#BAILE FLAMENCO ACTUAL

[cristinabcn]

Suma Flamenca: Jóvenes, internacionales, premiados y geniales

TERESA FERNANDEZ HERRERA. Periodista, Escritora. Directora Gral. Cultura Flamenca. Prensa Especializada La feliz iniciativa de la Comunidad de Madrid, a instancias de su director artístico Antonio Benamargo, de esta Suma Flamenca Joven separada de la veterana Suma Flamenca, nos ha traído en esta tercera edición una pléyade de jóvenes artistas, en su mayoría con importantes premios en su haber y…

[strawbs-screaming]

super macho man headcanons

these headcanons? you cant afford these headcanons!

Can and will always reply to anything with "that's what she said" or "your mom" if it fits,everyone absolutely hates him for it.

Says he has a godly spice tolerance but can and will scream if you give him anything remotely spicy, considers black pepper spicy.

Has a wardrobe full of silly button-ups with fun patterns, he is not ashamed of it and will show it off with pride.

Very reckless with stuff he owns since he can always buy another copy of it thanks to his bank account as deep as the mariana trench, has crashed 3 cars somehow. (1 done for shits and giggles, 1 accidental and the last one stolen.)

Can and will go shirtless anywhere, in his iconic Super Macho Banana Hammock™ if possible, to the point where his PR team had to stop him from showing up in it to a funeral once.

Sings in his sleep and its absolutely HORRIFYING, its always either Lady Gaga songs or beatboxing, has woken up to himself singing multiple times.

Has the ugliest crying face ever, the WVBA has the unspoken rule of "Do not look at Macho Man while he cries unless you can hold in your laughter or youre a fast runner." Thanks to him.

Really good at improv comedy somehow, it works thanks to his voice/accent and the way he answers questions.

Cannot pronounce Baja Blast, it always comes out as "Boho Blost"

Has been caught stalking the other boxers social media accounts, the first victim of this was Glass Joe, everyone later found out he was absolutely flaming everyone on his alternative accounts.

Likes eating Jello, has a shirt that says "I FUCKING LOVE JELLO" that was a gift from his dad.

Once tweeted out a picture of his ass to Don Flamenco after he lost a match to him,got banned instantly off of Twitter.

Extremely commited to jokes/bits to the point where he references them during actually serious situations.

Has bailed out the other boxers out of jail multiple times, he may be a asshole but he isn't willing to let his fellow colleagues™ stay in jail.

[risu5waffles]

Holy shite, i missed a (ten) spot!

When i tell you i actually panicked a bit when i realized i'd not put up a recap post. It took me a hot minute to figure out that i was only a day late, but still.

This level is so loud. Like, thankfully it's also pretty short, but it's still awful damned loud. i try not to get on creators' cases about sound balancing; my ears are so bad, whenever i use music or sfx they're either too loud or too soft, because i honestly can't tell? But even still, i wish more creators would fiddle wiv the volume a bit, especially when they're using community-made tracks; they're always way too loud. Otherwise, this level is, it's fine really. Nothing that really stands out about the gameplay or presentation, but it's fun enough for a couple of minutes. i do have to say it was interesting they used this section of The Cosmos backdrop, 'cause i hardly ever see it. Usually folx (myself included, mind you) pull it down to the arcade cabinets, or mid-way up to the more space-y section. This part is kind of neat too.

This one's such a neat idea, and really well presented too, right down to the music (tho', if i remember right, Baile-Flamenco was kind of known for that). Kind of half-in-half-out on puzzles and platforming, where you can transfer movability to objects by grabbing them (the in-universe explanation is you're painting them wiv a puddle of blood). i love the little diorama bit toward the end, wiv all the world's monsters, including... YOU! The Sadako climbing out the telly is a top notch bit. i also really appreciate that the creator went to such lengths to put the level in English. It's not perfect, maybe, but their writing/speaking style has a lot of charm, and doing that kind of thing is hard work.

Just a simple little bounce around the screen grabbing point bubbles and avoiding bombs kind of gig. It's well presented, tho', and the home-brew bounce pads are still functioning mostly right, which isn't always the case wiv LBP1 levels in LBP3.

i may have gotten on a bit of a taka061 kick that week of recording, but his levels are so good. It does raise a bit of an issue for me, 'cause sometimes i'd really like to just record a bunch of levels by one creator, but wiv only one episode a day, i feel a bit like i'm taking space from other folx? Honestly, i'd love to just take two weeks and play all of chronos' stuff for the archives. The only thing of note here, aside from the level just being really, really good, is i wound up having to record it again a few days after the episode went live, because i needed some b-roll for my LittleBite-sizedPlanet look at Tic Tac Sunset, and that playthrough was way better than the one we have here. Just a little salty about that.

Kind of weird we had two levels based around colouring the environment in the same chunk of ten. That wasn't planned at all. Neither was my having a pseudo-y Roman-y motif-y kind of level to be published on the Ides of March. Just happy accidents all over, i guess. This one is nice enough, but it is just a bit too much, and i felt like it'd worn its welcome out by the end (tho', in fairness, that was on me since i wanted everything i could get for the archive). Now i really appreciate that the creator apparently had the same idea, and gives the player two chances to bounce early. That's not me giving a backhanded compliment, i really do think that's a cool thing to do. There've been plenty of levels i've played, even quite good ones, where i've found myself thinking "please, just give me a scoreboard already." One interesting thing wiv this one, or at least how it dovetails wiv the LittleBite-sizedPlanet for this upcoming Friday, is how if you make too many things interactable, your brain (or mine, at least), just starts to actively not care? Because there are just too many things going on to track, or for any one of them to have real importance in comparison to any of the others.

It's a little weird that this level leads off wiv that wee robot-y(?) character being very clear that you have to turn every valve, and then half the valves in the level not actually doing anything. i wonder if that was on purpose, or if something went a bit sideways in the translation from LBP2 to LBP3. i liked this one fairly well; it's got a really solid material and decoration set that get put to good use, tho' i'd say they're presented best when the camera is pulled in a bit more. That happens a lot, i find. It's rare for a creator to get a big environment looking real good, even when it's necessary for gameplay to have a pulled out view. That's not meant to be a knock on any creators, just that it seems a tough trick to pull off.

We talked about this on Friday, and i stand by everything i said there.

i wound up really enjoying this one, and i'd like to give the LBP1 level it's adapted from a play on stream. The swimming bits were a little hard to navigate, on account of them being dark, and my always forgetting you can't just change layers underwater, but i really don't have any big complaints about this one.

Gameplay-wise there's nothing too flash in this one, but i really found myself charmed by the environment. kome managed to nail a scale that felt just right. The incidental details really put in a lot of work too. Like, those terrariums? <chef's kiss> i did discouver thanks to this one (we'd actually played it on stream before i recorded it for the archive) that Twitch mutes the audio in the VoD download file, not just the VoDs that are up on Twitch, and i hate that like the devil hates sin. i'd suspected it to be the case, but i never listen to my streams once they're up. Even searching for a thumbnail i tend to have it on mute. It just popped in my brain to make a point of checking this time, and sure enough. i tell you that really frazzles my frizzles.

Dry tree yo. Just.. Dry tree. i don't even really know what to say aside from it is so very, very good. The fact that it has still, somehow, managed to not be Team Picked (despite having picked up a Level of the Day nod) is, quite possibly, honestly a sin. If it weren't for the fact that some of the Team Picks are actually very much quality, i'd assume Sumo were throwing darts at a list of creators they already liked. i played through this one so many times trying to get a run wiv all the secrets, which is a difficult feat on account of i never put any points into Spot Hidden, but i did finally manage to pull it off. Gotta say it felt pretty good.

So that's another 10 down, yeah. After the kerfluffle wiv my level last week, i've got the feeling it's going to be a little late to justify an every 50 schedule for a hub publish. i kinda had that feeling tho'. i do think this build is going to go more quickly, since there are a lot of parts to it that i'm keeping from the previous one. Trying it out in dThermo is a bit of a worry; i've never had particular luck wiv that system. Based on what i've heard, tho', at least some of it was just me honestly using it wrong. Thankfully i've got chat helping out, and @mellangard , especially, has a lot of experience wiv dThermo, and his advice has been invaluable.

i don't know that anyone watches the episodes all the way to the end to notice, but i think i changed up the end card somewhere in this stack. Nothing really too drastic, just tossed a progress flag up instead of the black background i'd been using. i don't change the tagline every episode like i do wiv LittleBite-sizedPlanet, and i think we'll probably be sticking wiv "For Fierce Trans Joy" for at least a little while longer. Times have been rough for us, and look to be getting rougher depending on where you live (my trans sibs in Missouri, just... fucking hell); but i want us to have our joy, even if we have to claw it out raw and bloody.

[julia2209]

Un poco sobre el origen y la historia 

Bueno, supongo que hay alguien aquí a quien le gusta la historia, pues vamos a ver quién tuvo la idea tan buena y creó nuestro festivo: El origen de la Feria se remonta al siglo XIX y está ligado a la actividad ganadera. La historia de la Feria de Abril comenzó en 1847, cuando dos concejales sevillanos, José María Ibarra y Narciso Bonaplata, propusieron la creación de una feria agrícola y ganadera con el objetivo de fomentar el comercio y dinamizar la economía de la región. La feria se estableció en los terrenos de la Pradera de San Sebastián tras la aprobación de la Reina Isabel II, el 18 de abril de 1847[1].

            La Feria tenía un carácter permanentemente comercial, con la presencia de rancheros, agricultores y comerciantes de diferentes productos. Con el tiempo, se convirtió en un evento más festivo y social, en el que se incluyeron atracciones, casetas para el baile y la gastronomía, y se incorporaron elementos propios de la cultura andaluza, como el flamenco y la vestimenta tradicional[2].

            Uno de los etapas más importantes en la evolución de la Feria de Abril fue en 1920, cuando se inicieron las primeras casetas de feria, que se convirtieron en espacios privados donde las familias y grupos de amigos se reunían para bailar, comer y beber. Desde entonces, esta festividad se ha consolidado como una de las fiestas más importantes de Sevilla y generalmente de toda España[3].

            Desgraciadamente, la fiesta fue interrumpida dos años durante el periodo de la Guerra Civil. En 1973, debido al gran número de personas que acudían a la Feria de Abril, se tomó la decisión de trasladarla a su ubicación actual para poder albergar a todos los visitantes de manera más cómoda y segura[4].

[1] https://as.com/tikitakas/feria-sevilla-2023-origen-significado-y-por-que-se-llama-feria-de-abril-n/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8xbKLxFYws 08.04.2024.

[2] https://as.com/tikitakas/feria-sevilla-2023-origen-significado-y-por-que-se-llama-feria-de-abril-n/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8xbKLxFYws 08.04.2024.

[3] https://as.com/tikitakas/feria-sevilla-2023-origen-significado-y-por-que-se-llama-feria-de-abril-n/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8xbKLxFYws 08.04.2024.

 

[4] https://www.andalucia.org/es/feria-de-abril/origenes-y-actualidad 08.04.2024.

[aydanmadelineblog]

La Mezcla de Todos los Bailes: una Mirada Profunda al Baile de Salsa

¿Qué es la salsa?

Me encanta cómo todo en la vida está conectado. Si no fuera una persona de ciudad, tal vez no vería el mundo de esta manera. Las ciudades realmente resaltan la diversidad y la salsa es un ejemplo perfecto. En realidad, nadie sabe de dónde viene el nombre del baile salsa. Pero personalmente creo que es por la naturaleza de la salsa. Se compone de muchos ingredientes diferentes.

La salsa es una mezcla de diferentes estilos musicales, originada en la ciudad de Nueva York en las décadas de mil novecientos cuarenta y mil novecientos cincuenta. Curiosamente, recibió su nombre en la década de mil novecientos sesenta  y alcanzó su apogeo en la década de mil novecientos setenta. Es genial cómo la salsa no sólo se hizo popular en todo el mundo sino que también se alineó con la difusión de la identidad cultural hispana. Incluso hoy en día, hay 8,3 millones de practicantes sólo en la ciudad de Nueva York. ¡Guau!

¿Cuáles son las diferentes partes de la salsa?

Mientras el baile de salsa puede parecer simple a primera vista, en realidad es bastante complejo y tiene múltiples componentes. Para empezar, la salsa es conocida por su ritmo muy sincopado. Esto significa que la línea de fondo viene antes del tiempo fuerte por medio tiempo, creando un ritmo "anticipado" que le da a la salsa su pulso único y distintivo. ¡Me encantan los ritmos! Ahora, pasemos al baile: la salsa incluye pasos de descanso, giros, caídas y algo llamado "Shines" (lo explicaré más adelante). Estos movimientos contribuyen a la naturaleza vivaz de la salsa. Sólo escucharlo me hace sentir ansioso por probar la salsa, y tal vez tú sientas lo mismo. Aquí tienes un tutorial sobre uno de los aspectos más básicos del baile de salsa:

Mi experiencia.

De manera similar a lo que compartí en publicaciones de blog anteriores, mi abuela es oriunda de Puerto Rico. La salsa ocupa un lugar especial en mi corazón gracias a ella. Cuando era niña, atesoro los recuerdos de bailar con mi abuela en las fiestas. Cada vez que escucho salsa ahora, instantáneamente me recuerda esos momentos con ella. La salsa, para mí, es un puente entre generaciones. Fue muy popular durante la juventud de mi abuela y, aún hoy, me conecta con mi familia y mis raíces culturales. Todavía escucho salsa para transportarme a momentos más felices. Aquí está mi canción de salsa favorita actual:

La evolución del baile a la salsa.

Es interesante que la salsa toma todos los elementos de formas de arte anteriores y crea una nueva. No solo existen diferentes estilos secundarios, como el colombiano, Los Ángeles y Nueva York, que requieren diferentes áreas de especialización. Similar a mi última publicación de blog y a la publicación de blog de mi compañera de clase Madeline. La salsa se deriva de formas de baile de tango, flamenco y mambo.

La salsa es fascinante porque combina elementos de diferentes formas de arte para crear algo nuevo. Hay varios subestilos como el colombiano, el de Los Ángeles y el de Nueva York, cada uno de los cuales requiere conocimientos específicos. Esto hace eco de puntos de mi blog reciente y de la publicación de mi compañera de clase Madeline. La salsa tiene sus orígenes en el tango, el flamenco y el mambo, uniendo estas formas de baile. Es un vivo ejemplo de combinación de diferentes estilos para formar una cultura de danza única y dinámica que valora la diversidad y la evolución.

Gracias por tu tiempo. Hasta luego.

Fuentes:

https://www.britannica.com/art/salsa-music

https://carolinadance.com/about/news/salsa-dancing-styles-and-faqs#:~:text=Salsa%20Dancing%20Has%20Multicultural%20Roots&text=While%20salsa%20dancing%20is%20a,is%20rooted%20in%20different%20cultures

https://www.superprof.com/blog/places-to-dance-salsa/

-- Por: Surya Mattoo

[entrezapycastanuelas]

HISTORIA DE LA CASTAÑUELA

Las castañuelas son un instrumento de percusión representativo de la música española flamenca, el cual presenta un sonido distintivo de cualquier otro instrumento y que junto con la guitarra española clásica o flamenca forman parte del folklore y la cultura de este país.

Las castañuelas tienen más de tres mil años de creación, su invención se acuña a los fenicios quienes elaboraron las primera castañuelas o palillos, usando madera común y gracias al comercio se expandieron a lo largo del Mediterráneo, acentuándose en países como la actual Croacia o Italia. Sin embargo, fue España quien acogió a las castañuelas en el seno de su cultura, dándole el lugar y la importancia que tienen hoy en día, sobre todo en la música flamenca.

Pero mucho antes de ser utilizadas en el flamenco, las castañuelas ya tenían su lugar en la música clásica. Santiago de Murcia, uno de los guitarristas y compositores españoles más importantes del barroco, componía entreactos satíricos denominados “jácaras” donde las castañuelas tenían un papel fundamental. La variación era la técnica compositiva de este autor, donde un tema se repetía a lo largo de toda la obra presentando diversos cambios. Así pues, logró crear interesantes fandangos en 1730 donde destacaba la guitarra clásica y por supuesto, las castañuelas.

Bocherini, compositor y violonchelista de origen italiano, compuso en 1798 una obra para el infante Luis Borbón y Farnesio donde las castañuelas tenían un papel protagónico. Por su parte Richard Wagner, compositor alemán, produjo hacia 1845 una ópera llamada Tannhauser, donde se puede apreciar el sonido de las castañuelas en Venusberg.

Entrando al siglo XX, el compositor y maestro Joaquín Rodrigo compuso su obra denominada Dos Danzas Españolas para Lucero Tena. Piezas fundamentalmente creadas para castañuelas y orquestas, la cual se estrenó en el teatro Pérez Galdós, en 1966. Ahora bien ¿cómo fue que las castañuelas pasaron de ser solo un instrumento musical a ser el instrumento que acompaña a una bailarina de flamenco?

A mediados del siglo XIX se creó la Escuela de Bolera de Baile, donde eran preparadas las mejores bailarinas para ser presentadas en teatros españoles y recorrer parte de Europa, especialmente París, Francia. El mayor atractivo de esta escuela sin duda era, el uso de las castañuelas como acompañamiento del baile centrado en el movimiento de los brazos. Esta técnica no es única de la Escuela Bolera, sino que también pertenece al flamenco y forma parte de las similitudes que comparten ambas expresiones escénicas.

De esta manera, las castañuelas aunque son un hito dentro del flamenco, también suelen ser usadas en otras expresiones folclóricas españolas.

De hecho, las castañuelas forman parte también de la expresión del folclore en Portugal y otros países de Iberoamérica. Finalmente, las castañuelas constituyen un acompañamiento clave en la danza y en la estructura rítmica de diversas composiciones musicales, siendo uno de los instrumentos de percusión más interesantes y antiguos que han sobrevivido con el pasar del tiempo hasta convertirse en el símbolo de toda una cultura y principalmente del Flamenco en España.

[recrearteteatro]

El flamenco y sus manifestaciones han servido de punto de partida para todas las artes, sobre todo música, pintura, escultura y literatura. Prueba de ello es que el FLAMENCO, desde noviembre de 2010 es Patrimonio Inmaterial de la Humanidad.

El flamenco nos abre un amplio abanico de posibilidades. hasta el punto de que lo popular -puesto que el flamenco nace del pueblo- y lo culto -en cuanto expresión literaria- coexisten.

El flamenco es «El Cante», «El Baile», «La Guitarra» y «La Poesía» partiendo del concepto de que el poema se nos ofrece como un hecho «especial» de habla, pero que presenta, en su unidad, diferentes niveles.

Sagrario Martín, Tito Manzanares y Patricio González darán voz a los poetas que influyeron en el reconocimiento del flamenco actual y

Andrés Sánchez, Arancha Úrsula e Isabel Soto pondrán la magia, el embrujo y el arte del Flamenco.

[contradanzagranada]

Empecemos por lo básico: ¿qué es exactamente el afrodance? ¿Cuál es el origen de este estilo de danza urbana? Como su propio nombre sugiere, el afrodance tiene su origen último en las tradiciones culturales del continente africano. En realidad, quizás deberíamos hablar de orígenes, en plural, ya que el afrodance es, por encima de todo, diversidad: se trata de una familia de estilos nacida de las tradiciones culturales, musicales y de baile del África subsahariana. En África, el baile siempre ha sido una parte integral de la vida cultural y social, una forma de celebrar los grandes momentos de la vida, de transmitir emociones e incluso de contar historias. Y toda esa forma de entender el baile influye, y mucho, en la forma de bailar: las danzas africanas son actividades colectivas, potentes, con énfasis en el movimiento corporal y la improvisación. Al igual que muchos otros estilos de baile, el actual afrodance es, como ya hemos mencionado, la evolución de lo que siempre se ha bailado en África. Clases Regulares de Danza Urbana. Plazas Limitadas. Reserva la tuya. https://www.instagram.com/contradanza... https://www.facebook.com/ContradanzaG/ https://www.tiktok.com/@contradanzagrx info@contradanzagranada.com phone. +34 679 09 09 79 https://www.contradanzagranada.com/

[objiowillian]

Datos web; ¿Cuál es el origen del baile de la jota? Resultado de imagen para ¿Cuál es el origen del baile la jota? De acuerdo con la mayoría de documentalistas, la forma actual de la jota proviene de un baile popular datado por primera vez en el siglo XVIII en la música teatral de Zaragoza , aunque ciertos elementos se pueden asociar a tiempos pretéritos, como por ejemplo unas hipotéticas vinculaciones arábigo-andaluzas y un …12 jun 2022

¿Quién creó la jota? Refugiado el citado árabe en Calatayud, dio forma y popularizó este estilo de canción que a modo de homenaje a su creador, el moro Aben-Jot, tomó el nombre de Jota.

La jota es una danza y canto tradicional extendida por gran parte de España. Varía su estilo según las regiones, existiendo, por ejemplo, la jota de Aragón, la jota castellana, la jota manchega, la de León, la de Valencia, la jota mallorquina,1​ la de Navarra, la de La Rioja, la «montañesa» de Cantabria, la de Asturias, la de Galicia, la de Extremadura, la de la Alta Andalucía, la de Murcia, las jotas del País Vasco,2​3​4​ la jota catalana5​ e, incluso, la insular jota de Canarias.6​7​8​

Entendida como representación escénica, la jota se canta y se baila acompañándose de castañuelas y los intérpretes suelen ir vestidos con trajes regionales. En Valencia, antiguamente, se bailaba la jota en la ceremonia de los entierros. También se bailaba —y se baila— en Cataluña, y especialmente en la zona de las Tierras del Ebro (Amposta, Tortosa, etc) y en el Campo de Tarragona (jota fogueada).9​ También en Canarias las jotas y rondallas con características peculiares eran la parte del folclore más destacada, hoy día un tanto desplazadas por la protección hacia otros estilos considerados más autóctonos. No obstante, en las islas existe la isa, una pieza musical que deriva de la jota. En Filipinas, los religiosos españoles trasmitieron la jota a los tagalos, que la interpretan en rondallas y acompañada de instrumentos nativos. Las variedades de jota de Aragón, La Rioja y Navarra están emparentadas entre sí y forman las llamadas Jotas del Ebro, siendo unas de las más características de este género. Se celebran concursos y certámenes de jotas del Ebro por todo el territorio español.

Datos web, Foto dama con vestido de cola estilo tradicional baile flamenco

[adobe-outdesign]

Opinions on the funky bird Oricorio?

Oricorio's a neat reference to how some birds become different species as they adapt to certain food sources (much like Darwin's finches). In a way they almost feel like they'd work better as split-evos, mostly because they don't have much of a visual connection to each other apart from having the same eyes/beak and basic body shape. Then again, split-evos would require it to have a useless pre-evo, and it's more fun to be able to switch between forms anyway. Regardless, it's a fun premise.

Also, I don't really see how these guys being tied to Alola is a problem; plenty of Pokemon show up in places that their IRL counterparts wouldn't (especially from trainers releasing them). If it's the nectar that's the issue, there's no reason it couldn't be imported. The only form that connects directly to Alola is Pa'u.

Out of all forms, I think Baile style is my fav. I'm a sucker for red and black color schemes, and the way the black reflects the shape of the wings and the tail is lovely. I also really like the way the tail overlaps on itself, much like real bird feathers do. Only thing is that the "earrings" probably could've been black as well.

Pom-Pom Style is def the cutest of the bunch; it's pretty hard not to love a little bird cheerleader. The way the fluff is integrated not only into the pom-poms but into the feet and head as well is nicely done. Only thing about this one is that I don't like the color all that much; lime green is just a bit odd for an electric type instead of a pure yellow.

Pa'u style is probably my least fav, but it's not terrible or anything. There's just something about the shape of it that bugs me; it might be that the wings have no feathers coming off of them aside from the ones at the tips, making it look a little plucked. Not helped by the fact that we can't actually see the base of its legs in this one, making it look weirdly humanoid.

I think if the "skirt" had one more layer of feathers on top that were the same color as the body, it would help make it and the headdress look a bit more connected. Add a row of pink and white feathers to the wings and I think it'd be solid.

Side note, am I the only one who thinks psychic is a weird choice here? It feels like the other types represent the dances (fire for flamenco, electric for cheer leading, ghost for Japanese dancing), but I don't see a connection between hula and psychic at all.

Sensu style comes close to being my fav, only narrowly edged out by Baile. Ghost is a neat typing choice for Japanese dances, and I'm a big fan of the lovely purple/pink/blue palette. Plus, its dex mentions it summons the dead with its dancing, and really, that's just cool.

Overall, some fun birds with a fun gimmick. Personally, I'd love to get more regional forms added based on the dance styles of new regions, along with new nectars. We already arguably have four regions covered here (Spain not even having a game yet), so it woudl feel natural to expand the roster as time goes on.

[lunafaeris-archive]

muse’s pokemon team.

          /Luna’s team is reminiscent of her personality, mostly revolving around the fact that she likes dogs. Fenrir (Lycanroc) is her companion pokemon who is always seen walking alongside her unless they’re participating in a sanctioned Pokemon League match. Much like her hell hounds, he is viciously protective of his master, sending her would-be rivals/haters blasting off again with Stone Edge, while at the same time melts like putty in her hands. Lucrezia (Oricorio) may be a Baile Form, but specializes in Flamenco dancing and pulling off devastating, mid-air techniques with her Flare Blitz.

          /Anton also has his team based off his personal interests, mostly choosing pokemon that have musical themes or abilities. Gwen, short for Guinevere (Treecko), was his first pokemon and despite her small stature in her unevolved state is extremely swift and agile with Leaf Blade. She’s also his companion pokemon who clings to his back like a knapsack whenever they’re walking around town. Ygraine (Bewear) was actually brought back from Alola as a souvenir by Anton’s father, when she was still a Stufful. Now a fully grown Bewear, Ygraine is still rather shy and tends to avoid confrontation whenever possible, though physically she is the strongest pokemon with the highest ATK on his team. She is quite literally the living embodiment of ‘looks like a cinnamon roll, but could actually kill you’.

[sibyl-of-space]

Final Fantasy IX ~ Melodies and Memories

"Jesters of the Moon"

There are a lot of very good video games in the world, but it takes some luck and circumstance outside of a game's control for one to reach me at just the right time(s) and place(s) in my life that it has a tangible impact on who I am -- who I want to be. One that carves out a space for itself in my soul that will never be removed or replaced.

I've just finished playing Final Fantasy IX for the first time, and there's no doubt in my mind that such is the case here.

(Continued below readmore.)

I drew this art last year, when I was mourning my attachment to an old favorite game that I just don't feel the same way about anymore: Majora's Mask. I wanted to draw something that captured my feelings about it, because sometimes art is the best way to talk about something when the words don't want to come.

Why is "Jesters of the Moon," the name of a random song in the Final Fantasy IX soundtrack, plastered in the middle of this Majora's Mask fanart? Especially considering I hadn't even played Final Fantasy IX yet when I drew this?

The reason is exactly that "luck and circumstance" that allowed me to fall so uniquely in love with the game.

"Mt. Gulug"

In 2008, someone on YouTube uploaded a Majora's Mask parody-slash-let's-play series called "Majora's Mask: The Things Which Were Taken Out." The series has since become unlisted and won't be linked here out of respect for the creator who probably doesn't want things they said and made in 2008 being spread all over the internet, but because of Unregistered Hypercam 2 reasons, the series inserted other background music over the video and didn't record the actual game audio.

I didn't recognize any of the music, but I watched these parody videos on repeat because in addition to being funny (...at the time, in my mind, at least), I really really loved the music. It got to the point where I would sometimes be playing Majora's Mask and get disappointed when I approached Goht and the Mt. Gulug theme wasn't playing in the background.

I had forgotten about these videos for a really long time in the interim, but I remembered them at some point when I was thinking about Majora's Mask and I found them again. The creator had cited the Final Fantasy IX soundtrack for virtually all of the background music used in the videos, and I realized that despite knowing literally nothing about the game, I had become really fond of - and weirdly nostalgic for - the songs from it that I now recognized.

So I looked up "Jesters of the Moon" and played it on repeat while I drew out my feelings in colored marker. A few months later, I realized that my backwards compatible PS3 can also play PS1 games, and eBay had FFIX for PS1 at a good price. I had nothing to lose by ordering it and seeing what the source of all that fantastic music was like.

"Vamo Alla Flamenco"

I started my playthrough knowing nothing about what to expect from the game. I'd never played a Final Fantasy game before and my overall JRPG experience has been mostly limited to Tales of, Persona, and more recently, mainline Shin Megami Tensei. The only things I knew about Final Fantasy were a) the Tidus laughing scene, and b) Sephiroth. IX seemed like it had vibes I would enjoy, but beyond that I knew nothing about what the experience would be. So I approached it with a "let's have fun and see how it goes" attitude, naming my party members the first silly thing that came to mind, ending up with "Swaggy," "OwO," "Bitchin," "Gunz," and "SWOOORD" to start with.

(For the record I do not regret those names whatsoever.)

I was immediately struck by how differently the game uses music in comparison to all of my previous JRPG experiences. This was not a game where the composer was given a list of theme songs that were slapped on top of a mostly completed game-- this was a game constructed with the soundtrack in mind as a part of the writing process.

The opening act plays almost like an opera (side note, yes I know one of the other FF's has a literal opera, I haven't played that one): you traverse the same locations from different perspectives as different characters, introducing the cast with lighthearted humor and dramatic irony out the wazoo. While you traverse the city as OwO, OwO's theme is playing in the background, coloring your perspective of the city and the narrative. When you switch to Gunz patrolling around the castle, Gunz's theme accompanies your movement and informs his character and mission. I am so accustomed to "location themes" being the norm in virtually all video games that experiencing character and/or narrative themes as BGM instead while I bumble around town changed my entire perspective on what music in games can do and be.

The operatic feeling is definitely intentional, because the game uses a play-within-a-game narrative device to hit you over the head with its themes in a way that is somehow poignant and artful while also being extremely blatant. That is a hard balance to strike, but it manages. The whole game is like that: it is completely straightforward and tells you exactly what it's about at heart, but it does it beautifully.

At any rate, I was enamored with this intro and had a very fun time, but I wasn't obsessed or anything and ended up putting it down. I spent several months on the first half of disk 1 with weeks passing between play sessions. I liked the game plenty, but life stuff happened and I decided to get obsessed with Dai Gyakuten Saiban and Ghost Trick for a while. No regrettis.

It was already clear, though, that FFIX was going to be special to me. My compositions for my team's game in the Global Game Jam in 2021 were directly inspired by FFIX's opera-like intro. I wrote two character themes for our game that would serve as background music when you play as the two protagonists, coloring your journey differently even when moving in the same spaces. I was intentionally trying to mimic the way music is used in FFIX as an exercise. The themes I wrote are definitely some of my strongest work so far.

(You can check out the game here if you want, I promise it is significantly shorter than Final Fantasy IX.)

"Melodies of Life"

Music caused me to pick up FFIX the first time, and music caused me to return to it. After months of not touching or really thinking about it, just earlier this week I was inspired to play it again, because - again - I listened to the right song at the right time.

I was again mourning the loss of something, in this case a friendship, for reasons I'm not going to share here. I had already heard the song "Melodies of Life" because it came up when I was looking up FFIX songs to reblog on Tumblr a few months ago, and I decided to listen to it again. Even without knowing the game context, the song itself really spoke to me in that moment: "a voice from the past, joining yours and mine, adding up the layers of harmony" - it kind of made me feel at peace with the fact that I had a lot of positive memories of that friendship and I could keep those at heart while also moving on in the present. ...I'm also a sucker for music metaphors, so there is that.

I was really moved by this song, cheesy as it is, and I was also definitely in the mood for a distraction. Picking up FFIX again felt like the best move.

It was, and my life is forever changed.

The game never stopped being beautiful and funny and touching, and the soundtrack never ceased to amaze. I recognized concepts I've seen in other games but never had I seen them used so artfully. I adored the fantasy world and non-human cast, I found myself enticed by random encounter for the first time because it made me feel like I had to struggle to survive a difficult journey. Music, gameplay, visuals, and story felt like one cohesive work of art for the entire duration.

Life circumstances got me to play the game again, but the game itself was so captivating and wonderful that I binged the entire rest of it - disks 2-4 - in less than a week. Everything else that the game had to say, it told me itself, in its own context, and I was ready to listen.

"You're Not Alone!"

This is going to make me sound like an emotionally-stunted twenty-something, but it has been years since a work of media has got me to have a really good cry. I used to cry playing games all the time as a kid but recently I'll find myself getting emotional, sure, often tearing up, but getting completely red-faced and snot-nosed because I physically cannot contain the emotions being evoked by a work? Years. I can't honestly tell you the last time it happened with certainty.

I feel like an emotional band-aid has been ripped off. I was f*cking sobbing during the entire duration of the "You're Not Alone!" sequence. It didn't matter that what was happening was obviously coming from a mile away, because the delivery was so raw and emotional and human!!! A whole game's worth of Swaggy punching first and asking questions later to save his friends, being Protag McProtag endangering himself for others in any and all circumstances, for the payoff of all of his friends forcing him to stop being such a primadonna and let them help him for once. It's true, too! He relies on them just as much as they rely on him! And the game doesn't just tell you this, no, it lets you try to solo all these fights and waits until you realize how boned you are until they come bail you out.

When Bitchin showed up with her "looks like you need a hand" I wanted to straight up yell at my tv. YES I DO!!! YES I DO NEED YOU BITCHIN!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!! I half knew that SWOOORD was going to heal me before I got truly KO-ed but I had been unmercifully wiped in "unwinnable" battles before in this game, so I legit thought I might have to re-do that whole part of the game again, and I was so relieved and thankful when she showed up and healed me.

This moment exemplifies everything that I adore about this game. It doesn't just tell you its story. It shows it to you, it sings it to you, and it and lets you play it out and feel it for yourself.

"Game Over"

This song is all too familiar to me. Gizamaluke's Grotto was very unforgiving for a first-time Final Fantasy player, especially one who didn't happen to pick up Big on the way for a fourth party member early on.

I hadn't heard the piano part in a few months, though, because when I picked the game back up I started just mashing to reload before it got to that point any time we wiped. I didn't hear it again until the game was truly over, this time for good.

I let it play for a while. Not too long, because I have a CRT TV and didn't want "The End" to get burned in. But a while. Enough to meditate on what I'd just experienced, and how I was feeling about it.

There's so much more to say about the game, far more than I could put in a blog post. But I don't think I need to describe these thoughts in words. I can do what the game did, and use music, use art, use stories, use metaphors, and use symbols to communicate what I mean; and hope that someone else is able and willing to listen.

And although a written record of my thoughts likely won't be preserved for all that long, maybe the feelings and the memories will be, so long as they have been shared.

[strawbs-screaming]

my guess on if the boxers went to jail or not

i just feel like making this right now, enjoy

Glass joe - hes gotten into some fights but he usually loses them, ending up in him causing people to go to jail because theres no evidence thats clearer than a thousand bruises and a few broken bones

Von Kaiser - got framed for a robbery once but got proven innocent, not much other than that

Disco Kid - got some noise complaints for blasting his music a bit too loud during a party + some speeding tickets but hes clean other than that

King Hippo - public indecency issues thanks to his pants but got over that pretty quickly

Piston Hondo - hes a tad bit paranoid about laws & police so hes squeaky clean (for now)

Bear Hugger - went to court for having "illegal pets" And had to explain how mrs bear was his trainer and his Squirrel was a motivational speaker, they somehow accepted it

Great Tiger - also a careful with laws but has been pulled over for speeding, he actually hasnt had to get any fines or tickets since he teleports away as soon as he stops his car when getting pulled over

Don Flamenco - got into some fights during his teenage years, specifically with carmen's ex, he got into a nasty fight and had to stay in jail for a while

Aran Ryan - oh boy. Has been in jail for basically everything in every age, from sneaking into places hes not supposed to be in to kidnapping his pet mountain lion back from authorities, hes been to jail multiple times and usually gets anyone around him thrown into jail as well

Soda Popinski - No, but is on thin ice for his shady soda business and so are his doctors

Bald Bull - multiple times, actually! Usually from assault thanks to him attacking the paparazzi, had to be bailed out by macho mans 39 lawyers

Super Macho Man - his 39 lawyers will not let that happen, but if he didnt have said 39 lawyers he would be in jail and be swimming in fines

Mr Sandman - wrecking a entire building is sure to get some attention, specifically from the law, hes squeaky clean other than that

[floridianfireflyfaith]

So uhhhhh I got to urge to pull a bunch of clipart together to make a Pokémon team for Héctor? (And I tried with the scales, I think they’re pretty close based on Héctor being like 6″? I don’t actually know his height hahaaa...)

Braviary - I imagine this one was only recently evolved from a Rufflet, specifically once he regained his place in the Rivera family. Reflective of the “Papa Wolf” in him that can leap out when his family is in danger.

Combusken - Aside from a friend and I’s “Panchito is his alebrije” thing, this hints at the humble origins he probably had in childhood. Imagine a smol Héctor finding a little Torchic and taking him in. Probably his first partner.

Cubone - According to an article I found, the bones of ancestors are very important within a tribe of these guys. That just fits, doesn’t it? Reflective of Héctor’s softer paternal side. You know he took this lonely baby in because he just needed someone.

Maractus - One of his two musical partners, and one he probably found on the outskirts of Santa Cecilia in her natural environment. Her maraca-like sounds are a great accompaniment to his guitar!

Oricorio - His other musical partner. His dancing girl! While the “Baile style” is based off of flamenco dancing, I can easily see there being a similar variation more based on folklorio, a similar style of dance in Mexico with similar gowns. She’s a gorgeous reminder of home.

Rattata (Alolan) - Small, yes, but feisty and ready to rip. Probably a friend  Héctor picked up in his long years trying to sneak his way past the bridge. An accomplice, co-conspirator, and partner in crime! Reflective of his trickster side.

[etarragof]

28 septiembre 2020

El Museo Nacional del Prado y la Asociación de Tablaos Flamencos de Madrid se han unido para celebrar el Día Mundial del Turismo, 27 de septiembre, en una acción en la que grandes estrellas del flamenco y la danza española actuales como son Antonio Najarro (dirección artística e interpretación de castañuelas), Manuel Liñán, Olga Pericet, Eduardo Guerrero y Jesús Carmona (baile flamenco), Cristina Cazorla (escuela bolera) y María Mezcle (cante flamenco) dialogan con las obras maestras  que reciben a los visitantes en la exposición “Reencuentro”. 

 Así, el Museo del Prado y el flamenco, declarado por la UNESCO Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad en el año 2010, unen sus fuerzas en defensa de la cultura como vínculo entre los pueblos, que supera todas las fronteras.

[proyectoblogjadensimon]

Introducción - Simón

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En nuestro blog, Jaden y yo (Simón) vamos a hablar sobre la historia de los países de habla hispana con un enfoque en las tipas de música y baile en las diferentes regiones. Las entradas en el blog serán sobre una tipa de música que existe en los países de habla hispana, como bachata, merengue y flamenco. Vamos a discutir el estilo de la música y los orígenes también. Cuando escribimos sobre los orígenes, podemos conectar la música con la historia del país. Si la música tiene una conexión a un movimiento político, escribiremos sobre el movimiento político. Tal vez el tipo de música se relacione a la colonización del país. En muchos países latinoamericanos, ha habido tiempos difíciles. Históricamente, los dictadores controlaban mucho de los países de habla hispana, y tenían una influencia en las tipas de música de los diferentes países. Por ejemplo, la bachata fue creada inmediatamente después de la muerte del dictador dominicano porque Rafael Trujillo porque él no permitía el baile bajo su gobierno. Hay muchas cosas como eso que nosotros podemos discutir en el blog si nos enfocamos en la música. Estoy muy entusiasmado de trabajar en este blog y compartir muchas historias interesantes con mis compañeros de clase.

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A veces, la historia puede ser un poco aburrida. Un gol de nuestro blog es para ofrecer un blog que enseñe la historia de una manera interesante. Estoy seguro de que a todos los estudiantes en la clase les gusta la música. Si mencionamos la música, mis compañeros de clase escucharán. Además, me encantan todas los tipos de música y por eso, creo que voy a disfrutar el proceso de escribir las entradas del blog. Ya he investigado sobre el tema un poco, y no podía dejar de leer. Tristemente, nunca he estado en un país de habla hispana, y debido al virus, no puedo ir pronto. Sin embargo, todavía quiero aprender sobre la cultura de los países. Ahora, lo único que puedo hacer es investigar y trabajar en el blog. Sobre todo, espero que nuestros compañeros de clase quieran leer el blog y aprender sobre la música de los países latinoamericanos cuando añadimos al blog.

Nuestros lectores son estudiantes en una clase de español. Todos los estudiantes pueden hablar español bastante bien. Si un estudiante decide estudiar en un país de habla hispana, es probable que el estudiante pueda hablar el idioma con sus pares. Sin embargo, el estudiante no va a saber nada sobre la cultura del país y por eso, el estudiante no puede crear una buena conexión con los locales. Por otro lado, si el estudiante lee nuestro blog y aprende sobre la música, un aspecto clave a la cultura, él/ella se sentirán como un local. Además, los locales actuales van a respetar al estudiante. Es importante que los estudiantes de español entiendan la cultura que viene con el idioma, y nuestro blog tratará de hacer esto. Jaden y yo estamos listos para investigar, escribir, opinar, y aprender. ¡Gracias!

- Simón