By: Valentina Cagnin This new project connects itself indissolubly with the advertising that we can host in our webspace, leading us to support our business focused in making Venice even more loved and liveable by those who come to visit it. LiVenice LoVenice starts as an international web platform in which everyday’s Venetian reality, that is often taken for granted, becomes an essenial detail. Thanks to internet, it’s now possible to share every aspect of the “ Venetian World”, in order to make them accessible to everybody. Our goal is to give birth to an actual website where people can…
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The world’s first fully accessible fun run/push, Parallel London heads to London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on 3 September for a second year, alongside the inaugural Free Family Festival with ten zones of entertainment. Disabled and able-bodied people of all ages and abilities can join the run side-by-side, running, walking, pushing or being pushed with no cut-off times and the choice of 10km, 5km, 1km or 100m challenges. They can also opt for the Super Sensory 1km course, full of multi-sensory experiences, from sound and scent to textures and colour including smell and light tunnels, bubbles, a ribbon canopy, parachute and wind chimes. The sensory stimulation supports memory, which is useful for those with late-stage…
28 September 2017 Pureland Series For the first talk of the autumn season the Pureland Series welcome internationally renowned actress, mental-health campaigner and best-selling author Ruby Wax on September 28th at London’s China Exchange. Drawing on personal experience and her most recent book A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled, released in early 2017, Wax will discuss the impact of modern life on mental health, provide the audience with tools to deal with the stress as well as sharing her lifelong battles with anxiety and depression. Wax’s Pureland Series talk brings an end to her critically acclaimed UK tour Frazzled, following on…
Computer vision and sound experts at the University of Surrey have demonstrated ‘Media Device Orchestration’ – an innovative home audio concept which enables users to enjoy immersive audio experiences by using all available devices in a typical living room. The Media Device Orchestration (MDO) concept has been developed at Surrey in collaboration with the Universities of Salford and Southampton, and BBC Research & Development. It is being presented at the Audio Mostly conference in London on 24 August 2017. Using the MDO concept, researchers have demonstrated that a 3D or ‘spatial audio’ experience can be achieved by employing everyday home…
A lot of women use tons and tons of products to combat the signs of skin ageing and other skin issues. Some of them even spend a good amount of money to keep their skin younger-looking and radiant. If you are one of these women, then you know exactly how difficult getting beautiful skin can be. Fortunately, however, there are these 7 easy tips for natural beauty you can try- all without chemicals or even expensive price tags. 1. Choose whole foods Those fried and greasy junk foods won’t do your skin any good. In fact, aside from your skin,…
B&O PLAY presents the Autumn/Winter 2017 Collection. A limited-edition range of premium speakers, headphones and the latest wireless earphones inspired by the fashion and interior colour trends of the season. This season, B&O PLAY joins the voices that remind us that simplicity and serenity is timeless. The colour inspiration was found in that magical slice of time, where autumnal light drapes the Japanese landscapes in sophisticated and unexpected colour combinations. Hence the natural and expressive materials used in the collection such as leather and aluminium is softened by a palette of lilac, violet, cityscape grey (vapour) and deep brown (umber) to…
Can’t remember the last time you went to the gym? Well your lack of exercise may well account for that, in more ways than you might think. New research from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has found that those who are more aerobically fit are more likely to have better memories. So here are 5 ways to notch your aerobic exercise up a gear, for both a fitter frame and a fitter brain! Firstly, what counts as aerobic exercise? Aerobic exercises are ones typically performed at moderate levels on intensity for extended periods of time, which can…
By Cyriaque Griffon I recently attended three great World Tours concerts and not to be missed music events and wanted to share the mood…depending on your tastes. Depeche Mode, Global Spirit Tour, 1 July, Paris People are people, Personal Jesus, Enjoy the silence…To name a few hits. The band also paid tribute to David Bowie. No need to worry, they still have much energy on stage ! You will enjoy the show and immerse yourself in your memories. Among the coming not to be missed dates : 30 August Chicago, 5 Sept Montreal, 11 Sept New York, 3 Dec Paris….…
Written by: Cyriaque Griffon Photographs: Solange Podell New York, June 1968 After having lobbied President Johnson, a music star managed to go and entertain the U.S. soldiers in a war zone area in Vietnam. If one recalls the political climate of that time, not only had a harsh Viet Cong offensive reverberated in the USA, Bobby Kennedy had just been fatally shot. It was also two months after Martin Luther King’s assassination when race relations were at a breaking point and President Johnson had declared a state of emergency. The Godfather of Soul, as he was referred to, had also…
By Cyriaque Griffon The celebrities flock as usual to Ibiza to party at some of the most exclusive and legendary nightspots of the island. The Ibiza venue is still unrivalled this summer if you want to hit the dance floor like I did with the world’s biggest DJs. One of the “must visit” is the Pacha. With more than four decades, the well-established club is still a hotspot with the “crème de la crème” and captures the magic of France in Ibiza with the “Paris by night” parties all night long. Top DJ Bob Sinclare once again contributes to the…