In the last days I didn´t sleep like I should sleep. Something is bothering me, and i don´t know what.

It can be because of my dreams, that aren´t really nice in the last times. Sometimes they are similars with David Lynch movies, like in “Lost Highway” or something like that.In other days they are similars with “Shinning” from Stanley Kubrick.I don´t know if it can also be because of my health state or bed bugs, if the food that I´m eating last times is making some kind of disturb in my body. Or my mattress is simply really bad.

The true is that i can´t sleep and I don´t know why, and I have to find a solution. maybe, i should see more romantics movies, with beautiful girls, to dreaming with the girls like Angelina Jolie(the best one), Monica Bellucci, Scarlett Johansson (also the best one), Charlize Theron, Milla Jovovich, the dangerous Uma Thurman, the always beautiful Nicole Kidman or with Catherina Zeta Jones. Instead of dreaming with the crazy Jack Nicholson. A medical check-up also would be a good solution.

Or, maybe I should simply get a new mattress, and this would resolve my problems, during my bad nights.
What do you think about that?

can you?

You can not help looking at this.
This image was created by the english artist David Shrigley, a very nice artist, you must see all his works. In his drawings we can see a very smart and humouristic guy. His drawings show us that his point of view is penetrative and astucious regarding society that we live.

What do you think about that? Do you think you can help looking at this? Do you think you can not help looking at this? Do you think that we will know the answer to this question some day? Or, should these thoughts deserve any of our attention?

For me looking to any work of art, in the immediate moment, I can not help in anything. But when I think
about what I saw and what I felt in that moment, I evolve and then I can help in something. So , I can help
looking at this, don´t you think?

Don´t quick of observe the images that surround you, just because probably you can not help in something that you don´t know what it is.

Do you already seen some ship´s camouflage? If you never seen it, I will show you some for the first time in your life. I´m given such importance to this matter, because as you will see in this pictures below, this camouflage have something to do with fashion.

Yes fashion, why? Because in fashion people try to camouflage who they really are, and the fashion designers try to input is ideals to other people. In War what happens is the same thing, who starts fighting is trying to
input their ideals to others. But who they are really fighting are themselves, the person that they don´t want to be.

Returning to the ship´s camouflage, this habit was most developed in the second World War, and were made several studies about the visual impact of that kind of camouflage in the vision of the enemy. In the meanwhile this ideia of ship´s camouflage was already used by romans. Some of the camouflage were made to wide the ship, others to induce the enemy in error in the moment they fire against them, others are a little bit ridiculous and absurd. But all of them even the most ridiculous are beautiful and adorable.

Some of them I think we can said, are artworks. They are almost a conceptual artwork.

maybe not!!

wolf camouflage

hms

essex class

studies

Spiderman, there is someone who doesn´t know who is spiderman? I think not, unless it is someone from another planet. And who likes spiderman? I usually like the guy, except when Peter refuses to kiss Mary Jane to defend his alter ego. Ok, I realized that if he did that he could lose his secret identity, and his saga had to end… but come on guy, you should be more romantic.

And who has seen Spiderman? I hope none of you, because anyone when someone sees spiderman they certainly didn´t had a good day; most likely they were robbed or attacked, or they are stealing or attacking someone. Anyway, I cannot help but feeling that Spiderman and possibly other superheroes work like a form of mental pressure – to uphold all kinds of social laws, ethics and morals attitudes that we are taught from early, as to keep us in good behavior.

So, I leave you here the opening music from the original Spiderman cartoon, so you can do some thinking about these things: could these beings, these so-called super heroes work look like a big brother that keeps watching over us, and even oppressing us a little bit with their high ideals? I am not saying to stop watching cartoons, I also still watch them all the time; I’m just saying, like pause for a moment to think about the show’s production, to think about what we’re being fed. Alright? Now, let’s watch the video.

When we think about the ideas of Walter Benjamin and Andre Malraux, we find that they have different ideas regarding the reception of works of art.

However, disagreeing in some things and being in agreement with others in relation to the ideas of this two, the truth is that being confronted with situations implied with this ideas, we can´t sometimes disagree with them.

And I say this because I feel this about the work of English artist Banksy. I say this because I saw most of his work through photographs and I created an idea of his work, and when in a visit to Liverpool I came across with his work and I noticed a difference in be facing a art object and see this work in photos.

And about the work that I realized what Benjamin said, noting that the work of Bansky fell better in his urban support than I thought. But I realized to what Andre Malraux spoke in his “imaginary museum” realizing that the viewing of objects in an indirect way creates in us another parallel reality.  Making the two theories valid in its own way.

bansky

it´s a picture, not the real thing

the discourse of voluntary servitude

This small moment of reading,that I present to you, is about a book that I think very important to try to understand some social phenomena that surround us, and sometimes we see those phenomenas in the opposite way.

This book is “Discourse on Voluntary Servitude” by Etienne la Boetie written in 1552 when he was 18, demonstrating how and with regard to issues of voluntary servitude, we still with eyes closed, for those who have over 500 years of history than boetie in this matters.

Boetie demonstrating in his examples how he is sensitive to capture in simple and complicated things in life forms of oppression. And forms we participate in this oppression by those who always want more power.
His speech has helped us to be more lucid and I hope that continues to make more people more lucid in these issues. I suggest you reading this book.