El blog de Tomy Pelluz, online desde 2002
Italy: The Nation That Crushes Its Young
http://nyti.ms/1h05tlj
El resto del artículo me parece de obligada lectura, pero para comenzar por el final, cito el último párrafo:
Thirty years ago we were finishing our education, settling into jobs and sniffing out the future. Back then, we wanted to achieve a better world. Today, it’s a better car. We can call that progress, but it isn’t. Just ask our children.
Muchas noches, antes o después de cenar, y especialmente en invierno cuando no hay absolutamente nadie en la calle, Ivone y yo damos un largo paseo por Mitte. Invariablemente por las mismas calles y plazas que hemos recorrido mil veces y que nunca nos aburren. Siempre descubrimos cosas. No se terminan las ciudades. Sobre todo esta, con un pasado presente que te encuentras en cada esquina. Es mi momento favorito del día, una especie de despedida.
NYTimes: Cracking the Apple Trap
http://nyti.ms/17U4EkB
When major innovations remain out of reach, and degrading durability threatens to tick off loyal customers, companies like Apple can still take a cue from the fashion industry. If you can brainwash consumers into developing new tastes that make the old stuff look uncool for aesthetic rather than functional reasons, you still have a shot at harvesting more sales from your existing customer base. But it seems Apple may have already figured this out too. Just check out the wait times for the iPhone 5S in that shiny new gold
color.
Lo cierto es que el artículo no nos descubre nada nuevo, pero es conveniente recordarlo de vez en cuando. A ver si se nos cae la venda de los ojos algún día, aunque sea a fuerza de repetirnos a nosotros mismos las mismas cosas.
Mantener la calma por fuera, mientras dentro estás lejos, ausente de ti mismo. Saborear mientras la vida como una película. Viajar en tren de cercanías y ver el continuo trasiego de gente que entra y sale de los vagones. Qué maravilla es el tren. El tren es Europa. Una pena que no haya cuajado en USA por los estúpidos intereses de unos cuantos.
Es en este momento, en el que estás herido y débil cuando la vida entra a raudales. Te bañas, nadas, en la vida de los demás. Tienes la delicadeza, la facultad de contemplar cada cara, cada sonrisa.
Nunca, a pesar de estar mal, he detestado a este mundo, o a los otros.
Il mercante del sud
Große Hamburger Str 21
10115 Berlin
Tel: 01799195741
Voy a menudo a este restaurante, justo ahora estoy aquí.
Disfruto de la cocina casera, el trato y la música tradicional italiana que siempre suena de fondo, me escapo del gris Berlín y vuelvo al Mediterráneo.
Il Mercante es un sitio sencillo, barato, agradable. Se come en esas mesas largas tan típicas de Alemania. Como imagino que se comería en los mesones de la Edad Media, compartiendo mesa con los otros viajeros.
Estos lugares deberían ser patrimonio de la humanidad, porque te salvan. Estos acuarelas de la Toscana que hay en la pared, escuchar a los camareros y a los cocineros hablando italiano, mientras atiendes a una conversación en alemán en tu mesa, te coloca en el mundo.
Europa es maravillosa.
Leo en el NYTimes que ha fallecido Arthur C. Danto, el que probablemente ha sido uno de los filósofos del arte más influyente de las últimas décadas. Buen momento para leer algunas de sus obras como homenaje.
Copio aquí un fragmento del artículo del NYTimes:
Mr. Danto’s notion of the art world inspired what came to be known as the Institutional Theory of Art, an idea developed most fully by the philosopher George Dickie in the 1970s and that remains widely influential on thinking about the nature of contemporary art.
Mr. Danto also came to believe that in the contemporary world, no single style could dominate, as Abstract Expressionist painting had done in the 1950s. Pluralism would be the new order.
This led him to proclaim the end of art history. By this he meant not that people would stop making art, but that the idea of art progressing and evolving over time along one clear path, as it seemed to have done from the Renaissance through the late 19th century and into the first post-World War II decade, could no longer be supported by art of the late 20th century. After the ’60s, art had splintered and gone off in a multitude of directions, from Photorealist painting to the most abstruse forms of Conceptualism.But if so many different kinds of things could be viewed as art, what if anything did they have in common? The common denominator, Mr. Danto concluded, was meaning, and that led him to propose that the art of our time was mainly animated by philosophy. Artworks in the Postmodern era could be viewed as thought experiments about such problems as the relationship between representation and reality; knowledge and belief; photography and truth; and the definition of art itself.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’
Isaac Asimov
“In most people’s vocabularies, design is a veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product.”
Steve Jobs
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Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
George Saunders
What is this compulsion to share? Sometimes, of course, it is just a mistake, the wrong button hit, or mishandling of privacy settings on Facebook. But there is a new urge to behave as if life were some global high-school reunion at which everyone has taken some horrific tell-all drug.
My theory is this. Humanity has always been hardwired to fear. That is how we survived. But the fear used to be of wild beasts prowling, the encroaching Visigoths, plague, world war. Now, in the pampered present, all that anxiety has to find a new focus. So, having searched long and hard, and helped by technology, we have come up with being anxious that our status might be falling or — the horror, the horror! — disintegrating.
Thanks for Not Sharing by Roger Cohen
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What “Survivor” is really about is the inescapability of your being yourself, even when you have told yourself you can be someone different for 30 days.
Andrea Seigel, The Life Lessons Hidden in Reality TV
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Maya cities were linked, but each operated with its own autonomous political structure. When resources were strained, the groups may have turned against one another.
“You never listen” is not just the complaint of a problematic relationship, it has also become an epidemic in a world that is exchanging convenience for content, speed for meaning. The richness of life doesn’t lie in the loudness and the beat, but in the timbres and the variations that you can discern if you simply pay attention.
The Science and Art of Listening by Seth S. Horowitz
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El nacionalismo es el peor error en el que podemos caer. Sentirse orgulloso de tus orígenes me parece ridículo. No podemos sentirnos orgullosos de algo de lo que no somos responsables.
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