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Sunday, April 8, 2012

The most original heels

THE MOST ORIGINAL HEELS

These heels are absolutely fascinating, take a look:

These heels are made for the English National Ballet.

These heels have the form of a lipstick.

These heels have the form of a gun.

These heels have the form of a pink gum,

and it seems that sticks to the ground.

These heels have the form of a yellow banana.
Designed by Kobi Levi.

These heels have the form of a duck, they have a yellow beak, green eyes, and a brown body.
Designed by Kobi Levi.

These heels have the form of a body of a dog that is stretching, and have the legs, and the tail.
Designed by Kobi Levi.

These heels have the form of a face of a dog, it has the ears, the snout, and the mouth.
Designed by Kobi Levi.

These heels have the form of a slingshot.
Designed by Kobi Levi.

These heels are insipirated by the singer Lady Gaga, they have a ponnytail and a microphone.
Designed by Kobi Levi.

These heels have a form of a girl, and it have the legs bent.
Designed by Kobi Levi.

These heels have the form of a teapot, and inside it have molten chocolate.
Designed by Kobi Levi.

These heels have the form of a toucan, they have a orange beak and a black and white body.
Designed by Kobi Levi.

These heels have the form of a mouth, and have a red tongue. Designed by Kobi Levi.

These heels have the form of a chair. Designed by Kobi Levi.

These heels have the form of a shopping cart.
Designed by Kobi Levi.

Marina Díaz Cañedo-Argüelles 1ºC

Sunday, April 1, 2012

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. (American writer Mark Twain)

April Fools Day

by Claire Powell and Dave Collett

What is April Fools Day and what are its origins? It is commonly believed that in medieval France, New Year was celebrated on 1 April. Then in 1562, Pope Gregory introduced a new calendar for the Christian world, changing New Year to 1 January. With no modern communications, news travelled slowly and new ideas were often questioned. Many people did not hear of the change, others chose to ignore it, while some merely forgot. These people were called fools. Invitations to non-existent ‘New Year’ parties were sent and other practical jokes were played. This jesting evolved over time into a tradition of playing pranks on 1 April. The custom eventually spread to England and Scotland, and it was later transported across the Atlantic to the American colonies of the English and the French. April Fools Day has now developed into an international festival of fun, with different nationalities celebrating the day in a special ways.
In France and Italy, if someone plays a trick on you, you are the ‘fish of April’. By the month of April fish have only just hatched and are therefore easy to catch. Children stick paper fish to their friends’ backs and chocolate fish are found in the shops.
In Scotland, April Fools Day lasts for two days! The second day is called ‘Taily Day’ and tricks on this day involve the bottom (or the ‘tail’ in informal speech). Often a sign saying ‘kick me’ is stuck onto someone’s back without them knowing.
In Spain and Mexico, similar celebrations take place on 28 December. The day is the Feast of the Holy Innocents. Originally, the day was a sad remembrance of the slaughter of the innocent children by Herod in his search for the baby Jesus. It eventually changed to a lighter commemoration of innocence involving pranks and trickery.
Today, Americans and the British play small tricks on friends and strangers alike on 1 April. A common trick is to point to a friend's shoe and say ‘Your shoelace is untied.’ When they look down, they are laughed at. Schoolchildren might tell a friend that school has been cancelled. A bag of flour might be balanced on the top of a door so that when the ‘victim’ opens the door, the flour empties over their head. Sometimes the media get involved. Once, a British short film was shown on April Fools Day about spaghetti farmers and how they harvest their crop from spaghetti trees!
Most April Fool jokes are in good fun and not meant to harm anyone. The best trick is the one where everyone laughs, especially the person upon whom the joke has been played.
April Fool’s Day, 1989
UFO Lands Near London
Two British policemen were sent to investigate a glowing flying saucer on 31 March, the day before April Fool’s Day. When the policemen arrived at a field in Surrey, they saw a small figure wearing a silver space suit walking out of a spacecraft. Immediately the police ran off in the opposite direction. Reports revealed that the alien was in fact a midget, and the flying saucer was a hot air balloon that had been specially built to look like a UFO by Richard Branson, the 36-year-old chairman of Virgin Records.
Branson had planned to land the balloon in London’s Hyde Park on 1 April. However, a wind change had brought him down in a Surrey field. The police were bombarded with phone calls from terrified motorists as the balloon drifted over the motorway. One lady was so shocked by the incident that she didn’t realise that she was standing naked in front of her window as she was describing the UFO to a radio station

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE 126th anniversay

Today we commemorate the 126th birth anniversary of legendary German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe .
Regarded as one of the pioneers of modern architechture, Mies is said to have never taken any formal architectural training. He worked with several architects before he developed his own style. Like many of his post-World War I contemporaries, Mies wanted to establish a new architectural style that could represent modern times. He strived towards an architecture with a minimal framework of structural order balanced against the implied freedom of free-flowing open space, according to Wikipedia. He is known to call his buildings "skin and bones" architecture.

A few years after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and the government-financed school he was heading was closed down by Nazis, Mies emigrated to the United States. In the US, Mies became the head of department of architecture at the Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, which later came to be known as the Illinois Institute of Technology.

In 1944, Mies became an American citizen, severing all his ties from his native Germany. Mies architecture, with its origins in the German Bauhaus and western European style, became the popular choice for several American buildings like cultural and educational institutions, public agencies and many large corporations.

THE SECRETS OF KELLS

Dejando a un lado su argumento, que es bastante simple, el concepto visual, la animación, son absolutamente maravillosos, es un placer verla, cada fotograma podría perfectamente enmarcarse en un maravilloso cuadro.Os la recomiendo. Una obra de arte. Una obra maestra en la que no ha hecho falta gastar cientos de millones, sólo talento.

Plot apart that it´s quite simple, the visual concept and the animation are absolutely marvellous, it´s a pleasure to see it. Each frame could be inserted into a beautiful picture.I recommend it to you. A masterpiece. A masterpiece that doesn´t requiere to waste a lot a money on it, talent except.

http://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film442484.html

I love it!

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag,

Drifting through the wind
Wanting to start again?
Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin
Like a house of cards,
One blow from caving in?

Do you ever feel already buried deep?
6 feet under screams but no one seems to hear a thing
Do you know that there's still a chance for you
'Cause there's a spark in you

You just gotta ignite, the light, and let it shine
Just own the night like the 4th of July

'Cause baby you're a firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y

Baby, you're a firework
Come on, let your colours burst
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh"
You're gonna leave 'em goin' "Oh, oh, oh"

You don't have to feel like a wasted space
You're original, cannot be replaced
If you only knew what the future holds
After a hurricane comes a rainbow

Maybe your reason why all the doors are closed
So you could open one that leads you to the perfect road
Like a lightning bolt, your heart will glow
And when it's time, you'll know

You just gotta ignite, the light, and let it shine
Just own the night like the 4th of July

'Cause baby you're a firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y

Baby, you're a firework
Come on, let your colours burst
Make 'em go "Oh, Oh, Oh"
You're gonna leave 'em goin' "Oh, oh, oh"

Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon
It's always been inside of you, you, you
And now it's time to let it through-ough-ough

'Cause baby you're a firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go "Oh, Oh, Oh"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y

Baby, you're a firework
Come on, let your colours burst
Make 'em go "Oh, Oh, Oh"
You're gonna leave 'em goin' "Oh, oh, oh"

Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon
Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon

SELF-PORTRAITS of KIMIKO YOSHIDA

An amazing experience around artist´s self-portraits. What´s your opinion of it?

Sunday, March 25, 2012

A tribute to Andy Warhol

LOU REED & JOHN CALE
"Songs for Drella"

Alhóndiga Bilbao

Alhóndiga Bilbao is a multi-purpose venue located in the city of Bilbao. It was designed by French designer Philippe Starck in collaboration with Thibaut Mathieu and it was opened to the public in stages between 18 May and 24 October, 2010. The venue, labeled as a "Culture and Leisure Centre", consists of a cinema multiplex, a fitness centre, a swimming pool, a library, showrooms, an auditorium, shops, and a restaurant.

Originally a wine warehouse, it was designed by Basque architect Ricardo Bastida and inaugurated in 1909. However, in the 1970s, a new warehouse was planned and the Alhóndiga was abandoned. Several projects were suggested, ranging from public housing, a museum of modern art, or even demolishing the entire building, but all were scrapped. Finally, in 1994 it was decided to renovate it and it build a sports and culture centre. The Basque Government decided to declare the building "Public Property of Cultural Interest" in 1999.

Three mouth ago I went to "La Alhóndiga Bilbao" and I was fascinating with the 43 different columns that stretch the Alhóndiga. It was incredible, a lot of columns built in several stiles. It took photos of some of them.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

the golden number

Cálculo del valor del número áureo

Dos números a y b están en proporción áurea si se cumple: $\frac{a+b}a=\frac ab$

Si al número menor (b) le asignamos el valor 1, la igualdad será: $\frac{a + 1}{a} = a$

multiplicando ambos miembros por a, obtenemos: $a + 1 = a^2 \;$

reordenamos: $a^2 - a - 1 = 0 \;$

La solución positiva de la ecuación de segundo grado es: $\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2}=1\textrm{'}6180339887\ldots$ que es el valor del número áureo, equivalente a la relación a/b.

SANTA MARÍA DE PALMA DE MALLORCA

An example of the golden ratio in architecture is the rosette of the Cathedral of Santa Maria de Palma de Mallorca in Spain, also known as the Eye of Gothic construction being Gothic, has been cited as the world's largest Gothic in reference and allusion to the dimensions of the glass surface. Measured between 12.8 and 13.8 meters in diameter and has nearly 100 square meters. It is composed of 1,236 crystals. It was built in 1370 and was subsequently stained glass windows were added in the sixteenth century. Other features of this huge rosette are the perfect Star of David made up of 24 triangles that its tracery drawn on it and its peculiar location being situated on the main sanctuary and not the feet as usual. Throughout history, the rose has had to be replaced on several occasions, the last time by the fall of a bomb in the palace of La Almudaina during the civil war.

MAGAZINE OF MUSIC

Rainbow´s colours

Absolutely gorgeus! Can you tell me which colours do you find in this beautiful landscape?

BRITISH COUNCIL GAMES

Would you like to enjoy with those games? And, at the same time, you`ll learn a lot!
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/language-games/hangman/pets

Friday, March 23, 2012

Indie Music, by Cova Grau

Independent music, often shortened to indie music or "indie" is a term used to describe independence from major commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, and an autonomous aproach recording and publishing.
Indie pop refers to music based indie conventions of pop music. Because the term indie rock sometimes covers the whole indie music in general, the indie pop can be considered a subgenre of indie rock. The indie pop is pop music that moves beyond the boundaries of conventional pop music.

I'll talk a little about those who are in my opinion the best indie bands, national and British bands that I like. In Spain, on the 80, during the famous "Movida Madrileña" is created the first independent groups, but in my opinion is now that the Spanish indie bands really stand out within the national indie pop, I have to name groups like Vetusta Morla , Love of Lesbian, The Sunday Drivers and Lori Meyers. I found these groups really originals and I had the opportunity of seeing Vetusta Morla on live and they don´t left me indifferent, they are really great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-DWPl0319Y

The British indie artists are in my opinion very good too, but I feel a weakness for Spanish music. Although the name given in Britain to this genre is usually rock or alternative pop.in my opinion, include such famous groups as Coldplay, some less known as Travis or Keane or artists who are making known online as Lana del Rey, I find incredible groups and that people should start listening, because I really recommend and songs are very touching.

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Golden number, by Cova Grau

The number of gold, also known as golden section or golden ratio coexist with humanity because it appears in nature and since Greek times to the present day in art and design. The golden ratio appears in the proportions that keep buildings, sculptures, objects, parts of our body, ... An example of the golden rectangle in art is the elevation of the Greek Parthenon. A harmonious proportions of the body, which studied the Greeks and Romans in an earlier period, reflected in this drawing Leonardo da Vinci. It served to illustrate the book The Divine Proportion Luca Pacioli published in 1509. In this book are described which have to be the proportions of the art constructions. In particular, offers a perfect man in the relations between different parts of your body are golden proportions.

Doodles

Doodles are icons of google that commemorate special events like Christmas, St.Patrick´s Day,... There are lots of Doodles, sometimes 4 or 5 per day, because in each country there is a different doodle. You can see all doodles here.

Some examples:

Dennis Hwang had done the most part of doodles. Here there is an interview where he explains the process to make a doodle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOOY0xuQ3TU&feature=player_embedded

Juan Gris´125th birthday

Today,Google's doodle features stylized representations of musical instruments - familiar components of Gris's surrealistic vocabulary.

JUAN GRIS

Gris was born José Victoriano Carmelo Carlos González-Pérez in Madrid on 23 March 1887. After studying art in Spain he moved to Paris in 1906 where he became a friend and contemporary of artists including Henri Matisse and Amodeo Modigliani.

By 1910 he had developed his own cubist style. His work typically featured jagged and angular arrangements of objects or people painted using a palette of muted tones.

An important figure in Spanish painting before and after the First World War, the artist Juan Gris is considered the Third Member of Cubism, after Pablo Picasso and George Braque, although he remains greatly overshadowed by his more famous colleagues. Gris worked his way through analytical and synthetic Cubism, to create his own unique and colourful style, but it was his highly intellectual approach to his work that established him as the greatest theorist among the Cubist painters. This alone secures his place as a leading figure in the history of artin the early 20th century. Also significantly influenced by Fauvism art, his best known work is Portrait of Picasso (1912, Art Institute of Chicago). Gris is regarded as one of the great abstract painters of the early 20th century. Noted in particular for his Cubist-style still life painting, his best known works include: Portrait of Picasso (1912, Art Institute of Chicago), Violin And Checkerboard (1913, Private Collection), The Sunblind (1914, Tate Collection, London), Portrait of Josette (1916, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid), Violin (1916, Kunstmuseum, Basel), Harlequin with Guitar (1919, Private Collection), The View Across the Bay (1921, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris). A number of his paintings and prints are available online in the form of poster art. Married with a son, Gris died in 1927 at the age of 40 after suffering from chronic kidney failure

Gris, whose painting Violon et guitare sold for $28.6m at auction in New York in 2010, was also acquainted with fellow Spaniard Picasso, who he regarded as a teacher. His 1912 Portrait of Picasso is claimed to be the first cubist work not painted by Picasso or the French painter Georges Braque, The Guardian says.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

GOLDEN NUMBER

The golden number is represented by the Lumber phi from the Old Greece: 3’1416…

the golden number o the golden ratio is represent in the Parthenon of Athenas in

Greece

In some faces of these building we can see the famous golden rectangles.

Lots of mathematics studied and investigated a lot of this number, but it just an interesting irrational number in connection in the middle and extreme ratios.

But this number is not only represented in building or in human’s manufractures, you can find it in the nature too.

For example the golden number is expose in the arrangenment of the trunks and branches of trees.

In our body, you can see relevations of the golden number: in the nervious system and the bone’s system.

http://exploreable.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/694780262_8874b4f225.jpg

http://www.cgadvertising.com/media/Rules/Parthenon.gif

The golden number, also known as the golden ratio is ussualy repressent by the greek letter phi

, it appears in the nature and in the art and design. The objects that are in golden ratio ussualy are beautiful.

We obtain the golden number (1.61803399):

from the division of two number, for example a:b, providing that the relationship between the segment "a + b" is the same as the relationship between "a" and "b".

IN NATURE

We found it in:

The disposition of the petals of the flowers
The relation between the thickness of the principal branches and the trunk
The quantity of petals of the flowers
And more cases

IN THE ART

We found it in:

Relations in the form of Gizeh's Great Pyramid
The relations between the joints in the man of Vitrubio (perfect man) and in other Leonardo's works Da Vinci.
And more cases

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The golden number

The Golden Number is represented by the greek letter phi.

Many of the proportions of the Parthenon are alleged to exhibit the golden ratio.The Parthenon's facade as well as elements of its facade and elsewhere are said by some to be circumscribed by golden rectangles. Greek mathematician merely regarded that number as an interesting irrational number, in connection with the middle and extreme ratios. Its occurrence in regular pentagons and decagons was duly observed, as well as in the dodecahedron (a regular polyhedron whose twelve faces are regular pentagons).

In nature the golden ratio expressed in the arrangement of branches along the stems of plants and of veins in leaves. He extended his research to the skeletons of animals and the branchings of their veins and nerves, to the proportions of chemical compounds and the geometry of crystals.

Carlos Sanmartin and Miguel Angel Sastre 3ºB

There are two theories about we can organize the different colour:

1. Physicists explain colour as a function of light. This is the Additive model. White light was first proven to contain all of the colours by the physicist Sir Isaac. The light primaries are different from the pigment primaries. The secondaries colours are red, green and purple. The primaries colours are magenta, cyan and yellow.

2. When you want to pain with pigments, you use the subtractive model, in other words, the CMYK model, CYAN,MAGENTA, YELLOW and BLACK, the colour that results of mixing all of them.

CYAN + YELLOW = GREEN

YELLOW + MAGENTA = RED

MAGENTA + CYAN = PURPLE

MORE CYAN + MAGENTA = INDIGO

MORE MAGENTA + CYAN = MAUVE

YELLOW + MAGENTA + CYAN = BLACK

Carlos San martin Valdes and Miguel Angel Sastre

The differents colours

There are two theories about we can organize the different colour:

2. When you want to pain with pigments, you use the subtractive model, in other words, the CMYK model, CYAN, MAGENTA, YELLOW and BLACK, the colour that results of mixing all of them.

CYAN + YELLOW = GREEN

YELLOW + MAGENTA = RED

MAGENTA + CYAN = PURPLE

MORE CYAN + MAGENTA = INDIGO

MORE MAGENTA + CYAN = MAUVE

YELLOW + MAGENTA + CYAN = BLACK

Primary and Additive colours.

■Primary colors are sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range of colors. For human applications, three primary colors are usually used, since human colour vision is trichromatic. There are cyan , yellow and magenta:

■Additive colour describes the situation where colour is created by mixing the visible light emitted from differently colored light sources. This is in contrast to subtractive colour where light is removed from various part of the visible spectrum to create colours.

The golden Number.

-The golden number is represented by the Greedl letterφ or Φ, is an irrational number: 2

-In mathematics and arts, two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio of the sum of the quantities to the larger quantity is equal to the ratio of the larger quantity to the smaller one. The figure on the right illustrates the geometric relationship. Expressed algebraically:

-The golden ratio has been used since Egyptian times for the construction of buildings, though, are the Greeks use: who exploited it to maximum use in all facets of art. Here are some examples of this:

+The first known use of the golden ratio appears in building the pyramid of Cheops, dating from 2600 BC.

+An example of a golden rectangle in art is the elevation of the Greek Parthenon.

-The golden ratio arises from the division into two of a segmentstoring the following proportions: total length a + b is the longestsegm.ento is accommodative to the shorter segment b.

The Golden Number