So, after folding the twenty-eight ORiGAsMix lids, we took a couple of days to rest (understand: "work as slaves at the orchard and in front of the computer"). Then, we worked on the twenty-eight "bottoms": simple origami boxes made of semi-transparent vegetal paper.
Eventually, after completing the task, we just had this one last night before delivering the boxes to Futuna's sister... and played a little bit with them. Here's the result!
The credits say it all, but just in case, the song is Jockey full of bourbon written by Tom Waits and performed by Youn Sun Nah. And everything else is un(t)raveling!
bad weather and snowfall found us at around 3.000m on the Tofana di Rozes, and that's how we met a lovely new friend...
On the 7th day of our Dolo-mythic diet, pretty exhausted, running out of food and dying for a warm shower, we decided to go for one extra hike before heading down to civilization and rest. After a short and cold night on the rifugio Dibona car park, we left early to climb up the beautiful (and challenging) fia ferrata Giovanni Lipella, which goes all the way up to the Tofana di Rozes (3.225m), through WW1 rusty ladders and pitch-dark tunnel only to take you across steep rock faces and exposed scree slopes... We found some ice along the route, some real bad weather and got in the middle of a (mild) snow storm, making us actually a bit nervous about escaping and safely reaching the rifugio Giussani safely.
Nat King Cole featuring the Alpine Chough.
You can find some pictures and a more detailed description of the adventure here, even though we wrote that post in French and Spanish (automatic translations in English-French-Spanish are available by clicking the flags at the bottom of each page of the blog and - we won't repeat it enough: google automated translations can be really funny!). The whole adventure was nice and worth it, despite the tense moment(s) hanging to both the life-line and a poor weather forecast... We needed a break and stopped at the rifugio for a little pause: two warm caffe latte helped and as we took out some biscuits from the backpacks, suddenly, in the loneliness of this stormy, ice-cold day of September, at 2.580m, this little fellah appeared out of nowhere asking for a treat... We grabbed the camera and started to film its flirting with us and couldn't help laughing all along as it came closer, took some food then backed-up on ly to come closer again for another bite... The video is short and we basically edited nothing at all (sorry for this: it's not that we are lazy, we just don't have a clue how to edit videos, except for adding music, trimming, fading and writing down some credits. If you're into video editing or film-making and want to share/exchange habilities, get in touch with us!). The soundtrack came to us as a pretty natural thing, since the charm of this Corvidae was magnetic and its little parade seduced us. Not being judgemental here but, this boy id pretty fat and we reckon we weren't its first feeders up there, ha ha ha! Dude's experienced!
At the beginning of April, we found out Werner Herzog's unraveling documentary "Cave of forgotten dreams", about the stunningly beautiful and unique Grotte Chauvet (Chauver cave), in Ardèche, France (watch it on youtube here).
It contains some painting dating back to 33.000 years ago, about twice as old as any other cave art ever discovered in Europe! Some charcoal bare hands printed next to each other were found to be distant of 5.000 years or more - a duration that eventually makes you consider how young and "short-termed" our civilization is, and how somehow "stable" prehistoric societies must have been... Anyway, at about the same time, while learning the subtle art of sheep shearing in Couserans, we passed by the little village of Le Mas d'Azil and crossed its amazing cave, cradle of the Magdalenian settlings in Ariège and the Pyrenees. Wallis was driving and with no special intention, Futuna filmed all the way through the cave. Yesterday night we came across the footage, we played with iMovie for a while and we eventually got to this point.
Since we liked it very much, we decided to share it. Enjoy the ride!
the Cave of the Mas d'Azil, untraveled and unraveled!
