Archive : Art & Entertainment

Some people are simply difficult to gift. There is always that one person who has everything, and before birthdays and special occasions, you are left running from store to store looking for a perfect present that probably does not exist. What do you give someone who has everything? Canadian firm VoicePrints might have an answer. Toronto-based VoicePrints [...]

One of the foremost names in luxury watches, IWC or the International Watch Company has announced the launch of the company’s all new Portfino watch collection with an extravagant celebration party at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie 2011 (SIHH 2011) watch exhibition in Geneva. This incredible party, aptly named, ‘A night in Portofino’, [...]

Social Network, the proverbial biography of one of the biggest social networks on the web, Facebook, not only captivated audience world wide, but now has outdone itself at the 68th annual Golden Globe Awards, as the movie claimed the ‘Best Picture‘ award along with three other Golden Globe awards. This extravagant ceremony honored the [...]

Quigley Publishing Company’s 79th Annual Poll of Motion Picture Exhibitors results are out and Johnny Depp has been voted as the Top Money-Making Star of 2010. There is no doubt about Johnny Depp’s popularity among masses but this poll is entirely about revenue and it is conducted only among theater owners and film buyers. It seems like Johnny Depp’s [...]

The band Gorillaz decided to innovate and give a nice Christmas present for its fans and made available free on the web its new album “The Fall “. On Saturday (25) group, led by frontman Damon Albarn, released the streaming and downloading their new album “The Fall” which was recorded using various tablets iPads, Apple. Gorillaz [...]

One of the renowned filmmakers of India, Rituparno Ghosh, made a debut as a leading actor in a gay themed bilingual (Bengali and English) movie, Aarekti Premer Galpo (Just Another Love Story) released last Friday. As a director, Rituporno Ghosh has made extremely sensitive movies both in Hindi and Bengali and most of them have won national awards, international [...]

Iran has once again shocked the world by its decision to imprison and ban renowned film director Jafar Panahi for making films which project political, religious realities and gender divides existing in Iran. Jafar Panahi has been sentenced to six years of imprisonment and has been banned for 20 years from working on any projects and making movies. [...]

One of the biggest names in automobile tires, Pirelli, has now finally come out with the much awaited and highly customary annual calendar, in the form of the all new  Pirelli Calendar 2011. Pirelli Calendars have for long been associated with high class and have been considered as a collectible rather than a table top calendar. For the year 2011, [...]

Artist Pablo Picasso remains in news and as controversial as ever even after decades of his death.  The fresh controversy is about nearly 271 art pieces which are in possession of a retired electrician who had worked for the famous artist.  Pierre Le Guennec, who is 71 year old now, has claimed that those works were gifted to him by Picasso himself.  [...]

The creators of this new concept of “genetic art” are two young Canadian entrepreneurs, graphic designer Adrian Salamunovic of Bolivian origin, and specialist in molecular genetics, Nazim Ahmed, who in mid-2005, founded the DNA 11 in Iowa, his home state. Nazam sold them for making scientific images of DNA, and, looking at some pictures [...]