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Friday, January 25, 2013

is he better than Oliver Atom?

In stands Iniesta,  if not, judge from yourself??
The player  "touched with a magic wand" as he hs been described.



This summer, a photograph did the rounds: Iniesta surrounded by seven Italian defenders. He describes it as a coincidence but it was appropriate somehow: he's the man they fear the most and the man who draws the most pressure on himself. Why? Because he trusts his ability to overcome it. 








Always in control, he is the creative fulcrum of the Spain team.



There is something different about him. The touch is so smooth, so soft, almost imperceptible at times, that he can do things that other players simply cannot, from incredible dribbles to jaw-dropping assists.
Always in control, he is the creative fulcrum of the Spain team.


In a game where control has become the obsession, defences have become more populous and space harder to find, Iniesta offers that most important of qualities: inspiration.





Wednesday, January 16, 2013

lived, loved, laughed and left....Paris 1945: an unfair affair


Mismatched lovers will always have Paris




seducing ingrid bergman

June, 1945
In newly liberated Paris, battle-ravaged photographer Robert Capa is drowning his sorrows. After ten years of recording horror and violence, he longs for a diversion.
Ingrid Bergman has been sent to entertain the troops and when she walks into the Ritz Hotel Capa is enchanted. From the moment he slips a mischievous invitation to dinner under her door, the two find themselves helplessly attracted. Ingrid, tired of her passionless marriage, and her controlling film studio, is desperate for freedom and excitement.
And Capa is willing to oblige. Dinners in cafes he can’t afford. Night walks along the Seine. Dancing barefoot in nightclubs. Trysts in hotel rooms. He brings her back to life and she fills the hole inside him.
But with everything at stake, both Capa and Ingrid are presented with terrible choices.
Full of the romantic glamour of 40s Paris and Hollywood, Seducing Ingrid Bergman tells the heart-wrenching story of the secret affair between the iconic Casablanca star and the famous photographer.





To read about Bergman's loves, (icí - French)



Ingrid Bergman recalled that she felt happy and excited coming back to the Ritz at the end of World War II, after having been away for eight years, and finding it bustling with American journalists and war correspondents. When she went up to her room, she found this message under the door


The famous note can be found in Capa's Biography - R Whelan -page 239
Subject:    Dinner. 6.6.45. Paris. France.
To:           Miss Ingrid Bergman
 Part 1.     This is a community effort. The community consists of Bob    Capa and Irwin Shaw.


2.      We were planning on sending you flowers with this note inviting you to dinner this    evening - but after consultation we discovered it was possible to pay for the flowers or the dinner, or the dinner or the flowers, not both. We took a vote and dinner won by a close margin.
3.      It was suggested that if you did not care for dinner, flowers might be sent. No decision has been reached on this so far.
4.      Besides flowers we have lots of doubtful qualities.
5.      If we write much more we will have no conversation left, as our supply of charm is limited.
6.      We will call you at 6.15.
7.      We do not sleep.
                Signed: Worried.
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Date

Thornton McCamish

A novelisation of the affair between Ingrid Bergman and legendary war photographer Robert Capa.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/mismatched-lovers-will-always-have-paris-20130105-2c9ke.html#ixzz2IB6gd4TH



Hungarian-born photographer and journalist Robert Capa (1914 - 1954) reads George Simenon's 'A Face for a Clue' (also known as 'Le chien jaune') while he lies in a bathtub at the home of fellow photographer, Myron Davis, New York, New York, October 1942. (Photo by Myron Davis/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Spellbound ... Robert Capa, above, had an affair with Ingrid Bergman. Photo: Getty Images
Chris Greenhalgh is a British poet and screenwriter whose first novel, Coco and Igor (2002), was made into a movie. His second, like the first, is a lush romantic fiction spun from a historical footnote, and it, too, feels destined for the big screen, if only because it's halfway there already.
This novelisation of the affair between Bergman and legendary war photographer Robert Capa is ripe with the atmospherics, arch dialogue and tremulous melodrama of an old silver-screen weepie.
This improbable true story begins in 1945, when the star of Casablanca visits Europe to entertain US troops. In Paris she meets Capa, a man with nothing but his combat helmet, cameras and a boyish charm.
Seducing Ingrid Bergman

bergman.jpg
Seducing Ingrid Bergman by Chris Greenhalgh. Penguin, $19.99.
They begin their reckless fling (Bergman is grimly married) and, for a while, it's hard to resist the nostalgic glamour of it all: giddy summer evenings in liberated Paris, a screen goddess falling all too humanly for a battle-weary chancer who's ''not used to having anything so luminous in the viewfinder'' - or in his bed.

In Capa's improvised darkroom, among ''long thin strips of film like flypaper'', there she is, ''her image haunting several of the negatives, transparent, vivid in her lipstick, sticky''.
If Capa is beguiled by Bergman's beauty (''it simply glows from her, blinding us, an inner incandescence spilled''), Greenhalgh is besotted. His perfervid prose moons over Bergman from the get-go.
Sadly, though, neither celebrity ever feels fully real, even when we're inside their heads.
Greenhalgh wants to convey the intensity of their passion - and the reader wants to feel it - but his showy style keeps getting in the way.


Metaphors meant to evoke a visceral depth of feeling, for instance, sound distractingly like thoracic surgery. At one point, Capa feels love ''take a deep scoop out of my chest''; when Bergman thinks of Capa, ''it's as if a rib of hers cries out''; and then poor Capa's ''heart cracks open with the pressure''.

Greenhalgh's use of similes is so incontinent, you start to scan nervously ahead for ''like'' and ''as if''. ''Silence,'' one reads with puzzlement, ''spreads like a carpet between them.''

Some images even turn up twice: wine's perfume is ''a delicate ribbon of scent''; later, Bergman's perfume also trails ''like a ribbon''.

Still, there are some witty and vivid hits among the misses. When he follows Bergman to Hollywood (she's filming Hitchcock's Notorious), Capa attends a party and spies on a sofa ''a trio of expensively dressed young women, their legs crossed the same way as if someone has been practising knots''.
Capa is a nobody in LA, though. While this places him below the suspicious notice of Bergman's cuckolded hubby, it means he relies on her to pull strings to find him work. He retreats ''into numbness'', gambling lucklessly, cadging loans, boozing, brooding on nightmarish memories, and channelling Notorious-style dialogue. ''I'd drink before breakfast if I could get up early enough,'' he tells Bergman.
He knows the affair could destroy her career, but Bergman spells it out for him anyway: ''The studios sell dreams,'' she says, ''they don't deal in damaged goods.''
There's pathos here because, as history records, Bergman does eventually risk scandal and leave her husband - but for Roberto Rossellini, not Capa. So this affair was always doomed, but the stakes are never high enough to make us mind much.
In the final pages, Greenhalgh imagines Capa's death in a Vietnamese paddy field with feeling and restraint, but it's too late. Bergman's long gone by then, and so, I fear, will be plenty of readers who have decided to wait for the DVD.

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For an analysis on Capa's photo's read here:
http://www.adammarelliphoto.com/2011/06/robert-capa/

Sunday, January 13, 2013

The world of con art

con, or confidence game, is a swindle — when you take advantage of someone's trust. 

Video: Focus
Steve Martin was reportedly among the Beltracchis' most prominent victims. The actor and art collector spent €700,000 on Campendonk's "Landscape With Horses" at Paris gallery Cazeau-Béraudière in 2004, then resold it through Christie's in 2006, where a Swiss businesswoman bought the work for €500,000. German industrialist Reinhold Würth and Hannover’sSprengel Museum were also duped. French collector Daniel Filipacchi may have held the most expensive forgery, Ernst's "La Forêt 2," bought for some €4.9 million in 2006 after being shown at the Max Ernst Museum in Brühl and the Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris. 

FORGERY: the act of reproducing something for a deceitful or fraudulent purpose

bluffcheatcrimedeceptiondouble-cross,dupefraud

gold brick, graft, mockeryswindle,take in
 1- art forgery scandals sentenced for:   counterfeiting paintings that sold for more than $22 m    tricking prominent museums2- the rampant fraud of masterly forgeries3- Master swindlers forged 47 works by world-class artists4- gullible expert was duped into confirming forged paintings


Helene Beltracchi, posing as her grandmother, in a pseudo-antique photo staged to lend credibility to the fictional provenances of  Beltracchi's forgeries. Hanging on the wall at left is a fake Fernand Léger; at far right is a phony Max Ernst

The Century Fraudster - Der Spiegel

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/   Thursday Oct 27, 2011

High life ends for couple who conned art world


Deutsche Welle  Thursday Oct 27, 2011

The Great Bluff Making Money with Art


 ARTINFO.com   Fri Oct 28, 2011

Masterminds of Massive Forgery Ring That Snookered top-notch collectors Receive Light Sentences After Charming Court and Public


The Greatest Fake-Art Scam in History?

Friday, January 4, 2013

my tech images mirror

TEST 1:


TEST 2. WRITING INTERFERENCE....Which are the ones you never used?

TEST 3: choose the one you heard twice:

TEST 4. When in love with your computer... which one is your position:


TEST 5. Which OS HAVE YOU TRIED? 


 TEST 6. The road to Linux is ahead us:

TEST 7. Which stage are you in?  The paradox of diversity in modern life:


EPILOGUE. The future is not what it used to be....