Homeward
Hi all! The
put most updated blog in a short week for those interested it since the adventure is ending soon, September 20. We were not sure of our arrival date until today, so we tell anyone before. Since the date does not fit all, we will arrive on Sunday to 16H Fouesnant and we will continue Beg on - Meil for a drink together s at Bilik Ti. Some have planned to do a bit of bike path with us, for those that interested, call us or check with and Nini Lolo and Pierre Yves and Emily ...
good week and see you soon
David and Fred
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
How Do You Get Rid Of A Blocked Nose
Hatier pocket publishes an anthology of News Traven, the mysterious writer whose biographies are unreliable. These stories are drawn from everyday life with the Mexican people in small towns like Mexico. In these stories, the setting is quite realistic but stripped. "Indians" are simple people, sometimes harsh, filled with common sense. The character of "gringo" White takes his relief by maladjustment to life and manners in Mexico. Some stories are told in third person, others to the first singular. The themes are varied. The first is to describe the daily life of Mexican people: housing, food, trade, and then the strange links between man and animal. Then Traven explores aspects unexpected: matriarchy, religion, industrialization, relations with local power, repression.
Overall, the look of Traven on Mexican society is mixed with respect and distance. Traven uses his critical faculties but never condemns the Mexicans. It does make central government and the "gringos" in charge. Such as Mr. Winthrop, of New York philanthropist argues that the Mexicans out of their misery by speculating on the artistic value of their handicrafts. He plays more candid while making all the necessary calculations to ensure his personal fortune, except that the Mexican he tries to exploit him, is really a simple man. Also, when he dangled the pesos per thousand, the look of the craftsman is lost ... he does not know what these big numbers. Winthrop and his company humanist can go back. Other news is almost allegories, like "Buy a donkey" and "Melancholy of St. Anthony" for example.
I'm not sure Traven is well translated, and then his tongue should be rather poor, syntax rather flat. The narrative is punctuated by action, not by style. However, few new read voraciously. They are here presented with a toolkit rather well done, for college students and their teachers.
80 pages + 50 pages of record, al. College Hatier Paperback - 4 €
Bibliography: Golo is the author of a bio-comic entitled Traven, Portrait of a famous anonymous published in 2007 in Futuropolis
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Denise Milani Streamng
New Mexico (BD) The Invisible Art Notes
In 1992, while Art Spiegelman about to make headlines with BD Maus and get a Pulitzer Prize, Scott McCloud undertakes to establish a generic presentation comics from its beginnings until his accession as " Ninth Art".
Scott McCloud is so young, so ambitious: he's only 32 years old and about to establish, BD ... a theory of comics. This is the subject of Art invisible. Scott McCloud will obviously gives historical references that allow a first step to better understand the onset of BD. It reminds us that the tradition has long been rigorously separate the images and words. It bounces off the prejudices which still suffers some comics today. He leads his speech with skill, humor and even a certain amount of derision.
The volume is far from indigestible, even if certain passages tell of rather abstract theories. The purpose is reflected, and the form is not less. The author manages to convince us that very often the image of what he showed us in advance by the words. Often one agrees, we recognize the facts as we expose them, we agree that he is right, it is surprising sometimes that he never considered comics as a particular angle.
The Invisible Art consists of nine chapters uneven. The first three I found most difficult but also better made. In Chapters 4 to 8 points discussed seem to me most questionable and the pace a little carried away. In this regard, the ninth and final chapter of a little rooster to the donkey, the recall of arguments to bits of theory just formulated. We see all the enthusiasm of Scott McCloud, but we would like it to have less remorse to conclude. After the book
Eisner The Comics, sequential art , this album by Scott McCloud is the reference book of comics. If you're interested in comics not only as a literary genre but as art in itself, you'll find in a seemingly accessible and entertaining ideas, theories, historical references that you are missing. A
essential.
223 pages, ed. Delcourt - $ 14.95 €
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L 'Art_invisible
http://scottmccloud.com/
In 1992, while Art Spiegelman about to make headlines with BD Maus and get a Pulitzer Prize, Scott McCloud undertakes to establish a generic presentation comics from its beginnings until his accession as " Ninth Art". Scott McCloud is so young, so ambitious: he's only 32 years old and about to establish, BD ... a theory of comics. This is the subject of Art invisible. Scott McCloud will obviously gives historical references that allow a first step to better understand the onset of BD. It reminds us that the tradition has long been rigorously separate the images and words. It bounces off the prejudices which still suffers some comics today. He leads his speech with skill, humor and even a certain amount of derision.
The volume is far from indigestible, even if certain passages tell of rather abstract theories. The purpose is reflected, and the form is not less. The author manages to convince us that very often the image of what he showed us in advance by the words. Often one agrees, we recognize the facts as we expose them, we agree that he is right, it is surprising sometimes that he never considered comics as a particular angle.
The Invisible Art consists of nine chapters uneven. The first three I found most difficult but also better made. In Chapters 4 to 8 points discussed seem to me most questionable and the pace a little carried away. In this regard, the ninth and final chapter of a little rooster to the donkey, the recall of arguments to bits of theory just formulated. We see all the enthusiasm of Scott McCloud, but we would like it to have less remorse to conclude. After the book
Eisner The Comics, sequential art , this album by Scott McCloud is the reference book of comics. If you're interested in comics not only as a literary genre but as art in itself, you'll find in a seemingly accessible and entertaining ideas, theories, historical references that you are missing. A
essential.
223 pages, ed. Delcourt - $ 14.95 €
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L 'Art_invisible
http://scottmccloud.com/
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