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Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Friday, November 16, 2012
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Saturday, November 10, 2012
Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanen (Dominican church bookstore), Maastricht, Netherlands
Imagine what it feels like to read books in an ancient church with 800 years of history. Years ago, the Dominican Church was still a place for people to park bicycles in Maastricht, Netherlands. Designer Mox brought amazing changes to this church by changing it into a book store.
The store has kept the original architectural style and only changed a little bit in terms of decoration by adding modern elements, which also make the church seem new. The feeling of reading books here under the tall and beautiful roof is fantastic. No wonder some people call it the "Paradise book store."
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
History of Tamil Cinema...
Tamil cinema is the Indian film industry based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, dedicated to the production of feature films in the Tamil language. It is based in Chennai's Kodambakkam area, where several South Indian film production companies are headquartered. With reference to this, the industry is also colloquially referred to asKollywood, a portmanteau of Kodambakkam and Hollywood. Tamil cinema is India's third largest film industry in terms of films produced, as per the Central Board of Film Certification report of 2011, with high revenues and worldwide distribution, having audiences mainly including people from the four southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu,Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka, placing the industry among the largest in the world. Silent films were produced in Chennai since 1917 and the era of talkies dawned in 1931 with the film Kalidas. 
By the end of the 1930s, the legislature of the State of Madraspassed the Entertainment Tax Act of 1939. Tamil cinema later had a profound effect on other filmmaking industries of India, establishing Chennai as a secondary hub for Telugu cinema, Malayalam cinema, Kannada cinema, and Hindi cinema. In its modern era, Tamil films from Chennai have been distributed to various overseas theatres in Singapore, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Malaysia, Japan, Oceania, the Middle East, Western Europe, andNorth America. The industry also inspired filmmaking in Tamil diaspora populations in other regions, such as in Europe and Canada.
By the end of the 1930s, the legislature of the State of Madraspassed the Entertainment Tax Act of 1939. Tamil cinema later had a profound effect on other filmmaking industries of India, establishing Chennai as a secondary hub for Telugu cinema, Malayalam cinema, Kannada cinema, and Hindi cinema. In its modern era, Tamil films from Chennai have been distributed to various overseas theatres in Singapore, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Malaysia, Japan, Oceania, the Middle East, Western Europe, andNorth America. The industry also inspired filmmaking in Tamil diaspora populations in other regions, such as in Europe and Canada.
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