Postsecret

I am addicted to PostSecret. I admit it. Guilty as charged. I think it's one of the most brilliant projects created in the past decade and I await sundays with great ado just because I know PS will be updated.

For those who have no idea what I am typing about, PostSecret is a project created by Frank Warren, where people confess their most intimate secrets and make a postcard, which the later send to Mr. Warren, and he posts it in the blog.

The results are mindblowing. So are the secrets. More than once I've sat in front of the computer, tears in my eyes, staring in awe at what some people write. It's amazing how someone else can be feeling more or less the exact same thing than you are. It's also amazing what some people have gone through and what they have to carry with them. Reading a lot of those secrets really give you perspective as to what problems really are. And you are left with a feeling of both guilt and relief that your life might not be as bad as it seems.

PostSecret has been my own personal therapist. Its saved me a lot of times, has made me laugh, cry, smile, pissed me off several times and inspired me more than once. And once in a while, very rarely, I find one that could have been written by me, and the world collapses.

I've never actually sent one, but i'll eventually will.


Now I want to share with y'all a couple of my favourites. Plus, I've thrown my secret in.

Try and guess which one is it.

Have you guessed already?

Convirtiendo lugares comunes en poesia...

Acabo de terminar de ver Away We Go. Y debo de declarar que Sam Mendes es Dios. Asi, con mayuscula.

Desde ahorita debo advertir que no soy nada buena con las palabras, ni haciendo reseñas, ni con el leunguaje en general. Asi que cualquier tipo de incoherencia, pido una disculpa de antemano.


Llamenlo la situacion en la que me encuentro, llamenlo sentimentalismo, llamenlo cursileria... pero termine chillando como criada. No porque sea una historia triste, sino porque esta brillantemente contada.

La historia narra la vida de una pareja Burt y Verona, quienes van a tener un bebe y en busca de un lugar perfecto para formar una familia, visitan varias ciudades para tratar de encontrar su lugar en el mundo.

Suena como un lugar comun. Y lo es. La historia es tediosamente ordinaria, no tiene nada inusual.
Y eso es lo que la hace perfecta. Que aun siendo algo que le pasa a cientos de parejas todos los dias, Mendes logra convertir esta cotidianedad en un mundo aislado de todos los demas. Vemos a Burt y a Verona visitar diferentes lugares y diferentes parejas tratando de encontrar "un hogar", pero en realidad lo que estan haciendo es viajar a traves de diferentes mundos y realidades.
Y es que lo que de verdad me movio fue este mundo privado que parecen tener. Burt y Verona tienen un lenguaje independiente de todos y de todo. Crean una realidad independiente de todos lo que los rodean y el mundo de uno es el otro. Completamente. Aunque Verona està embarazada, èsto no les mueve la realidad ni parecen estar desesperados (como pasa en la mayoria de los embarazos no planeados) No se freakean, ni siquiera tiemblan.
Y ahi es cuando nos damos cuenta que en realidad no estan buscando nada, mas bien ellos son los narradores que nos introducen a las diferentes realidades de las personas que visitan.

Quienes estan buscando somos nosotros, no ellos.
No puedo describir con palabras lo que me hizo sentir Away We Go, solo espero que estos morfemas les planten un poco de curiosidad, y salgan a buscarla. No se arrepentiràn.


Hace unos meses estuve a punto de irla a ver al cine con alguien. Estoy re contenta de haberla visto sola.

Entre deberes....

So, en este momento me estoy tomando un break de la ardua tarea de auditorar cada una de las ventas que se han hecho en los últimos 2 meses en esta plataforma.
Probablemente deberia evitar especificar que estoy actualizando esto desde el trabajo, pero la verdad es que no me importa. Dudo que haya alguien que lea estas porquerias, mucho menos gente de mi trabajo.

No tengo nada relevante que escribir, simplemente me pareció que sería ameno escribir en esta cosa. Después de todo, prometí que no lo iba a volver a dejar olvidado. Pobre Super Profundo!

En otras cosas, creo que he desarrollado una aversión por la gente. A ratos miro las multitudes y me dan ganas de vomitar. He llegado a un punto en el que las masas humanas me semejan un cáncer, consumiendo todo a su paso. Yo no solía ser asi. Ahora incluso salir al metro me provoca enojo y asco. Supongo que todo tiene que ver con como uno ve las cosas.

Y es que a veces pienso que la gente es estupidisima! Digo, no que no lo sea. Por supuesto que lo son! Yo no se a quien se le ocurrió que el "gobierno de las masas" era lo mejor para un estado funcional. Las masas son estupidas, ciegas, sucias, repugnantes, violentas. No comprendo como alguien podría poner el poder de decisión en éstas.

En fin, el chiste es que me estoy volviendo realmente misántropa. Lo peor es que no me molesta, ni siquiera me perturba. Se que mi existencia estará completa con rodearme de un par de seres humanos. Notese el calificativo: seres humanos. No gente.

Y para cerrar con un comentario sin sentido: Amo a Billy Wilder.
Si no saben quien es Billy Wilder, investigenlo. Me lo van a agradecer.

After 1 year of hiatus...

Estoy de vuelta. Si, ya se. Siempre digo lo mismo: que voy a actualizar esta cosa, que ya no lo voy a descuidar, blah, blah, blah. Ahora va en serio. Estoy en un lugar donde me estoy haciendo muchas preguntas y tonelada y media de basura (y no tan basura) está pasando por mi mente. So, i am gonna start using this more that ever. Hopefully something interesting will come out.

Para recordar, les dejo una entrada viejita que me gusta mucho y que mas importante, sigue siendo relevante.

Predicciones para el 2025-2050
Desde 1985, cada año la revista The Futurist selecciona las 10 predicciones más relevantes que han aparecido en la revista. The Futurist ha escogido predicciones como el fin de la guerra fría y el internet. A continuación les dejo con los forecasts que predicen más alla del 2008.
Definitivamente algo que se tiene que leer. Pero más que nada, es un llamado a que hagamos algo y comencemos a tomar acción para prevenir problemas que se pueden... ehem, prevenir.En fin, aqui están.

1. The world will have a billion millionaires by 2025. Globalization and technological innovation are driving this increased prosperity. But challenges to prosperity will also become more acute, such as water shortages that will affect two-thirds of world population by 2025. --James Canton, author of "The Extreme Future," reviewed in THE FUTURIST May-June 2007, p. 54

2. Fashion will go wired as technologies and tastes converge to revolutionize the textile industry. Researchers in smart fabrics and intelligent textiles (SFIT) are working with the fashion industry to bring us color-changing or perfume-emitting jeans, wristwatches that work as digital wallets, and running shoes like the Nike +iPod that watch where you're going (possibly allowing others to do the same). Powering these gizmos remains a key obstacle. But industry watchers estimate that a $400 million market for SFIT is already in place and predict that smart fabrics could revitalize the U.S. and European textile industry. --Patrick Tucker, "Smart Fashion," Sep-Oct 2007, p. 68

3. The threat of another cold war with China, Russia, or both could replace terrorism as the chief foreign-policy concern of the United States. Scenarios for what a war with China or Russia would look like make the clashes and wars in which the United States is now involved seem insignificant. The power of radical jihadists is trivial compared with Soviet missile capabilities, for instance. The focus of U.S. foreign policy should thus be on preventing an engagement among Great Powers. --Edward N. Luttwak, "Preserving Balance among the Great Powers," Nov-Dec 2006, p. 26

4. Counterfeiting of currency will proliferate, driving the move toward a cashless society. Sophisticated new optical scanning technologies could, in the next five years, be a boon for currency counterfeiters, so societies are increasingly putting aside their privacy fears about going cashless. Meanwhile, cashless technologies are improving, making them far easier and safer to use. --Allen H. Kupetz, "Our Cashless Future," May-June 2007, p. 37

5. The earth is on the verge of a significant extinction event. The twenty-first century could witness a biodiversity collapse 100 to 1,000 times greater than any previous extinction since the dawn of humanity, according to the World Resources Institute. Protecting biodiversity in a time of increased resource consumption, overpopulation, and environmental degradation will require continued sacrifice on the part of local, often impoverished communities. Experts contend that incorporating local communities' economic interests into conservation plans will be essential to species protection in the next century. --World Trends & Forecasts, Nov-Dec 2006, p. 6

6. Water will be in the twenty-first century what oil was in the twentieth century. Global fresh water shortages and drought conditions are spreading in both the developed and developing world. In response, the dry state of California is building 13 desalination plants that could provide 10%-20% of the state's water in the next two decades. Desalination will become more mainstream by 2020. --William E. Halal, "Technology's Promise: Highlights from the TechCast Project," Nov-Dec, p. 44

7. World population by 2050 may grow larger than previously expected, due in part to healthier, longer-living people. Slower than expected declines of fertility in developing countries and increasing longevity in richer countries are contributing to a higher rate of population growth. As a result, the UN has increased its forecast for global population from 9.1 billion people by 2050 to 9.2 billion. --World Trends & Forecasts, Sep-Oct 2007, p. 10

8. The number of Africans imperiled by floods will grow 70-fold by 2080. The rapid urbanization taking place throughout much of Africa makes flooding particularly dangerous, altering the natural flow of water and cutting off escape routes. If global sea levels rise by the predicted 38 cm by 2080, the number of Africans affected by floods will grow from 1 million to 70 million. --World Trends & Forecasts, July-Aug 2007, p. 7

9. Rising prices for natural resources could lead to a full-scale rush to develop the Arctic. Not just oil and natural gas, but also the Arctic's supplies of nickel, copper, zinc, coal, freshwater, forests, and of course fish are highly coveted by the global economy. Whether the Arctic states tighten control over these commodities or find equitable and sustainable ways to share them will be a major political challenge in the decades ahead. --Lawson W. Brigham, "Thinking about the Arctic's Future: Scenarios for 2040," Sep-Oct 2007, p. 27

10. More decisions will be made by nonhuman entities. Electronically enabled teams in networks, robots with artificial intelligence, and other noncarbon life-forms will make financial, health, educational, and even political decisions for us. Reason: Technologies are increasing the complexity of our lives and human workers' competency is not keeping pace well enough to avoid disasters due to human error. --Arnold Brown, "'Not with a Bang': Civilization's Accelerating Challenge," Sep-Oct 2007, p. 38

Al dia de hoy, lo más preocupante es la posibilidad de una guerra por agua potable y el ártico.
Y aún asi la gente sigue teniendo niños. Que crueldad traer a un ser viviente a un mundo con un futuro tan jodido.