CriStardust

Time. I've always wanted to somehow stop it. I am 31 years old, I am from the Canary Islands. I studied Hispanic Philology at the ULPGC, I worked for three and a half years as a kitchen assistant, I have worked as a teacher ... and none of those jobs have managed to make me feel the way photography does. I heard somewhere that everyone, without exception, has something, some rarity that identifies us and differentiates us from others and that the difficult thing is not to have it, but to find it. Well, I have found it in the photograph. I not only like it but I am passionate about it, it evades me from reality and the moment I take a photo there is only camera and time, the rest fades, becomes liquid, everything loses its shape, everything except what I have in front of me Of the objective. I learned about my passion for photography while studying my career. At first I took it as a hobby but little by little I saw that I was not so bad. The years go by and my life with them but I think the moment has come to start fighting for what I like and it makes me feel really alive.      

[89cristyna]

Escrita y dirigidad por Quentin Tarantino

Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino

[89cristyna]

Para aquellos tratados guerreros: cuando entablas combate, el triunfo sobre tu enemigo puede ser la única preocupación. Domina toda compasión y emoción humana. Mata a quienquiera que esté en tu camino, aún si es Dios o el mismo Buda. Esta verdad se halla en el corazón del arte del combate.

For those warrior treatises: when you engage in combat, triumph over your enemy may be the only concern. Master all compassion and human emotion. Kill whoever is in your way, even if it is God or the Buddha himself. This truth is at the heart of the art of combat.

[89cristyna]

Hasta el final...

Till the end...

[89cristyna]

Noches de bohemia e ilusión. Amsterdam se siente tan silenciosa en la oscuridad...

Nights of bohemia and illusion. Amsterdam feels so quiet in the dark ...

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Caminantes. En medio del desierto te sientes como en un océano. Corralejo. Fuerteventura, que maravilla. Con amigas, que regalo. No importa si llueve o si hace sol porque cuando eres feliz no notas si es invierno o verano.

Hikers. In the middle of the desert you feel like in an ocean. Corralejo. Fuerteventura, how wonderful. With friends, what a gift. It does not matter if it rains or if it is sunny because when you are happy you do not notice if it is winter or summer.

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Una sombra. Una sombrilla. Unas personas. Una playa. Una isla. Un paraíso.

A shadow. An umbrella. Some people. A beach. An island. A paradise.

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La polifonía es algo de la Edad Media. Es un fenómeno completamente europeo. Se distingue por la idea de que cada vo tiene su propia melodía pero todas pueden juntarse en armonía.

Polyphony is something from the Middle Ages. It is a completely European phenomenon. It is distinguished by the idea that each voice has its own melody but they can all come together in harmony.

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Desedúcate. Sé humilde, sé simple, inclínate ante la grandeza de una flor, de una nube, de un insecto.

Get uneducated. Be humble, be simple, bow before the greatness of a flower, a cloud, an insect.

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Aquí estamos todos en el mismo barco. Aquí no había distancia de seguridad. Aquí nos queríamos.

Here we are all in the same boat. There was no safety distance here. Here we loved each other.

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One way or another. Calles de Granada. Camino de la Alhambra. Recuerdo que al llegar al final de esta calle una señora intentó leernos las manos. Cuando terminó de hacerlo quiso que le pagásemos por su predicción. No quisimos. Fuimos malditos por ello.

I remember that when we reached the end of this street a lady tried to read our hands. When she finished, she wanted us to pay her for her prediction. We did not want. We were cursed for it.

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Tres. Dos. Uno. Centrar. Enfocar. Unir. Vivir. Aunque sea bajo la lluvia. Aunque sea en medio de la tormenta.

Three. Two. One. Center. Focus. Join. Live. Even in the rain. Even if it is in the middle of the storm.

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Palacio de Carlos V. En Granada. La Alhambra. A veces capturo momentos que creo tiene un significado diferente al que yo les doy. De todos modos me gusta hacerlo. Darles mi propio sentido. Mi punto de vista. Mi enfoque. Una niña. Una mujer. Una cámara. Todo, en blanco y negro .

Palace of Carlos V. In Granada. The Alhambra. Sometimes I capture moments that I think have a different meaning than I give them. Anyway I like to do it. Give them my own meaning. My point of view. My focus. A girl. A woman. A camera. Everything in black and white.

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Aunque pareciendo uno, son dos.

Although looking like one, they are two.

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«La publicidad nos hace desear coches y ropas, tenemos empleos que odiamos para comprar mierda que no necesitamos. Somos los hijos malditos de la historia, desarraigados y sin objetivos. No hemos sufrido una gran guerra, ni una depresión. Nuestra guerra es la guerra espiritual, nuestra gran depresión es nuestra vida. Crecimos con la televisión que nos hizo creer que algún día seriamos millonarios, dioses del cine o estrellas del rock, pero no lo seremos y poco a poco lo entendemos, lo que hace que estemos muy cabreados.»

“Advertising makes us want cars and clothes, we have jobs we hate to buy shit we don't need. We are the cursed children of history, uprooted and aimless. We have not had a war or a depression. Our war is spiritual warfare, our great depression is our life. We grew up with television that made us believe that one day we would be millionaires, movie gods or rock stars, but we will not be and little by little we understand it, which makes us very pissed off. "

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A veces todo depende del punto de vista con el que se mire. Una cuestión de perspectiva. De enfoque. De tomarse las cosas con un prisma diferente al que aparentemente son.

Sometimes it all depends on the point of view from which you look at it. A matter of perspective. Focus. To take things with a different prism than they apparently are.

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El Albaicín o Albayzín. Este barrio huele a widow.

The Albaicín or Albayzín. This neighborhood smells like widow.

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Que nieve. Que nieve. Sierra nevada. Blanco mires por donde mires. Gente vayas por donde vayas. Mi primera vez viendo como nevaba. Claro cuando vives en una isla como Gran Canaria pocas oportunidades tienes de ver nevar.

Let it snow. Let it snow. Sierra Nevada. White wherever you look. People wherever you go. My first time watching it snow. Of course, when you live on an island like Gran Canaria, you have few opportunities to see it snow.