Maestro Juan C. Flores, The Father of Pampanga Sculpture and Woodcarving (NCCA)
A Documentary produced by the National Commision for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), - (circa 1997) tracing the life of Juan Flores and showcased his immense talent and one of a kind artworks, the man who pioneered and started the Renaissance of Sculpture and woodcarving in Betis and throughout Pampanga.
Considered as the Father of Pampanga Sculpture and woodcarving, Juan Flores or Apung Juan as he was fondly called, had established a rich legacy consisting not only of exquisite artworks but of his selfless dedication to impart his artistic talent to the people of Pampanga and around him. Flores pioneering efforts to convert the once predominantly fishing village into a furniture haven and eventually into a major source of sophisticated artworks has successfully placed the Filipino artistry in the light of world-class recognition.
He is both an institution and a national treasure, yet during his lifetime, the recognition he attained somehow fell short of his pioneering effort and artistic acumen that he nurtured through the years. The conversion of Pampanga, particularly Betis as a furniture haven and a major source of sophisticated artworks successfully place the Filipino artistry in the light of world class recognition and merited international approval.
He is the 1st Filipino sculptor and carver to be recognized here and abroad. No less than the late Pres. Manuel L. Quezon, recognized his talent when he was commissioned to do the wooden carved door and paneling in Malacanang Palace way back in the thirties. He has sculptured various figures with religious and historical significance, as well as personalities, such as wooden life-bust of Pres. Quezon, Franklin Roosevelt, D.Eisenhower, Gen. D. McArthur and few years back Pres. R. Nixon. He was honored as far as Spain, Canada, U.S.A. and Japan to name a few.
In the late sixties, he was honored for exemplary talent for sculpture by KATHA, an association of painters, writers, sculptors and concerned citizen for the promotion of Philippine Arts and Cultures. In 1972, he represented the country as the sole delegate in a 3-day competition of Nixon Bust in Washington State, USA. More than 60 sculptors all over the world participated. He won the coveted 1st prize.
In 1977, he was given the prestigious Panday Pira award by Sec. Blas Ople in recognition of his pioneering effort and the thousand he had trained in woodart. He was named the most distinguish son of Pampanga twice, in 1983 from then Governor and Solicitor General Estelito Mendoza and in 1988 from then Governor Bren Z. Guiao.
His works has found their way into the number of Musuem and institution, such as Dev. Bank of the Phil. (DBP), Presidential Musuem in Malacanang Palace, Nat'l Musuem in Agrifina Circle Manila and the Nat'l Commission on Culture and Art (NCCA) to name a few, Home of prominent families like the Zobel, Aranetas, Marcoses, Madrigal's and others. Cathedrals and churches-San Agustin in Intramuros, San Sebastian in Quiapo, Antipolo Dome, Forbes Park and more.
Japan 1965 Reel 26 of 40
In a small shrine: Altar, screen.
Rice terraces on way to Mt. Aso volcano(ws).
Steam from volcano (distant).
Rice paddies in bottom of crater.
Crater wall, mountains (distant).
Rice paddies. Mountains (ws).
Crater wall, road to crater plain.
Steam from vent.
View from Mt. Aso's rim: volcanic activity, vents, sulfur deposits
Sulfur vent.
Grass-covered cone (distant).
Cows at pasture: owner's name on sides.
Altar (cu).
Carved wood at shrine(cu).
Lacquer shop (in Marugame): making a bowl using electric powered lathe.
Carving out a tray: power saw, hand chisel.
Lacquering a dish by hand (cu).
Polishing red lacquer using a cloth.
Cutting out plate design: hand tool.
Women lacquering: work benches, lacquer pots: some dark interior shots
4 lacquer designs.
Samples of lacquer ware (7 views): one depicting mountains and buildings
Master Woodcarver 2 - Waremokou 吾木香, Ise Japan
Master Woodcarver - Waremokou 吾木香 ~Ise, Japan.
Style of Carving : Ise Ittobori 伊勢一刀彫 ~Single Blade Carving
Out of the Ordinary - Spectacular Craft at the V&A: Yoshihiro Suda Installation
This joint V&A and Crafts Council exhibition featured eight international artists who place meticulous craftsmanship at the heart of their work. On display were unusual and beautifully crafted installations. The artists take inspiration from the everyday, transforming their subjects using traditional techniques in unexpected ways.
Yoshihiro Suda is based in Tokyo. He creates hyper-realistic flowers and weeds from wood. He sets himself the task of making each new work more lifelike than the last. Painstakingly carving and painting each piece, using traditional Japanese tools, he may take many days to complete a single petal or leaf.
Suda only starts to make his works once he has considered the space they will be shown in. He chooses native plants commonly found in the city where his work will be exhibited. He situates his pieces in surprising places, growing unexpectedly out of pristine gallery walls and pushing up out of forgotten corners. His interventions reveal the beauty in the simple and apparently unconsidered.
'Simply, I want to know how detailed I can make it, how real I can make it. This is an old-fashioned way of thinking, to make something so naturalistic that it looks like the original. It is not the fashion now, to observe something and make it very skilfully, the idea itself is very deep. To make this kind of copy, the technique is very important. There are no goals as such, just that I can make it better next time.'
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Philippines 10 Sentimo 1987 Coin
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Pearl Design Competition 2017
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My Antique Finds end of May 2012.MOV
Over the last month I have found some exciting items and some that are just fun like... Early italian school floral paintings, Japanese Ikebana baskets, Eva Ziesel, Erickson glass bookends from Bremen Ohio, Chinese Enamel, Japanese Cloisonne and more. My Bio: Hello my name is DeWayne Butler. I operate as a licensed Auctioneer and Antique Dealer in Carmel, Indiana. I love to buy and sell antiques at every level, I drive all over Indiana picking from auctions, consignment shops, antique malls, flea markets, thrift stores and estates. So come along and watch my videos to see what great goodies I find, my opinions on the industry and the wide wide world of antiques.
Top Affordable Travel Destinations For 2020
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5 Craftsmen of the Japanese sword - Lacquering the saya - www.thesamuraiworkshop.com
A very exclusive short documentary about the traditional Japanese art of sword making.
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Subways Are for Sleeping / Only Johnny Knows / Colloquy 2: A Dissertation on Love
Subways Are for Sleeping is a musical with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne. The original Broadway production played in 1961-62.
The musical was inspired by an article about subway homelessness in the March 1956 issue of Harper's and a subsequent 1957 book based on it, both by Edmund G. Love, who slept on subway trains throughout the 1950s and encountered many unique individuals. With the profits from his book, Love then embarked on a bizarre hobby: over the course of several years, he ate dinner at every restaurant listed in the Manhattan yellow pages directory, visiting them in alphabetical order.
After two previews, the Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Michael Kidd, opened on December 27, 1961 at the St. James Theatre, where it ran for 205 performances. The cast included Orson Bean, Sydney Chaplin, Carol Lawrence, Gordon Connell, Grayson Hall, and Green's wife Phyllis Newman (whose costume, consisting solely of a towel, was probably Freddy Wittop's easiest design in his distinguished career), with newcomers Michael Bennett and Valerie Harper in the chorus.
Subways Are for Sleeping opened to mostly negative reviews. The show already was hampered by a lack of publicity, since the New York City Transit Authority refused to post advertisements on the city's buses and in subway trains and stations for fear they would be perceived as officially sanctioning the right of vagrants to use these facilities as overnight accommodations. Producer David Merrick and press agent Harvey Sabinson decided to invite individuals with the same names as prominent theatre critics (such as Walter Kerr, Richard Watts, Jr. and Howard Taubman) to see the show and afterwards used their favorable comments in print ads. Thanks to photographs of the seven critics accompanying their blurbs (the well-known real Richard Watts was not African American), the ad was discovered to be a deception by a copy editor. It was pulled from most newspapers, but not before running in an early edition of the New York Herald Tribune. However, the clever publicity stunt allowed the musical to continue to run and it eventually turned a small profit.
Newman won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and nominations went to Bean for Best Featured Actor and Kidd's choreography.
Senior Loeb Scholar Lecture: Kenneth Frampton, “Megaform as Urban Landscape”
Kenneth Frampton was born in 1930 and trained as an architect at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. He has worked as an architect and as an architectural historian and critic, and is now Ware Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York. He has taught at a number of leading institutions in the field, including the Royal College of Art in London, the ETH in Zurich, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, EPFL in Lausanne and the Accademia di Architettura in Medrisio. Frampton is the author of numerous essays on modern and contemporary architecture, and has served on many international juries for architectural awards and building commissions. In addition to Modern Architecture: A Critical History, his publications include Studies in Tectonic Culture, Labour, Work and Architecture, and A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form.
The Great Gildersleeve: Iron Reindeer / Christmas Gift for McGee / Leroy's Big Dog
The Great Gildersleeve (1941--1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first introduced on Oct. 3, 1939, ep. #216. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature films released at the height of the show's popularity.
On Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent McGee nemesis. You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee! became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character was given several conflicting first names on Fibber McGee and Molly, and on one episode his middle name was revealed as Philharmonic. Gildy admits as much at the end of Gildersleeve's Diary on the Fibber McGee and Molly series (Oct. 22, 1940).
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.