Posts Tagged ‘Art and craft’
Budapest Christmas Fair – Budapesti Karácsonyi Vásár
This year is extra special: the Christmas Fair of Budapest, held on Vörösmarty square, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The Christmas fair of the Hungarian capital and the more than 150 cultural programmes that accompany it has become an internationally known attraction. The series of events lasting for almost one month is one of the most popular programmes of the winter season. The Budapest Christmas event is visited by almost 600 thousand people from all over the world. The event is one of the highlights of the festive preparations, there is almost nobody in the capital who hasnt been to the fair at least once, but it can be said that no foreign tourist leaves the capital at this time of the year without walking to the Vörösmarty square to take part in this lively, yet intimate event with special festive atmosphere The popular and Europe-wide well known festive atmosphere of the Christmas Fair is due to the unique pavilions and the exclusive goods available in them: almost 100 craft stands offer goods, special gifts and folk art and craft decorations certified by the panel of experts of the Association Of Hungarian Folk Artists. For visitors who have a taste for traditional gastronomic delights the city centre location of the fair is a real heaven: the smell of the fresh bread lángos baked in the traditional Töki clay oven, the stands of caramelised pastry horn makers and strudel makers, traditional country food baked in clay ovens, friendly meat grills attract …
Nicolino Locche – El Intocable (The Untouchable)
Just A quick highlight/tribute video I made of the defensive wizard Nicolino Locche. The Sardinian-Argentinian was a defensive master. In my book, Locche is the greatest pure defensive fighter that ever laced up gloves. He feints, slips, rolls, blocks, counter-punches, and picks you off. Locche often made his opponents look silly, frustrating them as they found it incredibly difficult to land cleanly on him. “To understand Locches greatness, one must realize that Locche was a defensive savant with no punching power. Locche exemplified the true art and craft of boxing. He could find subtle angles to pile up points despite not being naturally gifted with unusual hand and foot speed. More interestingly, by the end of Locches 18-year career, he had compiled over 1300 rounds of ring activity, but was a known chain smoker. Locche was an anomalous fighter like Willie Pep who made it look easy against the best. Like Pep, Locche was able to compete at the elite level over multiple decades because he mastered the fundamentals of the game and possessed abnormal ring intelligence. In my opinion, Pep and Locche are the two top defensive fighters in boxing history.” www.thesweetscience.com Download Link: www.megaupload.com I’m only offering a download link because the quality of the footage isn’t so stellar. Please don’t upload this highlight elsewhere. I would appreciate that.