A tweet by tweet summary of the live-tweet event hashtagged #TGDLaunch in India on July 19 with Dr. Amitav Ghosh on stage with Ms. Sunita Narain

A tweet by tweet summary of the live-tweet event hashtagged #TGDLaunch in India on July 19 with novelist and essayist Amitav Ghosh on stage with Indian journalist Sunita Narain

peelibilli (@peelibilli) tweeted at 8:58 AM on Wed, Jul 20, 2016:
@sunitanar @ipshita77 @GhoshAmitav @PenguinIndia Will you make this available online for those who missed it? [ASKS THE ABOVE TWEET. HERE IS PART OF IT.]
(https://twitter.com/peelibilli/status/755567610901721089?s=03)

It is apparent that Dr Ghosh has one message for audiences inside India, especially in regard to how he feels modern novelists in India are NOT writing about climate change themes even when climate change impacts event are right outside their doors and he asks why and chastises them gently for being lazy apethetic writers ... while his message (for the same book of essays) when he goes to America in September for the USA launch there will be to congratulate Western novelists like Nathaniel Rich and Kim Stanley Robinson and Barbara Kingsolver and Meg Little Reilly and Sarah Holding and Paolo Bacigalpi and hundreds more in the UK and Australia as well for tackling climate change themes in their current novels. So Dr Ghosh is speaking to two audiences: one in India and one in the West. He has to tailor his remarks for each author in a sensitive way. This twitter event below was in India so he still says there are no climate theme novels in the literary world, when in fact, he knows full well by now that the cli-fi genre has taken the US and the UK and Australia by storm. But he cannot say that inside India for some reason. Read on:


Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 9:30 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
A few minutes from now, Ms. @Sunitanar will be in conversation with Mr. @GhoshAmitav about his new book of essays on climate. Live updates #TGDlaunch

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A tweet by tweet summary of the live-tweet event hashtagged #TGDLaunch in India on July 19 with novelist and essayist Amitav Ghosh on stage with Indian journalist Sunita Narain

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CSEINDIA (@CSEINDIA) tweeted at 9:48 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
All set for #tgdlaunch with @GhoshAmitav and Sunita Narain #climatechange #books https://t.co/ZAchmKkCMX

CSEINDIA (@CSEINDIA) tweeted at 9:53 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
@sunitanar and @GhoshAmitav arrive now for the book launch event #tgdlaunch @down2earthindia https://t.co/s643iq2flK

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 9:58 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
How is it that literature is not talking about #climate change?  asks @GhoshAmitav  at the launch of The Great Derangement. #TGDlaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755401540421160960?s=03)

CSEINDIA (@CSEINDIA) tweeted at 10:00 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
Today we are powerless because we are not asking our leaders to take action says @sunitanar @GhoshAmitav #tgdlaunch https://t.co/jgRDukG9MG
(https://twitter.com/CSEINDIA/status/755401928494948352?s=03)

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:02 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
Dealing with climate issues is considered fringe activity, @GhoshAmitav tells @sunitanar at #TGDLaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755402561197191168?s=03)

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:04 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
There's complete silence in imaginative discourse when it comes to #climatechange issues, says author @GhoshAmitav #TGDlaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755402968334204928?s=03)

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:10 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
Systematically, we have turned away from imagining #climatechange impacts, says Amitav Ghosh in conversation with Sunita Narain #TGDlaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755404533644361728?s=03)

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:11 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
When the cyclone comes for you, it is not going to pick between rich and poor - @GhoshAmitav at #TGDLaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755404797834997760?s=03

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:15 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
We are beginning to close the circles of conversations when it comes to #climatechange, says  @sunitanar #TGDlaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755405714315706368?s=03)

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:17 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
The systematic silencing of non-partisan voices on #climatechange is a reality, says @GhoshAmitav in conversation with @sunitanar #TGDlaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755406302587871232?s=03)

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:20 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
People don't realise how much does Paris Climate talks move away from climate justice issue, says @GhoshAmitav  #TGDlaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755407038088355842?s=03)

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:31 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
We have universalised a model of lifestyle that cannot work for the majority in the face of #climatechange, says @GhoshAmitav  #TGDlaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755409656428785664?s=03)

दि लास्ट पफ् (@DesiUvach) tweeted at 10:33 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
@down2earthindia Elites weren't worried when that lifestyle was restricted to few. Now that all demand it, elites sermonize us @GhoshAmitav
(https://twitter.com/DesiUvach/status/755410270877470724?s=03)

Dan Bloom (@do_you_cli_fi_) tweeted at 10:39 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
@down2earthindia Dr Ghosh is wrong here. Maybe in his native India but in the West there is a vibrant ''cli-fi'' genre https://t.co/tntilwQ4Pl
(https://twitter.com/do_you_cli_fi_/status/755411714946965504?s=03)

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:42 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
#climatechange has started making its way into political discourse of India, says @sunitanar #TGDlaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755412461369561088?s=03)

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:59 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
Scientists have to work with society and explain extreme weather events to sensitise people about #climatechange says @sunitanar  #TGDlaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755416797118169088?s=03)

Jon Queen (@jonmckeequeen) tweeted at 11:46 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
Climate Change Is This Generation's Biggest Threat: Amitav Ghosh - The Quint: The QuintClimate Change Is This... https://t.co/rcbIvPhqDo
(https://twitter.com/jonmckeequeen/status/755428590989119488?s=03)

Penguin Books India (@PenguinIndia) tweeted at 10:18 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
If the Americans are saying they are controlling climate change, I live on a different planet.
~SN [SAYS Sunita Narain ] WTF? [Do I detect an anti-America prejudice/hatred there?]
#TheGreatDerangement
(https://twitter.com/PenguinIndia/status/755406581374779392?s=03)

Vaishali Mathur (@mathur_vaishali) tweeted at 10:16 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
Amitav Ghosh and Sunita Narain talk about the greatest derangement stares us in the face #environment @PenguinIndia https://t.co/NdQlVJZGd8
(https://twitter.com/mathur_vaishali/status/755405929349259264?s=03)


Sanjay Sipahimalani (@SanSip) tweeted at 1:09 AM on Wed, Jul 20, 2016:
In #TheGreatDerangement, @GhoshAmitav mentions two novels that deal with climate change: McEwan's ''Solar'' from UK and B Kingsolver's ''Flight Behaviour'' from USA
(https://twitter.com/SanSip/status/755449606092316672?s=03)

Ipshita Mitra (@ipshita77) tweeted at 2:36 AM on Wed, Jul 20, 2016:
Literature is moving away from nature. @GhoshAmitav on climate change and justice with @sunitanar @PenguinIndia https://t.co/5NZtY2x45o
(https://twitter.com/ipshita77/status/755471280162340864?s=03)

Devi Lockwood says she is cycling across the Southern Hemisphere to try to collect 1001 climate-change stories

A former student of Folklore and Mythology at Harvard, Lockwood has pledged to try to collect 1001 stories about water, wildlife and weather.

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When Devi Lockwood set off on a journey to collect 1,001 climate-change stories through a variety of terrains across the Southern Hemisphere back in 2014, she wouldn't have thought that over a year and several miles later, she would be just 450 stories short of achieving her target.

A former student of Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University, Lockwood started her journey on September 21, 2014. With her bicycle, an audio recorder and occasional boat rides as  faithful companions, the 23-year-old American has reportedly travelled across Fiji, Tuvalu, Australia and New Zealand--asking the locals to share personal stories about their trysts with the phenomenon of climate change.

In a conversation with Mashable Australia, Lockwood said that she drew inspiration from Arabian Nights and chose the figure of 1,001 as it was nothing short of "magical" for her. The travelling bug first bit Lockwood when while working on her senior thesis, she decided to take a bike trip to the Mississippi River, but not without collecting stories and writing poems drawn from the people she came across along the way
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Carrying simple playcards that read out, "Tell me a story about climate change," Lockwood came across several people who were more than willing to share stories about water, wildlife, weather and themselves.

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Sharing one such story about a woman from Queensland, Lockwood told Mashable that the lady told her about how crocodiles are found farther south now--farther south than they've ever been before. "She's part of a team who will capture and release them," she elaborated. "Her conjecture was that because of climate change, wildlife is moving to different parts of the country."

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But why cycling?
Lockwood decided to give up on the concept of taking flights--so as to do her bit in reducing her carbon footprint. But that wasn't the only reason that made her take up cycling. During the course of her bike trip to the Mississippi River, she learnt to appreciate the beauty and peace nature has in store for us. The bike trip also made her realise how every locality and its citizens had different perceptions and stories about climate change.
With an aim to complete a count of 1,001 stories, Lockwood plans to set up an interactive website that comes with a map of the places she's travelled to, alongside an audio-recorded story pertaining to the area clicked on.

Taiwanese artist studying book design and illustration at the School of Visual Art in New York

Harry Lang with Mago Huang in 2012 in Los Angeles,
illustrator of Lang's book “My Name is Angela”

 

Taiwanese artist, 23, studying book design and illustration at the School of Visual Art in New York

by Dan Bloom

TAIPEI -- In 2012, Mago Huang

​(黃中妤) ​

was

 

honored with an award as one of the 12 illustrator winners of ​a Writers and Illustrators of the Future contest

in Los Angeles.  A native of Taiwan, Ms Huang now lives in the USA, and this blogger recently found some time to interview her and she graciously

answered some of our questions by email.

When asked about the 2012 award contest, Ms Huang, now 23,  told us that each selected illustrator was paired up with a selected writer.

"The contest judges selected 12 artists and 12 writers to go on to the second round of the contest. The writer I was paired up wuth was Harry Lang. He wrote a short story was selected for the contest, the judges felt that my style of art suited his story so they asked me to do an illustration for this," she said.

Here is Mago with writer Harry Lang in Los Angeles in 2012:

 

Harry Lang with Mago Huang,
illustrator of Lang's book “My Name is Angela”

Ms. Huang started to learn to draw during

her elementary

school years

​ in Taiwan​

, and won competitions while attending Wu-Chuan Junior High School in Taichung

​. When we asked if her art teachers in Taichung were important to her and the development of her talents, she said yes, explaining:

"I was enrolled in an art program in junior high school. The experience definitley influenced my art. We had to take four kinds of art courses in junior high -- water color painting, drawing, calligraphy, and traditional ink painting. Although I don't think all the classes met my interests, I still do appreciate the experience of learning art skills in Taiwan. I learned a lot through my classmates and teachers. It's also very helpful to know people who are also in athe rt field, and I remained friends with my classmates after the school program. Some of my classmates went into industrial design, some became photographers, and others became popular on social media."

After emigrating to the United States

​ to attend high school there, you

won an Honorable Achievement award in the 5th annual Safeway-Lucerne art competition "The Art of Dairy," which involved drawing a cow using various designs. How did your parents react to your winning the award

?​

"

After winning several competitions, my parents finally realized I was very serious about my wanting to pursue a career in art," Ms Huang said. "So they became very supportive, taking me to art courses and paying tuition for art school."

Mago once said that her

​

dream was to illustrate children's books and art magazines.

​We asked her if that was still her dream now,​

"Yes,  illustrating childrens' book is still my top choice," she said. "However, after enrolling in art program, and having the experience of being published,  I now feel that I would prefer writing my own story, and also doing the illustration myself. This way I will have more freedom regarding the whole package, the design and the plot."

In the summer of 2015, Mago did illustrations for a children's book published in Taiwan.

 

 

Here is a link:

http://m.sanmin.com.tw/Product/Index/005196472

 

ISBN： 957146024 作者： 李寬宏 著；黃中妤 繪 著 出版社/廠商： 三民書局 內頁p13 內頁p14 內頁p15 內頁p16 內頁p17 內頁p18 內頁p19 內頁p20 內頁p21 內頁p22

 

Mago once said that "If everyone spends a little time looking at a piece of art, they too can imagine a magical world." I loved that idea, and I asked her to tell me more about it.

"I always think art is a living thing," she said. " It grows with you. For example, if you buy an abstract painting for your house,  at first, it's just a pretty image. But as time goes by, you will become more attached to the painting, and eventually it becomes a small world for you (or a special scenery) you are attached to emotionally) . You could start to imagine it's a painting of clouds or mist in the autumn. It could be the places you want to go, it could be your favorite season, it could be memories of childhood. Things like that. I could be so many things, and what I mean is, if one spends enough time, a painting could be anything you want it to be. It all depends on who you are, the things you have experienced as a human being,  and everyone can appreciate and see the things they love about each painting."

   

 

When we asked if Mago planned to stay in the USA or return some day to Taiwan to work later on, she said she is still thinking about her future plans and has not decided yet.

 

For now,

she is happy studying and living in America.

Her future looks promising.

"I'm enrolled in the School of Visual Art in New York,'' she said. "I am studying in the 'illustration as visual essay' program. We have to wrote our own story and illustrate it. It's the kind of program I always wanted to do."

"In  addition to writing and illustrating children's books, I'm also very interested in pattern making and package design," she added.

 

==============================

Mago's Website:

www.magosart.com

 

Her Instagram ID is:
mago209m

 

FIFTY SHADES OF GREY star DAKOTA JOHNSON's "cli-fi" movie CHLOE AND THEO to hit theaters in September

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	FIFTY SHADES OF GREY star DAKOTA JOHNSON's "cli-fi" movie CHLOE AND THEO to hit theaters in Sept. via @ARC_Entertain. thewrap.com/fifty-shades-o…           FIFTY SHADES OF GREY star DAKOTA JOHNSON's "cli-fi" movie CHLOE AND THEO to debut  in Sept http://wangsuyainterview.blogspot.tw/2015/08/fifty-shades-of-grey-star-dakota.html #clifi #iStandUpForCliFi

From buzzword to buzzaword: a new word has been coined!

 

 

BUZZAWORD:

DEFINITION: similar to a ''buzzword'' but with more impact, more heft, more ''je ne sais quoi''...

BUZZWORD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzword

BUZZAWORD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzaword

A buzzaword is a word or phrase that becomes very popular in the media and often originate in neologisms such as cli-fi.  Buzzawords are buzzwords that help people "think outside the box."

At the Sushi Express restaurant on Saturday afternoon with Lali who took pic with her cellphone

 

我問他為什麼不回美國 他說很多ㄅㄧㄤˋㄅㄧㄤˋㄅㄧㄤˋ他會害怕😂😂😂 10 ♡ 2 ✍Aug 01

 

At the Sushi Express restaurant on Saturday afternoon with Lali who took pic with her cellphone...

讚! - ''勞力小白兔'' (Taiwan) [FREE STICKER] 展現台語的力與美--【魯力】二字簡單有力：表達【真誠的感謝你】。免費貼圖，希望大家將這個貼圖送給你的好友，並請在FB上幫我按讚 !!

展現台語的力與美--【魯力】二字簡單有力：表達【真誠的感謝你】。免費貼圖，希望大家將這個貼圖送給你的好友，並請在FB上幫我按讚 !!

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戀上台灣，戀上「LO LAT」的美國人丹布隆（Dan Bloom），為了讓更多的台灣年青人知道「LO LAT」這個詞，所以特地製作了一個「LO LAT兔」標識。當你／妳想要對妳的朋友說謝謝，感謝他／她的幫忙時，你／妳可以貼上這個「LO LAT兔」！不論是在FB、E-mail、或任何社群網站都可以免費的使用「LO LAT兔」，它會替你說：「LO LAT LAH」。丹布隆希望年青朋友們能夠多多使用它，並且對它按「讚」。

註：「LO LAT」（或「嚕力」、「*勞力*」、「櫓力」）是「謝謝」的一種台語口語用法，這個口語用法大概開始於 1920年。

 

LO LAT - 展現台語的力與美--【魯力】二字簡單有力：表達【真誠的感謝你】。免費貼圖，希望大家將這個貼圖送給你的好友，並請在FB上幫我按讚 !!

​ 展現台語的力與美--【魯力】二字簡單有力：表達【真誠的感謝你】。免費貼圖，希望大家將這個貼圖送給你的好友，並請在FB上幫我按讚 !!

 

http://wangsuyainterview.blogspot.tw/2015_05_01_archive.html

 

戀上台灣，戀上「LO LAT」的美國人丹布隆（Dan Bloom），為了讓更多的台灣年青人知道「LO LAT」這個詞，所以特地製作了一個「LO LAT兔」標識。當你／妳想要對妳的朋友說謝謝，感謝他／她的幫忙時，你／妳可以貼上這個「LO LAT兔」！不論是在FB、E-mail、或任何社群網站都可以免費的使用「LO LAT兔」，它會替你說：「LO LAT LAH」。丹布隆希望年青朋友們能夠多多使用它，並且對它按「讚」。

 

註：「LO LAT」（或「嚕力」、「勞力」、「櫓力」）是「謝謝」的一種台語口語用法，這個口語用法大概開始於1920年。

'Bleisure' portmanteau makes for strange bedfellows

'Bleisure' portmanteau makes for strange bedfellows

San Diego Jewish World humour column

"'Bleisure'? Blah!" -
http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2015/04/30/bleisure-travel-blah/
 

by ''Leinad Moolb''

BLEISURING in DUBAI -- I am not a connoisseur of words by any means, and my working vocabulary is actually quite limited, but everyone once in while as I navigate the internet, I come across new words and terms that give portmanteau words their money's worth.

Case in point: "bleisure," a portmanteau combination word created by putting ''business'' and ''leisure'' into the word blender. I saw the word in a newspaper headline the other day in an English-language newspaper here in Taiwan, where an Associated Press wire service editor used it in a headline about a travel story about tourist spots in Dubai.

The author of the AP article, Aya Batwary, had the good sense *not* to use the ''bleisure" term in her text at all, and never used it at all in her story, *but* one of her supervising editors in New York decided to stick it to readers in the headline I guess.

When I emailed Batwary in Dubai to ask her about this new ungodly portmanteau -- and ''a terrible neologism',' as the Economist magazine in London has called it -- she replied 10 minutes later in internet time: "Hey, take it up with the AP travel editor."

So I did. I am still waiting for the travel editor's reply --  Beth, I think her name is, Beth Harpaz. ***[UPDATE: She did reply to me, two angry emails, in fact! Oops!]

Here's some background  in this portmanfail brouhaha.

The headline in a recent Taipei Times wire story read: "Blissful 'bleisure' - travelers to Dubai are combining business with leisure and soaking up the sun and souq."

And notice that the word "bleisure" was in quotes in the Taipei Times headline, in order to signify to readers that the term was not a real word and was being used with scare quotes surrounding it.

The worldly Yiddish word maven and former New York Times "On Language" columnist Wiliiam Safire -- l'z -- knew a thing or two about how some portmanteau words fly and how some fail, so I decided to channel the Bill Safire spirit and get his take on this "bleisure" nonsense.

Back in the day, I used to be one of Safire's ''Lexographic irregulars," a group of readers who looked up to him for advice and comment, and he even quoted one of my letters to him as part a book he wrote long ago.
When I asked Safire about the misery of a portmanteau fail, by channeling his revered spirit from my home in Taiwan, he replied: "As you know, Dan, portmanteau terms are named after the French suitcase with hinged compartments -- chuckle and snort blended into chortle, breakfast and lunch fused into brunch, and, in our time, broadcast and the World Wide Web morphed into webcast (still capitalized as “Webcast” by the New York Times copy czar)."

I asked Safire what he thought of this hotel and travel industry portmanteau -- "bleisure" -- blending business and leisure into an awkward, ugly, weird new term, he replied: "Some portmanteau words work and work brilliantly, but others fail miserably and fall down hard."

There's more. An editorial writer for the Economist started off an article earlier this year:
"How's this for a terrible neologism: 'bleisure'. It is used to describe what some people claim is a new type of business traveller: one who fits in leisure travel while on the road."

As I surveyed a new generation of Lexographic Irregulars for this column, I received mostly a thumbs down response for "bleisure," even though if you Google it, you will see that it has caught on already with the hotel industry and most likely cannot be stopped now.

"I don’t have time for bleisure when I bravel," quipped a reporter in New York.

"If it's not the worst portmanteau of 2015, at least it's pretty bad," tweeted a Manhattan word maven.

But a hotel industry blog that bills itself as ''insights for the new travel industry professional; get smart about how and why you travel,'' likes the new word and used in a tweet the other day.

​"How could 'personalization' play a key role in bringing 'bleisure' to life?" the Tweet asked the blog's 800,000 Twitter "followers.

"Ever met a 'blurker'?" the spirit of William Safire asked me as this San Diego Jewish World humor column was coming to a close. "That’s boosted from lurker, 'someone who reads a forum conversation but doesn’t contribute,' and in a blargon portmanteau means 'one who reads many blogs but leaves no evidence of himself behind.'''

So what's your take on "bleisure" as a new portmanteau term, dear readers? Does it work for you? Is it a roaring success that will live on for decades in the hotel industry or is it a huge ''portmanfail,'' as some bloggers are already dubbing it.

Me, I'm voting it off the Dubai man-made islands. But what do I know?

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Eskimo actor makes 'cli-fi' debut in ''CHLOE AND THEO''

Eskimo actor makes 'cli-fi' debut in "Chloe and Theo" - Film is nominated for best movie, best actor, best actress, best screenplay and best director in the upcoming 2015 CLI FI MOVIE AWARDS in Hollywood (see: korgw101.blogspot.com)

by staff writer and agencies

 

NEW YORK, IN FRONT OF THE UN BUILDING -- Take an engaging and photogenic Inuit man from Canada and put him a 'cli-fi dramatic comedy' that aims to serve as a warning flare about possible global wamring impacts in the far north, and you've got a winner by Hollywood standards.
 

Meet Theo Ikummaq, the Inuit man who plays himself in the movie that is sure to touch millions. Fans are already talking about the film on social media and will soon be lining up to see it when opens this summer.

"Chloe and Theo"is about a man who comes to New York to try to persade the United Nations to do something about global warming before it wipes his people's homes in the far north off the map. Oh, and Dakota Johnson ["50 Shades of Gray"] co-stars are a young woman who wants to help him.

It's a serious movie, with a cli-fi theme and cli-fi message, but it's also billed as a comedy, too. There's some heavy dialogue, some good comic lines, and it's a tear-jerker that will not only touch your heart but may very goad you into action.

At a recent screening of the movie at World Bank function in Washington, Marty Katz, the founder and president of Prospero Pictures and the producer of "Hotel Rwanda," sat in on a panel discussion about the power of cinema to connect with people over serious issues.

Wagner then asked Katz, producer of the award-winning, historical film Hotel Rwanda, to talk about “what is the essence of film that enables one to create these connections and render such powerful responses and can this be applied to the subject of climate change?”

When asked to talk about how a movie like "Chloe and Theo" might connect with viewers on the pressing issue of global warming, the Canadian film maven responded by asking a few questions himself, according to a transcript of the World Bank event.

''Can film be an agent for social change? Can the arts be an agent for social change? Can anything but the arts be an agent for social change?" Katz asked. "I can’t think of how to change people’s perception or behavior except for the arts. That’s why governments who don’t want people’s behavior to be changed sensor the arts."

"I think that film can be a catalyst for those who can be social agents who can affect change in the world and I think that’s a great thing," Katz said.

Later, he tweeted and I saw this on his Twitter feed:

“You need the big story that comes from films. Then you need to give tools to people to make them able to make a change”@martinfkatz #TakeOn — Connect4Climate (@Connect4Climate) April 15, 2015

Like "Games of Thrones," this Enza Sands-directed movie is the latest in an expanding genre of films, novels and TV shows that touch on the genre of climate-change fiction, or "cli-fi."
 

While climate change can be a scary and overwhelmingly difficult topic that people want to avoid, as Manjana Milkoreit at Arizona State University has blogged, storytelling in movies like "Chloe and Theo" can bring the harsh realities of climate change home to world audiences -- and world leaders!

The

movie is a keeper. Will it score at the box office? Will it wake people up? Two questions that only time can answer.

Hola! These Spanish guys in GAS really sing in Chinese in Barcelona

 

blog post by Dan Bloom

 

PHOTO OF GAS:

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/photo/2015/04/15/2008115187

Taiwan -- April 14, 2014 -- Take 6 fun-loving Spanish guys in a homegrown band in Barcelona,

add some lyrics in Chinese to their repertoire, and voila, you've got GAS.

Jordi Riba is the only one who speaks Chinese fluently. He

has studied Chinese at a language school in Spain and does the

translations of the original Spanish lyrics. He also teaches English

and Chinese to kids in his town, as his day job.

To create songs with Chinese lyrics, Jordi transposes the words from

Spanish into a new set of lyrics in roman letters and the band members

sing from those music sheets, according to Salvador Mas, who composes the melodies.

The original lyrics to one of their songs, titled "The Eternal Freshman"

(永远的初学者), start off: "Abro los ojos hoy en un lugar que desconozco,

Me lanzaré de nuevo a la vida" (I open my eyes today in a place I

don't know, and I throw myself again into life).

Riba freely translated the lyrics into

Chinese pinyin for the band's music sheet, not word for word, but to

catch the gist or feeling of the words, as: as "wǒ zài yī gè xīn de

dìfāng wǒhěn xiǎng tànsuǒ, nà er yǒu yī xiē xīn de héliú wǒ xiǎng

chàngyóu" (我在一个新的地方我很想探索, 那儿有一些新的河流我想畅游).

"The meaning of that song is about the human desire to find or do something new

every day," Mas told the Taipei Times in a recent email interview. "We wanted to

talk about discovering new things and not being bored in a boring

office job or something every day. Try to change your life to make

your dreams come true, despite of the risk of change."

The band members -- Salvador Mas on guitar, Guillem Oms on guitar,

Jordi Riba as the main vocalist, Marcel Batalle on drums, Oriol

Serrano on keyboard, and

Pepe Zamora on bass --

hatched this dream of singing in Chinese a few years ago, and they

hope to get some gigs in Taiwan and China, if luck is with them and

they catch the attention of music promoters or festival organizers

overseas.

So far they've played more that 20 gigs in Barcelona and Madrid with Chinese lyrics for the Confucius Institute , the Tranlation University and some Chinese New Year parties.

The band plays on.

"There were Taiwanese people in the audience then, and there were also

people from Hong Kong and China," Mas said. "The reaction was

positive, so we want to keep our dream alive."

The bandmates are not about the quit their day jobs anytime soon, but

they plan to keep plugging their dream of performing in Chinese in

Chinese-speaking countries like Taiwan or China.

To make ends meet and

earn a living, the six men in their 30s work at a variety of jobs, Mas

said.

"Jordi teaches English and Chinese to kids here, Pepe is a

sociologist, Guillem is a street musician, Oriol works as a soud

engineer for a music studio, Marcel teaches percussion at a music

school and has a side gig repairing drums, and I am an economist," Mas

said.

When asked how this concept began, Mas said that a good friend came to one of their rehearsal sessions and asked Riba to translate one of their new Spanish songs into Chinese.

Jordi, who has

studied Chinese and teaches it to children in Barcelona, had the idea

one day during a practice session to try to translate some of the

band's original lyrics, which they normally sing in Spanish, into

Chinese and see if they could sing some songs in a foreign language,

just for fun, as a kind of musical experiment.

"We were amazed at the results of the translation, and we liked the

way Chinese words sound when sung, with their tone and melodious

qualities, so we decided to go for it and try to make this project

work," Mas said.

When asked what the band's name means, Mas didn't miss a beat.

"Well, we took the name from the lyrics of a Rolling Stones song,
'Jumping Jack Flash,' you know -- 'I was born in a cross-fire hurricane,
And I howled at my ma in the driving rain,
But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas!
But it's all right. I'm Jumpin Jack Flash,
It's a gas! gas! gas!'
-- and we all
thought it was funny. And yes we capitalize the name, all three
letters."

For Josh Edbrooke of the British band Transition, which spent time in Taiwan a few years ago and sings some of their in Chinese, too, GAS is worth watching since they care enough about Chinese lyrics to want to create music and songs in that language, he told this reporter.

"My advice to GAS would be to immerse themselves in as much Chinese culture as they can, and not just language," he said. "Food, films, and of course, music will help to enrich their musical style as well as lyrics."

"Back before any Transition members could speak much Chinese, we went to the Spring Scream festival in south Taiwan," he said. "We were inspired by the other bands and the whole indie music scene in Taiwan and this influenced our music a lot, even before we started to write songs in Chinese.
I'd really recommend GAS to look up some Taiwanese indie bands for inspiration, from Tizzy Bac to Fire Ex."