The La Tomatina festival which is held each year on the last Wednesday of August has its roots in street fight in the 1940′s when a group of young men who wanted to participate in the “gigantes y cabezudos” parade used tomatoes from a vegetable stand as weapons.

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Source: Reuters

Michel de Nostredame (1503 – 1566), usually Latinised to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide. He is best known for his book Les Propheties (“The Prophecies”), the first edition of which appeared in 1555. Since the publication of this book, which has rarely been out of print since his death, Nostradamus has attracted a following that, along with the popular press, credits him with predicting many major world events.

Most academic sources maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus’s quatrains are largely the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate) or else are so tenuous as to render them useless as evidence of any genuine predictive power. Moreover, none of the sources listed offers any evidence that anyone has ever interpreted any of Nostradamus’s quatrains specifically enough to allow a clear identification of any event in advance.

There are numerous popular books, and thousands of private websites, suggesting not only that the Prophecies are genuine but that Nostradamus was a true prophet. Due to the subjective nature of these interpretations, however, no two of them agree on exactly what he predicted, whether for the past or for the future. Many of these do agree, though, that particular predictions refer, for example, to the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, both world wars, and the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Download: Nostradamus – The Prophecies

27. Beogradski Jazz Festival pod sloganom „I ti si jazz“ predstavlja najbolji mogući sažetak svetske koncertne jazz sezone, još jednom nas obaveštavajući o najznačajnijim novim tendencijama u ovoj uvek živoj muzici.

27.  - 30. oktobar 2011.
DOM OMLADINE BEOGRADA // SAVA CENTAR
Kompleti karata od 4200 dinara.

Izvor: belgrade-jazzfest.org

GLAVNI PROGRAM

27. oktobar 2011.

Sava Centar / svečano otvaranje

• 19:30h PAT METHENY TRIO w/ Larry Grenadier and Bill Stewart (SAD) - Cena ulaznice: 1.200, 1.600, 2.000 din.

Dom omladine Beograda (Amerikana)

• 22:30h ANAT FORT DUO (Izrael, SAD) - Cena ulaznice: 500 din.
• 00:00h JOACHIM KÜHN “CHALABA” TRIO (Nemačka, Španija, Maroko) - Cena ulaznice: 800 din

*Cena ulaznice sa popustom za 2 koncerta: 1.000 din.

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Burning Man 2011 “Rites of Passage” arts and music festival in the Black Rock desert of Nevada, Sept. 4. 2011. Although it looks like a Mad Max movie live, it presented some quite significant installations between sand and sky.
More than 50,000 people from all over the world have gathered at the sold out festival which is celebrating its 25th year.

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Source: Reuters

Valerio Berruti, radovi i instalacije.
Izvor: http://www.valerioberruti.com

Otomata is a generative sequencer. It employs a cellular automaton type logic to produce sound events.

Each alive cell has 4 states: Up, right, down, left. at each cycle, the cells move themselves in the direction of their internal states. If any cell encounters a wall, it triggers a pitched sound whose frequency is determined by the xy position of collision, and the cell reverses its direction. If a cell encounters another cell on its way, it turns itself clockwise.

This set of rules produces chaotic results in some settings, therefore you can end up with never repeating, gradually evolving sequences. Go add some cells, change their orientation by clicking on them, and press play, experiment, have fun.

If you encounter something you like, just press “Copy Piece Link” and save it somewhere, or better, share it!

Here is something to start with: Otomata

Click here to get Otomata for your iPhone / iPod / iPad!

Official facebook page: www.facebook.com/pages/Otomata/218837764796473

Official web page: www.earslap.com

Also this reddit page has many examples: batu.in/otoreddit

And there is a subreddit for Otomata: www.reddit.com/r/otomata

45 BITEF 2011

…na usijanom limenom krovu

U trenutku svog nastanka, 1967. godine Bitef je osim umetničke igrao i važnu društvenu ulogu. Bio je svojevrsni most između Istoka i Zapada u svetu koji je bio polarizovan hladnim ratom. Bitef je bio jedan od retkih teatarskih punktova (u nekim trenucima i jedini!) gde je bilo moguće susresti se, istovremeno, sa produkcijama iz Poljske, Rusije i Amerike ili Zapadne Nemačke. Takvu privilegiju, ovaj festival je dugovao međunarodnoj poziciji SFRJ koja je počivala na ideji nepripadanja nijednom od dva dominantna politička bloka. Zbog svoje društvene i političke provokativnosti, ovaj festival je u prvoj deceniji svog postojanja, bio veoma važan inostranim umetnicima i pozorišnim programatorima iz celog sveta, što mu je donelo zavidnu međunarodnu reputaciju, koju, uprkos raspadu Jugoslavije i postjugoslovenskoj zbunjenosti, ima i dalje.

Poslednjih godina, festival je pretežno bio okrenut lokalnoj zajednici kojoj je, zahvaljujući dovođenju velikih i značajnih međunarodnih produkcija nekih od najvećih pozorišnih autora današnjice, pružao preko potrebne informacije o pravcima kretanja savremenog teatra. Namera ovogodišnjeg Bitefa je da, pored etabliranih internacionanih autora, postane platforma za prezentaciju savremenih regionalnih pozorišnih praksi, koje su, od raspada Jugoslavije i promene geopolitičkih koordinata, nedovoljno vidljive i prepoznatljive u širem evropskom i svetskom teatarskom kontekstu. Na ovaj način Bitef će od ove godine obavljati dvostruku misiju – nastaviće da informiše domaću pozorišnu zajednicu, ali će takođe nastojati da promoviše pozorišnu umetnost regiona Jugoistočne Evrope u širem geografskom kontekstu. Tako će se ove godine, u glavnoj selekciji festivala ravnopravno naći: Alen Platel, Jan Fabr, Hajner Gebels, Žizel Vijen, Frank Kastorf, Andrej Šerban, Oliver Frljić, Ivica Buljan, Ivana Sajko, Boris Liješević, Jožef Nađ, Selma Spahić, Snježana Abramović, Nataša Rajković, Bobo Jelčić. I Bitef će, ponovo, postati mesto susreta u pravom značenju tog pojma, susreta publike sa temama sa „usijanog limenog krova“, susreta umetnika jednih sa drugima, susreta publike sa umetnicima, susreta Evrope sa njenim „predvorjem“. Beograd će postati pozorišna raskrsnica koja se račva na sve četiri strane sveta. Proverićemo da li su ulice ponovo prohodne…

Anja Suša i Jovan Ćirilov, jun, 2011.

Glavni program: ovde
Izvor: bitef.rs