Roma 26 novembre 2009, ore 16.30Senato della Repubblica – Sala Atti Parlamentari Palazzo della Minerva, Piazza della Minerva, 38 “Cossiga Suite – In Praise of Brotherly Love” di Raffaele Lauro, Senatore, membro della Commissione di Vigilanza Rai prefazione di Francesco Cossiga, GoldenGate Edizioni All’incontro, presente il Presidente del Senato, sen. Renato Schifani, interverranno Daniela Brancati, Giornalista; Carlo Mosca, Consigliere di Stato; Diana De Feo, Commissione Istruzione Pubblica e Beni Culturali del Senato; Gaetano Quagliariello, Vicepresidente Gruppo PDL al Senato; Beppe Pisanu, Presidente Commissione Antimafia; Enzo Scotti, Sottosegretario di Stato al Ministero degli Affari Esteri. Moderatore del dibattito Massimo Milone, Giornalista.  Cossiga Suite è una storia vera i cui personaggi sono esistiti veramente e sono stati conosciuti da molti dei quali, oggi, ne possono leggere le vicende: Nello, Angela, Raffaele, don Raffaele, donna Peppinella, Francesco Cossiga, George Bush sr., Luciano Pavarotti, il barone Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza. La bella Penisola Sorrentina, teatro dell’infanzia del protagonista, o Lugano, seconda patria amata con la medesima passione, l’Hôtel Splendide Royal, la villa – museo del barone Thyssen, arca santa di tesori dell’arte, la casa romana dietro Villa Pamphili con gli alberi in fiore, il Teatro alla Scala, i terrazzamenti di Massa Lubrense che si affacciano sul mare, la Grotta Azzurra di Capri, il monte Brè, i tigli a Visso d’Ussita, gli aranceti e le zagare dal profumo che droga nel fondo di Migliaro, la volta stellata sopra il golfo di Sorrento, il lago Ceresio. La politica e la dimensione pubblica dell’impegno politico, tuttavia, occupano uno spazio significativo dell’opera. In Cossiga Suite, la politica diviene sinonimo di libertà e di elogio della democrazia, quale unico luogo dove la libertà stessa trova la sua ipostasi.  Vi è una frase nel libro, una frase in latino, parte dell’epitaffio posto a West Smithfield a Londra, nel luogo in cui fu giustiziato William Wallace, l’eroe dell’indipendenza scozzese, agli inizi del XIV secolo: Dico tibi verum, libertas optima rerum, nunquam servili sub vexu vivito, fili (Dico a te la verità, la libertà è ciò che vi è di più grande, figlio, che mai tu viva sotto il peso della schiavitù). A pronunciarla è don Raffaele, ogniqualvolta si trovava a parlare di libertà, l’amata libertà.

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San Francisco-based retailer True has just released a few new colourways of their very popular Gucci-inspired “Squares” and “Abstract” logo as well as their new “Golden Gate” graphic tee.  These tees are available both online and in-store.

SOURCE: True

Uma tempestade de relâmpagos sobre a ponte Golden Gate em San Francisco. 22/09/09

fonte: www.time.com

Aggeggio che ignoti hanno legato a un ponte di una ferrovia mai realizzata. È scomparso (stato_smontato/sequestrato/rubato) qualche settimana dopo.

L’idea è geniale (aggettivo che tiene conto anche della mancata valutazione dei rischi). In giro ci sono delle menti capaci di pensare una cosa del genere, dei brillanti cervelli, e magari chissà in che modo stanno sprecando le loro facoltà intellettuali.

Il posto, per chi è arrivato fin qui a leggere, da il meglio di se durante una piena, nei mesi freddi, magari con un po’ di nebbia. Come se non bastasse, verso il tramonto. Non è il Golden Gate: non si è ammazzato ancora nessuno. Però ogni persona che vedi passare ti desta dei dubbi. A loro credo la mia presenza inneschi gli stessi pensieri. C’è chi fa jogging, si capisce; c’è chi è in bicicletta, idem; c’è gente vestita normalmente, questa ti desta preoccupazioni. E poi c’è uno scemo con un treppiede.

Per quelli che si dilettano in using multi-million dollar satellites to find Tupperware in the woods (quindi non il sottoscritto), c’è pure un geocache su un pilone. Per la serie: come se non bastasse l’atmosfera, ogni tanto qualcuno salta la ringhiera con un GPS in mano.

So our next stop on our Art Murmur crawl was just next door to blankspace, at the Compound Gallery & Studios. A much larger space, Compound is home not only to multiple gallery spaces, but 10 artist studios as well, all fully booked. The space was opened by a husband and wife artists Matt and Lena Reynoso in 2008.  You may remember Matt’s name from my very first post… the Suits & Soldiers mural on the Emeryville border.  I’m hoping to have an Artist Interview with him soon. Also his wife Lena has a fantastic website called Curator of Oddities, and she really does have an odd, but fantastic, collection of work… everything from presidential paintings, to gorgeous graphic silk-screened posters, to random expositions on American folklore.  Very cool.

The primary installation in their main gallery is an interesting 3 dimensional landscape of sculptural pieces entitled 3AM: Under the Full Moon, by Christopher Romer. Unfortunately I don’t have any pictures of this exhibit as it was quite crowded when we arrived, but you can see a slew of pictures on Compound’s home page.  You’ll also find a wonderful write-up of the show there, which is more than you’ll get here, as I am, for all intents and purposes, sculpturally illiterate.

I felt a bit more at home in the adjacent gallery space, the Swee(t)Art Drawing Gallery, also part of Compound. The exhibit there was mostly two-dimensional (more my comfort zone), entitled “The Worship of Water,” curated by Obi Kaufmann and featuring works by several artists.  Here are two pieces by Savanna Snow…

And below are works of Shannon Ingraham (I think)… forgive me, but this was a quick tour as I was late to meet friends in the city for Devo. Yes, that’s right, Devo. They rocked.

One of the cool things about visiting this gallery is that many of the artists’ studios are open to the public as well. We were able to walk through many of the spaces and view creative works in progress…

Another thing this studio/gallery/artist crew does is a really cool subscription service called Art in a Box. For a very reasonable monthly fee ($30 – $50), you receive one new work of fine art each month, in a box. You can specify preferred medium if you like, or just keep it a surprise.  Either way, you’ll be enriching your personal fine art collection, while supporting local artists… over 20 currently participating.  And this service has been so successful in fact, the Compound is seeking out new artists to participate.  You can see their Call to Artists on their Facebook page. Check it out!

So last Friday was another “First Friday” here in Oakland, and friends and I did an abbreviated gallery crawl this month, hitting two of the three galleries in the Golden Gate district of Oakland.  Didn’t know there was a Golden Gate district in Oakland?!? It was recent news to me too, but this tiny Oakland outcropping, stretching just north and east of Emeryville and just south of Berkeley, has apparently gone by this name since the late 1800’s.  The area was originally developed as the town of Klinknerville in 1885, changed it’s name to Golden Gate in 1888 (smart move), and was annexed to Oakland in 1897 [Wikipedia].

After drinks at Kitty’s, we made our way to blankspace gallery located at 66th Street and San Pablo. The contemporary art space consists of one main gallery room with a smaller gallery shop off to the right when you first enter, filled with small-scale affordable local artists’ wares. The space was first redeveloped from an old Bait & Tackle shop (I love that the old sign still exists) and was originally launched as Lucky Tackle gallery by Jason Byers back in 2002.  He now co-directs the space with Kerri Johnson.

The exhibit this month (opening reception was in late October) is titled This Is Not My Beautiful Life, an interesting twist on the Talking Heads’ song “Once in a Lifetime” written by David Byrne…

And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!

Two artists (Michael Hall and Daniel Healey) shared the gallery, each with entirely different styles and techniques, but both focused on themes of “history, domesticity, and narrative.”

Healey’s pieces were rather large but meticulously constructed out of tiny collage bits, most originating from vintage magazines and other historical materials (though he was quite secretive about his process!) Some of the tiny elements could easily be recognized as home wares from some type of catalog, perhaps an old Sears & Roebuck… shelving, handtrucks, etc. Yet many were harder to identify, and some even had a tissue paper translucency to them that was quite beautiful when layered.

I love this image above, because these patrons look perplexed… one literally scratching his head, trying to figure out how and out of what were these constructed, what they now represent, and most importantly, what does it mean?!

My friends debated the perspective from which to view these images. Some saw them as maps of a sort, as though viewed from the sky above…. landmasses jutting out into an abyss of some greater homogeneous body. I preferred to view them from my feet-planted-on-the-ground perspective, and to me they looked like fantastical creatures, blob-like with arms and heads and claws protruding. Here is another…

Michael Hall’s pieces also begin with vintage photographs, though his work is more interested in the historical narratives found within. His canvasses were more traditional paintings than Healey’s, but the incorporation of elements such as date stamping, square formatting, and borders, gave clues to the photographic origination of the images.

I am sorry that I don’t have more photos of his work here… my representation is not particularly balanced as each artist occupied half the gallery space. Please note it is no indication of preference… I found the subtle palettes and quite moments of Hall’s imagery lovely, and a perfect contrast to the vibrant chaos of Healey’s.  The show is up until November 15th… you can go see for yourself.

Tomorrow we go to our second stop of the night… Compound Gallery & Studios.

San Francisco is the most popular city in the United State of California. The weather of the city is so pleasant for traveling. You can get the city by the air from San Francisco International where the numerous visitors are visit and many amenities like restaurants are easily available. Other way to enter in the city is by boat cruise at the bay area. To see the city some facilities are available like City Pass, Go San Francisco Card, and Wharf Pass are providing budget hotels to visit into the beautiful locations of the city. And some places are Golden Gate Bridge is the one of seven wonder in world and cause of the attraction of city. Coit Tower is to get the adventure of hiking at the hilly area. And museums are Asian Art Museum, Cable Car Museum, Museum of Craft and Folk Art is also the places of attraction. And Lincoln Park, San Francisco Zoo and Beaches are also making attractions in city. At the beach area more fun of biking, walking, and beautiful sunset seen make the mood of the people to visit here again. Numerous cheap hotels in san francisco and restaurants are available there to get facilities of lodging and foods. And there are mostly eating the sea

Sin duda, uno de los puentes más famosos del mundo. Muchos dudaron sobre el éxito de la empresa iniciada por el ingeniero Joseph Strauss, pero ahí sigue.

Ahora, Life publica una serie de imágenes espectaculares sobre su construcción.

Los más morbosos pueden echar un vistazo a este mapa que recoge todos los suicidios que se han producido allí. Al parecer, es el sitio en el que más personas eligen suicidarse, seguido por el monte Fuji o las cataratas del Niágara.

Hasta que dicho puente no se construyó, la única manera de pasar del condado de Marin hacia San Francisco era mediante un ferry. El trayecto llevaba unos 20 minutos y costaba un dólar.

El estrecho de Golden Gate

En aquella época la población se multiplicó por siete y el sistema de transporte de los ferrys no era suficiente para absorber tal cantidad de viajeros. La construcción del puente estaba más que justificada.

Desde su concepción ya estuvo lleno de polémicas. La Southern Pacific Railroad era uno de los negocios más influyentes en California y el servicio de ferrys era de su propiedad, y como la construcción del puente iba a hacer que se viniera abajo este medio de transporte, interpuso demandas legales contra el proyecto (como veis ya habían lobbies corporativos por aquella época). La gente respondió con un boicot masivo al servicio de ferrys. Olé, el poder para el pueblo.

Golden Gate, sueño arquitectónico e icono americano

La inversión total en el puente fue de 35 millones de dólares. Tiene unas dimensiones nada despreciables, de longitud total tiene 1970m, siendo el tramo suspendido de 1280m, con una altura de 230 m. Cerca de 40 millones de vehículos lo atraviesan cada año. Para mear y no echar gota.

Fue pionero en la prevención de riesgos laborales, instalando una red que salvó de las caídas, y por consiguiente una muerte más que asegurada, la vida de 19 obreros a lo largo de su construcción.

Curreles a pie de cañón

Cada una de las torres del puente se eleva 230 m por encima del nivel del agua. El puente fue diseñado de manera que las torres absorbieran el estrés producido por las vías de circulación a través de los cables suspendidos.

Una de las dos torres

Alcanzando la otra orilla

Su esquema de  color fue esocgido por los residentes locales, el naranja internacional. Primeramente estaba pintado con una capa de imprimación de minio (o plomo rojo) y una capa final basada en plomo. En los años 60 se empezó un programa para mejorar la protección a la corrosión, quitando las capas de pinturas originales y repintándolo con una capa de imprimación de silicato de zinc y capas finales de vinilo. Desde los años 90 se han pintado las capas finales con pinturas acrílicas para prevenir la contaminación del aire. Actualmente el tema de la pintura ocupa a una flota de cerca de 40 pintores. Sin duda las vistas desde su puesto de trabajo deben ser espectaculares.

Vista aérea

Este puente se ha cerrado a la circulación varias veces a lo largo de su historia, principalmente debido a rchas de viente muy fuertes o a obras de mantenimiento. Como no también se ha cerrado por poloitiqueo, como cuando lo visitaron Roosevelt y Charles DeGaulle.

Vía de circulación

Datos desproporcionado como que sus dos cables principales estan hechos de de 27500 tiras de cable, que tienen un diámetro de 93cm, con una longitud total de 80000 millas en cada cable principal, te dejan con la boca abierta.

Uno de los cables principales

Cable principal al desnudo

Los ingenieros también pueden ser poetas, claro ejemplo fue el ingeniero que diseñó el puente Joseph Strauss que escribió su poem más reconocido “The mighty task is done”.

La magnitud del puente

Desde tierra firme

At last the mighty task is done;  
Resplendent in the western sun
The Bridge looms mountain high;
Its titan piers grip ocean floor,
Its great steel arms link shore with shore,
Its towers pierce the sky…

Chivatazo | Fotografía Microsiervos

Imágenes | Life

Más en BdR | ¿Por qué los soldados no pueden cruzar un puente marchando?

Más fotos actuales | Botones flickerianos

"Heading Home", Portrait of the Golden Gate Bridge

My message today is simple yet relevant…

Today, I am thankful for bridges – especially those that stay together and don’t fall apart.

“Joni Mitchell’s voice and guitar wafted through the speakers as the plane landed in San Francisco…”

The young Joni Mitchell

How’s that for the opening sentence to a pulp thriller? At any rate, it was a nice way to arrive in California.

The mood turned Hitchcockian when I was unable to find the driver who had been sent to collect me by my host Dr SuHua Newton. Eventually we found each other—he had even walked right past me while I was sat outside in the sun reading David Frith’s Bodyline Autopsy, one of the best cricket books ever.

Of course, the drive into (or rather past) the city was for me thrilling, especially over the Golden Gate Bridge. I had been told that I would be staying at Dr Newton’s “hotel” in Mill Valley, a prosperous suburb just north of SF. I thought I was staying in her house, so I was bemused to learn that I would be parked in a hotel and one that wasn’t even in the city. When I arrived, all was revealed. The “hotel” turned out to be a splendid house that Dr Newton uses as her office. It was Friday so I would have it all to myself for the weekend.

We went for dinner that evening at a the Tong Kiang restaurant and drank a half-bottle of 2001 Newton Vineyards Merlot, which was mature, balanced and supple though rather short.

Mill Valley, looking towards San Francisco

On Saturday morning I woke up and gazed from the patio across Richardson Bay to the city, which was shrouded in thick fog. It was cool too, “a nipping and an eager air.” The climate of San Francisco and the Bay Area is extraordinarily capricious.

I caught a ferry from Sausolito to the city. Taking a punt on the sunshine that had emerged earlier that morning, I was in shorts and sandals. I froze as the ferry alternately bobbed across the water through thick fog or bright sunshine.

Dr Newton told me off for leaning out of her car window while she was showing me round the city. (She is a very impatient driver). Apparently some kid had his arms or legs sheared off by a passing car when leaning out of the window so a law banning such things was passed hastily. San Francisco’s weather is capricious but so is its legislation. In the city of Haight-Ashbury, the Beat Generation, hippies and the Summer of Love you cannot even lean out of a car window without breaking the law. This famously liberal city is bound up by legislation tighter than the bark on a Giant Sequoia.

It has a dark and disturbing underbelly, too. There is a magnificent and sombre film made in 2004 by Eric Steel that explores why so many people end their lives at the Golden Gate Bridge. The images captured by Steel of people leaping from the bridge into the icy water are shocking and linger in the viewer’s memory like a bad dream.

Pacific Heights, San Francisco

On a more cheerful note, Dr Newton lives in a Pacific Heights house with magnificent views across the city and harbour. We sat in her lounge eating, drinking, talking and watching the occasional container ship go past Alcatraz as it headed out to sea. The ships were rarely fully-loaded, their plimsoll lines usually visible. The shipping industry has been hit hard by the “crisis”. I visited some friends in Hamburg recently and they told me that for a couple of days last autumn the usually thriving shipyards there were eerily still. If local residents were spooked just imagine what it would be like if you worked in that industry.

On Saturday evening we went to a Thai restaurant called Yukol and drank 1982 Newton Vineyards Merlot. The nose was cedary and good but the palate was drying out and left acidity rather than fruit on the finish. Nonetheless, it was a rare treat.

A taxi was ordered at closing time to get me back to Mill Valley. Dr Newton was due on a nightshift in her role as a paediatrician. She is an extraordinary lady—a winemaker and doctor of medicine, with qualifications in every subject imaginable. She also paints well, speaks several languages and used to be a model. What a woman she is! I hope that somebody captures her remarkable life in words before it is too late.

In London, taxi drivers always know where they’re going. If they don’t, they consult a map or SatNav. I assumed my man would know where to go. He didn’t. Nor did I. It was late, it was dark, I had barely seen any of Mill Valley and I was tired. So we drove for at least an hour around Mill Valley to find the “hotel.” He had the courtesy to switch off the fare machine but I had been advised $40 would cover the trip from SF to Mill Valley. So that is what I offered him.

“You’re kidding?”

No, I wasn’t. This led to an earful of abuse. I pointed out to him that UK cabbies usually have a map handy. Why didn’t he?

He wanted to know why I didn’t know the way.

“Are you slow or somethin’?’”

Something, since you ask. And I’m too tired to argue and want to go to bed. More abuse. He sped off before I could note his registration plate. But, like Jerry Garcia, I believe in Karma.

"Captain Trips"—Jerry Garcia

Sunday was spent in a very warm Napa, the temperature hitting nearly 90 degrees that day. Dr Newton showed me her Carneros Vineyard, which supplies grapes for the Unfiltered Chardonnay. Lara Abbott, Domaine Chandon’s and Newton’s Australian-born but US-raised PR, joined us here. She took my digs over The Ashes in good humour. I had been reading about Bodyline, after all.

The Razi vineyard was also visited. The owner had a charming ticking-off (sic) from Dr Newton over various things, irrigation and burned grapes and so on. She explained to me afterwards how she turns on the charm to get the best out of people. A good lesson for life!

I joined a tour group at Newton Vineyards to have a look around the estate. It’s a long way up—the pine tree that is shown on the bottle labels is at 1,700 feet above sea level. Some of the vineyards surrounding Newton’s winery are at a 60-degree slope—nowadays, new plantings are only permitted at up to 30.

Lunch was at the Auberge du Soleil restaurant up in the hills at Rutherford. SuHua and Lara cooed at Colin, the boyish-looking and charming sommelier. It was very good, especially the cookies made to order for Dr Newton. Being a generous soul, she let me and Lara try them.

The afternoon was spent with John Caldwell at his estate in Coombsville. I had arranged to meet John after having had to request images from him for a brilliant Jonathan Swinchatt article that I edited in my previous dayjob.

John and Joy Caldwell

John used to sell his grapes to Pahlmeyer Winery and others but began bottling his own wines with the 1998 vintage, though production has remained tiny at less than 1,000 cases per year.

The red wines are big and fleshy, especially the Proprietary Red. Caldwell Vineyards’ winemaker is Marbue Marke—from Sierra Leone! But he hasn’t yet made a blend called “Palm-wine music.”

The Caldwell bottles with the “C” logo mould cost $3.50 each, John told me. Money is tight but “I love it too much to sell.” He and his wife Joy have a young family. He’s one of the good guys and deserves his successes.

Three days is hardly enough to see California but I was due back in New York on Monday night.

At JFK airport I was refreshing myself with a beer when a car ad appeared on the bar’s TV screen. It was subtitled “Do not attempt yourself. Professional driver on an enclosed track.”

Next stop Brazil.

This gallery follows the Golden Gate Bridge’s journey from a mere blueprint to an American architectural icon–from when construction began in Jan. 1933 to its grand opening four years later.

Source:
http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/27132/building-the-golden-gate-bridge

Some famous bridge in San Francisco

Trying really really hard again to act cool. And as you can see, I’ve somewhat succeeded. Post processed with cartoon feature in Gimp software.

Nikon D300s + Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 VC at 40mm f/16, ISO 200 15.0 Seconds

Today, northern California was pounded by a powerful tropical storm that came from Japan, wreaking havoc on the morning commute in the city, knocking out power in several areas, and causing some flooding problems. As I write this the rain has stopped. But over the course of the day, winds of up to 55 mph and heavy rainfall battered the city.

I took the shot above at Baker Beach last night. The clouds were dark and dramatic, and diffused the dusky light from the sky, allowing me to take some long exposures shortly after sunset. It was a long walk down the beach and back with all my gear, but the trek was well worth it.

I realized after shooting here last night that I haven’t actually been to Baker Beach in a long time. In fact, the last time I was here was nearly six years ago. Not too far from the spot where I took this shot is where I proposed to my wife of five years, and that is the last memory I have of this beach.

After getting some great images out on the Beach, I headed to the Palace of Fine Arts on my way home for a few more photos. I’m still tired from all of it!

Dream up a Storm, originally uploaded by kaoni701.

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To the Bay Area readers out there, KTEH and KQED has a documentary called Saving the Bay playing for the next two months. Narrated by The Sundance Kid:

Saving the Bay premieres Thursdays, October 8 and 15, 2009, at 8 p.m on KQED

On KTEH 54/Comcast 10, it will air for 4 consecutive weeks – one episode each Thursday, October 22 – November 12, at 9 p.m.

Telnek a napok. Sokkol hogy Amcsiban már nagyban Halloween-is meg karácsonyi készülődés van. Nekem való hely ez az Amerika (ki nem tudja?). Imádom az ünnepeket, na meg a készülődést. Ma kimentem a kertbe, és sajnos I realized (nem jutott eszembe magyarul) hogy csak 4 Halloweeni tök van. Hát ez nagyon kevés. úgy szeretem a Halloweent. Bár itt nem tom miért, mert a házak nincsenek feldíszítve, az emberek tudomást sem vesznek róla. Nah mindegy.

Mindenki tudja rólam, hogy imádom Amerikát. Ez szép és jó.:P Így keresem azokat a  blogokat (nem akaratlagosan) amiket Amerikában élő magyarok írnak. A legújabb “felfedezett” Tinkmara blogja, aminek a linkje ki is került jobb oldalra. Tegnap akadtam rá, de már nem emlékszem hogy honnan jutottam oda. Szép is az internet.:D Tinkmara blogja nagyon termékeny a posztokat illetően. Imádom benne, hogy a mindennapi életről is ír. Hogy mi milyen Amerikában, hogy működnek a dolgok. Szóval megvan a hétvégi elfoglaltság: minden posztját elolvasni.:P

Más. Szinte már szégyellem magam, amiatt hogy olyan rég írtam GG-kéről (Golden Gate Bridge). Amint lesz időm írok róla és hozok pár kedvenc képet is.

Amúgy valami gond volt/van a WordPress-szel, mert csak negyedjére tudtam ezt a posztot elküldeni.:S Holnap is hard day, utána harder, és így tovább…:(

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