30 jul 2010
Retratos/pertenencias
Los siguientes 6 retratos son de los fotógrafos Huang Qingjun y Ma Hongjie, quienes se han dedicado a fotografiar familias desde un punto de vista peculiar. No se trata de captar rostros, sino pertenencias. ¿Qué dicen de nosotros la cantidad y la calidad de los objetos que poseemos?
26 jul 2010
25 jul 2010
Cargo cults
In the final scenes of the film Mondo Cane, Gualtiero Jacopetti’s original “shockumentary,” we see eager Papua New Guinea islanders clustered around a huge, roughly-made model of an airplane. They are high up in the mountains, sitting on a new airstrip they carved out of the forest. Their eyes search the skies, so the film tells us, for airplanes full of wonderful “cargo” that they expect will soon arrive. But they are destined to be disappointed. No planes will land. These islanders are the misguided followers of a cargo cult.
Anthropologists, journalists, and others have used the term cargo cult since 1945 to describe various South Pacific social movements. Cargo cults blossomed in the postwar 1940s and 1950s throughout the Melanesian archipelagoes of the southwest Pacific. People turned to religious ritual (which was sometimes traditional, and sometimes innovative) in order to obtain “cargo.” The term cargo (or kago in Melanesian Pidgin English) is rich in meaning. Sometimes cargo meant money or various sorts of manufactured goods (vehicles, packaged foods, refrigerators, guns, tools, and the like). And sometimes, metaphorically, cargo represented the search for a new moral order which often involved an assertion of local sovereignty and the withdrawal of colonial rulers. In either case, people expected and worked for a sudden, miraculous transformation in their lives. Cargo cult prophets commonly drew on Christian millenarianism, sometimes conflating the arrival of cargo with Christ’s second coming and Judgment Day (locally often called “Last Day”). Among the most notable cargo cults are the John Frum and Nagriamel movements of Vanuatu, the Christian Fellowship Church of the Solomon Islands, and the Paliau and Yali movements, Hahalis Welfare Society, Pomio Kivung, and Peli Association of Papua New Guinea.
Fuente del texto: http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/rvw/022/022smpl1.htm
MONDO CANE - Shockumentary
Parte 1:
Parte 2:
Mondo Cane en Wikipedia
Anthropologists, journalists, and others have used the term cargo cult since 1945 to describe various South Pacific social movements. Cargo cults blossomed in the postwar 1940s and 1950s throughout the Melanesian archipelagoes of the southwest Pacific. People turned to religious ritual (which was sometimes traditional, and sometimes innovative) in order to obtain “cargo.” The term cargo (or kago in Melanesian Pidgin English) is rich in meaning. Sometimes cargo meant money or various sorts of manufactured goods (vehicles, packaged foods, refrigerators, guns, tools, and the like). And sometimes, metaphorically, cargo represented the search for a new moral order which often involved an assertion of local sovereignty and the withdrawal of colonial rulers. In either case, people expected and worked for a sudden, miraculous transformation in their lives. Cargo cult prophets commonly drew on Christian millenarianism, sometimes conflating the arrival of cargo with Christ’s second coming and Judgment Day (locally often called “Last Day”). Among the most notable cargo cults are the John Frum and Nagriamel movements of Vanuatu, the Christian Fellowship Church of the Solomon Islands, and the Paliau and Yali movements, Hahalis Welfare Society, Pomio Kivung, and Peli Association of Papua New Guinea.
Fuente del texto: http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/rvw/022/022smpl1.htm
MONDO CANE - Shockumentary
Parte 1:
Parte 2:
Mondo Cane en Wikipedia
23 jul 2010
Failed Inventions documenatry
The world always had its share of dreamers, tinkerers and inventors. Some who have had great ideas, but many more who had missed the mark.
Some were ahead of there times, others ideas were just plain bad. This is a nod to the off-kilter geniuses who have come up short on success. From turbine powered cars to lethal medicine and floating houses, these visionaries all had plans that utterly failed.
WATCH/VER EN http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/failed-inventions/
22 jul 2010
21 jul 2010
19 jul 2010
Uno, dos o tres
Busquemos los hijos
los padres de los hijos
los hijos de los hijos
las campanas de la primavera
las fuentes del verano
las penas del otoño
el silencio del invierno
Philippe Soupault
Versión de Aldo Pellegrini
los padres de los hijos
los hijos de los hijos
las campanas de la primavera
las fuentes del verano
las penas del otoño
el silencio del invierno
Philippe Soupault
Versión de Aldo Pellegrini
16 jul 2010
Visita relámpago al Louvre
Escenas del film "Bande à part" de Jean Luc Godard
"The Louvre scene: In one scene, the characters attempt to break the world record for running through the Louvre. And the narration informs that their time was nine minutes and 43 seconds which broke the record set by Jimmy Johnson of San Francisco. That scene is referenced in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003), in which its characters break the Louvre record."
(Fuene: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bande_%C3%A0_part)
14 jul 2010
Knocking the head against the door
Fun and Games of Long Ago, published by Chandler Press,Maynard, Massachusetts, 1988
Fuente: Blog ajourneyroundmyskull
Fuente: Blog ajourneyroundmyskull
11 jul 2010
10 jul 2010
3.
Te hablo a ti
Hablo de ti
desde el fondo de mí mismo
Sé que no contestas
¡Cómo ibas a poder hacerlo
siendo tantos los que te imploran!
Todo lo que pido
es poder quedarme aquí expectante
y que me ofrezcas una señal
desde dentro de mí,
una señal de ti!
Gunnar Ekelöf
(En Dïwān del Príncipe de Emigion - 1965)
Hablo de ti
desde el fondo de mí mismo
Sé que no contestas
¡Cómo ibas a poder hacerlo
siendo tantos los que te imploran!
Todo lo que pido
es poder quedarme aquí expectante
y que me ofrezcas una señal
desde dentro de mí,
una señal de ti!
Gunnar Ekelöf
(En Dïwān del Príncipe de Emigion - 1965)
5 jul 2010
4 jul 2010
Ave
No eres más que la coma
de una frase en el cielo.
¿No es en verdad ridículo
este mundo fingido:
la palmera con alas,
el desierto elocuente,
la cascada que bala,
el tigre hecho volcán?
¡La riqueza es penuria!
Las lunas regordetassiempre están mal nutridas.Tú vuelves a mis versos
donde naciste, coma
hecha águila demente
que da vueltas y vueltas
y cae sobre mi cuello.
Alain Bosquet
De "Segundo testamento"
Versión de Enrique Moreno Castillo
Pajaros bajo la lluvia de Dagoberto Vásquez
de una frase en el cielo.
¿No es en verdad ridículo
este mundo fingido:
la palmera con alas,
el desierto elocuente,
la cascada que bala,
el tigre hecho volcán?
¡La riqueza es penuria!
Las lunas regordetassiempre están mal nutridas.Tú vuelves a mis versos
donde naciste, coma
hecha águila demente
que da vueltas y vueltas
y cae sobre mi cuello.
Alain Bosquet
De "Segundo testamento"
Versión de Enrique Moreno Castillo
Pajaros bajo la lluvia de Dagoberto Vásquez
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