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- uncle_helv
Working on a project about Spain, it's going to be almost 100% photographic and based on the theme of (colour, form, movement) I don't know a great deal about Spain's cultural heritage, so I need a bit of help to unravel things of interest in spain... whether it be art, dance, photography, design, theatre, sport and based around the theme stated above...
I have already began to explore these areas, to varying success...
Barcelona, Las Ramblas, Goudi, Bilbao (Guggenheim), Flamenco, Pamplona (anything to do with Bulls), Bunol (La Tomatina)Thanks.
- neue75_bold0
* waits for para
- uncle_helv0
*Tom waits for para
- ********0
you should ask para.
- neue75_bold0
para knows all...
- ********0
this is what i have heard.
- uncle_helv0
bump (for what it's worth)
- roger840
dont comit the mistake to take pictures of bullfight, flamenco and paellas.... are a topic.
- menos0
tell you what, how about researching and getting some general history about the country, where it came from, dynasties, major battles fought, stuff that determined how it is today etc etc and not just your typical 'obvious' things... You could even do a sort of 'timelined' piece showing from then till now...
just a suggestion.
- rybo0
a girl i know did a bull fighting article for a magazine and draw the head of this bull and took it to a stable to photograph it
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- rafalski0
"Bebe, fuma, folla y olvida" is your motto then
- kelpie0
mad style old school catholicism, mad style old school moorish heritage, brothels, football, sleeping and battered squid rings.
there ya go.
- Jaline0
Did you try para yet?
- paraselene0
hiya! sorry, just saw this...
for a start, you'll do well to look at the films of carlos saura, particularly the ones that are interpretations of lorca plays as dance, such as bodas de sangre. that way you get two cultural icons, plus some flamenco, all in one go.
- fucking hell, you wait around all morning and then get shite adivice like that?********
- this place has gone downhill.********
- vete a tomar por culo, calvo.paraselene
- hi para... how's things?********
- charming!!!********
- i think you mean chalming... things are good, just counting down the days of my notice period, really. you?paraselene
- not too shabby.********
- sorry about the apparent ferocity of the insult there... it's pretty mild in spanish.paraselene
- no it isnaekelpie
- its deeply personal and offensive.kelpie
- me cago en la puta leche, kelpie.paraselene
- :) xxparaselene
- fuckin 'ell, that's a bit strong! yeah spanish para has a way dirty mouth on herkelpie
- fucking hell, you wait around all morning and then get shite adivice like that?
- paraselene0
the well known artists you'll already be familiar with: dali, picasso, goya, zurbaran, el greco (okay, so he was greek...)
but you'll want to be careful about regional nationalities (catalan, gallego, basque, etc.) as some, such as tapies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An... and miro, are staunchly catalan and wouldn't necessarily consider themselves 'spanish'.
bunuel is a good call, but a lot of his best stuff is from exile and is more mexican or french than spanish. perhaps the most spanish of all his work is a film called 'las hurdes'. it's usually on the same dvd as 'un chien andalou'.
of course there's almodovar to consider, too. especially for colour and brilliantly exaggerated stereotypes about post-franco society.
- rafalski0
Then Almodóvar's movies get you accustomed and give you an insight into daily lives of gay families, disguised by simple crime story plots..
- paraselene0
fura dels baus are a contemporary dance and performance art collective based in barcelona. pretty madcap, good fun.
- uncle_helv0
Thanks very much, for your help and suggestions, I should have pointed out that this is not going to be a deep study/photographic essay exploring the identity of Spain or Spanishness, merely a project for a product owned by an English company, the products origins lay in Spain, but is going to be aimed at English printers/specifiers!
I had already presented two routes exploring the sensory aspects of the paper and how it holds colour which have been rejected by the client on the basis that both routes were too design-led (aimed more at designers) and printers wouldn't get it, and after a long drawn out meeting it was decided we should look at the Country of origin however the client (the client being English, not Spanish) is driving this route, and after hearing... Flamenco, Bull Fighting, Wine used as things they think of when thinking of Spain, I nearly started crying, Like I said I know very little about Spanish culture, and was looking for something as far away from the obvious stereotypes, but interesting, visual, colourful yet still only scratching the surface, as time is well and truly against me and I don't have any where near the time it would take to research properly to do something worth of the great nation!
Thanks again.
- trooper0
http://www.sonamar.com/ been there done that... the germans got front row seats all the brits were squashed at the sides :(
- 'Sonamar been there, done that' hahaha, a Brit abroad, you truly are - congratulations!detritus