Martian Dunes and the Shadow of Opportunity

Human made robots continue to roll across the surface of Mars.

Spanish Folklore Music

I attended a concert in French cultural center in Alex again with my friends. It was a guitter music. The guitalist was a french and the singer was a spanish.
The guitalist spoke only French and I didn't understand his speaking except manes of music, so my friend translated for me. It was folklore songs in spanish. The singer song with full emotion, expecially her metho-soplano voice was very beautiful.

Let's Recycle!

There is a street for electricity. There are many shops selling TV, mobile, kitchenware etc.. Among them I found a cup and a can of Cocacola!!

Why...?

It is a telephone!!

There are small holes on the body, upper side and under side, that's the speaker and the mike, and the bottuns are on bottom. It is enough to be a telephone!

Oh, of course it's made in China.

Islamic Arts in the Nature

It's perfect. Maybe people took this image and put it in their arts?

Sundown

I think,
- If the sun is above the horizon, the sea may reflect its light.
- If the sun is behind the horizon, the color of the sea may be dark.

above the horizon

on the horizon

Fernando Perez - video

This is a short video of the concert.



If you want to see more, just go to Youtube, and search it. You'll find some.

Fernando Perez

I attended to a concert of Fernando Perez last Thursday. He is a spanish guiterist from Zaragoza. He said he learned classical spanish music since he was a child.
He played flamenco musics in the concert, some of them was in cuban style. He explained that during the spanish civil war(guerra civil espanola), many artists had came out from spain to other countries, and some went to Cuba. Then, after the war they came back to spain but also brought flamenco music of cuban style that they created there.
Also, he played my favorit music "Concierto de Aranjuez". But this time, he was alone in the concert, so he arrenged this concierto into solo-guiter music. He said it is a challenge for him because originaly this is a beautiful orchestra music, so the music he arrenged is very dificult. For me, it was very nice and wonderful and the best music ever, because one of the reasons that I like Aranjuez is the beautiful sound of guiter. When I listened it played with only the guiter, I was very very impressed..
I will put a video in next article.. but not now.. because of this egyptian slooooow internet connection..

Samsara - Victor Ullate Ballet

I remember some dances in it - it was consisted from some parts.
The most impressive one is, that there are 7 or 8 people wearing like Saudi Arabian women. I only see their white face swinging in a back corner. Then they come forward one by one and reach out the hands as if they wash the face, and retern to back corner again but now I see their face and hands swinging. I felt I saw something deep in the humanity. What do the white faces mean? What does face-washing mean? Before the hands appear, the faces tell me that they exist there even the world is dark, hopeless but it's just existence of mind. After they show their hands, they become more active, more aliving. So the impotance of existence is not just the mind but also the motive for the life.
Again they come closer starting the dance. They never look like happy.. There is no hope.. Inside them, a women appears. I think she awake from the caos of the world, on the other hand the others wearing in black show the difficulty of our life and anguish. So, she try to dance vividly but she cannot becouse these black women interrupt her and catch her. she is struggling, crying and looks sad... she cannot change harshness of the life. Finaly, she fell down and become black like others again. She cannot overcome her life and abondon her hope.. This is the life though I don't want so.
It continues to the next dance. It is about two men's love... I was surprised when I saw two men wearing white shirt dancing happily together srounded many black men and women... I didn't understand what they are. But finally, I understood. They love each other, but people pull them apart and enforce the sanction. I don't know how to say, but this is a new type of ballet, I think....
So, these two was the most impressive. And mostly they move slow.. It was filled with emotion of the oriental philosophy.

Vivtor Ullate Ballet

I enjoyed Victor Ullate Ballet, named SAMSARA سمسارا. I don't know the origin of this word but in Arabic, this word comes from a verb 'samsara سمسر', and it means "to act as broker or middleman". The director Victor Ullate was invited by the Spanish Ministry of Culture to create a new national ballet company, the Ballet Nacional de España in 1979.
He says this is a dance of the life, in which we can awake, and unveil the ignorance...
The idea came from the oriental philosophy like Middle East, Asia, and Far East. That's why, it becames a unique Ballet.
He also says, in this ballet, we recognize many times that we are eternal. We circlearound our wish without any necessity or desire for the backward as if we never get old or die...

If there is Picasso's 3D Guernica

Picassoの絵の中ではゲルニカが一番好きだ。理由はわからない。自分で書いたことがあるからかもしれない。またはこの絵に歴史があるからかもしれない。またはこの絵がモノトーンだから・・・？
でも、もしゲルニカを３次元で復元したら？
Picassoのすごい事は、絵のつながり方だ。一つのものが途中で切れて、隣のものとなぜか不思議につながっている。それは彼が２次元を意識して描いたからできた。それを３次元にできるかな？

このページでそれを確認して欲しい。Look here.

Media Artist

ナウシカの所で紹介した飛行機の動画について
who did make that airplain which I showed in the video last story but one.

A Media artist, Hachiya Kazuhiko （八谷和彦）made it.
He makes very interesting machines, for example, change your vision. How do you see the world? You see as you see!! But you can see what they see you with the Inter Dis- Communication Machine (視聴覚交換マシン）!

He says, "You can only see through the other person's eyes when you wear these machines, which forcibly put you in the other's place. These were made to obscure the border between identities of two persons."
Even! 'the concept "to make it possible to kiss or to make love with the partner while keeping the machines on" is observed.'
hehehe.. unbelievable!!!

and... Next one is to change the color of lights （虹を作るための巨大ブランコ). Each swing is linked to ７ computers and the color is changed by thier angles.
His work is not simple electric machine connects to human but philosophy of human using computer science...