Thursday, July 26, 2007

Red Mark On The Tip Of The Tongue

Pottery Carmen Montes - El Salitre Migayu

Montes Carmen Velasco, and a great friend, a person of great human quality and a very good partner, is a highly professional potter. Is a person who serves without expecting anything in return, a woman professional and personal ethics, caring, and possesses great creativity to spread wherever he moves.

For me it was quite a storm of creativity, has helped me make the best of me and trust my skills as a ceramist to develop anything that I set out, their enthusiasm has meant the beginning of a road that will be developed creative projects that surely will make a great satisfaction for its participants and for those who have the opportunity to enjoy them. Pioneer

scenes Salitre project, convinced of the needs of ceramics in Asturias, and that our region has of great professionals, used his power to start the project I thought, bringing hope to create, without doubt proved to be very positive and rewarding for all who participate in it. Well

and I for my part, nothing more to say, now enjoy the wonderful work that your hands gives us:

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"[...] The whole sea is mysterious and resonant
initial word;
nothing behind him, nothing in front;
the sea is a constant
eternity and immortality movement [...]. "
"It paints the Sea", Eduardo Marquina.


nitrate Scenes The project is an initiative promoted by a group of ceramics Asturian professionals who have agreed on the need to give a boost to innovative contemporary ceramics made in the Principality. There are very good potters throughout Asturias, so we intend to share with us the idea of \u200b\u200bcontinuing such projects, so that all people can bring as well another alternative way of perceiving and understanding the ceramics, say .
The group is composed of ten potters with years of experience in the office behind him and a considerable artistic and professional background, belonging to the Association of Potters of Asturias. In any case, such an initiative is often a genuine opportunity to live-and, of course, enjoy the experience of collaboration, and teamwork, which can have very positive results for all participants, along with promoting and / contrast or facilitate the exchange of experiences.
The work process in detail
This shared vision then arose the idea of \u200b\u200bmaking an intervention in a public space. After evaluating different alternatives action, the beach was finally chosen onstage to do a job where everyone has come to feel truly
accomplices. The connecting links between the respective proposals were these colorful and cool objects that accompany any good swimmer invariably that claims to be, in any sand, one summer after another umbrella, slippers, towel, sunscreen, sunglasses ...
Each of these classics of the repertoire Beach seemed to find its place in the respective talleres.Y there began to grow little by little, 'feeding' with the creativity of each of the owners. The meeting was very pleasant and, above all, very rich ... detail. Despite the disparity, both of criteria, including techniques used, we made a real united front, making the end result was clearly unsatisfactory for todos.Hemos concluded with a sense of finish to take a huge chocolate and mint ice cream. Sweet and cool at once ...
A thoughtful and reasoned project
Among the arguments used to support the project, participants pointed out, citando1, that [...] a space is made public to the extent that it strengthens imagination and creativity through activities that encourage communication, individual and collective recognition, and making group instituted social basic symbolic component of spatiality citizen 'is as if the citizens want to make their cities and landscapes are not a (only) to live, but (also) to evoke. "
[...] a scene that alludes to the perception of instant experiences the individual occurs in many relationships that it establishes with objects external to it, setting up 'events, situations, occasions ... emerging in the crossroads ( ...) that they cause ', becoming protagonists of urban sociability. [...] The works of art located in public places acquire meaning to the extent that convert the space into a place, which distinguishes the notions of territory and space itself, whereas 'if the territory is a busy place,
space is primarily a practiced place' . [...].
General objectives of the confluence
First, and as needed
members of the confluence, design and develop actions and ephemeral artistic interventions in public spaces such as beaches, forests, mountains, parks ... share their creative experiences with ceramics, and thus closer to the public.
Second, all have agreed from the beginning in the convenience of using these spaces as sites of expression and social and artistic reflection: We understand public space as a space for ongoing dialogue, open to experimentation and artistic
participation.
Finally, propose to the ceramic-result of the interaction of the four natural elements of excellence: earth, water, fire and air, as a particularly appropriate medium for this type of action. Without doubt, we are talking about works of art that arise from the 'communication' and / or interaction between the most important elements of nature and man.
Specific objectives of the "Scenes of nitrate" Harnessing
available natural resources while fostering a distinctly cultural initiative, to develop further new proposals in other public places, so places interrelate in some way through the possible flows and exchanges, adding a new repertoire of approaches to the role of landscape, to use spaces, places or territories as real laboratories in which practical experience of other possibilities for artistic reception. Search
expressly maximum integration of the ceramic pieces in the environment, using performance budgets of the current trends in environmental design, thus closely linking artistic creation, design and nature, and, as a climax, to convert a natural environment in an unexpected exhibition hall hosting diverse works, but arising from natural elements.

1 - "Public Art and the city", Claudia Monica Londoño Villada, Department of Humanities and Languages, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira (UTP), Colombia.

Photo: Marcos Serrano García
http://es.geocities.com/aceramistas2007/index.html

List of Participants :
Carmen Montes

Element: Refrigerator and beach mat.
Title: The Refreshments.
Parts: Diver, octopus, shoes and feet. Cecile
Brillet
Item: Towel. Title: Routines summer.
Parts: red clay dolls.
Memory: The purpose of this proposal is based on a reflection on the role of the beach towel. The clay figurines in the sun on it dramatize the fact that an ordinary day on the beach is only the cloning of a single will. In short, the costumes bathroom, towels or clothing of all this paraphernalia own contemporary summer, be the same or different, is secondary. There is no originality in a collective. We are all equal, though different, and are part of the same mass that rushes on the beaches every summer with the sole purpose of soaking up the sun as a cookie. Florentino
Iglesias
Item: Sunscreen. Title: Bronceadorón.
Parts: tanner.
Inés Rodríguez
Item: Umbrella. Title: Alba.
Parts: Shells, starfish and bowls.
Memory: This intervention came Ines on awakening on the beach just as the dawn began to emerge of the night. Some shells reflected the rays of the sun ... There was then an immediate association with the project that was around in his head at the time: Scenes of Salitre! The umbrella, which was the item chosen, protects the same sun that reflect the shells, which, in turn, also protect themselves by putting on these exquisite layers of nacre that make them unique pieces ... As each piece coming out of the hands of a potter!
Javier Moreno
Item: diving fins and goggles. Title: Nature.
parts: Part Blue spiked is attached to a green
shaped bottle.
Memory: This is an interpretation of something that Alice saw in one of his walks on the beach. Represents a sea urchin. Molecules

Item: Fishing Rod and basket.
Title: Pollution 1.
Parts: Mobile with fish, porcelain and cans.
Memory: This is a work that arises from the need to report the mistreatment to which we are submitting to the sea, beaches and, in general, our mother earth. This facility aims to show that those things found on the beach and the sea has been deposited, and usually give you a nasty look, can
transformed into beautiful things and pleasant. The recycling of materials should be standard practice in all artistic disciplines. Julio Garcia

Item: beach chair. Title: Northeast.
Parts: Canas moved by the wind, vertical
ocher pieces ...
Memory: This piece suggests that the wind effects of the Northeast leaves in its wake.
Rafa Álvarez
Item: Bucket, spade and rake. Title: The beings who can not build castles. Parts: Male fish. Rita Prendergast

Item: beach slippers. Title: Footprints.
Parts: Goldfish and fingerprints.
Memory: Footprints, tracks, trails and
leave that last over time ...
Victor Da Silva
Element: Blades, tennis. Title: The sand in sight.

No. 93 Office and Art
http://www.oficioyarte.org/

Ceramic Review No. 106
http://www.revistaceramica.com/detalle.aspx?id = 113

Sunday, July 22, 2007

How To Remove Bone Spurs From Gums

translucent - Clara Janes

TRANSLUCENT SPACES
Editorial
Casariego Clara Janes. Madrid, 2007.
ISBN: 84-86760-80-1
Price: 25.00 €
72 pages

Clara Janes (Barcelona, \u200b\u200b1940), long-time poet - his first book due Stars, was published in 1964 - - manifested in Translucent Space a peculiar writing, characterized by lightness and the gaze, where light and color, poetry, photography and words and ink drawings interact each other.

Among
images characterized by the whiteness of the albedo and spaces that evoke Tarkovsky, Clara intersperses poetry spirituality connected by Holan and San Juan de la Cruz and the music of medieval Persian poetry.

"Yes, space, time, chance, are forms of consciousness, and the essence of life is beyond the forms." (A. Tarkovsky)

As stated in the preface Marioso Scaramuzza, the leitmotif of this particular dialogue between image and word is the Light. Poetry of dawn, which in turn is tight, constituted by reflections and transparency of the air and water.

"What was that forest of towering pines that had emerged from silent flakes of bark as gentle, harmonious tribute to gravity without diminishing its buoyancy? If not for that slight drop is, it seems an eternity project: light intersection between vertical and horizontal flight of a butterfly. "

Thus begins a book that ends between the dawn prayer and the beauty of fire of Plotinus.

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Ocean Bride Condos In Myrtle Beach

A Man Without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut



Kurt Vonnegut A Man Without a Country
Translation Daniel Cortes
Editorial: Ediciones del Bronce. Barcelona, \u200b\u200b2006. Hardback with jacket

ISBN: 84-8453-167-8
Price: 19.00 €
Size: 15 x 23 cm. 172 pages

A man without a country is the last book published by Kurt Vonnegut (Indianapolis, 1922 - New York, 2006). Author not well known in Spain who achieved worldwide fame with his masterpiece: Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade, where germanoamericano revisited during the war in Vietnam caused the slaughter by the English firebombing of Dresden, Germany Florence , with more bombing victims of human history, surpassing even the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The book marks the end of a brilliant career, which included also other fine novels as Cat's Cradle , Mother Night, Sirens of Titan, Bird cell or God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.

in nature essay Vonnegut combines reflections silkscreen reproductions of texts, each other's texts are brief, bright and full of dry humor, criticizing all aspects of our society more unpleasant for him from Bush to environmental destruction by overuse of fossil fuels.

With only 170 pages, many illustrated, and clarity language that holds the American author reads a sigh. This is not a collection of articles and humor and wit him away from the political pamphlet, is without literary unpretentious but full of values \u200b\u200band some valuable information, such as the clarification that Slaughterhouse 5 really started when he knew that the soldiers who fought in the war we were kids, "they always are-in a context that allowed him to write freely about the truth he had seen" the horrible things we had done the worst people imaginable : the Nazis. "

He defines himself as a humanist "The Humanists seek that our conduct is the most decent, fair and honorable that we can, without expecting a reward or punishment in another life as a Christian "if Christ had not delivered the Sermon on the Mount, with its message of mercy and compassion, I do not I want to be a human being. "while an atheist and socialist.

Beyond the ratings given to Vonnegut himself, we find a representative of an extensive line of satirists whose Rabelais and Prince is a list where we met Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, the latter of undeniable influence on the American author. It is not as wrongly says the fourth deck, the recovery of "critical genre popularized by Michael Moore, but it leads to a new level."

After listing the many contradictions of the critics who called them science fiction writer by the mere fact knowingly used technology in his novels as well as Luddite, with that strange loyalty in the XXI century to the machine writing and to the prints, and bright apocalyptic end this book with a Requiem in verse, where the Earth exclaims: "it's over!, people did not like being here."
Now "Kurt Vonnegut is in heaven "and from there we still giving his irony, this button displays:






Sunday, July 1, 2007

How Often Should I Have A Brazilian Wax

Scaramouche, the culture of laughter


Rafael Sabatini
SCARAMOUCHE
Translation Manuel Pereira Quintero
Publisher: Mondadori. Collection: Great classics. Barcelona, \u200b\u200b2007. 1 edition.

Hardcover with jacket ISBN: 978-84-397-2079-9
Price: 21.00 €
Size: 21 x 14 cm.

432-page novel by the Anglo-Italian Successful Rafael Sabatini, created in 1921, has been mistakenly regarded as a well done example of adventure novels and a late round off or sequel of a genre whose most glorious example would be the Three Musketeers of Dumas.
Influencing the readout optics provided by the cinema adaptation of several works by this author: Captain Blood , The Hawk of the Seas and it at hand: Scaramouche .

Sometimes appearances are deceptive, focuses heavily the first sentence of the book, certainly worthy of inclusion in the anthology of best opening lines: "Born with the gift of laughter and insight that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony. "

Indeed this work anticipated in many years, interest in an aspect of culture which then greatly interested to Mikhail Bakhtin, the role of" culture of laughter "against culture the seriousness of the official level (Church, State, etc ...) a mirror antithetical whose artistic and theatrical masks finally shed the men to return to the serious world of everyday existence.

if not other journeys is drawn on the vital crossing André-Louis Moreau, the hero of this adventure, which runs parallel to the gestation of the French Revolution. André-Louis, harassed of sedition for advocating the ideas antiaristocráticas a friend, takes refuge in an errant company Commedia dell'Arte to go unnoticed, that is where it becomes the actor who plays Scaramouche. Is that the most brilliant second act of the novel, with a notable metaliterary game, a splendid pace and obvious admiration for popular culture that lies in this kind of theater.

this is indeed the most original novel and its central core: the life and adventure of life as a representation of life while also drives the evolution of the narrative: one that Andre-Louis steadily preparing for the big final battle with his enemy.

The last third of the book presents the character back into the world of "serious" where the character becomes third state champion, an accomplished fencing master and member of the assembly. The love for a young actress is replaced here by a young noble class that finally the hitherto unknown declasse belong André-Louis. Ends as well as representation carnival and the curtain falls.

The happy ending to the story detracts somewhat enclosed, like a story, after a few incidents from the perspective view is certainly shocking revolutionary it is arguable that Andre-Louis have loved to be someone else when I was Scaramouche. Perhaps this aspect gives the book a touch old-fashioned, in a time and works of art were lit.

on the "negative" of this great novel is the treatment that the world is "serious", with an explanation too discursive and flat on the historical situation that contrasts sharply with the agility of the other pages. Something however it is not unusual to find in any best-seller of our time, but certainly could have been treated differently. Although narratively justify saying that brings up not to illustrate the history of the time but because it reveals the perspective of Andre-Louis the reality is that exposure forced something that would obviously not a contemporary character of the events, but a speech from the perspective of modern historians.

Somehow we find a particular object of considerable literary quality, with some gray areas, midway between the novel of the nineteenth century, the theater of Goldoni or Ben Johnson bestseller and modern. The best novel of one of those men who dedicated their lives to something as important as futile: writing.