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Monday, October 17, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Astroturfing? Fauxtography?
Origin:The term "astroturf" is a play on "grassroots". "Grassroot movements" arise organically through the people. "Astroturfing", then, is artificial grassroots, fake grassroots.Verb: astroturf: 1 to join an online discussion pretending to be an independent member of the community but is...
Post for dog-people
An unusual silence is the reception you get one day when you enter home. You call his/her name and no reply. You get worried fearing something might have happened and you search the house when you enter the bedroom you come across with the scene of the picture."What on earth... grr... how can you......
Sunday, August 14, 2011
English characters changed?
Maybe it is not a good idea to have more interesting characters or... I don't kn...
Friday, August 12, 2011
Knitting and embroidering famous painting masterpieces
The group "The Materialistics" based in UK have recreated 50 masterpieces that enchanted the world. Works of famous artists like Kandinsky, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Andy Warhol, Vermeer, Piet Mondrian, Rossetti, Klimt, Picasso, Munch were redone through knitting, embroidery and crochet and started being...
Thursday, August 11, 2011
The Kiss by Gustav Klimt
(right picture: detail)I thought that I had to publish "The Kiss", 1908, by Klimt even thou it is very famous but since Munch's painting is at the post below it is easier to compare them.I could swear that the couple is the same in another place shrouded in gold on a bed made of flowe...
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Munch's The Kiss: "I try to dissect souls"
Right: The Kiss, 1895. etchingLeft: The Kiss, 1897. paintingThese are two versions of Munch's "The kiss" that inspired Gustav Klimt's famous painting with the same title.Some of Munch's quotations explain not only his intentions, and the expressionist attitude, but also distance him from impressionism:"No...
Monday, August 8, 2011
Auguste Renoir: "your favorite painting is at a private collection"
Right: Self-portrait, 1910Left: Woman with a necklace, 1910I was searching for Renoir's paintings that I do not know and I noticed that many of his paintings are at private collections including the two above and some that I have published.At this site there is a list of Renoir's paintings with the...
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings are historical events
I do not know why some historical events are more remembered than others.These are photos of Hiroshima today and this is what matters.This is the history:"August, 6 1945 -About 140,0000 of Hiroshima's 300,000 residents died from the bombing, including those who died from radiation-linked illnesses.Everybody...
Friday, August 5, 2011
The insanely astonishing universe of Karin Taylor
This is magical, fantastic, incredible, incredibly beautiful, so cute, these colors!, childhood, elephant in my garden!, amazing, and so many words pop in your head while you are browsing Karin Taylor's portfolio.She is an Australian artist that masters many techniques that she uses to make her pieces...
Monday, August 1, 2011
Art and reality dialog
Right: Your blind passanger, 2010, by Olafur EliassonLeft: Tai-Chi in a fog day in ChinaI just found out the installation, right picture, of the artist Olafur Eliasson. The "installation is a 90-meter-long densely fogged tunnel in which museumgoers are forced to use senses other than sight to navigate...
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Peter Pan
I don't know why this is one of the Disney's production that I liked the most when I was a child. I still have some scenes on my mind and can recall the enchantment of being carried away by a fantasy world. It was pure and simple magic and it is good that sometimes it can be experienced again...
Saturday, July 30, 2011
The teacher dog
"Did you understand? I can repeat it all over again if you have any doubt."*This is what one of my favourites teachers used to say from time to time. Hi Thomas! You also: "porte des lunettes et je les irais revoir. A bientôt."Third of the "Dogs with human professions serie...
Friday, July 29, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Somalia's Famine: Saudi Arabia, Western Intelligence and Oil
I just read Somalia:The Real Causes of Famine by Michel Chossudovsky and I had to share it because it is too hard to see that all that is at the mainstream media are not the entire truth and that people means nothing to governments and the elite that rule the world.I was puzzled because we know that...
Sandra Bullock in "The Proposal" and Mary Steenburgen in "Tender is the night"
I watched this movie yesterday and if I remember correctly she replies... "Hence..." in a sarcastic way. Now I will have to see it again just to check it and if it is not this way I'll start thinking that I create scenes that doesn't exist. It will be quite strange. Anyway...Sandra Bullock's strongest...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
The Constant Gardener: clinical trials and pills that kill
This is the book that inspired Fernando Meirelles to adapt it to the movie of the same title.It is about the search for the reason of the death of a woman whose husband, a British diplomat, think was because she knew too much about the clinical trial of a medicine.In reality clinical trials are being...
Monday, July 25, 2011
Amazing 3D images animated by David Pope
I found these great pieces by David Pope. Visit his page and you will find more great wor...
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Balloons and the mind of the beholder
Balloons at the sky is an image that is known all over the world as a celebration of a happy occasion and at the moment someone looks at the sky and find them out it will be a brief moment of joy.In June, 18 2010 balloons released into the sky by a kindergarten sparked a security alert when the country's...
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Amy Winehouse at the 27 Club: R.I.P. Amy
I just got the news Amy but I do not want to read anything because speculations and moralist judgments will be everywhere.You are 27 and it is the age that great musicians and singers like you, especially those who were revolutionaries, died: Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Jim...
Rembrandt: A Young Girl Leaning on a Window-still
Two reproductions of A Young Girl Leaning on a Window-still, 1645, so that you can see how different they are as I stressed on the post bel...
Roger de Piles anecdote about Rembrandt
Right: Girl at an Open Half-Door, 1645Left: A Young Girl Leaning on a Window-still, 1645The art critic and art dealer Roger de Piles wrote this anecdote in his book "L'Abrégé de la vie des peintres" (The Art of Painting and the Lives of the Painters, 1699):“Rembrandt diverted himself one day by making...
Friday, July 22, 2011
Two Calder's sculptures missing since 1984 in Rio de Janeiro
As today Calder would have celebrated his 113th birthday I cannot help remembering that Rio de Janeiro's city hall took these two works by Calder from the park where they were for restoration but in November, 1985 they disappeared. Nobody knows what happened and they are missing till today 26 years...
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