Street fashion in the 1930's

My discovery of the day: Ivan Besse.
He was a projectionist at the Strand Theatre in Britton (Marshall County), South Dakota.

He produced amateur films as an attempt to increase midweek attendance at the theatre during the Depression.  With camera in hand, he ventured onto Main Street, then throughout town and finally all over the county, shooting passersby, parades, proms and public works projects. Then he screened the films in the Strand local cinema on Tuesday and Wednseday evening accompanied by his own live narration

This film shows ordinary women of the era with their vintage dresses and hairstyles. Hope you enjoy it!

Sybil

Hideaway festival

Things happening...

Last week I attended a festival in a massive warehouse in Seven Sisters. hideaway festival is called. People actually live there and they use the place for gigs and all kind of artistic performances. They offered me an indian welcoming tea and they also had  prepared tasty home made food for the party...I was really impressed to see that we were at least 200 hundred people there?!?!  There were all kind of creative people on dreadlocks and ponchos,  singing, dancing, playing music... among them one good friend of mine, who is a writer and that night was a great comedian-story teller. I am really looking forward to the next one.

These are my blackberry photos of the night  (taken the first two hours....out the 9 i spent there!)also a video of the second performance :-)

The farm

London has so many things to offer. I simply adore this city. This is a farm 5 minutes walk from Columbia flower market in Brick Lane.

En un radio de un km uno puede encontrar la granja y la ciudad en perfecta simbiosis :-)

Again sorry for the bad quality of my photos, I dont have a good camera at the moment but hopefully in some months time I will have some savings to get one!

I guess after a walk through the farm there is always place for a good typical english chicken roast!

Camden Town

It's true that Camden Town market can get too busy in the weekends and its full of tourists but still, i like it. It is not far from my place and I always find interesting stuff, even if I cannot afford buying anything at the moment.

I actually bought a handmade soap with Manuka honey in it. Im more and more into natural cosmetics and body care  :-)

Some photos of the day...there are already millions of these on the internet but voila here i go with my contribution!

Storytelling

Danielavivanova

What makes a great story?
 For Ken Burns a great story is 1+1=3. A great story is a lie. A great story is everything and much more. In this short documentary he shares with us his experience in storytelling and his inspirations for creating great stories. More about the project you can find here on The Atlantic.

Living london

These photos have been taken with my blackberry.

London con buen tiempo se transforma.

Finsbury park

Finsbury park

Merienda en Shoreditch

Beautiful Basque Country

ausente mucho tiempo......

"Blanco espino del fondo de la huerta,

que sigues guardando el rincón de mi infancia,

¿por qué no puedo como tú, simple ramilla,

pasar mis días en la tierra que me vió nacer?

Mas una lágrima asoma a mis ojos.

Mi corazón desborda de alegría;

ya oigo la voz de los de casa"

Jean Baptiste Elizanburu 1862

Stephen hawking

Stephen William Hawking,  (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity.

"What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary."

"The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes."

"I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars."

Stephen Hawking formula grandes preguntas sobre el universo. Ted 2008.

 

Enlightenment

British Museum. 

There is a magnificent room containing an exhibition about  the Age of  Enlightment (18th century), a time when people used reason and first-hand observation of the world around them to understand it in new ways.

There is a section in the room that talks about ancient scripts. The search for knowledge about the past led to renewed interest in deciphering the mysterious forms of Egyptian hieroglyphs, Sanskrit and cuneiform. This scholarly activity eventually led to the "cracking" of their codes in the early 19th century, and thousands of years of history were opened up to research. 

The most important piece discovered: the Rosseta Stone, carved in Egypt in 196 B.C and found by the french in 1799.

Its written in 3 scripts:

Hieroglyphic: the script used in Egypt for important documents.

Demotic: the common script of Egypt.

Greek: language of the rulers in Egypt at that time.

After many years of studying the Rosetta Stone and other examples of ancient Egyptian writing, Jean-François Champollion deciphered hieroglyphs in 1822. :-)

The first kiss

Thomas Edison is the responsible of the first kiss in cinema. It was filmed in his studio in New Jersey in 1896.  He really had an eye of what audiences wanted.  The film is around 47 seconds long and shows a kiss between the canadian actress May Irwin and John Rice. The film caused disapproving newspaper editorials and calls for police action in many places where it was shown.

One contemporary critic wrote: "The spectacle of the prolonged pasturing on each other's lips was beastly enough in life size on the stage but magnified to gargantuan proportions and repeated three times over it is absolutely disgusting."