27 nov 2009
26 nov 2009
Nuevo blog de dibujo y escritos de Daniela Guglielmetti
Los agujeros son para que puedan ver tus ojosNo podrán verte, te irás en ellos.
Quiero pintarte los ojos para que me veas.
Para verme.
Daniela Guglielmetti
Visítala en: http://comadrejablanca.blogspot.com/
Peldaños
¿Quién sube por la sombra de la escalera?
¿Quién baja por su luz?
M.G.L
(en Atrabiliario, Artifex, Madrid, 2009)
Stefan Benchoan - Ejercicio de dibujo 1,2,3 (2008)
This installation was specifically created for the XVI Paiz Biennial,
and installed in El Palacio de Correos in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
¿Quién baja por su luz?
M.G.L
(en Atrabiliario, Artifex, Madrid, 2009)
Stefan Benchoan - Ejercicio de dibujo 1,2,3 (2008)This installation was specifically created for the XVI Paiz Biennial,
and installed in El Palacio de Correos in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
25 nov 2009
Ira Glass on Storytelling #3
Ira Glass en la Web
Ira Glass conductor del programa radial This American Life habla de las dificultadas tras los procesos creativos y de cómo la excelencia tarda en llegar y conlleva esfuerzo y paciencia. La brecha entre el buen gusto y las obras, en un principio mediocres o no tan buenas, de una persona se va acortando y se debe luchar por lograr un acercamiento de estas últimas al criterio más elevado con el que se cuenta. Según Ira esto es posible; lo importante es tener una sensibilidad refinada, cultura y ser perseverante a la hora de acumular experiencia y experticia.
¡El trabajo de toda una vida!
Rare Marlon Brando screentest
Una prueba de actuación frente a cámara del irresistible Marlon cortesía de klassyp.
24 nov 2009
Psychonauts (subtítulos en inglés)
SINOPSIS
LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, ayahuasca: the most powerful hallucinogens known to mankind. But why do some people want to explore such extremely altered states of consciousness? For curiosity, fun, or deeper understanding? To find some answers, director Andras Kovacs M. asks the Psychonauts (explorers of the mind), who journey into their psyche and share their deepest findings. In this intense and intelligent movie, nine young adults make intimate and thought-provoking confessions on their use of hallucinogens, in the context of Buddhism, Christianity, shamanism, psychology, scientific research and drug policy. (Por Cilosybn)
Web de alucinógenos y sus usos:
www.sacredplants.netWeb de alucinógenos y sus usos:
Documentos para Psiconautas serios (en inglés):
http://www.psychonautdocs.com/
Fragmento
Primero fue el movimiento, la luz, la resistencia, el movimiento que se incendió al contacto con su peso, lo encendido en lo pesado, la materia en llamas entró en movimiento, se quemó y se calcinó --así surgió la montaña apagada que es la resistencia contra todo, el entumecimiento, la petrificación.
Por encima del cinturón negro del bosque surge, pesada y solitaria, la montaña primitiva. Uno la toca, uno oprime el cuerpo contra ella. La montaña vence. La montaña le crece a uno en la cara. Uno se vuelve pesado como piedra, inmóvil. Lo enorme apagado --pues la montaña está hecha de los restos de algo que ha sido. El movimiento en llamas pasó a través de la materia dejando tras de sí una montaña.
Birgitta Trotzig
(En Contexto. Material, Visor, Madrid, 2005)
Por encima del cinturón negro del bosque surge, pesada y solitaria, la montaña primitiva. Uno la toca, uno oprime el cuerpo contra ella. La montaña vence. La montaña le crece a uno en la cara. Uno se vuelve pesado como piedra, inmóvil. Lo enorme apagado --pues la montaña está hecha de los restos de algo que ha sido. El movimiento en llamas pasó a través de la materia dejando tras de sí una montaña.
Birgitta Trotzig
(En Contexto. Material, Visor, Madrid, 2005)
Fuente: http://www.javellan.com
23 nov 2009
Hölderlin
quizá la locura
es el castigo
para el que viola un recinto secreto
y mira los ojos de un animal
terrible
José Manuel Arango
(En Antología de la Poesía Hispanoamericana, Tierra Firme - FCE, México, 1985)
es el castigo
para el que viola un recinto secreto
y mira los ojos de un animal
terrible
José Manuel Arango
(En Antología de la Poesía Hispanoamericana, Tierra Firme - FCE, México, 1985)
20 nov 2009
A Orillas del Leith I
No las grandes novelas, las obras monumentales, los tratados exquisitos, sino estos sustanciosos y reconfortables fragmentos de silencio.
(En Kora - Adonais, Ediciones Rialp, Madrid, 2008)
19 nov 2009
Saludos
Hola, irrealidad,
la tormenta de arena en mi cabeza
y sus relojes sucesivos.
Los problemas del día desde lejos
como breves puñados de guisantes.
La rama que no cruje si la piso,
el sorbo que no quema en el café hirviendo.
Hola, paréntesis,
hola, tacto que no llega,
hola, franja de aire, o de luz,
o relleno de horas,
esto queda pendiente entre nosotros.
Luis Muñoz
(En Querido Silencio, Turquets, Barcelona, 2006)
la tormenta de arena en mi cabeza
y sus relojes sucesivos.
Los problemas del día desde lejos
como breves puñados de guisantes.
La rama que no cruje si la piso,
el sorbo que no quema en el café hirviendo.
Hola, paréntesis,
hola, tacto que no llega,
hola, franja de aire, o de luz,
o relleno de horas,
esto queda pendiente entre nosotros.
Luis Muñoz
(En Querido Silencio, Turquets, Barcelona, 2006)
18 nov 2009
From Poison to Cow Dung: A History of Philosophers' Deaths
For one thing philosophers don´t die pretty:
Full lecture at Fora TV: http://fora.tv/2009/10/09/Simon_Critchley_To_Philosophize_is_to_Learn_How_to_Die
Full lecture at Fora TV: http://fora.tv/2009/10/09/Simon_Critchley_To_Philosophize_is_to_Learn_How_to_Die
17 nov 2009
La lobotomía según dos documentales
Ver el documental televisivo "The Lobotomist" (en inglés) de PBS
pinchando aquí:
http://www.documentary-film.net/search/watch.php?&ref=210
Ver el documental cinematográfico "Monos como Becky" (en español)
pinchando aquí:
http://pccine.blogspot.com/2007/01/monos-como-becky.html
pinchando aquí:
http://www.documentary-film.net/search/watch.php?&ref=210
Página Web del documental: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lobotomist/
Ver el documental cinematográfico "Monos como Becky" (en español)
pinchando aquí:
http://pccine.blogspot.com/2007/01/monos-como-becky.html
Página Web del documental: http://www.hartza.com/becky.htm
Página del Máster en documental de Creación de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra: http://www.idec.upf.edu/master-en-documental-de-creacion
Página del Máster en documental de Creación de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra: http://www.idec.upf.edu/master-en-documental-de-creacion
A Brief History of Lobotomy by Dr. C. George Boeree
The idea of brain surgery as a means of improving mental health got started around 1890, when Friederich Golz, a German researcher, removed portions of his dogs’ temporal lobes, and found them to be calmer, less aggressive. It was swiftly followed by Gottlieb Burkhardt, the head of a Swiss mental institution, who attempted similar surgeries on six of his schizophrenic patients. Some were indeed calmer. Two died.
Fuente: http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/lobotomy.html
The idea of brain surgery as a means of improving mental health got started around 1890, when Friederich Golz, a German researcher, removed portions of his dogs’ temporal lobes, and found them to be calmer, less aggressive. It was swiftly followed by Gottlieb Burkhardt, the head of a Swiss mental institution, who attempted similar surgeries on six of his schizophrenic patients. Some were indeed calmer. Two died.
One would think that that would be the end of the idea. But in 1935, Carlyle Jacobsen of Yale University tried frontal and prefrontal lobotomies on chimps, and found them to be calmer afterwards. His colleague at Yale, John Fulton, attempted to induce “experimental neurosis” in his lobotomized chimps by presenting them with contradictory signals. He found that they were pretty much immune to the process.
It took a certain Antonio Egaz Moniz of the University of Lisbon Medical School to really put lobotomy on the map. A very productive medical researcher, he invented several significant improvements to brain x-ray techniques prior to his work with lobotomy. He also served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Ambassador to Spain. He was even one of the signers of the Treaty of Versailles, which marked the end of World War I.
He found that cutting the nerves that run from the frontal cortex to the thalamus in psychotic patients who suffered from repetitive thoughts “short-circuited” the problem. Together with his colleague Almeida Lima, he devised a technique involving drilling two small holes on either side of the forehead, inserting a special surgical knife, and severing the prefrontal cortex from the rest of the brain. He called it leukotomy, but it would come to be known as lobotomy.
Some of his patients became calmer, some did not. Moniz advised extreme caution in using lobotomy, and felt it should only be used in cases where everything else had been tried. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on lobotomy in 1949. He retired early after a former patient paralyzed him by shooting him in the back.
Walter Freeman, an American physician, with his colleague James Watts, performed his first lobotomy operation in 1936. He was so satisfied with the results that he went on to do many thousands more, and in fact began a propaganda campaign to promote its use. He is also famous for inventing what is called ice pick lobotomy. Impatient with the difficult surgical methods pioneered by Moniz, he found he could insert an ice pick above each eye of a patient with only local anesthetic, drive it through the thin bone with a light tap of a mallet, swish the pick back and forth like a windshield wiper and -- voilà -- a formerly difficult patient is now passive.
Freeman recommended the procedure for everything from psychosis to depression to neurosis to criminality. He developed what others called assembly line lobotomies, going from one patient to the next with his gold-plated ice pick, even having his assistants time him to see if he could break lobotomy speed records. It is said that even some seasoned surgeons fainted at the site. Even Watts thought he had gone too far.
Between 1939 and 1951, over 18,000 lobotomies were performed in the US, and many more in other countries. It was often used on convicts, and in Japan it was recommended for use on “difficult” children. There are still western countries that permit the use of the lobotomy, although its use has decreased dramatically worldwide. Curiously, the old USSR banned it back in 1950 on moral grounds!
In the 1950s, people began getting upset about the prevalence of lobotomies. Protests began, and serious research supported the protesters. The general statistics showed roughly a third of lobotomy patients improved, a third stayed the same, and the last third actually got worse!
There have been a few famous cases over the years. For example, Rosemary Kennedy, sister to John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy, was given a lobotomy when her father complained to doctors about the mildly retarded girl’s embarrassing new interest in boys. Her father never informed the rest of the family about what he had done. She lived out her life in a Wisconsin institution and died January 7, 2005, at the age of 86. Her sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founded the Special Olympics in her honor in 1968.Fuente: http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/lobotomy.html
16 nov 2009
Un docu que me gustaría ver
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea. Ver trailer (en inglés):
"About Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer
4 years, 2 sunburned guys, 1 melted camera, 120° heat, 75% humidity, dust storms, earthquakes, beautiful sunsets, flooded towns, palm trees, air boat rides, double-wides, bombing ranges, amputees, meth addicts, swinging seniors, naked Christians, mooning Hungarians, infatuated eleven year-olds, dead shit, botulism, toxic muck, an unfathomable stench, and a whole lot of cash -- all washed down with a warm 40oz beer.
After graduating from USC with a degree in business and cinema, Chris Metzler's film career has taken him from the depths of agency work, to coordinating post-production for awful American movies seen late at night in Belgium.
His film directing and producing work has resulted in frequent partnerships with Jeff Springer, where together they've criss-crossed the country with the aid of caffeinated beverages and made their way in the Nashville country and Christian music video industries, before finally forsaking their souls to commercial LA rock 'n' roll. These misadventures eventually culminated in them winning a Billboard Magazine Music Video Award. Chris now finds himself pursuing docs featuring gay truck drivers and Australian opal miners.
Jeff Springer was born in a virtually abandoned town in the California desert, raised in Hawaii, and educated at USC Film School. After living for a winter in Russia, he returned to Los Angeles to begin directing music videos, shorts, and editing for UPN, Fox, Geffen Records, and Lucasfilm. Burned out and hung over, he eventually fled to San Francisco to start work on PLAGUES & PLEASURES, while still driving to Los Angeles to edit WWF and Moesha promos to pay the bills. He now lives somewhere between San Francisco, London, and Berlin."
Text taken from: http://farmlab.org
Web del documental: www.saltonseadoc.com
"About Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer
4 years, 2 sunburned guys, 1 melted camera, 120° heat, 75% humidity, dust storms, earthquakes, beautiful sunsets, flooded towns, palm trees, air boat rides, double-wides, bombing ranges, amputees, meth addicts, swinging seniors, naked Christians, mooning Hungarians, infatuated eleven year-olds, dead shit, botulism, toxic muck, an unfathomable stench, and a whole lot of cash -- all washed down with a warm 40oz beer.
After graduating from USC with a degree in business and cinema, Chris Metzler's film career has taken him from the depths of agency work, to coordinating post-production for awful American movies seen late at night in Belgium.
His film directing and producing work has resulted in frequent partnerships with Jeff Springer, where together they've criss-crossed the country with the aid of caffeinated beverages and made their way in the Nashville country and Christian music video industries, before finally forsaking their souls to commercial LA rock 'n' roll. These misadventures eventually culminated in them winning a Billboard Magazine Music Video Award. Chris now finds himself pursuing docs featuring gay truck drivers and Australian opal miners.
Jeff Springer was born in a virtually abandoned town in the California desert, raised in Hawaii, and educated at USC Film School. After living for a winter in Russia, he returned to Los Angeles to begin directing music videos, shorts, and editing for UPN, Fox, Geffen Records, and Lucasfilm. Burned out and hung over, he eventually fled to San Francisco to start work on PLAGUES & PLEASURES, while still driving to Los Angeles to edit WWF and Moesha promos to pay the bills. He now lives somewhere between San Francisco, London, and Berlin."
Text taken from: http://farmlab.org
Web del documental: www.saltonseadoc.com
14 nov 2009
12 nov 2009
Poeta
Deslumbrado por el sol
iluminado por incendios
surgido de un remolino de ceniza
nunca el mismo
el juego de la superficie con la profundidad
(con bancos de estrellas bulliciosamente vivas)
la amenaza de la profundidad contra la superficie
(con galaxias vertiginosamente muertas)
las palabras demasiado lejanas
como oro derritiéndose)
la vida demasiado cercana
(como plomo solidificado)
más disfrazado que la nada
más desnudo que el todo
en una tierra donde siempre todo
ocurre demasiado pronto o demasiado tarde.
Gunnar Ekelöf
(tomado de la Web La Maja Desnuda)
Foto: Zgzme - Web Zaragózame
iluminado por incendios
surgido de un remolino de ceniza
nunca el mismo
el juego de la superficie con la profundidad
(con bancos de estrellas bulliciosamente vivas)
la amenaza de la profundidad contra la superficie
(con galaxias vertiginosamente muertas)
las palabras demasiado lejanas
como oro derritiéndose)
la vida demasiado cercana
(como plomo solidificado)
más disfrazado que la nada
más desnudo que el todo
en una tierra donde siempre todo
ocurre demasiado pronto o demasiado tarde.
Gunnar Ekelöf
(tomado de la Web La Maja Desnuda)
Foto: Zgzme - Web Zaragózame10 nov 2009
Un cuerpo
Un cuerpo preciso
como un teorema.
Cuerpo de piernas rectas, delineadas,
con la tensa armonía de un compás.
Cuerpo de líneas claras, luz y límite.
Tan angustioso y bello como los teoremas.
Delante de mí, ahora,
bajo cualquier excusa.
Eric Sòria
(en Web A media voz)
como un teorema.
Cuerpo de piernas rectas, delineadas,
con la tensa armonía de un compás.
Cuerpo de líneas claras, luz y límite.
Tan angustioso y bello como los teoremas.
Delante de mí, ahora,
bajo cualquier excusa.
Eric Sòria
(en Web A media voz)
6 nov 2009
Nano-relato
5 nov 2009
4 nov 2009
This is a Photograph of Me
It was taken some time ago
At first it seems to be
a smeared
print: blurred lines and grey flecks
blended with the paper;
then, as you scan
it, you see in the left-hand corner
a thing that is like a branch: part of a tree
(balsam or spruce) emerging
and, to the right, halfway up
what ought to be a gentle
slope, a small frame house.
In the background, there is a lake,
and beyond that, some low hills.
(The photograph was taken
the day after I drowned.
I am in the lake, in the center
of the picture, just under the surface.
It is difficult to say where
precisely, or to say
how large or small I am:
the effect of water
on light is a distortion
but if you look long enough,
eventually
you will be able to see me.)
Margaret Atwood
(From The Circle Game, Anansi Press, Toronto, 1998)
At first it seems to be
a smeared
print: blurred lines and grey flecks
blended with the paper;
then, as you scan
it, you see in the left-hand corner
a thing that is like a branch: part of a tree
(balsam or spruce) emerging
and, to the right, halfway up
what ought to be a gentle
slope, a small frame house.
In the background, there is a lake,
and beyond that, some low hills.
(The photograph was taken
the day after I drowned.
I am in the lake, in the center
of the picture, just under the surface.
It is difficult to say where
precisely, or to say
how large or small I am:
the effect of water
on light is a distortion
but if you look long enough,
eventually
you will be able to see me.)
Margaret Atwood
(From The Circle Game, Anansi Press, Toronto, 1998)
3 nov 2009
Balkan Baroque 1999 - Marina Abramovich by Pierre Coulibeuf
PANTALLA EXTENDIDA - VERSIÓN EN INGLÉS CON SUBTÍTULOS EN FRANCÉS
SINOPSIS:
"Experimental fiction. The autobiography, both real and imaginary, of Marina Abramovic, Body Art artist. The film composes the life aesthetic of a woman in her era, with a personal history strongly marked by the Yugoslavia of Tito, everyday violence, the experience of physical and psychic limits... The voluntary evocation of the past makes something more secret, more intimate crop up: an unknown evolution that is embodied in fictions felt like authentic fragments of truth. Balkan Baroque jumps from one identity to another, from a true story to an imagination, from a dream to a ritual... - the language of the body often taking over from the word, interrupting it or, on the contrary, stimulating it."
Fuente: Ubu Web
SINOPSIS:
"Experimental fiction. The autobiography, both real and imaginary, of Marina Abramovic, Body Art artist. The film composes the life aesthetic of a woman in her era, with a personal history strongly marked by the Yugoslavia of Tito, everyday violence, the experience of physical and psychic limits... The voluntary evocation of the past makes something more secret, more intimate crop up: an unknown evolution that is embodied in fictions felt like authentic fragments of truth. Balkan Baroque jumps from one identity to another, from a true story to an imagination, from a dream to a ritual... - the language of the body often taking over from the word, interrupting it or, on the contrary, stimulating it."
Fuente: Ubu Web
2 nov 2009
La casa vacía
Voy a la casa donde no viviremos
a mirar los muros que no se levantarán.
Paseo las estancias
y abro las ventanas
para que entre el Tiempo de Ayer envejecido.
¡Si vieras!
Entre las buganvillas
cansadamente juegan
los hijos que jamás tendremos.
Yo los miro. Ellos me miran.
Mi corazón humea.
Éste es el sitio
donde mi corazón humea.
Y a esta hora,
en el balcón, callada,
yo sé que tú también te mueres
y piensas en mí hasta ensangrentarte,
Yo también pienso en ti.
Óyeme donde estés:
por esta herida no sale sólo sangre:
me salgo yo.
Manuel Scorza
(En Web A media voz)
a mirar los muros que no se levantarán.
Paseo las estancias
y abro las ventanas
para que entre el Tiempo de Ayer envejecido.
¡Si vieras!
Entre las buganvillas
cansadamente juegan
los hijos que jamás tendremos.
Yo los miro. Ellos me miran.
Mi corazón humea.
Éste es el sitio
donde mi corazón humea.
Y a esta hora,
en el balcón, callada,
yo sé que tú también te mueres
y piensas en mí hasta ensangrentarte,
Yo también pienso en ti.
Óyeme donde estés:
por esta herida no sale sólo sangre:
me salgo yo.
Manuel Scorza
(En Web A media voz)
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