sábado, 16 de marzo de 2013
martes, 17 de julio de 2012
M
Hacéis del universo lo que queréis que sea, pero no os dais cuenta. Buscáis una explicación y en la explicación, la estáis elaborando. Lo que decís, se hace. Necesitáis expandir vuestro pensamiento y encontráis nuevas dimensiones. Queréis hablar con Dios, y cuando encendáis el aparato para hacerlo, escucharéis vuestra voz con retardo, o con adelanto.
martes, 1 de mayo de 2012
Sigo aquí
Si espero un poco más, cumplo un año sin actualizar. Pero no. No me he olvidado de este rinconcito. Sencillamente estaba meditando. Me gusta el look que tiene ahora mi blog. Me gusta que parezca más tecnológico-musical-audiovisual, porque es a lo que tiende mi vida.
En octubre comenzaré el máster en Postproducción de Imagen y Sonido por la escuela CICE, y creo que voy a utilizar más esto que nunca antes. Se acabaron las chorradas amorosas, aunque ahora mismo esté más enamorada que nunca. Se acabaron los trozos de peli y las fotos chulas por aquí, porque para eso ya está Twitter y Facebook. Aquí comentaré mis progresos en los ámbitos en los que me voy a mover: imagen y sonido, aunque últimamente me tire más y más el sonido.
Este blog también podría convertirse en una especie de psicólogo personalizado donde verter todas las frustraciones que genera la confusión que vivimos estos días. Pero no. Paro, huelgas, y futuro desolador es lo que nos venden los mayores y los medios de comunicación. Futuro prometedor es lo que nos vende el partido de turno en el gobierno, de este sistema bipartidista ad eternum al que llaman democracia (...y no lo es...). Yo mientras continúo empapándome de documentales cada vez más fundamentalistas a mi parecer. De 'Inside Job' pasamos a 'Zeitgeist' y luego a 'Lucio Urtubia, Anarquista y Albañil'. También la mayoría de 'Salvados' en LaSexta se salvan. Al final espero que no sean meros paliativos, aunque espero que este sistema no nos cargue de razones para despertar del letargo en el que nos tienen sumidos. Cada vez más indignación, cada vez peor. Para muchos nos bastaría con que se cuidaran las formas, se reformaran las leyes para acabar con la corrupción y los amiguismos. Resumiendo: conseguir una Democracia real. No es mucho pedir, creemos. Pero este país sigue votando a dos partidos parásitos.
| Final, por Heladi on Flickr |
jueves, 4 de agosto de 2011
Three-dimensionalize me
Last week i've been jacking around with Xara 3D software which allows you to make 3D text. Some free supercool fonts from dafont.com mixed with some Photoshop work and... voilá!
This last one is for my friend Rabie whose a.k.a. Ba3ksy maybe rings a bell with the famous artist Banksy. But this has nothing to do with him. It just means "stubborn" in arabic. My friend explains that "3" is for a letter in arabic alphabet that doesn't exists in ours, as they use "7" and "9" as well. Way cool to know. domingo, 19 de junio de 2011
Lil' heroes
sábado, 18 de junio de 2011
Vilify
Hace unos días, Valve Software lanzó un concurso en el que se pretendía que los participantes hicieran un video con la canción 'Exile Vilify' de la BSO de Portal 2. Escuché la canción y creo que no le pega demasiado al footage de Portal, así que hice lo mismo pero con otro juegazo: 'Battlefield 3'.
El parecido con la realidad en los gráficos de este juego es apabullante. Tanto, que hasta cierta parte del video me recuerda a aquellas imágenes que vimos con el asunto aquel de Collateral Murder y que ya comenté en la entrada sobre WikiRebels.
El parecido con la realidad en los gráficos de este juego es apabullante. Tanto, que hasta cierta parte del video me recuerda a aquellas imágenes que vimos con el asunto aquel de Collateral Murder y que ya comenté en la entrada sobre WikiRebels.
domingo, 5 de junio de 2011
Moon in Water

The phenomena moon in the water is likened to human experience.
The water is the subject and the moon the object.
When there is no water, there is no moon in the water,
and likewise there is no moon.
But when the moon rises, the water does not wait to receive its image.
And when even the tiniest drop of water is poured out
The moon does not wait to cast its reflexion.
Past is already past.
The future is not yet here.
Things are constantly changing.
The event is caused as much by the water as by the moon.
And as water manifests the brightness of the moon,
the moon manifests the clarity of the water.
The water is the subject and the moon the object.
When there is no water, there is no moon in the water,
and likewise there is no moon.
But when the moon rises, the water does not wait to receive its image.
And when even the tiniest drop of water is poured out
The moon does not wait to cast its reflexion.
Past is already past.
The future is not yet here.
Things are constantly changing.
The event is caused as much by the water as by the moon.
And as water manifests the brightness of the moon,
the moon manifests the clarity of the water.
Underworld - Moon in Water
lunes, 30 de mayo de 2011
martes, 24 de mayo de 2011
jueves, 14 de abril de 2011
miércoles, 6 de abril de 2011
Bum!
<< La puerta cristalera se abrió y mamá salió al bacón con un zapato en la mano.-Hola chicos -saludó, limpiando la suela con un paño húmedo-. Desde luego, este edificio es un desastre. En la entrada acabo de pisar un sándwich a medio comer, nada menos.
Me volví para que mamá no viera mi cara y reparé en que el helicóptero de papá, en la distancia, segaba la copa de un árbol, empezaba a arder, caía en espiral y acababa estrellándose contra la gravilla del pipicán, dándole un susto de muerte a un enorme dálmata.
Papá arrojó el mando al suelo, se dejó caer boca abajo y empezó a aporrear la hierba con los puños. >>
Estos son los libros que me gustan.
martes, 22 de marzo de 2011
God's Debris
<<
-What about the afterlife? Are all the benefits here and now or is there something later? -I asked-.
-Over time, everything that is possible happens. That is a fundamental quality of probability. If you flip a coin often enough, eventually it will come up heads a thousand times in a row. And everything possible will happen over and over as long as God’s debris exists. The clump of debris that comprises your body and mind will break down and disintegrate someday, but a version of you will reappear in the future, by chance.
-Are you saying I’ll reincarnate?
-Not exactly. I’m saying a replica of your mind and body will exist in the distant future, by chance. And the things you do now can either make life more pleasant or more difficult for your replica.
-Why would I care about a replica of me? That’s a different guy.
-That distinction is an illusion. In your current life, every cell in your body has died and been replaced many times. There is nothing in your current body that you were born with. You have no original equipment, just replacement parts, so for all practical purposes, you are already a replica of a prior version of you.
-Yes, but my memories stay with me. The replica of me in the distant future will have none of the memories and feelings that comprise my life, -I said-.
-There will be many replicas of you in the future, not just one. Some will have lives similar to yours, with similar memories and feelings. The replicas will be different from you only in concept, not in practical terms.
>>
-What about the afterlife? Are all the benefits here and now or is there something later? -I asked-.
-Over time, everything that is possible happens. That is a fundamental quality of probability. If you flip a coin often enough, eventually it will come up heads a thousand times in a row. And everything possible will happen over and over as long as God’s debris exists. The clump of debris that comprises your body and mind will break down and disintegrate someday, but a version of you will reappear in the future, by chance.
-Are you saying I’ll reincarnate?
-Not exactly. I’m saying a replica of your mind and body will exist in the distant future, by chance. And the things you do now can either make life more pleasant or more difficult for your replica.
-Why would I care about a replica of me? That’s a different guy.
-That distinction is an illusion. In your current life, every cell in your body has died and been replaced many times. There is nothing in your current body that you were born with. You have no original equipment, just replacement parts, so for all practical purposes, you are already a replica of a prior version of you.
-Yes, but my memories stay with me. The replica of me in the distant future will have none of the memories and feelings that comprise my life, -I said-.
-There will be many replicas of you in the future, not just one. Some will have lives similar to yours, with similar memories and feelings. The replicas will be different from you only in concept, not in practical terms.
>>
domingo, 20 de marzo de 2011
Las verdades en Helvética son más verdades
miércoles, 9 de febrero de 2011
Trains and cars

The point is not how many trains have straight past. It's how many of those you tried to stop and get, and which ones, at least, slowed down at your stop, but then it turned out they were filled up so you couldn't catch them.
Algo parecido pasa con los coches. Los accidentes en cadena. El primero frena para salvar algo. El de atrás choca, y así sucesivamente. A veces asusta lo larga que es la cadena, y cómo no puedes no sentirte hipócrita si lloras porque te has chocado tú, cuando detrás de ti hay más en la misma situación.
Algo parecido pasa con los coches. Los accidentes en cadena. El primero frena para salvar algo. El de atrás choca, y así sucesivamente. A veces asusta lo larga que es la cadena, y cómo no puedes no sentirte hipócrita si lloras porque te has chocado tú, cuando detrás de ti hay más en la misma situación.
martes, 21 de diciembre de 2010
#Sindejodete
Después de escuchar este acalorado debate en Cadena Ser entre Alex de la Iglesia, presidente de la Academia Española de Cine, y Victor Domingo, presidente de la Asociación de Internautas me ha quedado todo bien claro. La Ley Sinde, además de ser producto de las presiones del lobby de la industria musical de EE.UU. al gobierno español, viene con otro disfraz.
Alex dice que hay páginas que se están lucrando con el trabajo ajeno. Alex va más allá: acusa a las telefónicas de ser las grandes beneficiadas con todo este asunto. Y es verdad. Por poner un ejemplo, Series Yonkis, que se lucra del trabajo ajeno con los banners o la publicidad que quiera introducir. Esto es obvio porque los servidores no se mantienen de forma gratuita, y menos con tal volumen de datos y de tráfico como los que maneja esta web. Pero como dice Victor Domingo, la página, según la resolución del juez, es legal, y se han sobreseguido otros casos como éste en varias ocasiones.
Hay un vacío legal, es totalmente cierto. Pero si el problema es éste supuestamente, ¿por qué no abres una web similar, querido Alex, con carácterísticas similares a Series Yonkis y así seáis vosotros los que os lucréis con vuestro propio trabajo? La respuesta es simple: porque eso no es lo que se quiere combatir con la Ley Sinde. No nos lo vendas así. El problema sigue siendo el mismo, y es que la piratería está destruyendo la industria discográfica y cinematográfica. Eso es lo que os preocupa y es lógico que lo hagáis. Se supone que yo tengo que vivir de esas industrias el día de mañana también, pero creo que ir detrás de la gente en plan cobrador del frac para cobrarles los derechos de autor es un modelo desfasado, al igual que lo es privar al ciudadano de algo que ya se le ha ofrecido gratuitamente. Por eso tanto revuelo. Y por más leyes que se hagan, por más sistemas para pillar a los que descargan, hecha la ley, hecha la trampa. Pan para hoy y hambre para mañana.
Ah, por cierto, he acabado de escribir el post y la Ley Sinde ha sido rechazada en el Congreso. Sorry. Try again...
Alex dice que hay páginas que se están lucrando con el trabajo ajeno. Alex va más allá: acusa a las telefónicas de ser las grandes beneficiadas con todo este asunto. Y es verdad. Por poner un ejemplo, Series Yonkis, que se lucra del trabajo ajeno con los banners o la publicidad que quiera introducir. Esto es obvio porque los servidores no se mantienen de forma gratuita, y menos con tal volumen de datos y de tráfico como los que maneja esta web. Pero como dice Victor Domingo, la página, según la resolución del juez, es legal, y se han sobreseguido otros casos como éste en varias ocasiones.
Hay un vacío legal, es totalmente cierto. Pero si el problema es éste supuestamente, ¿por qué no abres una web similar, querido Alex, con carácterísticas similares a Series Yonkis y así seáis vosotros los que os lucréis con vuestro propio trabajo? La respuesta es simple: porque eso no es lo que se quiere combatir con la Ley Sinde. No nos lo vendas así. El problema sigue siendo el mismo, y es que la piratería está destruyendo la industria discográfica y cinematográfica. Eso es lo que os preocupa y es lógico que lo hagáis. Se supone que yo tengo que vivir de esas industrias el día de mañana también, pero creo que ir detrás de la gente en plan cobrador del frac para cobrarles los derechos de autor es un modelo desfasado, al igual que lo es privar al ciudadano de algo que ya se le ha ofrecido gratuitamente. Por eso tanto revuelo. Y por más leyes que se hagan, por más sistemas para pillar a los que descargan, hecha la ley, hecha la trampa. Pan para hoy y hambre para mañana.
Ah, por cierto, he acabado de escribir el post y la Ley Sinde ha sido rechazada en el Congreso. Sorry. Try again...
miércoles, 15 de diciembre de 2010
WikiRebels

Last night I watched WikiRebels: a documentary and that clarified me a couple things I had in mind before I could make my statement about this controversial topic. I'm sceptic about what media shows to us all, anyhow I don't believe they misinform us on purpose, but there's nothing they can do instead. In any case, they're mere intermediary.
At this point, I have to say I don't agree with the point of view of WikiLeaks. I do know that truth has to prevail always, but this has been a flag to put on the same spot many different things they shouldn't be there. For instance: Collateral Murder, the video that shows how did the Reuters' journalists die on Iraq shot by US Army.
-First: some people of the group are holding AK-47. If you are in the Iraq war (even if you're journalist) you have to smart up and think that going with an armed group down those streets could be (at least) dangerous. Check the short video again by 3:35.
-Second: they (the journalists and the people who setted them free) shot something or someone in a certain moment. Check the video at 4:15. This is giving more reasons to army to open fire.
-Third: when that guy survives and he is crawling, soldiers don't shoot him, they're just expecting if he is taking a weapon or something that would make him dangerous for the troops. That's when the van shows up, and the shooter is always requesting permission to engage (well, at this point a guy's voice appears and he really wants to shoot, but he doesn't show up anymore and they eventually did the right thing and waited for the permission to engage).
-Fourth: the journalists made the decision of driving a van through those dangerous streets with two kids inside.
-Fifth: the video editor zooms in on minute 16, but the shooter couldn't zoom in more than it is. And when the video zooms in there are two white circles that don't seem like children at all. Maybe just two white packages at the most.
After all, we can get this straight: If you're journalist and you're walking down those streets at war with a white flag in your hand and you get shot, that would be insane. But you are actually going with a group of armed iraqis with AK-47 and RPG's, and if it's not risky enough, you bring children to battlefield. In this case, I think US Army did right. And we're all obviating the fact that being a soldier and have to kill people is not as easy as in a videogame. They will live all their lives eaten up with that. Julian Assange said about this: "Why do it? Well, there are two reasons. One: Because it's fun to kill people. If you've been in that environment, removed from all the effects of killing people for a long time. It's a videogame, like in high school. The other is they brag after a kill streak. About how many people they killed, and go back to base, and go 'Hey, I killed thirteen today'". All mixed up with some Adagio for the Strings.
Anyhow, I'm not excusing US army from all its behaviour. They've screwed it up many times, specially with all that cases of torture. But they cannot do whatever they want cause there are rules, and Collateral Murder shows they have to get permission before shooting and they're always following orders. There are many people supporting what Assange is doing right now, but they do it blindly, though. First and foremost, because Julian doesn't agree with what he used to, or that's what Daniel Domscheit-Berg (previously known under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt and effective number two in WikiLeaks) said about Julian: "If you preach transparency to everyone else, you have to be transparent yourself. You have to fulfill the same standards that you expect from others. And I think that's where we've not been heading into the same direction philosophically anymore" after quitting the project as several others as well. Just like Herbert Snorrason: "Eventually this ended with Julian and me arguing about basicaly his dictatorial behaviour which ended in Julian saying to me that if i had a problem with him, I could just piss off, I quote".
I'm not saying he's a bad man, but just not the pure angel some think he is, and like any of us has his own interests. About the rape charges against him, I think he's not guilty, simply because that was all a mess and they have to stop him whatever the cost, besides the women who accuse him haven't talked proper yet and seems all the allegations are a long way from being settled.
Anyhow, I won't download that torrent that would reveal something big in case Julian disappears. We're all knowing what's inside if it turns out he dies, just cause Internet is still free. Still.
At this point, I have to say I don't agree with the point of view of WikiLeaks. I do know that truth has to prevail always, but this has been a flag to put on the same spot many different things they shouldn't be there. For instance: Collateral Murder, the video that shows how did the Reuters' journalists die on Iraq shot by US Army.
-First: some people of the group are holding AK-47. If you are in the Iraq war (even if you're journalist) you have to smart up and think that going with an armed group down those streets could be (at least) dangerous. Check the short video again by 3:35.
-Second: they (the journalists and the people who setted them free) shot something or someone in a certain moment. Check the video at 4:15. This is giving more reasons to army to open fire.
-Third: when that guy survives and he is crawling, soldiers don't shoot him, they're just expecting if he is taking a weapon or something that would make him dangerous for the troops. That's when the van shows up, and the shooter is always requesting permission to engage (well, at this point a guy's voice appears and he really wants to shoot, but he doesn't show up anymore and they eventually did the right thing and waited for the permission to engage).
-Fourth: the journalists made the decision of driving a van through those dangerous streets with two kids inside.
-Fifth: the video editor zooms in on minute 16, but the shooter couldn't zoom in more than it is. And when the video zooms in there are two white circles that don't seem like children at all. Maybe just two white packages at the most.
After all, we can get this straight: If you're journalist and you're walking down those streets at war with a white flag in your hand and you get shot, that would be insane. But you are actually going with a group of armed iraqis with AK-47 and RPG's, and if it's not risky enough, you bring children to battlefield. In this case, I think US Army did right. And we're all obviating the fact that being a soldier and have to kill people is not as easy as in a videogame. They will live all their lives eaten up with that. Julian Assange said about this: "Why do it? Well, there are two reasons. One: Because it's fun to kill people. If you've been in that environment, removed from all the effects of killing people for a long time. It's a videogame, like in high school. The other is they brag after a kill streak. About how many people they killed, and go back to base, and go 'Hey, I killed thirteen today'". All mixed up with some Adagio for the Strings.
Anyhow, I'm not excusing US army from all its behaviour. They've screwed it up many times, specially with all that cases of torture. But they cannot do whatever they want cause there are rules, and Collateral Murder shows they have to get permission before shooting and they're always following orders. There are many people supporting what Assange is doing right now, but they do it blindly, though. First and foremost, because Julian doesn't agree with what he used to, or that's what Daniel Domscheit-Berg (previously known under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt and effective number two in WikiLeaks) said about Julian: "If you preach transparency to everyone else, you have to be transparent yourself. You have to fulfill the same standards that you expect from others. And I think that's where we've not been heading into the same direction philosophically anymore" after quitting the project as several others as well. Just like Herbert Snorrason: "Eventually this ended with Julian and me arguing about basicaly his dictatorial behaviour which ended in Julian saying to me that if i had a problem with him, I could just piss off, I quote".
I'm not saying he's a bad man, but just not the pure angel some think he is, and like any of us has his own interests. About the rape charges against him, I think he's not guilty, simply because that was all a mess and they have to stop him whatever the cost, besides the women who accuse him haven't talked proper yet and seems all the allegations are a long way from being settled.
Anyhow, I won't download that torrent that would reveal something big in case Julian disappears. We're all knowing what's inside if it turns out he dies, just cause Internet is still free. Still.
sábado, 4 de diciembre de 2010
Obviously

¿Sherlock Holmes con Blackberry? Sí. Ésta es la arriesgada apuesta de la BBC. Un moderno Sherlock Holmes, pero si vamos a jugar a ser modernos, lo somos del todo. Porque como ya ocurrió con el Sherlock Holmes de Guy Ritchie (que a mi parecer, está más perdido que un pulpo en una higuera), no se puede vestir a alguien ni situarlo en un contexto de finales del XIX y que el personaje piense y actúe como si acabara de salir de ver Avatar en 3D.
Pero BBC lo ha vuelto a hacer. Ha consegido replantear el concepto de Sherlock e inscribirlo en el contexto actual, pero a la vez siendo lo más fiel posible al personaje original de Conan Doyle (donde las carreritas, las gilipolleces de tipo duro y las gracietas quedan fuera).
Pero BBC lo ha vuelto a hacer. Ha consegido replantear el concepto de Sherlock e inscribirlo en el contexto actual, pero a la vez siendo lo más fiel posible al personaje original de Conan Doyle (donde las carreritas, las gilipolleces de tipo duro y las gracietas quedan fuera).
sábado, 27 de noviembre de 2010
Fractales

- Hay un número oculto en cada acto de la vida, en cada aspecto del universo. Fractales. Materia. Hay un número que clama por decirnos algo... ¿te estoy aburriendo?
- No. No... yo... lo siento.
- No sé. Lo que intento explicar es que los números son una puerta para entender un misterio que es mayor que nosotros. El modo en que dos personas desconocidas llegan a conocerse. Hay un poema de un escritor venezolano que empieza:
La Tierra giró, para acercarnos más.- Muy bonito.
Giró sobre sí misma y en nuestro interior,
hasta que por fin nos reunió en este sueño.
- Tienen que ocurrir tantas cosas para que dos personas se conozcan... En el fondo, eso son las matemáticas.
sábado, 13 de noviembre de 2010
viernes, 8 de octubre de 2010
Rocking the Casbah
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