2 Inspiring hours with Ferrán Adriá and José Andrés.

Harvard University, December 4, 2011.

The nueva nouvelle couisine: A Laboratory of Taste

by Arthur Lubow (The new york Times, august, 2003)

Several months before our defense secretary downgraded France to the ”old Europe” and our restaurateurs started pouring French wine into the gutters, I was talking with Marc Veyrat, a French chef whose two restaurants have received top scores from the Michelin and Gault-Millau guides. To my surprise, Veyrat told me that the most creative cooks in Europe were no longer French; they were Spanish. Had my source been located in the Pentagon and not in a sumptuous auberge on the shores of Lake Annecy, I would have taken the assertion with several fistfuls of gros sel. However, this declaration of Spanish creative supremacy came from one of the most forward-looking chefs in France. I paid attention.

After a trip to Spain this summer, I’m convinced: the effervescence that buoyed French nouvelle cuisine in the 1970’s has somehow been piped across the Pyrenees. Nor am I alone in feeling that way. A cover article in The Wine Spectator in June proclaimed that Spain is ”the new source of Europe’s most exciting wine and food.” Many prominent American chefs agree. ”Spain is where the zeitgeist has shifted,” says Charlie Trotter, Chicago’s most celebrated chef. ”In Spain, they’re pushing the envelope.” David Bouley, who oversees two distinguished restaurants in Lower Manhattan, told me: ”The Spanish don’t have this rigor where they have to cook a certain way. They seem to be totally free. Something happened in France — they ran out of gas. I don’t hear about youthful passion as I used to in those kitchens. The real explosion is with all the young guys in Spain.” Even Thomas Keller of the much-honored French Laundry, north of San Francisco, who has some qualms about new-wave Spanish cuisine, remarks that ”the French work ethic has deteriorated over the last few years” and that compared with Spain, ”you have in France a much more traditional, fundamental-based cooking.”

Complete text: New York Times.

“La cocina debe ser la cita de un tiempo perdido, de una ilusión perdida. El reencuentro de un sabor de la infancia y el intento de captarlo en la memoria y darle vida.”

La cuisine,c´est beaucoup plus que des recettes, Alain Chapel, 1980.

After all the last 2011 travelling around the world (Tokyo, New York, Paris, London and Madrid) today is the day! 

ALL THE WOMEN. 366 DAYS, 366 WOMEN, 366 FILMS. I hope you like it!

Join the experience on the project´s facebook  or twitter ;)

“Go to Nature in all singleness of heart, and walk with her laboriously and trustingly, having no other thought but how best to penetrate her meaning, rejecting nothing, selecting nothing, and scorning nothing.”

John Ruskin

John Ruskin portrait (John Everett Millais, 1854)

Lo que haría falta para encontrar un tema es abrir un libro capaz de inspirar

y dejarse llevar por el humor del momento.

Diario, Eugene Delacroix.

One day I´ll proudly say “I watched Melancholia & Antichrist” in theaters. Lars Von Trier is with no discussion the best artist of our time. The Pieter Bruegel of our century.

John Everett Millais´s Ophelia

Dogville

Antichrist

Melancholia

La Fonoteca interviewed me about my last music gig in Madrid with my solo band “Little Toys” the last month in Siroco´s. A great video by Sonido Muchacho.  

#PaintingsThatILove

EL PATIO DE COMARES, LA ALHAMBRA DE GRANADA (Joaquín Sorolla)

84,5 X 106,5 cm. Painted in 1917

House-Museum Sorolla in Madrid.

Miranda July poses as extras from classic films, for Vice.

I love this woman.

La Luna de Metrópoli (Diario El Mundo) - ENTREVISTA sobre “ALL THE WOMEN” 

14th of october.

“ your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.

The Laughing Heart, Charles Bukowski. 1920-1994.

www.allthewomenfilm.com

 ALL THE WOMEN started as a dream and also as a challenge. Today almost a year later is a reality. 

An artistic and documentary project that has led me to discover 5 world cities through their women eyes. Here’s the trailer and the website if you want to follow  the road with me all this 2012 ;)

Vive le cinema!

#readingnow

FRIEND OF YOUTH - Alice Munro

Thanks to Pedro Almodovar´s last release THE SKIN I LIVE IN, I discover her.

Munro´s short stories take me to new places of my memory.

#Readingnow

“Mike Mills | Graphics & Films” 

Graphics Films is the first retrospective monograph about the filmmaker (Thumbsucker, Beginners) and graphic designer (Air, Beasty boys) Mike Mills.

For more than 15 years, Mills‘ works in the fields of design and film have determined his own visual landscape of our times. Graphics Films is a painstakingly produced document of Mills’ career to date, including many of his works in graphic design, installation, publications and film projects.

PATTI SMITH 1969 - 1976 (Photographs by Judy Linn)

Judy Linn finally released all her photographs about her muse Patti Smith during 6 years.

A fucking awesome book published by Abrams Image.

 
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#Readingnow

“DEAR DIARY” by Lesley Arfin.

I love it.

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“Ella había estado tomando antidepresivos, así que el cuerpo en su día esbelto que se contoneaba como una serpentina blanca se había vuelto gordo y macilento, como si el propio cuerpo se hubiera vuelto incapaz de recordar lo que un día fue. Se había convertido en una tabla blanquecina, algo totalmente ajeno a mí e incluso a Marisa. Ya no era la reina de las mamadas, siempre en bikini, que yo había conocido y con la que esperaba tener mi primera relación lésbica.”

I decided to make my first selection of different written tales and little stories related to childhood and adolescence that I´ve been writting from a long time. As well I´m writting right now this summer new stories for that. I think I´ll have it ready in a few months. Here´s one and a fake awesome cover as the style of Alpha Decay´s, one of my favourite publishing houses in Spain. Hope you like it if you read spanish.

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L´AMOUR FOU

Un relato de Pablo Maqueda

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Ferrocene, 2008. Damien Hirst

A HIGH SCHOOL STORY 

Short film in posproduction. Release 2012.

She wants to be the best cheerleader in High School. She has a little secret. She is 33 years old. A fiction/documentary shot in USA and inspired by true events.

A PABLO MAQUEDA and RIOT CINEMA production. 

THE LUCK 

2011. 7 min. Color. 2.35.1.

A documentary about the spanish christmas lottery and the people behind it. 

An AVALON production, included as DVD bonus feature in “Antoine et Antoinette” (Jacques Becker, 1947).

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LONG WIDE SHOT WITH MADRID SKYLINE 

2010, 8 min. Color. 2.35.1.

Madrid through long wide shots. A tribute to Bruno Dumont.

An AVALON production, included as DVD bonus feature in “L´humanité” (Bruno Dumont, 1999).

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REAL ZOMBIE 

2008, 15 min. Color. 1.33.1.

Two cameras rolling. Madrid at night. Zombies.

Starring Gonzalo Maqueda, Adolfo de Grandy, Jon Matías, Diego Arévalo. 

An AGONÍA production.

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BILLY FREUD´S LAST NIGHT

2005, 78 min. Color. 1.33.1.

High School days. The last week. What will you be able to do? Populars, nerds, cheerleaders… everyone is invited!

Starring Álvaro Daza, María Hervás, Esther Toledano, Blanca Jara.

An AGONÍA and ICONO TV Production.

http://allthewomenfilm.tumblr.com

5 CITIES. 366 DAYS. 366 WOMEN. 366 FILMS.

An interactive online film about anonymous women´s around the world. An inspirational daily film experience shot in LONDON, MADRID, NEW YORK, PARIS and TOKYO. A tribute to the XXI Century Woman.

Release online January 1st, 2012.