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...campaign. Another standout, Olivier Adam's A l'Abri de Rien (In the Shelter of Nothing), concerns immigrants at the notorious Sangatte refugee camp. France's Japan-influenced bandes dessinées (comic-strip) artists have made their country a leader in one of literature's hottest genres: the graphic novel. Singers like Camille, Benjamin Biolay and Vincent Delerm have revived the chanson. Hip-hop artists like Senegal-born MC Solaar, Cyprus-born Diam's and Abd al Malik, a son of Congolese immigrants, have taken the verlan of the streets and turned it into a sharper, more poetic version...
...quotas and subsidies, France is a paradise for connoisseurs of foreign cultures. "France has always been a country where people could come from any country and immediately start painting or writing in French - or even not in French," says Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian whose movie based on her graphic novel Persepolis is France's 2008 Oscar entry in the Best Foreign Film category. "The richness of French culture is based on that quality...
...same way that Apple's Macintosh created a graphic user interface, GUI (pronounced goo-ey), that made it easy for ordinary mortals to use personal computers, Land has laid claim to what he unabashedly calls a VUI (voo-ey), or vocal user interface. The idea is that companies need an idiot-proof building-block system to assemble easy-to-use services with which customers feel comfortable. "All business is vocal," Land likes...
...Connor ’92, a film scholar and the director of undergraduate film studies. “It’s closer to being a pre-professional field than being a historian of 19th century American history.“Take a class in design, become a graphic designer; make movies, become a cinematographer,” he says. “There’s the chance to do a lot of that here. You won’t be an older version of the artist, but you’re going to be in the arts...
...perception.” The paintings merge traditional style and the contemporary events in a compelling fashion. Liu Guosong created “High Noon” (1969) after seeing photos of the 1968 Apollo 8 mission. The painting’s unusual rhomboidal format frames and intensifies his graphic shapes and bold colors. “Wintry Mountains” is another of Gusong’s exceptional works. Simple shapes form the jagged stone face of a mountain peak brushed with white snow. Gusong uses an unusual subtractive technique. After applying black ink to paper, he pulls...