[236] Echar Pa Lante - Propaganda en Accion

Solo una continuacion a un rant viejito que hice en mi pagina:
http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2011/11/212-ranting-hicimos-la-cancion-del-gran.html

En aquel momento dije:
Compraron al Gran Combo por cuanto para que le pasaran la culpa de la situacion del pais a los vagos y desempleados.  Nos hicieron creer todo el a/no que votaramos e hiciecemos este mantra la cancion mas popular.  Incluso nos dijeron del concierto gratuito.  En que quedo todo eso?  En la patra/na que era de principio?

http://blog.coquipr.com/2011/09/banco-popular-pais-imaginario-de-fortuno/

Como buena opción de canción tema (“jingle”) del país imaginario del Gobernador de Puerto Rico, Luis Fortuño, el Banco Popular patrocinó que el Gran Combo violara una de sus canciones. Digo que sería ideal para el país imaginario de Fortuño porque la canción no tiene nada que ver con la situación real que vive la isla. Tal y como quedó reflejado en su vídeo de campaña, el Puerto Rico de Fortuño no existe. Por eso su vídeo de campaña no permite los comentarios, porque hay que ocultar que nadie ve el país que ellos presentan. Porque, como mencionaron los compañeros de #EnProfundo, la obra de Fortuño está para verla, no para criticarla.

Bueno...el regalo mas esperado el gimmick fue ayer.  Titulares de Primera Hora, que auspicia la iniciativa:
http://www.primerahora.com/multitudabarrotaelconciertogratuitoecharpalante-607527.html
Aqui esta el copy del comunicado de prensa de los promotores de la agencia de relaciones publicas el articulo:

Los días de “no hago más na’” quedaron en el pasado. Artistas y seguidores dijeron que era el momento de “echar pa’lante”. Esa frase fue repetida muchas veces el sábado. Habrá que ver si se escuchará el domingo, el lunes… 

Como en pocas ocasiones sucede, un numeroso público estaba en sintonía en el concierto “Echar pa’lante”, del Banco Popular, en el Parque del Tercer Milenio de San Juan. Pero también hubo otros, como Aida Pantoja, que expresaron que esta iniciativa para adoptar una “actitud positiva” debe estar acompañada de otros esfuerzos gubernamentales y privados que combatan la criminalidad y el desempleo, entre otros asuntos, que preocupan a muchos puertorriqueños. 

Confiados en los resultados a largo plazo, Plenéalo, Quique Domenech, Melina León, La Secta, Cultura Profética, Tito Nieves, Grupomanía, Daddy Yankee, Olga Tañón y El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico participaron del concierto gratuito, que forma parte de una campaña que inició en agosto pasado. Esta gesta cobró fuerza con la canción “Echar pa’lante” en la voz de Los Mulatos del Sabor. Este tema es una versión nueva de la composición original “No hago más na’”.

IMMABE

http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2011/09/199-un-poco-de-transhumanismo.html

Donde hacia referencia a esto:
http://vigilantcitizen.com/musicbusiness/transhumanism-psychological-warfare-and-b-e-p-s-imma-be/
“Commissions of falsification (lies) intended to deceive the enemy“.
There are many layers of communication in movies, videos, advertising and news media that we usually don’t even realize on a conscious level, and that is what this part of the article and the BEP video are all about.
The term, falsified metacommunication, was coined by anthropologist Richard Herskowitz. It can be understood, in part, using the simple example of a con-man:
He shakes your hand, smiles at you and tells you nice things…as he steals your money.
It is a strategy of deliberately distracting you from his real purpose or goal by using friendly, charming deception. It is saying one thing, as a way of distracting the victim with deception to make them feel comfortable with the situation, in order to do another thing – to achieve the real goal, which is stealing your money.
For example, say there is a magazine ad with a very beautiful female model, but off to the side you can see the makeup artist standing there putting makeup on another model, who looks like she just woke up. They are letting you in on the joke, the artificial nature and deceptive elements of the ad. This makes you realize that you get it, you think that you understand the illusion, and that makes you feel clever, like an insider, and this feeling gives you a sense of reward and ego boost because you feel smart and cool.
This process has the typical effect of getting people to relax and let their guard down a little bit, which leaves them more open to the actual intent of what the ad is trying to do – to sell you some crap that you probably don’t need – and ideas that you may not agree with. This brings us to another tool of manipulation and control in communication, known as a double bind.

Como dice redil en los comentarios de Primera Hora:
Realmente toda esa gente aprendió lo que es echar palante? Por lo que puedo apreciar de la noticia todo se limitó a un simple bembé del gobierno y el Banco Popular. Ellos saben que con el baile, baraja y botella mantienen a la gente dormida para no se preocupen por todo el mal que estos líderes le hacen al pueblo todos los días. Con mensajitos esporádicos de los artistas no es suficiente. Se tienen que crear empleos de verdad y enseñarles a los que viven del mantengo que los cupones no son eternos y algún día los quitarán. Los que leemos y nos informamos de verdad sabemos que el poderío de EUA está a punto de concluir y otra super potencia tomará su lugar. Qué va hacer toda esa gente que reciben ayuda económica? No saben lo que es madrugar para ir a trabajar, no soportan que les den órdenes en un trabajo, etc, etc,...

No, pero se llevaron la segunda parte del mensaje.  Si esta mala la cosa es tu culpa PUEBLO.  No es culpa de la recesion, no es culpa de la ley 7, no es culpa del mantengo.  Y no digas 'la cosa esta mala'.  Estamos mejor que nunca:
http://holapuertorico.blogspot.com/2012/01/la-cosa-esta-mala-la-cosa-esta-mala-la.html
LA COSA ESTA MALA....Esta es la campaña de El Nuevo Día en la que recalca la importancia de pensar y actuar positivamente en vez de pensar que la cosa está mala y no tiene solución...Los titulares de Endi.com hoy 25 de enero de 2012 a las 6:42pm leen así:

ABOTT DESPEDIRA A 700 EMPLEADOS

MUEREN DOS ANCIANAS HERMANAS AL CAER DE UNA QUEBRADA EN LAS PIEDRAS

ESTUDIANTE UNIVERSITARIA ATACADA POR LADRON NO FUE VIOLADA

ufff...de tres, dos....la cosa está mala, la cosa está mala, la cosa está más o menos, más más que menos

Leia esta nota varios dias atras:
http://mondongosancochoyganginga.blogspot.com/2012/01/la-cosa-esta-mala-pues-te-callas-y-ya.html

Luego fue la pendejada de “En Diciembre No”. Mátense de enero a noviembre, pero en diciembre NO, por el amor de Cristo. Tremendo logro del gobierno. Los asesinatos se detuvieron inmediatamente y no se derramó ni una sola gota más de sangre durante todas las navidades. Ese exceso de sangre es la que ahora se está donando en los centros de acopio. ¡Hemos salvado la casa!  

-Ya todo errr mundo tiene empleo, ya no se ha matado a más nadie, pero señor gobernador, la gente se sigue quejando. ¿Qué hacemos? ¿Qué hacemos?

-¿Cómo que se siguen quejando? Si El Gran Combo y un par de reguetoneros van a tocar gratis para ellos. ¿Quieren más estos cabrones?

-Pues sí, ya tú sabes como son. Siempre quieren más. ¡Malditos! Estos revoltosos anarquistas,  seguramente pelús, nunca están satisfechos.

-¡Pues esto se acabó! ¡Caracoles! ¡Recórcholis! se acabó. –dijo Fortuño con su voz afeminada mientras se rozaba su pollina. –Está bueno ya con estos malagradecidos, estoy harto, harto. ¡Preparen un nuevo anuncio! Llamen a los lambe-estacas de El Nuevo Día.

Para los que no tienen el privilegio de vivir en el país más feliz del mundo (un lugar mágico y misterioso donde, con cancioncitas se arreglan los problemas), les voy a describir el maldito anuncio que están pasando por la televisión que me tiene encabronado.

Comienza con la imagen de un LP dando vueltas en un tocadiscos viejo, un disco de vinyl guayao’ que se queda pegao’ en la misma cantaleta. Luego pasa a un grupo de viejos (seguramente PNP’s) jugando al dominó, donde lo único que hablan y repiten entre ellos es: La cosa está mala, la cosa está mala.

Cambia la escena, una pareja de músicos jóvenes en lo que parece ser una guagua de la AMA, se dicen el uno al otro…  La cosa está mala, la cosa está mala.

Se repite el mensaje en unos altavoces callejeros, de esquina… La cosa está mala, la cosa está mala.

Pasa ahora a una familia celebrando un cumpleaños, donde en vez de cantar “Happy Birthday” cantan… La cosa está mala, la cosa está mala.

Luego aparecen dos niñas jugando en el patio de una escuela, a las manitas, pero la canción es… La cosa está mala, la cosa está mala. Viene entonces una subasta pública

-La cosa está mala,  a la una, la cosa está mala, alas dos… Alteran la escena con una cotorra, vuelve la subasta -La cosa está mala a las tres...

Y justo aquí nos restriegan en la cara: Con Quejarnos No Resolvemos Nada.

El anuncio dice ser de El Nuevo Día pero yo no lo creo. Si el Banco Popular se prestó para la cabrona cancioncita del Combo, para lavarle la cara al gobierno del mamao, ¿Qué se puede esperar de esta tremenda mierda de periódico vendío a los grandes intereses?

No están mandando a callar. Fortuño no quiere que nos quejemos más. Está harto, harto. ¿La cosa está mala? Pues te callas y ya. Nos han dicho que estamos como las cotorras, repitiendo lo mismo todo el tiempo. Pero, puñeta…LA COSA ESTA MALA. CARAJO. ¿Qué LE PASA A ESTOS CABRONES? ¿AHORA NO NOS PODEMOS NI QUEJAR?

http://enjustaperspectiva.blogspot.com/2012/01/el-nuevo-dia-nos-manda-callar.html
Fue un bloguero (http://mondongosancochoyganginga.blogspot.com/) que me informó de la nueva campaña pública del rotativo El Nuevo Día y después de haber visto el anuncio en el día de ayer... ahora entiendo porque el amigo estaba tan escandalizado.

Las imagenes del anuncio del Nuevo Día son preciosos. Son imagenes trás imagenes de nuestra vida cotidiana puertorriqueña. Muy hermosos... pero es el audio que choca porque lo UNICO que las personas dicen en la pantalla es; Las Cosas Están Malas.

Nada más.

Al final del anuncio público El Nuevo Día nos "aconseja" que dejemos de quejarnos y hagamos algo.

Sucio...

Simplemente sucio.

O sea, el "consejo" de El Nuevo Día no es nada más que un regaño. Nos regaña por quejarnos... por verbalizar nuesrtra frustración por éste país de mierda. Ahora nos mandan a callar.
http://enjustaperspectiva.blogspot.com/2012/01/la-frase-de-moda-de-la-semana-pero-hoy.html
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Caramba.  Ahora ENDI esconde todos los videos de los anuncios.  How convenient:  Encontre esto:
http://www.marca.com/2011/06/02/multimedia/marcatoons/1307013049.html


Anticomercial de hoy.  Comencemos haciendo que ENDI se aplique el anuncio:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/NPZgvx7FA7c


Claro, la intencion es echarle la culpa a su gente.  La salud esta mala porque la gente abusa de las salas de emergencia:
http://www.elnuevodia.com/abusivoelusodelasaladeemergencia-1177605.html
si te enfermas es porque no te cuidas:
http://www.elnuevodia.com/rezagadalaislaenprevencion-1177157.html
si tu casa se cae y eres un corrupto, como cierto personaje:
http://www.elnuevodia.com/sincastigoporconstruiralgarete-1177191.html

Tom The Dancing Bug Reference Here:
http://boingboing.net/2011/11/30/tom-the-dancing-bug-hollings.html

Cierro con esto:
http://gilthejenius.blogspot.com/2012/01/get-out-movement.html
http://gilthejenius.blogspot.com/2012/01/get-out-movement-part-2.html

Update: Jan 31, 2012
y con este articulo que por alguna razon borro la referencia en el copy / paste del borrador:
http://puertorikenhadasinmostaza.blogspot.com/2011/11/el-gran-combo-revisited.html
Habiendo cumplido seis decadas de edad, creia haber, escuchado i visto todo. Desafortunadamente me equivoque.  El Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, una institucion ligada al fracaso financiero i economico de esta insula de concreto i asfalto en el Caribe, en el pasado reciente, ha sido multada por lavado de dinero y evasion de impuestos. Responsable junto a desarrolladores de vivienda, carreteras, ingenieros, arquitectos i abogados, de que sus acciones depreciaran de $30 USA dollars a $1.35 en un lustro, compro una orquesta con medio siglo de trayectoria: El Gran Combo.

Esta organizacion musical ha tirado al suelo, su contundente trayectoria musical, sometiendose innecesariamente, al capricho de la nebulosa institucion bancaria, como complices de su campanha publicitaria ante el impresionante descalabro economico/social/cultural que vive Puerto Rico, USA, gracias a la falta de vision de estas sanguijuelas.

Esto va de la mano de la programacion neurolinguistica y el newspeak moderno.  Es como lo de las ventanas rotas, que ahora el Municipio de San Juan canta para borrar el grafiti de la ciudad.  Se generaliza: todo grafiti es malo.  Todo caserio es malo, excepto en las elecciones, despues que voten por mi.

Este cuatrienio el good cop, bad cop enfoca en que no dejan trabajar a Fortu/no.  Esa misma excusa la uso Sila la Breve y Anibal con el 'deficit estructural' y el 'gobierno compartido'.  Ahora se pretende vilificar el acto de protestar el desgobierno bipartita que vivimos estos dias.  Resolvera la eleccion esto?  Lo dudo.  Lo dudo mucho.


Rafael Ithier, director musical del Gran Combo, al revisar la letra de " Y NO HAGO MAH NA'', conocido como el himno nacional del 50% de la poblacion Boricua insular, de la vagancia que caracteriza a ese segmento de la poblacion islenha que sobrevive de la 'filantropia' guelferistica de los USA.

Aquel himno, real entonces, es ahora "Ganas de Trabajar', con la misma musica, i swing similar.

[235] Mock Turtle Story

I just finished this nice drawing and wanted to share the creation process.  I had never done a watercolor wash so large.  It is now nicely mounted in my living room.  First the scene:
http://rackham.artpassions.net/alice9.html

The Mock Turtle's Story

You can't think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing! said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice's, and they walked off together.
Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and thought to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had made her so savage when they met in the kitchen.
When I'M a Duchess, she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though), I won't have any pepper in my kitchen AT ALL. Soup does very well without--Maybe it's always pepper that makes people hot-tempered, she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, and vinegar that makes them sour--and camomile that makes them bitter--and--and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so stingy about it, you know--
She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a little startled when she heard her voice close to her ear. You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit.
Perhaps it hasn't one, Alice ventured to remark.
Tut, tut, child! said the Duchess. Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice's side as she spoke.
Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first, because the Duchess was VERY ugly; and secondly, because she was exactly the right height to rest her chin upon Alice's shoulder, and it was an uncomfortably sharp chin. However, she did not like to be rude, so she bore it as well as she could.
The game's going on rather better now, she said, by way of keeping up the conversation a little.
'Tis so, said the Duchess: and the moral of that is--"Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!"
Somebody said, Alice whispered, that it's done by everybody minding their own business!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rackham
http://www.escapeintolife.com/showcase/arthur-rackhams-alice-in-wonderland-illustrations/

Using that image as a reference I then did the following:

Bono: Whatever happened to Calico Electronico? Les dejo un capitulo aqui:

[234] Is There a Heaven for Calculators?

Otro post sin sentido.  Finalmente me uno a la revolucion digital, como the realist...

http://realistcomics.blogspot.com/2011/09/week-67-messaging-blues.html

Compre un smartphone (Android of course) para ponerme al dia de todo lo pending.  Fue una buena decision?  El tiempo dira.  He estado jugando bastante con un juego llmado OSMOS.  Algo del juego aqui.  No se, apela al microbiologo frustrado en mi:
http://www.indiegamemag.com/osmos-now-absorbed-on-to-android-sale-price-for-first-week/
http://www.indiegamemag.com/osmos-review/

Tambien otro demo llamado Kingdom Rush, pero en la PC.
http://armorgames.com/play/12141/kingdom-rush
http://www.gamezebo.com/games/kingdom-rush/review
http://toucharcade.com/2011/12/30/kingdom-rush-ipad-review/

Soy fanatico de los juegos de tower defense o de estrategia.  Ironico que ese smartphone tenga mas memoria y velocidad que mi vieja Dell Latitude que compre en el 2003.  Entiendo que todo es el progreso.  Para que entiendan.  Continuando con lo del Sliding Rule de mi articulo anterior mi primera computadora fue una Timex Sinclair que compre usada en Times Square, NY en el 82-83?  Conectaba al televisor y tenia la gran friolera de 2K de memoria.  O sea, escribir en la maquina:

10 REM LOOP
20 PRINT "YO MAMA!"
30 GO TO 10

Ya te comprometia mas de la mitad de la maquina.

Hell!  Abrir un file de word hoy dia te gasta un minimo de 56K por lo menos.  Pero era la novedad de la era.

http://oldcomputers.net/ts1000.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family

Luego, en la era de los Commodore, tenia un Atari 400 con la gran friolera de 16K.  Aprendi a programar basic con un viejo libro que consegui en una tienda de discos que liquidaba mercancia en Bayamon Oeste.  Me lo dieron de gratis porque parece que era del hijo del due/no que se habia ido a estudiar fuera de Puerto Rico.  Caminaba media hora los fines de semana a buscar ejemplares de Compute! en la biblioteca de la UCB en Bayamon.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute!

Todo fuese para jugar con un clon de centipede o de space invader programado en Atari Basic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute!
http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/

Por ejemplo, codigo para programar algoritmos de Space Invaders:
http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue11/47_1_INVADERS_FROM_OUTER_SPACE.php

Las calculadoras de mano son otra historia.  Aqui este site da una historia fotografica de los primeros modelos.  La primera calculadora de papi fue de las primeras TI cientificas que salieron, con el display digital rojo:
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/hand-held_calculators.html

Personalmente mi calculadora es una vieja Casio fx-4000p, donde programaba, resolvia ecuaciones lineales y escribia codigo sencillo.  Como hace formulas con parentesis es buena para ecuaciones complicadas y es facil de corregir.  Obviamente, como el mundo de ingenieria es dominado por las hewlett packard, el unico que sabe operarla bien soy yo.  Es una calculadora temperamental, a veces da la ultima cifra decimal mal si no estas pendiente, pero la he tenido desde 1988.  Mi primera calculadora Casio fx 4000p murio en el 1992.  Compre una identica como regalo de bodas y todavia la conservo, con el estuche modificado y tras varios cambios de pila.  Algo de la calculadora aqui:
http://www.voidware.com/calcs/fx4000p.htm

Nunca vi uno operando pero debe ser bien curioso...una calculadora mecanica Curta I:
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/curta_i.html
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/the_amazing_curta.html

Anyway, la gran realidad es que todos estos computos ya se hacen en hojas electronicas como excel o quattropro.  O como matlab.  Cierro con un viral que me enviaron por email hoy sobre el tema de ondas usando pendulos:

Primero algo bien basico de ondas.  Las ondas en un pendulo son que si sueltas un pendulo a un angulo x tendra un tiempo fijo de traslacion dado por el largo de la soga y la gravedad que se ejerce contra el objeto.  Es independiente de la masa o el angulo que desplaza.  Por eso se usan tanto para los mecanismos de relojes..  Un intenso debate surgio en mi oficina relacionado a las fuerzas adicionales que ejerce el efecto gravitacional en el pendulo, pero eso es otra historia.

La clase de fisica y ecuaciones diferenciales aqui.  Si estas igual que yo, que ya borre cinta, mira las figuras...

http://www.kettering.edu/physics/drussell/Demos/Pendulum/Pendula.html

La explicacion de Harvard aqui:

http://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k16940&pageid=icb.page80863&pageContentId=icb.pagecontent341734&state=maximize&view=view.do&viewParam_name=indepth.html#a_icb_pagecontent341734

Comments: Our apparatus was built from a design published by Richard Berg ¹ at the University of Maryland. He claims their version is copied from one at Moscow State University.  Dr. Jiri Drabek at Palacky University in the Czech Republic has informed us that it was originally designed and constructed by Ernst Mach, professor of mathematics in Praha and Vienna around the year 1867.  The demonstration is used in the Czech Republic under the name "Machuv vinostroj" -- the "Wavemachine of Mach."  The apparatus we have was designed and built by Nils Sorensen.

James Flaten and Kevin Parendo² have mathematically modeled the collective motions of the pendula with a continuous function. The function does not cycle in time and they show that the various patterns arise from aliasing of this function—the patterns are a manifestation of spatial aliasing (as opposed to temporal). Indeed, if you've ever used a digital scope to observe a sinusoidal signal, you have probably seen some of these patterns on the screen when the time scale was not set appropriately.

How it works: The period of one complete cycle of the dance is 60 seconds. The length of the longest pendulum has been adjusted so that it executes 51 oscillations in this 60 second period. The length of each successive shorter pendulum is carefully adjusted so that it executes one additional oscillation in this period. Thus, the 15th pendulum (shortest) undergoes 65 oscillations. When all 15 pendulums are started together, they quickly fall out of sync—their relative phases continuously change because of their different periods of oscillation. However, after 60 seconds they will all have executed an integral number of oscillations and be back in sync again at that instant, ready to repeat the dance.

Setting it up: The pendulum waves are best viewed from above or down the length of the apparatus. Video projection is a must for a large lecture hall audience. You can play the video below to see the apparatus in action. One instance of interest to note is at 30 seconds (halfway through the cycle), when half of the pendulums are at one amplitude maximum and the other half are at the opposite amplitude maximum.

Fascinante!!!

Mejor aun:  modelajes matematicos hechos a partir del clip:

http://playingwithmathematica.com/2011/05/20/friday-fun-2/

http://hippomath.blogspot.com/2011/06/making-your-own-pendulum-wave-machine.html

http://www.physics.umd.edu/lecdem/services/demos/demosg1/g1-82.htm

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/PendulumWaves/

Y nunca conteste...realmente hay un cielo para todas estas cosas?  Es interesante como las cosas han evolucionado en un tema mas corto.  Cierro con un plug relacionado al transhumanismo y las tecnologias obsoletas:
http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2011/09/199-un-poco-de-transhumanismo.html
http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2011/02/la-permanencia-de-la-informacion.html

Related: Last Man Without a Smartphone
http://realistcomics.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-09-14T13:35:00-07:00&max-results=1

[233] Intermission Rant

Otro fin de semana mas.  Buscando nuevas experiencias me dio con buscar en las librerias del area de Rio Piedras.  Entre otras cosas en Econolibros consegui muchos vejestorios antiguedades llenas de polvo incluyendo entre otras cosas portaminas de 2 mm de diametro (un lapiz mecanico es tipicamente entre 0.5 - 0.7 mm), cartabones y transportadores de maestros y mas que nada como 5 cajas llenas de slide rules de estudiante a 1.50 cada uno.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule

http://www.sliderule.ca/stermf.jpg
http://www.sliderule.ca/stermb.jpg

Interesante para jugar con ellos un rato.  Es mas por el valor arquelogico como ingeniero.  No llegue a usar slide rules, pero llegue a usar la de mi papa, antes de las primeras calculadoras TI.  Tambien encontre un texto de dise/no de ductos de ventilacion y aire acondicionado para incluir entre mis referencias.  El libro que buscaba evidentemente no lo consegui.  La eliminacion del Borders demostro lo malo de las megacadenas.  Venden todo a precio de rajatabla para eliminar la competencia y cuando se van dejan un hoyo negro.

Libreria Magica y La Tertulia tienen excelentes libros.   Si y solo si te interesa la literatura erudita y rebuscada.  Leo para entretenerme, para despejarme la mente.  No todos los dias quiero procesar un Bioy Caseres o un Borges.  Borders me daba opciones idiotizantes y me traia mucho comic import, hueco que Metro Comics et al no pueden llenar.  Visual Arts Bookstore, la otra alterna cerro, en gran parte por la distribucion masiva de las animaciones japonesas.

Un sitio que me llamo mucho la atencion por el potencial que tiene fue el local de Electroshock, una tienda de trrueque de articulos de segunda mano que presenta la sustentabilidad en accion.  El modelo, saca lo que no usas, si nos gusta te lo compramos y revendemos.  Aplica para ropa y para articulos.  Como una persona que tiene todo un balcon lleno de chatarras interesantes (libros esotericos, curiosidades, discos viejos, consolas viejas, etc.) mas de la ex que mios es cada dia mas tentador llevarlos alla para que los cotizaran.  Win - Win.

Al estilo de la alcantarilla dejemos que otros sites definan el local y el concepto.  Algunas rese/nas aqui:
http://www.facebook.com/electroshockxchange
http://www.miprv.com/electroshock-nueva-tienda-de-intercambio-compra-y-venta-en-rio-piedras/
Por Gloribel Delgado Esquilín
Miprv.com
Si estás loc@ por salir de un montón de ropa, accesorios, patines, libros, reusar, contribuir al medioambiente y además ganarte un dinero extra, date la vuelta por Electroshock, la nueva tienda de intercambio, compra y venta en el casco de Río Piedras.
El local está ubicado en la Avenida Ponce de León, a unos pasos de la estación del Tren Urbano y la Universidad de Puerto Rico, en la acera contraria de la librería La Tertulia, en el mismo medio de la movida gastronómica y cultural de Río Piedras. El concepto de la tienda es idea de Kristen Michelle, una empresaria boricua de 26 años que ya tiene experiencia con varios negocios en el área, como Printing Boutique y un desaparecido café riopedrense.
Sus negocios tienen un sello auténtico, con decoración, música y atmósfera que sugiere un estilo de vida artístico, relajado y liberal.
Hace apenas un mes, Kristen se asoció a su amiga Mónica Oquendo y su novio Javier Garrote y llevaron a un local, lo que por mucho tiempo hacían en el cuarto de su casa, tipo “Garage Sale”.

Cada sábado se compran los artículos reusados/Foto miprv

“Aquí nada pasa de los $15”, comentó Kristen sobre su nuevo negocio, donde intercambian, compran y venden ropa, joyería, sombreros, zapatos, muebles, bicis, cámaras. Según explicó, apenas cuentan con cuatro o cinco artículos de $30 o $35, que son piezas valoradas en los $200, pero para su clientela han decidido tener precios razonables.
En un espacio sencillo y sin aire acondicionado, puedes pasar un buen rato buscando entre los estantes de ropa cualquier sorpresa: t-shirts de los 90, 80, 70, ropa ‘vintage’ en buen estado, tacos de alfiler, carteras ‘hippies’ o de abuela, ropa playera, patines, espejos, disfraces.

El tumblr aqui:
http://electroshockxchange.tumblr.com/

http://noticias.universia.pr/tiempo-libre/noticia/2011/08/08/853726/electroshock-revive-tradicion-trueque.html
Usualmente, la ropa se le compra a las personas a $5 la libra, e individualmente podría ser entre $1.50 a $4. Por los zapatos y carteras, Electroshock podría pagar entre $3 a $5, dependiendo su estado y si es de alguna marca reconocida. También se aceptan antigüedades, discos y consolas de juego electrónico como el Súper Nintendo, entre otros.

Rivera agregó que algunos discos que les interesan son los de salsa del Gran Combo, Rafael Cortijo e Ismael Rivera. Igualmente, la música rock & roll, gospel y principalmente todo lo de la década de los 70 y 80. Del mismo modo, los libros de arte, agricultura, literatura, fotografía y novelas de autores reconocidos son bien recibidos.

Por su parte, Ramírez, quién estudió producción de televisión en la Universidad del Sagrado Corazón (USC), manifestó que "nosotros queríamos hacerlo en uno de los cuartos de una de nuestras casas y decirle a nuestros amigos que fueran para hacer los intercambios de ropa, pero decidimos mejor hacer una tienda".

Explicó Ramírez que con la buena acogida por parte de la clientela se le ha llenado la tienda, por lo que ahora son más selectivos con los artículos a comprar y vender, dándole prioridad a los raros. Debido a esto, la tienda se encuentra en una etapa de remodelación que esperan esté finalizada para la semana próxima.
Indicó que los artículos que no ponen a la venta en la tienda están siendo donados a la Fondita de Jesús y a un proyecto del Municipio de San Juan para los ex confinados.

Ramírez narró que en Europa es más común que la gente compre artículos de segunda mano a que lo obtengan nuevo, entre otros paises, España y Holanda. También en Estados Unidos hay tiendas parecidas normalmente llamadas thrift store localizadas en Nueva York, California y Florida. Sostuvo que al tener la experiencia de visitar estos lugares fuera de Puerto Rico, siempre se cuestionaba el porqué no lo había aquí.

Algo parecido a cierto thrift shop en aquella reciente pelicula de Julia Roberts y Tom Hanks, Larry Crowne.  Pelicula demasiado blanda que no se ni porque la vi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Crowne
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/larry_crowne/



Llame este articulo un intermedio.  Tengo temas para discutir pero opte por disfrutarme a mi hijo este fin de semana, a pesar de las tensas situaciones entre su madre y yo.  Como el articulo no va para ningun lado lo dejo aqui.  Hasta la proxima.

[232] Another Theoretical Review - The Art of Pho

Este fin de semana de San Sebastian lo pase en familia.  No me arrepiento.  Uno de los hobbies que he tomado ultimamente es ense/narle a mi hijo curiosidades de la internet y como puede ser una opotunidad de aprendizaje sumamente divertida.  El articulo de hoy fue sugerido inicialmente con una investigacion sobre motion comics y novelas graficas.

Comencemos con esa discusion primero...Motion Comics vs Illustrated Movies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_comic
A sibling format to motion comics called illustrated films was developed by transmedia studio HALO 8 Entertainment with their Godkiller, which was produced at the same time as (but separately from) the Watchmen motion comic. As opposed to repurposing an existing comic book, Halo-8 created new sequential art that was designed from its inception to be transmedia art for both a comic book and an illustrated film. Godkiller creator Matt Pizzolo told Bloody Disgusting "Godkiller was just a slower production than Watchmen because we had to create 200 pages of art and story from the ground up first, rather than starting with one of the greatest comic books ever made as source material. Plus we had a dozen voice performers instead of just one."^[6]
Although aesthetically similar to motion comics, Pizzolo identifies illustrated film influences as including Liquid Television, the MTV cartoon adaptation of The Maxx, the Berserk anime series, Chris Marker's La jetée, the motion comic Broken Saints, and the experimental cinema of Ralph Bakshi.^[7][8]
According to Comics Alliance, Pizzolo stated "the difference between an illustrated film and a motion comic is kind of the difference between a movie that was shot in 3D versus a movie that was shot in 2D but got a 3D post-conversion. We're not repurposing an existing comic book here, we're building something unique from scratch."^[9]

Enter the Submarine Channel
http://www.submarinechannel.com/
Submarine Channel presenta videos, clips y comics interactivos.  Sumamente curioso por momentos, incomprensible en otros, pero definitivamente una experiencia visual y auditiva estimulante.  Uno de sus proyectos, un motion comic interactivo basado en el libro The Art of Pho, descrito debajo.

Submarine Channel es parte de un nuevo mercado de produccion de videos.  Videos interactivos y de alta calidad comparado con servicios como VEVO, que restringe el acceso a los videos para vender anuncios a las disqueras.  Este interesante articulo debajo lleva la historia de los primeros videos a las tecnologias presentes:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703834804576301022363607508.html
Across the industry, the business of music videos has seen recent dramatic shifts. Three out of four major music companies now channel their videos through Vevo, an online video player and distributor launched in late 2009. After years of licensing their videos to sites all over the Web—and seeing measly financial returns—the labels now rely on Vevo to distribute their videos online and sell ads against them. By focusing on slick presentation and sponsored video premieres, the company has pushed ad rates higher. Vevo, whose traffic includes the videos it funnels into sites such as YouTube and Facebook, is the biggest music provider on the Web, attracting 54 million unique viewers last March, up from 37.5 million in the same month last year, according to ComScore Video Metrix.
"The old model cheapened the value of music videos," says Vevo President and Chief Executive Rio Caraeff. "We want to restore the premium lustre."

Columbia Records

Beyoncé's 'Single Ladies' video (2008): 116 million YouTube views. A homemade homage by a chubby guy in a leotard: 20 million views.

Money is trickling back to the labels: A label whose videos rack up 10 million streams on Vevo could collect around $70,000.
The new economics of music videos have sent the medium in two different directions. On the high end, million-dollar clips are almost unheard of now, but "event" videos can occasionally carry price tags of up to $500,000. The cost of the recent Dr. Dre and Eminem video for "I Need a Doctor" included a Ferrari worth about $75,000. "We crashed it. You don't crash cars anymore," says Kathy Angstadt, head of visual content for Interscope Records.

La mision de Submarine Channel de crear nuevo contenido se resume aqui:
http://mmbase.submarinechannel.com/project.jsp?projectid=9815
The goal of SubmarineChannel is to create new, interactive, cross media formats that use the qualities of the Internet and that can also migrate to other media, like television, mobile devices and film.

SubmarineChannel is both a distribution and a production platform for filmmakers and interactive artists who are exploring the potential of the web.

SubmarineChannel gathers the most stylish, offbeat, original and arresting artworks for the net into one place. You'll find linear and interactive works, because the bottom line is using new media to create new experience.
What's unique about SubmarineChannel is the range and scope of its activities. From design to Internet, from short digital films to animations and interactive graphic novels, SubmarineChannel provides a showcase for work aimed at a young but critical audience, one with a global perspective on digital culture.

Although based in mainland Europe, SubmarineChannel is global in scope    bringing inspiring and original work from Asia, North America and Europe together under one roof. It uses a range of possibilities for assembling this content, from exclusive licensing to acting as an agent and creating distribution deals with other web sites and media.

SubmarineChannel syndicates work not just to other web portals, but to TV companies, mobile services operators and other media, both traditional and novel. The12-strong company has full, cross-media production capabilities, from print and video to film and TV, and represents a growing stable of creative talent. These resources can also be used to take existing work and re-format and re-edit it, for example making made-for-Net films TV broadcast-ready.

Unlike most existing channels, SubmarineChannel also offers a mix of magazine and content delivery. By profiling artists and reporting on digital culture, SubmarineChannel puts works into perspective rather than just streaming as many as possible. 

correccion - 17 ene 2011, direccion revisada aqui:
http://www.submarinechannel.com/about/


Recientemente Submarine Channel esta serializando el libro Art of Pho, una novela grafica de un inmigrante vietnamita, como un motion comic.  A mi hijo le encanto la combinacion de colores y audio sencillo.  Les incluyo el comunicado de prensa de Submarine Channel aqui:
http://artofpho.submarinechannel.com/presskit/PressKit-TheArtOfPho.pdf

En cuanto a Art of Pho, es creado por Julian Hanshaw.  Su pagina web aqui:

http://julianhanshaw.co.uk/
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Pho-Julian-Hanshaw/dp/0224089846
http://downthetubescomics.blogspot.com/2010/07/in-review-art-of-pho.html

In Review: The Art of Pho

By Julian Hanshaw
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 9780224089845
Out: 1st July 2010

The Book: The noodle soup called pho is the national dish of Vietnam. When Little Blue - having been dropped by a mysterious man with a red car and being told to count to 500 - finds himself in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's baffling, daunting capital,his salvation is his own mobile pho stand. Little Blue's relationship with the city and its food brings an understanding to what it means to never want to return home and the fact that everyone goes away in the end.

Me he podido identificar con algunas de las situaciones presentadas en la historia (por lo menos la version interactiva, no creo conseguir la version original localmente en buen tiempo).

Aunque me gustaria conseguir el libro lo critican desde el punto de vista de la historia, no del arte, como rese/nan aqui:

http://bookmunch.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/graphic-yes-novel-not-so-much-the-art-of-pho-by-julian-hanshaw/

It takes a certain kind of graphic novel to cross over into the mainstream provided by publishers like Jonathan Cape. It can be nostalgiac and mordant, like, say, Seth’s recent George Sprott. It can emerge from the pen of one of the legends (like, say, Daniel Clowes whose recent Wilson we were so enamoured with). It can be political (like Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza), travelogue-y (like Guy Delisle’s ongoing work) or it can be memoir-y (like Alison Bechdel’s Funhome). It shouldn’t really be super hero-y (although Chris Ware can make that happen). And, occasionally, it may sacrifice narrative on the altar of art (see David Hughes’ Walking the Dog). As charming as Julian Hanshaw’s The Art of Pho is, it still tends to fall into that latter camp.
Little Blue is a small, childlike creature with an open-ended funnel for a nose who is left besides the road somewhere Vietnam-y by a man in a red car. Asked to stand and count to 500, a small community springs up around him that eventually gives him succour, with a roadside stand selling Pho. What is Pho when it’s at home, you may cry if you haven’t been to Vietnam yourself. Well, Pho is a kind of broth boiled up from beef bones and consisting of noodles and spring onions and chilli and coriander in hundreds of different ways (we learn that a bowl of Pho will taste particular and individual to whoever is selling it). Little Blue takes up residence with a group of travellers (all of whom are themselves selling Pho somewhere in the city) and gradually builds up a small coterie of regular customers – one of whom eventually invites Little Blue to cook for her at her home many miles away. This journey appears to presage some sort of crisis in which Little Blue learns something of his origins…

El motion comic aqui:
http://artofpho.submarinechannel.com/
http://vimeo.com/33909028

The Art of Pho - motion comic trailer from Submarine Channel on Vimeo.
Cerrando el tema, habia hablado de Pho antes.  Pho son sopas vietnamitas.  Son bien comunes en las calles de Ho Chi Minh city.  Es su plato nacional y los habia mencionado previamente en mis articulos de Biloxi:

http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2010/07/notas-de-mi-despacho-cambios.html

[231] Judas Iscariote, Lady Gaga y la Era de Horus

Hacia tiempo que no le ponia mi esfuerzo a la parte Alquimica de la Alcantarilla.  Asi que usando de pie forzado un articulo de Puertorriquenhadas en Mostaza sobre el personaje de Judas Iscariote decidi desarrollar un poco toda esta mitologia que esta detras.

Asi que comencemos con el 'due credit' a Antigonum y el escrito por Daniel Samper Pizano (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Samper_Pizano), 'Piedad con este pobre huerfano!", Plaza & Janes , Bogota 1984:

http://puertorikenhadasinmostaza.blogspot.com/2012/01/ante-la-ola-criminal-islenha-un-refrito.html

http://endemismotrasnochado.blogspot.com/2008/03/defensa-minima-de-judas.html
http://endemismotrasnochado.blogspot.com/2008/03/defensa-minima-de-judas-continuacion.html

Primero algo de Daniel Samper Pizano.  Escribe para la revista El Carrusel y se pueden ver sus articulos previos aqui:
http://www.eltiempo.com/noticias/daniel-samper-pizano

Judas Iscariote ha sido siempre representado como el traidor por excelencia.  Sin embargo esa percepcion ha ido alterando en literatura reciente.  Les dejo una cadena, asi como la que discuti en articulos anteriores de la historia selectiva de la Iglesia en este tema:
http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2011/05/179-rant-sobre-la-disidencia.html
http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2011/07/190-nestorianismo-historia-relegada-al.html
 
Jorge Luis Borges - Las Tres Versiones de Judas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Versions_of_Judas

El cuento corto aqui:
http://www.literatura.us/borges/tres.html

Borges parece haber predicho todo lo del evangelio no canonico de Judas, el cierre aqui:
...
 En vano propusieron esa revelación las librerías de Estocolmo y de Lund. Los incrédulos la consideraron, a priori, un insípido y laborioso juego teológico; los teólogos la desdeñaron. Runeberg intuyó en esa indiferencia ecuménica una casi milagrosa confirmación. Dios ordenaba esa indiferencia; Dios no quería que se propalara en la tierra Su terrible secreto. Runeberg comprendió que no era llegada la hora: Sintió que estaban convergiendo sobre él antiguas maldiciones divinas; recordó a Elías y a Moisés, ,que en la montaña se taparon la cara para no ver a Dios; a Isaías, que se aterró cuando sus ojos vieron a Aquel cuya gloria llena la tierra; a Saúl, cuyos ojos quedaron ciegos en el camino de Damasco; al rabino Simeón ben Azaí, que vio el Paraíso y murió; al famoso hechicero Juan de Viterbo, que enloqueció cuando pudo ver a la Trinidad; a los Midrashim, que abominan de los impíos que pronuncian el Shem Hamephorash, el Secreto Nombre de Dios. ¿No era él, acaso, culpable de ese crimen oscuro? ¿No sería ésa la blasfemia contra el Espíritu, la que no será perdonada (Mateo 12: 31)? Valerio Sorano murió por haber divulgado el oculto nombre de Roma; ¿qué infinito castigo sería el suyo, por haber descubierto y divulgado el horrible nombre de Dios?
         
 Ebrio de insomnio y de vertiginosa dialéctica, Nils Runeberg erró por las calles de Malmö, rogando a voces que le fuera deparada la gracia de compartir con el Redentor el Infierno.
         
Murió de la rotura de un aneurisma, el primero de marzo de 1912. Los heresiólogos tal vez lo recordarán; agregó al concepto del Hijo, que parecía agotado, las complejidades del mal y del infortunio.1944

Judas como el heroe tras bastidores
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_Iscariot

In Martin Scorsese's film The Last Temptation of Christ, based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, Judas Iscariot's only motivation in betraying Jesus to the Romans was to help him, making Judas the catalyst for the event later interpreted as bringing about humanity's salvation. This view of Judas Iscariot is reflected in the recently discovered Gospel of Judas. The film King of Kings presents a similar betrayal.

In Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Judas is portrayed as a tragic hero who believed that Jesus was not the son of God, but rather just a man. Since he feared that if Jesus' following grew too large then the Romans would attack and kill the Jews, he betrayed Jesus to Caiaphas and Annas to prevent a bloodbath.

Si aun no han visto la pelicula, se la recomiendo.  Es excelente, sobre todo la pista por Peter Gabriel y los grandes vestuarios, incluyendo tatuajes henna para darle realismo a los actores.  Rese/nas aqui:
http://oldschoolreviews.com/rev_80/last_temptation.htm
One of the most outstanding aspects of Last Temptation is the incredible score composed by Peter Gabriel. It combines indigenous music from the Middle East and North Africa with folk music and some rock sounds, often with a driving "primitive" drum beat to create a unique, ethereal sound. Even if you have reservations about seeing the movie, check out the soundtrack. It may be listed under New Age music in some stores.

Although I can understand why some Christians may have difficulty with some of the images of Christ, The Last Temptation of Christ is hardly blasphemous in spirit. The main forces behind its creation come from an eclectic Christian background--Scorsese is Roman Catholic, screenwriter Paul Schrader is Dutch Calvinist, and novelist Nikos Kazantzakis is Greek Orthodox--and they have blended their backgrounds to make a film geared towards western audiences.

http://lasttemptationofchrist.weebly.com/judas-iscariot.html

First of all, Judas in this canon is certainly not the Judas of the New Testament. He is not depicted as evil or a traitor. Judas was merely acting under orders because he was the strongest disciple (see "Before its Time?" above). Judas was a religious zealot who, at first was sent to kill Jesus. He accepted his teachings instead and somewhat reluctantly became a follower. At first he was disgusted by Jesus making crosses for those who oppress them. Although he began to trust Jesus and see him as the son of God. Judas seemed to understand Jesus the most and was by far the most commited disciple to the cause. With a tendency to fight more than love, Jesus and he contrasted each other.

What made Judas's character so controversial was that some viewers considered him more wise and brave than Jesus. He is considered a stronger character to some because he confronts Jesus after Christ is shown as an old man, not having died for the sins of the Jews (see "Temptation of Jesus"). Judas has done his part, although Christ wavered and did not die as planned by God. Although this did not eventually happen, it is an intriguing point referring the character of Judas himself.

http://www.decentfilms.com/articles/lasttemptation.html
Un disclaimer: el autor de esta rese/na no le gusto para nada el caracter 'blasfemo' de la pelicula.  Pero da una idea de lo polarizante que es la pelicula.

Judas the hero; John the Pentecostal

Nor is it only the portrayal of Jesus himself that is antithetical to Christian thought. Virtually every characterization, every aspect of the film is deliberately iconoclastic, self-consciously contrary to traditional Christian understanding, calculated for shock value. First and foremost is the reinterpretation of Judas Iscariot (Harvey Keitel) as a principled hero, a man who ultimately "betrays" Jesus only because Jesus orders him to do so over Judas’ own tortured objections. When faithful Judas demands to know whether if Jesus himself, were he in Judas’ place, would be able to betray a beloved master, Jesus replies (in a moment typical of the film’s sensibilities), "No, I couldn’t. That’s why God gave me the easier job [i.e., dying on the cross]."
Throughout the movie Judas acts almost as Jesus’ conscience. As the film opens we find Judas patriotically upbraiding Jesus for collaborating with Rome by his cross-making. When Jesus begins his ministry, Judas follows him conditionally, warning him that if he betrays his mission Judas will kill him. Finally, in the climactic scene, it is a stern, prophetic Judas (or a dream-representation of him) that recalls Jesus to the necessity of his dying on the cross.
Once again, there’s nothing wrong with trying to humanize Judas to an extent, or give him understandable motivations. The filmmaker can even make us empathize with him to the point of feeling that we too would be capable of doing what he did. But what he did, in the end, has to be wrong; and Keitel’s Judas never manifests anything like corruption, self-interest, or pettiness. Jesus is the main character and protagonist here, but a case could be made that Judas is the film’s true hero, or at least its most idealized character.

Un Pasito Atras - El Evangelio de Judas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Judas
In contrast to the canonical gospels which paint Judas as a betrayer of Christ who delivered him up to the authorities for crucifixion, the Gospel of Judas portrays Judas's actions as done in obedience to instructions given by Christ. The document also suggests that Christ planned the course of events which led to his death. This portrayal seems to conform to a notion current in some forms of Gnosticism, that the human form is a spiritual prison, that Judas thus served Christ by helping to release Christ's soul from its physical constraints, and that two kinds of human beings exist: the men furnished with the immortal soul which is "from the eternal realms" and "will abide there always" ("the strong and holy generation...with no ruler over it", to whom Judas belongs), and the other ones, the majority of mankind, who are mortal and therefore unable to reach the salvation. The Gospel of Judas does not claim that the other disciples knew about Jesus's true teachings. On the contrary, it asserts that they had not learned the true Gospel, which Jesus taught only to Judas Iscariot, the sole follower belonging to the "holy generation" among the disciples.

Religious responses
In his 2006 Easter address, Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, strongly denied the historical credibility of the gospel, saying^[27]

This is a demonstrably late text which simply parallels a large number of quite well-known works from the more eccentric fringes of the early century Church.

He went on to suggest that the book's publicity derives from an insatiable desire for conspiracy theories:

We are instantly fascinated by the suggestion of conspiracies and cover-ups; this has become so much the stuff of our imagination these days that it is only natural, it seems, to expect it when we turn to ancient texts, especially biblical texts. We treat them as if they were unconvincing press releases from some official source, whose intention is to conceal the real story; and that real story waits for the intrepid investigator to uncover it and share it with the waiting world. Anything that looks like the official version is automatically suspect.

Later the same year, Biblical scholar Louis Painchaud argued that the text suggests Judas was actually possessed by a demon.^[28]

Judas, Lady Gaga, Iluminati y la Era de Horus
http://vigilantcitizen.com/musicbusiness/lady-gagas-judas-and-the-age-of-horus/
Hasta yo tengo limites.  Aqui hay conceptos para hacer varias peliculas de Hollywood:
Lady Gaga’s “Judas” video is a modern retelling of biblical stories, where Jesus and his disciples are portrayed as a biker gang. But don’t mistake the video for a Bible lesson as it twists and turns important scenes to give them a very different meaning. In fact, it can be argued that the video symbolically describes an important aspect of Gaga’s work and of society in general: a rejection of Christianity in order to make way to what has been called the Age of Horus. This article will look at the origins and the symbols found in Lady Gaga’s “Judas”.


con joyitas como estas:

Gaga as Mary Magdalene

The video portrays Jesus and his disciples as a biker gang riding around with skull-and-bone insignias on their backs (nice touch). Gaga is riding with Jesus, playing the role of Mary Magdalene.
Although it is not clearly specified in the Bible, Mary Magdalene is said to be the prostitute who was about to get stoned to death by an angry mob until Jesus came along and said: “Y’all country-ass, donkey-riding peasants better drop them rocks and go on home before things get REAL ugly up in here”. Wait, that’s what Samuel L. Jackson would have said. Jesus actually said: “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”.
At the very end of Judas, Gaga is seen stoned to death, insinuating that Jesus was not there to save her.

Gaga as Mary Magdalene stoned to death. In Judas, Jesus has failed to save Gaga. Also, does this scene portray Gaga being persecuted by people who are offended by her music?

So Gaga plays the role of Mary Magdalene where Magdalene is not only the friend and disciple of Jesus, but his lover. This portrayal of Mary Magdalene as Jesus’ mate became popular in the past few decades with books such as The Jesus Scroll (1972), Holy Blood, Holy Grail (1982), The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Two Marys: The Hidden History of the Mother and Wife of Jesus (2007); and by films like Bloodline (2008). These alternative accounts on Jesus Christ’s life originate from modern interpretations of Gnostic and apocryphal texts (mainly the Nag Hammadi) where Magdalene is described as Jesus’ “favorite disciple” and “companion”. An interpretation of the apocryphal Gospel of Philip even alludes to Jesus “often kissing Mary Magdalene on the lips”.

Some occult circles believe that Jesus lived well beyond the age of 33 (a number they believed was selected for symbolic reasons). Some claim that Jesus married Mary Magdalene with whom he had a daughter named Sarah. Some even claimed that they moved to Southern France, where they started the fabled Merovingian Bloodline.

Judas therefore portrays Mary Magdalene from this angle, where Gaga is the wife of Jesus. However, she only has eyes for Judas.

Algo de la Edad de Horus aqui:
http://www.nachtkabarett.com/theOccult/AgeOfHorus
It is time for their world to be destroyed. It is time for a new age, the Age of Horus. It is time for a new standard, a new canvas, and a new artist. We must forget this wasted generation and amputate it before the mind rots away with it. Paint it, record it, write it down before they kill you with their slow poisonous stupidity. Make yourself heard.
This Internet is your middle finger to the universe, don't let them break it.
Fuck their world. Let's make our own.

The third and final Beast
Marilyn Manson

El 'bottom line': Jesus cerro la edad de Piscis y Lucifer abre la Edad de Horus..
No entiendes?  Es como cuando los abogados mataron el nombre de Walter Mercado para ahora  llamarlo Shanti Ananda...
http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2012/01/10/1095817/walter-ahora-shanti-ananda-martes.html

[Churn out]

[230] A Dreamland Path to Kim Dietch

Un post basado solo en curiosidades.  Como correlacionamos temas sin sentido y de repente llegamos a una conclusion interesante.  Comencemos por el principio, con todo el hype de Peter Jackson y su nueva version de The Hobbit de JRR Tolkien.
http://io9.com/5871790/peter-jackson-reveals-why-the-hobbit-is-nothing-like-lord-of-the-rings

Bueno.  Simplemente digamos que por cumplir con un contrato se exhibio una version sumamente abreviada del libro en 1966.  Gene Dietrich, director de varios cortos de Tom y Jerry y de producciones de Terrytoons y UPA, entro en este proyecto.  Gene aparenta haber hecho maravillas en hacer una pelicula para cumplir un compromiso en menos de 30 dias y con un presupuesto infimo.

Cartoon Brew posteo el corto en linea:


http://www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/gene-deitchs-the-hobbit.html
A long-lost version of The Hobbit by animation legend Gene Deitch has resurfaced online in the past few days. Why did Gene produce this 12-minute “animatic” version instead of the feature-length version he’d originally planned with Jiří Trnka? Why did he have just one month to produce it? Why has nobody ever seen it? The crazy circumstances that led to the production are revealed in this piece that Gene wrote on his website. In short, the film was a financial ploy by Deitch’s producer William L. Snyder to earn himself a nice chunk of change.

http://genedeitchcredits.com/roll-the-credits-01/40-william-l-snyder/
knew my screen story line by heart, so I just had to put it through a mind-shredder, and wrote a sort of synopsis, with a few key lines of dialog scattered throughout. I called on close friend, brilliant Czech illustrator, Adolf Born, well known even then, and now the premier book illustrator. We managed to work out a simple storyboard. Adolf came up with a paper cutout scheme, and I worked out some multiple-exposure visual effects and scene continuity. We worked directly under the camera to shoot it. I got an American friend here, Herb Lass, who worked as a broadcaster for the Czechoslovak Radio’s English language transmissions, to come up to our apartment and record the narration. I borrowed a tape of dramatic movie music from a composer friend, Václav Lidl, which I quickly extracted and cut together, also at home. It was no problem with music rights, as I could assure him that the film would never actually be distributed, but would be – sadly – a mere decoy.

I love to see my name as director on the screen credits of my films, but I modestly refrained this time. I did not want my name on such a chopped down version of my script, even though, thanks to Born, the film looked amazingly good.

We actually managed to get it shot and out of the lab in time, (without bribes, but with Zdenka’s usual brand of irresistable-object techniques), and I arranged for my New York air ticket. I arrived with the rough answer print on June 29th. Snyder had already booked a small projection room in midtown Manhattan. After a quick test screening – and Snyder was duly impressed – I ran downstairs and stopped people on the sidewalk, asking them if they would like to see a preview of a new animated film, for only 10¢ admission. I handed each willing customer a dime, which they handed back. After the screening, the few, puzzled audience members were asked to sign a paper stating that on this day of June 31, 1966, they had paid admission to see the full-color animated film, “THE HOBBIT!”

Thus Snyder’s film rights to the entire J.R.R. Tolkien library were legally extended, and he was immediately able to sell them back for nearly $100,000. (Remember, this was 1966). My share of this weazled boodle was – you guessed it – zip.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/gene-deitch-the-hobbit_n_1198864.html

You've probably never heard of Gene Deitch, but you were likely exposed to his work at a young age. The American illustrator based in Prague produced episodes for the "Tom and Jerry" and "Popeye" throughout the 60s, during a time where the productions were being partially outsourced to Prague. Deitch's films for the series have been called the worst of the lot, but Deitch attributes that to his Czech style, which "had nothing in common with these gag-driven cartoons."

Contrallacion.  Ojala yo pudiese tirar un betunazo asi...Se hicieron milagros con poco presupuesto (y tiempo).  Relacionado, el hijo de Gene Deitch es Kim Deitch, caricaturista conocido, mas de el en un rato...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Deitch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Deitch

Luego de esta historia leo un articulo que publico BLDG BLOG hoy.  Tesoros acuaticos de la ciudad de Nueva York.  Algo parecido a lo que hice en Carraizo...
http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2011/11/215-increidibly-shallow-posts-from-1997.html

submarine treasures of new york
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/submarine-city.html

Going through old links this morning, I found a story originally published in New York Magazine back in 2009 about the waters of New York City—a maritime metropolis that, many forget, is also an archipelago.

"What, exactly, is down there?" the magazine asked, looking out at the urban waters. "For starters, a 350-foot steamship, 1,600 bars of silver, a freight train, and four-foot-long cement-eating worms." There are also the now submerged ruins of "Coney Island’s great early theme parks," discarded in the waters after the fun ran out.
Dreamland...Coney Island...NY Mag...tenia que investigar.  Recuedan el dark train de Dante's Inferno de Astroland?  Este es viejito:
http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2010/10/la-alcantarilla-alquimica-fluye.html
El articulo de las cosas escondidas bajo las aguas del archipielago de Nueva York es sumamente interesante, denle una vuelta.  Una vez mas mencionan a Dreamland.
http://nymag.com/news/features/56609/
28. The Last Remnants of Dreamland
One of Coney Island’s great early theme parks, Dreamland existed for only a few years before it burned down in 1911. Nothing survives of it aboveground, but a group that Speregen co-founded, called Cultural Research Divers, found the lampposts underwater, melted and deformed from the fire.

El gran fuego de 1911...un poco de historia aqui:
http://www.heyrubecircus.com/history/100th-anniversary-of-the-coney-island-dreamland-fire/

On the night before opening day [for the 2011 season], a concession called Hell Gate, in which visitors took a boat ride on rushing waters through dim caverns, was undergoing last-minute repairs by a roofing company owned by Samuel Engelstein. A leak had to be caulked with tar. During these repairs, at about 1:30 in the morning on Saturday, May 27, 1911, the light bulbs that illuminated the operations began to explode, perhaps because of an electrical malfunction. In the darkness, a worker kicked over a bucket of hot pitch, and soon Hell Gate was in flames.
The fire quickly spread throughout the park. The buildings were made of frames of lath (thin strips of wood) covered with staff (a moldable mixture of plaster of Paris and hemp fiber). Both materials were highly flammable, and as they were common in the Coney Island amusement parks, fires were a persistent problem there. Because of this, a new high-pressure water pumping station had been constructed at Twelfth Street and Neptune Avenue a few years earlier. But on this night it failed. Water was available, but not enough to contain the fire before it enveloped Dreamland.
Chaos broke loose as the park burned. As the one-armed Captain Bonavita strove to save his big cats with only the swiftly encroaching flames for illumination, some of the terrified animals escaped. A lion named Black Prince rushed into the streets, among crowds of onlookers, and was shot by police. By morning, the fire was out, and Dreamland was reduced to a soggy, smoldering mess.

Dreamland's Trained Wild Animal Arena with Colonel Joseph G. Ferari in 1911

In the century since this horrifying accident, several preservation forces for all Coney and sideshow-related history have emerged. In keeping with this mission, The Great Coney Island Spectacularium have been “hard at work with our team of distinguished collaborators attempting to finish The Cosmorama of the Great Dreamland Fire, a 360 degree immersive spectacle in the style of the mighty cycloramas of the 19th Century” (Spectacularium.org).

http://www.spectacularium.org/exhibition/
Interesante, tenia que conseguir algo del parque y tropece con Midgetville.  Algo del tema aqui:

Dreamland, the early Coney Island and Midgetville
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamland_(amusement_park)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coney_Island
http://www.westland.net/coneyisland/articles/dreamland.htm
While none of Dreamland's owners were of show business background, they were fortunate to obtain the services of Samuel Gumpertz, a successful show business prodigy from Missouri. He was born in 1868 in Washington D.C. to Herman and Elizabeth Gumpertz. His father, who was a Civil War veteran and lawyer, soon moved his family to St. Louis. When the Montgomery and Queens Circus came to town when he was nine, he fulfilled his dream of joining the big top by running away from home. He won his first job by walking on his hands and doing flip-flops. He became so adept, that when the Jackley family of acrobats lost a "top mounter" they hired young Sam at $3.00 per week to fill the spot. However, his acrobat career was short lived when one day he did a double somersault from the top of the human pyramid and landed on his head on the sawdust below.

He returned home and resumed school, but three years later when his family moved to San Francisco, Sam became an actor. He performed children's roles at the Tivoli Opera House, but when his voice changed at age fifteen, he was demoted to an usher. With hurt pride, he traveled to Texas to become a cowboy and worked three years on a ranch. When Buffalo Bill Cody's show played in nearby Abilene, the lure was too great. He joined the show as a candy butcher, but later performed in the ring as a member of Buffalo Bill's famous Congress of Rough Riders of all Nations.

From 1893 to 1897 Gumpertz ran two theaters and four amusement parks in St. Louis. He produced a series of Shakespeare plays, managed Shadow the Strongman and was Harry Houndi's first manager. Then from 1897 to 1903 he operated a chain of 17 theaters for Colonel John D. Hopkins who he met while working for Buffalo Bill.

Gumpertz brought his theatrical and circus background to Dreamland. He proposed one of Coney Island's most unusual attractions, a miniature village for hundreds of midgets to live in and entertain the paying public. It was his love of the circus that convinced Bostock to combine his American and European trained animal shows and perform with them in a permanent arena during Coney's summer season. And he recruited other circus acts to perform in a ring at the center of Dreamland's lagoon.

Dreamland, when it opened on a rainy foggy Saturday at 4 P.M. (three hours late) to a crowd of 135,000 enthusiastic visitors, was certainly bigger and bolder, but not necessarily better than Luna Park. The owners intended that their park show the unappreciated public, beauty and grandeur in its architecture, but the public found it stilted. Since it was located on the sea, Dreamland was planned around an actual inlet of the Atlantic and had its two piers jutting into the sea. Visitors for 35 cents including admission (30 cents on weekdays) could arrive by steamship from terminals in Manhattan at the Battery, 23rd Street and Harlem. Elaborate amusement structures with gaudy facades painted virgin white fronted on broad promenades surrounding a horseshoe shaped lagoon. At the inland end the 375 foot Beacon Tower, pure white with 100,000 lights, dwarfed Luna's multi-colored forest of spires and towers.

Habia leido en una antologia una historia de Kim Dietch donde encontro a Midgetville http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midgetville
http://www.weirdnj.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=28


el link es raro asi que incluyo texto

MIDGETVILLE

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ONCE THE ROAD TURNED YELLOW, we knew it was going to be a weird day. Our search for the fabled, often sought after town of Midgetville brings us to this year's site somewhere in northern New Jersey. Here, our normal sized friend inspects the tiny houses in a community we believe may be the town that everyone and their brother has been to, but can never remember how to get there. Although we cannot be sure this is the property once belonging to the Ringling Company, we can attest to the fact that these homes come complete with four-foot doors and undersized windows. Is this Midgetville? One of our informants told us there was a tiny Victorian castle in Midgetville, but we didn't find one here. The stop signs weren't three feet tall either. Unfortunately, there was no one around to confirm this site as being the real Midgetville, so we're keeping it logged in the database and we're off to another lead on tracking this elusive community. But if you must tell your friends where you vacationed this year, tell 'em you visited Midgetville . . . in Weird, NJ. THE THINGS YOU SEE WHEN YOU'RE DRUNK After a crazy night of drinking and skiing, my friends and I had the great idea to check out Midgetville. We heard that if you go there at around 2 it’s awesome, so we said “What the hell?” So we’re driving down that stretch of road, when out of nowhere we see this midget walking across the street. We were bugging out. We had heard the stories about Midgetville, but never believed them. Me and my friends were going nuts. None of us knew what to do. Some drunken teenager in the back yelled out “MIDGET.” The lil’ guy saw us, then ran onto this back road. We turned down the road, but no midget - all we saw was woods. We went up and down this small stretch for about 25 minutes and saw no trace of the midget. We never found any houses or small stop signs but ever since then we all now believe in Midgetville. We always cruise on down that road now, hoping to come in contact with another one of the infamous lil’ people. - Mike K. THE RIGHT TO BARE (SHORT STUBBY) ARM I don't know if any "little people" lived there when you guys visited, but recently I visited this small place and there were many, many little people there. I was driving by and I heard bangs as I saw a few dwarves and I thought they were throwing cans at my car. When I got out to check the damage, it was much more than I had expected. What I found was 9 bulletholes on the passenger’s side of my brand new car. I went to the police and asked them about this. They told me that I wasn't supposed to be down there, and that any car without a permit to enter that did, was shot at. The "little people" apparently have the right to shoot at you from the waist down. - Jessica M. WNJ Readers Write In About Midgetville: Midgetville was on River Road before the GWB. The houses were small and the stop signs small. They were cottages and still exist, although no midgets lived there. It was a rumor spread to keep people out of this exclusive area, even though we always wound up there at 5am after a drunken night. - Steve D. One of the Ringling Bros. had an estate in Morris Township. I found out about this when we visited the very elaborate Ringling Museum in St. Petersburg, FL. I think they even mentioned people from the circus staying on the estate. I had driven past it a few times but never investigated further. - Mark R. My brother visited the house called Midgetville. It was built to the size scale of a pair of height challenged folk who had made a great deal of money in motion pictures way back when. Supposedly the house looks no different from the outside. After the house was sold, the small scale interior was left intact, but the floors were dropped to provide head room for the average height occupants. My brother is going to contact the person who took him there many years ago. - Renee M. WARNING: Due to a rash of late night disturbances in this neighborhood there is now an increased police presence and those who are caught breaking the law are subject to fines, arrest and prosecution. We urge readers to respect the privacy, property and peace of the residents living along this road and in nearby communities. – Weird NJ http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/nyregion/are-there-midgets-in-midgetville-don-t-ask-the-residents.html The only thing the people of Midgetville want printed about their block is this: There are no midgets here, only midgetized houses. The people are of normal size, but what has become colossal is the Midgetville myth: That Norwood Terrace, a short residential block along the Passaic River about 15 miles west of Midtown Manhattan, is inhabited by little people. In the early 1900's, when the river was clean, this was a breezy resort area lined with summer bungalows. Now the river is polluted and most of the 20 bungalows have become full-time homes, many of them enlarged. About half the houses here remain the size of a mobile home, which has apparently given way to the local legend that this is a land of Lilliputians. Late at night, several times a week, young people full of beer come in carloads to carouse. Some zip through with headlights off and car horns on. Sometimes the convoys troll through with hood-surfing teens screaming obscenity-laced commands for the midgets to wake up and show themselves. When the midgets don't show, the revelers may throw bottles or eggs at front doors, or knock on windows and ring doorbells to ask or scream for the midgets.

Kim Deitch and Alias the Cat
http://www.cartoonstudies.org/visitingartist/?p=537
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/books/review/Hodgman-t.html?pagewanted=all
http://seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com/2010/02/best-comics-of-decade-20-1.html

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/04/28/alias-the-cat-review/
Anyway, after receiving this beat-up, well-worn and OLD Cat Suit in the mail, Kim and Pam get curious as to where itt came from. Some lucky diggin’ through old papers reveals the origin of the suit; Turns out that the suit was both a movie prop and worn by a real life superhero, or somethin’ close to it. (He’s the dude we see on the cover.) Deitch spends most of this chapter researching the history of the suit, digging through old papers, simultaneously following a comic strip adaptation of the movie serial Alias the Cat, and also finding strange parallels between the strip and actual events.

We’ve moved staunchly into fantasy here, (probably. Almost certainly.) still exceptionally true-to-life and believable fantasy, with a bunch of acutely observed details to ground it. Deitch brings a really keen understanding of the early 20^th century to bear, slippin’ in a concise history of early American cinema without ever dropping the threads of the plot. And the poor Cat-cowled superhero… /but no. I’m trying to keep the backstory spoiler free. I WILL say that “Alias the Cat” applies to more than one character, because while we never SEE Waldo in this chapter, there’s a mysterious, off-screen figure handin’ out Cat Suits to wanna-be vigilantes…

WEISSGARDEN Fully Anti-Terror secured State of the Art Gated Community.

And Deitch is here to watch the abandoned city, supposedly the site of “Alias the Cat’s” unhappy adventures, in it’s death throws. There’s another major plot concerns a hidden cache of munitions built by amoral war profiteers in WW I that tie into a homegrown terrorist attack on the Big Apple today… But all that feels beside the point. You get the sense that the story started before the book did, and will continue after we’re gone. For all of Kim Deitch’s… or the narrators… or who-the-hell-ever’s…. attempts to unearth and connect with history, he ends up being almost completely irrelevant to the overall plot. History just sweeps right over him… Until the end, where he’s newly released from the asylum, an’ he gives us a wink and a nod, and gets to work drawing, a world he finally – on the last page- confesses is “Half Remebered, Half Imagined.”
And, sure, the Stuff Of Dreams is part of it all. There’s a cache of terrifying statues carved by the chief architect of Midgetville (and part time mad bomber), there’s the whirring, clanking, flashing scale model of WEISGARDEN, and there’s the town itself… Midgetville was a tourist attraction, where out-of-towners would come to watch the townies dress up as elves as they worked, but, as Waldo tells us
“BUT RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSES [Mr.] Beckendorf was running those midgets ragged. Damn few lasted more than a couple of years.”



Which is really just another secret history.
There’s an ironic contrast here between the poor Midgetvillians being worked to death square in the public eye and the way the book ends with Deitch/the narrator at the drawing table, enthusing that he can recreate the world HIS way,
“A wonderful place, where midgets make bread softer than the pillow you lay your weary head on at night.”

http://tcj.com/journalista/aliasthecat.jpg
http://archives.tcj.com/journalista/?p=345
http://www.readaboutcomics.com/2007/04/30/alias-the-cat/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_the_Cat!

Gosh!  Les dejo el maraton aqui.  Ahora mas que nunca tengo que leer esa historia de nuevo.  Todo esto por un corto de The Hobbit y mu/nequitos de Tom and Jerry subsidiados a los checos.  CHURN OUT!