The city with a thousand faces

It is obvious that Zagreb hides a lot of secrets. The best coffee bars seem to be hiding from pedestrians and are only accessible to you if you dare to enter a not so promising courtyard. The best sculptures appear only when you look up. The most surprising architecture in the shapes of domes and pointy towers are only visible if you dare to take some perspective and time to find them. Zagreb is a city full of secrets and it seems like it has...

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Remembering the people that left

I stopped writing in this blog when my father-in-law passed away. I felt like the blog had no more meaning if he and his wife were not reading it. Now I am facing another death with a close friend and I would like to talk about 2 great ways to remember the people we love and that are no longer with us: Home shrine I love it when in most Japanese houses I visited, there was a little shrine like the one in the image with a photo of the...

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What do Only Lovers Left Alive and The Great Beauty have in common?

Tired of the unstopable references and felling like I had already seen La grande bellezza before, I decided to push myself, not to turn off the movie and find some entertainment so watching it I wrote down the similitudes between the italian movie and Only lovers left alive by Jim Jarmusch. Here we go:         The search for beauty  All the characters are looking for beauty. They are positive people, they realize...

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Female roles: Lana del Rey and Maleficent

Recently I saw Lana del Rey live and I got very upset with the way she was portraying herself as a woman. I would like to talk about her role opposed to the one played by Angelina Jolie in Maleficent. You might say that I shouldn't compare a real person with a Disney character. After seeing del Rey's show I can say that she is an invented product, as much as Maleficent. The images projected during the show, the good looking band members, the...

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Walking around a city during summer nights

Pepa in Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown has insomnia and she walks the deserted streets of Madrid during the month of August looking at the people inside their flats, imagining their lives and trying to find answers to her situation. Jep in La grande bellezza spends his nights listening to Rome sing to him and reminding him why he lives there and why she is beautiful. There are many movies where the main character...

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SPOILER Game of thrones of Season 7 Episode 8. Why does it hurt so much?

*Spoiler. Enjoy the show and the books. Spoiler* The images of Tyrion Lannister with his jaw dropped where just a mere reflection of ourselves looking at the screen. These are some reasons why Orberyn Martell death hurt more than The Red Wedding. The scene was brutal and extremely violent but we are used to seeing violence on TV every day. I just got done re-watching X-Men Origins: Wolverine and there is more blood on that movie than in episode...

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Sostenibilitat

Predicant amb l'exemple Avui dins un butlletí d'ex-alumnes he rebut aquesta notificació a on es veu el cap del gabinet del conseller de Territori i Sostenibilitat. M'ha fet molta gràcia, potser que deixin d'imprimir els del departament de sostenibilitat, ...

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Missing Malaysia Flight MH370, what are they thinking?

I love this picture because it shows the exact opposite of what I say in my posts, it shows a muslim lady enjoying a Chinese budist celebration. She was having fun, taking pictures and smiling! Thanks! Malaysian Airlines sends an SMS to the families of the victims, that are mostly chinese, it seems very cold, but this is how chinese are treated every day in this country. If you want to learn more about the relation between the Chinese population...

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Missing Asia with keys on our back

I made this project for my Coursera-CalArts class. I hope you enjoy ...

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10 influences

I am taking a Coursera class and they ask us our 10 most important influences, motors, builders and destroyers in my life. Here we go: Tintin: http://us.tintin.com/ The possibility to explore the world Dr Slump anime: From Arale I take the colours, the absurdity and the happiness. Gilda: From Gilda I take the capacity to dare to be different. Jana Sterbak http://www.janasterbak.com/ From her I take the boldness and the possibility...

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