Fuck the police!

Hello everybody. Well, I really love photography, I think photography is one of the easiest arts to love because you don’t have to have much knowledge about to start taking photos; today is like a natural draw of your environment and an easy way to keep your memories with you. One of my “child’s dreams” was to have a “professional” camera to keep with me (as least as a picture) all my great moments in a good quality. Last year I worked to buy one and I could start taking good pictures in fast moments (because I love “freeze photography”), so this is an example of what I’m doing. This picture was taken in the early months of this year after a student meeting at Pza. Italia. I took many pictures but this one in particular resumes all that morning. It’s very simple and shows the message of that day: “FUCK THE POLICE!”, because the meeting was unauthorized and the cops were very heavy.

I have some other images you can browse at my flickr: www.flickr.com/topletople, I’m always trying to actualize it to show the world as I see it.

Ahh, yesterday I was also taking pictures you can see at my flickr ;)

Cheers!

Technology in our lives

The actual home-technologic world is very strange. Nobody can predict how the technology will be, or where is going to. It’s true; technology has simplified our life, right? I mean… right? (yes, please think in that complicated software that is necessary to make “easier” your work. And think in the next version, that version which changes all you knew about that software).

My favorite dispositive: My laptop. Why? Because I can carry all my digital stuff everywhere and work on it. It’s just a portable PC (more expensive and gets more temperature because have less ventilation, but it’s OK). And that’s –for now- the objective of tech: portability. I can do the same things that I made on my old PC, but everywhere (even in the pool, as a teacher said). When do you think in high-end devices I can’t talk about smartphones or tablets, its power is far to be “decent” to work in hi-res video or even images.

Well, technology is here to stay, not to stay, to change continuously; and technology will not adapt to us. We must adapt to technology to be top of line in our professional field or even to be competitive. I don’t want to be pessimist, in fact; I love technology because (so-so) I understand it (I need to). But be careful, because the slogan of today is “Upgrade or die”.

Lyrics:

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it,
Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it,
Charge it, point it, zoom it, press it,
Snap it, work it, quick - erase it,
Write it, cut it, paste it, save it,
Load it, check it, quick - rewrite it,
Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it,
Drag and drop it, zip - unzip it,
Lock it, fill it, call it, find it,
View it, code it, jam - unlock it,
Surf it, scroll it, pause it, click it,
Cross it, crack it, switch - update it,
Name it, rate it, tune it, print it,
Scan it, send it, fax - rename it,
Touch it, bring it, Pay it, watch it,
Turn it, leave it, start - format it.

Technologic

Learning english

This post is about my perception of the BBC English-learn webpage (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/).

It’s a kinda strange for me to practice English in this way; I think I have some social
and cultural prejudgments when I’m learning something. My mind is asking itself
all the time what I’m doing and why I’m doing for; so, it’s different (to me) been
learning English at the time you see a movie or at the time you’re reading some
articles on the web than learning English in the BBC webpage. Maybe this sounds
a little paranoid, but I don’t feel fully comfortable with BBC’s free English course
(I been always thought the language is created by-and-to the people and it’s so
mutable and upgradeable that it can’t be “standardized” by organisms of any
type, because every different social, cultural or demographic group has they
own way to communicate).

Forgetting my paranoia, I think the course is very good (LOL). It has very good mechanisms
to bring the English to everyday situations and it has interesting and pleasantly stuff to practice the language almost as a way to distend. I strongly recommend it!

Good Bye!

The place

Hello everybody, I'm gonna to tell you abaut a place... Well, I think the important thing is not the "place" as a peace of earth or its geograpihc location, but as a container of experiences. I have visited (in my opinion) many places and each of them where better in relation with my animic state or my interest at that moment (i.e. the Villarrica lake is a wounderful pace at vacations but I wouldn't live there). So, the last week I went to a concert, and I usally go to rock concerts, but for a time to now I started to listeng electronic music, and last week was my first electronic concert at the O'higgins Park (It wasn't Lolapallooza). It was a good concert, but more important than the music (as is ussual in a rock concert) is the place, as an experience, everything in the place is there to give you a "rave experience". So, you can dance without watch the band or the DJ, without watch the visuals, without even know what song is been played, but feeling all the performance that the place is giving to you. It was a good experience; I'd love to repeat it.

Cheers!