Perversion

Posted in personal, tamospaya, whatever on April 8, 2009 by TOI

Todo ha perdido su significado, todo se mezcla, te venden consignas en chistes, en anuncios, todo ha perdido su sentido y las cosas se han mezclado, ya no sabes de lo que hablas, ni lo que ves, ni lo que compras. Te venden una batidora de cocina que a la vez tiene un gel en el mango que hace que tu pene se haga mas grande, ese es el resumen que saco de una semana en contacto con la realidad mayoritaria de este país (españa-europa-elmundo). Nada funciona porque nada tiene un rol o un objetivo claro, todo tiene que valer para todo, y mañana además servirá para otra cosas porque si no será viejo y aburrido.

Viejo y aburrido es lo que me parecen la mayoría de las personas que me encuentro, sin nada que decir, sin nada que hacer, no se hacen preguntas en sus cabezas, no dudan, no cuestionan, son felices, se creen el estatismo de una realidad pasada. Me he quedado casi sin gente con la que hablar, al menos con los que puedo hablar ya no están aquí, ya no hablan este idioma, que tontería estar escribiendo esto en este idioma, que tontería estar escribiendo esto.

La gente sigue siendo muy paleta, esta como adormecida, esta muy adoctrinada, los mensajes que he escuchado me han dado mucho miedo, me parecia increíble seguir escuchando ciertas cosas, me parecia obsoleto, inmoral, indecente. El presidente hablaba en los mitines como los peores discursos comunistas de los años 20 y 30 en Rusia, la gente aplaudia enfervorizada, los programas de televisión eran terriblemente sesgados, los argumentos superficiales, la gente de 80 años ve la televisión de manera impasible y simpatiza, el mundo se suma en el oscuro pasado y en un futuro donde la relatividad se ha entendido como el todo vale.

Por eso prefiero seguir en mi realidad paralela, por eso prefiero seguir desconectado, sin tele, sin noticias, sin cierto tipo de realidad. Tengo necesidad de leer, todo se aclara pero el campo se agranda y necesito conocer más, leer más, investigar mas. La práctica profesional es inútil si no has definido una posición social y filosófica de antemano. Si no transmites una visión social de la actualidad, la profesión se convierte en un juguete de niños, un juego divertido y entretenido, pero que no merece la pena.

Mañana cuando vuelva al mundo online escribire esto traducido, quizas revisado, quizas extendido, quizas tenga alguna idea mas clara de cómo irme. Las ideas se aclaran, pero abren nuevos horizontes aun mas lejanos y que hacen banales intereses anteriores.

Por eso tengo claro que me quiero pirar, que si no puedo armar mis ideas de forma plausible e investigar como expresarlas es mejor irse, irse a otros mundos, a otras vidas, a bajos fondos, a mundos decadentes donde todo es mucho mas directo, claro e instintivo, es supervivencia, es franco, honesto, directo. Prefiero vivir noches sin fin, disfrutar la vida sin ligaduras, abusar del sistema y ser un parasito del mismo una vez que aprendes a vivir simplemente trapicheando.

Trapicheando significa escribiendo, traduciendo, haciendo renders, es decir trabajos temporales con plazos de entrega cortos y que no tienen una coherencia en el tiempo ni aportan una producción interesante o provechosa a la humanidad, es decir simplemente cumplen una necesidad pasajera e inútil de alguien. Le ofreces un servicio efimero en el momento que lo necesita. Pero no es un servicio que “produzca” aportes o resultados ni que vaya mas alla de si mismo. Una vez que aprendes a vivir trapicheando, (lo tengo en tareas pendientes), el resto del proceso es mas sencillo, viajar a donde uno le apetezca, según los vientos, alquilar espacios abandonados, cutres, olvidados, sencillo, unicos requisitos: un enchufe, internet, una ducha y un armario.

Apegarse a una cotidianeidad y a una serie de lastres como son hipotecas, creditos, compromisos, etc, no tiene sentido sin no se lleva un trabajo que sirva de algo. Si solo quieres un trabajo para ganar dinero para sobrevivir, entonces puedes vivir trapicheando, lo que ademas te da la libertad de cambiar de aires cuando quieras.

Si por el contrario tu trabajo aporta algo, sirve a la humanidad a la par que a ti, y te enriquece, es decir es lo que da sentido a tu vida, la cotidianeidad es probablemente un peaje que hay que pagar. Pues esa labor sera sin duda alguna una labor a largo plazo, condicionada a una serie de colaboraciones externas a tu propio trabajo y con un lugar fisico mas o menos constante o con pocas variaciones, y siempre variaciones dependientes de los requerimientos del trabajo, no de la voluntad.

weird and yet so familiar

Posted in MADRID, personal on April 3, 2009 by TOI

when you are not at home it can be painful to stay in a place for days just jumping from one meeting to a dinner, and waiting for a call or an email. I would prefer to be in a hotel room, but I am staying with relatives and that’s the real pain. I am loving univeristy library.

I should also explore more the city, but I’ve lived here for quite a few years already. Though I’ll try to do my best, there are a lot of things I haven’t done yet, not sure I wanna do them, but I’ll try to do some.

I am crashing at relative’s place in my own city, and that feels fucking weird, I am so unconfortable at the place and so happy in town, but when there is nothing to do, or no one to meet I don’t know how to spend time, time I would normally spend at home or at the hotel.

a proper post about madrid will follow.

visitors

Posted in Installations, friends, house inside on March 25, 2009 by TOI

I still think this was really cool.  Bedroom door – visitors trace

In one year and 3 months these were the people that visited me. (some missing)

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far far away donkey

Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2009 by TOI

This is the view from my window these days-

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I can see the sun and palm trees….

London days. Stills

Posted in "frefas", Installations, London, architecture, personal on March 16, 2009 by TOI

Following the urban of the move post, here are some picks of my walks through London in my last week there.
This was My London. sort of

hackney. 100 football fields. wanna play?

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Old garages. I would love to renovate them and put my office here with a vibrant courtyard.
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Directions.
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Old magnetic Lloyd’s Building.
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Mutivideo-two screen cocktail layout.
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The curve @ The Barbican. 3D modifications
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Smithfields market. Brightful meat.
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Suitcases. My life in boxes once again
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London days. Urban on the move

Posted in "frefas", London, personal, tamospaya, urban on the move on March 12, 2009 by TOI

Last 10 days have been pretty intense and there is no point to try to summarize it. So instead, I post a series of videos that try to capture East London life on the move…. there are some bits missing, the farewll party, my life in suitcases again… but I’ll put more pics later.

This is my farewell to living in East London, enjoy the ride.

nature crash

Posted in architecture, whatever on March 3, 2009 by TOI

Lesson to everybody.
They’ve just improved and re-paved a street near my place.
No comments.

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how much do your books weigh?

Posted in architecture, common thougts, house inside on February 25, 2009 by TOI

mines (and ain’t so many) more than 200 kg. tough to believe.

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Information Technologies. what you can do with.

Posted in common thougts, internet, internet stuff on February 25, 2009 by TOI

This s how I enjoyed and experienced last night Champions League games here at home.

On my TV, ITV1 channel with the Manchester United vs. Inter Milan game, on the computer at full screen ITV4 channel with Arsenal vs. Roma game through www.itv.comwebsite, and on my headphones, the other 2 games with spanish teams (Barcelona-Lyon, Atletico-Oporto) through spanish radio Cadena Ser. At the same time I was texting through my phone to germany and chatting through skype.

 Now, thanks to Internet my way of following the games and the European Champions League of soccer has changed completely, I am able to watch 2 or 3 games between TV and laptop and listen spanish radio in London.

Sometimes you live in the future. ITV has its 4 channels available live on its website (amazing), BBC has an iPlayer with videos of their radio interviews, available an hour later than they were aired. Spanish public television and radio is so far away in the past, and no body cares.  Just the coverage on BBc website about U2 is amazing, and all the links and the historic videos and all the media they make available.

Another really good website is the U2 website. They even have put the youtube video from their performance on the french TV,I think embracing open source and interactive social networking is a must in the future, you cannot give your back to those things, I think incorporating them to your own space enriches you a lot.  They have made available to online listening the whole new album one week before official release (yeah, I know, there was  a leak in australia) and they have tons of stuff and personal videos (ok, some of it for subscribers). It’s amazing how close you can get to some things through the Net, and how deep and personal can it all become. Open source is not a weakness, it’s a strenght

ideas

Posted in architecture, whatever on February 23, 2009 by TOI

OK, so a friend of mine told me I should take pictures of my “folded papers” I consider “architecture models” and then throw the papers to the bin. I argued that those “folded papers” represent what I think were some of my best ideas and that if I throw them away I might loose the idea cause the pic is not gonna make me remember the idea.He then said, well take a picture of the idea and throw the paper away. So I tried.

1. some time ago, trying to do some other stuff, I came up with this idea for a tower, basically made of one folded torn paper.

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2. but I also realised that if you change scale, it is perfect as a place to put your plants, you can make it out of ceramic , and it looks pretty cool.

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3. if you don’t like plants and ceramic, you can keep it on paper and translucent and make really cool lamps. Perfect for parties and dinners, but be careful not to burn them.

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4. a simpler version of the same game is this chair/bus stop/bookstand piece made out of just one fold and one cut to a rectangular piece of paper. Deformations due to paper resistance make it look more “organic”, though it’s a mistake, don’t take it wrong.

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5. last but not least. the torn façade. No comments need it, perfect for a hotel.

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Note. All ideas, shapes, structures and pictures showed and explained in this post are copyright and property of tamospaya