Saturday, November 24, 2007

White Gold Grecian Dress

musicos dos estadounidenses


good stefano has finally solved the riddle of a last post. I would not have written notice that until it was found the solution. or at least that's what I tell you now that I return to write and I have been inactive for so long. not what you would not admit their responsibility for the corresponding half-hearted.
Well, I write at this very first morning of the to count the recent developments maicol in Madrid.
I was two nights ago (I think), at a concert. to Devendra Banhart and his nice group of friends who, as he says, have an intricate ram other interests in other bands and the fact of playing with him is a case, and the least important thing they do. Well, at least this says Devendra. it stinks from a mile away. the concert was enjoyable. much more rock than we expected and a bit 'tacked on the Latin flavor, given the location. but it is a bit strange that 'all the live bands appear to be more rock than they are? it would be strange or otherwise? I said, Devendra has the advantage on his side: he speaks English Having lived the first years of his life in Venezuela and speaks English, of course, being born to American parents in California and risiendendo. why has the good fortune and opportunity to address two audiences of considerable importance, covering a large part of the orbit terraqueous. alternating pieces in English and broken English, mixing with a certain natural simplicity.
the place of the concert (the Joy Eslava Calle Arenal) was quite content plus size and the effect was good closeness and intimacy. fly in the ointment, the smoke of a thousand people who smoke in unison. This would have done without. have to wait a little longer '. patience.
exit, queuing for their coats in the cloakroom, we turn and we find him next. the whole band is a chat with the audience outside the room in great fluency.

other markings and then I keep quiet (perhaps to reappear later with more clarity), listen to the album Release the Stars Rufus Wainwright. character very, very interesting. great voice, good lyrics.

starting points:
Rufus Wainwright - Going To A Town
Devendra Banhart - Summertime

ps. Devendra's photo taken with the phone quality has nothing. I know.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Kates Playground Dilding

S-2008


my impression, but it will be only an impression, that the strategic plan to write a few lines every day during the interval of the lessons did not work. disaster across the board. I have not written so much so that even during the weekend. on the other hand they are doing a lot of things ("we" is for students of the course). every day we learn to move more freely around the multi-faceted graphic design.
last week and started classes including Photoshop Illustrator. this week, even today, is also part of the course Indesign. practically live in a world dominated by strategic Adobe, our lord and master. almost all the tools that we use the property (finance many printers). well, let's say that in theory belong in practice the old Mule provides a secure flow of data between the giant bendidio designed by Adobe and our little home computers. enough, I decided that if the English and French may have the nerve to say "officer," who are we to be left behind without our beautiful language self-sufficient replacement? plus the word always reminds me of the computer Ricci, my favorite prof of all time, and a host of other characters that have never resigned (one of them, if I remember correctly, is our first math teacher in high school, The Pier - and now that I remember another teacher who I admired greatly: the Beautiful Course of Computer unit).
Well my new computer arrived yesterday after a long (but not as long as mishaps) journey from Ireland (where I believe lies the greatest clearing Apple in Europe) to Madrid, via Italy. ierisera, returning from work in groups (I seem to be a Japanese student club with the afternoon), I opened the box slowly and with rare precision. the 17-inch that came out quite a hard time in a while 'machines on the market. if not all. high-definition screen is a joy to behold.
I was impressed by the presence of Tiger pre-installed (always better to have an extremely stable operating system on which to fall back into the case of wheat) while the shiny new DVD featuring the great feline patchy. for the moment I have not yet installed. will, perhaps, this evening. the thing is working so well already so, one does not feel a big push to upgrade. it is also true that Leopard has some caratterisitche that once came into circulation in the brain, it is hard to dimenticasene. one of all, the time machine backup made simple and effective. how not to try it now?

Well, excuse the monomania. happens. already with this drawing course you have (still us students) a social life. if you add a new electronic toy, the situation becomes complex.

next Monday we have finished the course with the presentation Creatividad of group work for the advertising campaign of Medicos Sin Fronteras. with the end of this course, we will see the benefits already on our weekly workload, which will be reduced in a tangible way. we will see what class will replace that of creativity. maybe something even worse?

this Friday night we meet with Asenet (teacher of English at Berlitz, which I would have to be connected: as I said will not work at Berlitz?). go to our favorite Irish pub, which, I discovered, is also very good french fries (similar model all'insuperabile Brace).

for the weekend still no clear plan, beyond:
- entertain a few of friends (our roommate) should come to visit France (or at least I have never informed too ... nothing new)
- invent / design the entire set of upper (or lower case, in choice) of a printing press; subpoenas last work by the good Juan, Professor of Fundamentos. I have already started to do some 'research. in the coming days will pass to the sketches by hand and then the computer. the result should be, in theory, a printer that reflects us. and completion of all we write our name with the new font.
to ver.

now I'm going to sew a bit '. my band mates are back from lunch. Today I ate here in the courtyard inside the school with some friends ... begins to make chilly. Lorenzo if just goes away, they beat the teeth. (I only found out today that in English, at least in the vocabulary of the grandmothers, the sun also called Lorenzo ... you judging).

kisses.

ps. prizes (or the best Christmas gift) to those who guess the location of the photo.