in brief
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monumental yugoslavia

Jan Kempenaers has put together a special collection of photos taken on journeys through the country once known as Yugoslavia. He's made an album about the monuments built during the Tito era. Most of them are related to war, with all the characteristics of sculpture and architecture in homage to soldiers and military events.

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summer on our feet

In recent years, sandals cling onto our first two toes and go out to the street when the weather gets hot. You hardly see crab-type plastic sandals any more and traditional sandals aren't at a high point either. Being in favour of the traditional sandals, it's good to see that some brands have taken on this style once more and are working to renovate it.

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monegros 18/07/09

The desert festival's back again. Electronic music and dance are normally the main dish at the festival, and this year the dust-lovers are making a special offer of various styles of hip-hop: Calle 13, Tego Calderon, La Excepcion and Tote King Band. There can't be a better way to get over the hangover from San Fermin.

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doctor parnassus

Terry Gillian can't find distributors for his latest film. Nobody wants to distribute Gillian's latest film Doctor Parnassus, at least not with the conditions he has made. It's not surprising that the former Monty Pythoner can't find fellow travellers with his extravagant behaviour. It sometimes seems as if Gillian puts his foot in it whenever he has the chance to. We'll probably have to buy the DVD or watch Heather Ledger's last film on-line.

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live in the basque country on july 3-4-5

The programme for this year's EHZ festival, to be held in Heleta, is magnificent. The formula of combining innovative local bands with foreign musicians is excellent. Amongst others, Borrokan, Deabruak Teilatuetan, Sparteens, Willis Drumond, Zura and Moxkorri-k, Bellrays, Seun Kuti, Emir Kusturica & The Non Smoking Orchestra and Beat Torrent are well worth seeing and listening to.

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gorputza at 90 grados

Donostia's Noventa Grados and LiquidDocks studio have organized an interesting event. With the body as the central theme, throughout the year different exhibitions and events will held in this special Donostia ́s old town main street location. This initiative's objective is to show not just creative results but also the processes and steps that were taken to achieve them.

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vanpire street art

Street art has no limits. New branches and shoots spring from the trunk of graffiti art all the time. And brands and businesses have quickly learnt how to take advantage of this. Here's an original, fun warning which may also be very useful. You never know when a vampire may come out on you.

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cow pats july 26 th.

The Government of Navarre has taken away almost all of Xorroxin Radio's subsidies. Because of this cut and the crisis, they've come up with a most peculiar way of raising funds. The field in front of Xorroxin Radio has been divided into 4,000 squares and each one is numbered. The organizers want to sell those 4,000 numbers. Three cows are going to be put into the field, and the owners of the squares they put cow pats in will be the winners. Yoko Ono would be proud of this beautiful performance!

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3rd andoain rock festival june 20 th

Andoain's welcomed the summer with a bang for the last three years. There's no need for the usual schemes to sell festival tickets in Andoain. On the one hand, because some great groups will be playing; on the other hand, because it's free: among others: señor no + roy loney, chesterfield kings, capsula...

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backwash

The people in charge of the San Sebastian Film Festival have put together this interesting section for this year's festival. While French New Wave cinema was highly influential, there were other tendencies and film-makers who went against it. And while it is subjective to say so, we'll be able to see some of the most interesting films from this tendency from the last few decades. You can see more on the Film Festival's website.

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kafea eta galletak (coffee and biscuits)

The Kafea eta Galletak project started as a record-listening session. At the beginning, music-lovers got together to listen to each other's records. And, in a natural way, another project started from that. Various artists took simple versions of them. Who? Visit
www.blogari.net/kafea

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my badly-drawn life

We love comic artist Gipi's work. Regular readers of The balde know that already. And to our delight the Italian draughtsman has returned to the bookshops with a new, special comic: la mia vita disegnata male. In this diary-like comic Gipi amazes us with his style once more. This artist, better than anyone, shows how so many things happen while nothing is happening.