Category Archives: Society

Star Wars funny commercials

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Star Wars, with its millions of fans worldwide and its well known characters is always a guaranteed success when it comes to advertisement. People can easily relate to funny ads, especially if they involve such a massive franchise like Star Wars. Read more

1968′s Silent gesture

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1968′s Mexico Olympic Games were no ordinary event. Besides all the World class sporting action that took place and that always amazes people, those Games would be remembered for political/activist reasons, as the Games of the “Black salute” or “Silent Gesture”.
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Mouseland

Mouseland

Mouseland is a fable which illustrates a society of mice, led by a government of cats. This story uses metaphors to establish a parallelism between this fantasized world and the real world, showing how a story that seems so ridiculous can be so close to our world’s democratic system. This story was first told by Clarence Gillis and became famous by the Canadian politician Tommy Douglas. Read more

JR: Using Art to change the World

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JR, a French street artist and 2011’s TED prize winner, had the idea to show some of the world’s true colors, in the form of art. It was from this premise that he made several projects where he portrayed the faces of several people. Behind some of the people portrayed, there is in most cases a story of poverty or suffering. Read more

Bicycle Film Festival

Bicycle film festival

Since its creation in 2001, the Bicycle Film Festival has grown into worldwide scale, being present in some of the most important cities of North and South America, Europe, Asia and Oceania. The main idea of the festival is to pay a tribute to bicycles in our daily lives, through the use of cinema and other forms of art. Read more

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