Louis Tomlinson Announces Plans to Launch New Management Company
The former One Direction member continued, “So I’ve decided to put it out there in the world today. I’m going to start my own music management company to help develop new artists. Watch this space.”
Tomlinson pointed out that the management company announcement is “the first step of actualising the idea but at this stage that’s all this is. An idea!” He also clarified in another tweet that his plans do not included forming a record label.
In July 2020, Tomlinson announced that he had parted ways with Simon Cowell’s Syco. The artist had signed a solo recording contract with the label in 2017.
Louis Saha recalls Man United goal that proved Cristiano Ronaldo is an alien
Cristiano Ronaldo has an outrageous array of weapons in his armoury.
His ability to score any type of goal, dazzle opponents with his fleet-footed style of dribbling and phenomenal commitment to improving his athleticism have made him one of the greatest players in the history of the game.
Alongside Lionel Messi he can be considered one of football’s true extraterrestrials.
While Messi’s otherworldly talent was incredibly obvious from an early age, Ronaldo’s potential manifested slowly during his six-year stint at Manchester United.
It was clear that the Portuguese wizard would grow into a top tier talent, but few could have predicted the impact he has gone on to make.
As time went on Ronaldo grew in confidence, stamped out the petulance of his formative years and improved every aspect of his technical, mental and physical repertoire.
By the year 2008, his former Manchester United teammate Louis Saha had realised he was playing on a different planet to mere mortals.
Saha played 94 matches alongside Ronaldo for the Red Devils, combining to goal scoring effect on eight occasions.
And while speaking to talkSPORT recently, the former centre-forward recalled a special moment from Ronaldo that confirmed his status as an ‘extraterrestrial’ talent.
“The moment when I thought he was extraterrestrial was the goal against Roma away from home in the Champions League,” he said.
“The ball went wide and he bombarded forward and the strength that he actually generated into that action, because he came maybe 20 metres late into the box and he jumped way higher than anybody, and now he’s doing this every week.
“I didn’t know the guy had that in him. I knew he had skills and talent but I had no idea he could score those kind of goals.
“It was powerful, courageous and he didn’t care about getting hurt. That was when I thought: ‘Hang on a minute, this guy is an animal’.”
You can see a clip of the goal below:
Ronaldo’s extraordinary ability to levitate in mid-air before heading the ball has become a trademark feature of his game, and the header against Roma provided a prescient indication of what was to come.
The athleticism he showed to sprint into the box, arriving from well out of camera shot to meet Paul Scholes' delivery, as well as the bravery he showed to attack the ball at full pelt, are two traits that have enabled him to reach demi-god status.
We’ve seen many similar feats of physical excellence during his stints with United, Real Madrid and Juventus as well as with the Portugal national team.
This particular strike, however, is up there with the very best headers in Ronaldo’s career.
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Louis Henderson, Black Code/Code Noir
Join us on e-flux Video & Film for an online screening of Louis Henderson’s Black Code/Code Noir (2015), on view from Tuesday, March 9 through Monday, March 22, 2021.
Black Code/Code Noir unites temporally and geographically disparate elements into a critical reflection on two recent events: the murder of Michael Brown and that of Kajieme Powell by American police officers in 2014. Archaeologically, the film argues that behind this current situation is a sedimented history of slavery, preserved by the Black Code laws of the colonies in the early Americas. These codes have transformed into the algorithms that configure police Big Data and the necropolitical control of African-Americans today. Yet, how can we read this in the present? How can we unwrite the sorcery of this code as a hack? Through a historical détournement, the film suggests the Haitian Revolution as the first instance of a hacking of the Black Code and, perhaps, a symbol for future hope.
Black Cod /Code Noir is presented here as one of four films in Part Three | Tracking the Coded Real, the third of five programs in the online series True Fake: Troubling the Real in Artists‘ Films programmed by Lukas Brasiskis for e-flux Video & Film.
True Fake: Troubling the Real in Artists' Films runs from February 9 through April 19, 2021. The films in each part will screen for two weeks. Subsequent parts will follow bi-weekly, with new films screened every other Tuesday.
Louis Henderson is a filmmaker who is currently trying to find new ways of working with people to address and question our current global condition, defined by racial capitalism and the ever-present histories of the European colonial project. The working method is archaeological. Since 2015, Henderson has been collaborating with the curator, producer, writer, and performer Olivier Marboeuf on a variety of projects including talks, exhibitions, screenings, workshops, a play, short films, and the production of a feature film. Henderson has shown his work at places such as Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands; Doc Lisboa, Portugal; CPH:DOX, Copenhagen; New York Film Festival, US; The Contour Biennial, Belgium; The Kiev Biennial, Ukraine; The Centre Pompidou, France; SAVVY Contemporary, Germany; The Gene Siskel Film Center, US; Gasworks, London; and Tate Britain, UK. His work is in the public collection of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, France.
For more information, contact program [at] e-flux.com.