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Go to hell Lady Gaga!
Posted by baumgartnerk in Entertainment, People on May 30, 2012
The devil
Initially planed on Sunday the 3rd of June in Jakarta (Indonesia), Lady Gaga‘s concert is canceled! Why? Because she is a satanic singer of course! See what she looks like:
Her “vulgar” style doesn’t please everyone and can almost shock other culture. The mother monster started her world tour “Born this way Ball” on the 27th of june in Seoul. Almost there Lady Gaga’s show was judged to pornographic. Her performances in Filipinas, in Hong-Kong and in Japan already had some religious opponents but were still maintained. That’s not the case in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, were the demonstrations were more violent.
The Indonesians’ reaction
Indonesia is known as the most populous Muslim nation. Some Indonesians, which are religious hard-liners are against the singer’s erotic aspect. They judge her clothes too sexy and her attitude too provocative. According to them, she is not a good example for the young generation. Moreover she is an activist of gay rights and that’s against their beliefs.
Already in April, some of the Conservatives Muslim groups, including the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) demonstrate to stop the US Pop singer from setting foot on Indonesian soil. The FPI had insured to be capable of gathering ” 30.000″ demonstrators to prevent Lady Gaga ” to spread its satanic faith “. They threatened to kill her in the stadium. How? They would buy tickets to join the concert and would provoke a real “chaos”. Taking into account this threat, the Indonesian police decided on the 15th of May to ban the concert. Though, that was not excluded that the concert happen in another city.
Police after refusing a permit for Lady Gaga to perform in Jakarta, were still considering an offer from her local promoters to tone down the pop superstar’s racy show. For example, to ban fans under 18 to enter was a possibility to have more control and make the concert an adult-show.
During these negociations, on May 25, Indonesian Islamic hardliners stage a protest against US Pop diva in front of the Security Ministry. Here is a video to show the hatred and violence of some of the Islamists, demonstrating on the street:
Lady Gaga’s social media talent
Because Lady Gaga has close to 25 millions of followers on Twitter (a record for this social network) she knows she is influent. On the 26th of May, just before taking the decision to cancel the concert, the mother monster called for peace with this tweet:
During the weekend 26-27th of May, her manager tried to find an agreement with the Indonesian authorities to maintain the concert. At the conclusion of these two days of difficult negotiations, the organizers finally decided to cancel. It was too risky for the pop star and her fans. Local promoters Big Daddy Entertainment said on its website that 100% refunds would be given to ticket holders. 52’000 persons bought their ticket within two weeks, and the concert was sold-out. When they discover the gig was canceled a lot of fans were very disappointed. There is an example of their reactions:
Not only popular on Twitter but also on Facebook, Lady Gaga is definitely the Queen of social media. She knows how to communicate with her fans. A good example for it is the amount of commentars and “I Like” Lady Gaga’s facebook profile collected after the announce of the cancelation:
For this announce, traditionnal media were late. They picked up what was going on in social media and reacted only this Monday (28 May). Even the Lady Gaga’s official website is not updated , because the show of the 3rd of June in Jakarta is maintain. That means that every fresh news come up, first of all, on the Twitter account of the Pop star.
Lady Gaga’s answer
Yesterday evening (29 May) the diva was giving a concert in Singapore. She said that she dedicated her concert “to special little monsters” : she was mentioning her Indonesians fans. Lady Gaga called the audience to shout “You were born this way Indonesia”. Here is the video (and you can judge by yourself if she is provocative or not!):
In Lady Gaga’s show, she always call for freedom: freedom of acts, of thinking, of sexual orientation. But for some people the pop star doesn’t respect other culture, other religion:
What do you think about this commentar?
Finally, Eurovision found its star
Posted by leonardfraze in Entertainment, People, Various on May 27, 2012
On the 26th may 2012, there was the 57th Eurovision contest. If you do not know about the Eurovision contest, the principle is simple : each European country has chosen a singer or a band to represent his nation with a song. The candidate has to face the others competitors and receives a mark from the Jury. This contest is also well known for its “ridiculous side”. Actually, we do not really know how the candidates are chosen but it seems that the particularity of the singers is : originality. For example, in 2006, the Finnish group, with its phenomenal costume, won the contest.
The edition of 2012 had also some groups quite funny. In this video, we can see a medley of top 15 ridiculous songs of the Eurovision contest 2012.
But this year something was different. The winner is a Sweden singer who made a strong impact to the jury with her song « Euphoria ». Loreen, 28 years old, won with 372 points, more than 100 points on the Russian folk band Buranovskiye Babushki which finished second. Serbia’s Zeljko Joksimovic came third. Loreen started to came famous in Sweden 8 years ago with the TV show « Idol » even if she didn’t win the competition. But this time, in front of 100’000 viewers, she did a fantastic show, thanks to her beautiful voice. Loreen advocates a return to nature. Her music is soft and her dancing is light and quiet. In Stockholm, the result was celebrated by hundreds of people dancing in the street.
Reactions and controversies about the contest
People were also very active on social networks about this contest. People encouraged their respective countries, making predictions on the winner but also criticizing certain candidates. The famous french presenter Mustapha El Atrassi also criticized the French candidate Anggun who made a bad performance. She finished ranked 22nd out of 26 candidates.
Anggun also commented herself her opinion about the contest the following day :
France has often disillusionment with Eurovision. In 2008, there was also a little controversy with the candidate Sébastien Tellier. He was selected by the channel France3 to represent the country at the Eurovision contest. The controversy was about the song they chose – called ‘divine’ from the album ‘Sexuality’ – which was written in English. At this time, UMP deputy François-Michel Gonnot was shocked that a French candidate could sing in English. ”A lot of people don’t understand that France renounces to defend its language in front of hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide”, he commented. The french singer responded in an ironic way about the controversy : “It’s not because i’m singing in English that the price of the ‘baguette’ will decrease.”
Nevertheless, multicultural won this year. Loreen is a perfect example; she was born in Stockholm from Moroccan parents. “When i’m in Marocco, i feel incredibly Swedish, but when i’m in Sweden i know that i have a different character, i don’t know always the rules of society. But for me this isn’t negative, because i don’t like borders. I don’t like discrimination and group that compares to another”, she said.
And what about Switzerland?
The Swiss group, Sinplus, originating in the canton of Ticino, composed of the two brothers Iban and Gabriel Broggini could not sing on Saturday because they were not qualified for the finals. The band lost against Azerbaijan in semi-final.
The last time that Switzerland won the Eurovision contest was in 1998 with Nella Martinetti and her song « Ne partez pas sans moi ».
Inside the Champions League Final
Posted by fabienfeissli in Entertainment, People, Technology, Various on May 23, 2012
On May 19th was held the final of the Champions League, one of the most famous competition in sports. Bayern Munich hosted Chelsea for an incredible scenario game. To the end of the night, nothing stay but the penalties. After dominating the entire game, Munich eventually lost in front of its audience. To witness this event you have several options. The easier was to be in front of your TV. But if you are stuck at a family meal, at your desk or anything else, you can follow the game through comments on Twitter or on a sport website.
A little bit later you will be able to watch all goals and highlights on video thanks to Youtube or to a similar website.
But that’s just if you’re away from the screen. Now there is more! Thanks to Twitter and Facebook, you can follow a game from inside without moving from your sofa. For example, you can see the coach (Roberto Di Matteo) of Chelsea arriving to the Allianz Arena in Munich.
Then you can dive in Chelsea’s changing room right before the final.
You can feel the ambiance inside it with the dedicated place of team capitain, Frank Lampard.
Or with the humor of David Luiz and Ramires.
You can also witness the heating of the players of Bayern Munich
Pressure will rise when you will see Chelsea’s players leaving the changing room for the field.
Then you will be able to witness the players’ entrance as if you were close to the field.
During the game you will get photos of specific time. The celebration of Muller’s goal for Bayern München.
The little break before the horrible penalties trial.
Then you can see players celebrating their victory. On the field.
In the changing room
With the Trophy.
Or with football’s legend Ruud Gullit.
Now that the celebration is over, you are waiting for the next game to get more. But with social medias, it never stops. You can keep following your favorite players or teams all year long.
Fabien Feissli
Les oiseaux et la photo
Posted by pontus4 in Entertainment, People, Technology, Various on December 12, 2011
La photo animalière n’est jamais facile!. Sachez que dans la plupart des cas, sauf si vous photographiez votre chien bien aimé ou un ronronnant petit matou, ou peut-être encore votre cheval, la plupart des animaux sauvages ne veulent pas être photographiées, les oiseaux encore moins!. Pour rendre la tache encore plus
difficile pour vous le photographe impatient et avide d’images à couper le souffle, la plupart des oiseaux ont des ailes, et savent très bien s’en servir, surtout à l’approche d’un personnage louche à proximité, brandissant vers eux quelque chose ressemblant à un bazooka, mais qui est en réalité un téléobjectif photo, pour les mitrailler, mais sans balles bien sûr !. Uniquement pour figer leur image sur leur pellicule kodachrome, kodak gold, Fuji, Agfa ou encore leur cartes SD ou CF.
Téléobjectif en effet, car avec un 50mm (équivalent à la vue humaine) vous aurez beaucoup de mal dans la plupart des cas a photographier de prés autre chose que des moineaux domestiques ou des pigeons en ville, en allant au travail (Ou en les nourrissant pour qu’ils s’approchent encore plus près de votre objectif……) Ah oui, vous vous croyez rusées la hein? le nourrissage, voilà le plan parfait!. Mais il existe encore d’autres plans plus élaborées
pour faire en sorte que les oiseaux que vous souhaitiez photographier s’approchent de vous. Si vous n’avez pas uniquement une cervelle de moineau, mais aussi quelques neurones bien ingénieuses et avides de trouvailles, faites les
croire (pendant un court instant), que vous êtes un des leurs (mais ne commencez pas à manger des verres de terre et des mouches pour autant). Non non, restons sobres s’il vous plait !. il y a un moyen beaucoup plus simple. Tel un Thierry Le Luron ou un Yves Lecoq imitez les !. Soit en enregistrant l’oiseau que vous souhaitez approcher, pour ensuite faire écouter a un male rival le chant de son pire ennemi (il s’approchera du son 9 fois sur 10) ou encore en
communiquant avec eux par d’autres méthodes.
Regardez plutôt la tactique de Sir David Attenborough, voulant faire apparaitre quelques pics rares en Patagonie. Ça marche !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq1DsB3ssqE&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fresults%3Fsearch_query%3Dthe%2Blife%2Bof%2Bbirds%26oq%3Dthe%2Blife%2Bof%2Bbirds%26aq%3Df%26aqi%3D%26aql%3D%26gs_sm%3De%26gs_upl%3D0l0l1l27l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0&has_verified=1
Regardez à partir de 20 : 30
Mais avoir des tactiques n’est pas tout bien sûr. Il faut aussi s’armer de patience, de patience, et encore de patience. En effet, certains photographes et ornithologues passent des jours, parfois des
semaines dans une petite hutte froide, infestée de mouches, à attendre l’oiseau qu’ils essayent de photographier. Après
plusieurs centaines de photos, il se peut que seulement 1 soit bonne !. S’armer de patience est donc une bonne vertu,
mais il faut aussi s’armer de téléobjectifs. Pour réussir à photographier les oiseaux un peu plus farouches, un 300 mm
est nécessaire au minimum, tandis qu’un 50-500mm est l’idéal. Vous pouvez ensuite y ajouter des doubleurs (2 x et aussi
3 x), ce qui peut transformer votre 50-500 en un 100-1000mm, ou un 150-1500mm !. la, plus rien ne vous arrête (sauf peut-être votre compte en banque !…), car sachez-le, si vous avez tout d’un coup des visions de grandeur et souhaitez acquérir le top du top, le téléobjectif le plus puissant au monde pour la photo animalière qui pèse 16 kg..(eh oui, un peu de musculation ne fais de mal a personne!..) Le 1000mm sigma f 3.5, ..(que vous pourriez ensuite transformer en 3000 mm avec votre doubleur 3x bien sûr), il vous faudra quand même débourser la modique somme de $ 26 ooo + les 9 euros de frais de port bien sûr… Mais ne dis-t-on pas que « quand on aime on ne compte pas » ?……………..
Pour Plus de Photos d’oiseaux :
http://pontus.smugmug.com/Nature/Wildlife-portfolio-1999-2009/9816000_xdkjZd#674248808_HMna4
Youtube videos: now on your mobile!
Posted by lethynguyen in Entertainment, Technology on December 12, 2011
Youtube is a website created in 2005 by three former Paypal employees. This site enables people to display all kinds of videos. This website changed in time: it enabled people to upload longer videos, and lately, it also enabled people to watch video is 3D. In 2007, Youtube mobile was launched. To use it, you need a mobile phone that plays streaming videos like most 3G phones do. As Youtube mobile is a data intensive application, it is strongly recommended to have an unlimited data plan. Otherwise, you will end up with a huge bill!
Youtube for Mobile 2007
“YouTube is really starting to broaden their reach by letting people get this content through means other than their main website”
In 2010, a brand new layout for Youtube mobile got out. With a more attractive design and way more functionalities, this new app is ready to seduce the customers.
Advertisment for Youtube mobile 2010:
Developed by Google Inc., this application is free and compatible with most of the smartphones. It was downloaded between 100,000,000 and 500,000,000 times in the last 30 days.
Youtube mobile 2010
Due to the incredible popularity of Youtube mobile, I decided to test it myself! Here are my pros and cons:
Pros:
- you can watch more videos than with the earlier version.
- you can post and read comments easily
- you can record and share your home made videos
Cons:
- you don’t have a clear view of your subscriptions
- There is no personal viewing history
- the screen is too small
Conclusion:
I don’t think this new app is really useful. Of course it can keep you occupied when you are waiting for the bus, but it is not really pleasant to watch videos on such a small display. Most of the new functionalities created for smartphones are legitimate (emails, facebook, twitter) because they allow people to keep connected with each other.
However, Youtube is used for entertainment and this main function has been very well integrated to the new app. As you can record short movies with your cellphone camera, youtube mobile enables you to share them instantly (as shown at the end of the following video).
Youtube for mobile user’s guide:
Further information about youtube and youtube mobile:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/mobile?hl=en
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.youtube&hl=en
Rebecca Black: How to be famous for being hated ?
Posted by stemoss86 in Entertainment, Various on May 13, 2011
Justin Bieber became famous thanks to Youtube. A music manager discovered the video posted by Bieber where he sings. The teenager was only 12 years-old. And now he is a famous pop singer. Rebecca Black also became famous last March with a Youtube music-video but not in the same way.
Rebecca Black is a 13-year-old amateur singer who became famous for her music video “Friday.” The lyrics of the song speak about “hanging out with friends and having fun.” And also being happy to be on Friday because the next day is the weekend. This music video was produced by Ark Music Factory, a California-based video company. Her parents paid between 2’000 and 4’000 dollars to the studios to cover the cost of writing the song and producing the video. The music video was first uploaded on YouTube on February 10th, 2011.
Part of the rise may be attributable to comedian Michael J. Nelson, who wrote a tweet on the song with a link. He has 19’000 followers on Twitter.
The blog Tosh.0 also posted a link to the video under the heading, “Songwriting Isn’t for Everyone.” The song became really famous a month later its upload on Youtube when the news blog The Daily What posted the video on March 11th, 2011. The song gained significant online notoriety this month not because it was appreciated but for its bad lyrics and the tone of the music. The voice of Rebecca Black is strongly transformed with auto-tune, a music program. The song was claimed to be «the worst song in the world ». Time.com, the online edition of Time magazine, called the song ”a train wreck” and “a whole new level of bad”.
The buzz around the video revolves mostly from the the content of the lyrics, such as:
Kickin’ in the front seat
Sittin’ in the back seat
Gotta make my mind up
Which seat can I take?
and specially the chorus
Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday
Today it is Friday, Friday
Tomorrow is Saturday
And Sunday comes afterwards
From The Daily What, “Friday” music-video was subsequently reblogged by other popular blogs like Huffington Post or Buzzfeed and shared on Tumblr and Twitter.
It is possible to share the video next to the Huffington Post article on Rebecca’s video:
On March 14th, 2011, # Rebecca Black emerged amongst the top trending topics on Twitter. It was more negative reactions and hateful comments:
@RKingPan – What is this Rebecca Black song? Earbleed!
@ericjhagen – Thank you Rebecca Black, for ruining my ears every time I hear the word “Friday”
@jenhartry – which songwriter is responsible for Rebecca Black’s ‘Friday’? You should be ashamed of yourself!!!
The comment of Charlie Sheen summarized all the critics:
By March 15th, the video became viral and had reached over 3 million views and by March 17th it reached 10 million views with the single reaching the Top 100 on iTunes. It reached the 45 th position of best selling on the Apple music market. A Wikipedia entry was created covering Rebecca Black and her highly-debated single. Rebecca was invited to an interview and to perform on the Jay Leno show on March 22nd.
March 30th, 2011, Rebecca Black’s “Friday” YouTube video officially surpassed Justin Bieber’s “Baby” in total number of user downvotes with over 1.1 million downvotes. And on the 11th of May at 7:30 PM: 135 985 122 people watched this musicvideo with 375 339 likes and 2 703 832 unlikes which makes it the video the most hated on Youtube. Ark Music chief, Clarence Jey, gave Black the option to remove her music video from YouTube, as the comments across social media sites like Twitter, grew increasingly more hateful. However, she decided against it.
Things went too far. Rebecca Black received death threats. The threats, one by email, one by phone, came shortly after the release of her video in February, demanding she pull the song from YouTube or else. The Anaheim Californian Police Department are doing a investigation.
Some support her but others still laugh at these death threats on Twitter
The music-video was kept on Youtube but the comments were desactivated.
We can see that the trend on Google research followed the Youtube trend. There was a huge research for Rebecca Black on Google in the middle of March. After peaking at the buzz, research has diminished over the days.
She has her own official website, a Twitter page and a Facebook page. She has 112′ 134 people who like her Facebook page. 233’959 people follow her on her Twitter page.
Many anti-Rebecca Black groups also exist on Facebook
In the first group that has 4’735 like, you can find a message like this one.
Rebecca Black has a sense of humor and explained the meaning of the lyrics on Funny or Die website
Many parodies (150 created in a month) were made on Youtube to mock the song. And several images have popped up with fried eggs photoshopped over Rebecca Black in reference to the way “Friday” sounds similar to “fried egg” in the song.
This is one of the first parodies. The name is “Saturday”. It mocks the lyrics and the video-clip. One of the critics is about the fact that teenagers of 13 years-old are driving a car.
On April 6, 2011 a parody by the Community Christian Church in Chicago was uploaded to YouTube performed by church member Sadie Black. The lyrics were adapted to fit a Christian theme. It was created as a promo for its upcoming Easter services.
Meanwhile people were criticizing and mocking the song, Katy Perry made a cover of it during her concert on the 29th of April in Australia. The way she’s singing the chorus and counting with her fingers how many “fun” words she is singing seems to show that she’s also mocking the song.
Two months after the buzz, the Glee cast from the hit teenager TV show Glee on Fox (USA) made a cover of the song for the episode “Prom Queen” aired the 10th of May. Series co-creator Ryan Murphy explained to The Hollywood Reporter the use of the viral hit as a tribute to popular culture. He said: “There’s a rule for it that’s explained in the show. The Glee Club is hired to perform songs for the prom and they were told by the principal to please do popular songs that the kids know. The show pays tribute to pop culture and, love it or hate it, that song is pop culture.”
And tweets followed on Twitter during and after the episode. Many tweets were about liking the cover of Rebecca Black ‘s song. There were also critics. This cover went on the Top 10 of iTunes the day after the episode was aired.
Even Rebecca Black commented the episode on her Twitter page
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