Qui sine peccato est

Qui sine peccato est

Maybe you know what it means. If you don't you can most likely look it up. But I hope you will choose to figure it out by reading my coming book with the same title. The explanation will come in the 80th chapter:

“Qui sine peccato est, primam lapidem mittat.” 

Holyany såg förfärat på Leyah. Hon visste att Leyah var chockad, galen, men det här var första gången hon pratade på ett obegripligt sätt.  

”Det… det går inte att förstå vad du säger Leyah…” sa Genrik, nästan försiktigt. 

Recito förlag have started with the typesetting of my book Que sine peccato est, and my and their aim is to have it ready for the book release in November. I hope you will be there!

Book release of Que Sine Peccato Est, Annika Rosendahl's third novel,  at Bokens Dag in Mimers Kulturshus, Kungälv Nov 16. 

Next weekend I will post the blurb (yes, I know it sounds like a description of what it sounds like when a monster burps, but it is a real word) of my book. I hope you are looking forward to reading the "blurb", and later on, the book :-).

No more knocking on doors

When a reporter from TIME asked Tyler Perry what he thought about "the all white Oscars", he responded:

“I’ve never been one to knock on the door and say: Please let me in. I have always tried to make my own way. I don’t think change comes from asking people to let you in. I think change comes from becoming owners of projects, owners of studios, owners of content.”

I think there are many in show business who would like to stop knocking on doors, stop going to auditions and hear :

"Don´t call us, we´ll call you"

I also know, after having given talks to people who were looking for work and to students who try to figure out what kind of job they want to apply for, that they would also like to stop knocking on doors, stop sending application after application just to hear that they were not selected to come to an interview.

And I know that I no longer want to knock on doors and ask publishers to pretty please publish my book. Publishers who very often take a long time (we are talking months) to answer.

Essence of Taos, Mikki Senkarik

So in parallel with looking for a publisher (knocking on doors...) for my third book, I took steps to becoming more independent.

Getting professional help with the script
I decided to buy this help for my third book. I bought the service from an editor I found on the web and with his help I improved my script until I felt confident about it.

Turning the script into a book
For my third book I turned to Recito förlag regarding the work related to layout, cover, getting ISBN, printing the books, distributing the book etc.  No more waiting for answers from publishers, with Recito förlag I can start the process whenever I want.

Selling the books
In addition to the selling that Recito förlag will do, I will launch a web shop this year, where I will sell signed copies of my books. The third step to independence. :-)

I am very happy Oppenheim (the publisher of my debut novel Jenny, Jenny) and Idus (the publisher of my second novel, Ursus-dit rättvisan inte når) worked with me with my first two books. Together with them I have achieved things I could not have done without them and I have learned a lot. Maybe the most important lesson of all, was when I opened the door in my mind to the place that said:

Hey, I can actually do this!

Book number three on its way!

Many of you have asked when it will come; book number three. I have long said that it would come this year and now I have pressed the "GO" button :-).

My third script is uploaded to Recito förlag, a great reason to open up the champagne bottle my great colleagues gave me when I changed assignment just before the summer:

Hopefully you all want to know more about the book; when I will release it, what the title is, what it is all about, how the cover will look...

Keep an eye on this blog and you will find out!

Skål!

The Beauty of Art Part 4 - the answers

Oh, yes, the clue helped many of you  to answer the Beauty of Art part 4 (and 4.5) :-).

What is the name of the sculpture?

The first sculpture I posted is Le baiser (the Kiss), here displayed from another angle:

The original title was Francesca da Rimini, from Dante´s Divine Comedy. Critics suggested a name change to the kiss and the sculptor agreed. Even though it is hard to understand today, this sculpture raised some controversy since it was considered too erotic for general display. In the originial work, the male is "in an aroused condition", but in most American minitatures of the sculpture he has been censored and is of neutral gender.

The second sculpture I posted is Le Penseur, (the Thinker), here seen from behind:

Also this sculpture had another name before it was changed to the Thinker: Le Poète (the poet). And just like the kiss, this sculpture was inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy. Rodin wanted to make a heroic figure that represented intellect and poetry. 

Who is the sculptor?

Auguste Rodin, a Frenchman who is often seen as a forerunner of modern sculpture. He never set out to rebel against the past, but his work departed from traditional themes like mythology and he sculpted the human body with realism. He was critized in the beginning, something he did not like, but he still carried out with his own style. Later on he became more and more acknowledged and today he is one of few sculptors who is widely known outside the visual arts community. 

Where can this sculpture be seen?
Both sculptures have replicas all over the world, but the original works are in Musée Rodin, Paris, where I saw them.

How does this piece of art make you feel?

Sculptures in general impress me, I find it amazing that some have the ability to create all kinds of shapes out of different stones, wood or metal. The skill and patience needed is so far from myself that I get amazed. 

When it comes to Le Baiser I like that there is so much softness and such a tender moment expressed in something as hard as marble.
Le Penseur makes me stop and think, wondering what he is thinking about, he looks so lifelike even in bronze.
You have said that the Thinker makes you happy, calm and that the sculpture reminds us all about the importance of stopping to reflect, especially when the sculpture is in places that emphasize reflection and calmness, like at Waldemarsudde (Sweden).

Thanks for participating!

The Beauty of Art part 4 - some clues

The Beauty of Art part 4 - some clues

Since I have not received any(!) answers on the Beauty of Art part 4, I am giving a clue and another week before I post the answers.  

Clue:

The same sculptor has also created this, more known, sculpture:

I hope this additional clue makes it easier to answer the questions at the end of this blogpost. Remember, even if you do not know the answers to the questions, I am really interested in how the piece of art makes you feel!

In the beauty  of art parts 1, 2 and 3 ,you have seen a number of beautiful paintings. There is more to art than paintings of course so in part 4 we will look at another art form, one that I admire a lot:
sculpting.

The subject of the Beauty of Art part 4 is the following sculpture:

And here are the questions I would like you to answer:

What is the name of the sculpture?

Who is the sculptor?

Where can this sculpture be seen?

How does this piece of art make you feel?

Let me know your answers to the questions, especially the last one and I will inform you about the answers in a coming blogpost!

The Beauty of Art part 4

In the beauty  of art parts 1, 2 and 3 ,you have seen a number of beautiful paintings. There is more to art than paintings of course so in part 4 we will look at another art form, one that I admire a lot:
sculpting.

The subject of the Beauty of Art part 4 is the following sculpture:

And here are the questions I would like you to answer:

What is the name of the sculpture?

Who is the sculptor?

Where can this sculpture be seen?

How does this piece of art make you feel?

Let me know your answers to the questions, especially the last one and I will inform you about the answers in a coming blogpost!

Not the same hamburger for everyone

The great business man and philanthropist Bill Gates, once famously said:

"I can understand about having millions of dollars. There's meaningful freedom that comes with that, but once you get much beyond that I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger. "

This makes perfect sense to me, to many of us. But not to all. It seems that some people want much, much more than they can ever and I mean ever, use.

You have read about them, heard about them, maybe you have met them. The ones who never get enough, the ones who get greedy.

 "Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction." 

Erich Fromm (German psychologist and philosopher)

Andy Warhol, Dollar Signs $ (9)

How about introducing a law that says that politicians can never earn more than Y times the minimum wage  / lowest income in the country they rule? In my opinion Y should be a one-digit number.

And how about a corporate guideline that the CEO of a company can never earn more than X times what the lowest  paid person in the company earns? Or, wait a minute, does this worry you? Have you bought in to all that talk about the necessity to pay enormous salaries combined with absurd bonuses to "get the best ones"? Stop worrying. The myth has been debunked. A study by MSCI ESG showed that:

"total shareholder returns for companies with CEO pay that exceeded the sector median performed worse than companies with less excessive pay."

 Worse!

It may not be simple to set guidelines like these, but that does not mean we should not figure out how. I agree fully with Sir Michael Marmot (see 2 min video here) when he says:

"I do not think it's in fantasy land wanting a fairer society".

It is not fantasy land. It is a necessity to create a better world for all.