Alain Edouard | Director, Photographer | Montreal

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Thu, 10 May 2012 22:51:36 -0400

Vilmos Zsigmond

A short film by Claude Lelouch entitled C’était un...

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:08:00 -0500

A short film by Claude Lelouch entitled C’était un rendez-vous (1976).

Nostalgic future. From Metropolis (1927)

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:15:31 -0400

Nostalgic future. From Metropolis (1927)

"Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending."

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:02:04 -0400

“Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.”

- Calvero, says. Limelight (1952)

At last, I have found the right job interview attire.

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:04:00 -0400

At last, I have found the right job interview attire.

Ô journée des mectons. Although, this picture’s...

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:27:00 -0400

Ô journée des mectons. Although, this picture’s about something else. Happy Bastille Day, people—or whatever.

Photo

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:28:18 -0400

Sound Advice

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:54:00 -0400

This week’s f-words come from Charles Harrington elster’s Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations (1999). While my own strong opinions about Orthoepy vacillate between yes! and who-cares?, I have found this book to be (if nothing else) 1—a valuable bet settler and 2—a great way to show your barbarous buddies how much a pedant you can be.

feral: FEER-ul. this pronunciation is favored by all 4 major american dictionaries.
fifth: FIFTH or FITH. if you can pronounce the second f, good for you. but there’s nothing slovenly about dropping it… it is biestly however, to drop the h and say FIFT or drop the th and say FIF.
finis: FIN-is (occasionally, FY-nis). the popular variant fee-NEE is wrong. finis is not french for “finished,” as many apparently imagine. it comes through middle english from the latin word meaning “the end, conclusion.”
flaccid: FLAK-sid, not FLAS-id. apparently the flabby FLAS-id has been limping around in educated circles for most of the 20th century. webster 3 was the first dictionary to recognize FLAS-id, labeling it with its esoteric symbol of disrepute, the obelus [÷]. flaccid is a book-learned word which may explain why so many educated speakers have swallowed the beastly FLAS-id without giving a second thought to the pronunciation of analogous words. consider: accident, succeed, eccentric, etc.
forbade: fur-BAD. in 1961, webster 3, in opposition to all previous authority, arbitrarily indicated that forbade should be pronounced fur-BAYD. the controversy may soon be academic: the evidence of my ears says that forbid is fast replacing forbade as the past tense of forbid.
formulae: FORM-yul-LEE, not -LY. as any science savvy person knows,antennae, larvae, papillae, and so on have a long i sound at the end, right? wrong. words borrowed from latin that form their plurals in -aeproperly have a long e sound at the end. that’s why, for example we say AL-jee for algae.
forte (strong point): properly FORT, now usually FOR-tay.
fracas: FRAY-kis. the first a is properly long. when you enter the fray,you enter a fracas.
fungi: FUN-jy (j as in judge), never FUN-gy (g as in gout).

And for another look at how everything that you are saying, you are saying wrong, there is this and this.

via ragbag

Paris — When It Sizzles (1964) In frame: Audrey Hepburn, William...

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:59:51 -0400

Paris — When It Sizzles (1964)

In frame: Audrey Hepburn, William Holden.

Compelling plot. Meticulously well shot. And yes, sizzlingly sizzling.

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:59:59 -0400

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

- Marcel Proust.

"Don’t say what you’re doing, say why you’re doing it."

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:12:00 -0500

“Don’t say what you’re doing, say why you’re doing it.”

- Michael Lopp on the Art of the Tweet.

Every now and again, when pressed to talk about Twitter and why it’s not as tarded as you’ve been told, I’ll puff up my chest and say the following as though I’ve just now thought of it: I don’t mind if you tweet that you’re eating a sandwich as long as you say how it tastes.

T-Bone Walker At The Philharmonic — circa 1966.

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:16:00 -0500

T-Bone Walker At The Philharmonic — circa 1966.

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:34:00 -0500

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

- Oscar Wilde.

Bix Beiderbecke.

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:33:00 -0500

Bix Beiderbecke.

lonelysandwich: mrgan: Thelonius Monk’s advice to saxophonist...

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:39:53 -0500

lonelysandwich:

mrgan:

Thelonius Monk’s advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960)

Every one of Monk’s notes in here may as well be gospel, but one that stood out for me:

“A genius is the one most like himself.”

1954 — Chet Atkins’ sound is just unique. Love the riffs.

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:55:00 -0500

1954 — Chet Atkins’ sound is just unique. Love the riffs.

tmblg: Manhattan Bridge at Night, Dumbo, Brooklyn, 2005

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:29:14 -0500

tmblg:

Manhattan Bridge at Night, Dumbo, Brooklyn, 2005

"I don’t know what’s worse; to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always..."

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:24:00 -0500

“I don’t know what’s worse; to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”

- Flowers for Algernon.

lonelysandwich: United Artists Charlie Chaplin & Mary...

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:22:23 -0500

lonelysandwich:

United Artists

Charlie Chaplin & Mary Pickford atop Douglas Fairbanks

via vintagephoto

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving the non-essential..."

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:11:00 -0500

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving the non-essential things undone.”

- Lin Yutang.