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Six Central Coast Wineries Join Together to Create New Pacific Coast Wine Trail
CAMBRIA, January 2013 - North San Luis Obispo County features one of the most scenic untouched stretches of coastline in California. Now visitors can enjoy that beauty while tasting some of the regions best rhone and classic coastal varietals. Six local wineries have joined together, creating the "Pacific Coast Wine Trail" winding along the Pacific Coast Highway from San Simeon to Harmony. The Pacific Coast wineries include; Hearst Ranch Winery in San Simeon (below the famous Hearst Castle), Moonstone Cellars, Black Hand Cellars, and Twin Coyotes in Downtown Cambria, Stolo Family Winery up Santa Rosa Creek Road just outside of Cambria, and Harmony Cellars in the tiny town of Harmony.
Each boutique winery features hand-crafted wines made from local vineyards. "It's been fun working together to create a unique experience for North County visitors" says Maria Stolo Bennetti, General Manager at Stolo Family Winery. "These award winning wines coupled with our beautiful trail are going to put us all on the map" adds Todd Clift, Owner & Winemaker at Moonstone Cellars.
The Pacific Coast Wine Trail was created in direct response to the demand by tourist to Cambria and San Simeon to have wine tasting available to them in closer proximity. Many visitors stay in Cambria to enjoy the coast and drive 30 miles to wine taste in Paso Robles. Now, with the design of the new trail, visitors can stay along the coast and taste wine from 6 award winning wineries. The Pacific Coast Wine Trail also plans to offer joint promotions and talks of a shuttle bus stopping along the route are in the works. The Pacific Coast Wine Trail plans to kick-off the start of the trail the weekend of January 19, 2013 with a host of promotions and special pairings at each winery.
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Canes, McBain Agree to Terms on Two-Year Dealby Ken Preston / Carolina Hurricanes
"Jamie is still a very young player who has established himself as an NHL defenseman," said Rutherford. "He moves the puck well and has shown that he can contribute offensively, especially on the power play."
McBain, 24, completed his third full professional season in 2011-12, leading all Hurricanes defensemen with 19 assists and 27 points. The Edina, MN, native led team blueliners with five power-play goals and was second among Carolina defensemen with 11 power-play points. McBain (6'2", 200 lbs.) has scored 18 goals and earned 49 assists (67 points) in 166 career NHL regular-season games with the Hurricanes since turning professional following three seasons at the University of Wisconsin. Carolina drafted McBain in the second round, 63rd overall, in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft.


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Mississippi carnival: Palin vs. Favre
MADISON, Miss. — Ladies and gentlemen, the circus has come to Madison County.
As the wild Republican Senate runoff here tumbles to a climax next week, what began as a bare-bones campaign against Sen. Thad Cochran has bloomed into a full-blown political carnival. Insurgent conservative Chris McDaniel, once viewed as a gadfly state legislator propped up by a lonely pair of well-funded national groups, is now at the center of a colorful and unwieldy activist entourage scrambling to grab a piece of his anticipated success.
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The names and faces crowding around McDaniel would be familiar to voters in any number of political battlegrounds, lending a "Wizard of Oz"-like quality to the race. If a voter woke up in the last few days of the election, they'd look around and find all the familiar staples of conservative TV and talk radio arrayed before them: Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum are here. And there's Ron Paul! And — could that be Chuck Woolery, too?
( Also on POLITICO: Inside the House GOP leadership shake-up)
The former Alaska governor, Pennsylvania senator and Texas congressman, as well as the cheeseball ex-game show host, are all part of the activist road show that has rolled through state after state in the tea party era. It's the same rogues gallery that flocked to Indiana for the 2012 nomination fight between moderate Sen. Dick Lugar and upstart Richard Mourdock; many of the same little-funded groups and C-list political celebrities rushed to Missouri two years ago to dig in behind Todd Akin's doomed Senate campaign. They have descended upon Mississippi only in the last few weeks, as McDaniel's campaign has taken on unmistakable momentum.
For all the Mississippi Senate race's local importance — it may reorder Mississippi's relationship with Washington and has already shaken the state's GOP power structure — the spectacle unfolding here almost defies geography. It is not just a Mississippi phenomenon; it's the way we live now in the age of frenzied, hyper-nationalized activist politics.
The cavalcade of late support for McDaniel is as colorful as it was predictable: Woolery is headlining a bus tour for the Tea Party Express, a group that barely engaged in the race prior to the first round of voting on June 3. Josh Duggar, the Family Research Council official whose family became famous on the reality show "19 Kids and Counting," has stumped for McDaniel. New outside groups — low-profile, bandwagon-hopping organizations with names like Now or Never PAC, Let Freedom Ring and the National Association for Gun Rights — have rushed into the race to spend money, often token sums, on McDaniel's behalf. Ron Paul was here last weekend, and Santorum, the winner of Mississippi's 2012 presidential primary, gave a full-throated plea for McDaniel on Thursday night.
( Also on POLITICO: McCarthy, Scalise rise to GOP leadership)
Standing in front of a preserved red caboose at the corner of a park in this Jackson suburb, a few dozen yards from an inflatable play area where the children of audience members bounced up and down, Santorum insisted that the race in Mississippi was something special: "That's why you have Sarah Palin and Ron Paul and others coming here, because it's much bigger."
"I know in Mississippi, you can be the butt of jokes because you're 50th in this or whatever the case may be. But now you can be first," said Santorum, who has also been appearing in TV ads paid for by the group Citizens United. In melodramatic terms, he exhorted the audience to "make a difference, so you can tell your children and grandchildren: You know that race that started America in a different direction? I was here. I was there."
Voters in the audience seemed alternately entertained and bemused by all the sudden attention lavished upon Mississippi. Some were more interested in the out-of-state entertainment than others. "I'm just really here to hear Chris," said Sally Fletcher, a makeup artist from Madison.
( Also on POLITICO: Walker case may shape campaign finance fight)
Jack Tharp, a retiree who was enthusiastic about both McDaniel and Santorum, called all the heavy exposure "unusual" for Mississippi. "I think people will be glad when it's over with," he said.
Until about a month ago, the array of organizations and politicians supporting McDaniel was a more exclusive group. Since last October, the state lawmaker has benefited from an extraordinarily lavish outside-spending campaign by the national Club for Growth and the Senate Conservatives Fund. Together, those two groups have reported spending more than $4 million on McDaniel's behalf — nearly 70 cents out of every dollar pumped into the race by anti-Cochran independent groups.


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Sunday Sweets: Merry Treats!
It's Christmas!!
So what are you doing online?
No, no, I understand; I need little breaks from all that family time, too.
I mean...[eying family]...uh, I like to check Sunday Sweets with my family, too! Yeah. Ahem.
[pointing] Look, over there! Pretty!
I'm one of those people who goes a little nuts with my wrapping - you know, wrapping the box lids separately and getting all Martha Stewart on the sprigs and sparkly coordinated tags and whatnot - so this is right up my alley. Can you believe that bow? And the ornaments are edible, too!
This giant nutcracker looks like he should be the doorman at FAO Schwarz:
By valscustomcakes under the instruction of Mike's Amazing Cakes.
I'd never guess there was soft squishy cake under there: he looks solid enough to crack walnuts!
Of all the tree cakes I've seen, I think this one is my favorite:
It's so bright and cheery - like the Misfit Toys will come bouncing over any second now.
In fact...
Yep, there they are!
More edible ornaments - this time with an edible box!
Could this BE any more realistic? Seriously. At this point I think I'm going to start gnawing on random Christmas decorations around the house, just to be sure.
Now, BRING US A FIGGY PUDDING!
By Gill Smith
Thank you.
(At least, I *think* that's a figgy pudding. To be honest, I've never seen an actual figgy pudding, and have long suspected it's some kind of holiday euphemism.)
When you see so many gravity-defying and technically advanced cakes, it's easy to take things for granted. For example, how do you think they got these edible reindeer to match the exact curve of the cake?
Submitted by Janina M. and made by Sugar Sweet Cakes & Treats
I know that silicone molds were involved, but beyond that, I'm stumped. And very impressed.
Here's another brilliant technique:
Submitted by Julie K. and made by i am baker
It's like pleated ribbons of icing! Gorgeous, and fondant-free to boot.
Ah, but this one gets even better: like a beautifully wrapped package, the best surprise is inside:
Is that a blue figgy pudding I see?
More importantly: LOOK AT THAT ADORABLE POLAR BEAR. [squee!]
Everyone has a favorite Christmas show, it seems. I love all the classics, of course, but the one I make sure to watch every year is the Jim Carrey version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I know, I know: you think less of me now. I'm sorry. But I love it.
Which brings me to...
By Jacques Fine European Pastries
This was modeled after the original, too, so you purists can feel free to ooh and ahh. ;)
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Can't we just have normal frosting roses, sprinkles, maybe a spermy-looking bunch of balloons? Even a beanbag-body clown would be ok. I mean, I try to avoid even being in the same room with yukky-looking creatures...do I really have to take a bite out of one with a side of Ben and Jerry's?
And speaking of infestations...
Do you think if you made a cake like this out of Twinkies, it'd be twice as likely to survive a nuclear holocaust? Just wondering.
Hey, ever wonder what you'd get if you crossed a naked mole rat with a roach?
Yeah, me neither.
Still, I bet it'd look something like this:
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Sometimes Twitter exposes a rare gem; a person we wouldn't have met under any other circumstances. This is certainly the case for Mrs Stephen Fry. Mrs Fry (or Edna as she's known to her friends) has been entertaining us for some time now with hilarious tweets about her life as down-trodden wife of Stephen Fry.
Having five, six or even seven children (she never seems to be too sure how many), Mrs Fry always has plenty to tweet about. She recently told us:
"I'd better make some sandwiches – the kids will be home soon. I don't like facing them on an empty stomach."
On 15th October, Twitter was home to a huge event, when Mrs Fry hosted a virtual launch for her new book, Mrs Fry's Diary. The hilarious book takes us through a year in the life of an unwitting celebrity wife; exposing the truth about Stephen's secret double life.
I chatted to Mrs Fry during the week and found her to be charming, obliging and only a little bit frazzled. Despite her busyness, trying to juggle her newfound author status with the demands of her large family, she agreed to answer a few questions for me.
Darling Mrs Fry, how lovely of you to take time out of your busy schedule to talk to us here at hellomagazine.com! And may I call you Edna?
Of course you may, dear. It makes a change from what Stephen generally calls me – the old ball and chain. Or after a night in the Red Lion; toots!
Edna, for those who didn't realise that the lovely Stephen Fry had a wife, can you explain how you two met?
I'd like to say it was unforgettable, dear, but sadly Stephen doesn't remember any of it. He hasn't got the best memory in the world but twelve pints of Stella and half a bottle of Tia Maria probably didn't help. On the other hand, I thought it was the most wonderful night of my life – although the other half a bottle of Tia Maria might explain that.
You often refer to your 'two' adorable children – so where do the others fit in? I believe you have six now? Or is it seven?
I may have been exaggerating a little when I said two, dear. Perhaps one is adorable – or at least it is until it learns to speak. I'm reasonably sure we have seven altogether and they don't fit into our small end-of-terrace at all well, to be truthful. If it wasn't for Social Services taking a few off our hands on a rota basis, we'd probably have to convert Stephen's shed. And the bins.
Gosh, and even with all that going on, you still manage to look fabulous all the time. How do you manage it?
It's the tea, dear. And the hats. And, of course, Stephen regularly gives me a healthy glow!
And as well as being a pretty face, I understand you're a bit of a goddess in the kitchen. I know you and Stephen love a bit of spam, but where does the inspiration for all your lovely recipes come from?
You can't spend as much time bent over the kitchen table as I do without picking up a thing or two, dear. It's a sort of gift. That's one of the reasons why I finally agreed to publication of my diary – so I can share my delicious recipes with the world. I like to think that, before long, my Spam Rumpy Pumpy will be sitting proudly on millions of plates across the globe.
I don't want to upset you, Edna, but do you think Stephen really appreciates you? I really feel your pain when you tweet that he hasn't arrived home for tea but has instead gone for one of his… em… meetings with another glamorous woman.
Of course he doesn't appreciate me, dear – he's a man. Besides, he's too busy with her at number thirty-eight. Not that I'd call her glamorous, exactly – more brazen. With a touch of bovril.
Speaking of Twitter, you've become a bit of a Twitter sensation, gaining over 70,000 followers. Why do you think you're so popular?
I have no idea, dear. After all, I'm just a normal, run-of-the-mill, extraordinarily beautiful and talented housewife.
And what do you love most about Twitter?
The opportunity to share my wisdom with those less fortunate, which is pretty much everyone on there as far as I can tell. And the chance to put people to right about my Stephen – honestly, the things he writes on there. What an imagination!
And what does your Stephen think about you being on Twitter? Does he mind that you're so vocal about his whereabouts and his bad habits?
Stephen's far too busy with his kebabs and karaoke to give a thought to what I'm doing, dear. Besides, he has enough trouble reading the cooking instructions on his Pop Tarts.
Now Edna, I've read your book, Mrs Fry's Diary, and it's absolutely hilarious but very revealing. Why did you feel the need to publish something so private?
I didn't, dear. It must have fallen out of my handbag on the bus and before I knew it, someone was offering to publish it – I can't imagine why. After all, it's just your average recipe-packed, poetry-filled, high-octane, emotional rollercoaster of a diary.
And I see your Stephen has written the foreword to the book. So can I assume he's… ahem… right behind you with it?
I allowed Stephen to write the foreword because I feel it's important to encourage him – plus it stops him writing on the dining room wall!
Mrs Fry's Diary is published by Hodder and Stoughton, priced £9.99; you can follow her on Twitter here.


text: We're all bummed that Jason Segel won't be back to write and act in the next Muppet movie, but there is some good news! Flight of the Conchords' Bret ("Brit?") McKenzie will be returning to compose the film's score. McKenzie, who has long had it going on, won the 2012 Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Man or Muppet." His musical contribution to the film was great (though maybe a little derivative), but do you think there's any chance he could be on camera for the next one? Probably not, so let's dream on while looking at photos of his cute little elf face and reliving some of our favorite Bret moments.


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DailyDirt: Let's Play Global Thermonuclear War
from the urls-we-dig-up deptArtificial intelligence projects are getting better and better at playing games against humans. Pretty soon, we'll just let computers play games for us -- because they'll be better at them. Here are just a few more interesting links on AI research playing with games.
- Space Station Invaders is a video game created by a computer program named Angelina -- a piece of software meant to help human game designers. Angelina's creator says, "In theory there is nothing to stop an artist sitting down with Angelina, creating a game every 12 hours and feeding that into the Apple App Store." [url]
- A machine-learning system from MIT has "understood" the meanings of some words only by playing Civilization and having access to the player's manual for the game. This algorithm plays better if it has read the manual -- just like human players? [url]
- Dr. Fill is a crossword-player program that performed better than a lot of humans at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Brooklyn. It finished 141st out of 600 (if it had been ranked officially with human players), and after losing, it said bluntly, "I'll be back." [url]
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I am not sure if it is the actual intent of the growing size of the completely fabricated world they have grafted onto the real world like a cybernetic conjoined twin, but it occurs to me that the "they" and the "us" may find mutual assurance in a certain nagging possibility.
What if we allow the Matrix to be built? That is to say, what if we don't find and sabotage the world sim before it is built, since it seems unlikely any of us is capable of doing (and willing to do) it anyway? What can we reasonably assume will happen? Here is a postulation:
Those who live in the fantasy world of infinite natural and capitalistic growth may be unwittingly drawn to a world that very much resembles our own but which is in fact an infinitely renewable fake world of artificial simulation. We would allow the Bankers, CEOs and NGO members who are paid 400 times their employees' salaries or who are consequent to billions of dollars of debt or funds to plug in to the simulation and manage their own strange affairs there with a company of simulated people and a world of simulated sycophants and whinging "useless eaters" just as they presently view the real world. They can fake-rape and fake-murder their simulated secretary and fake-hide the evidence from the simulated police. In this scenario, they can live their bloated psychopathic lives in peace, asleep, and breed simulated crack babies with their simulated partners (who may or may not be real women attracted to the rich-and-famous lifestyle also "plugged in") and allow them to die off peacefully, having lived their lives with no harm done to the real world and having brought no psychotic children into the world.
Meanwhile, those power-of-attraction zealots, Zeitgeist followers (already following the at least partially computer-generated Peter Joseph) Venus project fans and New Agers who believe in a coming Age of Aquarius time when we shall control everything with our minds and everything will be magical might be permitted to live in their fantasy world, albeit it a different section of the same software for the overpaid CEOs. In this simulated version of MORIAH or whatever the name of the world sim is now, the Fifth Dimensional Beings would be given a kind of Second Life world to inhabit and live out their perfect collectivist vision of harmonic poise with the great vibration. There will be plenty of resources for the technological Utopia because in their dimension, invasive technology will actually avoid the Matrix scenario and be completely perfect with human nature. Little do they realize that reality has pushed technology on its natural path: to a simulation of a world where the simulation did not take over their minds. But why should they realize it? They are happy in their floating astro-communes run with the power of pleasant computers that resist exploitation and corruption. Well, their dreams of such while they lay safely and unknowingly asleep in the Matrix.
The Zionists can be plugged in to an endless sleep to live out their insane fantasy of a totally Jewish, pseudo-Marxist "New World Order", where the Talmud and Torah are finally decoded and the great Metatron ascends to rule benevolently over all Jew kind, while feasting daily on the slave goyem's nurturing pig-like body parts. Of course, the less extreme Jews would be allowed to live their vegan alternative Kibbutz lifestyles in this scenario, as long as they support the basic supposition that the Nation of Israel must exist and is superior to all other forms of Jewish living. Twitching and smirking in their sleep, the tyrannical Rabbi leaders can live out their gray days arguing over which great writer best captured the human condition. Just not in the real world, in very engrossing and cybernetic conversations of virtually enhanced depth.
The population of the world dreaming of space travel, populating Mars and Venus and worlds beyond in fantastic starships based on errant NASA physics may actually live out their NASA-based Star Wars and Star Trek fantasies. They can be the first humans sent to colonize the Moon and write the first lunar pop song by the first lunar electric banjo band. They can have imaginary political dealings with exoraces, aliens and encounter all manner of amazing X-Files plots of intergalactic intrigue, or just sail in their Baron Von Munchausen cutters across the stars, seeking black holes and dark matter and parallel dimensions. They can campaign to end those terrible nuclear weapons and win! At least, all those awful nukes are dispensed with and celebrations across the 7 galaxies fire peaceful fireworks into the sky as the Orions finally agree to help the peaceful civilizations develop new spirit-based hyperdrives. What a wondrous imaginary world of materializer-machine fabricated food these human beings can dream about in their underground life-support Matrix pods while we eat real things we've grown in our real gardens.
Those who actually care for and recognize the beauty of this finite life, who love their communities and the precious resources of Earth, who are after the deep and real experience of being finite and living on the finite world we are born into, who see themselves as caretakers and stewards of the land and seas, which do not belong to them but which are "borrowed from our children" so to speak, who can live responsibly and peaceably with one another and reduce senseless turf wars, resource squabbles, feuds and pranks to their base minimum — these people would probably cling to their connection to Earth, reject the microchips and plugs, fight the Matrix and allow the other groups to peacefully plug in to their "infinite life resource" fantasies of immortality until they safely passed out of existence from our world.
As long as this Matrix is not compulsory, and as long as it continues to elude most people that the Matrix is the news is the military is the culture of the State is the World Government, it seems that in the near future we may find ourselves facing a different world soon. This world would "put away" and "put to rest" those who could never handle Earth life, who always felt they wanted and needed more from it, who ignored the barriers mother nature put on water, land, animal, human and plant life and got violent with us when we tried to point out that we should be living peaceably, responsibly and conservationally with one another as if people and life were precious commodities. Those who got greedy could be plugged into the Matrix for a while and shown the life of plenty they think they wish for. And if they emerge wishing to return to the sim, they could be permitted to do so.
Perhaps, just perhaps, the fake news stories, coupled with the average person's penchant for lifestyle consumerism will result in everyone of those sorts of people getting chipped and contentedly going to sleep for 100 years of solitude in their perfectly catered fabricated reality of seemingly infinite life packed into each moment.
While the real world is left to real people.


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Well Hello There,
Yes I have been MIA for a while. I hope to be back to blogging and video making in the New Year.
So stay tuned. Well I sent all my Christmas cards out before I thought to take a picture of some .
While I was making my Christmas cards I ended up coming up with an idea for a New Years card.
A dear friend gave me the Simon Says Stamp star die cut last year and I love it. I have cut it with Neenah solar white card stock. I then layered that on to some metallic gold card stock that I layered on the black card base. I die cut the little banners out of the the same card stocks using dies I received as a prize from Love's Rubber Stamps. The Happy New Year stamp is one from Michaels $1 bins from a number of years ago. I stamped in the delicata gold ink.
The champagne glasses are a silhouette cut file. The "Champagne" in them is created using Darcie's sparkle tape. It is so pretty.
The inside was done making a cut file into a print file using Silhouette file again but I added the 2015 to the glasses this time. The stars have wink of Stella on them.
Thank you for stopping by today and having a look. And please check back in the New Year.
To all Have a Very Merry Christmas and a Safe and Wonderful New Year.
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Official: Apple iPhone is a chick magnet
Forget speed dating, you need a Jesus Phone
Update Guys, want to get girls? Then buy yourself an iPhone.
According to a survey of 1500 women carried out on behalf of Phones4U*, men who own an iPhone are more attrative than those who don't.
The retailer said today that 54 per cent of respondents said they would more likely date a fellow if he owns an iPhone. Just over a third of them - 37 per cent - said that owning the Apple handset makes a chap seem more reliable.
Being tech-savvy helps too.
"There's just something about a man who's good with computers that makes him more trustworthy," said Lucy, a 23-year-old primary school teacher from London, according to Phones4U.
"If he's got the cash for an iPhone then he must be very good at his job, too."
So it's not all about gadgets, though. Profession is a key 'do I date, don't I date' balance-tipper for 35 per cent of women, with only seven per cent saying they don't care what job a prospective partner does for a living.
Women also cited familiarity with soap and social ease - neither a noted geek forté - as important values when deciding on dating. A good sense of humour is handy too.
And if all else fails, flash your iPhone. ®
Bizarrely, Phones 4U now claims none of the above is true. A spokesman told us the retailer hasn't conducted any such research, and didn't post any findings on a well-known press release distribution site this morning. A case of artificial dissemination, we wonder?
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Corella Ballet Documentary Trailer
Be the first to watch the preview-trailer to an exclusive documentary on the creation and development of Angel Corella's "Corella Ballet de Castilla y Leon"! Excerpts include class and rehearsals at the Company's studios in La Granja de San Iledefonso, early performances in Barcelona and La Granja, and the culminating Sept.'08 debut performance of the entire company in Natalia Makarova's full-length "La Bayadere" at the Teatro Real in Madrid.
If you would like more information about this project, please contact the producer or The Dance Films Association.
PRODUCER-DIRECTOR-VIDEOGRAPHER: Gerri L. Gagnon
EDITOR: Scott Esmond
"Follias Gallegas" by Santiago de Murcia. (Spanish, c1689 - 1734)
Performed by: Rolf Lislevand & Ensemble Kapsberger
CD: Santiago de Murcia: CODEX,
CD LABEL: Naive-Astree copyright 2005
If you would like more information about this project, please contact the producer or The Dance Films Association.
PRODUCER-DIRECTOR-VIDEOGRAPHER: Gerri L. Gagnon
EDITOR: Scott Esmond
"Follias Gallegas" by Santiago de Murcia. (Spanish, c1689 - 1734)
Performed by: Rolf Lislevand & Ensemble Kapsberger
CD: Santiago de Murcia: CODEX,
CD LABEL: Naive-Astree copyright 2005
Views: 43,475
Added: January 20, 2009
Category: General
#23 ¡MAGNíFICO!
¡Muchas gracias, Gerri, por habérmelo enseñado! ¡Tu trabajo es una inspiraicón! Te deseo mucho éxito!
#22 Great job!
VERY NICE! Beautiful! Congratz!
#21 Beautiful!!!
Gerri Gagnon did a great job with the place, colors and dancers. Wonderful.
#20 xD
love it!!!
#19 !!!
i love watching this video...again and again and again!!! ~Kassandre Renee www.TinyDancer211.webs.com
WOW! this is absolutely my favorite video on this site. Amazing! Now I really want to be in the Corella Ballet when I grow up.
#17 Wow!
That is really cool, these dancers have beautiful technique.
#16 awesome
amazing! I'm speechless.
#15 stunningg
this was amazing, the dancers there are so beautiful! i had no clue about this company their technique and artistry is outstanding great jobb !!
#14 Wonderful
How so very lovely. The dancers are wonderful, I really enjoyed watching. It was very inspirational, I really hope to be able to dance like that. Thank you :)
#13 Beautiful
This was so elegant and amazing. I loved it!
#12 I wish
I wish I could dance like that. That is very impressive. They are sooo elegant.
#11 Lovely
This is by far my favorite video on the site. :)
#10 Corella Ballet Video
INspirational video... Such grace and elegance!
#9 beautiful
this is sooooooooooooo beautiful.
#8 : 0
They are soooooo cooool! Wish I could dance like them.....
#7 Wow :]
i loved this they are amazing
#6 I'm so happy this is done!!
I really look forward to viewing all the documentary. What a great idea that of documenting the creation of a classical ballet company nowadays from nothing and in a country that even having so great dancers didn't have any since 20 years ago. For sure only Angel Corella was able to do this and what a company we have!! Thanks Angel!! Thanks Gerri!!!
#5 i love it
it was a pleasant surprise to see that it was in segovia, spain in the beginning. i have traveled there, and around that area, and it was so beatuiful. i'm happy to know that Angel Corella and his company were there as well. they all danced beautifully.
#4 beautiful
great dancers and beautiful technique, i loved it..
#3 ahhhhhh
it the most beautiful thing i love ballet
#2 Corella Ballet video is a delight!
Gerri Gagnon has given us a tantalizing preview of this exciting new company! Spain, at last, has its own classical dance company and it is fitting that these historic moments be captured on film. The amazing Angel Corella and his young company have obviously accomplished wonders. I look forward with great anticipation to viewing the documentary in its entirety - and to seeing Corella Ballet live, whether in Spain or the U.S.!
#1 The beauty of the work
I love the focus of the dancers as they enter the process of learning and rehearsing their roles. There is something almost religious about the one pointed devotion that comes with this profession. This film is a window into a sacred space.