The solar eclipse of January 4, 2011 was a partial eclipse of the Sun that was visible after sunrise over most of Europe, northwestern and South Asia. It ended at sunset over eastern Asia. It was visible as a minor partial eclipse over northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula.
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Friday, March 20, 2015
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Eusebiu Ştefănescu - Arhivarul clipei
Actor Eusebiu Stefanescu, a natural elegance, passed away
Actor Eusebiu Stefanescu was a "presence of a natural elegance", an actor who lived intensely through theatre and poetry, a press release by the Theatre Union of Romania (UNITER), sent AGERPRES on Sunday, reads.
"He had a still, sincere gaze which left you off-guard, made you be afraid of your gloomy thoughts, a gaze that chased perfidy away. He was a presence of a natural elegance, with a discreet smile, but which was hiding a very joyful mystery. The mystery of an extreme life experience through theatre and poetry. As a teacher, he managed to pass on, to guide several generations of future actors to the perfection, to the controlled severeness of the force of the word well spoken in the spotlights," the release says.
"As a member of the UNITER Senate, Eusebiu Stefanescu received in
2014, at the UNITER Awards Gala, the Prize of the UNITER chairman for
'his contribution to the beautiful utterance of poetry'. Almost one year
after being granted this award, Eusebiu Stefanescu is passing away,
leaving a huge void," the UNITER release reads.
Eusebiu Stefanescu has died on the night of Saturday to Sunday, at the Bucharest Military Hospital, at 70 years of age.AGERPRES
http://www.agerpres.ro/english/2015/03/15/actor-eusebiu-stefanescu-a-natural-elegance-passed-away-15-57-53
Moartea actorului Eusebiu Ştefănescu l-a dărâmat pr Florin Piersic. „Îi
consolez familia şi sunt rănit şi vreau să spun ceva...trebuie să spun
un lucru foarte grav. Abia am curaj să apăs pe butonul de la telefon
pentru că imi este frică să primesc tot timpul o noua veste tristă”, a
declarat marele actor. .
Actorul Eusebiu Ştefănescu a murit, duminică, la vârsta de 70 de ani.
Potrivit primelor informaţii, decesul actorului a fost cauzat de o
tumoare cerebrală."Acum două săptămâni, fiind la Ploieşti, am aflat de suferinţa acestui minunat coleg care mi-a fost foarte apropiat partener în filmele făcute. El era un coleg excepţional şi dacă vreţi vă spun o întamplare care să mângâie sufletele familiei lui este faptul ca eu am fost şi sunt in continuare bun prieten cu baiatul lui, cu Ionut Stefănescu. Nu ştiu cum să vă spun că de multe ori împreuna cu Ionuţ, într-o zi m-am întâlnit în fata ministerului Educaţiei şi am povestit foarte multe despre viaţa noastră şi a lui Eusebiu. Între toti cei pe care îi cunosc de vârsta mea şi pe cei mai tineri cu câtiva ani, atât vreau să vă spun că era un recitator excepţional. Acum o lună de zile vorbeam cu Patriarhul Daniel spunea ca trebuie să îl pomenesc pe Eusebiu Stefanescu care a venit o dată şi a recitat foarte furmos. Ii consolez familia şi sunt rănit şi vreau să spun ceva...trebuie să spun un lucru foarte grav. Abia am curaj să apăs pe butonul de la telefon pentru ca îmi este frică să primesc tot timpul o noua veste tristă", a declarat actorul Florin Piersic la România TV.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
ROGER WATERS - Perfect Sense
Hey...girl
Take out the dagger
And let's have a stab at the sexual revolution
Hey girl
Let freedom for all be our rallying call
Tomorrow lets make...our new resolution
Yeah, but tonight lie still
While I plunder your sweet grave
And remember
Only the poor can be saved
Hey girl
As I've always said I prefer your lips red
Not what the good Lord made
But what he intended
Hey girl
Don't point the finger at me
I am only a rat in a maze like you
And only the dead go free
So...please hold my hand
As we blunder through the maze
And remember
Nothing can grow without rain
Don't point
Don't point your finger at me
I awoke in a fever
The bedclothes were all soaked in sweat
She said "You've been having a nightmare
And it's not over yet"
Then she picked up the doggy in the window
(The one with the waggly tail)
And she put him to bed between two bits of bread
4:41 AM (Sexual Revolution) Lyrics
Artist: Roger Waters (Buy Roger Waters CDs)Album: The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking
Video for "4:41AM (Sexual Revolution)" from Roger Waters' 1984 debut
"The Pros & Cons of Hitch Hiking", Eric Clapton is featured on the
album on lead guitar.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Dragobete
'Dragobete, the traditional lovers’ day in Romania, is celebrated on
February 24, ten days after the Western European and American
counterpart Valentine’s Day. The Dragobete traditional story goes that,
clothed with holiday suits, young men and women meet in front of the
church and go searching the woods and meadows for spring flowers. They
sit around fire on the hills of the village and talk. At noon, the girls
run to the village, each followed by one boy who had fallen for them.
If the boy is fast and reaches the girl of his choice and if she likes
him, she kisses him in front of everyone. This tradition triggered the
expression “Dragobete kisses the girls!” (Dragobetele saruta fetele).
The kiss show the two lovers’ engagement, Dragobete being an
opportunity to show the love in front of the community.
There are a number of Dragobete customs in rural areas, many of which
are not kept by modern Romanians anymore. On this day, no animals are
sacrificed because it would ruin the point of mating. In the old days,
single women used to gather the last remnants of snow, called “the
fairies’ snow”, and the water resulted from the melted snow was used
throughout the year for various beauty treatments and love spells.
The tradition goes that men should not hurt women, nor argue with
them, otherwise they will not do well the whole year. Youngsters believe
that on this day they should be joyous and respect the holiday, so that
they can be in love the whole year.'
sursa : romania-insider.com
Vlad Condurache, vlad@romania-insider.com
Corina Saceanu, corina@romania-insider.com
Friday, February 20, 2015
Constantin Brâncuși
'Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.'
Constantin Brancusi
Constantin Brâncuși
portrait by Daliana Pacuraru
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Constantin Brancusi was born February 19, 1876, in
Hobitza, Romania and was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered a pioneer of modernism,
one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century, Brâncuși is
called the patriarch of modern sculpture. As a child he displayed an
aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1905 to 1907. His art emphasizes clean geometrical lines that balance forms inherent in his materials with the symbolic allusions of representational art. Brâncuși sought inspiration in non-European cultures as a source of primitive exoticism, as did Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, André Derain and others. But other influences emerge from Romanian folk art traceable through Byzantine and Dionysian traditions.He studied art at the Scoala de Meserii (school of
arts and crafts) in Craiova from 1894 to 1898 and at the Scoala
Natzionala de Arte Frumoase (national school of fine arts) in Bucharest
from 1898 to 1901. Eager to continue his education in Paris, Brancusi
arrived there in 1904 and enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1905.
The following year, his sculpture was shown at the Salon d’Automne,
where he met Auguste Rodin.
Soon after 1907, Brancusi’s mature period began. The sculptor had settled in Paris but throughout these years returned frequently to Bucharest and exhibited there almost every year. In Paris, his friends included Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and Henri Rousseau. In 1913, five of Brancusi’s sculptures were included in the Armory Show in New York. Alfred Stieglitz presented the first solo show of Brancusi’s work at his gallery “291,” New York, in 1914. Brancusi was never a member of any organized artistic movement, although he associated with Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara, and many other Dadaists in the early 1920s. In 1921, he was honored with a special issue of The Little Review. He traveled to the United States twice in 1926 to attend his solo shows at Wildenstein and at the Brummer Gallery in New York. The following year, a historic trial was initiated in the United States to determine whether Brancusi’s Bird in Space was liable for duty as a manufactured object or as a work of art. The court decided in 1928 that the sculpture was a work of art.
Brancusi traveled extensively in the 1930s, visiting India and Egypt as well as European countries. He was commissioned to create a war memorial for a park in Turgu Jiu, Romania, in 1935, and designed a complex that included gates, tables, stools, and an Endless Column. After 1939, Brancusi continued to work in Paris. His last sculpture, a plaster Grand Coq, was completed in 1949. In 1952, Brancusi became a French citizen. He died March 16, 1957, in Paris.(guggenheim )
http://www.yatzer.com/brancusi-in-new-york-paul-kasmin-gallery
Soon after 1907, Brancusi’s mature period began. The sculptor had settled in Paris but throughout these years returned frequently to Bucharest and exhibited there almost every year. In Paris, his friends included Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and Henri Rousseau. In 1913, five of Brancusi’s sculptures were included in the Armory Show in New York. Alfred Stieglitz presented the first solo show of Brancusi’s work at his gallery “291,” New York, in 1914. Brancusi was never a member of any organized artistic movement, although he associated with Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara, and many other Dadaists in the early 1920s. In 1921, he was honored with a special issue of The Little Review. He traveled to the United States twice in 1926 to attend his solo shows at Wildenstein and at the Brummer Gallery in New York. The following year, a historic trial was initiated in the United States to determine whether Brancusi’s Bird in Space was liable for duty as a manufactured object or as a work of art. The court decided in 1928 that the sculpture was a work of art.
Brancusi traveled extensively in the 1930s, visiting India and Egypt as well as European countries. He was commissioned to create a war memorial for a park in Turgu Jiu, Romania, in 1935, and designed a complex that included gates, tables, stools, and an Endless Column. After 1939, Brancusi continued to work in Paris. His last sculpture, a plaster Grand Coq, was completed in 1949. In 1952, Brancusi became a French citizen. He died March 16, 1957, in Paris.(guggenheim )
http://www.yatzer.com/brancusi-in-new-york-paul-kasmin-gallery
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Saturday, February 7, 2015
Hearts for Sale
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/daliana-pacuraru.html?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=64594
"Stairway to Heaven" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It
was composed by guitarist Jimmy Page and vocalist Robert Plant for the
band's fourth unnamed studio album, (see Led Zeppelin IV (1971)). The
song was voted #3 in 2000 by VH1 on their list of the 100 Greatest Rock
Songs.[1] It was the most requested song on FM radio stations in the
United States in the 1970s, despite never having been released as a
single there.[2] In November 2007, through download sales promoting Led
Zeppelin's Mothership release, "Stairway to Heaven" hit #37 on the UK
Singles Chart
Monday, February 2, 2015
The Horse God Built
“For anybody who loves horses, and for all of those who are thrilled by
horse racing and the behind-the-scenes drama of the track, The Horse That God Built is must reading."
--Michael Korda, author of Horse People
--Michael Korda, author of Horse People
Secretariat A Moment of Eternity
Secretariat tribute - The Chronicle of the Horse
Most of us know the legend of Secretariat, the tall,
handsome chestnut racehorse whose string of honors runs long and rich:
the only two-year-old ever to win Horse of the Year, in 1972; winner in
1973 of the Triple Crown, his times in all three races still
unsurpassed; featured on the cover of Time, Newsweek, and Sports Illustrated;
the only horse listed on ESPN’s top fifty athletes of the twentieth
century (ahead of Mickey Mantle). His final race at Toronto’s Woodbine
Racetrack is a touchstone memory for horse lovers everywhere. Yet while
Secretariat will be remembered forever, one man, Eddie “Shorty” Sweat,
who was pivotal to the great horse’s success, has been all but
forgotten---until now.
In The Horse God Built, bestselling equestrian writer Lawrence Scanlan has written a tribute to an exceptional man that is also a backroads journey to a corner of the racing world rarely visited. As a young black man growing up in South Carolina, Eddie Sweat struggled at several occupations before settling on the job he was born for---groom to North America’s finest racehorses. As Secretariat’s groom, loyal friend, and protector, Eddie understood the horse far better than anyone else. A wildly generous man who could read a horse with his eyes, he shared in little of the financial success or glamour of Secretariat’s wins on the track, but won the heart of Big Red with his soft words and relentless devotion.
In Scanlan’s rich narrative, we get a groom’s-eye view of the racing world and the vantage of a man who spent every possible moment with the horse he loved, yet who often basked in the horse’s glory from the sidelines. More than anything else, The Horse God Built is a moving portrait of the powerful bond between human and horse.
Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that in 1973 became the first U.S. Triple Crown winner in 25 years. He set race records in all three events in the series – the Kentucky Derby (1:59 2/5), the Preakness Stakes (1:53), and the Belmont Stakes (2:24) – records that still stand today
( wiki )
Friday, January 30, 2015
Pink Floyd-The Gunner's Dream
'Floating down through the clouds
Memories come rushing up to meet me now.
But in the space between the heavens
and the corner of some foreign field
I had a dream.
I had a dream.
Good-bye macs,
Good-bye Ma.
After the service when you're walking slowly to the car
And the silver in her hair shines in the cold November air
You hear the tolling bell
And touch the silk in your lapel
And as the tear drops rise to meet the comfort of the band
You take her frail hand
And hold on to the dream.
A place to stay
"Oi! A real one ..."
Enough to eat
Somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street
Where you can speak out loud
About your doubts and fears
And what's more no-one ever disappears
You never hear their standard issue kicking in your door.
You can relax on both sides of the tracks
And maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control
And everyone has recourse to the law
And no-one kills the children anymore.
And no one kills the children anymore.
Night after night
Going round and round my brain
His dream is driving me insane.
In the corner of some foreign field
The gunner sleeps tonight.
What's done is done.
We cannot just write off his final scene.
Take heed of the dream.
Take heed.'
Memories come rushing up to meet me now.
But in the space between the heavens
and the corner of some foreign field
I had a dream.
I had a dream.
Good-bye macs,
Good-bye Ma.
After the service when you're walking slowly to the car
And the silver in her hair shines in the cold November air
You hear the tolling bell
And touch the silk in your lapel
And as the tear drops rise to meet the comfort of the band
You take her frail hand
And hold on to the dream.
A place to stay
"Oi! A real one ..."
Enough to eat
Somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street
Where you can speak out loud
About your doubts and fears
And what's more no-one ever disappears
You never hear their standard issue kicking in your door.
You can relax on both sides of the tracks
And maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control
And everyone has recourse to the law
And no-one kills the children anymore.
And no one kills the children anymore.
Night after night
Going round and round my brain
His dream is driving me insane.
In the corner of some foreign field
The gunner sleeps tonight.
What's done is done.
We cannot just write off his final scene.
Take heed of the dream.
Take heed.'
The Final Cut (occasionally subtitled The Final Cut: A Requiem For The
Post-War Dream by Roger Waters) is the twelfth studio album by English
progressive rock group Pink Floyd. It was released on 21 March 1983 by
Harvest Records in the United Kingdom, and several weeks later by
Columbia Records in the United States. A concept album, The Final Cut is
the last of the band's studio releases to include founding member and
long-time lyricist Roger Waters. It is the only Pink Floyd album on
which Waters alone is credited for the writing and composition of every
song. Most of the lyrics are sung by Waters; lead guitarist David
Gilmour provides vocals on only one of the album's tracks.
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