Viewing: julio 2015

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Vale, no será el primero, sólo el más antiguo conocido. Pero qué bonito: Andrea Amati constructed the instrument in Cremona, Italy, and through his sons several generations would make the Amati name integral to stringed instrument evolution. “He influenced all of the violin makers up to this day, including Stradivari and Guarneri,” said Ken Moore, Frederick P. Rose […] Read More

Siempre hay alguien dispuesto a decir lo que tú piensas de una película. El primer párrafo es perfecto: Bad movies are one thing. We know how to deal with them. But Minions isn't bad, exactly. It's perfectly neutral - the most impressively flavorless movie in many a long age. I've found preparing to review it […] Read More

De las tres, me ha gustado mucho esta escultura de dos árboles perpetuamente tirando de un muro de jardín. Que los árboles estén tan "construidos" como el muro me parece que le da toda la gracia. Gabriela Albergaria’s “Two Trees in Balance” (2015) presents an aesthetically formal conflict between a garden wall and two improvised […] Read More

Qué listo era Nietzsche. Dan ganas de leerlo y todo: Here is my thought for the day: Nietzsche basically thinks morality, good and evil, were invented to enable trolling. That is the value of this value, such as it is. When he says we are decadent, he means Western civilization has turned into an endless […] Read More

Cuánto ingenio, la verdad: As part of a long series of functional sculptures by New York artist Sebastian ErraZuriz, the Wave Cabinet merges the form of a credenza with an elaborate system of 100 wooden slats that allows the piece to open in rolling, wave-like patterns. Like many of his other novel designs, ErraZuriz says […] Read More

Interesante: Kawakami nos traslada a una tienda de objetos de segunda mano, propiedad del señor Nakano, donde pasa toda la acción. La voz parlante es Hitomi, una joven japonesa que, a falta de una mejor ocupación, ocupa el puesto de dependiente de dicha tienda y su voz personal e íntima se hace muy característica y […] Read More

La genealogía hacia atrás: PGarcía y antes PSmith […] Read More