Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
May 25, 2009
May 21, 2009
Setting of the movie "Sex & Lucia"
Formentera is the smallest and southernmost island of the Illes Pitiüses group (which includes Ibiza and Formentera) and belongs to the Balearic Islands autonomous community (Spain). It is 19 kilometres long and is located approximately 3 nautical miles (6 km) south of Ibiza in the Mediterranean Sea (wikipedia.com)
Ibiza is considered a popular tourist destination, especially due to its legendary and at times riotous nightlife ...
During the summer, well-known DJs perform at the various clubs on weekly schedules, in between touring to other international destinations. Many of these DJs use Ibiza as an outlet for presenting new songs within the house, trance and techno genres of electronic dance music. The season traditionally begins at the start of June with Space and DC10's opening parties and finishes on the first weekend of October with the Closing Parties. A typical schedule for clubbers going to Ibiza includes waking at noon, early evening naps, late night clubbing, and "disco sunrises". 
First club outdoor banner we saw....(they are everywhere...the nightlife fulls the economy of this island for 6 months a yer). Steve Lawler spinning @ Pacha
Club Space - on "We Love Sundays":Space's 22-hour Sunday sessions began in 1999. We Love Sundays @ Space is a weekly party which opens at 4.30pm on Sunday and keeps going until 6 AM Monday morning.
BEST sunsets in the island in this night spot...@ Sant Antoni (the West part of the island)
"LIVE" advertising for club Space @ San Antoni beach
AN END TO MORNING CLUBBING in 2008?
Following the closure of three of Ibiza's Clubs at the start of the 2007 season [6], local authorities have hinted at plans to alter the licensing regulations that allow clubs to open for 22 hours [7]. Suggestions at present would allow for clubs to open at noon. [8] Clubs can now only open at 4.30pm, no earlier.
Following the closure of three of Ibiza's Clubs at the start of the 2007 season [6], local authorities have hinted at plans to alter the licensing regulations that allow clubs to open for 22 hours [7]. Suggestions at present would allow for clubs to open at noon. [8] Clubs can now only open at 4.30pm, no earlier.
THE Nightlife Island...
Getting There... Madrid --> Ibiza in Spanair Airlines
Ibiza (Catalan: Eivissa) is an island of which Eivissa is the main town located in the Mediterranean Sea about 80 km off the coast of Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands autonomous community (Spain) - wikipedia.com
Ibiza (Catalan: Eivissa) is an island of which Eivissa is the main town located in the Mediterranean Sea about 80 km off the coast of Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands autonomous community (Spain) - wikipedia.com
Apr 3, 2009
What do you know about wine?
"Wine" by ~seamgrvs (deviantart.com)
1. Rioja is a wine from Spain, but what is Rioja? A region in northern Spain
2. The famous French wine Chablis is made from which grape variety? Exclusively from Chardonnay
3. To which great statesman do we owe this quote about champagne: "In victory, I deserve it, but in adversity, I need it"? Clemenceau
4. Which country is generally acknowledged to be the birthplace of wine? Georgia
5. Roughly how old are teh trees used for the best French barrels? 150 years old
6. Of the tour so-called basic flavors, only one is found very rarely in wine, which one? Salty; To describe the balance in a wine, three of the basic flavours are often used - sweet, acidic and bitter - which are combined differently depending on the style and type of wine. Salty are very rare.
7. Which spirits is not made from grape? Calvados; made from apples
8. Wine is made up essentially of: Roughly 85% is made of water; its not advisable however to drink it all day =0)
Source: Number Wine Magazine (Paris, France)
http://www.numberwine.eu/
Apr 2, 2009
Proof of Architecture as an Art Form...Tour Eiffel
Height (with dozens of radio and TV antennas on top): 324 meters
Weight: 10,100 tons
Paint: 60 tons each time, every 7 years
You can play peekaboo with the tower across the city...when you are not noticing....there she is!
Built by Gustave Eiffel for the Universal Exhibition in 1889, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution.
When the night falls....every hour the Tower twinkles its 20,000 bulbs for 10 minutes until 1am. Just when you though the tower was spectacular....falls the night and it wears its "formal" gown.
Erected in record time: 2 years, 2 months and 5 days... Today: Pari's symbol across the world.
Going up the Tour Eiffel inside one of its two elevators (they are both in one side of the metal structure). It was around 5:30pm - the sky's color.....proof of nature as an art form.
Mar 29, 2009
ANY subject for comparative treatment may be found in the... Louvre Museum (Paris, France)
My "Greek Adonis"
Don't know the name of one of my new favorite paintings - if you know they name, please add a comment. My translation? The wife's lover making her kill her husband so they can be together happily ever after....
Winged Victory of Samothrace: Greek Sculpture
She's standing on the prow of a ship overlooked the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace.
Eugène DELACROIX (Charenton-Saint-Maurice, 1798 – Paris, 1863) July 28: Liberty Leading the People - One of the most important French History Paintings
Italian Painting: Leonardo Davinci's Mona Lisa - Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo . Familiar?
The Mona Lisa "constant paparazzi scene." Oil on popular wood; painted in Florence between 1503 and 1506.
Italian Paintings Wing
An Asian tourist mesmerized by the Cross
Sketching the sculpture to the right
The History of the Louvre Exhibition
How to Study Painting @ The Louvre?
- First look as a representation of such a given subject, for which a relatively fixed and conventional set of figures or accessories was prescribed by tradition. The number and minuteness of the prescribed accessories will grow upon you as you watch them.
- You have then to observe how each school as a whole treats such works ; what feeling it introduces, toward what sort of modification in style or tone it usually tends.
- Next, you must consider it relatively to its age, as exemplifying a particular stage in the progress of. the science and art of painting.
- Last of all you must carefully estimate what peculiarities are due to the taste, the temperament, the hand, and the technique of the individual artist.
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