25th May 2011 What The Famous Say ...

'The only good imperialists are the dead imperialists.' - Robert Mugabe 

 

'I am the most imputed man in the universe and in the history. The judges know well they wouldn't get to condemn me, but they want to cover me in mud and dirt, and smudge my companies. Lies, lies!' - Silvio Berlusconi

 

'If in 6 months in the Government and no one stages 3 general strikes, I am not doing my job well.' - Mariano Pujoy, candidate for presidency in Spain, referring to Zapatero's statement that he wouldn't repeat in the coming election.

 

'Gods don't exist, but sometimes they can punish you.' - Alexei Leonov, 1st man to walk in the space in 1965

 

'When we say we don't forget, we say it seriously.' - Barack Obama

 

'Those were very difficult years. A hard time and bitter period for many Americans. At home we keep ourselves alive with poems, gingerbread and laughs.' - Philosophy of life in 'The Waltons'

 

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Prev: 25th May 2011 Smart Future Minds

25th May 2011 Smart Furture Minds

Installed in the Port Vell of Barcelona is a large avant garde marquee, for the exhibition of 'Smart Future Minds', the title of a dozen innovative and creative designs, visionary projects for the future of the city.

 

Visitors to the exhibition will see sustainable super hotels, urban community farming, digital transit along the streets, public furniture with crochet hooks, a new 'door' for the new city. All these are but some of the new ideas now shown in models planned for the future city, based on new technology and mindful of healthy environment. The Smart brand of vehicles has organised a series of exhibitions, under the theme Smart Urban Stage, in various European cities: Spain, Berlin, Rome, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, London, and Zurich. For the principal reason to promote the electric car that will be launched next year.

 

In each city, five prestigious professionals, each with a different category, have the mission of selecting 2 projects that they should complete several requirements for a possible future. The most innovative of each city will earn a prize.

 

In Barcelona these 5 official commissioner are film maker Isabel Coixet, the architects Benedetta Tagliabue and Vicente Guallart, the scientist Lourdes Vega and the expert in new technologies Santiago Ortiz.

 

The building B is one of the projects chosen. It's creator, Jordi Torres, has conceived the idea as a habitable culture, sustainable and auto-efficient as symbol of identity like in it's day the doors permitting access to the cities in the Roman Empire.

 

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Prev: 25th May 2011 Hitler, And The Bad Influences

25th May 2011 Hitler And The Bad Influences

In Munich, near the university, there's an old cafe called Schelling Salon. It first opened it's doors in 1872 and it's one of the few buildings in the district that was not blown up by bombs in the 2nd World War. It served good beers (according to my German friend with whom I stayed a few years ago around Heidelberg, but we travelled all over Germany's to other cities for fun and theatres) and Bavarian food (which I liked).

The air in that place was musty, and the atmosphere cold, smelling of onion, with hardly any clients, on that particular day anyway. Perhaps it's not fair for me to judge, but I discovered that decadent air so accentuated was probably due to the fact that Hitler used to frequent there during his student days, about a century ago. Not only elephants that don't ever forget.

The repulsion Hitler always provokes was strong, & deserved. Throughout the history, no one had represented the 'Badness' in the way so symbolic and at the same time so concrete. There had been other genocide with mass murderers responsible for millions of innocent deaths - Josef Stalin, Mao ZeDong, Pol Pot -, but none with such unforgettable and unforgivable fame as Adolf Hitler and the Nazism.

Evil and malice sometimes resurge in sickly fascination, also a sort of tabu, not apt for humour, although, humour has been often linked to combat the  turpitude, ill will or devilment. Remember Charles Chaplin's 'The great dictator'?

There was no particular reason for me to suddenly talk about Hitler. Maybe because I just received an email from this German friend who took me to that cafe. And, the way the film director Lars von Trier made such a fool of himself for what he said in Cannes in reference to Hitler and Nazis.

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