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07
May
get your culture fix with Orange #MP2013!
We recently told you about the mobile app that Orange has designed especially for Marseille’s year as European Capital of Culture. Now it’s time to give you the lowdown on all the events that simply cannot be missed throughout the year. As official partner of the event, Orange is supporting a number of diverse cultural [...]
02
May
Upside Down: looking at the world the wrong way round
With the upcoming release of French-Canadian film Upside Down, produced in collaboration with Orange Studios, I thought it would be fitting to look at where this top-vs-bottom concept finds its roots and see if there are any other works of art based on the gravity-defying theme. Director Juan Solanas’ mind-boggling notion of two parallel, mirror [...]
22
Apr
David Lacombled – interview with a Digital Citizen – Part 2
Continuation of the interview with David Lacombled on his book, “Digital Citizen – A Manifesto for Digital Citizenship“, published by Plon (read part I of the interview). In the second part of this interview, he talks to us about the right to oblivion, the impact of the digital in real life, and its contribution to [...]
19
Apr
David Lacombled – interview with a Digital Citizen – part 1
David Lacombled is the Deputy Director of Content Strategy at Orange. He also heads up the MO3T project, a consortium seeking to create a label for e-books, which includes Orange, the French telecommunications company SFR, and leading French publishers and book retailers. He has just published a book entitled Digital Citizen – Manifeste pour une [...]
05
Apr
Fun Finder, your personal nightlife planner!
Friday and Saturday nights have become too predictable? Your local pub holds no secrets for you anymore? Put your faith in Fun Finder, your very own personal nightlife planner! Finding something fun to do on the weekend, or even during the week, can be somewhat of a hassle: it involves spending time searching for an [...]
29
Mar
Push Your Art the “Master Class” – day 3
The final day of workshops for the young entrants in the competition for art projects using new technologies, Push Your Art. After two days spent preparing their projects, it was time to face the jury… Day 3 Renowned stereographer Joséphine Derobe welcomed the students on their arrival, before talking them through the making of the [...]
28
Mar
#MP2013 mobile app – culture at your fingertips
In 2013, Marseille has been named the European capital of Culture. As we’ve been able to see in our recent findings at the Forum d’Avignon in November, culture and technology are increasingly linked, and the creative teams here at Orange have developed the event’s official mobile app, called “MP 2013”, in order to make your [...]
28
Mar
Push Your Art the “Master Class” day 2
Still at the Palais de Tokyo for the Push Your Art event, our 11 young artists are today getting to the heart of the matter, attending 3D workshops and watching a 3D documentary with the film’s stereographer… Day 2 In order to produce 3D work with the best possible rendering, yesterday the art pupils attended [...]
27
Mar
Push Your Art the “Master Class” – day 1
Organized at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in partnership with Orange, the Push Your Art artistic event got underway on Thursday (March 21, 2013). Here’s a little look back on these 3 days of the Masterclass and its participants… Day 1 Last February, 11 young artists were selected based on the applications they submitted [...]
22
Feb
spanish language website El Rincón del Vago celebrates its 15th anniversary
Our colleagues at Orange Spain are celebrating this week the 15th anniversary of El Rincón del Vago, a subtle cross between Wikipedia and the “for Dummies” books! Launched on February 21st 1998, El Rincón del Vago is one of the very first Spanish-language websites of its kind. The video below, produced for the occasion, takes [...]
