New Year, new life… and everything that comes after
The month of December is coming slowly but with a firm step. It has a mission to accomplish. It raises its scythe and comes for 2014, who is crawling around like a ghost, to announce: “Goodbye old year, go to your last night and prepare for the end”. And thus, without further hesitation or delay,...
Collaborative Consumption
It is 2014 and cars do not fly. Skateboards do not fly either; lights do not light up with our voice in almost any home, and we are definitely far from inhabiting other planets. The image of the future we who grew up without the Internet had for the new millennium does not look like...
Children who don’t go to school
An ephemeral analysis of the evolution of modern education. I remember the school as a source of stories and gratifying experiences, friends, and teachers; however, I also remember that I hated getting up early in the morning. I hated school, I didn’t want to go. I remember that, being elderly, I remember that I hated...
Hipster!
Let’s start at the beginning. And where did it begin? In New York, always in New York, world capital of the 20th century. Here, and nowhere else, is where the hipster, the original, was born. The term hipster comes from the word “hepcat” (compound of “hep” – or sometimes “hip”-, a phrase used by black...
Dandies. The cult to one self
Nowadays it is pretty hard to find someone as modern as the dandy. A figure that fluctuates between Narcissus’ simple vanity and the complex construction of personality, understood as fate, of the mortal who observes life and chooses to turn himself into a work of art. Is it, indeed, about clothes; about the gowns and...
Social Consumption
The concept of social networks goes beyond the four we all know, we talk about the socialization of people, experiences, tastes, emotions, and of course, social consumption such as music and television. In the end everything is connected, all networks connect to form the social world we know. The music and television industries have seen...
Jeff Koons, the man who did away with Hulk
Jeff Koons is a kitsch genre artist (also known as coarse art or in bad taste) who has caused a great stir in the world of comics when doing away with the Hulk himself. All this started when Koons presented some works which mocked Hulk’s reputation of being a hard guy, the kind of guy...
The aesthetic of transgression
Paralyzed in the middle of Plaça dels Ángels, I’m like a cone that skaters dodge before jumping, doing new and climbing somersaults. I’m in one of the crucial centers of The Raval neighborhood in Barcelona and I’m in front of the city’s contemporary art temple: an extraordinary whitish building whose profile a girl is trying...
Why to use Foursquare?
On Foursquare experiences are shared, something that is in fashion now. This social network is designed for businesses which focus on the public and the relationship with their clients. You share your personal experience of a business premise, your contacts on your Foursquare receive it and share it so at the same time it is...
The prince, the fabric and the crow.
A maiden with hair like threads of gold and the skin of the colour of a cloud was among the most brilliant of the court. Her name was Ivanna. Among the other maidens she would keep the queen company, but due to her exquisite drawing abilities that were discovered accidentally in a game were she...
It wasn’t Eva’s fault
* – Adam, I think I’m pregnant… – Are you sure it’s mine? Stress, corruption, violence, diseases, natural disasters, absurd accidents… Adam, and specially his wife, have always carried the blame for our entanglements, betraying God’s trust and confining us to this pseudo-hell pre-paradise. And beyond the metaphor, whatever Eva’s transgression may be, the oldest legend...
Terri Hooley. Punk and salvation
“Is this the kind of place you wanna live ? Is this where you wanna be? Is this the only life we’re gonna have? What we need is An Alternative Ulster” Stiff Little Fingers / Alternative Ulster 1. “It was 1968 and the party wouldn’t start again until punk came along.” In the mid 70’s, Northern...
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