Last Saturday I went to see "Red Cliff", a movie of the Chinese film director John Woo. And I want to recommended it because it's a great film, visually excellent and with an interesting plot. The movie data are: Director: John Woo Screenwriter: Terence Chang, John Woo, Khan Chan, Kuo Cheng and Sheng Heyu Starring: Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Chang Chen, Zhao Wei, Hu Jun Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama This awesome film is an epic and historical drama based on a legendary 208 A.D. battle that heralded the end of the Han Dynasty. The scenes of the movie are really incredible, the battles are a show of perfectly organized strategies. The sceneries of the beautiful China, ships, palaces, the clothes... All perfectly well cared... There is a scene of this film that is really great, the camera records the flight of a dove crossing the sky. One can feel the sensation of flight. John Woo is without a doubt a very remarkable director. I never liked war movies, because war is the big fail of human communication, the worst of humanity, but there is a phrase at the end of the film when a character says something like "We won the war" and there is a vision of a lot of died soldiers and the main character says "No one has won today" and I think that phrase is the essence of a war. In a war nobody wins and everybody looses something or someone. There are other values in the film like friendship, honor, fidelity, that make this film something worth to watch, and then think in peace, in the power of talk and learn to try to get solutions, tolerance... Has someone thought how much could have humanity advanced if wars had not existed? If cities and civilizations had not been destroyed, built again, and again and again... Sometimes people talk about how an extraterrestrial civilizations that can travel to other planets may be. And I always thought that it should be non violent, because war and violence make us weak.

Slash's new album is called "Slash" and in this moment is a best seller all over the world. Slash has created an album with very influential musicians like Ozzy Osbourne, Iggy Pop, Kid Rock, Lemmy Kilmeister (Motörhead), Ian Astbury (The Cult), Chris Cornell (Soundgarden, Audioslave) or Fergie (Black Eyes Peas) amongst many others. The album has 14 songs. Slash is one of the most greatest guitar player and his taste to do collaborations is very well known, so this album could not be other way, an album made with friends. Two songs that stand out in this album are "Crucify The Dead" (featuring Ozzy Osbourne) and "Beautiful Dangerous" (featuring Fergie). In the video you can see the trailer of the album Slash. Enjoy it! Find this album at fye, and here's a coupon!

During this month, you can see some of my artworks in Arco de San Juan Hotel in Murcia city (Spain). Actually, it was going to be in the month of September, but the artist that had to make an exhibition this month (April) had a baby 2 days before that. So I had to prepare the exhibition in a very short time. The exhibition is in Murcia, the seventh largest city in Spain. It was founded by the Moors in 825 CE. It's original name was Medina Mursiya. The founder of the city was Abderraman II. It is the statue with which I made the photo (LOL!). Me and Abderraman II :D Unfortunately we had very little time and I couldn't make too much photos. But the city has a big quantity of baroque buildings. And the Cathedral is something very impressive. We passed by with our car and couldn't make a photo, but when I can I'll do it to show you. Murcia is a touristic and services place. It has a traditional agriculture that makes Murcia be called the Europe's orchard. The food of Murcia is excellent. The quality of their vegetables is well known in all Europe, and their traditional food is very good. If some day you visit Murcia, don't forget to eat the "pastel murciano", it's a bad vice, it's so tasty... The hotel "Arco de San Juan", where I am making the exhibition, is in the old part of the city, a very touristic area. It's is a four star hotel in the very cultural center of Murcia (Spain), near the Cathedral. The hotel is a XVIII Neoclassical palace that was property of the Count of Floridablanca, and has received numerous architectural acknowledgments and awards. This is the hotel "Arco de San Juan" The exhibition will be through May, and is open to the public during the hotel's working hours. It's always a lovely experience to see the reactions of people with my work. I could talk to some people of Murcia there, and they were very kind to me. It's also very lovely to share this with you.