Feliz Año Nuevo Chino !

... desde San FranciscoPhotos: Alex

Vitrina en SF- "The Blue Lotus" & The Year of the Pig (boar)

“Chinese calendar has been in continuous use for centuries, which predates the International Calendar (based on the Gregorian Calendar) we use at the present day which goes back only some 425 years. The calendar measures time, from short durations of minutes and hours, to intervals of time measured in months, years and centuries, entirely based on the astronomical observations of the movement of the Sun, Moon and stars”.

Paisajes II-TREES

Photos: Alex

Mondrian-Gray Trees

“Research shows that nature positively affects all aspects of life-for individuals and communities. Nature has the potential to make a difference in the way people experience the world, improving their physical and mental well-being, as well as providing them a context within which to adapt and grow. A&M researcher Robert Ulrich found that patients who could see trees from their windows healed faster and required lower doses of painkillers than those who could only see a brick wall”.

Botero-Abu Ghraib

Photos: Alex-Berkeley 2007
Gran interes mostro la muestra del artista Colombiano Fernado Botero en Berkeley-California esta semana.
“La gente olvidaria Guernica si no fuera por la obra maestra de Picasso”. Botero

“The 73-year-old Colombian artist spent 14 months painting a series of 80 drawings and paintings that depict pain, degradation and torture -- all in the style of his more popular work. He said he wasn't intending to "shock people or to accuse anyone" with his Abu Ghraib depictions. He didn't do them for commercial reasons (they're not for sale). "You do it because it is in your gut, you are upset, you are furious, you have to get it out of your system.".Nonetheless, he hopes that as Abu Ghraib fades from memory -- the prison is slated for demolition -- the paintings will be a reminder of what happened there. "People would forget about Guernica were it not for Picasso's masterpiece," he said. "Art is a permanent accusation”. SFChronicle

Hypersea Presents: Voices Without Borders

La Idea

El Material & Las Instrucciones

La Fiesta

Photos: Alex
Entrevistas

Photo: Josh
Los Participantes

A participatory Mural Making Event
"Come and participate to produce the 6th temporary mural at Clarion Alley of San Francisco. The mural, led by artists Susana Aragon and Mabel Negrete (project leader), addresses the concerns of the family program Casa Corazón of Instituto Familiar de la Raza through a participatory process that celebrates the values and challenges of migrating and adapting to a new society. The Instituto Familiar de la Raza provides mental health, social services and leadership support to Chicano/Latin American families of San Francisco."

SATURDAY - JANUARY 27, 2007 - 12-6pm
12-6pm at Clarion Alley, San Francisco
(Btw. Valencia St. and Mission St. / 17th St. & 18 St.)

Fin a ocupación de Irak !

Photos: Alex

Miles de manifestantes exigieron ayer en San Francisco poner fin a la ocupacion estadounidense en Irak.

Sundance 2007

Photos: Alex.

“Founded by Robert Redford in 1981 in the mountains of Sundance, Utah, Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated year-round to the development of artists of independent vision and to the exhibition of their new work. Since its inception, the Institute has grown into an internationally recognized resource for thousands of independent artists through its Film Festival and artistic development programs for filmmakers, screenwriters, composers, writers, playwrights and theatre artists”.
http://festival.sundance.org/2007/

Mr.Santo nos comenta directamente desde Sundance, que vio un film de Mr. Crispin Glover llamado: "It is Fine, Everything is Fine":
“It was quite the interesting movie. Some people would call it weird. I would say it was strange, even bizarre". Luego Mr. Santo nos dice: “I also had the opportunity to see a documentary on Joe Strummer, "The Future is Unwritten". It was excellent !”.
Segun nos cuentan, el Santo fue confundido con una "estrella de cine" mientras caminaba muy bien acompanhado por esa frias calles de Sundace.

Director David Lynch - Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

Photo: Alex 01-20-2006
"El Pez Gordo" autografiando libro para Alex
David Lynch hablando sobre Meditacion, Creatividad y algo de Cine en San Jose - CA.

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

Photophone: Alex
Red Vic Movie House in San Francisco

“The 1960s were years of intense social and cultural tumult; it was the Age of Aquarius, when change was in the air, revolution on the horizon, and all things seemed possible. Some looked to transcendental meditation, free love, Black Power, or LSD. But for others, Jim Jones, the charismatic and forceful leader of Peoples Temple, offered the perfect balance of spiritual fulfillment and political commitment. Jones not only preached about integration and equality, but also built an organization that provided food, clothing, and shelter to his congregation and his community.
On the surface, Jim Jones and his multiracial congregation, Peoples Temple, espoused the values of a model society. But in the summer of 1977 an article in New West magazine exposed the truth. Defectors and family members gave accounts of physical, sexual, and drug abuse, financial corruption, and members being held against their will.
On November 18, 1978, over 900 members of Peoples Temple died in the largest mass suicide/murder in history. Using never-before-seen archival footage and survivor interviews, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple tells the story of the people who followed Jim Jones from Indiana to California and finally to the remote jungles of Guyana, South America in a misbegotten quest to build an ideal society”.

Fire Light Media Films

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!Photo: (waiting for credit)

Woody Allen marches to his own beat

Photo: Alex -Dec. 20 2006
Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band
Fox Theatre -Redwood City,CA.

"Film buffs assume Woody Allen would like to be Charlie Chaplin or Ingmar Bergman. The fact is, he might prefer to be 1930s clarinet virtuoso Sidney Bechet.
Allen is no dilettante. Jazz has always been his great passion. Eddy Davis, the New Orleans Jazz Band's music director/banjoist/vocalist and longtime Allen pal, says, "He loves to play music more than anything. But he knows he has to make films to be able to do so." Davis met Allen in Chicago in 1963, while he was attending music school and fronting a jazz band at the Bourbon Street club. Allen was doing stand-up at Mr. Kelly's and would sit in with Davis at every opportunity.
In the '90s, they put a rehearsal band together, which was different from the band Allen had been playing with socially at Michael's Pub in New York, and the new focus was New Orleans Dixieland.
Allen's band performs at Cafe Carlyle in New York every Monday night, and such legends as Benny Goodman, Toots Thieleman and Mel Torme (on drums!) have joined in the musical fun.
Davis points out that when Dixieland began it was considered an avant-garde music form. "It was different than anything else that had come before it. It was like when rock 'n' roll started, something new was happening. It was a pop form of music."
Davis says music naturally re-creates itself. "Music doesn't get used up. It just gets copied after a while. People go back and emulate the stars and that kills every form of music. Everybody would like to play like Louis Armstrong or Charlie Parker. But there's only one Louis Armstrong. Only one Charlie Parker. To copy them is not doing any justice to the music - where it came from," says Davis, the "Manhattan Minstrel," who early in his illustrious career played with the Turk Murphy Band at San Francisco's Earthquake McGoon's.
When the New Orleans Jazz Band plays, its energy breathes new life into the genre. However, Davis is well aware that the band draws packed houses, not because of the endless appeal of Dixieland, but because there are a lot of curious movie buffs out there. "Everybody goes to a happening. People come to see Woody, because he's Woody Allen". By Paul Freeman

El Poema Silencioso del Camino. Versión 2

Foto : Alex Dec. 2006

"Camino pedregoso entre los campos
amarillo, verde y azul
Grandes nubes blancas hacia las montañas
Escucho mis pasos en el camino polvoriento
Cardos en flor
Pàjaros que se pierden en la claridad.
Por tres palabras que trato de enhebrar,
el mundo se despliega en un manto multicolor
Sòlo sigo la visiòn
Soy parte de un enorme poema
del que apenas puedo dar cuenta."

Ignacio B.
Para Alex, 17 de diciembre 2006

Fallecio Pinochet - Ex-Chilean dictator Pinochet dies at 91

El ex dictador Augusto Pinochet, fallecido a las 17:15 GMT de este domingo en Santiago a los 91 años de edad, será recordado en Chile como un actor fundamental de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, con una herencia en que los crímenes contra los derechos humanos y la corrupción opacan definitivamente al estadista que algún día pretendió ser. (IPS)
"Pinochet's dictatorship laid the groundwork for South America's most stable economy, but his crackdown on dissent left a lasting legacy: His name has become a byword for the state terror, in many cases secretly supported by the United States, that retarded democratic change across the hemisphere. Pinochet died with his family at his side at the Santiago Military Hospital on Sunday, a week after suffering a heart attack".

SEAN LENNON in CONCERT

The Great American Music Hall -San Francisco

"Are you talking to me?"
Con un gran sentido del humor dialog0 con el publico.

Photos: Alex
Fui el unico en reconocerlo y saludarlo mientras Sean tomaba aire fresco antes del show.
"SF one of the most beautiful cities in the world" SL

Paisajes I - The Bonneville Salt Flats

Photos: Alex - Nov 2006

“Imagine a place so flat you seem to see the curvature of the planet, so barren not even the simplest life forms can exist. Imagine the passing thunder of strange vehicles hurtling by on a vast dazzling white plain. This is not an alien world far from earth; it is Utah's famous Bonneville Salt Flats.The Bonneville Salt Flats is one of the most unique natural features in Utah. Stretching over 30,000 acres, the Bonneville Salt Flats is a fragile resource administered by the Bureau of Land Management. It is located along I-80 near the Utah-Nevada border.” www.utah.com

Pancho Pescador Pintor

El Jardin Perfumado

Radio LondonJohn Peel

Si pretendias escuchar lo mejor del Rock y Pop britanico cuarenta anhos atras, lo mas seguro era sintonizar las radios piratas de ese entonces. Estas emisoras tenian sus base en embarcaciones que se encontraban fuera de los limites maritimos britanicos.
Una de las emisoras mas escuchadas era Radio Carolina(suena familiar?) y la otra era Radio Londres con el “deejay” John Peel y su program “El Jardin Perfumado”.
En Octubre de este anho la BBC de Londres recreo su ultimo programa, utilizando la voz de John Peel(grabaciones originales), pero esta vez la musica fue recreada con CDs.

…49 anhos mas tarde saludamos al “Monje I” y su programa El Mirado de los Pinos.

Happy B. Day!.

...y hoy estamos escuchando

Joseph Arthur
“Redemption's Son”
Canta y compone, fue descubierto por un cassette de un amigo, que paso el cassette a otro amigo y finalmente llego donde Peter Gabriel en los anhos 90. Podriamos decir que su musica tiene aires de un Leonard Cohen o un Joe Henry.



Michy Mano
“The Cool Side of the Pillow”(“el lado helado de la almohada”).
Michy Mano was born in Casablanca, Morocco. His music includes lots of percussive drum beats. But he also throws in some elements of Morocco's traditional "Gnawa" music. Gnawa music has religious significance in Morocco



Los Tres
"Hagalo Usted Mismo." (Do it yourself.)
Los Tres are back together and are reaching back to the music that first inspired them. This is their rockabilly single "Camino." It's is getting a lot of airplay in Chile and Mexico.

...y ahora HALLOWEEN - Special Showing !

Photophone: Alex 2006

Poster: Holland, Michigan - October 29, 1974

HOMBRES DE ROCA
SANTO Y BLUE DEMON vs. LOS MONSTRUOS
Sponsored by
Latinos Americans Unidos Para el Progreso
-A COLORES-

Lunes en Radio Estudiantil

NEW WINTER SCHEDULE:
Sunday, 3:00 pm Pacific - 4:00 pm Local(SLC) Time

Monday, 5:00 pm Pacific - 6:00 pm Local(SLC) Time

“El Mirador de Los Pinos” presenta: “Ciclo Beat”

For anyone with a passing interest in America's first counterculture movement; a great musical portrait of the era.
www.radioestudiantil.cl

Ray Suarez Latest Book: The Holy Vote

Photophone: Alex
Ray firmando un autografo para Alex
NewsHour Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez discussing his latest book The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith In America on October 20th at 7pm in the Downtown Salt Lake City Library Auditorium.“We can't get American religion out of politics, or politics out of religion. It's too late for that. It would be like trying to get the sugar out of a cup of coffee. But finding a way these two behemoth institutions in American life can coexist, while respecting the convictions of believers and protecting the rights of nonbelievers and those who disagree, is the riddle we must solve.” RS.

EE.UU. llegó a 300 millones de habitantes

Estados Unidos tiene ahora 300 millones de habitantes, según nuevos cálculos estadísticos. El reporte del Instituto de Censo está basado en la media de un nacimiento cada siete segundos y una muerte cada 13 segundos, y tiene en cuenta las naturalizaciones, calculando un nuevo ciudadano estadounidense cada 11 segundos. Los cómputos no tienen en cuenta a los inmigrantes clandestinos, que según las fuentes, oscilan entre 12 millones y 25 millones. Si se considera esa inmigración clandestina, la cifra de 300 millones de habitantes en Estados Unidos fue superada desde hace ya tiempo.

Juana Molina Starts North American Tour

“compone, canta y muestra una verdadera faceta experimental desde Argentina al mundo. Reconocida ampliamente en el exterior, principalmente en Reino Unido y Estados Unidos, es definida por muchos críticos como un genio que navega entre lo electrónico y el folk, con una aditivo de jazz, blues, avantgarde y pop”.

Photophone: el Santo
Alex & Juana Molina in SLC 0ct 18-2006
Tour Dates:
10-17 - DENVER, CO - Walnut Room
10-18 - SLC, UT - Urban Lounge
10-20 - SEATTLE, WA - Crocodile Café
10-21 - PORTLAND, OR - Doug Fir
10-23 - SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Great American
10-24 - LOS ANGELES - ECHO
10-25 - SAN DIEGO, CA - Casbah
10-26 - AUSTIN, TX - Parish
www.juanamolina.com

Radio Estudiantil-On Line

El Monje I en El Mirador De Los Pinos

-VIDEO-

Nuevo Horario:

Sunday 7:00 pm ET , 4:00 pm Pacific
Monday 9:00 pm ET , 6:00 pm Pacific

www.radioestudiantil.cl

Rock en Espanol - Lucybell in Salt Lake City

Photo: Alex
Lucybell en SLC, Oct.12-2006

“Since the debut of their first album in 1995, Lucybell has been a leader of the Rock en Espanol movement. Their unique but widely appealing sound has made Lucybell a household name in their native Chile and a important contributor to the genre abroad.With a sound that is a balanced blend of electronic, acoustic and rock guitar music, Lucybell has been compared to Blur, Catherine Wheel and Radiohead. Lucybell is now the best-selling rock band in Chile. With six gold records and a large and faithful fan base, this trio is poised to take on the world”.

The Depot-SLC

October 12, 2006
Doors open @ 7:00 PM
www.lucybell.com

THE TORTURE DEBATE, Part II - Letter from Ariel Dorfman

Dear friends who contacted me regarding the U.S. position on torture:
I have been overwhelmed by the number of you who have expressed your horror and sadness that the United States would abandon its founding principles of presumed innocence and habeus corpus, as well as its support for the Geneva Conventions and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and make a policy of torturing human beings in the name of security and freedom. It shows that there are many among us -- I would hope a majority -- who believe we are still a nation of laws, with respect for justice and an abhorrence of the barbaric practices used by authoritarian regimes and criminals.
A number of you responded asking what can be done to stop our country from engaging in these practices.
The Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International (TASSC) is a coalition of torture survivors (of every ideological sign, by the way) who are dedicated to work toward the abolition of the use of torture and ill treatment currently practiced by more that 150 governments (it's dreadful to realize that we are now being added to the list!). If you feel as strongly as I do about a zero tolerance for torture being used as a "tool" by our government, I urge you to support their crucial work and continue to speak out, writing letters to editors, to your representatives in Congress, and the President.
I have written to Sister Dianna Ortiz, who heads TASSC in Washington, D.C., and she has suggested that you could contact them about any help you might be willing to provide to them.
Their website is: http://tassc.org/
Or you can write to: info@tassc.org

Cordially, and in solidarity,
Ariel Dorfman

Sean Lennon - Friendly Fire

"Sean Lennon tells a very personal story of love, friendship and betrayal"Friendly Fire, the second album from the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, is accompanied by a DVD of short films, one for each song.
www.seanonolennon.com