Category Archives: America

Sobre las Olas composed by Juventino Rosas

José Juventino Policarpo Rosas Cadenas (25 January 1868 – 9 July 1894) was a Mexican composer, violinist, and band leader.
Rosas’s best known work is “Sobre las Olas” or “Over the Waves” waltz. It was first published by Rosas in 1884 when he was in New Orleans, Louisiana with the popular Mexican band at the World [...]

Juventino Rosas.
Juventino Rosas. Credit Public domain
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Death is the Road to Awe

Production footage from Tom Lowe’s debut film “Southwest Light”

Vancouver City time lapse

“Vancouver City” music video is an artistic collaboration between Innerlife Project and TimeLapseHD. For more information and music downloads go to www.innerlifeproject.com.
This time lapse is shot with a 12 mega pixel digital single lens reflex cameras. Original resolution is 6 times better than HD (high definition). The images have been resized for HD and are [...]

Gulf of Mexico oil spill

This oil spill will probably become the worst oil slick ever and not only the US but all North Atlantic countries should help now, because if the oil is spreaded by ocean currents, it could be a major environmental disaster for the whole ocean.

In the following satellite images you can see how the oil [...]

April 21, 2010
April 21, 2010 Credit NASA/MODIS Rapid Response Team
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Sheep, mixing Churras and Merinos

Sheep were one of the earliest animals to be domesticated for agricultural purposes, sheep are raised for fleece, meat (lamb, hogget or mutton) and milk.
The domestic sheep is a multi-purpose animal, and the more than 200 breeds now in existence were created to serve these diverse purposes.
Churras and Merinos are 2 of those breeds, [...]

Sheeps marching!
Sheeps marching! Credit Caro's Lines
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The conquest of Mexico

Let’s promote this week the contribution of El Bibliomata, a flickr user that shares illustrations and photographs of the collection from the Library of the Faculty of Law and Labor, University of Seville.
While we create real digital content a good start is to digitalised old works. The start, some old litographies of the conquest of [...]

Hernan Cortes armour.
Hernan Cortes armour. Credit El Bibliomata
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Danse Macabre. Halloween, 31st October

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre, Samson and Delilah, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, and his Symphony No. 3 (Organ Symphony).
Danse Macabre (first performed in 1875) is the name of opus 40 by French [...]

Danse Macabre. Halloween, 31st October
Credit ecstaticist
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