I love technology, I'm one of those geeks who obsess about their computers, their cellphones, their iPods... OK! Not geek geek that I actually know programming or the names of chips and codecs. However, I praise myself for being a decent techie, at least customizing my stuff to my own liking and needs.
In spite of my love for gadgets and my continuous amazement for what man can create... My more intellectual self often dwells on the changes to our way of life. While being away wouldn't be bearable without e-mails, webcams, skype, or this place, what happens if this becomes all that there is? And I questioned that because even if those technologies are useful and often times, plainly amazing, I still miss touch... human touch. That close contact that only comes with face to face interaction, with sensorial experiences beyond what a camera (even though I love them), a screen, a mic and a speaker can give us. Humans are meant to interact.
Anyways... Los Angeles es una ciudad donde esa interacción es particularmente inexistente o imperceptible. El individualismo americano llega a su punto máximo, al punto de la indiferencia. Cada quien en su mundo, cada quien en su coche en el freeway, cada quien en su barrio de la enorme metrópoli. Y entonces no hay interacción, no hay diálogo, no hay comunidad y no hay identidad.
Sobre eso es mi clase con Fabián, para la cual tenemos un sitio web que les quiero compartir y que a partir de ahora estará en la sección de links. Estamos explorando las concepciones del espacio, la naturaleza de esta ciudad y de la tecnología. Buscando potencializar las posibilidades para crear un sentido de pertenencia y compromiso público. Todo para crear un parque histórico. Bueno, son muchas cosas, el proyecto es muy ambicioso y apenas estamos empezando.
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Y la galería de fotos tomadas por los celulares Nokia está en Visual Gallery, si sólo quieren ver las mías busquen "Diego" en la barra de búsquedas.
So its 31st and January is almost gone... A month into 2007? Already? Time goes by quickly and I'm still trying to figure out what I am going to do for my short silent film. I've got tons of concepts and ideas but nothing defined. I haven't decided if I should make a story or only shoot about a theme, a more experimental link of images.
Since I know myself, I know I'll keep thinking about these ideas over an over and not get anywhere until some sort of magical mysterious entity hits me with a concrete idea. As the whole thing is getting closer and stuff needs to be planned... I am relying in my great storyteller friends for suggestions. If any of you have a story, a script, a poem, a song, whatever, that is very visual an very cool (knowing you, it must be) send it my way... I might use it, I might not... but at least it'll help with the trying to get out from the abstract into the concrete.
I'll write a "real" post soon... some exploration of my latest ideas and, who knows, that might become the film. Just like my pic, I might be able to see the light through all the mess...
Photo by: d:ego!
