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Though I didn't get to take a photograph of Lisa Ko and Thrity Umrigar, I wanted to talk about how much I enjoyed seeing them at Printer's Row Lit Fest. I can appreciate the sentiment that the sign expresses here. People of color who are artists, authors, musicians and create their own unique space in the universe don't need the approval or acceptance like white people like me or others. However, as someone who is a white woman, I greatly appreciate reading diverse perspectives and a sense of life long learning and I think, in order to acknowledge the full human story, we need to realize that we can't limit that story in any way. It should come as no surprise that women have a difficult time getting published and, if you are an immigrant or a minority, without connections and money especially, it is next to impossible. So, we must support these incredible voices. It's in our best interest as humans.
For the record, I wasn't able to take photographs of either Lisa Ko or Thirty Umrigar because they were speaking in small classrooms and I'm not the type of person to break out a huge camera and disrupt the author or the readers there to admire them.
But, I did want to write about them and support their work. I read about 130 books each year and I really want to support authors who are both female and who are Jewish, Asian, African American, Palestinian, Latina, Native American, Middle Eastern-I love reading all kinds of perspectives. Here's a list I created of contemporary American female authors I like (some were not born in America but have citizenship now and/or have been living here for many years). (I also love reading different books from women who are not American citizens) Please feel free to add your own suggestions! I am always looking for more authors to discover!
I also wanted to share how much I loved something that Thrity Umrigar said about how sharing the human story and that need is something all humans have in common and unites us all.
Marita Golden
Diane McKinney Whetstone
Esme Weijun Wang
Ellen Ullman
Celeste Ng
Nicole Krauss
Claudia Rankine
Tova Mirvis
Jung Yun
Naomi Shihab Nye
Azar Nafisi
Thrity Umrigar
Bernice McFadden
Myla Goldberg
Zz Packer
Gish Jen
Lisa Ko
Nafisi Haji
Jung Yun
Yiyun Li
Amina Gautier
Nami Mun
Nayyirah Waheed
Nafisa Haji
Jean Kwok
Weike Wang
Antoinette Nwandu
Nicola Yoon
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (permanent resident status)
Imbolo Mbue (American Citizen 2014)
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**Repost from '09, no time to take anything new....but the sentiment is still the same!
Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms...especially mine...I love you.
Thanks to pareerica for two beautiful textures: www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/4419850264/in/set-72157... and www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/4277131191/in/set-72157...
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"March the 14th, 1874
I encountered today a sentiment much repeated among men of a certain theatrical temperament: that maturity is not bestowed by the slow passage of years, but forged instead in the crucibles of hardship, disappointment, rebuff, loss, humiliation, and heartache. Age, in this telling, is reduced to a mere clerk in the great office of a man’s becoming.
The notion possesses a rugged sort of poetry, and one easily perceives why it pleases those inclined to narrate their lives as though they were epics. Under such a philosophy, every misstep may be recast as instruction. A foolish attachment becomes “experience,” a shattered friendship “necessary loss,” a betrayal “a lesson in discernment,” and even the most spectacular blunder may, with a little narrative generosity, be presented as some grand and epiphanic step upon the heroic ascent toward wisdom.
Much, too, is said of scars. These marks, we are assured, form the noble cartography of a life vigorously lived: evidence of battles fought and lessons dearly learned. Yet I suspect many of them are nothing so dignified. They are merely reminders, small mementos of moments when matters went poorly, and not at all reliable landmarks upon any true road of progress.
Time alone does not make a man wise. Yet neither, I think, does the stubborn habit of polishing one’s own disasters until they gleam like medals."
(Alistair Penbrook, “Meditations of a Reluctant Gentleman: Journal”, 1874)
Location: Soul Deep
I've got the spirit, lose the feeling: Joy Division - Disorder
Mais um ano está para acabar...
E estamos nós aqui, unidos, juntinhos
partilhando emoções em imagens,
Desenhando momentos com luz e tentando passar todo
um sentimento dos momentos tatuados por nossos olhos...
Como foi bom contar com o carinho e a amizade de vocês...
Todas as palavras ditas aqui, todas as imagens que falaram por si,
valeram e muito!!
Meu coração hoje transborda de alegria....
Pois chego ao final deste ano, com a certeza de que alcancei muito além dos meus objetivos.
Quantos amigos se manifestaram com suas palavras de carinho
muitos poetas, outros nem tanto, mas sempre transmitindo algo de bom
e proveitoso pra nossa história se tornar mais rica.
Quantos amigos virtuais se tornaram tão importantes e tão necessários
e mais que reais.
Quantos amigos consegui levar um pouco de paz...
Quantos amigos eu consegui fazer desabrochar um sorriso...
Ao ver minhas imagens, minhas palavras que tentei levar paz.....
Quantos amigos eu consegui despertar mais amor no seu dia-a-dia...
Sei que é muito difícil agradar a todos...
Mas o mais importante é ter certeza que,
posso não ter atingido a todos aqueles que eu gostaria....
Mas consegui chegar bem pertinho de muitos corações, como o seu!
Hoje quero oferecer essa imagem que é
muito especial para você amigo(a): Flickeiro (a)
Que caminhou ao meu lado!
Que me deu força!
Que acreditou em mim!
Que também proporcionou muitos momentos de emoção com suas imagens
com suas palavras carinhosas e de alto astral na minha galeria!
Que me fez sorrir e até gargalhar com momentos de humor partilhado!
Que passou a fazer parte da minha vida e do meu dia-a-dia!
A você, que já não sei como ficar longe, por muito tempo,
pois sinto a falta de cada um, como se ao meu lado sempre estivessem.
Obrigada por vocês existirem!
Lembrem-se, quando vocês olharem o céu,
e uma estrela se mostrar mais brilhante e piscando lá no infinito...
pode ter certeza é o menino Jesus nos abençoando...
e fazendo um sinal de positivo ao nosso empreendimento
aqui nestas galerias de tatuar momentos com luz,
para trazer luz e alegria aos amigos...
dizendo que o que estamos fazendo aqui neste lugar é bom!
Desejo a vocês amigos queridos....UM ANO NOVO...
NOVINHO EM FOLHA... cheio de esperança e pronto pra
crescer e se tornar grande com muita
PAZ, AMOR, SAÚDE, PROSPERIDADE, extensivo aos seus familiares.
E que esse Novo Ano a gente possa continuar a estar juntos com muitos clicks...
Beijos no seu coração maravilhoso...
São os mais sinceros votos desta Flickeira que adora o que faz.
Marilene Simão
CONTINUAÇÃO DE UMA BELA TARDE A VCS AMIGOS FLICKEIROS
'De Poolreiziger' est un oeuvre de Freddy Cappon, habitant de Nieuwpoort. La ville de Nieuwpoort lui a donné le mandat de faire une statue à l'occasion du départ de l'explorateur des régions polaires, Dixie Dansercoer, en 2007. La statue symbolise la solitude et l'immensité de l'univers. La route imaginaire que Dixie traverse avec ses skis, seul avec ses pensés et ses sentiments, s'étend jusqu'aux portes du paradis. La sculpture est un duc-d'Albe, ode à Nieuwpoort. Les colonnes sont 6m de haut, les arcs de cercle représentent les Pôles Nord et Sud.
Dirk Dansercoer dit Dixie Dansercoer, né le 12 juillet 1962 à Nieuport en Belgique et mort le 7 juin 2021 à Qaanaaq au Groenland, est un explorateur, un sportif de l'extrême et photographe de nature belge.
Après des études traduction et interprétariat, la première carrière de Dansercoer est faite de 13 années comme steward de la compagnie aérienne belge Sabena. Avec l'explorateur polaire belge Alain Hubert (concepteur de la station antarctique belge Elisabeth) Dixie Dansercoer a traversé à pied le continent antarctique. En 1997-98, c'est une première pour le parcours pédestre et aussi parce que chacun des deux explorateurs était aidé d'une voile individuelle. Ensuite, tous deux ont exécuté pour l'ESA une mission destinée à mesurer la couverture neigeuse antarctique afin de l'étalonner dans le but de vérifier les mesures du satellite européen CryoSat. Il s'est ensuivi un autre exploit, une traversée inédite depuis le cap Arctique en Sibérie jusqu'au Groenland, d'abord en 55 jours jusqu'au pôle Nord, puis, en 51 jours jusqu'au Groenland.
Dixie Dansercoer, qui est ambassadeur bénévole de l'Unicef, a écrit plusieurs livres dont la presse s'est fait l'écho (De Morgen, National Geographic, Scientist, etc.).
Dixie Dansercoer co-fonde en 2011 avec d'autres explorateurs une agence de voyages de découverte.
En avril 2021, il guide le Canadien Sébastien Audy et la Néerlandaise Johanna Adriana Simone Maria dans une expédition au Groenland. Le but est de traverser l'Arctique de Narsarsuaq à Qaanaaq, soit un voyage de 2 200 km, en snowkite. Diverses mesures scientifiques sont menées durant ce trajet. Après sept jours de randonnée Johanna abandonne le voyage et Dixie et son autre client poursuivent à deux. Le 7 juin 2021, Dixie Dansercoer chute dans une crevasse en traversant un pont de neige. Les secours, arrivés sur place en moins de quatre heures, interrompent les recherches après six heures d'efforts. Le corps, avec lequel il n'y a pas eu de contact visuel, ne peut être récupéré.
'De Poolreiziger' is a work by Freddy Cappon, a resident of Nieuwpoort. The city of Nieuwpoort gave him the mandate to make a statue on the occasion of the departure of the explorer of the polar regions, Dixie Dansercoer, in 2007. The statue symbolizes the solitude and the vastness of the universe. The imaginary road that Dixie crosses with his skis, alone with his thoughts and feelings, stretches to the gates of paradise. The sculpture is a Duke of Alba, an ode to Nieuwpoort. The columns are 6m high, the arcs of a circle represent the North and South Poles.
Dirk Dansercoer dit Dixie Dansercoer, born July 12, 1962 in Nieuport in Belgium and died June 7, 2021 in Qaanaaq in Greenland, is an explorer, an extreme sportsman and photographer of Belgian nature.
After studying translation and interpreting, Dansercoer's first career spanned 13 years as a flight attendant for the Belgian airline Sabena. With the Belgian polar explorer Alain Hubert (designer of the Belgian Antarctic station Elisabeth) Dixie Dansercoer crossed the Antarctic continent on foot. In 1997-98, it is a first for the pedestrian route and also because each of the two explorers was helped by an individual sail. Then, both carried out a mission for ESA to measure the Antarctic snow cover in order to calibrate it with the aim of verifying the measurements of the European satellite CryoSat. Another feat followed, an unprecedented crossing from the Arctic Cape in Siberia to Greenland, first in 55 days to the North Pole, then in 51 days to Greenland.
Dixie Dansercoer, who is a volunteer ambassador for Unicef, has written several books that have been echoed in the press (De Morgen, National Geographic, Scientist, etc.).
Dixie Dansercoer co-founded in 2011 with other explorers a discovery travel agency.
In April 2021, he guided the Canadian Sébastien Audy and the Dutch Johanna Adriana Simone Maria on an expedition to Greenland. The goal is to cross the Arctic from Narsarsuaq to Qaanaaq, a 2,200 km trip, on snowkiting. Various scientific measurements are carried out during this journey. After seven days of hiking Johanna gives up the trip and Dixie and her other client continue to two. On June 7, 2021, Dixie Dansercoer fell into a crevasse while crossing a snow bridge. The emergency services, arrived on site in less than four hours, interrupt the search after six hours of effort. The body, with which there was no eye contact, cannot be recovered.
Another name released for publication. And another one...
The machine takes them systematically, one by one.
And the machine has no feelings. It doesn’t care.
As long as the gears keep grinding,
keep rolling.
But every machine has its operator,
the one who pulls the levers, directs it, and decides what it will do
and how it will function.
And I, just a small cog,
am waiting.
For my turn.
Dans la machine
Un autre nom autorisé à la publication. Et encore un autre...
La machine les prend systématiquement, un par un.
Et la machine n’a pas de sentiments. Elle s’en fiche.
Tant que les rouages continuent de moudre,
continuent de tourner.
Mais chaque machine a son opérateur,
celui qui tire les leviers, la dirige et décide ce qu’elle fera
et comment elle fonctionnera.
Et moi, juste un petit rouage,
j’attends.
Mon tour.
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If for some reason you have anti-minaret and anti-dome sentiments, go to the Citadel just to check out the fabulous views of the city.
Directly behind to the Mosque of Muhammad Ali, you'll be able to see an almost 180 degree view of the west of Cairo, including a handful of pyramids.
The giant Giza pyramids are pictured (Menkaure, Khafre and Khufu from left to right and smallest to largest) and this day was the first day I got to see the pyramids after more than three weeks in Cairo! I was speechless. I started jumping up and down haha. They're gigantic, even from this far away! Luckily it was a pretty clear day when we went to the Citadel so the smog and fumes didn't keep us from enjoying the spectacular views. But I still used the remaining pollution to help me create this vintage old school feel -- added some color though because Cairo isn't this brown haha -- you like? :)
You can see as far south as the Saqqara pyramids (the Step Pyramid of Djoser being the most famous and most distinct) and as far north as Alexandria -- I kid. Alexandria is way too far. But you can see Saqqara (about 20km / 12mi south)... pretty impressive, I thought. While the Citadel and the Mosque of Muhammad Ali tower above all other mosques in the city, I did not believe for a second the view would be as spectacular as it was. Good thing I was wrong.
Alhumdulillah, the city of Cairo is very beautiful :)
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blog: modenadude.com
Nottingham
To quote the sentiment of Castle Fine Art, "A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires"
He fet centenars de fotos avui a la desfilada…A poc a poc aniré compartint unes poques, però jo em quede amb aquesta, no és la més nítida, però vore els ulls vidriats d’aquest capità moro, al so de la música m’ha pogut… Què n’estaria pensant, amb quí estaria pensant… Siga el que siga a mi m’ha contagiat l’emoció i ara quedarà ja per sempre a la història de Carcaixent. Enhorabona a @moros_i_critians_carcaixent per una entrada excepcional!
#nikonD850 #tamron70200g2 #nikonstas #morosicristianscarcaixent @moros_i_critians_carcaixent @alzayanscontrabandistes @comparsa_elsllops @ajuntamentcarcaixent @cultura_carcaixent
Sentiments echoed i'm sure by many a Cross Country passenger. For next few days passengers will be saved from journey by voyager once again as HST's reappear .
Approaching Rotherham Masbrough are 43285 and 43303 working the Saturday 1V52 Edinburgh - Plymouth .
2 4 22
parfois mentis, parfois cru, ils sont le reflet de nos espoirs et de nos rêves.
Comme une marque que l'on souhaite laisser à un moment et pour une éternité...En ces instants ou l'on se croit invincible et prêt à tout...
Juste parce qu'on est deux...
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A protester writing Ikulong si Gloria (Jail Gloria) in the street of Ayala, Makati City during the anti-constitutional asembly held last week. According to Pulse Asia, distrust continue to be the predominant sentiment among Filipinos toward President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (45 percent).
"Now we're starting over.
We will see it's not too late."
The promising beginning of a summer that I have no doubt will be well spent and well remembered. The sky has been so incredibly blue lately. It's hard not to get lost in it.
Sentiment doux-amer à l’idée de quitter l’ISS. Quand on y pense, c’est vraiment un lieu magique, presque impossible à atteindre et qui vous donne des super-pouvoirs comme voler, ou faire le tour du monde en 1h30… Ça ressemble quand même un peu à un rêve éveillé... Je suis extrêmement reconnaissant envers toutes les personnes qui ont rêvé la Station spatiale internationale il y a 20 ans, et qui ont travaillé si dur pour transformer ce rêve en réalité, pour le bénéfice de tous. Voir ce que l’être humain peut accomplir quand il y met toute sa volonté, au nom de valeurs positives, ça donne foi dans l’humanité.
Bittersweet feeling to leave the International Space Station. When you think of it, it’s a magical place flying in the sky that is incredibly difficult to get to, and it grants you superpowers like floating and seeing the entire world in just one glance. If this is not what dreams are made of, you’ve never dreamt. I’m so thankful that people all around the world dreamt the Space Station, and then went out and worked so hard to build it, for everyone to benefit. Humankind at its finest. It gives me hope that humans can achieve anything, with good, positive intentions, when they really want to.
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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This shot was taken in Enkhuizen. My daughter changed her clothing for a old Dutch folklore costume.
She was walking around very proudly on Dutch wooden shoes and many tourists took a picture and giving her lots of compliments.
Of course, so did I ;-)
Foto feta per a l'entrega de la lliga fotogràfica en eñ tema:amos i mascotes. La meva sorpresa va ser enorme quant al voler copçar-les, va sorgir aquest moment de sentiments extraordinari entre totes dues. El que havia de ser una proba de llum em va donar un regal fantàstic. Gràcies Susana per la paciència que hi vareu tenir tant tu com la Quina.
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Highlands, Scotland
M6, Summicron 35mm (asph) f2.0
Efke IR820 (expired), Rodinal 1:50 11:30min
These words are on the outside of some new offices of Camden Council, a local authority for one of London's boroughs. The offices are located inside a major regeneration of an area in King's Cross. Camden Council has historically always leaned towards Labour.
All over the capital, the Arirang adverts (« Grand mass gymnastic and artistic performance », « Welcome to Pyongyang » and so on) warn the profane…Between August and October, takes place one of the biggest and most impressive performances in the world. The tone is set : even the Beijing Olympics ceremony can’t compete with the mass games organized by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). The show is held several times a week and welcomes tourists from all over the World, including the US, in one of the most isolated and despised country on earth. The well-called « mass games » are designed to emphasize group dynamics rather than individual performances as the supreme emblem of communism. Prepared by hundred of thousands performers all along the year, after their classes for the youngest of them, they are entirely dedicated to the NK’s leader Kim Jong Il and his deceased father Kim Il Sung, considered as the « Eternal president » and « sun of the 21st century »…
In the surroundings of Pyongyang's May Day giant Stadium, two girls are running to perform for the Arirang show. They are already dressed in their gymnastic outfits, as well as some 100,000 others who participate to the performance. They all come to honour their self-proclaimed « dear leader » Kim Jong Il, after a very hard and gruelling training, since their earliest age. Yet, it has been many years that Kim Jong Il has not shown up, formally for business reasons. But officials now admit the western medias’ assertions of illness. Anyways, Kim Jong Il or not, the mass games are held every year in Pyongyang, as a means for the regime to show to the entire world the country’s strength and good shape. To reach this sole purpose, not less than 100,000 people are involved in a choreographed show of simultaneous dancing and gymnastics. Many symbols are displayed by thousands of trained athlets, whether they are adults or even children. Hand over their heart, the young pupils sing in chorus "We are the happiest children in the world", one of the famous propaganda songs in North Korea. Many dancers make movements either with ribbons or colourful flowers named « kimjonglias » after the leader Kim Jong Il. All along the show, a live band plays a ceremonious music.
On the background, some 20,000 young koreans sit on the terraces, facing the spectators. They flip coloured cards at a high speed to form a fresco of animated and detailed images, changing from one to another. Each time they turn the page to create a new giant picture, they cry out. It creates a awe-inspiring atmosphere, as the shout is mixed with the noise of thousands of pages turned at the same moment. The figures are stunning : to compose these images, 2000 children are needed to make only one soldier, 20,000 for a north korean flag. Hiding a much more grim reality, the panels represent Pyongyang enlightened by night, wheat fields ready for harvest, scientists at work, atoms as symbols of the nuclear bomb and others for the reunification of two Koreas. One of the North Korea’s myths (history according to them) is recounted by the means of a huge image made by thousands of children. It represents the two pistols reportedly used by Kim Il Sung, when he founded the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Army in 1932. When the pistols appear, the audience applauses loudly. Among them, many soldiers attend the show as the ultimate award after years of good and faithful service.The thousands and thousands of boys and girls involved create a giant mass movement in the stadium which leaves the public stunned. These talented performers are used to that kind of performance: in North Korea they have to dance, sing, jump and spin around as many times as there are celebrations, always in praise of their leaders. There are mainly two sorts of shows. The first one is the classical artistic show, named "Arirang" after the famous korean folk song (whose story sometimes changes, but most often recounts the legend of a disappointed woman who hopes that her lover will return to her –metaphor of the break-up with South Korea). The second one is a more political show, which was untitled in 2008 "Prosper our country" and intended to show the country’s greatest achievements and its struggle against the foreign oppressors.
The show continues in the same way for one hour. Thereafter, the thousands of people present vanish in the dark and silent streets of Pyongyang, which contrast with the flood of lights and music in the stadium. Within the space of a few hours, it gives us a a strange feeling, between the real and unreal, of another universe both terrifying and fantastic.
Dans toute la ville, les publicités d’Arirang (« Grande représentation gymnastique et artistique de masse », « Bienvenue à Pyongyang » etc.) mettent le profane en garde …Entre août et octobre, a lieu l’une des plus grandes et impressionnantes représentations au monde. Le ton est donné : pas même la cérémonie des Jeux de Pékin ne peut rivaliser avec les mass games organisés par la République Démocratique Populaire de Corée (RDPC). Le spectacle se tient plusieurs fois par semaine et accueille des touristes du monde entier, y compris des Etats-Unis, dans l’un des pays les plus isolés et méprisés sur terre. Les biens nommés mass games (« mouvements de masse») sont conçus pour mettre en avant les dynamiques de groupe plutôt que les performances individuelles comme emblème suprême du communisme. Préparés par des centaines de milliers d’artistes tout au long de l’année, après les cours pour les plus jeunes d’entre eux, les jeux sont entièrement dédiés au leader de la Corée du Nord, Kim Jong Il, et feu son père Kim Il Sung, considéré comme l’ « Eternel président » et « soleil du 21ème siècle »…
Aux environs du Stade géant May Day de Pyongyang, deux filles courent pour participer au spectacle de Arirang. Elles sont déjà en costume de gymnastique, tout comme quelque 100 000 autres qui participent à la représentation. Tous viennent pour honorer leur autoproclamé « cher leader » Kim Jong Il, après un très difficile et éprouvant entraînement, depuis leur plus jeune âge. Pourtant, cela fait plusieurs années que Kim Jong Il ne s’est pas montré, formellement pour des raisons professionnelles. Mais des officiels admettent les assertions des médias occidentaux sur sa maladie. Quoi qu’il en soit, Kim Jong Il ou pas, les jeux de masse ont lieu chaque année à Pyongyang, comme moyen pour le régime de montrer au monde entier la puissance et bonne santé du pays. Pour atteindre ce seul but, pas moins de 100 000 personnes sont engagées dans une chorégraphie de danses et gymnastiques synchronisées. De nombreux symboles sont affichés par des milliers d’athlètes entraînés, qu’il s’agisse d’adultes ou même d’enfants. Main sur le cœur, les jeunes élèves chantent en chœur « Nous sommes les enfants les plus heureux du monde », l’une des chansons de propagande les plus connues en Corée du Nord. De nombreux danseurs font des mouvements avec des rubans ou avec des fleurs colorées appelées « kimjonglias », du nom du leader Kim Jong Il. Tout le long du spectacle, un orchestre joue une musique solennelle.
À l’arrière-plan, quelque 20 000 jeunes coréens sont assis sur les gradins, faisant face aux spectateurs. Ils retournent des cartes colorées à une grande vitesse pour former une fresque d’images animées et détaillées, changeant de l’une à l’autre. Chaque fois qu’ils tournent la page pour créer une nouvelle illustration, ils crient. Cela crée une atmosphère impressionnante, le cri étant mêlé avec le bruit de milliers de pages tournées au même moment. Les chiffres sont stupéfiants : pour composer ces images, 2000 enfants sont nécessaires pour faire un seul soldat, 20 000 pour un drapeau de la Corée du Nord. Cachant une réalité bien plus dure, les panneaux représentent Pyongyang éclairée la nuit, des champs de blé prêt à être récolté, des scientifiques au travail, des atomes comme symboles de la bombe nucléaire et d’autres pour la réunification des deux Corées. L’un des mythes de Corée du Nord (ou histoire selon eux) est relaté au moyen d’une image gigantesque faite par des milliers d’enfants. Elle représente les deux pistolets que Kim Il Sung aurait utilisés quand il a fondé l’armée de guérilla populaire anti-japonaise en 1932. Lorsque les deux pistolets apparaissent, le public applaudit bruyamment. Parmi eux, de nombreux soldats assistent au spectacle comme récompense ultime après des années de bons et loyaux services. Les milliers et milliers de garçons et de filles participant créent un mouvement de masse géant dans le stade, qui laisse le public ébahi. Ces artistes talentueux sont coutumiers de ce type de représentation : en Corée du Nord ils doivent danser, chanter, sauter et virevolter autant de fois qu’il y a de célébrations, toujours à la gloire de leurs chefs. Il existe principalement deux sortes de spectacles. Le premier est le spectacle classique artistique, appelé « Arirang » d’après la célèbre chanson folklorique coréenne (dont l’histoire quelques fois change, mais qui raconte le plus souvent la légende d’une femme déçue qui espère que son amant lui reviendra –métaphore de la séparation avec la Corée du Sud). Le second est un spectacle plus politique, qui était intitulé en 2008 « Que prospère notre pays » et qui tentait de montrer les plus grandes réalisations du pays et sa lutte contre les oppresseurs étrangers.
Le spectacle continue de cette façon pendant une heure. Ensuite, les milliers de personnes présentes disparaissent dans les rues sombres et silencieuses de Pyongyang, ce qui contraste avec le déluge de lumières et de musique dans le stade. En l’espace de quelques heures, cela nous donne un étrange sentiment, entre le réel et l’irréel, d’un autre univers à la fois terrifiant et fantastique.
© Eric Lafforgue