Tuesday, March 30, 2010

How Long Does Dimarzipan

The impossibility of silence on cinema



last Thursday was held at the Alliance Francaise, a session of beautiful short films mostly in the time of the early twentieth century avant-garde. The subject: the modern city, curated by Philippe-Alain Michaud, Centre Pompidou.
All were silent films to be projected; know if the audience that exceeded the room had previously observed this in the program, but all I got to thinking that this was not the case. The first went off the mild-eyed viewers who swallowed those powerful images with a greedy eye. With the arrival of the second, came the attacks of coughing. Clear cell, also sounded, despite the unprecedented invitation to switch off the appliances. Shortly after he felt the air pressure. The creaking of chairs echoed in a room trying desperately to remain silent, whispering, sneezing and coughing contagious increasingly spread over the audience like a wildfire. The few seconds that mediated between a video and the other unleashed a barrage of comments, crosswords, suppressed coughs exploding as a safety valve in an audience that did not seem (seemed) able to withstand the silence that required no more than 10 minutes each lasting short. If only there was an accompanying live music, this is amenizaría a touch, I say.
A while later, this decompression gave words to this film, on top of arguments, in the very short intervals flight and joined the mass departure of much of the hearing, which was relieved once out, when their lips could reissue sounds an audible level without a "Shhhh!" He burst on the ear.
never went to see a silent film to the cinema, but now the public resistance that I experienced here in front of these short, was such that it resembled me as nearly impossible, touching the limits of tolerance of people accustomed to many simultaneous stimuli, to achieve the necessary quiet to relax and close your mouth a few minutes required to go through an intensive course before crossing zen the front door of the room.
Kurosawa, silent film great farmer, said he tried to imagine how would be the scenes of his movies if they were silent, and then eliminated all superfluous dialogue.
occasionally comes While a bit of minimalism.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Hymen Broken Bleeding Vids

Mc Curry, high-impact photography




There are exhibits that we cover as going for a walk, glancing, commenting on the work to pass, and of which we relaxed to go do some shopping or meet a friend. Still others are so powerful that not only costs leave the exhibition space, under the powerful influence of the images, it is complicated to go out and get to chat with anyone who lost cattle pass, so ensimismante that experience can be. The latter is what I felt to go " Cultures" photographic exhibition of Steve McCurry at the Centro Cultural Borges.
Located in photojournalism, and a leading contributor to National Geographic, his works, with few exceptions, take place in this whole englobalizador we call "East", the vast majority in India. In them some indication of the landscape or environment, but only when strictly necessary for the story itself, because the main protagonist of the series presented is the man, in a register of daily life that starts in the first 80 and reaches until 2000.
The look of the portraits is usually so strong in most of them, it's almost impossible not to be questioned as a spectator, establishing a silent dialogue with them. Behind this humanity occupying the foreground, the background becomes fuzzy.
The children are the main protagonists, whether in India, Indonesia and Afghanistan, as in the case of "masterpiece", shown separately in a gray wall, highlighting its importance above all else, "The Afghan girl, "probably one of the greatest beauties Earth has ever set foot.

Something that caught my attention was that the photographs did not have a title in itself but a description or explanation of the scene depicted, which section of a publication that probably were part and that helps us understand a little better.
When cities are portrayed as extremely poor as those seen in this sample, and the general work of Steve McCurry, there is a danger of falling into the tabloid pathos or cheap pity that they can cause. The line is very thin and very easy to get the other side. But this is not what we feel here in front of photographs of an artist you into these worlds without cheap shots. Cultures
is called the sample, which interests me greatly, because it implies that we will find there a definition, at least iconic of such term. How would these cultures formed then? For the sum of individuals that in total, by tradition (from the most benign to those that border on the inhumane, although each village speaks their own language of good and evil and the neighbor does not understand, say Nietzsche), identity attributes, clothing, religions and even by external imposition.

The sample is so enveloping that to completely forget the moisture that seeps through the roof of Borges, and pools that must be avoided. Ideal to go with enough time to dissect each image, they deserve it.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Anyone Use What A Shaver

Chronicle of a pagan worship zealotry

And people say that the ceremonial and protocol are a matter of diplomatic and nice people. The other day I was first in mi vida en un acto político realizado en un estadio de fútbol, llevada por la ingente curiosidad que siempre me causaron los acontecimiento masivos, y la organizadísima y ordenada estructura con la que me encontré no dejó de sorprenderme ni por un solo momento. Las imágenes de dos íconos de la historia argentina vigilaban cada movimiento desde el telón de fondo del escenario, mientras un presentador leía permanentemente los nombres de personas y movimientos que manifestaban su adhesión al acto y daban su presente.
Todos tenían su lugar designado desde mucho antes de llegar, salvo por los “autoconvocados” que se metían donde podían. Las columnas entraban de a una, esperando su turno en la entrada. Once they make their appearance, the speaker mentioned his name, while the group stops for a moment waiting to be placed, advertising with rhythmic music of drums. Accompanying
background, "Argentina to the bottom" of Bersuit. No matter the time of arrival here to get a more or less close to the stage, but the weight of the movement or group to which it belongs.

announcer calls "a lost classmate, who is going through a time of distress," a boy of 8 years to pass the minutes no one claimed.
I expected the start of speeches sitting on the floor behind the field and little concerned about the location, until a group with their flags were admitted and expected to accommodate literally passed me over and I quickly concluded that this was not the best place. They kept passing
sellers "Bombom stick ice cream" and sugared several, but my confusion was increased when handed one selling a sample of photos. I thought so distracted as I am I had the wrong day and place, and the recital of Franz Ferdinand I thought to place the next day he had moved, and were offering me pictures of Scottish musicians, as the entry of any concert. But as I approached I found a series of photos and posters of Evita, with all imaginable looks she learned to adopt. So there are ritual shared between two spheres (or opportunistic repeated? Who knows.)

After a first speaker confuses the stadium with a grocery store and rehearse a speech recited that no one bothers to listen, start the act itself. With a freshness and enthusiasm in the audience would not let me wonder, by repeating to the burden that must be passed along for decades, everything is scheduled in advance. We sing the anthem, and not exaggerate in saying that my heart sank when he saw "35,000? "70,000? (According to the media, of course) little people singing their verses, most of which no more than 45 years. Then came video footage of historic speeches were heard from the most famous political family, who presided over the event from the past. Minutes later, the keynote speaker is greeted with the Peronist march and face the crowd a declaration of unconditional love for his wife, while all the women sigh and rub his love, should keep on hand, moved by Romantic vein political issue.
The act ends, is given by the end of this pagan worship and all go home (or the buses parked outside), all but the little fellah whose name the announcer keeps repeating out loud, ringing in the speakers, while the stadium was empty.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

African Americans With Ringworms

Is it possible? Síiiiiiiii! Fairy

Hello sailors! Within
very little I will have the new Web, with its little shirt and bodice, ie date and store. Also, the blog becomes:
because I can not get their hands this design, or put in links, or anything else. In its day I made a mess and I'm still in it. So we spent the old and so richly.
How long have I
announcing the new website and shop?
Muuuuuuuuuuuuucho, but it now gives me in the nose it's going to be swift and fast.
Kisses with hugs, it is very cold.