"GENDER TROUBLE"

Americka grupa s pompeznim (i parodickim) imenom Les Ballets de Trockadero de Monte Carlo, nastala je u sedamdesetim godinama proslog stoljeca u New Yorku, sasvim "off-off Broadway". Ova iskljucivo muska grupa parodirala je klasicni balet. Danas je znana po imenu Trocks i ima mlade plesace i najbolje ruske uciteljice baleta koje dolari mogu kupiti. Program je i dalje parodija, ali i nesto vise. Zele dokazati da i musko tijelo moze izvoditi ono sto je strogi klasicni balet zamislio i ostvario s iskljucivo zenskim tijelom.(Maro)click TROCKS Video

500 Years of Female Portraits

The Island of Lopud: Art Pavilion (June 20 to October 31, 2007)

As a part of the symposium "Patronage of Space", the critically acclaimed light installation /click/ "Your Black Horizon Art Pavillon"(the 51st Venise Biennale) by Danish-Icelandic artist /click/Olafur Eliasson, made in collaboration with London-based architect David Adjaye, has arrived to the Island of Lopud, Dubrovnik. "This distinctive location allows the artist and architect to test the conceptual nature of the project: to develop art and the spaces for art with respect for the site they inhabit. Embedded in an historic context, Lopud’s rich Renaissance heritage and lively tourist development, the pavilion is a model for art destination travel and contemporary interventions. The challenge is to make a portable and temporary museum, which sits comfortably in its surrounding natural site." And in which the color of the light changes spectrum according to the time of day, from sunrise to sunset.
Lopud is a precious little island of Mediterannean and subtropic vegetation, cypress and pine parks and citrus gardens. Lopud has always been an island of sea. Many highly reputed seamen were born there among which the illustrious captain Miho Pracat (known as the only person to whom the Republic of Dubrovnik built a statue, since the cult of a person was not popular in the Republic).

VENEZUELA: The Mangroves of Isla de Margarita

Just 25 miles off the cost of Venezuela or just a 40 minute flight from Caracas there is a beautiful island of Margarita.

"Columbus landed here on his third voyage in 1498, and every self-respecting pirate marauded here at least once in his career, giving rise to numerous forts around the island(Castillo de San Carlos de Borromeo (1664), Fortin Santiago de la Caranta (1596) and Castillo de Santa Rosa La Asunción)."
Apart from the amazing sandy beaches, one of the most precious beauty of Margarita are the mangroves of /click/LAGUNA DE LA RESTRINGA NATIONAL PARK. The "Park" consists of 25,000 acres of wetlands on the isthmus that connects Macanao Peninsula and east Margarita Island. The park is home to a variety of flora and fauna including Margarita's cottontail rabbit, white-tailed deer, ocelots, sea turtles and 107 bird species.
Often called the "rainforests of the sea," mangroves once dominated the coasts of tropical countries. However, in the past several decades people have destroyed thousands of mangrove forests purposely or indirectly, through the impacts of pollution, so ecologists are now trying to recreate these essential but endangered ecosystems. The latest restoration effort is underway on the island of Margarita where a conservation group hopes to re-establish 50 acres (20 hectares). Click Margarita mangroves VIDEO

MY SLIDESHOW: Chiqui Teo

CORAL REEFS

Corals are made of a colony of small creatures: Polyps. These marine animals with tentacles are fixed on a solid axis. This axis is in fact made of the skeletons of dead polyps. The skeletons are made of calcium carbonate (calcareous). The skeleton can be white, pink or blue. The pink coral is very appreciated in jewellery. The polyps live in symbiosis with an alga that lives inside them. The polyps nourish the phosphorus alga. In exchange the alga helps them build their skeleton. The coral reef shelters are very rich in fauna and flora. They can be found in the tropical or sub-tropical waters. They usually grow at rate of 0,5 cm to 1,8 cm per year, mostly along the coasts or by a lagoon, on an atoll. The Coral reefs of the western Pacific are much more diverse than those of the Atlantic and Caribbean. Today, the Coral reefs are under threat, suffering from decline and degradation due to a combination of natural and anthropogenic factors.In several reefs the polyps have been losing their symbiotic alga and ended up dying because their skeleton could not be built any more. Some of the man-made damage is related to pollution and tourism. "Impacts from tourism can often be reduced by raising awareness and changing behaviour among both tourists and local tourism industry workers."The largest coral reef is on the Northern coast of Australia. Click Great Barrier Reef VIDEO

EKV or CATHERINE THE GREAT

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SARAJEVO MON AMOUR

MARO'S FILM REVIEW: Ulysses Gaze (1995)

U filmu Ulysses Gaze (1995) Teodora Angelopulosa, glavni junak (igra ga Harvey Keitel) putuje po Balkanu proslosti i sadasnjosti, u potrazi za prvim balkanskim filmom. Citav film je konstruiran kao potraga za sjecanjem. Dok junak traga za fiksiranim antropoloskim sjecanjem koje je zabiljezio prvi balkanski filmski stvaralac Milton Manaki, posvuda susrece jednu zenu, istog lica, ali svaki put govori drugim balkanskim jezikom... Balkanka gine u Sarajevu. Click ULYSSES GAZE