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Accidents by 9000

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found in here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinosonic/4333087381/

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Being LB "Jeff" Jefferies

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Massive Attack with Hope Sandoval

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Good combination, indeed:

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Graham Chapman memorial service

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I went to see Pop Life at the Tate last week. It was about artists whose life is indistinguishable from art, people who transform their own personal lives in a art performance.

Art is not an activity that happens in an art gallery or a studio, it's a code to read the Reality and to be able to transform it.
Very few people is able to make sense of it, it implies a difficult compromise, intelligence, talent and commitment. But some of them do, like the ones in the video bellow.

PS. Every time I find more parallelisms between Art and Humor. Bill Hicks, Wes Anderson and Monty Python are now listed among my favorite contemporary artists; Duchamp, Hirst, the Chapman Brothers, among my favorite comedians. The creative process is the same, the format of the output differs slightly but the goal is shared: to break the logical flow of normality for an instant, opening the gates for crude love, knowledge and imagination, naked in front of our eyes *.


*As Graham Chapman did in The Life of Bryan.

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Frío

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As posted in www.oestesurf.com

 

Los grajos vuelan bajos estos días.

La borrasca del Atlántico se ha desplazado al Sur dejándo paso al aire frío del Ártico, el mismo que entra en mis huesos, del Polo Norte al tuétano y de ahí a mi cabeza congestionada de malas ideas.
El blanco es el nuevo negro, es ahora blanco oscuro, denso y borroso, tan opaco y mal intencionado que colapsa uno tras otro los aeropuertos. Es blanco de las iras del conductor prudente desplazado a la cuneta. Blanco que nos hace blanco fácil del azar, en estas condiciones cualquier tirador ciego daría, incluso sin querer, en el blanco.

Conocía dos vientos: El viento cálido y húmedo del Sur, el de cielos sólidos, de techo bajo con goterones, de cemento armado, pesado, intenso y feo, que aun me produce alergias para joderme el viaje. Y estaba el otro, el viento frío, afilado y brillante del Norte, el del sol triste, el que me secaba los labios y se llevaba las olas. Los dos vientos de siempre, el del Sur, católico beato que deja ver a Dios de vez en cuando y el del Norte, un déspota serio, racional y persistente, se relevaban por turnos pidiendo vez a las lunas llenas.

Pero a veces el viento del Norte se desvía y trae nubes de quién-sabe-donde, el frío se seca por dentro y nieva en lugares en los que cuando nieva nadie recuerda que allí ha nevado antes.

Los compañeros de frío del Oeste, los imagino unidos por el castañeo rítmico de sus dientes, todos al unísono, zapateando el suelo del aparcamiento con los pies descalzos, que duelen porque no se sienten y cuando se sienten duelen.
Hablo de memoria y de oidas de mis orejas ardiendo de frío en un día bajocero y mediometro en Montalvo. Y creo desde entonces en la resurrección de los muertos, los piés, al calor del aire acondicionado en un coche barato, camino a la Gloria de un café con leche y unas magdalenas.

Porque hace frío fuera, nieva de nuevo, aprovecho el confort de la oficina -calefacción y salario- para perder el tiempo, tiempo frío del carajo, helándome al teclado, temblando de memoria, volando bajo.



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Holidays

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"Vacaciones los cojones es mejor trabajar" Siniestro Total.
"Holydays... my ass, work is better"

Back from holidays, I believe. My head hasn't landed yet, still floating a few miles across this freezing winter sky due the sum of flu, allergies, tiredness and mixed christmas trauma.

///blocked///

The best of it?

A song from the soundtrack of this famous teenage vampire movie. The song it's called A White Demon Love Song by The Killers, it has something of The Beatles on it, beautiful.

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Big Waves at home

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Hi world,

Great video by http://www.pazsurfing.blogspot.com/

The action takes place near my home town, a spot we called Fontenla, next to my favorite local beach. For years we saw the waves breaking but not until recently people started surfing it. This time among the surfers we had two of the editors of Oeste (you can read the story there)
The waves only break big western swells. And as we always say, size doesn't count. Think about the cold and dark water, the gray skies, the strong currents of the bay and the sharp rocks, only then you'll get an idea of what's the feeling in there.

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Se desencadena una revolución

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Arcadi Espada hace una reflexión muy lúcida y refrescante sobre el uso de Twitter en su columna de El Mundo.
Copio y pego del siguiente artículo: http://www.elmundo.es/opinion/columnas/arcadi-espada/2009/12/21376258.html

Todo esos tweets llevan un único mensaje. Estoy twitteando.

 

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Se desencadena una revolución
    •    04.12.2009


AYER por la mañana unos jóvenes con blog fueron a ver a la ministra de Cultura, la señora González-Sinde, por unos problemas que tenían. Pudo causar extrañeza que la ministra los recibiera; pero la primera obligación del poderoso es fabricarse enemigos de talla accesible. Eso es lo que ha hecho hasta ahora, y de manera muy exitosa, el presidente del Gobierno con su leal oposición.
Sólo hay que ver lo que después de la reunión dijo el portavoz popular Esteban González Pons: «En internet se está librando una revolución contra el Gobierno». Es la prueba exacta de lo que el señor portavoz sabe sobre internet y la revolución, y, en especial, sobre la manera de llegar al Gobierno.
La reunión de ayer tuvo un rasgo de estilo interesante. Los jóvenes con blog la twittearon. Twittear es retransmitir en directo el pensamiento y la conducta, mediante el uso de un artefacto digital más o menos sofisticado.
Un ejemplo de ayer, de un joven ya con espolones: «En este momento, levantado para irme. Se niegan a hablar de la retirada». Ni que decir tiene que el tweet puso a España en vilo. Hasta que por fortuna el joven se sentó.
La práctica del tweet en estas circunstancias replantea el viejo tópico del escritor de diarios. Es decir: ¿vive el diarista para anotar? ¿Anota para vivir? Grandes cimas de la especulación occidental, ¡quia! Hay graves sospechas de que para los jóvenes de ayer el tema era el twitteo y la negociación el argumento banal. El mismo caso, exactamente, de esos jóvenes que se casaron en Estados Unidos y se pusieron a twittear en el altar, no sólo con dios.
Hay una diferencia entre el twitteo y la retransmisión audiovisual de la vida. El tweet exhibe el interior, allá donde la cámara jamás llegará. No hay duda, observando la generalidad de los twitters, que se trata de una gran desventaja. Además esta incrustación de la narración en el hecho amenaza gravemente con la diversidad fáctica.
Un grave atentado ecológico me parece. Porque, en puridad, los hechos empiezan a ser tan exóticos como los ornitorrincos.
Cuando uno twittea «me estoy casando», deja automáticamente de casarse. E ingresa en la metavida. Cuando se pretende narrar en directo, el único hecho que resulta es el propio acto de narrar. La narración, como la felicidad de Ferlosio, sólo puede ser retrospectiva. Todo esos tweets llevan un único mensaje. Estoy twitteando.
Y es así como va España.

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Center of the earth

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New little piece of music and a small visual experiment from my domestic factory.
Click on the play button at the top of the picture.

 

 

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40, 50, 60?

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There's this handy M&S Supermarket next to my office in Central London. This place has been my provider of roasted chicken, mash and orange juice for the last three years.

My favorite character of those evening shopping experiences was this guy, a big smiling man in charge of one of the counters. Every single time, after putting the stuff in the recyclable bags, he said: do you want any cash-back? 40, 50, 60?. Always, with the very same tone of voice he repeated over and over the same numerical sequence: 40, 50, 60?

The fact that sometimes I said "yes, make it 40", was for him, a small victory.

Last Thursday I was trained in the same place to use the automatic counters, you move your pack of ready-made mash potato on top of the laser reader, you pay and it's done. You can even asks for cash-back. Easy, fast and clean.

The most of the counters had been replaced overnight by the do-it-yourself ones. Obviously, the big man and his easy-to-replace numerical sequence has gone too.

I work with technology, and I know that automatization has a direct effect on people's jobs, mostly on those who are less ready for whatever reason. I know also, that paradoxically the long-term effect of technology tends to be positive for the society as a whole, but this is another topic.

As a autistic and busy urban individual, sometimes I choose effectiveness and speed over anything slightly warmer and human.
Sometimes I miss the long waiting time for a good coffee at Lantana, it included a chat with the owner and the waiters, experiencing the smell of the beans and the cakes, reading a few pages of the Independent and seating on the wooden bench outside if the winter weather allows it. Now I prefer one of the infinite clones of EAT, any extra second of waiting is an upsetting waste of time. Quick digital coffee, new staff every week, not chats, not needed.

Time is so valuable that technology is trying to optimize its usage by helping us to "save time". Sadly time is not something you can put in a bank and use it when you retire. But we try to save it, anyway.

That simple numerical sequence, was a bit of a break on the dynamics of effectiveness that rule our lives. The paradoxical automatic but defective human behavior destroyed for a second the plastic package of my life. I always chose that queue, the same counter, because it was imperfect, slow, un-logic and alive. Did I heard that voice 40, 50, 60 times?

Our obsession for effectiveness is contra-productive, it changes the perception of time. Time runs faster; days, weeks, months accelerate its pace, we go so fast we miss ourselves, there's no past, neither present because you have to catch up with the future as race dogs chase a haze.

Art, music, sex, love, humor, a beautiful word, a long queue for a good coffee, defective numerical sequences in a supermarket: tactics for salvation, live-stoppers, reality.
Will we live for 40, 50, 60 years?

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“I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products” Marcel Duchamp

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13-Nov-2009 - 23:10

my friend Bet just tell me about Marcel Duchamp... it´s a very interesting artist.
In the line of your domestic adventures...

(sorry for my poor english)

28-May-2009 - 16:42

yeah! I understand your comments guys!
well, nice!...
I will read often the crazy domestic adventures of RandomBoy for practice my english.

albertob wrote:
28-May-2009 - 11:00

I am not crazy, I am random

chickerino wrote:
28-May-2009 - 10:52

Lago, you are correct. Alberto is crazy!!! jajajajajaa

albertob wrote:
28-May-2009 - 10:48

Hi Iago, thanks!! I am not going to correct you in public. I'll send you an email. Don't take to seriously my grammar, it's a real mess.

I am glad you find my "Chapter 1" interesting.

27-May-2009 - 16:50

Hi Alberto!

The next week I will travel to Sevilla. I have an english exam and my english it´s little... it´s an importan exam but no more dificult...
Read your blog, in special yours "Chapters ones", are more interesting for training and practice, because a formal study is very bored!

I´m learning a lot of vocabulary but I think that you are some crazy...

(if there are anything wrong, please correct me!)

kylie wrote:
02-Dec-2008 - 10:57

AB - the Singing Designer, lovely to hear your tuneful voice!

bosh wrote:
26-Sep-2008 - 17:08

Love the new homepage mate! Great work. On the random question. I also don't believe in random. Rather that life is semi random... You walk almost the same route to work every day but never the exact same route.

26-Sep-2008 - 14:26

A present from Brand 3.0...

alberto

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22-Sep-2008 - 14:53

what a reputation!

I am not a "picaflor", I am an honest worshipper of beauty.



 
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