INSIGHTS
08
AUGUST - 2003
366 vertical insights in the private life of RGF for a better understanding of his work by the 'accidental navigator'. This project will be made with one year + a day of images and texts.
01 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH:
WHAT DID I BUY IN... What did I buy in Northumberland last year?, well...
nothing.
02 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH.
It was in the the Old
Calton cemetery, where in 1982, we were attacked and I finished with two
squashed vertebras!.
03 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH:
FESTIVAL. How poor & sad was the
Festival Parade...!
04 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH: IN
MEMORIAM. One fourth of August my father was born and on another fourth of
August... he died. (In Memoriam Rafael González)
05 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH:
SUCH A WASTE OF TIME. Making a
photograph that I don't know whether it will be published... (to illustrate Javier's article on
'crime' and the Edinburgh Festival)
06 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH: THIS
WEDNESDAY EXHIBITION. Cindy Sherman (for
me, more interesting that the one of Monet)
07 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH:
VISIT. In the hottest day of summer
(28º
C), Andrew C. came for lunch and to tell us about the project he
is working on: the future Edinburgh tram.
08 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH:
SUCH A WASTE OF TIME. How absurd to be queuing to see an exhibition like that of
Monet!!
09 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH: REGENT
TERRACE. Although not very well
reproduced... at least it was
published.
10 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH: FRINGE
FESTIVAL. It is very difficult to find something worthwhile among so many hundreds of plays
. The one that is performed in a public toilet is a good one. 
11 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH: BOOK
FESTIVAL. The writer Ray Loriga participated in a literary encounter... about
memory.
12 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH: FILM
FESTIVAL.
It takes 45 minutes walking to get to
the cinema where they show the Festival movies for the press (from 9 o'clock a.m.)
13 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH: FRINGE
FESTIVAL. I rather prefer ' King Baabu'
(Zimbaue's version of ' Ubu Rex' ) that the pretencious Argentinean play 'The
last day of Mankind' (unbearable)
14 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH: FILM
FESTIVAL.
And after been watching the awesome F.
Ozon's movie ' Swimming Pool'... a Tom Ka soup in a Thai restaurant.
15 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH:
FESTIVAL. Although I don't like
concert operas, I have to acknowledge that Wagner's Lohengrin was
extraordinarily noisy and I loved it.
16 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH:
FESTIVAL.
At least, the Brahms Piano Concert No. 1 by C. Zacharias, compensated not having been able to go to Mónica
& Sacha's wedding in Sweden.
17 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH: FILM
FESTIVAL.
As
in a dream, at 8'15
am. the city was deserted when we were going to see (up to now) the best movie
of the Festival: 'Laurel Canyon'
18 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH:
OWN AND OTHER PEOPLE'S WARS.
The movie ' Wilbur (wants to kill
himself)' left me heartbroken, but the visit to Maggie's Cancer Caring
Centre, filled me with hope.
19 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH: FESTIVAL.
I could not stay long with Mark G. & Brian (a few days in Edinburgh) because
I had to go to see 'Hamlet'. (Calixto Bieito's version)
20 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH: THIS
WEDNESDAY EXHIBITION. 'The Black Box' 4
Installatios in the Fine Arts School that left me absolutely
indifferent. 
21 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH:
FESTIVAL. 'Picasso and the Dance' 4 ballets are
far too many ballets to see in one go, but I was busy taking... more than
300 pictures!!
22 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH:
STREET FESTIVAL. In cross...
naked from the waist down
23 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH:
STREET FESTIVAL. In cross...
naked from the waist up
24 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH: PRIVATE
GARDEN. Sacha's wedding was sweet and down to
earth (María said while in Edinburgh)
25 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH:
OWN AND OTHER PEOPLE'S WARS.
Susi L. (from Nº 8), came to request our signature against the placement of garbage containers in our street
(we did sign, of course). Lost battle, I'm afraid.
26 - 08 - 03: GLASGOW:
OWN AND OTHER PEOPLE'S WARS.
Before going to the Glasgow Print Studio to sign the edition of
the etching 'Hitch', I went to see the new Maggie's building (by Page & Park)
27 - 08 - 03: DUNDEE:
OWN AND OTHER PEOPLE'S WARS.
Faith L.
took us to see the new building F. Gehry has designed for
Maggie's, (it is his first work in Great Britain)
28 - 08 - 03: GLASGOW:
GPS. The
photograph 'Cortina rasgada'
becomes through Murray R. in the digital print ' Torn Courtain'
29 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH: Changes always depress me. Alister, the
joiner, is going to retire and closes the DIY store where, from 1977, I found all that
I needed.
30 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH:
MELA FESTIVAL. And to finish the Festival... a walk
around the 'Mela' that was like being in India.
31 - 08 - 03: EDINBURGH: ONE YEAR AGO IN...
ISLE OF SKYE. Carwin
M., the best guide...