Schokoladenmuseum Halle

Dear Friends
lat Sunday 01 December 2013 took place the announced M.Polo excursion to Halle (DE) in the former East Germany. The passage from the former West Germany to the former East Germany is not marked by wall or barriers but is appreciable by the monotonous and sad aspect of the houses and by the dirty and abandoned state of industrial complexes. However, Halle, at least in the city centre does not reflect these aspects, but appear clean and hospitable.
The visit of the Schokoladenmuseum of Halle was not in the program of the excursion but it was suggested by Jean-Luc during the trip on the tramway. The Schokoladenmuseum deals with the historical - pre-columbian, artistic and industrial aspects linked to the chocolate in depth, and provides a lot of interesting information. The images that I propose you give an idea of the content of the Schokoladenmuseum.
Any comment from your side is welcomed.
Salutations
Giancarlo

 

Supertaekwondo in Dachau bei München

Dear Friends
as you know I am a passionate adept of Tae Kwon Do, a Korean self-defence art without weapons which, in my opinion, also aids to ameliorate physical and spiritual performances and health. From 20 July 2013 I am a black belt. Therefore, I was very happy to attend last Saturday 30th November at the Jahnhalle in Dachau bei München the evening of the Tae Kwon Do Champions' Tour 2013: http://supertaekwondo.eu/championstour/Home.html . In this evening the Korean Junior National Team (KJNT) challenged a European Team (ET) composed by junior champions from Italy, Greece, England and Germany. The KJNT outperformed the ET.  My goal at the beginning was to record images and films of the evening for studying after the various Taek techniques and their execution. But, during the evening I realised that I was actually documenting were not only techniques and executions but also emotions of these juniors put in front of their potentially dangerous challenges. The images tell you, I hope, something of these emotions not easily describable. Please, have a look to them and send me your feedback.
Thank you very much
Salutations
Giancarlo

Tollwood-Winterfestival 2013

Dear Friends
Munich is well known all over the world by its Oktoberfest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest) but certainly less known for its Tollwood (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tollwood-Festival). Tollwood actually represents a festival occupying a surface comparable to that of the Oktoberfest in which different exotic and ethnic cultural elements mixed themselves creating a world outside of Bavaria. It is for this reason that last Thursday arriving to the underground station of Theresinwiese, here in Munich, and having a bit of time to spend, I decided to visit Tollwood Winterfestival 2013. The images, better than many words, show you the world of Tollwood.
Please don't forget to provide me with your feed-back.
Salutations
Giancarlo

 

Leonardo Vorbild Natur

Dear Friends
last Sathurday I visited the announced exhibition: Leonardo da Vinci - Vorbild Natur - Zeichnungen und Modelle at the Deutsches Museum here in Munich:
http://www.deutsches-museum.de/en
In my opinion, the exhibition has many merits:
- it presents reproductions of Leonardo's technical drawings and clarifies that they should not be regarded as definitive projects but rather as intuitions of problem solutions although some device derived from said drawings is shown;
- it permits to collocate Leonardo in the Renaissance in relation with other brilliant minds as Brunelleschi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Brunelleschi), MIchelangelo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo), Raffaello (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael), Dürer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer), Copernicus
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus), Galilei (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei) and the political and social events of the that period;
- it gives hints about the complicate personality of Leonardo in which co-existed talents of artist and engineer and set out that the presumed homosexuality of Leonardo has not been proved.
The images that follows provide you with an idea about Leonardo as suggested by the exhibition.
More info about Leonardo at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci .
Any comment from your side is welcomed.
Salutations
Giancarlo

Iberisi

Dear Friends
I have to thank our Etienne for the suggestion to attend last Thursday the Benefiz-Abend für Nino at the Technikum of the Kultfabrik here in Munich. That evening was the occasion not only for collect money for the helping Nino, but also to taste aspects of the Georgian soul and culture evoked by the skilful mix of religious and traditional-popular songs by the Iberisi Chor: https://www.facebook.com/iberisichor
as well as impressive, evocative images of Georgia :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(country) .
I hope that the following images will communicate you the impression of Georgia we had that evening. Any comment from your side is welcomed.
Salutations
Giancarlo