Wednesday, December 22, 2010

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Jota De navel again

He did it again. My friend John Downing, whom he affectionately called "Jack In" by his initials, has managed again to bring to fruition an enormous intellectual challenge as a battleship. A copy of his "Encyclopedia of Social Media Movement " I just got as a Christmas gift, with 602 pages in a format that will not easily fit into my library, because its dimensions more closely resemble those "coffee -table books (impossible to translate into Castilian as accurate an expression) that are not only big, but beautiful.

I feel honored to have been included on the first page of the book as one of the seven members of the Advisory Board " (Consultative Council), along with Chris Atton, Gabriele Hadl, Joe Khalil, Clemencia Rodriguez and Laura Stein, and I still remember that meeting we had in Austin in early October 2002 to start designing this dream is now reality. Jota

appeal to a host of friends / authors to write the text of the book, no less than 76 responded positively and took charge of the 253 entries that make up the mosaic encyclopedic, through which it is described on more sixty countries (but favors U.S. and the Anglophone world.) I put three grains of sand, with brief text on the video experience of indigenous Kayapo in Brazil (p. 287), Bolivia's mining radio (p. 334) and Women's Video SEWA in India (p. 529).

Despite covering many issues and so much geography, John Downing described the book in the introduction with humility, remembering that everything is in these pages is only the small tip of a gigantic iceberg of communication socially motivated, but at the same time a representative sample of the richness and variety of experiences provided. In the encyclopedia has sought to privilege the voices of the south, the authors include among many women (almost half) and highlight the literature that in other languages \u200b\u200bon those experiences with little information in English. In addition, the task has been to show some media experiences repressive social movements, such as Radio Mille Collines dark Rwanda, responsible for encouraging genocide.

communication from the Australian Aborigines (with starting the "A" in this encyclopedia) to the means used by the Zionist movement (which closes with the "Z" of the book), to protest the new song Catalan, the Soviet-era samizdat graffiti of May 1968, or escrache Argentina, this book is itself a huge wall of communication Alternatively, a giant multicolored quilt, which is framed by a rainbow diversity of communication forms that civil society has been organized to express their desires, their claims or protests.

All examples are tributaries of the multiple definitions that are handled in communication research: alternative media, community, participatory, grassroots, independent, underground, radical, tactical, etc.

The book is beautiful, and not only for its content and format, but because it has been put together will, to articulate to those 76 employees in all regions, participating with enthusiasm and conviction, secure the leadership of John Downing.

This is not a book to be read from beginning to end is a reference book, like any encyclopedia, but the difference here is that the reading of texts is a joint venture, instills optimism and hope in the future because shows that despite the abuse of legal position dominant in the world and the apathy of those who fit into society dehumanized by consumption and opportunism, there are many others joining in libertarian-inspired projects.

know John Downing from early 1980, when we showed up at his office at Hunter College in New York a mutual friend Juan Flores. Since then we joined a close friendship, and we've been lucky enough to match over the last thirty years in many places outside of the "Big Apple": Washington, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bMexico, Porto Alegre, Barranquilla, Sydney, Medellín and Austin, where he lived for 13 years, with Ash, her companion while working as director of the Department of Radio, Television and Film at the University of Texas.

Many of these meetings in different parts of the world have been under NuestrosMedios network, which John Downing is founder with Clemencia Rodriguez and Nick Couldry. From our first meeting in Washington in 2001, we continued to find in various regions with other members of this network of scholars, activists and artists is very interesting that exists in the field of communication for social change.

His book "Radical Media" (first edition 1984, second edition 2001) which surprisingly has not been published in Castilian but if in Portuguese, was a very important contribution in the English language literature on alternative media, and popular protest in the world . When Thomas Tufte and I were preparing the "Anthology of Communication for Social Change" (2006), no doubt for a minute and include a text John Downing, "Community, democracy, dialogue and radical means" in the English edition and two years later a translation of the chapter to the Castilian edition.

In a previous project no less ambitious (which partnered with Denis McQuail, Philip Schlesinger and Ellen Wartella), "Sage Handbook for Media Studies" (2004), Jack De convened 31 authors to write original texts about media and communication, including film, music, advertising, collective and individual narratives, a look from multiple perspectives: history, economics, technology, ethics, hearings, academic research, and of course culture. My contribution to these 630 pages was a chapter on community media: "The Long and Winding Road of Alternative Media", unpublished in Castilian.

From 2004 to 2010 John was a professor in the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts at the University of Carbondale (Illinois) and Founding Director of Global Media Research Center. He is also Vice-President of the International Association of Media Communication Research (IAMCR). With his work as a teacher, researcher, with the number of books and articles published and their membership in multiple networks and professional bodies, John DH Downing ends an extraordinary career in the academic field of communication and today is dedicated to responding to invitations that have made a visiting professor at several universities worldwide.

Friday, December 17, 2010

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The difference between life and death


So read a phrase from the movie any Sunday in which Al Pacino harangued his players with a keynote talk on the necessary inches each of the members have and should put at the service of the group to compose, develop and build the team and achieve the long-awaited victory.

This allegory about whether winning or losing is to live is to die, I leave a deep reflection. We are too accustomed to tragic words to describe the loss, removal or demotion, such as die in the attempt to die killing, we have committed suicide, too cruel ...

The soccer as a game that is, brings victories and defeats, and the latter must accept them as members of the football. It is useless to win if you do not know how to respect the defeated and of no use to lose, without regard to the victor.

The soccer unleashes many passions, graceful in victory, but bitter and unpleasant, especially the ways in which conciven defeats. Part of the blame for this, have the media, extolling too much away to the winner and loser.


I'll take part of speech of Al Pacino, who is emotionally capable of joining a group to take forward a major party in a transcendent moment, but no life or death, because the turtle can speak more and better the way that the hare. reach the destination or enjoy the way, I have question.


Enjoy great motivational speech Coach of

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

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The magic of Tournier

My friend Walter Tournier is a magician. I always knew, but now they know everybody. In No. 2038 of Calle La Paz, in Montevideo, between light and shadow, behind heavy black curtains, had organized the plot of a conspiracy of love and creativity. In their study

animated film a team of twenty people work-and play-to create an animated feature film Selkirk, the real story of Robinson Crusoe, which we see in mid-2011 and will no doubt be a great gift for those who love good cinema. The effort included in the post-production teams of Argentina (in charge of the sound) and Chile (in charge of funds and digital sets).

Flaco
Walter Tournier
Tournier I visited in late October, I was in his studio, where a long corridor from the entrance of the house to the back exhibits in-dash walls drawn storyboard, the film, with hundreds of images representing sequences that make up the film, some already filmed as evidenced by the photos, some in process, still represented in black and white drawings. Color gradually invades the wall, a sign that the characters come to life and the film progresses.

This is the most ambitious project that Walter has developed. In Selkirk, the castaway on life that inspired the novel by Daniel Defoe, crowns a filmmaking career precise and a perfectionist, which has spent decades of his life with dedication and deep love of art (and here the term fits like fits). In other words, the life of Hank is and has been the animation, to the point that he it could be a character. Idea to his disciples, including the skinny on the story as a "cameo" of those who loved Hitchcock.

The youth team of Walter is one of the main issues of the project: "The idea is that they replace us, they continue to work with animation." Many of these young people were trained in the training workshops given by Hardy and today are the creative and technical support of production of the film.

addition of enthusiasm and harmony that floats in the air, what impressed me most in the animation studio is the detail and perfection with which they work. The face of each character is modeled several times in latex and silicone caring even microscopic details, and discarding the pieces with impurities. Below the bench is a "dead box" where the sides are falling out well or not broken while off its mold. Laura "Lala" Severi-art director and partner Walter gave me one side of Selkirk, who looks at me with empty eyes as I write.

Young creators of Selkirk
Medium day the entire team took a break to share the gnocchi in a large pot that had been prepared Doña Susana Buenaventura. Sitting around a long succession of technical plastic tables and chatting animatedly creative, jokes and party are thrown to someone, "there's always a birthday, we are many." The atmosphere is jovial, that of a large family where the patriarch Flaco is a close, accessible, simple.

In successive rooms of the house, converted to animation studio behind the heavy black curtains have built four sets with the main sites where the characters come to life: the warehouse and the captain's cabin of the pirate ship, beach Juan Fernández archipelago where Selkirk was abandoned for four years in 1690, and the tavern of the pirates. Here is the magic, are achieved movements that seem impossible. "Care to kick the camera tripod, which is going to trash the whole scene" prevents Flaco.

Walter Tournier and Juan Andres Fontan
Four pirates around a table with jars provide beer in the animation by Juan Andres Fontan beer splashed on table when they hit the jars. The effect achieved using small pieces of yellow cellophane, and all this while had to move their faces, arms and bodies of the four pirates. In another scene a coin is tossed in the air, shot from above shows how the coin up is enlarged while turning on itself. How did this effect? The currency had been attached to a piece of wire that spun and then was erased electronically.

Many details are feats of animation: a knife through the air and nailed to a mast, a parrot that flies flapping their wings, the reflection of a beach in the tiny lens of a telescope, pirate flag flies wind, sparks of clashing swords, a tear falling, or the pirate ship on choppy ridden waves. Everything here is movement, everything has depth of field and thickness. All this you can see on the excellent website film, do not miss it.

What little I know about the art of animation "stop motion" helps me to appreciate these wonderful achievements on the screen last only one or two seconds, and that very few viewers will appreciate in perspective.

We are far from animated films of least resistance to television has accustomed us with flat images, fixed funds scenery, the characters dull with little movement and no depth, poor drawings made of paperboard, cut crude as South Park, whose success seems to be based solely on the word vulgar, a kind of masochism highbrow.

In Selkirk the use of digitally generated effects are minimal, is reduced to the special effects and background scenery. Everything else is the work of skilled craftsmen who give life to characters that are not larger than 20 centimeters tall.

Perfection is such that the mouths of people open and close as they talk in sync with the words recorded by the actors who did the dubbing. The lighting of the scenes are perfect, the sets I suggest that "small is beautiful" (the phrase of the economist Leopold Kohr). Inside each doll is a mechanical structure, an articulated skeleton which allows the characters move.


Walter Tournier and Alfonso Gumucio in 1998
specialized equipment and precision tools watchmaker make each character can perform the same movements as a human being. "Despite the difficulties, as I prefer to use available materials and work space across real and not fictitious as in 3D. Tellingly I like it is closer to reality with a fee scale that marks the human presence, "Walter tells me, and I go from there to the streets of Montevideo with lungs full of fresh air.

Friday, December 3, 2010

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Communication for Development United Nations

What follows in this note comes to mind because in the last two years I have contributed in a process led by UNESCO to analyze, position and promote communication for development. He participated in several activities in the organization's headquarters in Paris and in Latin America.

At the request of Unesco in Uruguay did a formative assessment of how United Nations agencies in that country implement communication programs for development, as mandated by the General Assembly of the United Nations. The result is that most people do little or nothing in that field. My report is not confidential, as the Unesco regional office has placed on its website. Just one click to download the PDF .

Of all the agencies of the United Nations, whose mandate only communication is the Unesco. Other programs and projects have communication but which is Unesco from the top of its organizational structure, communication sector has the same level as other sectors to justify their initials: education, science and culture.

For research that has encouraged and supported the communication policies, UNESCO stands in the landscape not only of multilateral organizations, but also well ahead of the bilateral development agencies, and above Governments, foundations and NGOs should be the closest to the communication understood as a process of dialogue and participation.

Typically, when institutions say they are committed to the "communication", what they actually do is dissemination of information or even worse, propaganda of their own activities to bolster the visibility institutional. A clear example is UNICEF, much ado about nothing, and I know what I mean after working more than seven years in that organization.

The confusion between information and communication is so prevalent, not only ordinary people but themselves journalists and reporters speak of "mass media" to refer to the media and broadcast. I said in several trials, and in a recent article published in Page 12 (Argentina), the mass media do not exist, that is a lie.

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Unesco understands the difference and symbolic battles waged for freedom of expression, the right to information and communication rights. The three concepts are also often confused, but not so difficult to distinguish their differences: the freedom of expression protects journalists and the media, the right to information is the right of individuals to access information from government institutions and the right to communicate is that we all have to be able to communicate through their own instruments, as so-called community media.

If we make a little history will remember that Unesco fought the battle for a New World Information and Communication (NWICO) following the report of the MacBride Commission (comprising among others, by Gabriel García Márquez), which showed that the major powers world were under strict control of information flows in the world. The evidence was so overwhelming in the report, the United States and Britain withdrew from UNESCO for many years and with all its resources sabotaged propaganda.

that continues to wage battles in recent years Unesco recover the previous history and emphasize the right to communication, promoting For example, new technologies and communication for development in countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Cyranek
Gunther Gabriel Kaplun and
A Cyranek Gunther invitation until late November Regional Adviser for Communication and Information of UNESCO for the Mercosur, recently participated in Montevideo the close of the conference "Communication for Development, Social Change and Participation in Telecommunication Tower ANTEL (Administración Nacional de Telecomunicaciones), a modern building near the port like a boat (much like the huge Burj Al Arab, the seven-star hotel in Dubai). The

event program highlighted the wealth of experiences of communication with a sense of participation and development. Since the state has realized the ambitious Ceibal , which I mentioned in a previous note, by which it has adopted an XO laptop to all students in public schools in the country. Since civil society participatory communication has been enriched with proposals such as TV Tree, and many others.

Experiences mentioned and others are described in chapters of a new book of Unesco which was presented by Gunther Cyranek. With its 500 pages, photographs and an unconventional format, "Communication for development: a tool for social change and participation" contains 30 texts that refer to 'approaches and experiences, "including one of mine where I analyze the role meets the communication for development in the UN system. The entire book can be downloaded in PDF the Unesco website.

The event also featured speakers from the front line, Gabriel Kaplun's friends (who leads the race Communication at the University of Uruguay), Eduardo Rebollo (who does the same at the Catholic University) and Gustavo Gomez, who took a few months ago the role of National Director of Telecommunications in the government of Pepe Mujica, and was formerly the Director of laws of the AMARC. You can download the photos from the event the Unesco website.

Ana María Mizrahi, Gabriel Kaplun, Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, Gunther Cyranek
The conference generated healthy expectations in the media in Uruguay, certainly prone to a progressive concept of communication. The Channel 5, public television, invited us to Gabriel Kaplun, Cyranek Gunther and me to an interview with Ana María Mizrahi on "The News and its context." The photos that live broadcast, which took place in his study "transparent" (glass, on the Boulevard Artigas) can also be downloaded from the website of Unesco.

Moreover
Alfonso Gumucio Dagron
Sebastián Auyanet, del diario El País , me permitió en una entrevista publicada el sábado 2 de noviembre, abordar los temas antes mencionados, porque me parece importante seguir insistiendo hasta que se entiendan.

Este tipo de actividades que apoya la Unesco, relacionadas con la comunicación para el desarrollo se están dando también en otros países de la región, por ejemplo en Ecuador con la participación de CIESPAL. La idea es preparar una masa crítica de documentación, experiencias y debates con vistas a la 12ª Mesa Redonda de Comunicación para el Desarrollo que tendrá lugar en India en 2011.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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Villa de Leyva, white city

The most striking feature in Villa de Leyva is light. The colonial town, founded in 1572 290 kilometers of the Colombian capital, comes light. The intensity of white that covers the walls makes you appreciate more the little color on the frames of doors and windows, or any flag flying. Here

filmed part of the film Green Cobra Werner Hertzog, among many others, perhaps because the city retains its original layout and part of its colonial architecture, although more than one historian argues that very few houses are genuinely Colonial. Perhaps because it was not on the list of World Heritage Site by Unesco. Either way, is the story of Villa de Leyva that gives prestige and fame.

The painter Fred Andrade chose as his residence the heights around Villa de Leyva, there set up his workshop and built a couple of delightfully decorated guest studios with their works. The vivid colors of his brushes overflow the pictures hanging on the wall, extend over the wooden furniture of the rooms. Everything is color, perhaps in contrast to the whiteness of the city you can see from there as the crow flies. There I stayed at the bottom of a steep road to enjoy the view and the silence.

The Plaza Mayor of Villa de Leyva is a picture path to what could be a great city that would erect stately buildings, cathedrals and palaces as in other colonial cities of America. But the delusions of grandeur of its founders were not realized, and today the church of Our Lady of the Rosary is not even project their shadow on the pavement of the plaza.


The pavement is no more than four or five decades, but it helps to go back in time to hear the hoofs of the horses and knights to imagine his hat to greet the girls reclining on flowery balconies. The streets are like infinite corridors where the glare of white walls burning eyes. Too much light is tempered by the sober colors of the balconies, doors and windows, usually green or blue.

The inner courtyards of the colonial houses, with stone arches, vaulted corridors ceramic or wood, water fountains and cascades of flowers, now house craft shops and restaurants, some excellent, like that "The Tomatina - where I had the pleasure of eating different preparations of sea bass, adding to the Cartagena tasted a couple of days earlier (herbs, pesto, garlic, or tangerine and honey). One eats well in Villa de Leyva.

Near Villa de Leyva is the Puente de Boyacá, famous for the battle in the August 7, 1819 the Liberation Army sealed the independence of Nueva Granada by defeating the royal army. Bolivar, who led the attack and became triumphant in Bogota on August 10, he returned to Villa de Leyva September 25, according to a plaque. The so-called Ruta de los Libertadores includes several villages in the area. Everything seems so small in the perspective of years, even the casualties suffered by both armies (13 fighters and a hundred Republicans realistic).

A mere six kilometers from the city, the olive grove where the word stands " is right-Monquirá astronomical observatory, known as "little hell" seems to have been in fact a place of worship muiscas for fertility, judging by stone phalluses hundred large and medium-vertically-erect .

In sharp contrast to the archaeological park Monquirá is the character pious and collected from the monasteries that are in the area. The priests lived in isolation, in retirement, but in their isolation created optimal conditions to serve God in harmony with the tranquility of their spirits and their stomachs. The monasteries of Santo Ecce Homo and La Candelaria is located in peaceful places in the midst of short valleys surrounded by hills. They are stone buildings, spacious and secure, with woods and farmland.

In Ecce Homo a stone plaque in the dining room of the monastery leaves a Latin inscription reading: "Bibas ut ut Vivas biba non living" in Castilian could be translated as "Drink to live, not live to drink" . The wine was combined well with the rosary (or the Rosary, as in the joke about the pastor of the town).

friars lived surrounded by Christs sad and prickly, and bleeding saints staring at the sky and says that they were punished with whips, perhaps to balance other worldly compensation (other than the promise of heaven). In 1977

near Villa de Leyva discovered the remains of a kronosaurus seven meters long and over 100 million years, a marine reptile which gives us an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat it must have been the tectonic phenomenon that raised the ocean floor to form the Cordillera de los Andes. The Museum Fossil -so called-is a tour company run by the local Community Action Board.

All this is not bad for a weekend break, but if I get to choose between Villa de Leyva, Popayan and Mompox, the three most representative colonial cities of Colombia, without hesitation choose Mompox, as remote condition between two arms of the Magdalena River has allowed to preserve its magic and mystery over time.

Colombia has much to do but it is an unknown country, little known, in a secret way for non-Colombians, because from the outside only appear to view their problems.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

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ALAIC 2010 in Bogota July

international events can be good, average or bad, but they have one advantage: they are places for meetings and reunions, both in terms of intellectual exchange as in the development of friendly complicity. In the case of the tenth congress of ALAIC, the advantage was double as well to see good friends or to meet other, the event was quality and all who were gathered for three days at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, we were satisfied.

communication scholars from several countries in the region, Peruvians, Argentines, Mexicans, Ecuadorians, Brazilians, Chileans, Colombians, of course ... and Bolivians, as José Luis Aguirre, Erick Torres and Carlos Arroyo, among the highlights of my country.
I joined the well-deserved tribute to him ALAIC José Marques de Melo, met again after 30 years Hector "Toto" Schmucler, and instead missed the presence Jesús Martín Barbero and Omar Rincón, absent though both live in Colombia.

My specific task in the X Congress of ALAIC was the coordination of the Thematic Group on Communication and Social Change, as I have since this group was created in 2006. Our first encounter, at the Eighth Congress of ALAIC near Porto Alegre, was attended by twelve people, five different nationalities. We met again in Tlalnepantla, Estado de Mexico in 2008 and was renewed the group with a similar number of participants.

Photo: Irma Avila Pietrasanta
not suspected, however, that in 2010 would have 29 presentations, more than any of the other 21 thematic groups ALAIC. Participants from eight countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela and Argentina) showed that most relationships on communication experiences for social change, and the state of their academic research or specific activities. Although technical difficulties, the connection was via Skype with a colleague from Chile that he could not travel to Bogotá.

Our room was packed every night of the event not only for exhibitors, as is usual in these conferences ALAIC, but to colleagues interested in hearing the presentations and participate in discussions. The focus group said not only that, but also for being the only one who has a website own and a platform for dialogue in Google Groups, which allows us to exchange documents, send messages to the whole group, and publish news on members of the GT-CCS.

In Bogotá the participants decided to extend for two years my role as coordinator of the Thematic Group on Communication for Social Change, and elected as co-coordinator Amparo Cadavid (Dean of Communication and Journalism UNIMINUTO) and Technical Secretary to the young Colombian researcher Raigoso Liliana, who was my right arm in the organization of group ALAIC 2010, taking over the receipt of submissions, updates the group's website and correspondence with participants.

In just three meetings, the Thematic Group on Communication for Change Social consolidated as a demonstration of the growing interest in a communication whose focus includes not only the experience of participation and community practices, but which reflect policy and communication strategies for development and social change.

few days before I ALAIC Congress in Cartagena de Indias, the beautiful walled city water and washed by the Caribbean, which already has for me a familiar for the times I've visited in the last ten years. There was on National Meeting of Students for Social Communication (ENECS) , valuable because he managed to create a new student union media, which no longer existed in Colombia because the former had lost its legal status.

ENECS organizers invited me to speak of social change communication on the closure of the event, as did other speakers, had the detail to develop a short video presentation. I do not know how tricks were found on the Internet for pictures of me and all the biographical information to include in this short video can now be seen on YouTube .

Immediately after Cartagena, I was invited to Bogota for talks in several successive sessions with students and teachers of the race UNIMINUTO social communication and the Faculty of Social Communication for Peace of St. Thomas University, both interested in creating specialty or Masters in 2011 with emphasis on communication for social change. Thus

soon Colombia will become the Latin American country with most universities interested in promoting a specialized approach to communication for development and social change.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

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la Vega (1924-2010)

Paradoxes of life and death (the passage of time, really), just three months ago I wrote to remind Peter Ballon, I reproduced a picture here that are also Julio de la Vega, who just left the underworld on Thursday November 11 at 86 years of age. It was a simple man, sober and of few words, without any ambition or figurative pose so characteristic in future generations.

"Walk bent, always walked well. Looking at the stones, nothing. Born and reborn, smiling from a distance intangible. That's why everyone loves to July: family, friends, colleagues, students. And established artists and amateurs, "wrote four years ago with great affection his niece, journalist and writer Lupe Cajías, in an article aptly titled "All we love you, Julio."

Julio joined me at least two things: poetry and film. There was a time in early 1970 when the film critic who served in Bolivia could count on the fingers of one hand. Julio was one of the fingers, Luis Espinal other. Both learned a lot since then with just was twenty years old, while they had enough mileage on the job.

Once I came to call the five cats who wrote film criticism for shaping the Bolivian Association of Film Critics (CRIB) was created in February 1979 with the aim to "contribute to the strengthening of a current film debunker, alienated, to help clarify the national situation." The charter, signed by Luis Espinal, Julio de la Vega, Pedro Susz, Carlos Mesa, and Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, states that "the Bolivian public needs guidance to allow them to critique their own instruments to see cinema as a cultural fact and not mere escapism. Besides founding, we never organize any activity as a group, but everyone kept writing about movies.

Over the years I lived in France, we wrote several times. July I spoke with nostalgia of the season he spent in Paris in the early 1950s, where he attended as a pupil free courses from Roland Barthes and went to the iconic film magazine Cahiers du Cinema , as I did after in 1970:

"I discovered the real film critic in Paris, to my twenty-five years. I had the privilege of attending virtually the birth of the magazine Cahiers du Cinema . I remember the number 4, the first thing I knew. That interested me deeply critical precisely because fusing cinema with literature. Casually met André Bazin, who was the mentor and creator of the magazine. Lo Duca also Jacques Doniol Valcroze. I had friends with them, but a contact on the occasion of cinema. "

Julo de la Vega was part of the second generation of poets Barbara Deed (when poetry was still important in Bolivia), a group that published a collective work : Wheat tin and sea. The Grand Prize for Poetry Franz Tamayo 1966 recognized the quality of Poems of exaltation, where as in other works is shown as a modern poet, cutting edge, influenced in its language and themes for movies, music that breathes poet when you feel part of today, not only of the past sealed.

Provocations In my book (published in 1977 and re-edited by Plural in 2006) included a chapter devoted to July, which was called "Poetry with river flow" because that's the impression that his poetry bubbling occurs to me . "His poetry is a poetry revolt, his poems are long poems-river dotted lines-surprise, agile and modern," wrote then.

of the things I said, there is a characteristic of almost every Bolivian writers:

"The only frustration I've met in my work as a writer is related to the inability to devote the entire time of my life to writing. I have written poetry, novels that outline, the plays I have in schema ... I do not think I've written almost nothing that I can write and that's my frustration. Literature is a profession anyway, at least for the time you spend, and I resent having to steal time to take care of other matters that I may live. "

Years later, in the Internet era, in page Web Bolivia made a selection of ten poets Bolivians, which obviously I included Julio de la Vega, his poem "Prophet is needed", which shows these lines: "Who knows how to stand up full / with the whip of fire between the hands / to resurrect hits / no to the big hope / but only the minimum comfort, / a compensation / that where there is no bread / no not hate. "

addition to poetry and theater (since 1991 there is a "theater festival neighborhoods" that bears his name), Julio novelist became so well that Matthias, the Apostle finished integrating alternate 2009 list the "ten foundational Bolivian novels, after a query (highly controversial, all for the conspicuous absence of Augusto Céspedes) organized by the Ministry of Culture and Race in Literature at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz. Provocations

In I also spoke of the death: "Death has always been another obvious concern in my poetry, but do not pretend to give philosophical importance throughout the poem. I write about death abstractly and in particular about 'deaths' of friends and family as they affect my feelings and that have been vital to my existence. "

write with that same feeling now about Julio de la Vega . The last time I was greeted in February 2009, when we meet at the funeral of Francisco Cajías, his nephew.

From left to right:
Alberto Crespo Rodas, Lupe Cajías, Mario Frias Infante, Beatriz Rossels, Alfonso Gumucio Dagron Julio de la Vega , Carlos
Castanon Barrientos, Armando Soriano Badani, Mariano Baptista Gumucio and Eusebio Gironda
La Paz on April 7, 2001


Monday, November 8, 2010

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"circumstances" of the day


This weekend, the so-called "circumstances" that dot the football sometimes have attracted the attention of the day. And some of them can be trained, but others are part of chance, opportunism, misery or misfortune, that make wild football game for both coaches and players.

The trainable, are within the game such as playing with a player or so, go win or lose, scoring in minutes "psychological", receive or harmed in arbitration, the limit of regulation play ...

The non-trainable, however, mark the passing of a party of accidental or circumstantial. Examples are: meteorology, the mistakes of players that cost goals, the referee errors ...

The team that knows how to take advantage of these unusual circumstances (which exist in every game mares) and not succumb to victimhood or distrust, are those which can scratch goals, points and games to what is gained with the game.

From last weekend, we highlight the following circumstances:

- Bad assignments: Iraizoz errors, Cata Diaz in the transfer or pass ended up in goal

- Goals in minutes Psychological Espanyol and Real won their first goal in getting into bars and ended up winning 1-0. Zaragoza meanwhile, won in the last minute penalty

- El Portu B, with bad weather and despite playing with a player for 1 hour could not get the equalizer


Training under these controlled circumstances, or take the maximum, will be of great help to all teams


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Monday, November 1, 2010

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The wisdom of the rostrum


How is football different from the green from the podium. Ago Caparros weeks commented that when an entire stadium korea, requests or shouts in the same direction, there must be. The public of stages gives its opinion on what happens in the field, rightly or wrongly, with respect or not, with appropriate or inappropriate ways: who pays orders say


This happens elite sport, as usual, and too spoiled, but that's what happens at lower levels "?

Last weekend, watching one of many football games there on base, my hair stood on end with several comments made from the stands, always referred reproachfully, unconstructive and much less didactic.

parents were issuing all kinds of oaths, technical and tactical instructions to any player of "their" team, the collegiate protests and comments to hear the parents' team.

really it helps the athletic training of the personality of the young "? Obviously not. And then what happens this "?

some teams in England, and apparently in the English state Sevilla train behind closed doors to prevent parents can intercede in the work of both coaches and youth. Would it be possible to happen in all based football teams "? If football is training and education, it is convenient, or perhaps the parents come into the classroom to see how they teach the teachers "?

difficult question, much debate, but what is clear is that the platform should say, but never rude, confuse and bother.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

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10,000 visits: ESKERRIK ASKO! 9


Last week igniter has reached 10,000 visits since its inception 4 years ago.

Throughout these articles, I tried to give a twist to the situations that have attracted my attention, always from the standpoint of technical-tactical and some humor. Football, like playing, and analysis thereof, is what attracts me, and keep trying to give my point of view of this great game.


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