https://blue.feedland.org/?river=http://data.feedland.org/blue/feeds/gwen.xml Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:37:18 GMT feedland v0.5.59 https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:37:18 GMT gwen Fri, November 17, 2023 10:37 AM EST <p>Budapest is 150 years old today! This cute 16-minute animated film The Birth of Budapest uses photos from fortepan.hu to tell the early story of the modern Hungarian capital. The visuals are stunning and the script caught my attention as I actually have a PhD on Budapest narratives in Hungarian fiction. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=FnuDMr7QCDo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=FnuDMr7QCDo</a></p> <p>The female narrator has three parents, the oldest is Óbuda, the father is Buda, the mother is Pest. Her sister, Vienna, is often jealous of her reputation as the ‘Paris of the East’ (here I imagine Bucharest would like a word).</p> <p>She is the muse for composers such as Kodály and Liszt, yet following the heavy aerial bombardments (who did that and why is not mentioned), the ‘Queen of the Danube’ was unable to look in the mirror for some time. </p> <p>Many elegant buildings were destroyed and never rebuilt (true). Her gigantic parliament was built for a large and colourful country, but things (not specified) didn’t turn out like that.</p> <p>Hungarian male writers in the early twentieth century consistently portrayed Buda as an elderly gentleman with large moustaches, while Pest was (variously) his profligate little wife, a prostitute past her prime, a femme fatale. Karl Lueger, the mayor of Vienna, nicknamed the Hungarian capital ‘Judapest.’</p> <p>The narrator - surely the actor who also does 98% of Hungarian adverts - also tells us she has been reborn many times. Rebirth was also a fantasy of those interwar intellectuals who wanted to remake the city in their own image and, arguably, this is also the drive behind Fidesz’s large-scale redesign.</p> <p>The index to my book includes the following Budapest metaphors: Babel, Babylon, new Jerusalem, parvenu, Potemkinopolis, sinful, skin disease, Sodom, volcano, whore. I miss that town.</p> Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:37:18 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=195437 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=195437 Budapest is 150 years old today! This cute 16-minute animated film The Birth of Budapest uses photos from fortepan.hu to tell the early story of the modern Hungarian capital. The visuals are stunning and the script caught my attention as I actually have a PhD on Budapest narratives in Hungarian fiction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=FnuDMr7QCDo The female narrator has three parents, the oldest is Óbuda, the father is Buda, the mother is Pest. Her sister, Vienna, is often jealous of her reputation as the ‘Paris of the East’ (here I imagine Bucharest would like a word). She is the muse for composers such as Kodály and Liszt, yet following the heavy aerial bombardments (who did that and why is not mentioned), the ‘Queen of the Danube’ was unable to look in the mirror for some time. Many elegant buildings were destroyed and never rebuilt (true). Her gigantic parliament was built for a large and colourful country, but things (not specified) didn’t turn out like that. Hungarian male writers in the early twentieth century consistently portrayed Buda as an elderly gentleman with large moustaches, while Pest was (variously) his profligate little wife, a prostitute past her prime, a femme fatale. Karl Lueger, the mayor of Vienna, nicknamed the Hungarian capital ‘Judapest.’ The narrator - surely the actor who also does 98% of Hungarian adverts - also tells us she has been reborn many times. Rebirth was also a fantasy of those interwar intellectuals who wanted to remake the city in their own image and, arguably, this is also the drive behind Fidesz’s large-scale redesign. The index to my book includes the following Budapest metaphors: Babel, Babylon, new Jerusalem, parvenu, Potemkinopolis, sinful, skin disease, Sodom, volcano, whore. I miss that town. <p>Budapest is 150 years old today! This cute 16-minute animated film The Birth of Budapest uses photos from fortepan.hu to tell the early story of the modern Hungarian capital. The visuals are stunning and the script caught my attention as I actually have a PhD on Budapest narratives in Hungarian fiction. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=FnuDMr7QCDo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=FnuDMr7QCDo</a></p> <p>The female narrator has three parents, the oldest is Óbuda, the father is Buda, the mother is Pest. Her sister, Vienna, is often jealous of her reputation as the ‘Paris of the East’ (here I imagine Bucharest would like a word).</p> <p>She is the muse for composers such as Kodály and Liszt, yet following the heavy aerial bombardments (who did that and why is not mentioned), the ‘Queen of the Danube’ was unable to look in the mirror for some time. Many elegant buildings were destroyed and never rebuilt (true). Her gigantic parliament was built for a large and colourful country, but things (not specified) didn’t turn out like that.</p> <p>Hungarian male writers in the early twentieth century consistently portrayed Buda as an elderly gentleman with large moustaches, while Pest was (variously) his profligate little wife, a prostitute past her prime, a femme fatale. Karl Lueger, the mayor of Vienna, nicknamed the Hungarian capital ‘Judapest.’</p> <p>The narrator - surely the actor who also does 98% of Hungarian adverts - also tells us she has been reborn many times. Rebirth was also a fantasy of those interwar intellectuals who wanted to remake the city in their own image and, arguably, this is also the drive behind Fidesz’s large-scale redesign.</p> <p>The index to my book includes the following Budapest metaphors: Babel, Babylon, new Jerusalem, parvenu, Potemkinopolis, sinful, skin disease, Sodom, volcano, whore. I miss that town.</p> Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:23:38 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=195410 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=195410 Budapest is 150 years old today! This cute 16-minute animated film The Birth of Budapest uses photos from fortepan.hu to tell the early story of the modern Hungarian capital. The visuals are stunning and the script caught my attention as I actually have a PhD on Budapest narratives in Hungarian fiction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=FnuDMr7QCDo The female narrator has three parents, the oldest is Óbuda, the father is Buda, the mother is Pest. Her sister, Vienna, is often jealous of her reputation as the ‘Paris of the East’ (here I imagine Bucharest would like a word). She is the muse for composers such as Kodály and Liszt, yet following the heavy aerial bombardments (who did that and why is not mentioned), the ‘Queen of the Danube’ was unable to look in the mirror for some time. Many elegant buildings were destroyed and never rebuilt (true). Her gigantic parliament was built for a large and colourful country, but things (not specified) didn’t turn out like that. Hungarian male writers in the early twentieth century consistently portrayed Buda as an elderly gentleman with large moustaches, while Pest was (variously) his profligate little wife, a prostitute past her prime, a femme fatale. Karl Lueger, the mayor of Vienna, nicknamed the Hungarian capital ‘Judapest.’ The narrator - surely the actor who also does 98% of Hungarian adverts - also tells us she has been reborn many times. Rebirth was also a fantasy of those interwar intellectuals who wanted to remake the city in their own image and, arguably, this is also the drive behind Fidesz’s large-scale redesign. The index to my book includes the following Budapest metaphors: Babel, Babylon, new Jerusalem, parvenu, Potemkinopolis, sinful, skin disease, Sodom, volcano, whore. I miss that town. <p>Budapest is 150 years old today! This cute 16-minute animated film The Birth of Budapest uses photos from fortepan.hu to tell the early story of the modern Hungarian capital. The visuals are stunning and the script caught my attention as I actually have a PhD on Budapest narratives in Hungarian fiction.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=FnuDMr7QCDo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=FnuDMr7QCDo</a></p> <p>The female narrator has three parents, the oldest is Óbuda, the father is Buda, the mother is Pest. Her sister, Vienna, is often jealous of her reputation as the ‘Paris of the East’ (here I imagine Bucharest would like a word).</p> <p>She is the muse for composers such as Kodály and Liszt, yet following the heavy aerial bombardments (who did that and why is not mentioned), the ‘Queen of the Danube’ was unable to look in the mirror for some time. Many elegant buildings were destroyed and never rebuilt (true). Her gigantic parliament was built for a large and colourful country, but things (not specified) didn’t turn out like that.</p> <p>Hungarian male writers in the early twentieth century consistently portrayed Buda as an elderly gentleman with large moustaches, while Pest was (variously) his profligate little wife, a prostitute past her prime, a femme fatale. Karl Lueger, the mayor of Vienna, nicknamed the Hungarian capital ‘Judapest.’</p> <p>The narrator - surely the actor who also does 98% of Hungarian adverts - also tells us she has been reborn many times. Rebirth was also a fantasy of those interwar intellectuals who wanted to remake the city in their own image and, arguably, this is also the drive behind Fidesz’s large-scale redesign.</p> <p>The index to my book includes the following Budapest metaphors: Babel, Babylon, new Jerusalem, parvenu, Potemkinopolis, sinful, skin disease, Sodom, volcano, whore. I miss that town every day.</p> Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:21:23 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=195406 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=195406 Budapest is 150 years old today! This cute 16-minute animated film The Birth of Budapest uses photos from fortepan.hu to tell the early story of the modern Hungarian capital. The visuals are stunning and the script caught my attention as I actually have a PhD on Budapest narratives in Hungarian fiction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=FnuDMr7QCDo The female narrator has three parents, the oldest is Óbuda, the father is Buda, the mother is Pest. Her sister, Vienna, is often jealous of her reputation as the ‘Paris of the East’ (here I imagine Bucharest would like a word). She is the muse for composers such as Kodály and Liszt, yet following the heavy aerial bombardments (who did that and why is not mentioned), the ‘Queen of the Danube’ was unable to look in the mirror for some time. Many elegant buildings were destroyed and never rebuilt (true). Her gigantic parliament was built for a large and colourful country, but things (not specified) didn’t turn out like that. Hungarian male writers in the early twentieth century consistently portrayed Buda as an elderly gentleman with large moustaches, while Pest was (variously) his profligate little wife, a prostitute past her prime, a femme fatale. Karl Lueger, the mayor of Vienna, nicknamed the Hungarian capital ‘Judapest.’ The narrator - surely the actor who also does 98% of Hungarian adverts - also tells us she has been reborn many times. Rebirth was also a fantasy of those interwar intellectuals who wanted to remake the city in their own image and, arguably, this is also the drive behind Fidesz’s large-scale redesign. The index to my book includes the following Budapest metaphors: Babel, Babylon, new Jerusalem, parvenu, Potemkinopolis, sinful, skin disease, Sodom, volcano, whore. I miss that town every day. <p>Budapest is 150 years old today! This cute 16-minute animated film The Birth of Budapest uses photos from fortepan.hu to tell the early story of the modern Hungarian capital. The visuals are stunning and the script caught my attention as I actually have a PhD on Budapest narratives in Hungarian fiction.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=FnuDMr7QCDo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=FnuDMr7QCDo</a></p> <p>The female narrator has three parents, the oldest is Óbuda, the father is Buda, the mother is Pest. Her sister, Vienna, is often jealous of her reputation as the ‘Paris of the East’ (here I imagine Bucharest would like a word).</p> <p>She is the muse for composers such as Kodály and Liszt, yet following the heavy aerial bombardments (who did that and why is not mentioned), the ‘Queen of the Danube’ was unable to look in the mirror for some time. Many elegant buildings were destroyed and never rebuilt (true). Her gigantic parliament was built for a large and colourful country, but things (not specified) didn’t turn out like that.</p> <p>Hungarian male writers in the early twentieth century consistently portrayed Buda as an elderly gentleman with large moustaches, while Pest was (variously) his profligate little wife, a prostitute past her prime, a femme fatale. Karl Lueger, the mayor of Vienna, nicknamed the Hungarian capital ‘Judapest.’</p> <p>The narrator - surely the actor who also does 98% of Hungarian adverts - also tells us she has been reborn many times. Rebirth was also a fantasy of those interwar intellectuals who wanted to remake the city in their own image and, arguably, this is also the drive behind Fidesz’s large-scale redesign.</p> <p>The index to my book includes the following Budapest metaphors: Babel, Babylon, new Jerusalem, parvenu, Potemkinopolis, sinful, skin disease, Sodom, volcano, whore. I miss that town every day.</p> Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:20:49 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=195405 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=195405 Budapest is 150 years old today! This cute 16-minute animated film The Birth of Budapest uses photos from fortepan.hu to tell the early story of the modern Hungarian capital. The visuals are stunning and the script caught my attention as I actually have a PhD on Budapest narratives in Hungarian fiction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=FnuDMr7QCDo The female narrator has three parents, the oldest is Óbuda, the father is Buda, the mother is Pest. Her sister, Vienna, is often jealous of her reputation as the ‘Paris of the East’ (here I imagine Bucharest would like a word). She is the muse for composers such as Kodály and Liszt, yet following the heavy aerial bombardments (who did that and why is not mentioned), the ‘Queen of the Danube’ was unable to look in the mirror for some time. Many elegant buildings were destroyed and never rebuilt (true). Her gigantic parliament was built for a large and colourful country, but things (not specified) didn’t turn out like that. Hungarian male writers in the early twentieth century consistently portrayed Buda as an elderly gentleman with large moustaches, while Pest was (variously) his profligate little wife, a prostitute past her prime, a femme fatale. Karl Lueger, the mayor of Vienna, nicknamed the Hungarian capital ‘Judapest.’ The narrator - surely the actor who also does 98% of Hungarian adverts - also tells us she has been reborn many times. Rebirth was also a fantasy of those interwar intellectuals who wanted to remake the city in their own image and, arguably, this is also the drive behind Fidesz’s large-scale redesign. The index to my book includes the following Budapest metaphors: Babel, Babylon, new Jerusalem, parvenu, Potemkinopolis, sinful, skin disease, Sodom, volcano, whore. I miss that town every day.