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Biondo, that was pure luck! Amazing! Giotto is just a very great influence in my own way of thinking on illustration (the way he puts different scenes together, or the way he works with the inside and the outside of his settings – very much linked with medieval mysticism.) He’s also an influence for video-artist Bill Viola, who is also working on the medieval mystics.
If you’re from Padua Giotto must be something of a local/national hero? Also, I once read a book on the struggle/competition between cities, measured by it’s artists. Padua has a very rich and competitive history in Italian Renaissance if I remember that book fine enough?
Must be great to be surrounded with such great art, especially Giotto. If I got it right, you just walk around the corner, enters a chapel and sees a free Giotto on the wall? Insane, all art here hangs in museums, after World War 2 no original art staid on its original place…
Yes Giotto is a sort of local hero here, but it’s not so simple to see his frescos, you know there are conservation problems that require limiting the number of tourists entering the Scrovegni Chapel. But it ‘s true Giotto, Mantegna, Donatello … Padua (Padova in Italian) had a rich artistic life in past times. I’m not an expert of ancient art, but in some way I lived with it since my infantry.
Bill Viola, when I saw his installations at Venice’s Biennale around 20 years ago, I was totally fascinated. But next I haven’t followed his work since then.
Come an visit Padua … and next continue to Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples, Messina 🙂
I’ve been away all day, and when I came back I had to go with one of my cats to the veterinary (at 18:00 of Christmas day!). Fortunately nothing bad.
So, again … Merry Christmas to you all! And thanks to all, Jesse, Zapa, Sape, Mope, Wiskey, Jippi, Grey!!, Slowly … Santa said it: “Let’s make some noise” and we did it with “Dueling banjos”. But we also added a little bit of snow 😉
@Biondo: ahh, realy, i be happy, here are wonderful artists, musicians, designer and art lover… realy good, and all it
with a good piece heart and fun, my taste!
@SAPE: “Dueling Banjos” so niiiice!!!! thx for your good song & movie tipp!! i dont know not this film and not hear this song befor your entry
Great! It is snow! 😀
Biondo the magician!!!!
I very like it. Winter is my favorite season. If you do not have the snow fall on our web site at least it is snowing.
Thank you Biondo, the Christmas is complete for me!
😀 😀 😀
Nice pictures Biondo and Zapata!
Sape have the Hungarian Christmas customs nicely demonstrated. I can not do more. 🙂
@Biondo: If you like that, I think you like it too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APl9fRFmdC0
🙂
Nice Sape, you won again!
And nice banjo video linked…
What I love of the “Dueling Banjos” is that they start soo slow, they are stressing for the first minute, so slow and so many “errors”, they never decide to really start the music, but then something happens and the miracle is there. Wow.
If you have also seen the movie, you know that the image (in the movie) totally corresponds to the music, with that “lame” boy, so sad, inexpressive and hesitant at the beginning of the playing duel, and so happy, so genius, so confident in the end.
This is how an SG player should feel: sad, inexpressive and hesitant at the beginning of his gaming career, and happy, genius, confident in the end.
🙂
I just see the quiz. Yep: Deliverance (1972)
Great!
Quiz @Sape: do you know this music? (From the famous soundtrack of a 1972 movie).
Well, I hate animations and background musics in sites (it’s sooo lame), but just for a couple of days…
Have fun: you can link to a different mp3 here: http://lameclan.altervista.org/blog/wp-admin/widgets.php
– Open the widget “Simple music” on the right
– Paste your mp3 URL
– Save
Please do not upload mp3 to this site (we have few space left), just link to an external mp3.
And now there is music :). Wonderful!
hehe, magic!
Wow it’s snowing on the lameclan site. 🙂
How did you do that?
Slowly, I don’t really know where Doc found that music, he made it all alone. Hehe, fun music, he never misses a shot!
thank you Biondo & merry merry xmas @all!!! very beautiful pictures!!! who make the sound on http://bb.game-host.org/ ? …that is also realy nice!
Here it is, Slowly: http://www.smokin-guns.net/viewtopic.php?p=22697#22697
nice nativity scene Biondo, we know this also in Belgium, but we don’t make him self but buy him 🙂
And we have also large nativity scene in the city’s with real sheep, donkey,….
Beautiful nativity scene, real masterpiece. Enough reason for me to come over to Naples and buy myself a DIY kit 🙂
Speaking of nativity scenes, personally I find the paitings out of the Italian Renaissance the most beautiful pieces in this theme.
This one is from Giotto.
Giotto, Scenes from the Life of Christ: Nativity: Birth of Jesus 1304-06, at Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel) in Padua.
It’s in my town! Hehe, did you know, Zapa?
merry christmas also from me to all,
don´t drink tomuch tonight 😉
@spi
ALL the same for you, @spi 😀
Merry Xmas to you and family.
@Jesse: yes there is the tradition of the Christmas Tree, but also the more ancient tradition to build nativity scenes (those made in Naples are real masterpieces).
This my nativity scene, all built with my hands (apart from men/women figures):
@Mope: Santa has no money this year because of economic crisis; see how sad skinny emaciated he is. Just a dynamite to explode in the face of someone I know 😉
@Biondo: We called the “native scene”: “Betlehem”.
There is a little village in Hungary called Vörs. In this village there is the biggest Betlehem I’ve ever seen. It is 50 square-meter.
Here is a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUCuqTqf3gs&feature=related
It is Hungarian tradition too: there are Betlehems in every village and town.
@Sape: nice! In Italy is called “presepe” or “presepio”. Search “presepe napoletano” in Google images or youtube.
Merry Christmas to all you guys from Holy Land. We’re celebrating Hanukkah here, but I totally feel the Christmas atmosphere in the air! If you see Santa, tell him I’ve been a good boy this year, please.
Yep, there is a tree in the house in Hungary too. The process of the celebration and the background are the same as in Italy or in Belgium.
In Belgium we celebrate also the birth of Jesus Christ, and that with the family.
This evening we celebrate it also with the closest family , like ZaPaTa 😉 and that with a dinner, a lot of gifts (BTW zapa I have a nice gift for you 😉 ) and music.
BTW is their also a tradition in Italy, and other LAME countries that you put a tree in your house?
Merry Christmas all. What exactly are you celebrating tonight. Just a questions because or faith is different amongst some of us…?
In Italy, tomorrow, we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, of course. But the celebrations start tonight in many families with a rich dinner and, for somebody, with a religious celebration that starts at 24:00.
Merry Christmas and happy new year to all
Merry Christmas! 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9d9qd9o_lU&feature=related
Hahah BOOOM!
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! pssst boom (firework)
LOL! Thank you Biondo! Merry Christmas! 🙂