besides having my own dictionary and my fridge covered in post-it's, i now have a kind of "slovak for dummies"!
i'm really putting a lot of effort (or creativity to avoid the real study?) into learning slovak.
besides having my own dictionary and my fridge covered in post-it's, i now have a kind of "slovak for dummies"!
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so, my flatmate marie has arrived.
that means busier nights, friendlier as well. being marie a real french girl, yuliyas visit was enough pretext to make some crepes with nutela. simple, delicious and a good night! absolut warhola (2001)
i’ve heard about this documentary on my on arrival training and i’ve been very curious about it ever since. thanks to luís and all his sharing acrobatics, i managed to see it today. i laughed a lot, loud, and that’s rare. it turns out that the very famous andy warhol has slovak roots. his parents came from a little eastern village, near the border with ukraine. this village has an andy warhol museum that doesn´t allow gipsys inside, has buckets everywhere for the roof leaks and has the paintings protected in the cellar. but the best of it are the relatives of andy aarhol. his cousins and aunts are the best ever. living in very hard conditions (unemployment, alcoholism), they talk about their famous relative whom they’ve never met: “he was murdered by his girlfriend who wanted to marry him and he didn’t!” “we used the painting he sent us as paper-speakers for the kids!” “no homosexual (you-know-what) ever came from this village!i tell you he was not that!” i’ll be happy to share it with anyone who’s curious! it’s in slovak/ruthenian with english subtitles. after the photography seminar, we went to petrazalka to see a very nice concept of photo exhibition! i've never seen anything like this: people hung their pictures in a net, and visitors carried clothing clamps that served as votes! so, the photos with more things were the favourites! very original.
everytime i get closer to photography i start thinking "oh, i want a super camera" "i should shoot this" or "this would make a wonderful collection of photos!" so, it happened yesterday. rms organized a photo seminar to talk about basic concepts necessary for photo reports (for the purpose of registering events of the youth organizations). the practical exercise made us walk through the city, all the way up to the castle. and it continued today. and although my camera doesn't allow any manual manipulation, i still can choose what to shoot! and so today, i shot a lot. i got to the end of the seminar exhausted. it was totally in slovak and i really tried to understand as much as i could. i ended it tired and grumpy, but then the sun came.
a photo exhibition with pictures of the faces people make when they loose the bus!
being this saturday - 19 june - the "world wide knit in public day", while i was reading a blog, i was linked to the concept of "yarn bombing". i dind't know it had this name. this work on the picture was done by artist carol hummel. yarn bombing is basically a kind of guerilla art that expects to make people smile while they run to work, to make unexpected use of the city resources, to embelish them.
i would love to see something like this in bratislava, like they did in the "use the city" festival in kosice! |
i don't understandnerozumiem ti means "i don't understand you" in slovak. a tradition, let's say. after not understanding anything in granada, now i don't understand anything in bratislava. Archives
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