Faith saved us from the savages that we were, losing faith makes us savages again
«Sunset Song», as you see it here, is a metal print, but there are more options available as well as more items on which this beautiful image appears. Fine Art America is the only company I use to create fine art prints from my selected and unique images. They handle the entire transaction and ship quickly as soon as your order is ready. Check out my gallery at Fine Art America, and check it often as it often changes…
CHEERS…
Well, the miniseries is a work of fiction, but it is based on real and historical events that did happen in the city of Miami during the late 1970s and throughout most of the 1980s. I would say that even though I haven’t finished watching the miniseries, I can already judge it, and it’s quite a story, a real humdinger…
First, I will tell you that I lived in Miami during those years and that also, starting in 1982, I was an officer of the metropolitan police. So the true facts, let the crimes be said, that they dramatize in the series I know first hand…
Ok, I’ll start by asserting that the series was not filmed in Miami. Nothing looks like Miami… Second, they have made all the «Marielitos» (Cubans that arrived by boats to South Florida illegally in 1980) as criminals. Although yes, many were and also became or continued their criminal activities in Miami, most were simple people, good people escaping communist tyranny and looking for freedom in the US. They did not venture across the Florida Straits to join criminal gangs. Therefore I am inclined to think that the writers, producers and director are using the series as a support vehicle to the anti-immigrant feelings so prevalent now in the US.
At the beginning of the series they also place the position of women as being totally discriminated, especially the scenes in the police department. This is an immense exaggeration and I know because I was an officer at the time. Yes, there was a macho attitude but not at the level they exemplify in the series. By 1984 I had a woman as the Commander of the Bureau that I was assigned to and there were many sergeants and lieutenants as well. So I think that with this issue they are also using the series to say «look how bad women were treated, discriminated, sexualised, put down…». I can tell you that they are trying to lie to fools.
Finally, I will say that it is the history, nefarious and horrific, of a ruthless psychopathic murderer who, pursuing her fame and glory and ambition for money and power, killed many in Medellin, Miami, and wherever she set foot. Yes, many were hitmen like her, others perhaps innocent, but Griselda was no Robin Hood or popular heroine.
Starring: Sofía Vergara, Alberto Guerra, Christian Tappan
Created by :Doug Miro, Eric Newman, Carlo Bernard, Ingrid Escajeda,
Directed by Andrés Baiz
CHEERS
De esta artista no conocía nada, así que aprendiendo junto con vosotros. Delprat nació en Amiens en 1957 y es pintora, artista plástica, escenógrafa y videasta… Entre 1985 et 1995, la representó la Galerie Maeght de París… A partir del 1990 medio que abandona la pintura para explorar la videografía, la literatura, el cine y la performance y también comenzó a hacer los vestuarios para el teatro y la danza… A partir del 2010 regresa a la pintura y se reencuentra con los galeristas Christophe et Nathalie Gaillard. Colaboran con una exposición en 2012 y varias conferencias… Veamos sus obras…
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I did not know anything about this artist, so I am learning along with you. Delprat was born in Amiens in 1957 and is a painter, visual artist, set designer, and video artist. From 1985 to 1995, she was represented by the Maeght Gallery in Paris. Around 1990, she somewhat abandoned painting to explore videography, literature, film, and performance. She also began creating costumes for theater and dance. In 2010, she returned to painting and reunited with the gallery owners Christophe and Nathalie Gaillard. They collaborated on an exhibition in 2012 and several conferences. Let’s take a look at her works…
GRACIAS – CHEERS
Fue realmente una pionera y la mujer que creo imágenes de los famosos y de lo que era Nueva York. Realmente una figura artística que hay que conocer. Aquí os la dejo.
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She was truly a trailblazer and the woman who created images of the famous and of what New York was. Truly an artistic figure that we must know. Here you have her, enjoy.
Gracias – Cheers
Bueno, la mini serie es obra de ficción, pero se basa en hechos reales e históricos que sí sucedieron en la ciudad de Miami durante el final de los 1970 y los durante casi toda la década de 1980. Diría que aunque no he terminado de ver la mini serie, ya puedo juzgarla, y tiene tela, tela marinera…
Primero os diré que vivía en Miami para esos años y que también, comenzando en 1982, fui agente de la policía metropolitana. Así que los hechos verídicos, dicho sean los crímenes, que dramatizan en la serie los conozco de primera mano…
Pero bueno, comenzaré por decir que no han filmado en Miami, al menos nada se parece a Miami… Segundo, pintan a todos los «Marielitos» (cubanos que llegaron en 1980 a las costas de La Florida en botes e ilegalmente) como criminales. Aunque sí, muchos lo eran, y lo fueron en Miami, la mayoría no lo eran y no vinieron a tierras de libertad para unirse al hampa criminal. Así que pienso que el escritor, el productor y el director, están usando la serie como vehículo de apoyo al nuevo sentimiento…y política…anti-inmigración que ha surgido en EEUU.
También ponen a la mujer como un ser completamente discriminado. Exageran a la enésima potencia el machismo, que aunque existía, no estaba a ese nivel. Yo lo se porque, como os he dicho, había ingresado en la policía al principio de 1982. En mi promoción…la academia…había muchas mujeres y también ya en esos tiempos también las había en posiciones de mando. Así que también están usando la serie para decir, «mirad que mal trataban a las mujeres, ahora si que las tratamos con dignidad», y yo digo, capullo, estás engañando a bobos…
Finalmente diré que es la historia, nefasta y horrorosa, de una despiadada psicópata asesina que persiguiendo su fama y gloria y ambición por el dinero y el poder, mató a muchos en Medellín, Miami y donde quiera que pisó suelo. Sí, muchos eran sicarios como ella, otros quizá inocentes, pero esa tía no es ninguna Robin Hood ni heroína popular.
Protagonizan: Sofía Vergara, Alberto Guerra, Christian Tappan
Creación :Doug Miro, Eric Newman, Carlo Bernard, Ingrid Escajeda,
Dirección de Andrés Baiz.
¿Qué lees? —pregunté a mi gato. Él se dispuso a leer en voz alta “Al ser informado de que sus señorías me han condenado a la hoguera, cosa que nunca …
Charlas con mi gato —41 La amnistía by j re crivello
A few days ago a friend and fellow blogger on WP suggested I look into a woman artist from the United Kingdom who I did not know, and I certainly did and here she is: Beryl Cook. She was born on September 10 of 1926 in Egham, Surrey, England, and although she claimed not to have had any «formal» art training, she painted very well. Her paintings are of everyday people, sometimes a bit bizarre but almost always with a comical twist.
Although her bulky figures might remind one of Botero, (another one who claimed to be self-taught), in my opinion Cook’s work is much more interesting. She painted volume in her outlandish and extroverted characters. Beryl Cook was influenced, according to her own words, by the work of Sir Stanley Spencer and Edward Burra, both highly trained and successful British painters.
Cook moved to Plymouth in 1968 and at the Plymouth Arts Centre had her first exhibition. The success of that exhibition led to her being contracted to the Portal Gallery in London (1976) where she exhibited until her death in 2008. In 1995 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE). Channel 4 News produced, in 2005, a short film of her work and the Royal Mail used one of her paintings for a first class postage stamp.
Although I did not know much about this painter, she is certainly well known in the UK and her work has achieved a wide level of success. Can it be that because she is a woman artist she has not been taken as seriously as men in Art History? I don’t know. But her country did take her seriously. So I ask myself, why did I not hear of her in Art School? In any event, I like her work and I wanted to share it with you and find out what you think.
I would highly suggest that if you are interested in art, either as an artist, student, lover of art or collector, that you look further into the work of Beryl Cook.
CHEERS – CHEERS – CHEERS
(Thank you M.)
I’ve always loved music, even tried my hand at making music and played guitar and sang in several garage bands as a kid. Later I took to jazz and began playing the bass with a few musicians and got further and further into composing (which I still do but only for the background music of my videos http://www.YouTube.com/@FranciscoBravoCabrera) but maybe I will go back to song writing again this year…
In any event, I love music and this song, «Get a Job» (released in 1957) which will conclude today’s music cycle, has always been somewhat of a favourite of mine and now I find out that it has been a fave of a lot of people. For example, the group Sha Na Na (not from the 50’s but from 1969) got their name from this song and apparently the former East Timorese President and Prime Minister «Xanana» Gusmão got his name from the band Sha Na Na…
«Get a Job» became part of several movies like: American Graffiti, Trading Places, and Stand by Me, and The Silhouettes performed in the movie Joey (released in1969)… The group is really a one-hit wonder as they never were able to place another song on the hit parade. They disbanded in 1968 but reunited and performed until 1993.
I hope you like the song, I think just about everyone has heard it, either as an oldie-goldie or from one of the movies…
Cheers…
El trompetista jazz por excelencia, venga, para mi el epitome del minimalismo en la música jazz, el gran Miles Davis era también pintor. Aquí os mostraré su obra y os diré lo que pienso, pero más importante aún es que quiero saber lo que pensáis vosotros… Bueno, aunque os he puesto solo tres ejemplares, creo que son suficientes (buscad mas que el arte es la búsqueda)… Me gustan, me parecen bien pensadas, desarrolladas y me comunican su mensaje, claro, como yo lo interprete…
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The jazz trumpeter par excellence, for me the epitome of minimalism in jazz music, but did you know that the great Miles Davis was also a painter? I will show you some of his work and tell you what I think, but more importantly, I want to know what you think… Well, even though I have only put three examples, I think they are enough, (look for more because art is the search)… I like them, I think they are well thought out, developed, and they communicate their message to me, clearly, as I interpret it…
GRACIAS – CHEERS
This is one phenomenal song by The Doors, written by Robby Krieger, the band’s guitarist, and Jim Morrison created…with this tune and others…much controversy at the time in his concerts, (especially in Miami). Thank God it wasn’t these times because today they would have banned it…and him…and eliminated it. In those days, 1969, we were a free people and we did not need the «protection» of Big Brother (the government). «Touch Me» was released in the album The Soft Parade. Curtis Amy, who was a North American Jazz saxophonist, performs the saxophone solo… The song was released in December 1968 and reached number 3 on Billboard’s top 100… »Touch Me» is soul, pop, rock, psychedelic, progressive and theatrical, all wrapped up in this tremendous hit by a phenomenal band…
CHEERS…
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