Queria escribir un tema serio hoy, pero preferi irme con algo mas light. Despues de todo ma/nana es St. Valentines y todo el mundo esta romanticon. Luego posteare algo de la historia del 2205 que estoy ilustrando, no tengo el scanner disponible hasta el lunes. Para un poco de transfondo les refiero a mi nota original, a la cual di referencia aqui:
Ya voy por la pagina 5 en tinta, hasta la 10 en lapiz. La historia es, a falta de otra palabra, rara. Ironicamente el sketching lo hago en el tren en mis viajes entre Hato Rey y Bayamon. El resto del tiempo estoy demasiado ocupado por el trabajo. Otros hacen Sudoku o leen TV y Novelas, yo sketcheo en mi moleskin.
En cuanto a lo light. San Valentin, Ada Lovelace, Steampunk, Webcomics...Todo comienza lo suficientemente inocente. Javier Omar postea esta postal de San Valentin con Ada Lovelace. Ada Lovelace, la primera programadora...
Y de repente despierta en mi mente imagenes steampunk de Ada y su relacion con Charles Babbage. Y la sangre bohemia de su padre, el temperamental Lord Byron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron). Gracias a K. Beaton por su comic de Young Ada Lovelace:
Hoy quiero discutir algo de ciencia y quise hacerlo presentando la vida y obra del gran Nikolai Tesla. Su cumplea/nos fue ayer, 10 de julio. Un poco de su historia aqui (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla). Gracias a sus invenciones el mundo correcto es energizado usando redes electricas de corriente alterna. En su historia fue un rival directo de Tomas Alva Edison en cuanto al tema de corriente directa (DC) la preferencia de Edison y la corriente alterna (AC) la preferencia de Tesla. Tesla hacia espectaculos con sus Tesla Coils (en cualquier pelicula de ciencia ficcion de los 50 y 60 salen) mientras que Edison electrocutaba vacas y pollos demostrando los peligros de la electricidad alterna. Sin embargo la red electrica mundial, incluyendo nuestro grid Aguirre, Costa Sur, San Juan, Palo Seco, AES y Ecoelectrica (y otras turbinas en la red) utiliza sus principios cientificos. Sus turbinas y motores tambien son conocidos por su bajo consumo electrico.
En varios posts atras inclui un video de David Bowie con Klaus Nomi. David Bowie hizo el papel de Tesla en la pelicula de The Prestige. Si no la han visto, es altamente recomendada. Sobre todo si te gusta esta onda del Steampunk, Magos peleando, esoterismo de feria, etc. Aqui les presento una escena, con un gigantesco Tesla Coil:
Una escena literalmente parapelos.
Debajo: Una lista de sus grandes inventos:
http://www.rexresearch.com/teslatur/teslatur.htm
Una excelente presentacion de sus invenciones aqui (en ppt)
http://www.muzejnt.rs/downloads/CIMUSET/Implementation_of_Information_Technologies_at_the_Nikola_Tesla.PPT
Una fuente Tesla operando:
El principio de operacion y esquematicos en 3D presentados aqui en este paper:
http://www.telsiks.org.rs/teslaproj.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krunski_Venac
Un articulo de inventos ficticios de Tesla:
http://io9.com/5127125/the-greatest-inventions-nikola-tesla-never-created
Nunca dije el interes. Estos dias tras varios largas sesiones de entrenamiento y proyectos extra atrasados decidi coger un break, y si, un poco de escapismo, asi que me puse a ver el Season 3 de Venture Brothers. Me compraron con tan solo poner a The Prodigy y Art of Noise en el grupo del sotano del complejo Venture. Y por supuesto con el capitulo The Orb.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORB_%28Venture_Bros._episode%29 The cylinder is a recording made by the bodyguard of the late Colonel Lloyd Venture, Eugen Sandow, who recounts a battle between Nikola Tesla and his allies, and a mysterious Guild of historical figures (among them Oscar Wilde, Aleister Crowley, and Mark Twain), all protecting a mysterious Orb. The Guild, at this time made up of writers, poets, scientists, wizards, and sinister costumed men, laments the fighting. The two key members of the society appear to be Venture and Fantômas (apparently one of Phantom Limb's ancestors who may or may not be the fictional literary character). Their world is being torn asunder, which leads various members of the Guild (in particular, Fantômas) to suggest activating the Orb, even though its function is ambiguous. The more sensible Guild members (primarily Colonel Venture and Wilde) rebuke Fantômas' impetuousness, stating that "the Orb is a source of untold power. We must take our time and learn how to harness that power for the good of mankind." Wilde scoffs at Fantômas, who believes the Guild alone should decide what is best for mankind; the writer states that the Guild was designed to "protect and serve man at his best," not to be a "Guild of Calamitous Intent." Even Wilde, however, cannot resist suggesting that the Orb be tested. This causes even more dissension within the Guild.
Claro que Tesla siempre es motivo de broma en ciertos circulos...
http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=61
'ladies ladies i'm not interested in your romantic advances but in SCIENCE. control yourselves!'
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=256
claro, la guerra Edison y Marconi...
Ahora, el hombre era un visionario, ya veia problemas con el uso de combustibles fosiles:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/071010a.html
At the height of his popularity as the key inventor who pioneered commercial electricity, Tesla cautioned the world of the inefficiencies of burning substances to generate energy, especially coal, the predominate fuel source of the day.
Not only did the burning process waste most the potential energy of coal, Nikola Tesla argued, but it was a nonrenewable resource that we would eventually run out of. The same arguments could easily be made about oil.
“Whatever our resources of primary energy may be in the future,” Tesla wrote in Century Magazine in 1900, “we must, to be rational, obtain it without consumption of any material.”
Tesla reminded us that a windmill is one of the most efficient energy devices ever devised, and suspected we’d eventually be able to harness the sun’s rays in an efficient way. He also advocated utilizing the heat “in the earth, the water, or the air.”
He proposed, essentially, geothermal energy plants, one capturing the heat of the earth, the other floating on the ocean, using the temperature differential between the surface water temperature and the deeper water temperatures to drive turbines to generate electricity.
One of Tesla’s designs for a floating geothermal plant was published in the pages of the New York Times, complete with pictures and diagrams, in the 1930s. But by the 1930s, oil was being found all over the world in such quantities and with such relatively little output of energy that no one cared much about producing power in other ways.
It wasn’t until the oil shortage in the 1970s that people started taking a serious look at alternative ways of producing energy on a large scale.
He decidido irme light. No quiero pensar. Radique mi planilla durante el dia de hoy y no es una sensacion agradable. Lo hago porque es una obligacion y un deber civico (y porque si no lo hago me arrestan y meten preso). El titulo de este articulo evoca mis sentimientos en este momento. Decido ignorar todo lo demas y lo hago con un tema de cine.
Luc Besson es un director de cine cuyas peliculas siempre me han agradado. Entre sus peliculas destaca The Fifth Element(con Bruce Willis y Milla Jovovich), The Professional (Leon en su version original, Natalie Portman como la ni/na asesina) y La Femme Nikita (la version original, no la mala copia deHollywood ni la serie). Sus peliculas de ciencia ficcion siempre tienen grandes visuales. Que bien se ve esa tela dise/nada por JeanPaul Gaultier... Por otro lado esta la adaptacion de una serie de comics belgas. El comic europeo es un ente aparte y se toma como una literatura como cualquier otra. Esto no es un simple comic para consumo de menores. Se discuten muchos temas y hay grandes artistas que son famosos mundialmente tales como Moebius o Manara (NSFW). Series como Asterix, los Pitufos y Blueberry han sido llevadas al cine (esas no llegan aqui, si no son espa/noles maldiciendo o sexo no pega). Aqui mi referencia original al tema:
There is something extraordinarily appealing about retro scifi and fantasy tales set in an historical context, introducing monsters and steampunk technology into what is an otherwise familiar past. The Indiana Jones films drew on that appeal — as did The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which was superb as a graphic novel and then became a dismal movie that completely failed to capitalise on its own inherent conceptual qualities. Upcoming historical “re-creations” such as War of the Worlds: Goliath and more significantly the Asylum’s take on Sherlock Holmes, which is set to include a slew of “enormous monsters” attacking good ol’ nineteenth century London, are all part of an appealing trend — as would be WW2-based War Eagles if only Willis O’Brien’s long-unrealised but constantly re-mooted project would actually manage to become a reality. Perhaps the highly anticipated Tintin films to be directed by Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are part of this sub-genre.
Now it looks as though the French are up for some of the same sort of action. Luc Besson of The Fifth Element, The Professional and La Femme Nikita fame is currently in post-production of the first film in a planned trilogy, based on the adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec, a female journalist in the 1920s (and beyond). The lovely and vivacious Adèle is the creation of comic artist Jacques Tardi and in the course of her extraordinary adventures she isn’t averse to dealing with reanimated mummies, rampant dinosaurs, demons from hell and other super-normal conspiracies.
Les Aventures Extraordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec [aka The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Dry-White] (France-2010; dir. Luc Besson)
Una biografia del escritor de la serie Jacques Tardi http://lambiek.net/artists/t/tardi.htm
Y fanboys diciendo que esta pelicula finalmente pega el concepto de Steampunk. Esta serie fue escrita desde el 1979...sto era steampunk antes que el steampunk se llamase asi.
