30 sept 2011
Alexandr Sennikov photography
28 sept 2011
27 sept 2011
Autorretrato / Self-portrait
Así me he dibujado a lápiz /This is how I've drawn myself in pencil:
Gabriela Lovera - 2011
22 sept 2011
Sea Organ of Zadar / Órgano del mar en Zadar, Croacia
De día / By day:
De noche / By night:
Sobre el Órgano del mar:
"Esta obra maestra de la acústica y la arquitectura fue creada por los Dalmatian Stone Carvers y el arquitecto Nikola Basic en 2005. Recientemente han recibido el European Prize for Urban Public Space por este proyecto. Está inspirada por una romántica visión del poder de la naturaleza. Crea una zona de paseo que surge a partir de la construcción de una estructura escalonada, a la orilla del mar que bordea la península donde se encuentra la ciudad, y recupera para sus habitantes un enclave marítimo que, hasta la fecha, se había mantenido abandonado pese a que, paradójicamente, ofrece la mejor perspectiva para contemplar la hermosa puesta de sol de Zadar. Esta estructura incorpora en su interior un mecanismo de tubos que transforma en sonidos el aire empujado por las olas, transformando la estructura arquitectónica en una suerte de gran instrumento musical cuya melodía impredecible suena incesantemente. Basic crea así un nuevo espacio que conecta la ciudad con el mar, y, mediante el estímulo sensorial que ofrece, incita al establecimiento de una interacción compleja del individuo con ese entorno: una experiencia estética única que surge entre ese límite de lo urbano y lo natural."
Fuente: www.acusticaweb.com
About the Sea Organ:
"The musical Sea Organ (morske orgulje) is located on the shores of Zadar, Croatia, and is the world’s first musical pipe organs that is played by the sea. Simple and elegant steps, carved in white stone, were built on the quayside. Underneath, there are 35 musically tuned tubes with whistle openings on the sidewalk. The movement of the sea pushes air through, and – depending on the size and velocity of the wave – musical chords are played. The waves create random harmonic sounds.
This masterpiece of acoustics and architecture was created by expert Dalmatian Stone Carvers and architect Nikola Basic in 2005, who recently received the European Prize for Urban Public Space for this project. Many tourists come to listen to this unique aerophone, and enjoy unforgettable sunsets with a view of nearby islands."
Source of text: www.oddmusic.com
Escúchalo /To listen to the organ, CLICK HERE
De noche / By night:
Sobre el Órgano del mar:
"Esta obra maestra de la acústica y la arquitectura fue creada por los Dalmatian Stone Carvers y el arquitecto Nikola Basic en 2005. Recientemente han recibido el European Prize for Urban Public Space por este proyecto. Está inspirada por una romántica visión del poder de la naturaleza. Crea una zona de paseo que surge a partir de la construcción de una estructura escalonada, a la orilla del mar que bordea la península donde se encuentra la ciudad, y recupera para sus habitantes un enclave marítimo que, hasta la fecha, se había mantenido abandonado pese a que, paradójicamente, ofrece la mejor perspectiva para contemplar la hermosa puesta de sol de Zadar. Esta estructura incorpora en su interior un mecanismo de tubos que transforma en sonidos el aire empujado por las olas, transformando la estructura arquitectónica en una suerte de gran instrumento musical cuya melodía impredecible suena incesantemente. Basic crea así un nuevo espacio que conecta la ciudad con el mar, y, mediante el estímulo sensorial que ofrece, incita al establecimiento de una interacción compleja del individuo con ese entorno: una experiencia estética única que surge entre ese límite de lo urbano y lo natural."
Fuente: www.acusticaweb.com
About the Sea Organ:
"The musical Sea Organ (morske orgulje) is located on the shores of Zadar, Croatia, and is the world’s first musical pipe organs that is played by the sea. Simple and elegant steps, carved in white stone, were built on the quayside. Underneath, there are 35 musically tuned tubes with whistle openings on the sidewalk. The movement of the sea pushes air through, and – depending on the size and velocity of the wave – musical chords are played. The waves create random harmonic sounds.
This masterpiece of acoustics and architecture was created by expert Dalmatian Stone Carvers and architect Nikola Basic in 2005, who recently received the European Prize for Urban Public Space for this project. Many tourists come to listen to this unique aerophone, and enjoy unforgettable sunsets with a view of nearby islands."
Source of text: www.oddmusic.com
Escúchalo /To listen to the organ, CLICK HERE
21 sept 2011
20 sept 2011
19 sept 2011
La brida (poema de Zakaria Mohammed, Palestina)
Vídeo tomado de la Web del Festival Internacionbal de Poesía de Medellín
Some poems translated into English:
Mohammed was born in 1951 in the Nablus area. He studied Arabic literature at Baghdad University. In addition to his poetry publications, he published his first novel in 1996 and a collection of plays in 1999. His poetry is considered to be one of the best examples of modernist Arabic poetry. He participated in the 1999 Medellin International Poetry Festival in Colombia, and the 2001 Arab World Institute poetry festival in Paris. He lives in Ramallah.
The Reapers
-- Who are you, trekking along rough roads,
sweat secreting from your bodies?
-- We are the reapers of the rolling hills.
We set out at dawn
and harvested the wind
and time
and hallucinations sprouting
like the grasses of the savanna
O! how weird our harvest can be
If the night hadn't fallen so soon
we would've reaped with our scythes
silence, death and stone
and descended toward the sea
and gathered the waves and their quavering
to make everything perfect,
perfect and definite.
Translated by Sharif Elmusa from 'Al-Karmel' magazine, No 67, Ramallah 2002 and reprinted from Banipal No 15/16.
The rose and the bull
At night the rose is dark
At night a black bull
flies from the rose
It pierces the skin
with its two silver horns
At night the rose is dark
The spilt blood
of the hapless passer-by
drips from its horns
At night the rose is dark
But in daylight
the rose's black bull
is only a shadow
lying in ambush
So beware
when you pick
the rose
Beware
Carry a dagger
close to your heart
to butcher
that bull
which lies
all day
folded in petals
at the heart of the rose
Night
Night is opening its poisonous flower
It seeps through the sky
like a tincture spilt into water
Night is unfurling its flower
for the solitary insomniacs
who stumble along from step to step
Night is enfolding the city
as the homeless come out
from their doorways and basements
Night is opening its poisonous flower
as dread rolls down the stairs
like a melon
The last one
Spare me
the last bullet in the revolver
so death can wait at the doorway
Spare me
the last gasp in the lungs
so breath can expire with hard labour
Spare me
the last copy of the key
so only the ghosts can get in
Translated by the author and Sarah Maguire. Reprinted from Banipal No7.
© Translation copyright Banipal and translator. All rights reserved.
A Tavern
Here the dead are carousing
Here they shake their heads
to the music of shroud bells.
Emigration
They're all gone
towards that place in the North
where the grasses grow
to the height of their breasts
They left behind them
tattered strips from their children's clothes
and the pegs of their tents
They're gone
Their children on the backs of mules
Their youths carrying baskets
and their sheep's bells
They were like a cloud
climbing up to heaven
The more they penetrated the land
the more their shadows expanded
and returned towards the camps
Their dogs were mute
They would surpass the migrating crowd , then sit down
their eyes watching
the moving shadows
as they ran back ward
like a dark river.
Zakaria Mohammed
Source of texts: www.sakakini.org
18 sept 2011
16 sept 2011
15 sept 2011
*Errol Morris' Vernon, Florida* documentary
Movie clip:
Sinopsis:
"Vernon, Florida is an odd-ball survey of the inhabitants of a remote swamp-town in the Florida panhandle. Henry Shipes, Albert Bitterling, Roscoe Collins and others discuss turkey-hunting, gator-grunting and the meaning of life. This second effort by Errol Morris, originally titled Nub City, was about the inhabitants of a small Florida town who lop off their limbs for insurance money (“They literally became a fraction of themselves to become whole financially,” Morris commented.) but had to be retooled when his subjects threatened to murder him. Forced to come up with a new concept Morris created Vernon, Florida (1981) about the eccentric residents of a Southern swamp town.
Sinopsis:
"Vernon, Florida is an odd-ball survey of the inhabitants of a remote swamp-town in the Florida panhandle. Henry Shipes, Albert Bitterling, Roscoe Collins and others discuss turkey-hunting, gator-grunting and the meaning of life. This second effort by Errol Morris, originally titled Nub City, was about the inhabitants of a small Florida town who lop off their limbs for insurance money (“They literally became a fraction of themselves to become whole financially,” Morris commented.) but had to be retooled when his subjects threatened to murder him. Forced to come up with a new concept Morris created Vernon, Florida (1981) about the eccentric residents of a Southern swamp town.
David Ansen in Newsweek wrote, “Errol Morris makes films unlike any other filmmaker. Vernon, Florida, like his earlier study of pet cemeteries, Gates of Heaven, is the work of a true original. On the surface, it is simply a portrait of several somewhat eccentric residents of a slow backwater town… There’s a taste of Samuel Beckett in the film’s tone of droll, forlorn hopefulness, and something of Buster Keaton in the spacious frames and exquisitely deadpan comic timing. Vernon, Florida isn’t sociology at all, it’s philosophical slapstick, a film as odd and mysterious as its subjects, and quite unforgettable.” —errolmorris.com"
Watch film online: HERE
13 sept 2011
11 sept 2011
10 sept 2011
9 sept 2011
Better Use for Leisure Time (1950)
"Coronet Instructional Films were shown in American schools starting in about 1941. The company was an offshoot of Coronet Magazine, a digest-sized magazine that itself was owned by Esquire, Inc. Owner David Smart was deeply interested in visual education and the power of the film to teach and convince, and built a full studio on his estate in Glenview, Illinois, where at its height hundreds of films were cranked out each year. The films were sold to schools and libraries by a network of distributors and were quite successful -- in 1976 Coronet celebrated its sale of 1 million prints. Most Coronet films were shot in Kodachrome, but Kodachrome prints of many titles are quite rare. It was cheaper to purchase black-and-white prints, and most sales were black-and-white. For more Coronet history, see Ken Smith's excellent book "Mental Hygiene," published by Blast Books (www.blastbooks.com)." (Taken from Internet Archive)
8 sept 2011
Lisa Wassmann - photography
Lisa Wassmann - photography
Minibio: Born and raised 1981, WestBerlin. Lives and works in Berlin and all over the globe. Studied Communication Design from 2006 to 2009
6 sept 2011
3 sept 2011
2 sept 2011
Caleb Charland - Demonstrations
"Demonstrations combines my scientific curiosity with a constructive approach to making pictures. I utilize everyday objects and fundamental forces to illustrate my own experiences with wonder. Each piece begins with a simple question (How would this look? Is that possible? What would happen if...) and develops through a process of experimentation. By establishing physical parameters first, I discover each idea’s visual potential. This allows the natural properties of the subject matter to inform my aesthetic decisions as I construct these arenas to reveal the phenomena.
My process and choice of subject matter stem from growing up in a do it yourself household where I learned to appreciate the power that tools and materials hold. As I explore the garage and search through the basement to solve these pictures, I find new ways of putting old tools and familiar materials to work. “Demonstrations” intends to inspire wonder and curiosity in all viewers." (Caleb Charland)
Text taken from: StoneCrop Gallery Web
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