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- uncle_helv0
Transit, I have listened to many people give out advice, opinions and help on here, I've even chipped in myself when I feel I can help, and I personally rate the help I have received, I believe I have been around long enough to have gained some sort of respect and when I do ask... I know people will take me seriously or know that I am being genuinely serious!
- Transit_Broadcast0
I can only think of one word if you were to use QBN Public Voice as a research point. Doom.
Take your bum down to the library, get a few penpals, go there, do something... something more!
- Aye, that helps. I hope you feel better about yourself. Well done.detritus
- Dr_Rand0
blood
- paraselene0
ooh, yes. i second the bbc's 'art of spain'. that was very cool.
- detritus0
As Para mentioned above, you have to be a bit careful - Flamenco is 'traditional' in the South, as is Bullfighting, for the most part, but in the North they view them as quaint olde worlde things (much like the English view tartan and shortbread in Scotland).
If you can, try and catch the last couple of episodes of 'the art of Spain' on the BBC (they have episode 6 on iPlayer now).
From my perspective, overriding Spanish visual themes include colourful Picasso/Miro handpainted forms, cork trees (olives, or anything that harks to traditional foods, lifestyles or artisanship, like wrought iron signs). If I was to think of a minimal contemporary visual reference, I'd choose something like Calatrava - sweeping white lines against blue (with a big orange solar blob in the background for enforcement :), that sort of thing.
I'm popping back in a couple of weeks time, so if you'd like me to keep my eye out for things (because, now that I think on't, my mind goes blank), drop us a line.
- Elfangio0
Bullfights are the national sport :D and Flamengo is their more traditional music and dance. Beware that spain is a big country with diferent regions, so their culture changes a little depending on the region, as their dialect also.
Hope it helped
- 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
- 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.
- paraselene0
fura dels baus are a contemporary dance and performance art collective based in barcelona. pretty madcap, good fun.
- 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
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.
- 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?skt
- this place has gone downhill.skt
- vete a tomar por culo, calvo.paraselene
- hi para... how's things?skt
- charming!!!skt
- i think you mean chalming... things are good, just counting down the days of my notice period, really. you?paraselene
- not too shabby.skt
- 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
- Jaline0
Did you try para yet?
- kelpie0
mad style old school catholicism, mad style old school moorish heritage, brothels, football, sleeping and battered squid rings.
there ya go.
- rafalski0
"Bebe, fuma, folla y olvida" is your motto then