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Organizing papers and books, I found this. My relationship with Catalan was very brief, even though one of the first things I ever learned was t’estimo.. Nevertheless, it’s an interesting language and propably helped me out quite a bit when I a year later started learning Portuguese. Behold as the planets align! Haha
That’s a proper full moon right there. My inner wolf is very eager to create, think and do stuff – it refuses to let me sleep. So many thoughts and ideas!
Sometimes, I think that I should have chosen a more designy direction in life. Being able to create beauty such as in the video above would have been wonderful, as I really love shapes, surrealism and creativity. But then again, I love what I do, (whatever that is..) and I guess I just have to find enough spare time to be able to indulge in the arts, contrasts and details that other people create. And then there’s my photography thing, of course, and the option to include more design in whatever it is I am doing for a living. That’s very much an option, actually. Maybe.
Etereas – Short Film (2013)
# Director: Daniela Villanueva, Mara Soler
# Dancers: Brecken Rivara, Tiana Zoumer
# Production: César Moheno Plá
# Camera: Pamela Albarran
# Music: Julian Placencia / Teen Flirt
# Animation: Daniela Villanueva, Mara Soler, Alejandro Caballero, Marco Garfias, Fernando Sica, Luis Núñez
PEARL winnerfilm/ Pool-festival, Berlin. Top ten in Cinema Perpetuum Mobile Film Festival. Official selection: ANIMA 2013, Argentina, Baixada Animada Brazil, Cut Out Fest, Mexico, Female in Film Industry, Mexico.
Here’s a fantastic animation directed by Damian Nenow from Poland, marking the occasion of World Food Day on October 16th. The voice-over is by Dakota Fanning, and the video is part of a campaign by EndingHunger.org, an outreach and education project of the UN FAO.
Hunger kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. There are 842 million undernourished people in the world today, that’s almost one in eight people not getting enough food to lead a healthy and active life – or being able to reach their full potential as human beings.
I don’t work for the World Food Programme anymore, but I still consider proper nutrition being one of the most important questions in the world. The days during a woman’s pregnancy until the second birthday of a child have a profound impact on the development of the child – if the mother and her baby don’t receive adequate nutrition during this period, the effects are irreversible. In other words – this means this child will never be able to grow, learn and live properly. Always a little bit slower, a little less intelligent, a little more sick – and very likely to suffer from premature death.
After Wroclaw, we continued my classic Poland route to Torun, where my father lives. Here are the photos.
After Berlin, Avina and I took a bus across the border to my grandmother’s city in Poland, Wroclaw. Wroclaw is an old German city that became Polish after the second world war and has a really beautiful old town. Being in Poland felt like home, my grandmother had cooked us things we both love, we chattered away in Polish, went for shopping, met a new friend, and Avina was delighted with the selection of sausages. And the best thing about it all was the fact that it was suddenly summer again.
I expected street art and dark strange rooms with loud electronic music when thinking of Berlin. We got that – and a little more.
Berlin was easy to move around in with its great ubahn system, although we managed to go in the wrong direction a couple of times, we didn’t care much though – our three days were mostly unplanned and we walked around, stepped into very random music performances and went out dancing. I wish I could have taken photos of the places we danced at, but photography was strictly forbidden and my camera battery was kept by the guards. We were lucky with the hotel breakfast which opened early enough for us to enjoy once we were back from our nights out, because we basically lived by night in Berlin, as it’s supposed to be experienced – but we also managed to hang out with Avina’s cousin Chia, visit the Berlin wall memorial, the Mauerpark fleamarket, meet with my friend Annika who I got to know at Corn Island in Nicaragua earlier this year and dance with my old friend Mary from Barcelona. Berlin, this very creative and contrast-filled city, has been on my list of places to photograph since forever – and I was not dissappointed.
Apelöga have organized an event with the photographer Kent Klich here at the museum in Malmö. My dear Tena is hooking me up with snacks.
The exhibition is worth visiting and will be hanging here in Kommendanthuset another month.
So Prince, yes, the 55-year old “Artist formerly known as Prince” Prince, has released a new single – and it comes wih a hilarious video directed by beautiful Danielle Curiel, who also appears in the video – as Prince himself. Confused? Just enjoy the dancers. “Hotcakes smothered in honey? I’m gon’ have to pass.”
Prince – Breakfast can wait (2013)
I was never a huge Prince fan, until seeing him live at the Way out West festival in 2011 – still the sexiest and most engaging concert I’ve ever been to. It was amazing to sing along to Purple Rain!
Remember that 2004 Dave Chappelle sketch about Prince? Well, as if all of this wasn’t funny enough, they used a screenshot of Dave Chappelle from that sketch to make the artwork for the single. It’s so ridiculously bad it makes me love it even more. “Fresh cup of coffee, no, no. I’d rather have you in my glass”
