Sunday 23 December 2007

At the same volume

David gets his signature, midrangey guitar sound from a 1935 Epiphone Olympic archtop with a carved top and plywood mahogany back and sides. He likens its sound to that of a resophonic guitar. "I bought it without a bridge," he says, "and had a one-piece mahogany bridge made for it. I think with a top this small it really behooves you to get as much stuff touching the top as you can, because the top doesn’t have that much flex to it." He says his guitar is unique in that every note on every string plays at the same volume. "It doesn’t have any dead spots or any high spots—which is very, very strange," he says. "It makes it fun to play lead, because you don’t have to worry where you’re at. It’s not much of a solo instrument, but I can’t really play by myself worth a darn, so it doesn’t make much of a difference."

Monday 17 December 2007

Alla grandezza de’ membri

Adunque conviensi tenere certa ragione circa alla grandezza de’ membri, in quale commensuratione gioverà prima allogare ciascuno osso dell’animale, poi apresso agiugniere i suoi muscoli, di poi tutto vestirlo di sue carne. Ma qui sarà che mi contraponga quanto di sopra dissi, che al pittore nulla s’apartiene delle cose quali non vede. Ben ramentato costoro, ma come a vestire l’uomo prima si disegnia ignudo, poi il circondiamo di panni, così dipignendo il nudo, prima pogniamo sue ossa e muscoli, quali poi così copriamo con sue carni che non sia difficile intendere ove sotto sia ciascuno moscolo. E poi che la natura ci ha porto in mezzo le misure, ove si truova non poca utilità a riconoscierle dalla natura, ivi adunque pillino li studiosi pittori questa faticha, per tanto tenere a mente quello che pillino dalla natura, quanto a riconoscerle aranno posto suo studio e opera.

Tuesday 13 November 2007

“Statement for the Sydney Biennale 1979”

…The moment of truth hasn’t come yet. Or has it? Is this an immortality-trip? Maybe next time we’ll get the answer, I’ll take the risk of choosing the exact date, time and conditions to ask whether mercy does exist. It is not art; it is a teaching for which I’m not strong enough yet.

Monday 12 November 2007

Thursday 25 October 2007

A large cone-shaped hole

For the Biennale de Paris in 1975, he made the piece titled Conical Intersect by cutting a large cone-shaped hole through two townhouses dating from the 17th century in the market district known as Les Halles which were to be knocked down in order to construct the then-controversial Centre Georges Pompidou.

Sunday 23 September 2007

"Il ricordo della luce"

A Posillipo c'era il sole. Il ricordo della luce di quel sole mi accompagno per il resto del viaggio e torno con me in Ungheria - e anche la, nei tempi bui che seguirono, continuo a splendere. Il sole di Posillipo ha rappresentato l'unica realta attraente, conciliante del mio viaggio in Occidente.

Monday 10 September 2007

Empress Wu Zetian

It's said that in 800 AD Empress Wu Zetian, enraged that the peonies, alone among flowers, disobeyed her command to bloom in the snow, banished them from her capital at Chang'an.

Thursday 30 August 2007

Elderly Kong general

One elderly Kong general, after defeated on the battlefield, cut his throat for the sake of his dignity. When the news reached the Kong mansion in Qufu, his son hanged himself as an expression of filial piety. After discovering the body, his wife hanged herself out of female virtue. On hearing this, the emperor bestowed the family with a board, inscribed “A family of faithfulness and filiality.”

Thursday 23 August 2007

"Like church bells"

We could only afford cheap guitars, and cheap guitars sounded like cheap guitars. But with weird tunings or something jammed under a particular fret, those humble instruments could sound rather amazing—bang a drumstick on a cheap Japanese Stratocaster copy in the right tuning, crank the amplifier to within an inch of its life, and it will sound like church bells.

Friday 10 August 2007

Rothko comments

The set of colossal canvases housed in Tate Modern's Rothko Room originated, as every art-aware schoolboy knows, in a commission for the Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram Building on New York's Park Avenue. The commission, one of the more remarkable instances of incongruity in the history of art patronage, was for 600 square feet of mural-sized paintings to decorate the walls of the restaurant - "a place," according to Rothko, "where the richest bastards in New York will come to feed and show off" - although it is not clear if Rothko realised from the outset that his paintings were intended as a backdrop for fine dining. The architect Philip Johnson, who assisted Mies van der Rohe in the design of the building and who was chief commissioner of the Rothko murals, always insisted that the painter knew that they were to be hung in the restaurant.

"I accepted this assignment as a challenge, with strictly malicious intentions. I hope to paint something that will ruin the appetite of every son of a bitch who ever eats in that room. If the restaurant would refuse to put up my murals, that would be the ultimate compliment. But they won't. People can stand anything these days."

Thursday 9 August 2007

Away from Mussoorie

At night the room was very dark and the wide window showed the whole southern sky, and into this room one night came – with a great deal of fluttering – a bird. Turning on the light and getting out of bed one saw it under the bed. It was an owl. It was about a foot and a half high with extremely wide big eyes and a fearsome beak. We gazed at each other quite close, a few feet apart. It was frightened by the light and the closeness of human being. We looked at each other without blinking for quite a while, and it never lost its height and its fierce dignity. You could see the cruel claws, the light feathers and the wings tightly held against the body. One would have liked to touch it, stroke it, but it would have not allowed that. So presently the light was turned out and for some time there was quietness in the room. Soon there was a fluttering of the wings – you could feel the air against your face – and the owl had gone out of the window. It never came again.

Wednesday 1 August 2007

L’omo e la terra

L’omo è detto da li antiqui mondo minore, e cierto la ditione d’esso nome è bene collocata, impero chè, siccome l’omo è composto di terra, acqua, aria e foco, questo corpo della terra è il simiglante. Se l’omo à in se ossi, sostenitori a armadura della carne, il mondo à i sassi, sostenitori della terra; se l’omo à in sè il lago del sangue, dove crescie e discrescie il polmone e discrescie nello alitare, il corpo della terra à il suo oceano mare, il quale ancora lui crescie e discrescie ogni sei ore per lo alitare del mondo. Se dal detto lago di sangue dirivano vene, che si vanno ramificando per lo corpo umano, similmente il mare oceano enpie il corpo della terra d’infinte vene d’acqua.

Monday 23 July 2007

Rothko comments

In 1959, on holiday in Italy, Mark Rothko went with his wife Mell and their eight-year-old daughter Kate for a day's visit to the Graeco-Roman city of Paestum on the Amalfi coast south of Naples. Paestum boasts three Doric temples generally agreed to be among the best preserved of their kind in the world. The Rothkos were travelling with another family, that of John Hurt Fischer, an editor at Harper's Magazine whom the painter had met on the sea journey from New York. Rothko had already visited Pompeii and had felt a "deep affinity" between his own painting and the murals in the House of Mysteries there, in which he recognised "the same feeling, the same broad expanses of sombre colour" - and anyone who has seen the House of Mysteries will certainly agree with this judgment, for the similarities with the work he was doing then are uncanny, given that Rothko had painted a number of murals that were eventually to be housed in Tate's Rothko Room, before he visited Pompeii. Now, at Paestum, he was similarly struck by the modelling of the temples, at once groundedly monumental and celestially lightsome, and wholly mysterious.

On the journey down from Naples the party had fallen in with a couple of Italian youths who offered to act as guides. At Paestum, where the odd-assorted little band picnicked at noon in the Temple of Hera, the young men expressed their curiosity as to the identity and occupations of the Americans. Fischer's daughter, who was acting as interpreter, turned to Rothko and said: "I have told them that you are an artist, and they ask whether you came here to paint the temples," to which Rothko replied: "Tell them that I have been painting Greek temples all my life without knowing it."

Sunday 22 July 2007

"Fat"

The last thing I remember was that it was too late to jump, too late for the parachutes to open. That must have been a couple of seconds before hitting the ground. Luckily I was not strapped in – I always preferred free movement to safety belts… My friend was strapped in and he was atomized on impact – there was almost nothing to be found of him afterwards. But I must have shot through the windscreen as it flew back at the same speed as the plane hit the ground and that saved me, though I had bad skull and jaw injuries. Then the tail flipped over and I was completely buried in the snow. That’s how the Tartars found me days later. I remember voices saying ‘Voda’ (Water), then the felt of their tents, and the dense pungent smell of cheese, fat and milk. They covered my body in fat to help it regenerate warmth, and wrapped it in felt as an insulator to keep warmth in.

Friday 20 July 2007

Nazia


An aircraft

Comunicado TAM

COMUNICADO TAM 8 – 05h08 (18/07/2007)

Em complemento à lista inicial de passageiros a bordo do vôo JJ 3054 a TAM informa mais três nomes:

FERNANDO VOLPE ESTATO
PETER FINZSCH
HELEN DE CASSIA ZERILLO

Também confirmamos que o funcionário ALVARO ALEXANDRE DA ROCHA PINTO BREGUEZ viajava no referido vôo.

Assessoria de Imprensa – TAM

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COMUNICADO TAM 7 – 03h40 (18/07/2007)

A TAM informa que, por levantamento realizado até o momento, estão desaparecidos funcionários da TAM Express que estavam no terminal de cargas quando ocorreu o acidente com o vôo JJ 3054 na noite de ontem:

Marcos A.L. Curti
Antonio Gualberto Filho
Elaine Tavares da Silva
Ana Paula Camargo
Alexandre L. Catussatto
Aldeniz Pedro de Lima

Nossas equipes estão concentrando esforços na localização desses funcionários com apoio do Corpo de Bombeiros, Defesa Civil e autoridades.

A funcionária Michele Dias Miranda faleceu no hospital.

Assessoria de Imprensa – TAM

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Comunicado TAM 6 – 02h52 (18/07/2007)

Com profundo pesar, a TAM informa que o vôo JJ 3054 estava a cargo dos seguintes tripulantes:

COMANDANTE KLEYBER LIMA
COMANDANTE HENRIQUE STEPHANINI DI SACCO
COMISSÁRIA CASSIA NEGRETTO
COMISSÁRIA DANIELA BAHDUR
COMISSÁRIA RENATA GONÇALVES
COMISSÁRIA MICHELLE LEITE

Além desses, também estavam a bordo os funcionários da empresa:

ANGELICA ROJEK
EVELYN CAMPOS
MIRELLE M. F. BETTIOL
MARCO ANTONIO SILVA
FABIANE RUZZANTE
ARNALDO RAMOS BATISTA
FABIOLA KO FRATAG
VINICIUS COSTA COELHO
ALINE MANTEIRO CASTIGO
MARCEL CASSAL VICENTIM
FERNANDO TERGOLINA
RICARDO KLEY SANTOS
MADALENA SILVA

A empresa está mantendo contato com os familiares desses tripulantes e prestando atendimento por meio de seus programas de assistência e de suas equipes de Operações.

Assessoria de Imprensa – TAM
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COMUNICADO TAM 5 – 01h25

A TAM expressa os mais profundos sentimentos aos familiares e amigos dos passageiros que estavam no vôo número JJ 3054.

Lamentamos confirmar os nomes dos passageiros que estavam a bordo do vôo:
ADELAIDE MOURA
AKIO IWASAKI
ALANIS ANDRADE
ALEJANDRO CAMOZZI
ALEXANDRE GOES
ANA CAROLINA CUNHA
ANDERSON CASSEL
ANDRE DONA
ANDREA SEICZKOWSKI
ANDREI MELO
ANGELA HAENSEL
ANTONIO CARLOS ARAUJO DE SOUZA
ARNALDO BATISTA RAMOS
ARTHUR QUEIROZ
ATILIO SASSA BILIBIO
BRUNA DE VILLI CHACCUR
BRUNO FERRAZ
BRUNO NASCIMENTO
CAIO AUGUSTO BUENO DAL PRATA
CAIO FELIPE CUNHA
CARLA FIORATTI
CARLOS ALBERTO ANDRIOTTI
CARLOS ROCKEMBACK
CARLOS ZANOTTO
CARMEN LUISA VICTORIA FONSECA
CASSIO VIEIRA SERVULO DA CUNHA
CATILENE OLIVEIRA
CHRISTINE SOUZA
CIRO NUMADA
CLAUDEMIR ARRIERO
CLOVE MENDONÇA JUNIOR
DECIO TEVOLA
DEMETRIO TRAVESSA
DENILSON LOPES COSTA
DEOLINDA MAGALY VICTOR FONSECA
DOUGLAS TEIXEIRA
EDMUNDO SMITH
EDUARDO MANCIA
ELCITA RAMOS
ELENILZE FERRAZ
ELIANE DORNELLES
ELIDA DEMBINSKI
EMERSON FREITAG
ENRICO SHIOHARA
ESIO FREITAS
FABIANA AMARAL
FABIANE RUZANTE
FABIANO ROSITO MATOS
FABIO BALSELLS
FABIO MARQUES
FABIO VELLOZA
FATIMA SANTIAGO
FELIPE FRATEZI
FERNANDO ANTONIO LARO OLIVEIRA
FERNANDO MARQUES
FERNANDO PESSOA
GABRIEL CORREIA PEDROSA
GILMAR TENORIO ROCHA
GOTTFRIED TAGLOEHNER
GUILHERME MORAES
GUILHERME PEREIRA
GUSTAVO MARTINS
HELOIZA HELENA LOPES
HEURICO TOMITA
INES MARIA KLEINOWSKI
IVALINO BONATO
IVANALDO CUNHA
JAMILLE LEAO
JANUS SILVA
JAQUELINE DIAS
JOAO BRITO
JOAO CALTABIANO
JOAO VALMIR
JOSE A FLORES AMARAL
JOSÉ LIMA LUZ
JOSÉ PINTO
JULIA CAMARGO
JULIA ELIZABETE GOMES
JULIO CESAR REDECKER
KATIA ESCOBAR
KATIANE LIMA
JOSE CARLOS PIERUCETTI
LARISSA FERRAZ
LEILA MARIA OLIVEIRA DOS SANTOS
LEVI LEÃO
LINA BARBOSA CASSOL
LISIANE SCHUBERT
LUCAS PALOMINO MATTEDI
LUCIANA SIQUEIRA LANA ANGELIS
LUIS SCHNEIDER
LUIZ BARUFFALDI
LUIZ LUZ
LUIZ ZACCHINI
MARCELO MARTHE
MARCELO PALMIERI
MARCELO PEDREIRA
MARCELO STELZER
MARCIO ALEXANDRE DE MORAES
MARCIO ANDRADE
MARCO ANTONIO DA SILVA
MARIA ELIZABETE CABALLERO
MARIA ISABEL GOMES
MARIANA PEREIRA
MARIANA SELL
MARIO GOMES
MARLI PEDRO SANTOS
MARTA ALMEIDA
MELISSA ANDRADE
MERY VIEIRA
MIRTES SUDA
NADIA MOYSES
NADJA SOCZECK
NELLY PRIEBE
NELSON WIEBBELLING
PAULA MASSERAN DE ARRUDA XAVIER
PAULO CASSIANO FELIZA OLIVEIRA
PAULO PAVI
PAULO ROGERIO AMORETTY SOUZA
PAULO SILVEIRA
PEDRO ABREU
PEDRO AUGUSTO CALTABIANO
JOSE CARLOS DE OLIVEIRA
PRISCILA BERTOLDI SILVA
RAFAELA BUENO DAL PRATA
RAQUEL WARMILING
REBECA HADDAD
REMY MOLLER
RENAN KLUG RIBEIRO
RENATO RIBEIRO
RENATO SOARES
RICARDO ALMEIDA
RICHARD SALLES CANFIELD
ROBERTO GAVIOLI
ROBERTO WILSON WEISS JUNIOR
RODRIGO BENACHIO
RODRIGO PRADO
RODRIGO SOUZA MOREALE
ROGERIO LAURENTIS
ROGERIO SATO
ROSANGELA MARIA DE AVIL SEVERO
ROSPIERRE VILHENA
RUBEM WIETHAEUPER
SANDRO SCHUBERT
SERGIO FREITAS
SILVAN STUMPF
SILVANIA REGINA DE AVILA ALVES
SILVANO ALMEIDA
SILVIA GRUNEWALD
SIMONE WETRUPP
SONIA MACHADO
SORAYA CHARARA
SUELI FLECK
SUELY FONSECA
THAIS SCOTT
VALDEMARINA SOUZA
VALDIR CORDEIRO DE MORAES
VANDA UEDA
VILMA KLUG
VITACIR PALUDO
ZENILDA SANTOS

A TAM está mantendo contato com os familiares dos passageiros, prestando todo o atendimento por meio de seu Programa de Assistência às Vítimas e Familiares.

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COMUNICADO TAM 4 – 00h30

Todos nós da TAM expressamos os mais profundos sentimentos aos familiares e amigos dos passageiros, funcionários e tripulantes da empresa que estavam no vôo número JJ 3054, acidentado hoje no aeroporto de Congonhas.

Até o momento os nomes confirmados a bordo do vôo JJ 3054 são:

AKIO IWASAKI
ANDREA ROTA SIECZKOWSKI
ANDREI FRANÇOIS MELLO
CARLOS GILBERTO ZANOTTO
CASSIO VIEIRA SERVULO DA CUNHA
CLOVE MENDONÇA JUNIOR

RICARDO KLEY SANTOS (funcionário TAM)
MARCEL CASSAL VICENTIM (funcionário TAM)
MICHELLE SILVEIRA UNTERBERGER (funcionário TAM)
VINICIUS COSTA COELHO (funcionário TAM)
FABIOLA KO FREITAG (funcionário TAM)

A TAM está com seu Programa de Assistência às Vítimas e Familiares ativado desde os primeiros momentos após o acidente e disponibilizou um número de chamadas gratuitas voltado para o atendimento aos familiares dos passageiros e tripulantes deste vôo: 0800 117900.

Qualquer outra informação relevante será comunicada imediatamente pela TAM.

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COMUNICADO TAM 3 – 21h (17/07/2007)

A TAM informa que o vôo JJ 3054 decolou de Porto Alegre com 170 pessoas, entre passageiros e funcionários da empresa, além de mais seis componentes da tripulação técnica (comandantes e comissários).

À medida que os nomes forem confirmados, notificaremos as famílias antes que qualquer informação se torne pública, como determina a legislação vigente.

Lembramos que a TAM já ativou seu Programa de Assistência às Vítimas e Familiares e disponibilizou o número 0800 117900 voltado ao atendimento aos familiares dos passageiros e tripulantes deste vôo.

A TAM divulgou todas as informações confirmadas até este momento. Qualquer outra informação relevante será comunicada imediatamente pela TAM.

Assessoria de Imprensa – TAM
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COMUNICADO TAM 2

A TAM está trabalhando com o máximo de agilidade cuidado para confirmar a identidade das pessoas a bordo do vôo número JJ 3054 que decolou de Porto Alegre com destino a São Paulo e sofreu um acidente no pouso em Congonhas. À medida que os nomes forem confirmados, notificaremos as famílias antes que qualquer informação se torne pública, como determina a legislação vigente.

Lembramos que a TAM já ativou seu Programa de Assistência às Vítimas e Familiares e disponibilizou o número 0800 117900 voltado ao atendimento aos familiares dos passageiros e tripulantes deste vôo.

A TAM divulgou todas as informações confirmadas até este momento. Assim que dispusermos de fatos adicionais os repassaremos imediatamente.

Assessoria de Imprensa – TAM
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COMUNICADO TAM 1

A aeronave da TAM Airbus A320, vôo JJ 3054, que partiu de Porto Alegre, às 17h16, com destino ao aeroporto de Congonhas (SP), sofreu acidente no pouso no aeroporto em São Paulo.

Neste momento não podemos determinar a extensão dos danos ou de possíveis lesões sofridas pelos ocupantes do avião, passageiros e tripulantes. Uma equipe da TAM já está no local e outros técnicos da companhia estão a caminho. A assistência de emergência também está sendo prestada pelo Corpo de Bombeiros, Infraero e outras autoridades aeronáuticas.

A TAM já ativou seu Programa de Assistência às Vítimas e Familiares e disponibilizou um número de chamadas gratuitas voltado para o atendimento aos familiares dos passageiros e tripulantes deste vôo: 0800 117900.

Qualquer outra informação relevante será comunicada imediatamente pela TAM.

Assessoria de Imprensa – TAM
Tel: (11) 5582-8167/8685/8153

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