MTV WINTER!

Now that the next MTV WINTER it's around the corner, I'll like to talk about it. The first you have to know about it is that it takes place in the fururistic and vanguardist La ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias a recint designed by the famous architect Santiago Calatrava located in Valencia and it's not a typical music festival. MTV WINTER is a music event that brings the best international music groups of the moment and does it for FREE. Yes, as you read it, you can go crazy in concerts delivered by the hand of artist like The Cure, Franz Ferdinand, Mando Diao, etc., and I can only mention few groups mainly because it's a young music event, it only has had two editions until now; the first one brought The Cure as headliners, HIM and From First to last all of them basically punk rock artists; the second one had as headliners Franz Ferdinand and them followed by Mando Daio and Starsailor again all of them of the same music style, indie rock. This year the group that has confirmed it's precence is Artic Monkeys that also play indie rock music and as you can expect after seeing what happened on past year editions they will be acompanied by two other groups of similar style. The date stablished for the concert is February 12.

At this point you should notice already that is basically a rock festival. I have gone to the two past concerts and if I'm saying that I can't wait for the next one you should see that it's a big and impresive music event, I still don't know how an event of this proportions and quality can be for FREE and that takes place near me every year!, I'm still astonished. For all the music lovers and followers of groups like Franz Ferdinand and Artic Monkeys this should be a mark on your calendar and an event that you shouldn't miss.

See you in February 12! Yeah!

POST IT.. a new form of art

Never underestimate the power of simple office supplies. Mario has come to life!. Since a long time I had this project in mind. One day surfing the net, I found this "In the corporate world, climbing ladders and shaking hands run simultaneous. Between lunches, dinners, and meetings, something had to surface among the numbing UV lights of the office to keep everything in line. The Post-it Note, a small square with re-adhearable adhesive on the back, was one such answer. The three-inch bright yellow square was employed as a reminder, a note, or for organization... But some don't see it as only a productivity tool...they see it as a medium for colorful art."

So I venture in a new particular cheap way of doing art, Post-it art. As it is called, you can already figure what do you use in this kind of art, an everyday material , Post-it notes, of course. Only with post-it notes and free time(my mario was created before going on Christmas vacations, so I'm not saying that I'm not studying for the important English exam that I've tomorrow, haha), post-it notes that you find in many different colors, you can create many curious things and without any extremely complex difficult method, you just have to acomodate the figure you want to create to the cuadriculated form of the Post-it note and having it in your head or better in a paper in front of you, start putting the post-it notes on the wall and that's it, there's nothing more to it.

There's alot of creations you can bring to life with post-it notes from...

Elvis Presley

to..

a room decorated post-it style(haha)














but the best and majority of inspiration for this art come from old videogames because of their 8-bit pixel shape that fits incredibly well in the form of the post-it because pixels are cuadriculated as post-it notes, as you can deduce by now if you didn't now. For me, the inspiration came from the first Mario Bros videogame, it was easy to think in Mario because is an iconic character that was like the mesiah of videogames and fits perfectly in the style. Mine is a little example of what you can do in about an hour.

Now that you know post-it art too, no matter if you want to create a Jimmy Hendrix or a Megaman, let your imagination fly and GO CRAZY!

My life in three different places...

Now that we enter in a new year and I have to write something on my blog, I have been thinking that from four years until now, I've been living in three different places along the year. Well, that's too much too say, i'm exagerating because basically almost all the time I've spend it in Castellón (now that i study in the UJI, Valencia before) but i say that I live in three different places because in Summer I go to Venezuela and in Chistmas I go to Galicia. The point that I'm trying to make is that there are three different lifes that converge in one, mine(this is getting too philosophical, I better get to the point). Let me explain..

When I'm in Castellón, where I'm basically all the year; I go to the University; I live by myself in a university residence with all the things that come with it(cooking, cleaning, only bad stuff, partying, drinking beer, going out dressed as James Bond or as a cow after); in Castellón they speak Valenciano; there is a good climate not too cold not too hot and finally I have friends that doesn't connect at all with the ones that are in the other places.

Then there is Venezuela, where I was born and was until five years ago; I return to my 'house'(I put house with '' because now I think my house is this but well is the place where you grew up and stuff like that), I get to see my mom, I don't have to cook or clean but you are used to living alone and there are silly things that bother you like things aren't where you left them for example..they just teleport to the other corner of your room misteriously; the weather is hot (is a country near the Equator, so is allways summer there); it's a completely different country with all that comes with it including a different way of speaking because you speak Spanish there but not like here haha; it's the only time of the year in which I drive a car to move myself around and of course all my friends here does't know any of my friends in Spain, at least in person. Ahh and I was forgetting the rum here cost half the price that in Spain, so yes you can feel it in your economy haha.

Finally we find Galicia during Chistmas, it's not a different country because is inside Spain but is like it was it; allmost all my friends there speak in Gallego(I understand them, it's not like they speak it and I have to manage myself to understand them); you eat like there is no tomorrow or like you are about to overwinter like bears and red wine there is like water; the weather in that time of the year is freezing cold and of course, I have to mention that I stay in my grandmother's house that lacks heating, and not to forget, Internet (to see something on the net, I've to go to a bar or to a friend's house, by the way that's one of the things that kept me from writing in this blog until now) and like in the other places my friends there dont know the ones here.

After saying all of this, I think that unconsciously all of this could led me to Traducció i Interpretació mmm interesting haha.

To summarize, different places and not different lifes because i am the same in each one of those places, i dont change but i say my life in three different places because in each one of them there's something of significance, different in each place, friends, family, weather, way of life, blah blah. Well, i tried to make my point clear haha. All I have left to say is that most of the people feel bad moving from one place to another ,not seeing each other everyday, but ask me and I'm going to tell you that I like it, I don't know, i'm used to it, and if to all of that you add universitary life studying what you like, you've got one hell of a mix, is like a Martini "Shaken, not stirred", dont ask me why on this one because it was the first thing that came to mind. Maybe i shouldn't be making so much references to alcohol... mainly because this is read by the English teacher, but she once said "it's not like i'm going to take all your time, you should go out, get drunk and do what college students do", and you know, kids like us are like a sponge at this age, we absorb everything the teachers say(here we go again, alcohol, absorbing.. i should start thinking in going to Alcoholics Anonymous). Of course all of this was a joke...most of haha.

After boring you and feeling a little like Bill Bryson talking about differences between places, I say good bye good bye good bye(three times if you haven't noticed)