Receta de una compañera de trabajo.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Quote
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation
Jack Johnson - Better Together
A new discovery...
Jack Johnson
In Between Dreams
(2005)
(Already on my wish list)
Monday, August 23, 2010
Museum
Sunday, Prado Museum, Madrid.
"Turner and the Masters".
my favorite piece:
Windmill on Hill: Valley and Winding River in Middle Distance; Sunset Effect circa 1795
Pencil and watercolour on paper
support: 190 x 277 mm
on paper, unique
Pencil and watercolour on paper
support: 190 x 277 mm
on paper, unique
Tate Collection
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
quote
Dreams feel real while we're in them.
It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.
(Inception, 2010)
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
cool images from the web
Precisely
the least,
the softest,
lightest,
a lizard's rustling,
a breath,
a breeze,
a moment's glance
—it is little that makes the best happiness.
Friedrich W. Nietzsche
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
cool images from the web
so it's way past my bed time... and i'm still in front of the computer.
Behind all this,
some great happiness is hiding.
Yehuda Amichai
New York, New York tomorrow!!!!!!
(actually later today!)
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
cool images from the web
I tend to collect images i like... you could say i'm kind of a hoarder... (digital or paper)
and the range of things i collect is so ample and difficult to classify that they end up getting lost in the abyss of hard drives and paper files, so i've decided to create cool images from the web collages...
i will TRY to credit the pages they come from, but i sometimes forget to change the name of the file and end up not knowing where they come from... sorry...
Going to Budapest?
While on vacation in Budapest in October 2005 i discovered a beautiful art nouveau building right across our hostel. The building was abandoned and in really bad shape, but i was drawn to it. It caught my eye, like many other buildings in this beautiful city...
It was the
Hungária Fürdő
"A Once Prosperous Art Nouveau Bath in Budapest".
History
The Hungaria Spa was build in 1910 after the project of the Hungarian architect Emil Agoston in Dohany utca(eventually, who projected the Astoria Hotel, too). The history of the building, and of the spa itself, is a little bit messy. In fact the bath structure operated just until the end of the first decade of the XX century. He was converted in a Cinema in 1920 and as a Cabarè just until 1963. After that date the demolition of the structure began and nowadays what remains is just the facade, which also is in a very terrible condition.
However the last piece of this historical building survived, and in this very days seems that restoration works finally begin.
The remaining part of the facade still presents a really impressive relief, in typical secession style, of three woman enjoying the thermal water. They aren’t mermaids strictly sense, however those feminine figures are charged with the typical art nouveau symbolism concerning female characters and the water. the pleasing and excited, even erotic, expression which could be still viewable on the female figure on the very left of the relief, is evocative of the sensual, even sexual, relationship of feminine and the natural liquid element.
Not surprisingly, since this symbolism was quite usual in the artistic production of the turn of the century, a very similar frieze can be noticed in Vienna, in Seitzergasse, 1st District. And even if the subject itself was quite common at the time, however the resemblance between the two sculptures is really noticeable. Judge yourself: link side are the Dohany-utca Budapest woman at the bath, where on the right you can nitice the Vienna mermaids …
.../...
2010
well, i'm happy to say that while searching for info on the building for my scrapbook i've found out it has been renovated and is now a hotel!
Continental Hotel Zara.
And the greatest part of all is that the hotel website has pictures of the reconstruction process!! so you can see the before and after pictures!!!
http://www.continentalhotelzara.com/en/gallery/photos/continental-hotel-before-the-demolation/
http://www.continentalhotelzara.com/en/gallery/photos/beginning-of-construction/
http://www.continentalhotelzara.com/en/gallery/photos/hotel-construction/
http://www.continentalhotelzara.com/en/gallery/photos/last-phase-of-hotels-construction/
http://www.continentalhotelzara.com/en/gallery/photos/
An extended history of the building and more info can be found on the Continental Hotel Zara website.
More beautiful pictures of the building
(these pictures are not mine)
and info:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37578663@N02/4448589318)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/almodozo/sets/72157594381932224/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gcsanadi/4444053728/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37578663@N02/4447813841/in/set-72157623533390689/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zder/306991319/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jerome1976/4333646406/in/set-72157623360000242/
http://www.danube.org/html/projects_elmallas/image1-3.html
So if you are going to Budapest, this is a must!!!
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