Losing or gaining life thereby...

THE HERO

Each voice which was asked
spoke its words, and heard
more than that, the fair question,
the onerous burden of the asking.

And so the hero, the
hero! stepped that gracefully
into his redemption, losing
or gaining life thereby.

Robert Creeley, Collected Poems, 1982.

I really have to share this:

True fans react like this, they deserve some big reward. Girls: you made me laugh like crazy, love you.

No doubt the books deserve such an ovation (read them all in one month, would`ve been less if I didn't had to do anything else... obsessed till the end)



This is the trailer they saw, by the way:

La belleza del ahora

I-Movix SprintCam v3 NAB 2009 showreel from David Coiffier on Vimeo.

Me siento algo reivindicada

Con ese amor tan grande que uno siente por algo, al grado de reclamarlo como propio, me siento reivindicada, porque México es reivindicado -y con uno que cambie de parecer se empieza.

Hoy el Washington Post publicó un artículo sobre el papel ejemplar de México y las autoridades encargadas de manejar la crisis sanitaria por el brote de influenza A H1N1, principalmente, el titular de la Secretaría de Salud. Léanlo: Mexico's Health Chief Receives Plaudits.

Y también publica el linaje del virus, que ven en la imagen.

Puro virus de pedigree el que atacó a México: con ciertos elementos de reconquista española, arañazos de tigres asiáticos, un poco de ave, un poco de cerdo y un poco de humano... y se llama: A/California/04/2009

Qué bonito... y decían que ¨influenza mexicana¨, este bicho lo único del continente americano que tiene es el origen en California, y de la parte que ya no es de México...

En fin, ¿quién aún cree que la evolución de la especie humana concluyó?

All we are saying...

UN chief: Humanity must cooperate in face of another crisis with swine flu outbreak (may 2, 2009)

Dire Straits
Brothers In Arms

These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day youll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And youll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
Ive watched all your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

Theres so many different worlds
So many differents suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the suns gone to hell
And the moons riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But its written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
Were fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

Eros

Eros, siempre regalándome nuevas canciones cuando más se necesitan, así son los ídolos: YouTube.com/ErosRamazzotti

Man VS Media

This week the world experienced one of those historical moments that will be written in many books and read by our descendants in their history lessons. Maybe with a tittle: Of how CNN became conventional media, and ONLINE became unstoppable, and real.

Ashton Kutcher gaining 1 million twitter users before CNN is, at least, telling us:

• The power and capacity of the online community is greater than expected. Is a lot greater, and real, than most of the world expected (those who thought mass media could win a cause to the online community... jejeje... in a world where anything is possible).
• For those surprised, it raises questions on how easily democracy by referendum could be put in place, as well as how little organization is required to gain collective action (i.e. elections), and who exactly are you friends with, and collecting their opinion from.
• But mainly, that a very fast, plural, free space, open to all people who want to access, and getting from it exactly what they where looking for (best if using Apple, really), cannot be beaten by bureaucratic efficiency, and conventional ideas.

Online is now:

Dancing Politicians

Directed by Mat Whitecross.