martes, 29 de mayo de 2012

Cronopios and Famas.

I haven’t read a lot of books in my life, I prefer films. But if we need to talk about books, I love those with short stories and I love the writer Julio Cortazar. My favourite book is “Historias de Cronopios y de famas”. He works very well the fantasy. One day; I must to tell you, I stole the book when I found it, because I loved it a lot.

These short stories are about daily situations, like instructions to cry, how to up at the stairs, instructions to get scared; Cortazar also invent the Cronopios, Famas and Esperanzas characters. I don’t understand very well how really these characters are, but they have human characteristics: Cronopios: I relate them with the time and crazy, with to do all things quickly by the sufijo “Cronos”. Famas I think they are more formal, correct, introspective. And the Esperanzas I think they are plain, indolent, unimaginative and dull. All the stories are fantastic and beautiful, because the point of view about the life of this book is very simple and too ingenious.   


I hoped to find a quote in English, but It wasn’t in the web. So I put an extract here: 

“La foto salió movida”

Un cronopio va a abrir la puerta de calle, y al meter la mano en el bolsillo para sacar la llave lo que saca es una caja de fósforos, entonces este cronopio se aflige mucho y empieza a pensar que si en vez de la llave encuentra los fósforos, sería horrible que el mundo se hubiera desplazado de golpe, y a lo mejor si los fósforos están donde la llave, puede suceder que encuentre la billetera llena de fósforos, y la azucarera llena de dinero, y el piano lleno de azúcar, y la guía del teléfono llena de música, y el ropero lleno de abonados, y la cama llena de trajes, y los floreros llenos de sábanas, y los tranvías llenos de rosas, y los campos llenos de tranvías. Así es que este cronopio se aflige horriblemente y corre a mirarse al espejo, pero como el espejo esta algo ladeado lo que ve es el paragüero del zaguán, y sus presunciones se confirman y estalla en sollozos, cae de rodillas y junta sus manecitas no sabe para que. Los famas vecinos acuden a consolarlo, y también las esperanzas, pero pasan horas antes de que el cronopio salga de su desesperación y acepte una taza de té, que mira y examina mucho antes de beber, no vaya a pasar que en vez de una taza de té sea un hormiguero o un libro de Samuel Smiles.  


Here is a review of the book on Amazon.
5 stars El mejor ensayo poético que he leído, October 4, 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: Historias De Cronopios Y De Famas/Cronopios and Famas (Paperback)
Me gusta la manera que tiene Cortázar de reírse o burlarse de los hechos cotidianos y de la gente común, aunque no sé si conozca a alguien que se haya reído leyendo este libro. Por otro lado, me parece que la comparación de Julio con Quino o siquiera con Mel Brooks, es un tanto absurda. El libro en sí es muy bueno, y no sólo por la manera en cómo está escrito, sino que también por el vocabulario que Cortázar elige para este ensayo: si se lee en voz alta (o se imagina cómo sonaría leído), uno puede darse cuenta de que lo que está escrito está escrito de esa manera no por algo de azar, sino que así quiso Cortázar que sonara. Es un poco más flojo que Rayuela (más que un poco) pero si lo que se busca es lectura por un día, está muy bien. Un ensayo maravilloso, distante del modelo normal y poseedor de un estilo vanguardista que el tiempo no ha logrado reproducir. A Must Buy Book.

I’m a lot agree with him, I laugh with some stories, but I got really introspective when I read this book because I thought  how somebody can tell you short stories of a daily wich seems too simple but uses a complex vocabulary sometimes. I love a lot the characters because them everyway are naive and the book is really vanguardist, a bit surrealistic.

martes, 22 de mayo de 2012

Grandparents



I like to take photos always, but i love a lot to take photos on special dates like christmas, new year, birthdays, weddings and baptisms specially if my grandparents and my little cousin are in the ceremony or party. They are very important in my life, so I think I must to capture this special and wonderful moments to the future when they are more old. 
  
These people are my grand parents, this moment is before to go to a cousin wedding by the 21th of October 2011. We' were waiting the rest of family to take a van. They were delaying a lot, so I' took the opportunity of their pretty clothes and good mood because my grandfather doesn't like be photographed.

I was very nervous because it was the first time I used my new camera, so this photo was very difficult to take. I had to do it quickly because my grandparent didn't know about the process to take a manual photograph and I took it a little moved, besides my grandfather is taller than me so I had to craned my arms to be able to take him

 I know this is not a great neither good photo for you, but I love it, because they are my parents, obviously, and they are good look with pretty and elegant clothes. Specially, I love this photo because they are kissing theirselves. I love them. :)


viernes, 11 de mayo de 2012

JGM tips

1) Forget the most of your networks: facebook, twitter, myspace, youtube, messenguer only helps to your procastination when you have to study. You must organize your time and when you might take a break, sign in a red social but be careful, you can pass the time you give yourself to rest.

2) Arrive early at friday: in a past time, one friday ocurred an accident (a gas ballon exploted and got burn a part of the campus which it was seem be provocated) so since that day security asks your university card identification and if you need to return to the party, you must to do it before 4 o' clock.

3) Be always prepared to escape: It's so difficult to know when the "capuchas" will protest and make disturbance on the filosophy faculty. So Carabineros (the police) arrive and throw tear bombs. You have three chances: became a another capucha; stay at the university, suck lemon juice (please put a lemon on your bag everyday) and continue your class, and if the situacion is danger (sometimes violence is too much) you must to run how much you can.



viernes, 4 de mayo de 2012

Eternal Sunshine

Well, I'm a filmaking student, so I had seen a lot of movies and I love to do it when I have enough time. But I must to decide one film what tell you here. It's hard to decide, because I had a lot of favourite movies and cinema directors. I love "Donnie Darko" the director's cut. But I will choose "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" because Jim Carrey is my favourite northamerican actor (and because I saw it too many times, that I memorized it). 



Eternal Sunshine is a film that talks about the love, the unforgettable love. Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) go to the Lacuna inc. to delete his memories about  his girlfriend Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet) who also deleted him from her mind because they had a lot of problems like a couple and she was suffering a lot. The films is how them scape along the Joel's mind erasing and how he tries to save her to decision that he took. Everything is about their loving memories. It's a very beautiful film.  









Michel Gondry had directed another film that I love a lot. He directed before this film,  "La science des rêves" that talks about the impossible love (in that act Gael García). He works about the dreams or imagination, so he uses in that films surrealistic images (like the previous photogram of Eternal Sunshine where we can saw that it's raining on the room) and a lot of colours (like Clementine hair and clothes). Also he works making videoclips. Bjork and the White Stripes are the most known musicians who he had worked. Also he made the "Knives Out" video of Radiohead. 
 This film won two Oscar, and four Gold Globes to the best script, best principal actress, best principal actor, and best film in 2004.

It's the best film ever! 

I had seen it many times. <3


It's the best scene, when Clementine remembers Joel (in his mind) he must to travel to Montauk to meet her again.