El juego de la referencia

Cosas que me gustan, sobre todo si tienen que ver con libros, imágenes y referencias.

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Impressive Paper Art Clothes Collection

Designer Bea Szenfeld has collaborated with photographer Joel Rhodin to take pictures of her collection of clothes “Haute Papier”. These impressive pieces are entirely handmade and in paper.

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Mira @ComandanteA

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Spectacular artworks from Alessia Castellano

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Mi cerebro y mi estómago.

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«Past in the Future» Series

Created by Evgeny Kazantsev

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Christopher Domínguez Michael

(Ciudad de México, 1962)

Conocido por ser uno de los críticos literarios más importantes del idioma español en la actualidad, ha ganado el Premio anual de crítica literaria y ensayo político «Guillermo Rousset Banda» (1997) por Tiros en el concierto. Literatura mexicana del siglo V; el Premio Xavier Villaurrutia (2004) por Vida de Fray Servando, y el Premio del Círculo de Críticos de Arte de Chile (2010) por La sabiduría sin promesa. Vida y letras del siglo XX, entre otros reconocimientos.

Fue miembro del consejo de redacción de la revista Vuelta y actualmente lo es del de la revista Letras Libres. Es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte desde 1993, columnista cultural del periódico Reforma e investigador asociado de El Colegio de México.

Aunque se ha pronunciado con frecuencia en contra de la que llama “literatura de género”, su única novela, William Pescador (ERA, 1997), es de hecho un ejercicio de imaginación fantástica: una historia de iniciación que parte del mundo de la infancia y se lanza a la búsqueda de Omorca, un país figurado donde su protagonista –William, un niño genial de habilidades y talentos casi sobrenaturales– encontrará su “herencia” en una vuelta a la vez mágica e ironica: todos sus esfuerzos y tribulaciones son recompensados con una cajita que contiene una nariz de payaso.

Enlaces

Blog en el sitio de la revista Letras Libres

Artículos de C.D.M. en la Revista de la Universidad de México

C.D.M. habla sobre William Pescador (video)

Fragmento de William Pescador publicado en la revista Vuelta (PDF)

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Christopher Domínguez Michael, un escritor de literatura fantástica con una novela "William Pescador"

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Fantastical Creatures Adorned with Ornate Sculptural Details

Ukrainian artists Anya Stasenko and Slava Leontyev craft fantastical porcelain creatures with vividly-decorated surface designs. The charming figures are small in stature - ranging from one and a half inches to about 15 inches - and are adorned with ornate sculptural details as well as intricately-painted stories and patterns. Fish, owls, rabbits, and hybrid critters make an appearance in the duo’s impressive repertoire.

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Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says He Had Good Timing, But Little Else

John Cleese on learning how to do physical comedy:

"I think I learned it by imitation because I was no good at physical comedy. I was a terrible dancer; I dance like an Englishman and although I had good hand-eye coordination, I was so tall and skinny and muscularly weak that I just was not well coordinated. What I started to do quite early on was watch some of the great old silent comedians like Laurel & Hardy and [Charlie] Chaplin and then later on Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, and the first thing you notice about these people is how extraordinarily physically skillful they were.

I began to just learn a few little things about how to look as though I had tripped or I was good at balancing things, I could take an umbrella and I could balance it on my chin or on my foot. I just got interested in that kind of thing and as I played games more and more and got stronger physically, I just became more coordinated, but by watching the great old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy and whenever I could learn something I added it to my repertoire. It was not something I was naturally gifted at, it actually was sort of work but it was fun work.”

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everywhere in the world :(

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ILLUSTRATIONS BY ROVINA CAI

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Lightpaper by Rohinni: Thin & Printable

Rohinni has developed a way to print paper-thin lighting in any shape and for any situation. Snip from FastCoLabs:

In its current state, Lightpaper is manufactured by mixing ink and tiny LEDs together and printing them out on a conductive layer. That object is then sandwiched between two other layers and sealed. The tiny diodes are about the size of a red blood cell, and randomly dispersed on the material. When current runs through the diodes, they light up.

The promise of thin lighting has been simmering for a while, thanks largely to breakthroughs in OLED technology. But nothing viable has come to market, and Lightpaper is much thinner than OLED—which has been able to get TVs down to a fraction of an inch thick—and is lower cost and has a life-span of around 20 years, like LEDs.

[read more] [[picture by Rohinni]]

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Mechanical Wolf by Andrew Chase

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I believe the House of Usher would want a shipment of these!

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For some weird reason I feel like I need a mechanical wolf protector. 

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Wolf.

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The great Ursula K. Le Guin, who was just awarded the National Book Foundation’s 2014 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, on writing and the secret of success in any craft – spectacular read. 

Le Guin adds a necessary caveat to the excerpt highlighted above:

I beg you please to attend carefully now to what I am not saying. I am not saying that you should think about your audience when you write. I am not saying that the writing writer should have in mind, “Who will read this? Who will buy it? Who am I aiming this at?” — as if it were a gun. No. … Once you start writing, it is fatal to think about anything but the writing. True work is done for the sake of doing it. What is to be done with it afterwards is another matter, another job. 

Read the full thing here – it’s well worth it. 

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Jean-Jacques Sempé

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here’s a video that resumes the actual situation in mexico.

in addition to that, later that night 11 students were arrested and accused of terrorism, organised crime and murder attempt without any proofs and without giving them right to have their own lawyers defending their cases. one of them is an student in my school and it makes me really sick that people just doesn’t notice we all are vulnerable to this kind of situations (and even more fucked up ones) all day everyday and everywhere in the world.

please share and excuse my terrible english. thank you!

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Convocatoria: "Estamos luchando por liberar a los detenidos el 20 de noviembre, pero, dado lo irregular de los procesos y la saña con que fueron inculpados hoy sabemos que hay que oponerse directo a la voluntad del presidente. De modo que jurídicamente es MUY difícil, y es aquí cuando las acciones y manifestaciones políticas de la sociedad civil organizada, son muy importantes, lo que hagan nuestros amigos fuera de México es vital, sin desdeñar las acciones nacionales para liberarlos. Creo que sinceramente que a la consigna de: VIVOS SE LOS LLEVARON VIVOS LOS QUEREMOS Y SON 43 HAY QUE SUMAR, LIBRES SE LOS LLEVARON LIBRES LOS QUEREMOS Y SON 11. LA CITA ES EN EL DF EL PRÓXIMO MARTES 25 DE NOVIEMBRE A LAS 16:00" Jesús Antonio Rojas

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Conferencia de prensa- Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social

Sobre los jóvenes detenidos el 20 de noviembre e la marcha pacífica y que fueron trasladados a la Subprocuraduría Especializada en Investigación de Delincuencia Organizada. En el minuto 30, Antonio Rojas habla de su sobrina, Tania Ivonne Damián Rojas.

Por favor, ayuden a difundir.