Ana and the legend of the hidden snake

De vuelta!

2010-11-24T06:41:00.002+01:00

The amazing gore films selection from the 60s Mexico!!??

2009-08-29T05:05:00.004+02:00

Yes that is right! I came across with a good bunch of gore, galio film selection from the very mexican film studios on the seventies! when life was simply better in this world- this is my personal believe that innocence was still alive then!- if you dont believe you just got to watch this movies! they are awesome, unfortunatelly besides some classic mexican "santo" movies there are no translations to english but believe just to watch the end of darker than the night is so awesome! here is a nice you tube link:

Also here is some art work from darker than the night and even the wind is frightened....huuuuu and santo of course! by the way there will be a new version of darker than the night including some japanesse suspense masters Junichiro Hayashi, who is responsible for the ringu and some other scary classics...I can not wat to see it!

Bahia....

2009-08-29T05:04:00.001+02:00

In this moment I would give all the bucks in the world to be in bahia enjoy some surf, sand, drinks and sunset, please take me there!

hello seahorse!

2009-08-04T00:45:00.002+02:00

This is a mexican surrealistic band that had gotten in my head really hard!
enjoy!!

Sensational of Mexican design

2009-07-29T03:34:00.006+02:00

I found this book called Sensacinal del diseno mexicano, it started during some holidays of the authors along mexico where they were surprised by mexican imagination to advertise, I am talking about small towns lost in Mexico where people live very simple lifes and sometimes they say it all with pictures, this compendia compehends hundreds of pics from advertisements, patterns from walls, magazines, table cloths and other things found in small towns or the huge Mexico city were the adevertisers have to fight to gain some attention of the tipical mexican transeunt, the authors have published all this material in a very atractive book wich incluse a CD room that displays a game using some famous icons pics from mexican design and an explanation of the whole project, I think you will find this curious and out the what we are use to see, Mexican design is quite unique in its style and projection to the public
Please visit the website at: http://www.sensacional.com.mx/
Meanwhile here are some small tasting pics :)

Algunas relaciones se sienten como que te quitan la vida,,,

2009-07-29T03:32:00.003+02:00

A veces un jefe, un amigo, una pareja, para mi estas son las relaciones que me han succionado la vida:
1.
Los críticos que constantemente se quejan o dan un consejo no deseado
2.
Los mártires que son siempre las víctimas
3.
Los aguafiestas que son pesimistas y negativos
4.
Los aplanadores que no tienen sensibilidad hacia los demás
5.
Los chismosos que esparcen rumores y secretos
6.
Los controladores que no pueden soltar y dejar que las cosas sucedan
7.
Los hipócritas que apuñalan por la espalda
8.
Los envidiosos que odian el éxito de los demás
9.
Los volcanes que se llenan de ira y pueden explotar en cualquier momento
10.
Las esponjas que siempre están necesitadas pero nunca dan nada a cambio
11.
Los competidores que siempre llevan la cuenta de las represalia

Y uds que opinan?

Traveling throught Mexico

2009-07-21T16:56:00.008+02:00

Is summer time and time to travel and to rest, here are the first pics from my trip of reencounter wiht my dear Mexico, the weather is hooooooooooooot! perfect to knock you out and leave you in a great state of mine, I found some nice pics among all my intents here there are! enjoy!

Phrase of the day

2009-07-21T16:56:00.002+02:00

Lewis Carroll:

"To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves..."

Acentos perdidos

2009-07-10T23:40:00.002+02:00

I just found this blog is called acentos perdios (lost stressmarks) It belongs to Pablo a publicist born in Spain and achilangado*, had an idea that I found terrific looking a jon as publicist using all the public display available in the city, he walks the city of Mexico looking for adds with all kinds of grammar guilibilities! it is a great idea! he confesses himself as a tormented grammar obsseced, so he decided to do his job for free for the sake of Mexico city, I think it his job is completely oroginal and well here it is!
http://acentosperdidos.blogspot.com/

10 crimes

2009-07-10T23:25:00.002+02:00

1. Not to say I love you as many times as I felt it
2. To look away from those in need
3. Keeping a laught in secret
4. Dislike someone so much til hating
6. Not huging enough
7. Not singing in a clear spring morining
8. Sayig NO when I wanted to say Yes
9. Loosing a friend
10. Living without appreciation of live

The list goes on but these are the crimes that I want to change everyday...

ana and the hidden snake

2009-06-26T00:56:00.002+02:00

The aztec legend tells the profecy of a god that would arrive to the aztec empire to bring properity to the land, this god would be the fetheared snake god, quezalcoatl, by his Nahua followers. In the Maya area he was known as Kukulcan or Ququmatz, names that also translate as "feathered serpent" in different Mayan languages.

in the need of varos....

2009-06-24T19:34:00.001+02:00

Somedays I just need her colors to make my own ones...

murakami number 10th

2009-06-24T19:26:00.003+02:00

I have finished sputniksweethear, another beautiful trip into murakamis poetic words, his unendless worlds, the cats, the women, the shadows coming to life, all the mytical murakami's simbols, to me is going back home to a world where my deeper feelings are shared, I always feel exposed a little when I read his books, I can see myself in a mirror, which is sometimes not easy, I feel so conected to his feelings, I imagine which parts of his books are parts of his and which one he has just imagine, but is not possible to make a dicernt between those worlds, he is a poet of the surealism that is so real for some of us,
Sputniksweethear take it with you if you plan to go to some relaxing summer holiday, it will bring you to a different state of mind closer to your innerself, it a cold yet familiar place where everything can happen, read it next to the beach while listening to the sound of the waves, it is simply beautiful and relaxing, dont miss it!

letting the clockwork orange go....

2009-06-24T19:14:00.002+02:00

Times are changing fast here in the clockwork orange, things are moving fast, one day you are here another your are gone, but time is relative as well as perception, in the clockworking orange everything is precised but some of us are not mathematical equations but a blur of luck walking among others,
I will come back here sometimes to the cold steal morning and the individuality, to the artificial beauty of this machine...

The perfect world

2009-06-16T12:57:00.003+02:00

When I was 15 I came across the book from Aldous Huxley "The brave new world", first I thought I would get bored with his old writting style, at least the version I had in my hands was quite old from my grandpa, I read it and it caused a great impact at the time and this feeling was dissolving along time, as I grow older I can not but to compare some characters in Huxley´s novel including myself, I so often feel like the savage brought to the brave world and expose to certain refinements in this new upgraded society, with a blue pill to relieve any kind of negative feeling, music made from machines and not instruments, luckely we still have the family concept in this world of ours, perhaps a very old yet human structure that is the key to happiness according to forbes survey for the 10 countries were you can achieve more money, at the end they closed the article saying that money does not equal happiness and that on the contrary the countries were people consider themself happier are the ones were the family plays a central role in individuals,
perhaps Huxley was right and the scence of our humanity lies in the simplest of things that we take for granted and that in this fast world seems so archaic and decadent

On the search for home

2009-06-13T09:48:00.001+02:00

This weekend my task is to let my home find me and not stand in its way, to let the one desition that will take me home find its way to my heart like Bagger Vance used to say..

While walking in the forrest

2009-06-12T12:14:00.002+02:00

This morning while walking down the forrest to come to work, some ideas finally set up its place in my brain,
I was thinking about several conversations with my best friend which refered to social structure,
I was a naive firm believer that a person can achieve a place in society trought their own effort and inteligence, instead of their social status or class, there was a time when I could not see such a concept as an active concept in todays society where the middle class is so extended, however my friend always argued with me about this and insisted that in human societa the existance of such a concept is a pilar for its organization and healthy development, that is is something we would never get rid off,
But is this true? can we get rid of concepts in society like class, or even more would it be possible one day to get rid of the concept of country, is it really healthy for society to perpetuate those concepts, or is it only useful to perpetuate differences?
It seems to me that since very early and in all types of human cultures differences have always existed for what we know the most ancient cultures were based in feudalism or explotation of the lower masses to the porpuse of support the reigning class at every particular culture,
those kind of differences are there even in the religous contest, which I dont even want to comment on, but it seems to me that the human society needs stratification in order to achieve certain development in other goods not only material but philosophycal as well,
of course that being a biologist I wonder about people with limitations to understand such a system, the outsiders sort of speaking, could it be that all these need for herarchyes is something that is either inhereted or is it learned after words or is it a complex kind of process that combines both possibilities?
are those individuals (maybe even several philosophers)- just a residual part of other posibility in human populations? have we been self selecting individuals who posses the hability to fit this kind of classist systems since the dawn of times and we could be missing the chance to live free of such a concepts?
I for once dont think that this kind of human structure is only inherent to human populations, since many other groups in nature are structure as well, in that case is not possible to say that is a kind of property learned after birth but is inherent to the animal populations through complex biochemical processes,
so maybe this structuration and class system is inherent to the animal kingdom, however I again wonder why is then, if we are suppose to have evolved beyonce most of the groups in the animal kingdom, that we keep selecting the same characteristics? will we ever learn to live without them? and if so, what implications in the biological and social point of view would it bring to us?
but as I said this is what I was thinking about when I was walking in the forrest.....

Amantes del circulo polar

2009-06-06T20:07:00.001+02:00

Sera que a mi tambien se me acabaron las casualidades?...........

2009-06-06T20:01:00.002+02:00

Pues cada ves que paso mi avion me lleva a ti...........

On the road or Lonesome Traveler

2009-06-06T17:41:00.002+02:00

"No man should go through life without experiencing healthy even bored solitude in the wilderness, funding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength"
Jack Kerouac

My footische

2009-05-29T20:38:00.003+02:00

Trying to portrait my very own fetische I made this pics using the great light in my room, I have the a small fetische for my black hihgheels... I have nothing else to say

Osamu Dazai

2009-05-24T21:08:00.004+02:00

One more time I am amazed by an interesting Japanese writter, Osamu Dazai, he is considered one of the most important writters of the 20th century in Japan, his work is full of imagination and a nice engaging flow which seems simple althought full of Japanese traditions and cultural particularities, like the obsesion for suicide, so common in Japanese culture, in fact the author attempted suicide three times in his life for different reason and this and other situations that he lived in his childhood are relived in many of this books.
I am recomending his novel The setting sun, which is by far one of the most known and recognize pieces of Japanese literature.
Is a simple story about the falling of an empire and the society in Japan after the second world war. It is a floating story, very vivid, althought melancholic is beautifully written. If you have the chance to get it you will definetelly enjoy this enchanting reading.

Other curiosities of Dazai life were that he ran away with a gaisha and he was thrown out of his family and his social status due to this, he was a marxist follower and deplee depressed his entire life only ending with his suicide
The pic and information was obtained from the author website

Today

2009-05-19T07:15:00.002+02:00

I promise to myself to be honest to myself in order to be honest to the world, to unhang the curtains that make everything look nicer and to see reality for what it is, to stop lying and be corageous and tame feelings and obsessions
I compromise to myself

Mario Benedetti

2009-05-18T21:46:00.002+02:00

A little homenage to one of my favorite poets, who died last evening:
Pausa

De vez en cuando hay que hacer
una pausa
contemplarse a sí mismo
sin la fruición cotidiana
examinar el pasado
rubro por rubro
etapa por etapa
baldosa por baldosa
y no llorarse las mentiras
sino cantarse las verdades.

QPD

Tokio!

2009-05-18T21:39:00.003+02:00

Searching for interesting movies in the www I found this outrageous movie Tokio! from three creative directors: michel gondry, leos carax and joon-ho bong; I am looking forward to it!

here is the link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG3H15gwvXQ&feature=related

I wonder...

2009-05-17T21:07:00.004+02:00

I dont want to have neither salt or sugar,
neither peace nor war,
I wonder why to lay or why not to, why is it that I dont want good neither bad,
I wonder what would would be if you were not there to put my feet back under your pillow my sweet wolf dress in sheep

The master David Lynch

2009-05-17T21:03:00.005+02:00

Here are some pics from David Lynch and Louboutin: I must ad two of my favorite contemporary artist, two of my major passions, they convined their talents in this fotos called fetish; I suppose nothing else is needed to be said
Pics taken from David Lynch webpage

leaves of grass

2009-05-17T18:41:00.002+02:00

Anytime when feeling lost I have to look into one of my favorite poets, Walt withman

As I ponder'd in silence,
Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long,
A Phantom arose before me with distrustful aspect,
Terrible in beauty, age, and power,
The genius of poets of old lands,
As to me directing like flame its eyes,
With finger pointing to many immortal songs,
And menacing voice, What singest thou? it said,
Know'st thou not there is hut one theme for ever-enduring bards?
And that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles,
The making of perfect soldiers.

Be it so, then I answer'd,
I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any,
Waged in my book with varying fortune, with flight, advance
and retreat, victory deferr'd and wavering,
(Yet methinks certain, or as good as certain, at the last,) the
field the world,
For life and death, for the Body and for the eternal Soul,
Lo, I too am come, chanting the chant of battles,
I above all promote brave soldiers.

2009-05-10T21:55:00.002+02:00

What does it mean to be alive? Is it only breathing? is it only dreaming? is it when you die that you finally recognize what life means?......if so why do we keep not dying nor living? are we only gosths?

THE WISDOM OF JEDI MASTER YODA

2009-05-10T21:41:00.000+02:00

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Don't think. Feel. Be as one with The Force. Help you, it will.

Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.

Clear, your mind must be.

Wars not make one great.

Patience!

To you

2009-02-17T22:21:00.002+01:00

Please, let's just not pretend to be what we are not,
let's just not put names and rules and limits to what we really are,
let's not build hopes in the future or tell lies that will deeply hurt tomorrow,
let's just live the moments that we have together and not make plans for later,

But please, let's live every moment, drink it as if we have just opened and expensive wime bottle, let's keep the memory of our moments as clear as we can with not judgement, without ilusions, just facts,

In that way we are real and not an ilusion, we are safe from harm

For those in love....like me

2009-02-17T22:20:00.001+01:00

Tactic And Strategy

My tactic is
Looking at you,
Learning how you are,
Loving you as you are,
My tactic is
Talking to you
And listening to you
To build with words
An indestructible bridge
My tactic is
Remaining in your memories
I don't know how
Nor with which pretext
But remaining with you.
My tactic is
Being frank,
And knowing that you are frank,
And not selling each other
Simulations
So that between us
There is no curtain
Nor abyss.

My strategy is,
However,
Deeper and
Easier,
My strategy is
That one of these days
I don't know how
Nor with which pretext
You finally
Need me.

Mario Benedetti

Don´t Save Yourself

2009-02-17T22:17:00.000+01:00

Don't Save yourself,
Don´t be immobile
On the edge of the road,
Don't freeze the joy,
Don't love with reluctance,
Don't save yourself now
or ever,
Don't save yourself,
Don't fill with calm,
Don't reserve of the world
Just a calm place,
Don't let fall your lids
Heavy as trials,
Don´t speak without lips,
Don't fall asleep without sleepiness,
Don't think of you without blood,
Don't judge yourself without time.

But if in spite of everything
You cannot avoid it
And you freeze the joy,
And you love with reluctance,
And you save yourself now,
And you full with calm,
And you reserve of the world
Just a calm place,
And you let fall your lids
Heavy as trials,
And you speak without lips,
And you fall asleep without sleepiness,
And you think yourself without blood,
And you judge yourself without time,
And you are immobile
On the edge of the road,
And you save yourself,
Then
Don't stay with me.

Mario Benedetti

The movie quote- my favorite ever

2009-02-17T20:18:00.001+01:00

Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life place that'd make me feel like Tiffany's, then - then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name!
Holly Golightly: There you are, you sneak!

Breakfast at tiffany's

Tinna Modotti

2009-02-17T10:55:00.006+01:00

Tina Modotti was born in August 1986 in Friuli, Italy. At the age of 16 she inmmigrated to US to join her father in SF where she worked as a model and artist. Tinna Modotti is one of my favorite photographers and social activist in the 1920s in Mexico and Cuba. This is reflected in her social directed pieces as the ones I am presenting here.

However reflecting her romanticism. Her favorite portraits were mexican rural scenes to reflect the political and social difficulties in that moment.
I simply enjoy the beuty of her work and the stetics that is reflected as well as the feeling of solitude that she reflected in her work.

Che if you could see me....

2009-02-02T20:35:00.004+01:00

I really hate consumism it makes me queezy just to think what it means to the world for me to buy a new dress or anything at all...
but this evening as I steped into the supermaket, I felt as if I was cought into consumistic network, a non stoping need to shoooooooooop- after my alter ego was satisfied, I got a postconsumption depression and I thought.... if The Che could see me he would revolve in his grave....
I promise to be stronger next time my dear Che, cross my heart....

Lawrence Kinney

2009-01-30T18:45:00.003+01:00

Edges '08 National Sculpture Exhibition
Artpark, Lewiston, NY
Grand Prize winning sculpture
by Lawrence Kinney
Permanently installed on the Grounds of Artpark
If you wish to have more information about Lawrence Kinney's work please visit his website:
http://www.sculpturesandform.com
http://www.myspace.com/larrykinney

Lawrence Kinney

2009-01-30T18:42:00.001+01:00

"Kipping Mantis" by Lawrence Kinney
Trilogies XVIII: The Work of Three Artists
Art Dialogue Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Image taken from Lawrence Kinney webpage

2009-01-30T18:37:00.002+01:00

Lawrence kinney has been in the art scene for more 20 years now. He obtained his art degree in the Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, and the State University of New York. He presented exhibitions in in Buffalo, NY, Erie, PA, and New York
City and obtained several awards for sculpture. His work is original and playful with movement, time and matter.

Lawrence Kinney

2009-01-30T18:31:00.003+01:00

Lawrance combines static metal elements with the softness of wood and plastic giving a lot movement to his work
This sculpture "Chester's Finale" by Lawrence Kinney is located in the Art Dialogue Gallery, Bufalo, NY

Lawrence Kinney

2009-01-30T18:26:00.003+01:00

Lawrance Kinney is an sculpture from Buffalo NY with a great play of movement in his work.He plays with statics and moviment, and one can simply enjoy the ride
This sculpture titled "Betwixt" by Lawrence Kinney from his exposition Trilogies XVIII: The Work of Three Artists, localted in the Art Dialogue Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Picture taken from Lawrence Kinney website

2008-12-29T09:56:00.002+01:00

Taken from internet

This picture about a native mexican woman protesting against violence they suffer in their family circle mainly, due to alcoholism, drugs, poverty, and the millenarium ideology in Mexico about women rights,
Its good to see they are not quite anymore!

........

2008-12-28T01:13:00.002+01:00

The artist blog: couragehands.blogspot.com

A dark and difficult moment....

2008-12-28T01:03:00.002+01:00

In my fallen night I wish I could go back to my scence, I wish one more time I could get rid of this human suit, that hurts so baddly, I wonder where is the sweetness in this world and the goodness of the human spirit, I wonder why can we not just say... today I want to disapear, tonight I would like to go back to the stars..

When I feel weak...

2008-12-27T12:40:00.001+01:00

I go up north where the east and west come together but they never touch, just like we never touch...then I feel at home

2008-12-27T12:35:00.002+01:00

This is a really great band from Montreal,
they have an excelent mixture of nature sounds and sort of native american rithyms, their style is called sub pop or new barroque in music,
if you like indie this is a new band that youll love!

I recommend the song
Ill believe in anything
from apologies to queen Mary album which you can hear in my playlist

Cheers!

Wolf parade

2008-12-27T12:33:00.000+01:00

Living nature 2

2008-12-27T12:32:00.001+01:00

Living nature

2008-12-27T12:31:00.002+01:00

2008-12-27T11:35:00.001+01:00

If you have the chance to watch this movie from the swedish director Tomas Alfredson do not hesitate is a beutiful yet scary vampire story about a boy named Oscar and his peculiar friend Eli, although scary it is also a story of friendship and love..
Enjoy!

Let the right one in

2008-12-27T11:34:00.001+01:00

bitter sweet

2008-12-27T09:10:00.004+01:00

This morning I see so clear
although I see you upside down
although I am color blind
my heart knows better
my heart holds you tight
I see you brother-lover?
I see you as you are
I love you brother/lover
I love you as you are...
be happy dearest
travel, fly, drive to
where your happiness wait...
please dont worry
I am with you always
you will always find me there
just look behing
and youll find my eyes
just look behind
and youll find my hands...

2008-12-22T23:58:00.001+01:00

Sometimes I dont want to wear this human suit....

2008-12-21T22:14:00.001+01:00

What is beauty?

2008-12-21T22:04:00.002+01:00

Hail to the honest and courageous!

2008-12-21T21:28:00.004+01:00

How many of us can say we are one of those after all...

Christmas music list

2008-12-21T21:16:00.005+01:00

the kinks/ this time tomorrow
the kooks/young folks
Amy mcdonnald/ this is the life
the concretes/ you cant hurry love
funky nassau/ beginning of the end
I cant get next to you
ida cors/ let me think about it
james brown/ get up
Dave dee dozy baeky mick and tich/ hold tight
acceptable in the 80s
Frankie valli and the four seasons/ geggin
Nneka/ africans
lauryn hill and curtis mayfield/ here but I am gone
james brown/ cold sweat
the kinks/ so long brother
Halleluja

2008-12-16T06:42:00.002+01:00

Paripetic or The installation of an irreversible axis on a dynamic timeline."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzTn9dKHuI4
Great installation!

2008-12-06T12:58:00.000+01:00

Darjeerling limited

Great journy what it if you have some spare time ;)

This morining...

2008-12-06T12:50:00.005+01:00

This morning I walked I went for a walk to the amersee it was so beautiful and I discover something striking....beuaty hurted me so much that it made cry!
Why is that, why is it that beutiful things, good things hurt so much?
Is the same feeling like when you are traveling in the subway and a stranger touches you accidentally, it also hurst, I know coz I have watch myself and others withdrawing instantly their hands from the strangers hand and yet is also a beutiful act to touch other human been,
maybe those who put their hand away have a skin disease and maybe I have a visual disease....I hope someday we can all heal...

This evening...

2008-12-04T22:27:00.004+01:00

This evening I have been thinking about magic, about the possibility of magic, do you think magic exists? is it possible to change things just by wishing to provocate a change? is it possible to know the future?
Is it possible that we call magic to all the forces/phenomena that we dont understand?
I dont know, but I have to say that sometimes I remember what my methatphysics teacher once said if you want something good to happen you must to visualized it first in your mind and then you have to fill this moment with colorful clouds, then if you truly believe on it, it will happen,
So this evening I am feeling my world and your world with colorful clouds and this evening in our dreams we will be happy and perhaps tomorrow too
Sweet dreams

Angel-A

2008-12-04T22:10:00.004+01:00

This evening I am enjoying the pleasures of our hipercommunicated yet isolated society, the wonderful youtube.com can be a good place to find some lots in time movies,
This evening I am doing Angel-A, a film by Luc Bessondespite being in black & white, it's a fantastic morality tale about a down-on-his-luck guy who thinks he meets his lucky ticket but eventually discovers she is helping him get on the right track. It's not overflowing with visuals, besides the gorgeous streets of Paris, instead it focuses on the story and morals at hand,
http://www.youtube.com/user/somme1915
you can find this movie in somme1915 youtube page,
if you have the time enjoy this movie, specially if you like french movies, this is quite graceful!

2008-12-03T22:33:00.009+01:00

Calder used to collect little pieces of objects when he was on the street, at the end of his lide he had transformed his house in a warehouse with an infinite number of pieces in progress
Personally I admire Calders esthetics and the reminiscence of his childhood naiveness which he reflected in his work, he had an egineering mid and and an artist soul,
Enjoy!

2008-12-03T22:28:00.007+01:00

Little by little Calder explored new techniques to create magnificent pieces, he went from really small intrincated pieces to monumental pieces, like the one we see here, always looking to innovate in his technique

2008-12-03T22:27:00.000+01:00

Calder invented mobiles

2008-12-03T22:21:00.005+01:00

Calder achieved his masterpieces taking advantage of his talents in exact sciences, He started small, building toys which he used in his very own miniture circus in Paris,
His piece a universe which we can see in this picture, impressed Albert Einstein so much that he stayed till the end of the day in the museum and said, I could stay all day looking at this piece

2008-12-03T22:19:00.000+01:00

He was famour for attending parties from some prominent artists in Paris and making their portrait out of wire which he always carried in his pockets

2008-12-03T22:16:00.006+01:00

Once Calder decided to persue his passion he joined the Art students league in NY and later he moved to Paris searching inspiration and to perfectionate his techniques where we can observed the phusion between engineering, esthetics and a little bit of Calders internal child

Ladys and gentleman I am proud to present: Alexander Calder

2008-12-03T22:02:00.005+01:00

Calder is one of the most important contemporary american sculptors, born in Penn on July 22, 1898
Originally he wanted to study mechanical engineering, he not only explored sculpting but also, painting and producing toys and art from wires, wires were originally what inspired him to leave his engeneering career to persue his true passion, her is what he said in his bio:
It was early one morning on a calm sea, off Guatemala, when over my couch — a coil of rope — I saw the beginning of a fiery red sunrise on one side and the moon looking like a silver coin on the other.

2008-12-02T22:38:00.000+01:00

2008-12-02T22:27:00.005+01:00

There is nothing better than a little animation from Yuriy Norshteyen
Yuri Norshtein (born September 15, 1941) is an award-winning Russian animator best known for his animated shorts, Hedgehog in the Fog and Tale of Tales. Since 1981 he has been working on a feature film called The Overcoat, based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol of the same name
I remember watching this in a Mexican art tv channel when I was 9 years old!
Enjoy!

Esta noche

2008-12-02T21:27:00.000+01:00

Esta noche me asalta la duda y todos los demonios internos que poseo, trato con fuerza de distraer el pensamiento para no acordarme de lo que me atormenta, hago todo despacio, para estar segura de no equivocarme, luego trato de disfrutar de mis logros y me digo estoy bien, estare bien...

Morning, morning!

2008-12-02T08:45:00.000+01:00

This morning was snowing,
when I see the snow I think about the perfect shapes of the snow flakes,
they are like little juwels,
a gift from heaven to remind us, slow down, take a look around, this is today,
I think that maybe if I could think harder about my love I could perhaps send him my thoughts traped into the snow flakes, blow them up north to the place where the east and west becomes one and the sky is so close to the celestial window,
like I feel close to him,
like we become one from east and one from west

2008-12-01T20:42:00.000+01:00

Compañera
usted sabe
puede contar
conmigo
no hasta dos
o hasta diez
sino contar
conmigo

si alguna vez
advierte
que la miro a los ojos
y una veta de amor
reconoce en los míos
no alerte sus fusiles
ni piense qué delirio
a pesar de la veta
o tal vez porque existe
usted puede contar
conmigo

si otras veces
me encuentra
huraño sin motivo
no piense qué flojera
igual puede contar
conmigo

pero hagamos un trato
yo quisiera contar
con usted

es tan lindo
saber que usted existe
uno se siente vivo
y cuando digo esto
quiero decir contar
aunque sea hasta dos
aunque sea hasta cinco
no ya para que acuda
presurosa en mi auxilio
sino para saber
a ciencia cierta
que usted sabe que puede
contar conmigo.

Mario Benedetti

im diese Abend, das Herzen nicht gefüllen

2008-12-01T20:21:00.002+01:00

Ich denke dein, wenn mir der Sonne Schimmer
Vom Meere strahlt;
Ich denke dein, wenn sich des mondes Flimmer
In Quelle malt.
Ich sehe dich, wenn auf den fernen Wege
Der staub sich hebt;
Ich tiefer Nacht, wenn auf dem schmalen Stege
Der Wander bebt.
Ich höre dich, wenn dort in dumpfen Rauschen
Die welle steig.
Im stille Heine geh ich oft zu lauschen,
Wenn alles schweigt.
Ich bin bei dir, du bist auch noch so ferne,
Du bist mir nah!
Die Sonne sinkt, bald leuchten mir die Sterne,
O wärst du da!

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe