Friday, February 6, 2015

Pas de Deux, by Jean-Pierre Augier


Pas de deux, by Jean-Pierre Augier
Thank you for the interest you want to bring to my work by visiting my official website. Then I would be very happy to welcome you to my shop in Saint Antoine de Siga or Portal House in Levens, if you wish.  Iron my children tell you my happiness of creating.
Reference: Jean-Pierre Augier, Sculpteur.

Damn that Google Translate.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Dancer, by Svetlana Belyaeva


Dancer, by Svetlana Belyaeva
Fashion/Wedding/Portrait/Art-nude Photographer
Moscow, Russia
info@belyaeva.net
I could not find much of anything about Svetlana Belyaeva herself, but maybe that it is just as well.  Her work speaks volumes, and it is lush, stunning and sensuous. 

Monday, February 2, 2015

The Dancer Loie Fuller, by Koloman Moser


The Dancer Loie Fuller, by Koloman Moser
Koloman Moser (1868 – 1918) was an Austrian artist who exerted considerable influence on twentieth-century graphic art and one of the foremost artists of the Vienna Secession movement and a co-founder of Wiener Werkstätte.

During his life, Moser designed a wide array of art works - books and graphic works from postage stamps to magazine vignettes; fashion; stained glass windows, porcelains and ceramics, blown glass, tableware, silver, jewelry, and furniture - to name a few of his interests.
Reference: Koloman Moser.

Friday, January 23, 2015

Guitar Cover I Love: Smoke on the Water



Juliana Vieira is a sexy lady, dishing out the smoking hot rock classic that I have loved for decades.  Smoke on the Water tells the story of the horrendous go for Deep Purple, as they traveled to Montreux, Switzerland to record an album in 1971. 

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Guitar Cover I Love: My Favorite Things


I was born in Sweden Jan 12, 1997. My dad - a guitarist with Argentinian roots - plays  guitar all day long and I love to listen to his music. When I turned 12 I picked up my dad's Yamaha and tried to play by myself. Indeed, playing guitar by myself is so much more fun and I continued to teach myself ...

One day in Aug 2009 I found a video showing Sungha playing the guitar and I felt in love with this kind of guitar music: fingerstyle guitar! This guitarstyle indeed guided my life into another direction! My parents supported my talent and bought me my own instrument. Another Yamaha in shiny black color - like my fathers one – and with a cutaway too ...
Well, what do you know, a synchronicity!  I discovered Gabriella Quevedo a few weeks ago, and added her cover of a classic from The Sound of Music to my playlist Pop Instrumentals, New Stuff.  Then, as I planned my articles for the week, I discovered Sungha Jung literally moments ago, whose cover of Kiss the Rain I wrote about in the preceding article.  Interesting that Gabriella was influenced by his style.  I also wrote about this classic in Beginning with my Favorite Things.

Monday, January 19, 2015

Guitar Cover I Love: Kiss the Rain


Hi, I'm Sungha Jung from South Korea.
My dream is to become a professional acoustic fingerstyle guitarist.

I had been watching my dad play the guitar for awhile before I finally jumped on it myself three years ago.

Currently, I am taking drum lessons and teaching myself fingerstyle guitar.
I used to not have tabs for the music that I played in my videos.
I just listen and pick them up directly from the sound source in videos available on the internet.
However, recently, I have started playing with original tabs whenever they are available to me by courtesy of the authors.
My old guitar is custom made by Selma to fit my body size, and on it, Thomas Leeb wrote "Keep on grooving to my friend."
19-year old Sungha Jung deftly and tenderly covers a song I deeply love, by his fellow South Korean Yiruma, who performed Kiss the Rain live, amid a stunning rock backdrop.  It is the one piece so far, for which I have written two poems, one of which is my collection The Song Poems.

Friday, January 9, 2015

The Borneo Challenge-Malaysia: The Family


The funds we raised were earmarked for Borneo Child Aid Society 

One evening at Sabah Tea Plantation, the children performed for us 

The children played music with makeshift instruments

Some children waited their turn to perform 

The Filipino family whom I befriended were teachers and staff at Borneo Child Aid Society 

One lovely girl from that teaching family, with her grandmother 

Torben Venning, director at Borneo Child Aid Society

It was the Francisco family whom I befriended during the evening's performance by Borneo Child Aid Society.  They had to traveled a few hundred kilometers to Sabah Tea Plantation.  I let them know I was Filipino, and curiously they said that because I had lived so long in the US, I now looked American.  Does living in a city mold and shape the way you look?  Apparently so.  Maybe they said that because my complexion is fairly light for a Filipino.