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Dear Spectrites, <br>
<br>
Today, I am thrilled to announce the publication of the book "The
Jellyfish and the Moon".<br>
It is a great gift to both children and adults. I hope you will
enjoy it.<br>
<br>
Best<br>
Annick Bureaud<br>
<br>
<br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;
mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">The Jellyfish and the Moon (La
Méduse de la Lune</span></i><span
style="font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:
Avenir">) tells the story of a jellyfish which, tired of the
tourists in its
waters, decides to go live on the Moon in order to "float in
peace".
But was it a good idea …</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">Fabienne
Gambrelle's
text has been illustrated by Anaïs Tondeur and Gabriel Grandry,
the images have
been sent to the Moon (visual moonbounce) by Daniela de Paulis
and Clarisse
Bardiot (Editions Subjectile) is the publisher.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">It
is bilingual
French-English</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://subjectile.com/portfolio-items/la-meduse-de-la-lune/">http://subjectile.com/portfolio-items/la-meduse-de-la-lune/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">It
is a fabulous
book! a book for children (tested and approved from 4 years old)
as well as a
collector's for adults.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">It
all starts on a
beach, in the sight of bathers playing and splashing. Near the
rocks, fishermen
scrape the seabed. Offshore, pleasure boats ply the sea noisily,
divers rush in
horde towards the depths. But how can marine animals withstand
this uproar?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">This
question gave
birth to the story of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The
Jellyfish and
the Moon</i>. A jellyfish, of supple, luminescent beauty,
belonging to a
species that has been on our planet for much longer than humans
and which has
no other choice but to leave its habitat.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">Where
will it go?
On the Moon! But humans, invasive on Earth, also travel in space
…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">This
multi levels
tale weaves a fictional epic, in a tradition of adventure
against a background
of evocation of the conquest of space, to that of migration,
underpinned by our
relationship to other living beings, our way of inhabiting the
planet and,
perhaps, other celestial bodies such as the Moon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">Fabienne
Gambrelle's text is illustrated by drawings by Anaïs Tondeur and
Gabriel
Grandry who associated iconic images of the conquest of space
with the softness
and reverie of the sea and of Selene, shadow and light.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">In
addition, those
images were sent to the Moon by artist Daniela de Paulis through
EME -
Earth-Moon-Earth or "Moonbounce" technology.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">The
different
reading levels together with the richness and duality of the
original as well
as the “moonbounced” illustrations make it a book for children
(tested and
approved from 4 years old) as well as a collector's for adults.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;
mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">The Jellyfish and the Moon</span></i><span
style="font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:
Avenir">, by Fabienne Gambrelle, drawings by Anaïs Tondeur &
Gabriel
Grandry, Visual Moonbounce images by Daniela de Paulis, Editions
Subjectile,
2021 - Bilingual French-English - ISBN : 978-2-36530-030-8 - 18
€ - Order :
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://subjectile.com/portfolio-items/la-meduse-de-la-lune/">http://subjectile.com/portfolio-items/la-meduse-de-la-lune/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;
mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;
mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:
Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">Fabienne Gambrelle</span></b><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir"> </span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;
mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">is a screenwriter and writer. She
loves the sea,
summer, dancing, glitter, the starry night, icy Eskimos and
history, which she
studied at the Sorbonne. When she is neither at the ball nor at
the beach,
Fabienne Gambrelle writes books and scripts for animated films
for children.
She has participated in the writing of numerous television
series and has
published, with Karibencyla editions, two children's novels and
two illustrated
albums: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Les Glaces et les
Chocolats de
l'Harmonie</i> (2016 and 2017); <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Petit
Poucet et le Minotaure</i> (2010); <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Hänsel,
Gretel et Saci Pererê </i>(2015).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:
Avenir">With a passion for Brazil, she has devoted several books
to this
country (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Julien apprenti
capoeira</i>,
2005 ; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Le Gou</i></span><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">̂</span></i><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">t
du
Br</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri">é</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;
mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">sil</span></i><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:
Avenir">, 2012). Her bibliography also includes works for adults
on love of
good food and craftsmanship co-written with artisans (<i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Les Laques</i>, Solar, 2006; <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Ma
langue au chocolat</i>, Flammarion, 2008; <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Le
Goût des desserts</i>, Mercure de France, 2013).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:
Avenir"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:
Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">Anaïs Tondeur</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:
Avenir">In an approach rooted in ecological thought, Anaïs
Tondeur develops an
interdisciplinary practice through which she explores the
different ways of
“coming back to earth” by means of investigation protocols or
speculative
accounts presented in the form of installations, drawings,
photographs or
videos.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:
Avenir">A graduate of Central Saint Martin (2008) and the Royal
College of Arts
(2010) in London and recipient of the Cyber Arts Honorary
Mention, Ars
Electronica (2019), she has presented and exhibited her work in
international
institutions such as the Center Pompidou (Paris), the Gaîté
Lyrique (Paris),
the MEP (Paris), the Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,
Serpentines Galleries
(London), Bozar (Brussels), the Biennale Di Venezia, French
Pavilion, (Infinite
Places), Houston Center of Photography (United States) or the
Nam June Paik Art
Center (Seoul). <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://anaistondeur.com/">https://anaistondeur.com/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:
Avenir"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:
Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">Gabriel Grandry</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;
mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>lives
and
works in Paris. A self-taught designer, he has spent the last
fifteen years
sketching in pastel the zinc architecture of the roofs of his
neighborhood. A
former auto mechanic, he is now devoted entirely to illustration
and the
creation of books for children.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:
Avenir"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:
Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">Daniela de Paulis</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;
mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir"> is an artist of Italian origin
living in the
Netherlands. Her artistic creation is part of a broad field of
art-science-technology. She has an amateur radio operator
license (IU0IDY) and
is also trained as a radio telescope operator. From 2009 to 2019
she was artist
in residence at the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope where she created
a body of work
based on innovative radio technologies in live performances.
Since 2010, she
has collaborated with various international organizations,
including
Astronomers Without Borders, for which she created an artistic
program of which
she is the director. She is a member of the international
standing committee of
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and of the
advisory group of
METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence). </span><a
href="https://www.danieladepaulis.com/"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:
Avenir;color:#1155CC">https://www.danieladepaulis.com/</span></a><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;
mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:
Avenir"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:
Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:
Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">Visual Moonbounce </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:
Avenir">The Visual MoonBounce developed by Daniela de Paulis
during her
residency at the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope in the Netherlands is
an innovative
application of lunar bounce technology used during the Cold War
by the United
States Navy as a spy instrument, replaced at the end of the
1950s by
satellites. However, radio amateurs continue to use it in
experimental and fun
forms of international communication.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:
Avenir">The principle is based on sending radio waves from a
transmitter to a
receiver by reflection on the surface of the Moon. The Moon is
thus used as a
passive communication satellite. Literally, it "sends back" the
signal, however with a loss in its sharpness, creating fragile
and bl</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Avenir;mso-fareast-font-family:Avenir;mso-bidi-font-family:Avenir">urred
images, as fragile as the world of
jellyfish, our world.</span></p>
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