More books...

Amazing art on old books and lots of cool prints at Kinsey Visual.
(thanks jaume for the link! besos!)

Old book covers

Bits and pieces from some wonderful book covers from many decades ago.

Andy Goldsworthy

I finally watched "Rivers and Tides" the documentary about the work of Andy Goldsworthy that really helps you understand his persona and what it takes to build those wonderful pieces.

Goldsworthy regards all his creations as temporary. He photographs each piece once right after he makes it. His goal is to understand nature by directly participating in nature as intimately as he can. He generally works with whatever he notices: twigs, leaves, stones, snow and ice, reeds and thorns. 

"I enjoy the freedom of just using my hands and "found" tools--a sharp stone, the quill of a feather, thorns. I take the opportunities each day offers: if it is snowing, I work with snow, at leaf-fall it will be with leaves; a blown-over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches. I stop at a place or pick up a material because I feel that there is something to be discovered. Here is where I can learn."

Guapos y Pobres II

Sigue la promoción y Alf, Mon y Irene salieron en la Vanguardia!
El otro día leía en un blog de un desconocido.. que lo único que le interesa a Alfredo es vender su libro y que se aprovecha de la situación de los jóvenes. Me dió pena. Joder... tan retorcidos nos hemos vuelto hasta para criticar al que intenta dar una voz para mejorar la situación? Igual si que tenemos nosotros la culpa de que las cosas estén mal. Por no quejarnos, por no respetarnos entre nosotros y por seguir sin creernos que podemos hacer algo para cambiar las cosas.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead

Happy St. Jordi

Jaumet sent me the most artistic roses I have ever got. They move and all. But I just don't know how to add movement to this blog so.. just snap shots. (muchas gracias jaume. muchos besos!!!)

Short Films

You can preview the short films entering the Tribeca Film Festival and be the judge at amazon.

Old Boy

Amazing korean movie. I am not going to say anything else because I don't want to spoil the plot. If you think you need a little something, you can watch the preview here.

La puerta absurda

Paseando por el west village.

Revelando en pleno Soho

Fotografías para turistas... pero con mucho encanto.

Science

Transcribing chromatin from a Protozoan.

Leylagoor

Pretty cool illustrations here. (thanks april!)

Funky clothes

Japanese, of course. Share your clothes with your friends. Here.

Ropa super cachonda para compartir con amigos. Aquí.

Design Museum

Una visita por el museo de Londres, para los que no podemos estar allí. (gracias Olaya!).

Rainer Maria Rilke

Para aprendices de poeta, o de la vida en general.. cartas de uno de los grandes. Me ha gustado este trozo:

"You are so young, so before all begining, and I want you to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. So not seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live with them. And the point is, to live everthing, live the questions now. Perhaps, you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. Perhaps you do carry within yourself the possibility of shaping and forming as a particularly happy and pure way of living; train yourself to it, but takes whatever it comes with great trust, and only if it comes out of your own will, out of some need of your inmost being, take it upon yourself and hate nothing. (...)
Rejoice in your growth, in which you naturally can take no one with you, and be kind to those who remain behind, and be sure and calm before them and do not torment them with your doubts and do not frighten them with your confidence or joy, which they could not understand. Seek yourself some kind of simple and loyal community with them, which need not necessarily change as you become different, and again different. Avoid contributing material to the drama that is always streched taut between parents and children, it uses up much of the children's energy and consumes the love of their elders."

Great movie

This is the web.

Palindromes & Todd Solondz

A Palindrome is a word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward. Such as: Ed, I help pink nipple hide (you can see millions of them here.

But Palindromes is the title of the new Todd Solondz movie, (see preview here.) the director of "Welcome to the Dollhouse", "Happiness" ,and "Storytelling". He previewed at Moma and there was a question-answer section at the end where we had the opportunity to get to know him a bit better and to meet most of the cast.
The movie is weird, funny, irreverent and extremely original. It freaks you out a bit the.. not knowing what to think, where to act, how to judge those people, where to be repulsed and what to feel about them... but I guess that's the brilliance of it.

Napoleon Dynamite

Of all the movies I have seen in the States this was the one that gave me the biggest "cultural" shock. The movie, funny and freaky, is just too "American". You can see a preview here.
The movie titles are amazing. Done by Aaron Ruell with the consultancy of Pablo Ferro.(the legendary creator of the opening titles of Dr. Strangelove)