2 posts tagged “fairytales”
...I am already looking forward to december 12th when the J. W. Waterhouse exhibition will start in the Groninger Museum: J.W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite (12/12/2008 - 03/05/2009). I would love to see The Lady of Shalott in real life - and real size - for that matter.
Last saturday we went to Groningen to see the Russian Fairytales exhibition, I can recommend it to everyone, it was absolutely wonderful. If you decide to go, do so on a weekday, we went during the weekend and the museum was packed. We literally stood in line in order to see the paintings. Of course, everyone is entitled to watch the paintings and to study them as long as they desire, but people, please! If you have a rollator AND the media-tour do not pointedly place your rollator directly in front of a painting, sit down and calmly start listening to what the thingy has to say about the painting WHILE ACTUALLY SHOWING YOU SAID PAINTING IN EXCRUCIATING DETAIL, ok? PLEASE move your rollator and your media tour to a corner, listen and watch as long as you please and THEN make your way to the desired painting, the line really will move faster this way and young and healthy people can watch the paintings without almost knocking you over. (As a sidenote - the mediatour was actually really cool, you received an iPod-like device with headphones, and as you listened to the tour, the paintings and additional info would show on the screen!)
On the way home we listened to the stories on the cd that came with the catalogue :)
Finally, as everyone else already posted: Heath Ledger died.
Sean texted me at midnight to tell me, I was already asleep but immediately called him, barely awake, to ask HOW? I mean, it's not like I was a big fan, but somehow he seemed a very decent, nice, thoughtful and sensible young man, judging by the diverse roles he chose to play. I am looking forward to seeing him as the Joker (even though the pictures scare the hell out of me - but then again, I am easily scared). Either way, I was, and still am, shocked to hear about his sudden death.
To all the Dutch-people on my friends list, if you have the time please try to watch "De Sprookjesboom" (The Fairytale tree). Nederland 3 airs this show everyday at 7:10 am. It is repeated daily at 11.55 am and 14.30 pm. IT IS SO CUTE! It is a computer animated series, based on some key characters from fairytales and the designs are based on the Efteling designs. (It is made by Efteling, so go figure).
Linkies: Sprookjesboom official tv-site, here you can watch the episodes you missed. It only started this monday, so luckily we didn't miss much ;) I strongly advice everyone to at least take a look because it really is very nicely done, especially for a dutch production.
Secondly, a very interesting presumably official Efteling site: Nieuwsrijk. Which also has a testride-movie from the new "Flying Dutchman ride", it rules.
Yesterday I bought a beautiful book with the fairytales from the brothers Grimm. Illustrated by the wonderful Anton Pieck. It must have been destiny because I have been searching for this book for a long time, and this was the first time in weeks that I stepped inside the second-hand bookshop I often shop for my books and suddenly it occurred to me that I should check the fairytale department cause you never know, and there it was! Today I went back to take another look at a wonderful book called "De tuin der goden" (The Garden of the Gods) a book with mythological tales from Scandinavia, the Celtic countries, Asia etc. written by A. G. van Hamel (does that name ring any bells? ;) ) also with illustrations by Anton Pieck, in full colour. I am very happy right now.
This is the fairytale tree, this tree tells the story.
Red Ridinghood, Tom Thumb and the witch :)
