domingo, 1 de junio de 2003
I found this wonderful blog site, Oates for Tanger
The ingenious thing is that it's a photolog, a blog site with pictures rather than text. The design is really smart, and some of the pictures are great, like this one. The author takes all the pictures on his way to work, in Strasbourg, with something called Pen Camera, 1.3 Megapixels. It's amazing the quality he gets with such a small gadget with such a poor resolution. So maybe I don't need a 6 Megapixels one....
The ingenious thing is that it's a photolog, a blog site with pictures rather than text. The design is really smart, and some of the pictures are great, like this one. The author takes all the pictures on his way to work, in Strasbourg, with something called Pen Camera, 1.3 Megapixels. It's amazing the quality he gets with such a small gadget with such a poor resolution. So maybe I don't need a 6 Megapixels one....
A piece of what you can find in Salam Pax's blog:
"Pool side at Hamra hotel. Where every journalist wishes he had a room reserved. If they sit long enough there they could just forget that there was a war going on outside the hotel fences. Jennifer Lopez squeaking out of the speakers and cool $5 beers with over priced burgers and salads. “Please put these ICG reports aside I would rather work on my tan”. Stuff like that. They come in carrying cameras, sound gear or big folders with a red cross on them. Minutes later they are sipping on a beer wearing as little as they can."
It reminded me of an excellent novel by Arturo Pérez Reverte, Territorio Comanche. In English it means something like "War territory". It's about the experience of the author (who used to be a war reporter for Spanish State TV) as a war reporter in the Bosnia war. Very short, very sharp, straight to the point. The whole novel is told by a journalist waiting for a bridge to be bombed.
There's no English translation, but you can try watching the DVD of the movie (by the way, and English translation would make a hell of a lot of sense nowadays) Reverte is quite famous in the US, actually I saw him in person for the first time when he presented a book in a library in Berkeley. Quite funny that me, a Spaniard, had to met Reverte in the US.
"Pool side at Hamra hotel. Where every journalist wishes he had a room reserved. If they sit long enough there they could just forget that there was a war going on outside the hotel fences. Jennifer Lopez squeaking out of the speakers and cool $5 beers with over priced burgers and salads. “Please put these ICG reports aside I would rather work on my tan”. Stuff like that. They come in carrying cameras, sound gear or big folders with a red cross on them. Minutes later they are sipping on a beer wearing as little as they can."
It reminded me of an excellent novel by Arturo Pérez Reverte, Territorio Comanche. In English it means something like "War territory". It's about the experience of the author (who used to be a war reporter for Spanish State TV) as a war reporter in the Bosnia war. Very short, very sharp, straight to the point. The whole novel is told by a journalist waiting for a bridge to be bombed.
There's no English translation, but you can try watching the DVD of the movie (by the way, and English translation would make a hell of a lot of sense nowadays) Reverte is quite famous in the US, actually I saw him in person for the first time when he presented a book in a library in Berkeley. Quite funny that me, a Spaniard, had to met Reverte in the US.
Here's the link to the blog of Salam Pax, a guy who writes from Irak, about Irak. For what I read, I think he's good. "Salam" means "peace" in iraki, as well as "Pax", in latin. There's a quote by Samuel P Huntington which I found particularly illuminating:
"the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion,
but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.
Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."
"the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion,
but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.
Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."
Today I went back to Tate Modern, this time to actually see what kind of art they have there.
I saw some sculptures by Henry Moore, not bad, but I prefer Rodin, honestly.
Then I watched this videoart, a guy that says that made a sculpture out of natural elements. He goes up a mountain with a truck, and films
what leaves behind: that's the sculpture. The concept is that art is in nature, in rocks, in lakes.... anyway, I kinda felt sleep, but it was not bad.
I saw some sculptures by Henry Moore, not bad, but I prefer Rodin, honestly.
Then I watched this videoart, a guy that says that made a sculpture out of natural elements. He goes up a mountain with a truck, and films
what leaves behind: that's the sculpture. The concept is that art is in nature, in rocks, in lakes.... anyway, I kinda felt sleep, but it was not bad.
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