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Segovia’s “mere name,” writes Joseph Stevenson, “was enough to sell out houses worldwide.” A prodigy whose technique was “superior to that which was being taught at the time,” Segovia made his debut at the age of 15. Just a few years later, he played Madrid, the Paris Conservatory, and Barcelona, then, in 1919 made a “wildly successful” tour of South America. When he returned, the composer Albert Roussel wrote a piece specifically for him, which he performed in Paris, “the first of many works,” Stevenson writes, “written for him by distinguished composers…. There were classical guitarists before him, and distinguished ones even when he appeared, but it was not an instrument that was regarded as a serious vehicle for classical music. Segovia personally changed that.”

Origen: Legendary Classical Guitarist Andrés Segovia Plays Timeless Pieces by J.S. Bach | Open Culture

Me encanta este gif:

Un corto divertido.

Director, animator, and puppeteer Bretislav Pojar explores human fallibility though simple paper cutout shapes in Balablok (1972). A masterful piece of wordless storytelling, the stop motion short film won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or du court métrage in 1973. From the National Film Board of Canada: Here is an animated replay of the human…

Origen: Balablok (1972) – Bretislav Pojar’s animated parody of human nature | The Kid Should See This

Qué chulo:

From the National Film Board of Canada and director René Jodoin, this is Notes on a Triangle (1966), a ballet of three hundred geometric transformations, animated into divisions, alignments, and patterns. Waltz music by Maurice Blackburn. Per Enriching Mathematics, «Imagine replacing the triangle with a kite, or a rhombus, or an arrowhead, or…»

Origen: Notes on a Triangle (1966) by René Jodoin

Lo más raro es descubrir que sabes quién es John Giorno.

Por cierto: A Show of Love for John Giorno’s Poetry, Art, and Life.

Una tradición anual. Todo lo nuevo es viejo otra vez:

Enero

1. The Borrowed Man, de Gene Wolfe
2. The Issue At Hand: Essays On Buddhist Mindfulness Practice, de Gil Fronsdal
3. Zona, de Geoff Dyer
4. Vermeer’s Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world, de Timothy Brook
5. You’re never weird on the internet (almost), de Felicia Day
6. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, de Greg McKeown

 

Marzo

7. So, Anyway, de John Cleese

 

Abril

8. La investigación, de Stanislaw Lem
9. The Art of Taking Action, de Gregg Krech

 

Mayo

10. El elefante desaparece, de Haruki Murakami
11. La chica que fingía ser valiente muy mal, de @Barbijaputa
12. El cuento del cortador de bambú, de Anónimo

 

Junio

13. Don’t Sweat the Small Sutff… and it’s all small stuff, de Richard Carlson
14. How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use, de Randy J. Paterson, PhD
15. In the Dust of this Planet, de Eugene Thacker

 

Julio

16. Libertad de conciencia: el ataque a la igualdad de respeto, de Martha C. Nussbaum
17. The Hustle Economy: Transforming Your Creativity into a Career, de Jason Oberholtzer
18. Maurizio Cattelan, de AA.VV.

 

Agosto

19. Non-Stop Inertia, de Ivor Southwood
20. Shaking Hands with Death, de Terry Pratchett
21. Philosophy of Technology: An Introduction, de Don Ihde
22. Why a man should be well-dressed, de Adolf Loos
23. Teoría King Kong, de Virginie Despentes
24. El intelectual melancólico, de Jordi Gracia
25. Adam Blake, de José Luis Garci
26. Después del futuro, de Franco Berardi (Bifo)
27. El instante de peligro, de Miguel Ángel Hernández
28. Elogia de la indiferencia o la tolerancia plena, de Sebastiano Ghisu
29. Ideas sobre la complejidad del mundo, de Jorge Wangensberg
30. A mí, señoras mías, me parece, de Florence Delay
31. Between the World and Me, de Ta-Nehisi Coates
32. El viaje de invierno, de Georges Perec
33. Ninfas, de Giorgio Agamben
34. De lo sublime, de Longino
35. Si te rindes, pierdes, de Wismichu (Ismael Prego)
36. La cámara lúcida, de Roland Barthes
37. Cómo visitar un museo de arte, de Johan Idema
38. La duda de Cézanne, de Maurice Merleau-Ponty
39. Vs., de Sergio Barreto
40. Galois: Revolución y matemáticas, de Fernando Corbalán
41. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, de Claire North
42. Richard Serra: La materia del tiempo, de AA.VV.
43. The Very Soil: An Unauthorized Critical Study of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, de Jed A Blue
44. Para ver, cierra los ojos, de Jan Švankmajer
45. Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life, de Adam Phillips
46. Historia natural y moral de los alimentos 7: El azúcar, el chocolate, el café y el té, de Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat
47. De lágrimas y de santos, de E.M. Cioran
48. Mientras no cambien los dioses, nada ha cambiado, de Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
49. The Hunting of the Snark, de Lewis Carroll

 

Septiembre

50. This Will Never Happen Again, de David Cain
51. The Story of the Beauty and the Beast, de Madame de Villeneuve
52. Why We Love Socipaths, de Adam Kotsko
53. How to Love, de Thich Nhat Hanh
54. The Quiet Woman, de Christopher Priest
55. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, de Mark Manson
56. La caza del Carualo, de Lewis Carroll

 

Octubre

57. Wasting Time on the Internet, de Kenneth Goldsmith

 

Noviembre

58. La caza del carnero salvaje, de Haruki Murakami
59. Escucha la canción del viento y Pinball 1973, de Haruki Murakami
60. Stories of you life and others, de Ted Chiang
61. Paper Towns, de John Green

 

Diciembre

62. La invención de la naturaleza: El nuevo mundo de Alexander von Humboldt, de Andrea Wulf

 

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El país en cuestión es Suecia, y desde hace unos días te lo puedes descargar en forma de mapa para Minecraft:

Full Sweden as virtual and playable world in Minecraft! It becomes a reality when the National Land Survey releases a landscape model to the popular computer game. The model is based on the maps and elevation data that is released as open data in 2016.

Possibility to build a world of their own somewhere in Sweden will thus be available to all – provided you have the license to the game itself. The game and the construction is simplified by virtue of including roads and railways. Additionally, you can locate and navigate to the desired location in the country through a built-in feature for teleportation.

Eso sí, estamos hablando de un país entero, por lo que está disponible para descargar por trozos. Buscas la parte que te interesa y listo. Yo me he descargado Estocolmo. Por otra parte, si eres valiente, puedes descargártelo entero, pero ya te advierten que eso ocupará 114GB una vez descomprimido.

Y por tener, hasta tienen trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIqvn02F648

(h/t safekeeping)

While cannibalism is not an unknown practice, especially in times of famine, it was never as widespread as shown in these 16th-century atlases. Maps, going back to antiquity, have always been about more than just charting geography; they affirm structures of power, including the control of unseen land, and act as an imperialist tool for reinforcing stereotypes and encouraging fear of the unfamiliar.

Origen: Why Cannibals Were on Every 16th-Century Map of the New World