Querido diario, pagina 0: «Give Peace a Chance»

(Disfrutando de un vinito mirando el Mar Egeo de Turquía/Derechos Reservados)

Así que esta es la pagina zero, ni siquiera la pagina uno, y ¿Por qué? Bueno, quizá porque me ha dado la real gana de comenzar de zero y desde ese punto de partida plantearme el dilema fundamental de la humanidad. ¿Cual es este gran problema? Somos nosotros mismos. Somos los animales (supuestamente) mas inteligentes, mas capaces y mas fuertes sobre la tierra, pero a mi me parece que a veces somos los mas brutos, los mas incapaces y los mas débiles. ¿A ti no?

Hemos ido poco a poco…y ahora a grosso modo…destruyendo la tierra que nos sostiene. Hemos ido, también, a poc a poc, destruyendo la sociedad que nos aguarda, que nos acurruca, que nos alimenta y que nos protege. Ya no creemos en nada. Ya no nos importa un bledo el sufrimiento ajeno. Ya solo pensamos en el poder adquisitivo particular. Confiamos en gobiernos corruptos, y sabiendo que son corruptos los votamos y los dejamos corrompiéndonos. Hemos desatendido la labor mas importante que es educar a nuestros hijos, pero no educarlo así, dejando que la tele les enseñe falsos valores, sino realmente dándoles valores reales y útiles para que sean buenas personas.

Y de la guerra y de la paz… Nada hemos aprendido de la paz. Hablamos de ella como si fuera cosa extraterrestre, pero no la valoramos como algo que nos sea útil, que nos beneficie, aunque decimos que la queremos. Si la queremos tanto, ¿Porque se nos escapa con tanta facilidad? Pero de la guerra si hemos aprendido mucho. Especialmente como hacer la guerra, como construir carros de batalla, tanques, caza-bombarderos, mejores rifles, mejores balas, mejores misiles, mejores bombas. Todo para matar…

Así que mejor volver atrás, no a la primera pagina porque ya ahí había líos, sino a la zero, limpia, la tabula rasa, para ver si lo podemos hacer mejor. ¿Que eso no puede suceder? Bueno entonces estamos muy jodidos…

Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 16 de febrero 2023, València y escuchando «A Love Supreme» de John Coltrane

Gracias…

Dear Diary, page 0: ANOTHER SHOOTING!

(Looking for good Spanish wine/All Rights Reserved)

There’s been another shooting in the United States! This one in El Paso, Texas, the one from a day or two ago was in Michigan, the other one was here, there, everywhere. What is going on? Is it the proliferation of guns? Is it poor mental health? Is it homegrown terrorists? (Well, they cannot blame it on the Muslims, or should I say Islamist terrorists. Although Obama said we should not use that terminology, but he was wrong because a Muslim is a God-fearint believer in Mohammed and the Koran, while an Islamist terrorist is a trained killer, motivated by his belief in hatred). But I digress…

I don’t blame guns. While I lived in the US I always had guns, and carried one (not just for my profession as a L.E.O.). And I lived in the US when these things did not occur and people still had their guns. So what is going on now? I think it is the proliferation of stupidity. Phones, tablets, portables and desktop computers are getting smarter and smarter. A.I. is getting smarter too, but the lassies and laddies, unfortunately, are getting stupider and stupider. They don’t have the same drive to create, to understand reality. For them (and I know I am generalising) reality conforms to a video game. And I blame that industry for dumbing down America and a large portion of the developed-industrialised world.

I don’t blame mental health either. I blame education, or lack there of. Parents are not educating their children. They are not giving them good examples to follow nor teaching them real values. Parents let the tele screen teach their children and naturally they come out uneducated, rude, selfish and undisciplined. I served in the US Army. They taught me many things that have helped me in life and still are. But now only the very poor seek the armed forces as a viable alternative. The privileged, the sons of senators and rich capitalists, if they seek a military career, they have West Point available…

So there’s been another shooting… Does anyone over there really care? And this is not a rhetorical question. I would like to hear some replies from my colleagues that live in the US (or anywhere else, after all it is our world and we all have a right to opine even if it is about other countries, let us not be so prudent and diplomatic, we’ve all an opinion, speak out!)

In the meantime, parents, children, listen to Graham Nash wrote so long ago and that CSNY sang for the benefit of all of us:

Cheers…

#music, Una canción para la mitad de la semana – A Song for the Middle of the Week

(The Kinks – Foto/Photo Power of Pop)

«Lola» es una de esas canciones que la cantas desde la primera vez que la escuchas. Es un hit pop por excelencia, pero ¿Os habéis fijado bien en la letra? ¡Mare meua! Escuchadla bien porque tiene tela… «Lola» salió el 12 de junio de 1970 (la época de música buena) y fue escrita por el líder de The Kinks, Ray Davis, y según el cuenta, se inspiró en un incidente que sufrió…o no…el manager de la banda en Paris cuando se lio con un travesti, (¿Sin darse cuenta?), y lo descubrió…jejeje…la mañana siguiente… ¡Menuda noche!

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«Lola» is one of those songs you can practically sing along with the first time you hear it. It is a pop hit par excellence. But, have you really listened to the words? My God! Listen carefully as there is a lot there! «Lola» was released on the 12th of June 1970 (the years of good music). It was written by the Kinks leader, Ray Davis. It narrates a supposedly true event that occurred to their manager in Paris when he hooked up with a transvestite (didn’t he notice?) thinking it was a beautiful woman, only to discover the truth (hehehe) the next morning. Oh what a night!

Gracias…

Cheers…

(The Kinks – Foto/Photo El País)

LOS MORALISTAS DE AHORA by Francisco Bravo

(Francisco Bravo Cabrera, Valencia, 12 de enero de 2022, escuchando Phillip Glass “Solo Piano Music”) Ahora que el camino está plasmado de inmundicias, oscuro, roto, desguazado y mal amado… Cuando el hollín de la abundancia desmedida, que oculta la ignorancia, ya no permite transitarlo, ¿Debemos ignorarlo y tornar la vista al suelo? ¿Coger otro camino? […]

LOS MORALISTAS DE AHORA by Francisco Bravo

#art, Edgar Degas, maestro impresionista – Edgar Degas, Impressionist Master

(Autorretrato/Self-portrait/Edgar Degas)

En la historia del arte hay muchos que no se merecen su lugar en los museos del mundo, pero ahi estan. Pero hay otros, como Edgar Degas, que su permanencia en ellos está más que merecida. Hay que conocer a estos grandes maestro que aportaron tanto a la pintura.

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In art history there are many artists who, in truth, do not deserve the place they hold in museums around the world. But there are others, like Edgar Degas, whose presence in all museums is well merited. We must get to know these great masters.

Gracias…

Cheers…

#art, «Colours in Jazz»

(Acrylic in canvas print/Image property of FBC/Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia/All Rights Reserved)

«Colours in Jazz» is now a Fine Art Print available only through Fine Art America here. Fine art prints make art available to all at affordable prices. I have selected some of the images that I paint or draw to be turned into fine art prints of many types, like wood prints, metal prints, canvas prints and even posters (other interesting items as well). This company handles the entire transaction from the sale to the speedy delivery and they are professional and produce items of high quality. Check out my gallery often as I often change the images I place there…

OMNIA CAELUM STUDIOS VALENCIA encourages all to acquire original art and to support local artists. Enrich your life…

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Cheers…

#art, Are These Really the «Fab Four» From Liverpool?

(Poster print/Image property of FBC/Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia/All Rights Reserved)

Fine art prints are a way to make fine art, photography and digital art available to all at affordable prices. I have selected Fine Art America to provide that service for me and I’ve opened a gallery with several images that will be transformed into fine art prints and shipped readily to you. You can select the type of print you like, for example: Art print on paper, framed print, wood print, metal print, acrylic print on canvas or the poster print as shown above. Additionally I have selected some items where the image can also appear. This is my gallery and I change it often so take a look every once in a while to see what you might like. Fine Art America handles the entire transaction and the fast shipping.

OMNIA CAELUM STUDIOS VALENCIA PRESENTS:

(2014/If you liked it please give it a «like» thank you)

Cheers…

#art, Por si no lo viste – Just in Case You Missed it…

Hay que saber, hay que descubrir y sacar del anonimato a muchas grandes pintoras que sí fueron feministas, no como algunas que dicen que lo son pero son otra cosa, u otra que la tienen por feminista pero que no lo era, solo hay que leer su propio diario, y sí, hablo de Frida Kahlo.

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We all should know, we should discover and uncover, from anonimity many great women artists that were true feminists and not like others that say they are but in truth are something else. Or one who is touted as a feminist but was nothing of the sort, and yes! I am speaking of Frida Kahlo.

(2023)

Gracias…

Cheers…

#art, «Jazz en colores» – «Jazz in Colours»

(«Jazz en colores» – «Jazz in colours» – Derechos Reservados/All Rights Reserved)

Acrílico sobre tela y mide 50 x 60 cm y ya está en OmniaCaelumStudiosValència… contacte a Guloshka404@gmail.com para más.

Acrylic on canvas, measurements: 50 x 60 cm. Available now at OmniaCaelumStudiosValència. Email Guloshka404@gmail.com for information

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Gracias…

Cheers…