Experiencing

I used to work every day for the last couple of years and I have learnt that my job is not the one of my dream. I used to do things that needed to be done but no real satisfaction on it.
I considered to start all over again and do something new and what I enjoy doing. It is true that at the moment it is only a hobby but I hope this to grow in time and transform into more. The result: it worth doing it.
The work and effort put into activities that one's enjoys certainly brings the feeling of being pleased and happy about ones do.

New interest, yet very old

My latest interest, yet not very new is to return to classes.
I love the proffesion I have chosen and prepared for.
Sad enough, I lost my path and went another way.
Now I finaly decided to return to it as a hobby.
I'm not saying I don't enjoy my job but I know this is more suitble for me.
Better doing what one enjoys, as we spend too much time working. Why wasting it?

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U2 - With Or Without You

TV SHOW VOICE OF ROMANIA

Not long ago, a new TV show started: Voice of Romania.

It is not something new as there has been a variety of shows alike but this one made me curious and eager to watch it.

I don't know what that was but I guess the songs performed there as they are well known songs, such as the following one:

Lady Antebellum - Need You Now (2010 Remix)

Maria Radu - dorul

A movie that must be seen: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0456149/

http://www.cinemagia.ro/trailer/moartea-domnului-lazarescu-913/

Sarah McLachlan - Angel [Official Music Video]

Smiley - Love is for free feat. Pacha Man [Official video HD]

Baroc de Dobrogea – 2008-2010

Școala de Poetică Fotografică din București de sub egida Fundației Culturale SOCIETATEA DE CONCERTE din Bistrița, vernisează expoziția ”Baroc de Dobrogea – 2008-2010” a cursanților şcolii din ultimele trei generații. Evenimentul va avea loc pe 30 iunie 2010, ora 19.00, la Muzeul Costumului Popular din palatul Parlamentului, str. Izvor nr 2-4, corp A3F, sector 5, București. Expoziția va fi deschisă până pe 15 august 2010. Program de vizitare: marți-duminică între orele 9.00 şi 17.00.

Expoziția va conține 165 de lucrări, 50x70cm, a următorilor 65 de autori: Cătălin Alexa, Bogdan Anda, Daiana Anghel, Radu Angheloiu, Victor Avram, Emilian Badea, Adrian Balmeș, Lucian Bibo, Stelian Bogza, Cornel Brad, Irina Bran, Răzvan Bumbeș, Ioan bunea, Iulia Chicuș, Andreea Ciolacu, Sorin Constantin, Andrei Conțiu, Flavia Cozma, Ionelia Diaconu, Catrinel Dima, Bogdana Dobre, Ionuț Dragnea, Bogdan Dumitru, Iulia Dumitru, Ștefan Dumitru, Cătălin Enache, Cristian Fetter, Larisa Fica, Mihaela Gavrilescu, Mirela Ghindea, Ioan Grigore, Jean Grigore, Teodor Horea, Alin Iacob, Luisa Iatan, Gyuri Ilinca, Daniel Ionescu, Sorina Iordan, Ana-Cristina Irian, Dafina Jeacă, Teodora Maftei, Alexandru Medeșan, Șerban Mestecăneanu, Andrei Mihalca, Raluca Minoiu, Andrei Mîță, Alexandru Modoi, Mirela Momanu, Francisc Mraz Ferko, Carmen Obreja, Bogdan Oprea, Silviu Pavel, Raluca Petrache, Cosmina Popescu, Crenguța Profir, Ioana Pușcarciuc, Mirona Radu, Dragoș Răpeanu, Laura Sârbu, Alexandru Spineanu, Elena Stancu, Tudor Stănică, Raul Tanislav, Sabina Ulubeanu, Andreea Vintze.

Suntem la a 6-a excursie din Dobrogea, cu o preocupare aparte pentru sudul Dobrogei și propunem o expoziție de 165 de piese, împlinite cu un soi de majestuozitate plină de smerenie, atât ca subiect, ca tratare a subiectului cât și a utilizării unui complex instrumentar de poetică fotografică. Majoritatea subiectelor noastre sunt rurale, ceea ce face sa ne simțim foarte acasă în spațiul Muzeului Satului, oferind o alternativă estetică prietenoasă documentarismului socio-vizual, specific lui Dimitrie Gusti.

Fiecare participant intră în expoziție cu stilul propriu, dar fără a atinge genul științific, etnografic sau jurnalistic. Viziunile sunt mai degrabă poetice, priviri proaspete asupra vitalității unei zone de țară aflată într-o stare de sărăcie demnă. Am dorit să surprindem frumosul chiar în locuri în care majoritatea celorlalți se blochează în urât. A rezultat o policromie – chiar și în alb-negru – ce se apropie mai degrabă de barocul muzical decât de cel arhitectonic. Însemnul general al expoziției, credem și sperăm că este cuplul de atribute delicat-viguros.

At ½ of 2010

Life in Bucharest can be very busy most of the time, and I am not reffering now to the traffic or working hours.

Depending on how one does enjoy spending ones time, there are plenty of places to reach.

I, for instance, was motivated to go to a photography exhibition the other evening.

The exhibition was entitled “At ½ of 2010” and it was suggestive for it was an event at the mid photography year for the poetic photography new students generation.

Even if they are only amateurs now and still need to improve their skills (style and techniques) the 27 students (or at list the ones I have noticed) were touched of the event and impressed of the large audience as they did not expected so many people to attend their first important event of the kind.

The exhibition had a mixture of themes and for this reason you could see a variety of photos – colored to black and white – showing animate or inanimate elements to reflections and shades or shadows, states and emotions like curiosity / attention to surprise, stillness to motion, action to non action, helplessness and so on, but, sure, those are only what I have perceived and not necessarily matching the authors intention or vision.

Sure, not all the pieces there were on my taste but everything is subjective and so am I.

Another thing that attracted my attention was that about 40% of the photos shown were having elements such as dogs and cats. They do are a presence of our every day life, so, they could not have missed from there. :)

Yet, as far as I have heard no more cats and dogs or chicken for the snapshots taken from now on, so, on the perspective of a new exhibition of the end of the year, I should expect the presence of these lovely creatures to be below 5%.

Here, on the links below, you can see a few of the photos presented there:

LA 1/2 DIN 2010 (1)

LA 1/2 DIN 2010 (2)

LA 1/2 DIN 2010 (3)

LA 1/2 DIN 2010 (4)

Enjoy!

La jumătatea drumului celei de a 3-a generaţie

Muzeul Literaturii Române din Bucureşti găzduieşte expoziţia fotografică “La ½ din 2010” a Şcolii de Poetică Fotografică “Francisc Mraz” din Bucureşti, şcoală patronată de Fundaţia “Societatea de Concerte Bistriţa”.

Căutări îndrăzneţe, fără pofte de superficiale şocări.

Chef de poveste, fără anecdotic imediat.

Plasticitate, fără ocheade ilicite spre pictură.

Asocieri tematice contrastante, dezvoltate vizual până la eliminarea necesităţii de explicitare verbală.

Expresii cromatice nu bălţături.

Emoţii vizuale fără îngrădiri venite din comodităţi comerciale sau agresivităţi dictate de moda momentului.

27 de autori expun 75 de lucrări.

Expoziţia se vernisează marţi 30 martie 2010, ora 19 în ROTONDA 13 a Muzeului Literaturii Române din Bucureşti, B-dul Dacia nr.12 şi va dura până pe data de 12 aprilie. Program de vizitare:marţi-duminică 9.00-17.00.

Horse in Budapest , Hungary

Smoke on the water (Deep Purple)

Long time not write, but I cannot help to story you about yesterday. So, yesterday, I visited my niece and enjoyed a wonderful evening with my niece, my sister in law and my brother.

What this has to do with "Smoke on the water"?

Well, it is great playing with my niece or even watching her doing that. She sings, she dance and she is a very happy child most of the time. Guess what? When she heard "Smoke on the water" and not only that, she started to dance and she was quite involved.

Enjoy listening it too and, if you please, dance as well!

Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 1

Even though listening to music in the comfort of one's private space has its advantages, going to concerts is great from at least two perspectives: enjoying good music and getting more involved into what is going on, through sympathy, as one cannot remain indifferent to the visual spectacle that makes one react mostly the same as the interprets.

Tension, relaxation, enjoyment, fun might be experienced and emphasized when you also have the view of the finger-tips' strikes on the piano keyboards, the well-shaped muscles of the cello or the violin players' arms, the jumps and the steps on the floor of the conductor.

By comparison, it is like watching a movie. For instance, while one watches a dramatical scene and hears certain sounds that goes along with it, such as drowning or being on the verge of drowning, as a spectator, one feels like not being able to breath as in the images, while the moments are stressed by the music.

The Fourth Sister (II)

The photos were taken from TNB's site

The Fourth Sister

One of my favorites actors at the moment is Marius Manole, an actor of great and rare talent from my point of view, an actor that shifts his physiognomy and mood naturally, with deep eyes, a touching voice transmitting a variety of emotions that allows him to interpret diverse roles.

Marius Manole along with Tania Popa, Mihai Calin, Mircea Albulescu and other actors, under the guidance of Alexandru Colpacci, succeeded to make Janusz Glowack's "The Fourth Sister" a play to remember and its subjects to be questioned.

This play has the advantage of approaching interesting subjects such as (but not only) social reality, political life, living in the past, living dangerously and unconscious till the point of risking others' life (dear ones or not, if for such persons there are strong feelings for family or friends more than for themselves), doing wrong and regretting when the effects are to be seen, dreaming to escape reality and, not the last, placing people and feelings above the material.

One reality of every day life was visible on this play: people talking but, actually, did not communicating. The dialog was, in fact, each one's monologue, rarely coming on the same "ground" as a subject and connection.

The good part of this play was the way it makes fun of such things. People should learn taking things easier and laugh more often of unsuccessful actions / bad events in their life. Obsessions and fixations leads to no good and tragedies. The music chosen (some fragments were Nirvana's songs), the succession of lines and light made some subjects to be more emphasized.

Well, if you are curious, just take your time to see the play at Romanian National Theater in Bucharest. I am sure you'll agree it worths it.

Fantastic Symphony by Berlioz (II)

(the photos were taken from Romanian National Opera site)

Fantastic Symphony by Berlioz

Episodes in the Life of an Artist (Fantastic Symphony) is Berlioz' work composed when he was only on his twenties.

The symphony was written to express all Berlioz contradictory feelings related to being in love. In order to express himself by music as his letters for the loved one failed him, Berlioz breaks the classical pattern of orchestra symphonic music of his time. His work is known as a fine example of programmatic music where passion, beauty, harmony alternate with tenebrous, consuming and uncertainty.

If you combine the music with dancing, you see a spectacle that delights your hearing, eyes and heart. This is what one can enjoy at Romanian National Opera in Bucharest and even more. The show has its sad part as well as its fun moments. The search, the loneliness, the fuss, the social spectacle as well the rigid forms of work are well placed on stage.

At first sight, it could have been better if the continuous line of music and dance were not fragmented by words. Still, unexpected moments, breaks (desired or not) the harmonic course of certain things that are present in every day life, therefore, such alternations of dance, words and music made a complex that reflects  reality in all its aspects - good and not that good.

As in real life experience everything is filtrated by one's subjective perception, what better metaphor can be used in order to reflect deformed reality than the "mirror" one? You can see what you want but it might be not what you notice!

Yet, you may, indeed, see Razvan Mazilu, Bianca Fota, Dan Puric (if you are lucky) and Romanian National Opera's ballet.

Cesaria Evora - Besame Mucho

Besame Mucho

Besame

Besame mucho

Como si fuera esta noche la ultima vez

Besame

Besame mucho

Que tengo miedo pederte, perderte otra vez

Quiero tenerte muy cerca

mirarme en tus ojos

verte junto a mi

Piensa que tal vez manana yo ya estare lejos

muy lejos de ti.

Besame

Besame mucho

Como si fuera esta noche la ultima vez

Besame

Besame mucho

Que tengo miedo pederte, perderte despues

Bruce Willis in "Surrogates"

Even thought "Surrogates" is not a brilliant movie, it has some strong points especially through the performance of Bruce Willis (more visible from both perspectives - surrogate and the human), make up and music.

The context: an utopia, an ideal world where people are living in the safety of their homes while surrogates are living their outdoor lives, no more dangers, no more threats. The outdoor world seems almost perfect, yet, the emotions are only showed and experience indoors. At some point something goes wrong - murders are committed against surrogates but has the effect of killing the operators (humans behind the machines).

The action: one human tries to solve the murders cases, discovers the plot behind it, fights it and change the course of history or, at list, make everyone ask themselves if a world with surrogates is a future choice or not. And, yes, people leave their homes or rooms where they lived so far. One of the human's wishes was to see his wife not her surrogate, understanding at some point that, that was not a life he was living. His wish come true at the end of the movie.

The best part of the movie was when the main character enters the outside world and faces the world as it become. There you can see Bruce Willis how disoriented he was getting in touch with a motion world and how different his character's figure is from all the others, showing some emotions. Even though the adaptation to this new reality is too fast (non realistic) it can be accepted considering it is a movie and the facts should occur to a faster level so that the audience not to lose interest.

The movie has its little humor even though hardly noticed. Agent FBI Greer (Bruce Willis) returns as a human at the place of work. A remark of one of his colleagues made me smile. I do not remember the exact line but the idea was Greer was looking bad (not in good shape as all his colleagues were used to).

Of course, as in every social or political aspect of every day life, there are the main movement (the surrogate world) and a small group of humans that oppose to the phenomenon. If this part was more emphasized or developed as a subject, the movie would have been more credible in spite of the commercial aspect.

Maybe with the advance of technology today it is not that hard to image a world like the one in "Surrogates". Yet, it was incredibly surprising that the robots were not thinking on their own. I guess, as an idea of a future robotized world, Asimov's "I, robot" make more sense but, on the other hand, it is more comforting knowing that the machines were not having a will of their own and they were controlled by the humans behind. Still, it links to the title very well if I think at the fact that a surrogate means something alike but not as qualitative as the one that replaces. One question haunts me even in this context: what if there were on the "hands" of an eaveler characters than the ones in this movie?

Well, I have to admit, as mentioned at the beginning, I loved the make up which was so great for all characters involved - surrogates and humans. You should see at list some photos from the movie. Too bad that on the official site of the movie I could not find more information on this or the music, except one video clip with Breaking Benjamin - 'I Will Not Bow' which you can see it below. Before letting you enjoy a piece of music / soundtrack I have to say I could not leave the cinema till all the cast and every details were over only to hear the music. I guess it was the part I enjoyed most.

Troy - Out There