For your clothing? Shanghai’s latitude relative to the equator is about the same as New Orleans and the climate is classified as humid subtropical. Shanghai is a huge city with several district articles containing sightseeing, restaurant, nightlife and accommodation listings. With a population of more than 23 million, is the largest and traditionally the most developed metropolis in Mainland China. …
Read More »CHINESE MUSIC – Contemporary Traditional Chinese Music
When your geographical horizon extends – for business or pleasure – you have the wonderful opportunity to hear you inside, like the perfectly proportioned man (created by Leonardo da Vinci), correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside the Vitruvian approach to life. String instruments from …
Read More »THE PARADISE OF THE SOUL, FROM THE LABYRINTH OF THE WORLD – Hard and harsh style into engravings and drawings, like its life
KOLOMAN SOKOL 1/3 – Koloman Sokolwas (largely considered one of the most prominent of Slovakia’s contemporary artists), he was born in a poor family, in Liptovsky Mikulas. Sokol’s father died when he was very young. He attended the private schools in Kosice and in Bratislava, as well as the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where a real breakthrough in …
Read More »KOLOMAN SOKOL (1902/2003), SLOVAK PAINTER – The eventful artistic odyssey of an painter
WHAT IF YOU SLEPT – Poetry, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
WHAT IF YOU SLEPT – What if you slept, and what if in your sleep you dreamed, and what if in your dream you went to heaven, and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower, and what if when you awoke you had that flower in you hand. Ah, what then? http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Poems-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140423532
Read More »IF YOU FORGET ME – Poetry, by Pablo Neruda
IF YOU FORGET ME – I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that …
Read More »ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE – Petry, by William Shakespeare
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE – All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shining …
Read More »THE UNUSUAL USE OF COLOUR – Portraits and lascapes: symbolic meaning intertwine in the painting of Harald Slott Moller
HARALD SLOTT MOLLER 1/2 – He was born in Copenhagen, studyng at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He was married to the artist Agnes Slott Møller. Harald Slott-Møller is most known for his portraits of prominent Southern Jutland and South Schleswig. He was influenced by Naturalism and Realism, but later also incorporated new trends such as Symbolism and …
Read More »HARALD SLOTT MOLLER (1864/1937), DANISH PAINTER – When Naturalism and realism become Symbolism and Neo-Romanticism
SOMETHING FOREVERYONE IN DENMARK – Midsummer Night near Vejle Fjordis, painting by Harald Slott-Møller
It is approximately 22 km in length, and stretches east from the town of Vejle at the head to the towns of Trelde Næs. The fjord’s generally calm surface waters, are surrounded by low forested hills shaped by glaciers during the last ice age. Welcome at Vejle, a town in Denmark, in the southeast of the Jutland Peninsula, at the …
Read More »VINGSTED JERNALDERLANDSBY, DENMARK – The Iron Age Village in Vingsted
Follow the signs to “Jernaldermiljøet” from the main road through Vingsted. Every year in July, the reconstructed Iron Age settlement at Vingsted (The Iron Age Village is located approx. 20 km west of Vejle), invites families to spend their holiday living like an Iron Age family around 2,000 years ago. The days are spent with the many everyday activities of …
Read More »A WORLD THAT PLAYS ITS OWN GAME WITH US – Inger Christensen, poems
Christensen’s father was a tailor, and her mother a cook before her marriage, but Inger Christensen (1935/2009, born in Vejle Denmark), become experimentalists – in different way – one of Europe’s leading contemporary experimentalists. Her works include poetry, fiction, drama, and essays. She received numerous international literary awards. After teaching at the College for Arts in Holbæk, she turned to …
Read More »THE INMOST SECRETS OF LOVE – Søren Kierkegaard: Works of Love
His early work was written under various pseudonyms. He was born in a Spring day of 1813, to an affluent family in Copenhagen. Considered the original existentialist, Søren Kierkegaard developed his philosophical views in reaction to what he saw were empty values of Hegelianism and the Christian ethics of his time. Some of Kierkegaard’s key ideas, include the concept of …
Read More »IN THE PRIVATE DINING ROOM – Noma restaurant, Strandgade 93/1401 Copenhagen
Copenhagen is still Scandinavia s gastronomic capital, and the Michelin Guide (until same years ago) have 12 restaurants in Copenhagen, together 13 Michelin stars. Yes, Copenhagen’s restaurants have more Michelin stars than any other Scandinavian city. Copenhagen restaurant Noma (Strandgade 93, 1401 København), has been named the best restaurant in the world. It’s The S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Noma/Restaurants, …
Read More »WHEN THE MUSIC BECOME POETRY – Rasmus Seebach: Angel
He was born in a March day. Rasmus Seebach is a Danish singer-songwriter who had his debut with the single “Angel”. He is a son of Tommy Seebach, about whom he has also written the song “Who I am”, where he tells his father that they have forgiven him and are doing fine. ANGEL > Baby I was sold from …
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