INSIGHTS
08
AUGUST - 2005
366 circular 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 - 05: EDINBURGH: OWN
AND OTHER PEOPLE'S WORDS.
Even to Edinburgh
have arrived the spanish pamphlets against grants for the Church by the
State.
02 - 08- 05: EDINBURGH: STREET
FESTIVAL.
Although the Festival have not started yet, the Royal
Mile it is already already full of street performers (Spaniards most of them) making the
oddest of things.
03 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH: EVERY
DAY.
Caming out of the shower I can see a mask that I bought in Katmandú... thirty
years ago!!
04 - 08 - 05: MANCHESTER: OR THE
1001 PARKINGS.
In
the
City Art Gallery,
six seconds were enough to see the video of Beckhan sleeping (that lasts more than one
hour!!).
05 - 08 - 05: MANCHESTER: OR THE
1001 PARKINGS. In
Sackville park, it is remembered Alan Turing, the inventor of the Computer, that
killed himself with a poisoned apple.
06 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH:
PRIVATE GARDEN.
(No
sach good news) Which strange illness made the gigantic Red Chestnut tree that is in the center of the
garden, loose two immense branches? Could It be age?.
07 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH:
STREET FESTIVAL.
As every year the Festival's
Cavalcade was horrible.
08 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH:
REGENT TERRACE.
...
An idea to be developed.
09 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH:
VISIT.
Of Mark G. without Brian that
still recovering of the cerebral stroke that almost kills him.
10 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH:
FOUND OBJET. A drowned World
(the other day in
Canal St. Manchester)
11 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH:
Whose the tread that fits this
mark?
12 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH: WAITING
(FOR GODOT).
Closely watched over
13 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH: VISIT.
A urgencies doctor first
thing in the morning, because I got dizzy when getting up (after so much work)
14 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH:
STREET FESTIVAL. And it is not that I don't feel like
it, but going every day to see something in the Festival will be a bit
'too much' 
15 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH: REGENT
TERRACE. Before going to the extraordinary concert
given by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (dir. D. Baremboim) formed by
Jewish,
Christian & Arab youths , I was seeing the Norwegian Royal Gard playing
in front of their consulate.
16 -
08 - 05: EDINBURGH: FESTIVAL.
In
the Scottish version of
'Cómeme
el coco, negro' by La Cubana,
for not being politically correct, the title had to be changed: 'Nuts & Coconuts'
17 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH: FILM
FESTIVAL.
'Wah
Wah', the movie that opened the Festival was very good and also Nicholas Hoult
the young main character.
18 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH: FESTIVAL.
Of the many works about terrorism
on show on the Festival, I will only go to the John Adams' opera 'The dead of
Klinghoffer'
19 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH: FESTIVAL.
I
did not ike to be in the street on a friday night (After seeing the Swans Lake
that bored me)
20 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH: FILM
FESTIVAL. Like
in the film 'Ronda nocturna'... another fallen angel.
21 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH:
STREET FESTIVAL. In Holyrood, huge gathering of pipers to enter in the Guiness Book of Records (and to consolidate the Scottish theme park!)
22 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH: VISIT
TO. Siobhan M. The name of her dog,
Basil, that I thought that
it came fom the Faulty Towers' sitcom character, it is in fact from the comic Basil
Brush.
23 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH: FRINGE
FESTIVAL. Raised in a round
trapeze, Philippa V.
performed as Audrey Hepburn in J.
Binnie's play 'Breakfast At
Audrey's'
24 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH:
FOUND OBJET. The spiral of eternal life (in Royal
Terrace)
25 - 08 - 05: STREET FESTIVAL.
The world... upside down. 
26 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH: FESTIVAL.
Of what remains of the Festival, Beethoven's oratory ' Christ
on the Mount of Olives' is the show I most look forward
to see.
27 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH: ONE
YEAR AGO IN. ISLE OF MAN. Dafne
C. showed us the Celtic wheel cross of the Lonan old kirk, that hat has
been 1300 years nailed in the same place
28 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH: ONE
YEAR AGO IN.
ISLE OF MAN. The three legs, symbol of the island...
even in the candies!
29 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH: ONE
YEAR AGO IN. ISLE OF MAN. In Castle Rusen lives Gorrym
(Blue) one of the few remaining tail-less cat typical of the Isle.
30 - 08 - 05: EDINBURGH
- MADRID: One
more summer... one summer less. (The summer without 'haar')
31 - 08 - 05: MADRID: WHAT
DID I BUY IN... What did I buy last year in
the Isle of Mann? well... nothing.