Barcelona Littleshell

Quiero dar a conocer dos webs de acceso a cultura abierta (open): La primera es Open Culture, en twitter @openculture. Hay cientos de películas y se pueden descargar libros por los que ya no se cobran derechos de autor. También funciona como buscador de cursos gratuitos online de  las mejores universidades, como este sobre E-learning and Digital Cultures , de la Universidad de Edimburgo, o cursos de cualquier idioma. Me ha divertido encontrar un fragmento de documental sobre el proceso de escritura y  cómo recorta y pega sus textos Woody Allen , uno de mis directores favoritos. Otras maravillas son un corto experimental con la lectura de la Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner de Samuel Coleridge, por Orson Welles, o la foto de Marilyn Monroe leyendo el Ulises de James Joyce , con un link a los libros de su biblioteca personal , que se catalogaron después de su muerte.  ¡Animáos a explorar Open Culture! La segunda web es Europeana y la acabo de ...

“Music, this wonderful universal language, should be a source of communication between all people.” Pau Casals. There are a lot of important Catalan people who have become famous all over the world, and today I'd like to tell you about one of them: Pau Casals, the cello player, conductor and composer who lived between 1876 and 1973, pictured here with pianist, composer and friend Enric Granados (in the back). A few days ago, I had the opportunity to visit his summer house in San Salvador, Tarragona (Spain). It is owned by the Pau Casals Trust , which he himself and his wife Marta Montañez created in 1972. If you are ever around Tarragona, go and pay it a visit. The permanent exhibition shows the first string musical instrument that Pau Casals ever had: a carved pumpkin with a string tied to it that his father helped him build. You can see along some black and white family pictures. Watching different audiovisual shows, you learn that it was Pau Casals'...