In 1968 he published The White Album, a triumph, in which, however, emerge once and for all the will of the Fab Four to express themselves individually rather than as a group yet. The next year lets out ABBEY ROAD, most complex both lyrically and in musical arrangements, which also saw the consecration of George Harrison as a great composer like the Lennon-McCartney due to the success of "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something ".
LET IT BE, their latest album released in 1970, is completed in spite of Paul McCartney is at odds with the manager because he wants to treat the profits of the Beatles and his wife Linda's father, Lee Eastman.
The end of the Beatles was proclaimed on April 10 of that year with an announcement of Paul McCartney who has since begun to work on solo projects.
It 's just that in 1996 the remains of the Beatles back together in the recording studio to work on a documentary about their history and three double-CD anthology containing unreleased and alternate versions of their classics, including two unpublished Lennon songs.
After the death of Lennon in 1980 and that of Harrison in 2001 following a long illness, McCartney said the same - in 2007-want to complete "Now and Then", a song that the band has been working through the implementation of ANTHOLOGY , with new verses written using a new drum track recorded by Ringo Starr and the stock of the guitar by George Harrison.
At the end of 2007, the two surviving Beatles are called to play in Israel to celebrate sixty years since its establishment.

Is Graffiti an art form?

Graffiti writing is a social, artistic and cultural form widespread in all the planet, based to express their creativity. The first graffiti writer was TAKI 183 in 1970, which together with Ramellzee, started making graffiti in New York; in Italy was Carlo Torrighelli (born 1909) in Milan.

It all started from 'graffiti writing', a phenomenon initially youthful characterized by incessant action of boys and girls determined to impose their pseudonymus located in an urban area. Over the years it has created its own linguistic code, differentiating works made stylistic categories and giving rise to a dense network of international connections of lovers protagonists. If would be more accurate, however, to associate the phenomenon of writing to the Hip-Hop culture, which contains numerous other factors related to forms of expression of an urban area, and in any case born in that environment, such as the MC-ing, Dj-ing or turntablism, and the break dance.

Some people think that the graffiti is wrong, especially if the boys do graffiti on important monuments in the city. In Italy in some cities is legal do this while in Argentina the Street Art is persecuted.

For me, graffiti should be present in all the cities because they give colour to them, all this without damaging the important monuments of course. Obviouslyb the text or graphics should not be boring but original.

Banksy

Banksy (Bristol, 1974 or 1975) is an English artist and writer.

It is one of the greatest exponents of street art. We know that he grew up in Bristol but his real identity is kept secret. His works are often satirical background and cover topics such as politics, culture and ethics. The technique I prefer for his works of guerrilla art has always been the stencil, which just with Banksy has arrived to collect an even greater success at street artists around the world. His stencils have been popping up just in Bristol, then in London, particularly in the areas to the northeast, and to follow in major European capitals, greatly not only on the walls of the streets, but also in unexpected places like the cages at the zoo in Barcelona.

venerdì 8 novembre 2013

Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day (Poppy Day or Armistice Day) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I to remember the people who died in the line of duty. This day are also recognised as special days for war remembraces many non - Commowealth countries.
So 11th Novembre is the Remembrance Day; it is a national holiday in France and Belgium. The day was specifically dedicated by King George V on 7 November 1919 as a day of remembrace for members of the armed forces who are killing during World War I. The Initial or Very First Armistice Day was held at Buckingham Palace commercing with King george V hosting a 'Banquet in Honour of the President of the French Republic' during the evening hours of November 10, 1919. Tre red remembrace day/poppy has become a familiar emblem of Remembrace Day due to the poem 'In Flanders Fields'.
It commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany at Compiegne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, wich took effect at 11.00 a.m. in the morning. The Armistice Day is one of most important military celebration in France, since it was a major French victory and the French paid a heavy prince in blood to archive it.