#castells

[useless-catalanfacts]

Beautiful castell by the Colla Jove Xiquets de Tarragona castellers group! (Too bad for the very last few seconds!)

The Catalan tradition of castells (human towers) is very precise about the "architecture" to make it work. Each person's position and each structure has a name. Each type of castell also has a name. The one in this video is a 4de9 (9 floors with 4 people in each of them, except the kids who crown it) with folre (the large group of people who act as a 2nd base, standing on top of the actual base with feet on the floor) and agulla ("needle" 🪡, the pillar that stays standing in the centre when the rest of the castellers go down).

Video by Josep Torrenyo + Món Casteller on Instagram.

[ashuraarts]

Miku castellera!! Castells is a catalan tradition of building human towers during particular celebrations. There are some more traditional catalan attires out there, but idk, I think she looks cool as fuck like this.

I’m late to the trend and this is mostly just an elevated sketch, but I wanted to do an international Miku of my own!

[fancypantsrecords]

Various Artists - The Soothing Sounds Of The Apocalypse | Lakeshore Records | 2024 | Blue Translucent with Black Swirl

Licensed music from the Fallout TV show.

[lesmachins]

Human Towers, Tarragona

[noosphe-re]

I have argued in the preceding chapters that our society is constructed around flows: flows of capital, flows of information, flows of technology, flows of organizational interaction, flows of images, sounds, and symbols. Flows are not just one element of the social organization: they are the expression of processes dominating our economic, political, and symbolic life. If such is the case, the material support of the dominant processes in our societies will be the ensemble of elements supporting such flows, and making materially possible their articulation in simultaneous time. Thus, I propose the idea that there is a new spatial form characteristic of social practices that dominate and shape the network society: the space of flows. The space of flows is the material organization of time-sharing social practices that work through flows. By flows I understand purposeful, repetitive, programmable sequences of exchange and interaction between physically disjointed positions held by social actors in the economic, political, and symbolic structures of society. Dominant social practices are those which are embedded in dominant social structures. By dominant structures I understand those arrangements of organizations and institutions whose internal logic plays a strategic role in shaping social practices and social consciousness for society at large.

Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society

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Castells catalan

[ernestdescalsartwok]

CASTELL-CARDONA-PINTURA-PATI D'ARMES-INTERIORS-HISTORIA-MEDIEVAL-CASTELLS-CATALUNYA-PINTURES-PINTOR-ERNEST DESCALS por Ernest Descals Por Flickr: CASTELL-CARDONA-PINTURA-PATI D'ARMES-INTERIORS-HISTORIA-MEDIEVAL-CASTELLS-CATALUNYA-PINTURES-PINTOR-ERNEST DESCALS- El patio de Armas o Pati Ducal en el CASTELL de CARDONA, espacios interiores en el Castillo con enorme historia medieval, donde se juntan la arquitectura románica con la gótica, un antiguo pozo de agua instalado entre cientos de losas de piedra, grandes arcos y una colección de estrechos ventanales que se ven adornados con algunas macetas, la luz rompe en algunas partes de las paredes mientras todo lo demás permanece a la sombra, ejecuto la pintura como si fuera un bodegón en el que los elementos estan colocados con precisión por el maestro del tiempo para escenificar la vida serena en los castillos de Catalunya, ahora estoy pintado los interiores, antes quise pintar los exteriores, muy bellos decorados naturales utilizados por Orson Welles en algunas de sus famosas peliculas. Pinturas del artista pintor Ernest Descals sobre papel cartulina de 50 x 65 centímetros, buscando las raíces de la historia catalana.

[siamorondinicolguinzaglio]

Un tempo senza tempo...

“Questo tempo lineare, irreversibile, misurabile, prevedibile sta andando in frantumi nella società in rete, secondo un movimento straordinario significato storico. Ma non stiamo assistendo solo a una relativizzazione del tempo in base ai contesti sociali o, in alternativa, al ritorno alla reversibilità del tempo, come se la realtà potesse essere interamente catturata dai miti ciclici. La trasformazione è più profonda: si tratta di rimescolare i tempi per creare un universo infinito, che non si autoespande ma si autoconserva, non ciclico ma casuale, non ricorsivo ma incursivo: un tempo senza tempo che usa la tecnologia per sfuggire ai contesti della sua esistenza e per appropriarsi in modo selettivo di qualsiasi valore ciascun contesti possa offrire al sempre-presente.”

-Castells - “Ai confini dell’eternità: tempo senza tempo”