Tertulia Morgan: July 2008

Akshardham

Aunque parece un templo antiquísimo de la india, es uno de los más nuevos, terminado en el 2005.
Se contruyó con el aporte de más de 11.000 artesanos y voluntarios en 5 años (lo cual me parece un tiempo record), es un complejo de más de 100 acres, el monumento central (edificio principal), se compone con 234 pilares decorados, más de 20.000 esculturas. No por poco se le considera ya una maravilla moderna.

Según la página web:

Akshardham means the eternal, divine abode of the supreme God, the abode of eternal values and virtues of Akshar as defined in the Vedas and Upanishads where divine bhakti, purity and peace forever pervades.

Pues bien, sí que parece casa de Dios :P.

Más imágenes de Akshardham en flickr.

Labels: arquitectura, arte, india

Arte en billetes

Existen artistas como "Mark Wagner" o C.K. Wilde, que realizan obras bastante particulares.

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Carnival in Costa Rica

Me hizo gracia encontrarme esta película como cuarentona de Costa Rica, según wikipedia se trata de esto:

Carnival in Costa Rica (1947) is an American musical film directed by Gregory Ratoff and written by Samuel Hoffenstein, John Larkin, and Elizabeth Reinhardt. It was released in Technicolor by Twentieth Century Fox. Dick Haymes, Vera-Ellen, Cesar Romero, and Celeste Holm starred as two pairs of lovers who try to thwart an arranged marriage at Carnival time in Costa Rica.

Encontré este comentario curioso, acerca de cómo se mostró a Costa Rica como no lo es (caso parecido a las escenas de "San José" de Jurassic Park :P):

I found the movie humorous, fun and enjoyable but I can easily understand why my grandparents found it offensive. Being Costa Rican I have heard how the sections of the movie that were filmed in Costa Rica caused great commotion at the time even though none of the main actors came to the country (at least for filming). When the movie finally opened in Costa Rica people were upset of how the people and the country had been misrepresented. Even though the movie exerts attitudes and prejudices towards Latin America, as well as ignorance over the social and cultural differences between Latin American countries and Spain it reflects the ignorance (or innocence?) of the 1940s. At the end, for all the cultural improprieties doesn't make "Carnival in Costa Rica" any less enjoyable.

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