Bucharest Masters of Jazz Festival 2009

Jan Garbarek Group

Jan Garbarek – saxophone

Trilok Gurtu – percussion

Rainer Bruninghaus – piano

Yuri Daniel – bass

Locatie: Absintherie Sixtina

Model: Adina Schiopu

Designer vestimentar/Hair & Make-up artist: Ozana Parascan

Toujours Brancusi…”Muza Adormita”

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”Povestea TEDxBucharest asa cum a fost”-Titus Blog

“Every year TED brings together thinkers and doers from different disciplines to share ideas worth spreading. Arts, Science, Architecture, Business, Sociology, Lifestyle, Global Issues, at TED you have it all.”

Two days ago, on Friday 16th of October I attended the first edition of TEDx Bucharest [x standing for independently organized TED event]. I was one of the lucky twenty winners of the TED Extraordinary Ideas Contest with my project Blending Arts-Photography & Painting. My “extraordinary idea” was about developing a  multi-talented artist profile capable to explore and discover new ways and technics of expression, blending by his own personality.

I was very excited to see, hear and interact with some of the best individuals in their fields, some of them being my inspiration over the years. Twelve people from different domains sharing their experiences, their goals, projects and of course, great ideas. A remarcable full day of thinking big.

Carmen Lidia Vidu – Theatre Director and Artist

“At this moment, I can say thet I have never been happy“, Carmen Lidia Vidu lucidly admits, with the eyes of someone who dares to honestly look at themselves, and then share what they seen in the world.

Apparently, her honesty and openness could be interpreted as a sign of vulnerability. But then you look closer, the truth, the real are everything there really is. When you see that, you know, and there’s nothing left defend, hide or lie about, either to others, or more importantly, to yourself. What is left is only space and possibility to grow, expand and create.

Carmen creates worlds that are inspired from within her soul. When she falls in love, she forgets about theatre and dreams about beautiful houses in the country side, happy children, many animals, ponies, ducks and goats, a husband on a tractor and herself in the yard, drinking lemonade. When her love turns to drama, she returns to theatre.

In her work, her shows, the key word is visual. Carmen enchances of her art using photographical and video images to create shapes and colors, making it surprising, controversial, but ultimately a meaningful experince for the viewer.

“During the shows, the public’s attitude is either hostile or ignorant; only long after the curtin goes down do I get reactions that it actually meant something. It is as if the public begins to applaud one year after the show.”

She thinks that fulfilled dreams are a disaster, and that you have to destroy yourself totally in order to begin being. To break down your identity in order to have  a chance at being limitless.

Bogdan Naumovici -Creative Director

He recently launched “Miscarea de rezistenta“-”La resistance”

“If you have to work do it so that you’re the best.” In the end, that’s what creative is all about. Finding new ways, new paths, new models, and then letting them go to move forward. It is the forward that keeps you alive, that makes you thrive, that gives you that edge to do more, to do perfect.

Dumitru Popescu-Engineer,President and Co-founder of ARCA

Since 2007, Dumitru has been working on the newest of his challenges: the Google Lunar X Prize. This is a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the Moon, travel 500 meters and transmit video, images and data back to the Earth. In order to win this competition, ARCA is building Haas, an orbital rocket launcher and The European Lunar Explorer (ELE) spacecraft. The first launch is scheduled for 2011, Haas/ELE being Europe’s most ambitious private space program.

The sky is not the limit.

Alexandra Nechita-Painter

We are all placed in a box of some kind. Be it the dreams our parents have for us, our cultural environment, our fears, ambitions, mindsets that we take over from our educators, we are all under some kind of pressure to fit into a certain pattern.

“What’s the point of reproducing something? The camera can do that. Your own eye can see it. It’s emotion, it’s mood, that thing or that incident that brings upon you that you’re going to paint. It’s not the thing itself. If I’m painting this lamp, I’m painting what it means to me.”

“It’s my obsession, my passion. It’s another way of connecting myself with me.”

Stefan Bortnowski-Architect

School of Architecture Ion Mincu/ Ecole d’Architecture de Versailles/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Stefan, together with  a partner, created the association “Artis WEB Workshops“, an organization which values craftsmanship as an “art of common sense” and encourgaes the student’s creativity on this bases through workshops. The latest workshop organized by Artis in the “International Workshop of Restauration and Sustainability” held in Curtisoara (Olt). Since 2005, when the foundation was started, other workshops have been held in Sinaia (Prahova), Bran (Brasov), and Tibanesti (Iasi).

Stefan Bortnowski has been part of the architecture team witch created the “Bolt” project, which has represented Romania in the 11th edition of The Venice Biennale, in 2008. The project won the contest organized by the Ministry of Culture and the Union of Architects of Romania.

Alex Gavan – High Altitude Mountaineer

“You cannot stay on the mountain forever. You have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: what is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can saw higher up. When one can longer see, one can at least still know.” (Rene Daumal, Mount Analogue)

At the age of 26, Alex Gavan is the youngest Romanian to have climbed three mountains over 800 meters: Tibet’s Makalu (8463 m), Cho Oyu (8201 m), the Turquoise Goddess, and Gasherbrum (8068 m) in Karakorum, Pakistan.

His challenging goal is literally out-of-this-world, as he intends to climb the clouds and reach the tops of all 14 eight-thousanders.

So why would anyone intentionally put themselves in a situaton where succes is equivalent with staying alive? “Climbing mountains outside is climbing mountains inside.”

By climbing the highest mountians, Alex Gavan reaches to his inner self, to the depths of his soul. It is from there he inspires the world. The concentration he developed, the strong mind, the humble attitude and an attention to his instincts and intuition are translated into every photo that he takes and into every talk that he gives, making him utterly exceptional.

Cadre surprinse in timpul piesei de teatru [link]“Romanie dragă, Elveţia mea”

Stolen

Lost

[LISTEN] Nigel Kennedy – People are strange

Aşadar, a venit iar toamna…

Sufletul mi-e castaniu, ca intotdeauna,

inima, niţel mai pistruie,

cerul mi-e verde,

pământul albastru şi linistit, chiar cuminte

sub paşii mei adanci.

Privirea s-a închis în cercul îndeajunsului,

iar visele

da, ielele, ascultă de gândul meu aşteptând

şi-mi spun poveşti de alint.

Poate am să fiu cea mai ciudată

dintre toate câte mi-au rămas aproape.

Tu, am să cred că ai plecat departe, pe mare,

şi n-am sa plâng că nu te pot urma.

Rădăcinile mă dor încă,

iar ramurile-mi cresc odată cu grija

pentru ziua care vine.

Aştept o ploaie,

aceea aducătoare de linişte…

[Amurg de toamna- Luculescu Veronica-Simona]

Another photo session on the streets of Bucharest. This time with new models, my pretty friends: Alexandra [aka Wild Wild West Dumitrescu ] and Olga [close version of Audrey Hepburn and owner of the 10th Muse]. Hope you enjoy my textures experiment…;;)

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Olga – Fata care nu plateste bilet la teatru

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Audrey H.

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Audrey H. b&w

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Black Bride

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te RE-FUZ.

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The Ripper

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Alexa – Warm Shadows

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Against the sun

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Girl on the street

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Sparkle sparkle?

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