Kikladen

Dear Friends
as announced I visited Kiklades - Fruhe Kunst in der Ägäis: http://www.archaeologie-bayern.de/de/ausstellungen/sonderausstellungen/ at the Archaeologisches Staatsammlung: http://www.archaeologie-bayern.de/ here in Munich. Kikladen has the specific virtue to collocate the well known Cycladic idols: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycladic_art  in their Cycladic culture contest. But more than this, the virtue to reveal that the simple and basic portrait of the idols is something of concretely virtual, result of the passage of time and illusion in our imagination. In fact, faint traces of colours on their actual expressionless faces reveal that they wore disappeared painted emotions and symbols, today difficult to decipher. Please, have a look to the images and enjoy the primordial atmosphere of the Cycladic culture.
Salutations
Giancarlo
P.S.: during the journey in the Kikladen culture, something appeared strange and at the same time familiar to me, but I don't realised what. Only now, I realise that the Cycladic portraits anticipate of about 5.000 years the essential of Amedeo Modigliani: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amedeo_Modigliani . 

 

 

 

  

Versi d'Amore - Charlie

Dear Friends
I think that Versi d'Amore: https://www.comune.verona.it/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=46008 of Charlie, veronese artist: http://www.charlieart.it/biografia-charlie, will remain imprinted in my mind and phantasy, as one of the best ever seen, not only for the the theme of Love, dear to all us, but also for the fine tuned thecnique he developed that permits him to bring to existence, from a confused and coloured primordial soup, joyful and concrete characters, sometime fixed in their early beginning, sometime fixed in their maturity. I let to you too to discover Charlie and his Versi d'Amore, and in case of interest let me have your feedback.
Salutations
Giancarlo
P.S.: at the University, in the far years eighty, my battle name was Charly

 

Fashing

Dear Friends
the Carnival in Munich is neither the Carnevale di Venezia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Venice nor the Bakanal del Ñoco of Verona:
http://www.dbhotelverona.it/carnevale-a-verona/ nor the Rio Carnival:
http://www.rio-carnival.net/ nor the Carnival of any other town or village. It is simply Fashing: http://www.muenchen.de/veranstaltungen/fasching.html . I attended Fashing and I lived few hours carefree suspended in a coloured and unlike crowd of human characters. If you ask me about my masking, I can tell you that I was disguised as myself.
Salutations
Giancarlo

 

 

 

Microscopy - First Light

Dear Friends
I just completed, after the publishing the previous posts, my first light in microscopy. For long time I dreamed to obtain micro images so as to appreciate minute and delicate details of the nature. The limit was mainly the financial effort. Only recently I decided to proceed further with microscopy. My micro station MS-01 was ready-to-use last week after the overcoming of integration difficulties between a microscope Optec Biostar B4 https://www.wie-tec.de/shop/index.php/mikroskopie/mikroskope/aufrechte-mikroskope/optech-biostar-b4-mikroskop-durchlicht-4143.html , a light source Dolan-Jenner Fiber-Lite, MI-LED B1 http://microscopes4you.com/dolan-jenner-fiber-lite/dolan-jenner-fiber-lite-mi-150dg-fiber-lite-fiber-optic-illuminator-with-dual-go.html , a Bresser MicroCamLab 5.0 MP and its display and recording software
http://www.amazon.de/Bresser-5914500-MicroCam-MikroCam-5-0MP/sim/B0036EKFS4/2?o=27&po=18. Therefore, I am happy now to show you the micro station first light images of a tomato mold (see explanations and the similar image at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mold ).
Any comment from your side is welcomed.
Salutations
Giancarlo

Rancho La Brea Los Angeles USA

Dear Friends
attending Die Rancho La Brea und das George C. Page Museum, at the Palaeontology Museum here in Munich last week: http://www.palmuc.de/bspg/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=90&Itemid=144 , represents the crowning of long and fashinating dialogs I had recently at the EPO Skybar with our Gianni about various palaeonthological subjects, but mainly concerning Smilodons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilodon , Pleistocene megafaunal extinction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_megafauna and Neanderthals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal . The site of Rancho La Brea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_Tar_Pits , as you can see from the images, preserves rests of the American megafauna animals, mainly bones unfortunately disarticulated, lovely collected and prepared at the Page Museum http://www.tarpits.org/ . The identification of the bones belonging to single animals in order to reconstruct their skeletons is a problem adumbred by the lecturer, but he provided no solution. Personally, I think that genetic identification surely can help but require a tremendous effort. Better would be tomographically scan each bone and let the identification of the bones of single animals to a super computer using a program like ePuzzle : http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19344978 
http://www.bstu.bund.de/DE/Archive/RekonstruktionUnterlagen/virtuelle-Rekonstruktion/virtuelle-rekonstruktion_node.html .
Please let me know your opinion.
Salutations
Giancarlo