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La ville de Montgeron (Essonne)

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ADJOINT DU PATRIMOINE (H/F)

Missions :

Accueil des publics : prêts, renseignements et inscription. Accueil et accompagnement des lecteurs à l’espace public numérique. Participation aux animations en particulier pour l’espace public numérique et la section jeunesse. Participation à l’équipement des documents.

Profil :

Sens du service public et du travail en équipe. Connaissance et intérêt pour la production éditoriale en particulier littérature jeunesse. Pratique de l’outil informatique (logiciel bibliothèque (aloes – opsys), internet). Esprit d’initiative et goût pour l’animation et la médiation.

Organisation du travail :

35 heures hebdomadaires, du mardi au samedi, 1 nocturne par semaine.

Informations complémentaires : Corinne VIDAL (01.78.75.20.08)

Rémunération statutaire, régime indemnitaire, prime annuelle, CNAS (candidatures contractuelles acceptées).

Poste à pourvoir très rapidement.

Merci d’adresser votre candidature à Monsieur le Maire, Hôtel de ville, 112 bis avenue de la République, 91230 MONTGERON.

A little early, but with Advent just around the corner I thought I’d go ahead and post this. The Year without a Santa Claus

Santa has a bad cold and decides to take a vacation from Christmas. Two of his elves, Jingle Bells and Jangle Bells go out (with Vixen) to find children who believe in Santa in order to convince Santa that the Christmas spirit is still alive. Enjoy!

Twenty-five years after it was released, The Dark Crystal, by Jim Henson and Frank Oz of The Muppet clan, still manages to unleash a cult devotion from its die-hard fans. The puppets in the film were designed by well-known fantasy artist Brian Froud. The film begins in medias res, and is set post-apocalyptically on planet Thra, a thousand years after the ancient urSkeks race cracked the Crystal. When the urSkeks damaged the Crystal, they split into two opposing races – the good Mystics and the evil Skeksis – and the Crystal changed into the Dark Crystal. Jen seems to be the last elf-like Gelfling left on Thra, after his race was murdered off on command by the Skeksis. He was raised by the Mystics and it is revealed to him that he is destined to restore the Dark Crystal before the approaching conjunction of the three suns, or else the evil Skeksis will rule for ever.

There are so many things that appeal to me in The Dark Crystal. The puppets, puppetry, décor and set design is masterfully done for one. What I liked especially is that the film does not remotely rely on special effects. It is unashamedly and authentically a film with muppets, and one is contently conscious of this fact throughout. The film succeeds, however, in transposing the viewer to another magical realm where the muppets vanish and become characters. The struggle between good and evil is addressed and thus also serves as a great instructional inspiration to young, growing minds. The film might seem like child’s play, but there is much philosophy that underlie it. The urSkeks splits into the Mystics and the Skeksis, which ultimately have to combine to become one again, and thus denotes a triune harmony in the world which might be interpreted as religious or spiritual in nature. The idea of two opposing forces that transpose their dichotomy and dissolve into a unity of balance, originates from Chinese philosophy and is quite prevalent in Zen-Buddhism. The trinity doctrine is also very prevalent in Christian religions.

SPOILER WARNING: Jen and Kira, the last man and woman left of the Gelflings, reminds one of Adam and Eve, or even of Greek mythology where original humans were split into two by Zeus for fear of their power. Kira offers herself at the end of the film (reminiscent of Jesus in Christian religion), but is resurrected when order has been restored to the earth. She and Jen can now come together in union to give rise to a new population of Gelflings. SPOILERS END HERE.

If you do not have a child inside you, you might not be able to appreciate the contradictory simplicity and mastery of this film. This film is not for everyone, even though it was the highest grossing box-office release in France and Japan in 1983. If you are a fan, though, it is interesting to note the following: A sequel to the film entitled The Power of the Dark Crystal is set for production in 2008 and directed by Genndy Tartakovsky. If you want to read more about this, feel free. According to the Wikipedia, a manga prequel by the name Legends of the Dark Crystal, is also planned for publication by TokyoPop on November 13 of 2007. Together with The World of the Dark Crystal, the book created by Brian Froud during the release of the film, these works complete a pretty attractive package for the collector cult member of The Dark Crystal. And International Movies Database contends that Brian Froud and puppet designer Wendy Midener met on the set of the film and later married. All in all, fantasy turns to reality it seems.

Genre: Animation / Fantasy / Family / Adventure
Running time: 93 min
Country: USA / UK
Language: English
Directors: Jim Henson
Frank Oz
Gary Kurtz
Writing credits: Jim Henson (story)
David Odell (screenplay)
Producers: Jim Henson
David Lazer
Cinematographer: Oswarld Morris
Editor: Ralph Kemplen
Music: Trevor Jones
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Main Cast:
Jen, Gelfling – Jim Henson
Kira, Gelfling – Kathryn Mullen
Aughra, Keeper of Secrets – Frank Oz
For a complete list of puppeteers and voices, vist this address

I came across this video made by IDEO last Friday at a lecture done by Deborah. It’s truly fascinating to see this idea proposing how modern living can be introduced to a system that helps our economy, quality of life and environment. When I finally found the link I decided that everyone should see ways in which we can help bring our world one step closer to achieving the goals this pitch sets on.

The only thing that scares me about this video, is the government controlling every aspect of our community or being able to monitor every action.

What are your thoughts?

Le premier trailer de Trigun : Badlands Rumble, film d’animation adapté du manga éponyme, vient d’être diffuser sur son site officiel. Retrouvez le ci-dessous.

Makka serait-elle sur le point d’être attaquée par le légendaire voleur Gasback ? C’est en tout cas ce que racontent les dernière rumeurs.

Cependant, le maire Kepler est bien décidé à protéger sa ville et fait alors appel à différents chasseurs de prime.

Il se trouve néanmoins qu’un certain Vash The Stempede, l’homme recherché pour 60 milliards de double dollars, est aussi en ville…

Sources : ANN – Official Website

Remplacement bibliothécaire jeunesse à Salon

GRADE Assistant de conservation de 2e classe

CATÉGORIE : B

MISSIONS PRINCIPALES

~ Encadrement du personnel (d’une section).

~ Contacts avec l’extérieur : valorisation des actions de la bibliothèque.

~ Constitution et évolution des collections (sous la responsabilité du responsable de l’établissement : catalogage, indexation).

~ Participation aux travaux quotidiens de l’établissement : accueil du public, opérations de prêt/retour, renseignements aux usagers.

~ Bonnes relations avec le milieu enseignant pour la mise en place des animations en direction du public scolaire (classes primaires).

~ Bonnes relations avec les associations du quartier.

~ Préparation des animations.

CONDITIONS DE TRAVAIL

Horaires

~Utilisation de l’outil informatique pour la saisie des informations liées à la constitution du fonds, pour les renseignements donnés aux usagers.

~Mardi au vendredi : 10 h – 19 h

Samedi : 10 h – 17 h

Total hebdomadaire (retenu en commun : 36 h 15)

SAVOIR FAIRE

~Une bonne formation bibliothéconomique (en fonction du secteur d’intervention jeunesse).

~Maîtrise des outils de gestion informatiques

(logiciel Orphée)

SAVOIR ÊTRE

~Une aptitude au travail en équipe.

~Bonnes relations avec le public.

Savoir répondre à ses attentes et exigences.

Le poste est à pourvoir pour assurer un remplacement, dès à présent jusqu’à la mi-Juin 2010.

Personne à contacter :

Monsieur PLATERO – Directeur de la Bibliothèque Municipale de SALON DE PROVENCE

04 90 56 74 16

Source : IUT d’Aix

Here is another stop motion animation, this time created by drawing pictures in sand on glass. Caroline Leaf based “Owl and Goose” on an ancient Inuit story about an Owl’s unrequited love for a goose.  As told in this interview she worked with Agnes Nanogak, an Inuit artist who created the animal silhouettes necessary for sand animation.

I found no information on Anges Nagonak, but did find this image by her from the Montreal Museum’s website:

During her stay at Holman Island, she met some old Inuit women who still remembered hunting with their fathers.  They used to mimic animal sounds to attract prey – and these became the sound track of the story.

This is what she has to say about the process:

Six old women sat around a microphone and made the sounds and laughed a lot. I got what I wanted, but it was puzzling, uncomfortable work. For example, after I screened the film, which is nine minutes long and involves the eggs of the owl and the goose hatching, one old lady got up and walked out, saying that what the film showed was not true, eggs take two weeks to hatch.

That’s quite interesting.  The verbal story of the hatching eggs did not last longer than the animated version does.  Is it the illusion of life that makes the distorted time  in the animation so upsetting?

This little story probably means something very different to me than it did to its original audience. I empathise with the silly Owl, and the Goose seems self centred and unfeeling.  I guess that this was not the way the story was told to an Inuit audience, where the owl might have been a figure of fun, or a lesson in not straying from the role intended for you.  Caroline Leaf speaks about her feelings in having to adapt the story for animation:

I was never sure that I wasn’t using the Inuit people. I knew that their stories were truth and history for them, and they didn’t tamper with the storytelling or make personal changes. That is why the stories were remarkably the same across thousands of miles of the Arctic. And I had had to change the story, to personalize the animals, to make it mine in order to be able to tell it.

But in any case – I will let you decide for yourself.  Here is “Owl and Goose”:

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ICM Internationales Congress Center
Messegelände, Am Messesee 2
81823 München (Germany)
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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume. In a higher manner, the bathrobe communicates the same pleasure. All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a robe is the principal event in chronology. For, the experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its robe. Let us interrogate the great apparition. Let us inquire, to what end is the bathrobe?

My robe should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. Fear and hope are alike beneath it. It shall exclude all other being. All persons that ever existed are its fugitive ministers. Let them chirp awhile and call it their own. The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my robe also. All things are made sacred by relation to it. Give me health and a bathrobe, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

The man is only half himself, the other half is his robe. It does not need be that a robe should be long. The young man reveres men of robes, because, to speak truly, the bathrobe alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation. These wings are the beauty of the robe’s soul. Robes are thus liberating gods.  No wonder, then, if these bathrobes be so deep, that we hover over them with a religious regard. We sat in the aurora of a robe which was to put out all the stars.

Build, therefore your own robe. Most men gamble with her. Who does not? We have all seen changes as considerable in wheat and caterpillars. But not so, O friends! Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but your bathrobe.

-Carl Peterson

Okay, I’m going from the grotesque to the beautiful. To take your minds off of the horrific acid-scarred faces of women in Pakistan, here are 50 amazingly realistic CG portraits.

A few example (many more on the link above):

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Humboldt Umspannwerk
Kopenhagener Str. 56-58 / Sonnenburger Str. 73
10437 Berlin (Germany)
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A still from an animation we did at the gallery today. The kids worked on the background painting with Theo yesterday and also made the models with Federico. Today we put them together into a potboiler in the style of Godzilla or King Kong.

The first-ever Creative Talent Network Animation Expo in Burbank this weekend gave industry professionals a chance to showcase their work and learn about new trends, but some took the opportunity to push their colleagues into new territory.

Gary Goldman, who worked with colleagues Don Bluth and John Pomeroy to privately fund and produce “The Secret of NIMH” in 1982, argued that animators needed to ditch studios that seemed reluctant to support hand-drawn projects over the last decade.

Instead, animators should learn how to be entrepreneurs, he said.

Although Disney animation will release its first major hand-drawn animated feature in years this month, called “The Princess and the Frog,” artists brimming with creativity should not leave themselves at the whims of studio executives and should instead take their skills to investors to develop their own projects, he argued.

Written by Robert Goodman
Directed by Dan Riba
Original Airdate: January 30, 1999
DVD: Batman Beyond, Volume One

Summary: Derek Powers hires the technological shapeshifter Inque to commit corporate espionage, but after stowing away on the Batmobile, she stumbles onto a much bigger secret.

Arc Notes: This was the first clear look at Bruce Wayne’s trophy room in the Batcave, showing the final fate of several villains (although at least a couple would find themselves back in operation later on in the series).

Debuting Characters: Inque (who was actually in “The Call”), the aged Barbara Gordon, and I think a couple of recurring characters at Terry’s high school are seen for the first time. Oh, and Terry gets himself a new ride.

Returning Characters: Not so much characters as a whole whack of classic era props.

Background:

This is Batman Beyond’s first regular episode after the two-part premiere, Rebirth, and it showcases a villain who’d wind up being something of an unlikely hit. Boasting more appearances than any other villain in the series, Inque was a good example of the philosophy used when coming up with bad guys for Terry McGinnis to fight when he donned the Batsuit, as Bruce Timm explains:

Just bringing back old villains and updating and futurizing them, we felt it was too simple and a cheat. So what we wanted to do was come up with classic Batman style villains… we wanted to use the classic Batman villain archetypes, but but different spins on them. Thus you get Inque, who’s a shapeshifter, but other than that she has no relation to Clayface. She has a different motive, she has a different feel, she’s sexy, she’s liquidy – she’s not like a big pile of crap, you know? [laughter]

Bruce Timm, Modern Masters, pp. 64-65

Inque wound up being more of an antagonist for Bruce than Terry, as in her next appearance she calls him out.

Thoughts on the Episode:

The DCAU shows up until Justice League had what I like to refer to as Sideshow Bob Continuity – namely, much like the first couple of Sideshow Bob episodes on The Simpsons, episodes featuring the same villain fit into a clear history, but most of the time you can take those smaller arcs and watch them in virtually any order. The first couple of epsiodes of Batman Beyond looked like something different from the norm, with subtle hints of an overall storyline that would be carried out. The effect didn’t last throughout the entire series – in fact, it ends pretty much at the tail end of the first season – but this episode in particular feels like a chapter in an ongoing storyline, rather than an isolated one-off.

There’s a few plots going on here – Terry still being a bit out of his depth as Batman, Bruce re-emerging to take a more active role at Wayne-Powers, Terry learning about new abilities and equipment, the Bruce / Babs relationship, and Powers’ attempts to control his condition. The core plot of the episode is action-heavy, but broken up effectively enough and the subplots are given enough time to develop that they’re more likely to retain viewers even if the actual primary plot of a given week isn’t anything to write home about.

[As an aside, the best superhero show to use this format in the post-JLU era was Spectacular Spider-Man, although that was even more serialised, in keeping with classic Spidey soap opera]

This episode not only deftly juggles the ongoing plotlines, but it makes Inque seem like a very dangerous adversary right away, and without having to resort to the usual cliches like threatening Terry’s family or school friends. It’s admittedly helped by the fact that the DCAU Batcave has always been treated as something of a sanctuary; aside from Ra’s’ first appearance, it’s never been breached, and even Ra’s never did so like this (heck, even seeing Superman in there during “Knight Time” is a bit strange). Just seeing Inque ripping through the trophy cases gets the viewer thinking that she’s doing something very wrong, and it also proves that the villains are going to be a bit more than the run-of-the-mill psychopaths with gimmicks that Bruce specialised in.

My favourite episodes of Batman Beyond all tend to be stacked towards the end of the series, but I always liked Derek Powers as an antagonist, since he basically serves as a Lex Luthor analogue and I always like a story that pits Bruce Wayne up against Luthor. Powers has a great sinister edge to him here, from subtly needling Terry about his father’s death (Dana also mentions it, which is nice since this is basically Terry’s first week on the job and therefore he’s not that removed from the murder). Turning him into Blight full-time seemed like a major mistake to me, although I understand the reaoning behind it – namely, getting Bruce back in partial control of WE. Also, unlike Spider-Man, Terry’s almost more fun when he’s new on the job (yes, I’m one of those evil people who likes college-aged Peter Parker, deal with it), since he’s still thrilled with the idea that he’s Batman. The fact that his reaction to flying the Batmobile for the first time is the same as any viewer’s would be is part of what makes him so endearing. I should also point out that Will Friedle actually aged Terry’s voice a bit through the series, as I forgot how young he sounded here.

Aside from the strong plot, this episode actually has a lot more linkage to the Batman legacy than “Rebirth”, with Terry specifically commenting on the Batcave’s museum-like state, Barbara making her first appearance in her father’s old job, and the namedropping of the Fox family. Although the writers deliberately didn’t want to flesh out the connections too much, the show does have a rich history behind it, and smart leveraging of that history is what quickly established Jamie Kellner’s idea of a teenage Batman – as something more promising than the dream of a network executive desperate to replicate Buffy in animated form.

Grade: A-. A great example of Beyond’s high-energy style, with a healthy dose of history and easter eggs to boot. Certainly a show that’s worth watching, and even better, re-watching to catch some of the subtler stuff.

Random Thoughts:

• Amongst the detritus in the Batcave is an old Grey Ghost costume (possibly the original? Presumably Trent is long dead….). It actually gets a bit of a callout in the scene where Terry is complaining that he doesn’t know what anything in the Batcave is, and he pauses and takes a long look at the costume only to be told by Bruce that it was “way before (Terry’s) time. What’s really cool about that moment is that, knowing what we do now, the Grey Ghost costume is likely the one thing in the Batcave that Terry probably at least has a clue what its origins are, and it was Bruce who misread Terry’s interest in the suit. Yes, I know that breaks a key rule of the DCAU – that Batman is as close to omniscient as for the casual viewer to be unable to tell the difference – and it’s retconning an interpretation into Terry’s actions that obviously wasn’t intentional on the part of the creators, but that’s really cool to think about.
• The inspiration for Blight is pretty obvious – he’s a futuristic version of Doctor Phosphorus, a Batman villain who never appeared in the animated series and therefore was fresher to use in an updated fashion than the old crew.
• I can understand Harley’s costume being put up in memoriam – Bruce always seemed to think she was more redeemable than the other Rogues, and obviously he believes her to be dead – and the Scarface puppet is an admittedly nice keepsake, and the Mr. Freeze equipment might just be written off as “insurance”… but the Firefly suit?
• Other costumes clearly seen are Mad Hatter’s, Penguin’s and Catwoman’s, which seems to fit Bruce’s overall theme of having largely hung onto mementos of villains who were in some way redeemable or, at the very least, making a surface effort at reforming. Of course, the only Joker memento was up there long before he committed his last, unthinkable crime… still, you’d think Bruce would take the giant card down, for Tim’s sake, if nothing else.
• Personal Opinion: Stockard Channing is a much better fit for Babs than the gravel-voiced Angie Harmon. And that’s not just because she was a featured character on my favourite show ever and Harmon’s arrival on my former favourite show marked that series’ decline from its peak.
• An intruder in Wayne Manor? Bruce should get himself a guard do… hey, wait a second, where was Ace during all this? Was he watching cartoons again?
• How much does Inque weigh, anyway? She weighed down a supersonic flying car.

Next Justice League: While none of the powered heroes will show up, a bunch of other war characters will, in “The Savage Time.”

Next Time: I might actually get a weekend aside in one day late, looking at DC’s revival of their wartime heroes during the early 80s.

Oh, and the plan is to certainly have Savage Time AND a summary of the first season ready for Thursday, for all the Americans who want something to read while digesting turkey. I went to school in the U.S., I know what it’s like between football games.

• Sinopse: # THE CLEVELAND SHOW
  The Cleveland Show é uma série animada americana criada por Seth MacFarlane como um spin-off de Family Guy, também criado por Seth MacFarlane. The Cleveland Show, originalmente anunciado como um trabalho adicional, é o título para a série de animação com foco na personagem Cleveland Brown quando ele e a sua família se mudam de Rhode Island para a cidade fictícia de Stoolbend,Virgínia.

• Descrição do Arquivo:
  Formato: AVI XviD
  Tamanho: 175 Mb
  Audio: ENG
  Release: HDTV.XviD-FQM
• LINKS PARA DOWNLOAD:
  
  1. http://uploading.com/files/3b736d8a/The.Cleveland.Show.S01E07.HDTV.XviD-FQM.avi/

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Cyberport Animation Camp is one of the largest digital media development events in this year. Sponsored by Autodesk, Inc., a world leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, and co-organized by Cyberport IncuTrain Centre and supported by Mayan Hong Kong Maya User Group, leaders of the animation world including Imagi Studio, Lucasfilm Animation Singapore, Rhythm & Hues Studio and Rising Sun Pictures are invited to be the key speakers of the Camp. The camp will gather all industry practitioners focusing on animation production soft skills upgrade in areas of character design, story design, and features animation. It is aiming to bring the local animation production skills and quality to the next level.

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Absolutely loving everything in this.

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Jahrhunderthalle Bochum
Gahlensche Str. 15
44793 Bochum (Germany)
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To switch gears, I recently watched Disney’s “The Jungle Book” again. It is the story of a young boy, Mowgli,  whose life starts in the heart of the jungle rescued by wolves. As Mowgli grows older the animals of the jungle decide that he should go to the ‘man-village’ where he belongs – but he refuses. The story continues as the boy meets and meets animals and a tiger whom he has to fight for his life on his journey to the village. Along the way he learns “The Bare Necessities” of life and the true meaning of friendship. Of course in the end, Mowgli is seduced into the village by a young woman.

The movie is full of fun songs with catchy beats. This is the last animated film to receive Walt Disney’s personal touch. I happen to LOVE animation and I do like musicals – so I love this movie! It’s a classic that the whole family can enjoy.