Para hacer más breve la espera de la nueva película de Tim Burton, aqui te dejo con Vincent (1982), primer cortometraje dirigido por él, stop motion, sueños y realidad, historias de terror, fantasías góticas de ayer y de hoy… la voz del narrador es de Vincent Price, actor de películas de terror muy admirado por el propio Tim. [subtítulos en castellano]
El Libro de la Semana
Hybrids 1
Hybrids 1
Hybrids 1 es la propuesta de la editorial a+t en su formato de revista número 31, es un interesante análisis de rascacielos de uso mixto.
OMA tiene 3 propuestas el Dubai Ressainance, La torre de Lousville y jersey city 111, además de las propuestas de RCR, Abalos-Sentkiewicz, Mass Studies, Steven Holl, Jean Nouvel y BIG con algunos de los más singulares rascacielos de los últimos tiempos.
Lo interesante de la propuesta editorial de a+t y que es parte del valor añanido son las series de diagramas que generan para cada proyecto, analizando con los mismos colores cada unos de los usos de las propuestas, las plantas y alzados, permiten entender con mayor profundidad estos proyectos.Design Engineering AKT
"Design Engineering: Adams Kara Taylor" (Actar)
Un paseo por algunos de los más interesantes edificios y soluciones estructurales, de la mano de Hanif Kara, uno de los socios de la prestigiosa AKT (Adams Kara Taylor) de londres. No en vano, algunos de los más innovadores estudios de arquitectura son unos de los asiduos. Alejandro Zaera (FOA), Will Alsop, Future Systems y la propia Zaha –AKT fue uno de los consultores del Phaeno Science Center, la biblioteca de Peckham, el restaurante Belgo,–Con contribuciones de Mohsen Mostafavi, Alejandro Zaera, Patrick Schumacher y Michel Speaks, así como las propias narraciones de Hanif. Los últimos 10 años de trabajo de esta singular oficina quedan documentados como si de una inexisttente exposición se tratara.
Juan Herreros Arquitectos
Arquitectos de Tarragona #18 Juan Herreros Arquitectos
El colegio de arquitectos de Tarragona tiene esta interesante publicación llamada AT (arquitectos de Tarragona) se trata de un interesante formato A3 de 20 páginas, que cumple 8 años, en este número 18 dedicado a Juan Herreros Arquitectos, nos muestra la faceta de la práctica individual de Juan Herreros.
Excelentemente documentados (el amplio formato permite mucha versatilidad a la hora de contar los proyectos) el diseño de este número ha sido realizado desde la propia oficina de JHA, nos muestra 7 proyectos (algunos de ellos construidos, otros en proceso y otras propuestas a concursos en diversas latitudes como medellín, parís, amberes, marsella, etc.
En la web se pueden consultar los pdf´s de las ediciones anteriores en baja resolución, y se puede comprar la edición en papel en varios colegios de arquitectos.
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Vincent
Tim Burton’s poem
Vincent Malloy is seven years old
He’s always polite and does what he’s told
For a boy his age, he’s considerate and nice
But he wants to be just like Vincent Price
He doesn’t mind living with his sister, dog and cats
Though he’d rather share a home with spiders and bats
There he could reflect on the horrors he’s invented
And wander dark hallways, alone and tormented
Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him
But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum
He likes to experiment on his dog Abercrombie
In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie
So he and his horrible zombie dog
Could go searching for victims in the London fog
His thoughts, though, aren’t only of ghoulish crimes
He likes to paint and read to pass some of the times
While other kids read books like Go, Jane, Go!
Vincent’s favourite author is Edgar Allen Poe
One night, while reading a gruesome tale
He read a passage that made him turn pale
Such horrible news he could not survive
For his beautiful wife had been buried alive!
He dug out her grave to make sure she was dead
Unaware that her grave was his mother’s flower bed
His mother sent Vincent off to his room
He knew he’d been banished to the tower of doom
Where he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life
Alone with the portrait of his beautiful wife
While alone and insane encased in his tomb
Vincent’s mother burst suddenly into the room
She said: “If you want to, you can go out and play
It’s sunny outside, and a beautiful day”
Vincent tried to talk, but he just couldn’t speak
The years of isolation had made him quite weak
So he took out some paper and scrawled with a pen:
“I am possessed by this house, and can never leave it again”
His mother said: “You’re not possessed, and you’re not almost dead
These games that you play are all in your head
You’re not Vincent Price, you’re Vincent Malloy
You’re not tormented or insane, you’re just a young boy
You’re seven years old and you are my son
I want you to get outside and have some real fun.
”Her anger now spent, she walked out through the hall
And while Vincent backed slowly against the wall
The room started to swell, to shiver and creak
His horrid insanity had reached its peak
He saw Abercrombie, his zombie slave
And heard his wife call from beyond the grave
She spoke from her coffin and made ghoulish demands
While, through cracking walls, reached skeleton hands
Every horror in his life that had crept through his dreams
Swept his mad laughter to terrified screams!
To escape the madness, he reached for the door
But fell limp and lifeless down on the floor
His voice was soft and very slow
As he quoted The Raven from Edgar Allen Poe:
“and my soul from out that shadow
that lies floating on the floor
shall be lifted?
Nevermore…”