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Un Vals… Facundo de la Cruz y Paola Sanz “El Vals Soñador”
Facundo de la Cruz y Paola Sanz- “Campeones Metropolitanos de Vals 2012″ dance “El Vals Soñador” (by Miguel Calo with Raúl Berón)
Sh*t Tangueras Say
Thinking about the response video.. mail me with your suggestions.
Gotye, ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’
Some of you were asking me what song I played at the Jubilee Edition of ‘abrazos’ to separate the end of the class and the beginning of the milonga. It was Gotye’s very catchy “Somebody That I Used To Know” from the album “Making Mirrors” get the song 
I could put the original video here, but these two six year olds rock the song much better.
Keep Calm and Cabeceo…
A2 size (420mm x 594mm) print (without the ‘a taste of tango’ logo) on 160gsm paper, limited edition. Frame not included.
£30 plus £5.25 UK postage (within 5 days, signed for) send me a message through the contact page if you’re outside the UK for postage prices.
1st Argentine Film Festival 2012
London has it’s first Argentine Film Festival, I’m looking forward to “Chinese Take Away” with the cool and talented Ricardo Darin (‘Nine Queens‘, ‘The Secret of Their Eyes‘. The festival runs from 18th-22nd April, in the meanwhile I’ll be wondering whether Ricardo Darin is Argentina’s answer to Amitabh Bachchan.
? Alan Mitchell
Presenting the Kolker & Corbata Show…
I couldn’t stop laughing at the antics of Oliver Kolker & Rodrigo “Joe” Corbata when I watched this, someone please give them a show. Alejandro Rumolino you should do one with them!
Caramel
Caramel is a beautiful story written and directed and starring the even lovelier Nadine Labaki,who brings an Almodovaresque style tale of life, love and pain to the screen with lots of great female characters. Extracting the image of a war-torn Beirut, like the caramel used in the film for epilation, you’re drawn into their lives through the usually hidden setting of a ladies beauty parlour in Beirut.
Pic: ᔥ Slant Magazine
A Lebanese style tango features on the soundtrack which carries the sweet and chewy theme through the film which when you’re watching for a while seems to have an added softness to it, maybe that’s the sweet sound of Lebanese Arabic, though I can’t understand a word of I could listen to endlessly.
So excited to see this come back onto the iPlayer, if you miss it you can pick up the DVD here.
The Curator’s Code, because nothing is new.
“To be realistic one must always admit the influence of those who have gone before.” -Charles Eames
I’m an avid reader of Maria Popova’s blog Brain Pickings. A ceaseless torrent of inspiration, books to put on my Amazon wish list, every week through her newsletter she presents topics for deeper reading and exploration, (thank you Maria!). As a seasoned curator of a library of life, philosophy, science and the arts, Maria has the grace and the sense of fairness to credit her sources. This has led her to develop the Curator’s Code an easy way to show your point of inspiration with a Hat Tip ↬or reference with a Via symbol ᔥ. I’d like to propose a double symbol to show my support for your project on my blog, don’t stop picking brains! ↬ᔥMaria Popova
↬Brain Pickings
- Via symbol ᔥ -Indicates a link of direct discovery.
Hat Tip symbol ↬ – Indicates a link of indirect discovery, story lead, or inspiration.
Graffitimundo
After the 2001 crash, the sound of the cacerolazo was accompanied by an audibly quieter but visually in-your-face explosion of stencil art. With anger and frustration searching for an outlet, satirical and political statements poured forth from pots and sprayed themselves on streets and walls in Buenos Aires.
Graffiti by Jaz
Workshops in stencil art and cycle tours of painted barrios are just some of the ways you can tap into the urban art scene today in Buenos Aires during downtime from Tango. Graffitimundo, a collective of artists, designers and afficionados joined through friendship, give you looking glass to climb through. If you’re going through the looking glass to get to tango in Baires, this glass will transport you to another side of the reflection.
