Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Iceberg in the river Ebro = Cool inauguration of Expo

An enormous Iceberg measuring 55 metres wide by 20 metres high, will be the stage for the inauguration show at Expo Zaragoza 2008.



The authors of the show explain in a video that a reduced version of the show (lasting around 20 minutes) will be performed every night between 10.30 pm and 11 pm from 14th June to 14th September 2008. In addition, it is expected that the show will be broadcasted over the Internet in real time …so no worries if you cannot be physically here.

Music will play an important role. To start with, and only in the inaugural ceremony, hundreds of drums of Calanda will be played together to join forces to fight against climate change through the beat of the drums. In addition, a “choir of adults and children’s voice will perform the song ‘Cantata for an iceberg’…

During the show natural equilibrium is broken and the iceberg opens up and splits into several blocks. The blocks then become enormous screens where both apocalyptic images and “awareness-raising” slogans will be put together. Faced with this panorama of destruction and fire, a (superhero) teenage appears from out of the flames, representing (the song of) hope.
If you are still with me, by now you will be wondering how an iceberg got lost and found its way to the Ebro? Especially Zaragoza might not be the obvious destination from an iceberg trying to escape from melting…well. Don’t ask me. But not worries, will let you know once I watch the show ;)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

'EARMARKED'or WATERMARKED
FOR OPENING DAY
(OURS POLAIRE-POLAR BEAR)
SPECIAL DELIVERY
ZARAGOZA EXPRESS!

What is the Spanish for iceberg?
In previous research I stumbled across two origins for berg -
(1)An ancient traveller having survived in the cave of a pregnant, or hibernating bear (I suspect the latter more likely) decides to build a castle on the site and it becomes the first berg which is later followed by other bergs, bourgs, burroughs, etc.
(2) the line of Roman forts built in defense of German populations were called bergs similiar to the way chester were camps of Roman military men on the British islands.

I find that both these concepts are rather mythical distortions of language perhaps based on pragmatic grains of truth. That you
should try to create a ceremony on
massive icebergs is culturally cool
but an injustice to snowmen! I loved building HD - humpty dumpty, out of snow thou Yogi bear was my favourite. My European friend Peter Sjypkes is one of the master
winter snow and ice carpenters in the world.

The Greeks had a wonderful opening ceremony for the 2004 Olympics where the parts of man have been revealed having like icarus come decidely too close to the flame. However having been b.bq.ed on ONE SIDE by the Romans the mighty St. Lawrence, in taking a cue from the Just for Laughs festival, hinted, not a 911'let it roll', but do the other side!

I hope for your sake standing room only is not on one of those hot tomalis - hot logs. They can do quite a dervish when twirled by a good OTTOMAN! HOWEVER IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO THE ST. LOUIS FAIR
where the Frankfurt was introduced as well as the ice cream cone - I think they were made for each other - as the new Dairy Queen commercial quips, than lets go back to the introduction of the hamb(u)erger 11 years earlier at the Columbia World Exposition - the white city in Chicago, USA.

Personally I am a (beef-a-leau) buffalo man from America thou I am told they are biologically from Asia. The bison is American.

Why not a Romane lettuce instead of an iceberg. I think it is better for a Caesar salad - but I am more of a Macedonian myself.

You see Virgin Marys can be quite insulting when your real earth mother was Mary. I hope you don't mind my continental drift but it seems our ranges have pulled quite apart. Etranger and strangers we have become. Have we been gazing on oranges for too long.

Compared to the St. Lawrence the Ebro is a stream that rhymes with Expo, and FLOW are the initials of Frank Lloyd Wright.

So?

He was an American architect.

So?

Sounds like a play by Bertolt Brecht or Ingmar Bergman. Next time I will introduce you to Martin Heideggar!

Your ear. Lets get to the climax.
Is anyone listening. Well it all depends if we've had the wax cleaned out. I recommend Dr. Freid, probably the best ear, nose and throat doctor on earth and Jewish!
You see the Earth, an English word, is obviously listening. So to an Oreille-monde. That's French
for Raymond who died in an avalanche in the Savoie France. He was one of the world's greatest mountain climbers. Olympians are pretty angry when one of their owns reputations is threatened, especially by one such as Dick Pound who never won a medal. Its this Lance Armstrong thing. Can't understand who is right and what is left in this case. Its a Soviet - Deutscheland 1937 Paris Expo face-off so to speak.

But what is ''earmarked''for opening day at the Zaragoza fair - a CHORUS of ARCTIC birds,
a hibernati-onal bear,
I hope YOUR drugged and darted lot can get back on its feet without doping charges, like Lance Armstrong. Especially having suffered through such a civilizations long and debilitating disease such as cancer!

LANCE I HOPE YOU ARE HONEST. I AM A FELLOW CYCLIST AND I KNOW WHAT THE AMERICANS ARE DOING TO CONRAD BLACK.

Anonymous said...

EAR'MARK'ED FOR OPENING DAY
(LION OF SAINT MARK)
ZARAGOZA EXPRESS

So as not to burden the boring
automatistes and keep the bears
comfy and happy, another letter.

Saint Mark was originally buried in Alexandria which was conquered by Muslims. In order to save the saints body he was cloaked in wrappings as if he was a pig and hauled through the main streets where he was than put on a ship and carried across the sea to Venice. The St. Mark lion was also carried away at a later date from the steps in Constantinople, why his paw is paralyzed in an upperwards position (as if climbing) so a book was placed in his hands. The lion had already been used as a symbol of St. Mark since the time of Iraneous, and the 4 evangelists, the lion, the ox, the angel, etc..

Hope you have a water lion at your Expo. Thou cats are notoriously afraid of water, so is my girlfriend Ane, lions do not seem to have this affliction. In fact at a point in the qumrun scrolls where the translator has said god has gone down to the edge of the sea a proper translation would say where a lion went down to the edge of the sea, In fact much leonen literature was destroyed in Spain
(discovered in Spanish history books at the Bronfman sponsored library at the University of Montreal) by Catholic priests. Given that the region was once the preserve of Hebrews, there was a Hebrew king in Narbonne until the year 1323 at least, it might have been related to the outposts of a Hebrew pre-catholic civilization.
So as not to bother you even further, the lion remained a strong symbol because of many allegiances especially Breton and Sicilian-Norman.

Anonymous said...

King David was one of the first to destroy female water literatures, gaia and anything else unfavourable to his paternalist torah. Thou some say his search for water beneath the surface showed his continued respect for the yam-malcha (the sea of the queen) above their heads and that it actually rained in the Temple of Soloman built so big that the cloud that led the Jews through the desert formed inside. Miriam is like mayim, a Jewish word for water. How or if there is any relationship to mayans is unknown...or actually is but will be the subject for a future book. The Hebrews were the first people to discern between fresh and salt water and it is the subject for a number of holiday rituals!
The American pavilion at Expo 67 (when the surface was still covered with acrylic bubbles) sometimes had clouds forming inside.
Greco-Roman civilization continued David's decline making Man and his World dominant over the matriarchal one that was still dominant in Inuit American culture, making me believe that these are lost ancestors.
Alexander Calders sculpture of Man reconnects him to 'family'. Whatever happened to MAN AND WIFE.
What about WOMAN AND HUSBAND. CIVIL UNION, FAIR OR EXPOSITION?

Anonymous said...

EAR MARKED FOR WATERSHED EVENT
(FOX OR RENARD)
ZARAGOZA 2008

ICONIC REVIVAL...FESTOONS UNLIMITED...
WHY IS A FOX LIKE AN OX?

NOW I CAN SORT OF MAKE OUT A REIGNE IN A RENARD OR A REINDEER,
BUT PERHAPS ITS A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING THAT WE WORRY ABOUT. AFTER ALL A FOX IS RATHER CLEVER!
WE HAVE TO TEND OUR FLOCKS (FLOX)OF SHEEP WITH A SHEEP DOG FOR FEAR OF THE FOX GETTING TO THEM. THEN IT MIGHT TURN INTO A FO-O DOG AND LEAVE ALL KINDS OF CROP CIRCLES. FOO-DOG FOR THOUGHT. THINK YOU BETTER GET A TRAINED WATER SPANIEL ON P(a-w)ETROL! NEXT TIME YOU TRY TO DUMP YOUR PETROL OFF THE COAST OF SPAIN THINK AGAIN - WE HAVE SPY SATTELITES TAKING PHOTOS FROM ABOVE. RICHARD UNDERHILL WHO WAS NASA'S CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER WAS OUR VISITOR AT MCGILL AT MONTREAL 350 IN 1992. ITS BEEN 40 YRS. NOW SINCE EXPO 67.

Anonymous said...

EARMARKED FOR OPENING DAY
BY ZARAGOZA EXPRESS VIA
BORING-BERING STRAIGHTS TO
SHANGHAI 2010

OPENED PANDORA'S POLAR BEAR-FOX BOX:

SORRY.
MENAGERIE UNLEASHED IN ZARAGAZO.
NEED ASLAN AND HADAD LIONESS TO REPOSITION ANIMALS IN WILD.
CALL OUT GODESS CYMBEL (MUSE AND CHARIOT) TO RESCUE ANIMALS FROM IMPROPERGANDA. POSSIBLE FLOOD. POSSIBLE DROUGHT. EXSTREAM DANGER...