The bicycle

Bicycles have always caught my attention and that's why I photograph them, of course, when they have the conditions to do so and that, for some reason, they attract my attention, because some bicycles have something special.

I photographed this bicycle because I was struck by the play of light and shadow of the moment, with the front part exposed to the light and the rear part in the shadow. I was also struck by the position in which I was, with the front wheel turned to one side casting its shadow on the red bricks on the ground.

Besides being special to photograph them, they are a great means of transportation, especially in big cities, which can help your economy, because at the end of the year you'll save good money on fuel or in the bonds of bus or metro, because the only fuel you spend are your calories, which comes in handy to lose those extra kilos, keep in shape and keep at bay cardiovascular diseases and other ailments.

In addition, if you use the bicycle you are contributing to controlling climate change because its use does not pollute and its ecological footprint is insignificant.

Finally, if you travel by bicycle you will have less stress and you will see your city or town in a different way and you will discover places that you will never be able to see and perceive by car.

Picture taken with an Acer Liquid Z630 mobile phone

¿Que he visto en Netflix? Viajeros. Tres temporadas

Fuente

OPINIÓN

Hace unos días terminé de ver la serie Viajeros que Netflix está emitiendo en su tercera temporada. Decir que la cinta empezó bien. Me recordó a la española El Ministerio del Tiempo, la mejor serie española de los últimos tiempos, porque existen claros paralelismos entre una serie y otra.

Como dije la serie comenzó bien, con unos primeros capítulos que te iban metiendo en la trama principal, pero cuando comenzó la segunda temporada, los capítulos comenzaron a perder fuelle, como si los guionistas no supieran cómo seguir, incluyendo capítulos anodinos, sin ninguna misión y centrándose en las subtramas protagonizadas por los cinco miembros del equipo de viajeros y la resolución de conflictos de la manera menos verosímil.

Sí, al empezar la tercera temporada, la serie me acabó aburriendo, porque seguía con el mismo tono que la segunda, sin tener un claro objetivo de cómo iba a continuar.

Así no sé si se rodará una segunda temporada. En mi opinión esta vaca no da más leche, pero yo no soy accionista de Netflix ni de la productora.

FICHA TÉCNICA

Producción: Netflix y Showcase .
Guion: Brad Wright.
Fecha: 2016.
Reparto: Eric McCormack, MacKenzie Porter, Nesta Cooper, Jared Abrahamson, Reilly Dolman, Patrick Gilmore.
Duración capítulo : 45 min.

SINOPSIS

Cinco personas, viajeros del tiempo, que toman los cuerpos de humanos que iban a fallecer, intentan cambiar algunos aspectos de la humanidad para cambiar el futuro del que ellos vienen, pero se encontrarán con multitud de obstáculos que le pondrán las cosas muy difíciles para alcanzar sus objetivos.

The politics

It is clear that politics is necessary for the development of societies and allows us to advance under the umbrella of understanding and respect. Although many consider politics as a necessary evil and others as an endemic evil with which we have to live.

However, politics surrounds us, it is everywhere; everywhere we look we will find its presence. Many times we don't realize it, but it is there, present in our lives from the moment we wake up until the moment we go to bed. When we turn on the light in the morning, behind that gesture, there is politics, because there are a number of rules governing the provision of light to our homes that have been approved by politicians and so we could go on with each and every one of the rules that govern our lives.

Having said that and having seen the need for politics in Western societies, politics has, in many cases, become the refuge of the mafiosi, who have found it a place to appropriate part of the public purse, using the public administration as if it were their private estate where everything that has been and has been sold and bought.

Political corruption has become a scourge in many governments around the world and has no political colour; it is everywhere and affects most political parties.

If political corruption is already serious, it is even more serious that politicians who enrich themselves with corruption leave unscathed and do not pay for their misdeeds. Then politics turns into a big gruyer cheese that is full of holes through which criminal politicians escape.

Despite this discouraging scenario, we have to live with this scourge and try to change it to the extent of our possibilities through our vote. We have no choice.

¿Qué he leído? Milena o el fémur más bello del mundo de Jorge Zepeda Patterson

Fuente

OPINIÓN

La verdad que cuando empecé a leer Milena o el fémur más bello del mundo de Jorge Zepeda Patterson me causó una buena impresión y pensé que habían encontrado una buena novela, pero a medida que avanzaba, el entusiasmo original fue desapareciendo paulatinamente, porque la trama principal no terminó de convencerme y las subtramas, como casi siempre en este tipo de novelas, poco tienen que ver con la trama principal y te van enredando sin saber muy bien porqué. Cierto es que la novela está bien escrita, pero adolece de ese impulso interno que te hace estar interesado en seguir leyendo, llegando a no tener ningún interés en seguir leyendo.

Además, al autor, se le nota mucho que es periodista, más que un contador de historias que suele estar más interesado en narrar la historia que en otras cosas.

Al final me defraudó este premio Planeta 2014, como otros muchos premios que ya no tienen el prestigio de antaño y desconozco los intereses ocultos de este y de otros muchos premios.

FICHA TÉCNICA

Formato: EPUB.
Páginas: 480 .
Editorial: Planeta.
Lengua: CASTELLANO.
ISBN: 9788408136378.

SINOPSIS

Milena es una esclava sexual que, después de la muerte de su protector, intenta escapar de la mafia que la persigue y para ello se encuentra con la ayuda de Los Azules, un grupo de amigos que intentarán ayudarla, pero se encontrarán con multitud de problemas que intentarán resolver para lograr su objetivo.

Yesterday I had a dream

Yesterday I had a dream

and I wore it for a hat,

a wide-brimmed dream,

of those who cover you from the sun and the rain,

red, no, blue, no, green, no, black,

he finally got the color of the rainbow.

Then it became a dusty road,

full of old benches

who talked to me and invited me to sit down,

to rest because the road is long

and to remove the dust from my life.

I sat down and became the old wood of all benches and invited others to sit down.

and to remove the dust that they dragged from life.

I escaped from the wood, I spit out the nails

which turned me into a bank and I ran to the exit,

but the dusty road turned into a tumultuous sea,

and me in a drifting boat

who danced to the sound of the waves

that were the men and women who had gone through my life.

Then came the calm,

was no longer a wooden boat,

it was a grey stain of ashes on the sea

that was being diluted in the foam of the waves.

Yesterday I had a dream

and I wore it for a hat,

I was road, wood, I was bank,

I was a boat and I was ashes.

 Picture taken with an Acer Liquid Z630 mobile phone 

Fronteras y banderas

Fuente: propia

Llegué a tu frontera
recorriendo los caminos del anhelo,
huyendo de las balas y las bombas,
del hambre y del sin sentido,
buscando la mano solidaria.

Alcé la vista para contemplar
la altura de tus muros de hierro, acero y cemento,
hinqué la rodilla al suelo
y recogí los pedazos de la esperanza.

Entonces, enarbolé la bandera que llevo grabada en mi pecho,
la que nadie conoce y nadie respeta,
la levanté lo más alto que pude,
y la moví de un lado a otro,
para derramar sus colores cerca del horizonte.

No me escuchaste, ni me viste, solo me indicaste
el camino de la vuelta,
ese del desaliento y la desesperanza,
amordazado y cubierto de alambre de espino.

Sentado frente a ti,
comprendo que tu bandera es una bala ensangrentada,
que tu frontera es la semilla de la vergüenza,
que tu camino no es ni de ida ni de vuelta,
solo el camino del egoísmo.

Aquí estaré, frente a ti,
soñando con ser esperanza,
con ser rayo de sol y de luna
para atravesar los muros de tus fronteras
y hacer invisibles tus banderas

Dissimilar

I continue with my paintings created with Paint, my way of giving free rein to my imagination. On this occasion the idea was to make a composition that would reflect the superstructure to which we are subjected, that surrounds us without hardly realizing it and that tends to equalize us through globalization, forgetting that we are unique and different beings.

I emphasize this because you only have to look around to see that this is so. Our society penalises the different, the different and tries, with coercive measures, to polish it until it becomes one of "ours". Otherwise he will be cornered and expelled from the community. You only have to look around and you will see that this is so. Observe and you will find what I tell you.

This structure is so powerful that we ourselves do the work of transforming ourselves until we become the pattern that we are projected.

To make the representation of this I pose, I used many rectangles and several circles to note that difference matters, using different colors surrounded by rectangles. It is evident that this painting may have other types of interpretations that are the responsibility of the observer. I just let myself go, these compositions come out and I share them. I don't pretend any more.

Source: own