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10 aprilie, 2010

My eyes, your world

“My eyes, your world” was a photographic project based on qualities and senses of 6 persons which have vision disabilities.
A creative activity which had as purpose a visual exercise of the blind persons, to determine the connection between the subject which is photographed and how they imagine it, the socialization and self discovery.
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All the pictures were made by the participants.


Eleni , 28 years old – “If I could see, maybe I’ll be disappointed”

Italian teacher, she likes swimming, reading and traveling. She visited Russia, Italy, Saudi Arabia, and Greece. “In every country I was it smells different. Smelling gives me memories: England smells as humidity. The poverty smells like onion".



She recognized all the money. About Romanian money she said: “It looks like money but they are strange. Are they fake?”




"I feel open, free, calmness and clean at the seaside. I like the sound of the children in the water and the smell" said Eleni.

The blouse - Eleni through that might be white or blue!





Nikos, 26 years old – “My eyes does not exist”

“I’m fat” said Nikos laughing. “Nothing is special. Not bad looking or good looking”.

He likes music and playing accordion. He also has as a very developed sense of hearing and smelling.



"It looks like a head; it’s soft, made from leader. I think is black. It has to be darker.

Darker color is not beauty. Green or white is more beautiful" said Nikos.




"I like the mountains more than the sea. I like sitting outside and listen how the birds are singing.

I like the smell of the sea but I don’t like to swim. I’m afraid".

Nikos studied in England. He said that the smell is different, the weather is cold and the beaches have stones, not sand.





Stella, 34 years old

I asked her what this object might be. She touched it and she said: “Panagia mou!” And then she did the cross sign. For me was amazing!




Maria, 30 years old

Maria had many piano and violin concerts in Greece, Finland, France, UK, Spain, Italy, Poland, and Romania (Braila). The reason she dislike Romania is because people don’t speak English.

She has her own piano at home and she loves classic music! So, I tested Maria’s hearing sense.

She recognized very easily Beethoven – The fifth symphony, the Moonlight Sonata and Fur Elise, Strauss – The blue Danube, Chopin – Nocturne, Verdi – Traviata, Ceaikovski – Swan Lake.

Regarding Ballade for Violin and Orchestra by Ciprian Porumbescu, she said: “I think is a Napolitano Canzonetta or maybe a violin concert”




Marina, 31 years old - "
I want people to treat me like a normal person"

She knew how to read the watch.



She recognized all the ingredients. Only, she through that the milled pepper might be wheat flour.


She recognized all the materials types: the cotton, the jeans, the leader, the wool, the velvet, the lace.
She touched the silk and she said that is something artificial.





Toni, 25 years old - “Happiness for me is nothing”

She has her own violin and loves to dance.



She through that: cocoa is powder chocolate, coconut is sugar, rise is nuts, salt is sugar, pepper is jasmine, Daphne leaves are olive leaves, cinnamon sticks are biscuits.



Wall People

The art was on the street for 5 hours, in Nicosia and around the world. People meet to set up the biggest photo mural in town.







04 aprilie, 2010

Sri Lanka - free, but not free

For 26 years, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist militant organization fought to create an independent state named Tamil Eelam in the North and East of the Sri Lanka island. Both the Sri Lankan government and LTTE have been accused of various human rights violations.
On May 2009, the President of Sri Lanka officially claimed an end to the insurgency and the defeat of the LTTE, following the death of Velupillai Prabhakaran (the founder and leader of LTTE) and much of the LTTE's other senior leadership.
Rajapksa’s election victory (26.01.2010) seems unlikely to move Sri Lanka in the direction of a sustainable peace. Despite vague promises about the need for reconciliation, Rajapaksa’s post-war policies have deepened rather than resolved the grievances that generated and sustained LTTE militancy. While the LTTE’s defeat and the end of its control over Tamil political life are historic and welcome changes, the victory over Tamil militancy will remain fragile unless Sinhalese-dominated political parties make strong moves towards a more inclusive and democratic state.

















01 aprilie, 2010

The Land of the Free

Thailand – so colorful!

Thailand – so colorful! From skyscrapers to homeless people, from luxuriant restaurants to food cooked on the street, so much traffic but no crashed cars, dirtiness, rats big as cats, lots of smells, hundreds of cables which are on the brink of falling, well known brands and stands with panties and wooden frogs, beautiful women and people who you can't tell if they are women or men, the best pancakes in the world and fried bugs, wild life, white sand and crystal water, poor but happy people - such simplicity that makes you desire to give up your ordinary life and become a fisherman.


40.717 Buddhism temples
















Thailand is the 21st most-populous country, with approximately 64 million people. About 75% of the population is ethnically Thai and Chinese mix, 14% is of Chinese origin, and 3% is ethnically Malay; the rest belong to minority groups including Mons, Khmers and various hill tribes.
























Totally chaotic, small 'khlongs' or canals are filled with flat boats piled high with fresh produce, each jockeying for position and paddled by ladies ready to stop and bargain at a moment’s notice.





















"Art of Eight Limbs" or the "Science Of Eight Limbs" - it makes use of punches, kicks, elbows and knee strikes, thus using eight "points of contact", as opposed to "two points" (fists) in Western boxing and "four points" (hands and feet) used in sport-oriented martial arts.



Santi Chai Prakan Park



Khon is the most stylized form of Thai dance. It is performed by troupes of non-speaking dancers, the story being told by a chorus at the side of the stage.






Over a hundred years ago a Monk named Phra In Tha, from Bo Sang Temple, traveled to the Thai/Burmese border to make meditation. Whilst he was there a Burmese man brought him a hand painted paper Umbrella. On visiting the mans village, Phra In Tha, observed the villagers making the umbrellas and carefully wrote down various procedures that go into making of them.

Returning to Bo-Sang he passed on the information he had gathered and taught his own people how to make these most useful works of art.

Since then, the craftspeople of Bo Sang have developed a wide range of styles for the Umbrellas that have become a very famous part of Chiang Mai heritage.






















Candy Factory






Local bakery



Phi Phi - the paradise on Earth
















 
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