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.

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. :-)

Voilà some photos of Toulouse, France. I had the pleasure to spend two days there and I could realise how much I miss France, its culture and gastronomy.

Mon week-end a passé à toute vitesse, je suis contente d'avoir eu un week-end aussi bien rempli en bonne compagnie.

Toulouse

La Garonne, Toulouse

I could taste:

• Amazing Magret de Canard  in a cosy bistrot.
• Pains au Chocolat.
• Raclette (cheese, boiled potatoes, charcuterie :-) )
• Tapenade (smashed black olives with anchovy and olive oil)

Tapenade

Magret de Canard

I also went to the best fromagerie to take some cheeses back to Spain.

Fromagerie Xavier

I hope you enjoyed my photos from the weekend. bisou!

Hello! Today I have assembled some photos that symbolize one of my favourites styles of art : The Art Nouveau, a philosophy of art and applied art that were very popular between 1890-1910.
We can find it in architecture, glassware, furniture, drawings, etc. and it is said to have started in France and Belgium.

Architecture: Hector Guimard (France) and Victor Horta (Belgium). Guimard designed the Parisian Metro subway entrances in 1898-1901.

Hotel Tassel, bruxelles. Victor Horta

Solvay House, Horta

Castel Beranger, Paris

Furniture, Guimard and Louis Majorelle.

Furniture, Guimard

Meuble Bibliothèque, Majorelle, 1905

Salle à manger, Petit Palais, Paris

 The famous French glass artist Emile Gallé.

I particularly like the paintings of Alphonse Mucha. He produced posters, advertisements, and book illustrations, as well as designs for jewelry, carpets, wallpaper, and theatre sets. 

I hope you enjoyed the images. Have a nice evening!

 In the beginning was the sea. And when waters parted, the London earth was revealed. London has always been a vast ocean in which survival is not certain.

London. The Biography. Peter Ackroyd.

I have grown to love secrecy. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. It is a silly habit but somehow it seems to bring a big deal of romance into one's life.

The picture of Dorian Gray