From kitschy costumes and primitive special effects to jaw-dropping graphics. Special effects have come a long way, and one of the first studios to board that ship was George Lucas, the father of Star Wars, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), which is celebrating 40 years this year. On this occasion, they prepared a one-minute video collage with excerpts from films with their graphic masterpiece.
In the company of summer festivals on home soil, at the end of July this year, the electronic festival ECO Festival will also take place, which will be ruled by music conductors Dubfire, Jeff Mills, Sam Paganini, The Advent & Industrialyzer and many others.
Refined flavors that ignite our irresistible passion for the sweet side of life, premium ingredients that add a sense of luxury and decadence, and timeless packaging that transports you to another time. All this is the chocolate shop La Chocolate in the center of Ljubljana.
The Freedom Island in the middle of Budapest is calling for attention, because this August the high-profile Sziget festival will once again take place there, where world music names will line up for seven days, including Robbie Williams, Avicii, Limp Bizkit, Hollywood Undead, The Gaslight Anthem, Florence + The Machine and Alt-J.
Why cheese has holes has puzzled scientists for almost a hundred years. Now, however, we got the right answer. It was provided by Swiss researchers from the Agroscope Food Science Institute in Bern, who thus filled the remaining gap in knowledge about cheese. The culprits are the small particles of hay in the milk that get there during the milking of the cow and not the carbon dioxide secreted by the bacteria, as has been the prevailing theory until now.
The best-selling beer in the world is not Belgian, not Czech, not Mexican, not even American. In fact, only one from Europe was on the list of the ten best-selling beers, namely the Dutch brewery Heineken, the newly minted owner of Pivovarna Laško, in seventh place. You probably haven't even heard of the beer that ended up at the very top, let alone tasted it.
On June 6, 2015, the jubilee 20th cycling marathon of Cherries will take place. Last year, 1185 cyclists completed the 108-kilometer route from Ljubljana to Dobrovo, and this year the organizer of the Goriška brda Wine Cellar is expecting four-digit attendance. The record is currently held by 2010, when 200 more cyclists participated than last year. Will the farewell to the teenage years bring record attendance?
On Tuesday, June 9, the Gallus Hall of Cankarjev dom will once again host the international chanson festival La vie en rose 2015 for the last time. They will be dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edith Piaf and a selection of the most interesting performers of the 15-year history of the La vie en rose festival.
Edwar Zwick (Blood Diamond, Love and Other Drugs) returns to the screen with the biography Pawn Sacrifice about the greatest American chess master Bobby Fisher, convincingly portrayed by Tobey Maguire (Spider-Man). All the paths of the film (read stories from childhood and youth) lead to the chess match of the century with the Russian Boris Spassky (Liev Schreiber).
Benedetto Demaio decided not to flood his Instagram profile with photos of food, but with a series of photos where he puts everyday objects such as balloons, rubber bands and crayons into simple but beautiful compositions.
Sean Yoro is an artist who combined his love of surfing and windsurfing with his innate creativity and ventured out to sea, where he now paints hyperrealistic girls on flooded hidden surfaces.
The English rock group The Libertines, who gave indie and garage rock in the new millennium (like The Strokes on the other side of the pond) a new meaning, a new life, restarted it and started a real revolution in the world music industry, is back again. This time they will stop in Milan with a concert on the 4th of July.