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French singer Cécile Hortensia brings a touch of Paris to North American audiences

October 4, 2012 / Culture & Festivals, Featured

French singer Cécile Hortensia will release her debut album Papillons on Electric Lotus Label this October. Cécile, who was born in Nancy, France and now lives in Arizona, fuses her French roots with her adopted American culture in a bilingual, bi-cultural collection of songs. Each of the 12 tracks onPapillons explores a different side of the daring journey she took, seeking to find adventure in a new cultural perspective.

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Seeing Red

September 12, 2012 / Featured, Free Style

This short film from Photographer/Director Dominique Palombo features the dance stylings of choreographer John Degois. Filming in the roofs of Paris, Palombo continues to re-define dance in fashion film and mesmerizes the eye with the unique and powerful nuance of movement that only dance can offer.

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Oktapodi

August 24, 2012 / Culture & Festivals, Featured

Oktapodi is a French computer-animated short film that originated as a Graduate Student Project from Gobelins L’Ecole de L’Image. The film is about a pair of love struck octopuses who through a series of comical events are separated and find each other.

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Experience Freedom

August 22, 2012 / Featured, Free Style

The Experience Freedom Journey will take you through the world of skydiving and Base Jumping in some of the most amazing and scenic locations in the world. The filmmaker’s aim through this video is to showcase their work and open the doors for other athletes and filmmakers and provide opportunities for greater exposure.

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The hardest of the Alps

August 10, 2012 / Featured, Free Style

In the summer of 2010, Iker and Eneko Pou decided to visit legends. Travelling the Alps in their camper van, they met the godfathers that changed climbing forever. Walking on the footsteps of Manolo, Alex Huber and Beat Kammerlander, they repeated some of the most iconic routes in the history of big-wall climbing: itineraries that show the way to the new generations.

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Actor Gérard Klein meets Burning Man

August 7, 2012 / Culture & Festivals, Featured

When Gerard Klein and crew of “L’Amerique dans tous ses Etats” meet Burning Man – a truly human way to appreciate the event.

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The Flight of the Frenchies

August 1, 2012 / Featured, Free Style

Tancrède, Julien, Seb and Antoine are pioneers in ‘highlining’ – a vertiginous combination of climbing, slackline and tightrope walking. We travelled from our home in Chamonix to our training ground in the Verdon gorge, testing the limits for our ultimate goal… We rigged highlines on the skyscrapers of Paris, and finally came to the spectacular cliffs and fjords of Norway. Months of training led the Skyliner team to attempt their dream of complete freedom… the freedom of flight !

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L’amérique dans tous ses états: Arizona

July 24, 2012 / Featured, Travel & Discovery

Etat du Sun Belt à la démographie sans cesse croissante l’Arizona est le 48 ème Etat de l’Union Américaine depuis 1912. Autrefois mexicain, les américains l’ont annexé après la Guerre Americano Mexicaine de 1848. Territoire aride et chaud à l’histoire amérindienne, mexicaine et américaine complexe, l’Arizona est souvent représentative d’une amérique d’aventure, comme en témoigne son succès cinématographique. A son plaisir d’homme et de journaliste curieux de l’autre et des territoires nouveaux, Gérard Klein pourra y ajouter celui d’acteur et de cinéphile.

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The Silent Evolution

July 22, 2012 / Culture & Festivals, Ecology, Featured

The Silent Evolution, by internationally acclaimed eco-sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor, forms a permanent monumental artificial reef in Mexico. Occupying an area of over 420 square meters and with a total weight of over 200 tons, it consists of 400 life-size casts of individuals taken from a broad cross section of humanity and has been designed to aggregate fish and corals on a grand scale.

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L’Amérique dans tous ses états: Los Angeles

July 20, 2012 / Featured, Travel & Discovery

CALIFORNIE BRANCHEE C’est au début de l’année 1910 qu’Hollywood rencontre son destin en la personne du réalisateur D.W. Griffith. Ce dernier, envoyé par la Biograph Company à l’Ouest des Etats-Unis avec sa troupe, va y filmer sur un terrain dans le centre de Los Angeles. Il décide ensuite de prospecter un peu au Nord. C’est ainsi qu’il découvre un petit village : Hollywood, où l’accueil, le convainc de rester. Il y tourne IN OLD CALIFORNIA, le premier film réalisé à Hollywood. [...]

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