Showing posts with label cosas mías. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cosas mías. Show all posts

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Merry Christmas




1. Coffee. In some places here in Caracas they are really good at making drawings with the coffee foam.
2. Gift masking-tape wrapping.
3. A Christmas toast with my mum
4. Cider. I'm trying hard to make it popular in this side of the world.


Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you're all having the best of times :)

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Doppelgänger








This is the text I wrote for a nice Venezuelan magazine called Mono. Each issue of Mono is about an specific subject, this number's theme was opposites.

First, you can read my rough translation to English, then the original text in Spanish.


Hope you like it! x


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Doppelgänger


I. 


The last couple of months it happened to me quite often that when I go out, I see someone's doppelgänger. And I'm not talking about those of celebrities or people who I care about. No. These are the evil twins of random people. Strangers I wouldn't think about under any other circumstances: the man from a BP's service station in El Cafetal, the coffee-boy from a bakery in Santa Eduvigis, my mom's nasty neighbor from the third floor back in Caracas.

The minute the encounter happens, I start doubting, not about the doppelgänger’s ID because some mysterious neuron manages to identify them with a very scary precision, but of my mental health in general. I don't know if this is about nostalgia or if it's just a nervous breakdown. The only thing that appears really clear to me is that my brain is playing dirty to me.



II.


Most of the people I know called me Ana. I have a very important amount of nicknames and each and everyone belongs to a different moment of my life, nevertheless my other identity is called simply Patricia, my second name. 

Thinking about that now I realize that Patricia began to exist since I was a little girl. Every time I was naughty that was the name my mum chose to lecture me. Patricia, come here, she used to say with a deadly serious voice. Ana managed to escape all the time. Ana was incapable of breaking a thermometer just to play with Mercury. 

Patricia, say those who have met her as a grown-up, is my opposite. The one that takes my place to do those things I wouldn't dare. She usually appears in high-stress situations, important decision-making moments, or in nights of heavy drinking and partying. Those nights that lasts until morning light and then a little longer. Sometimes I could swear that I've seen Patricia coming into the party and look at me from the other side of the room while holding that glass of wine I shouldn't drink.


III. 


Doppelgänger stories are very popular in literature, paranormal activity books and psychiatric offices. Their existence could even be explained under quantum mechanics principles. Our doubles would be probabilities of ourselves in different universes. Alan Guth, a famous MIT's physicist once said, "there is a universe in which Elvis is alive and Al Gore is president". I wonder if Alan has a second name that his mother used to reprehend him when he was little. 

The possibility (or probability) of Patricia truly fascinates me and intrigues me. I like to think of her, walking around, always on the other side of the road. Think that someday I going to get to watch her talking with the magazine-stand woman near my home or next to that guy that I went to uni with but I cannot remember his name.


Doppelgängers, can't live with them... can't live without them.





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I.



Estos últimos meses me ha pasado con relativa frecuencia que cada vez que salgo a la calle me encuentro con el doppelgänger de alguien. No me refiero a los dobles de famosos o de gente a la que extraño, no. Estos son los hermanos gemelos malvados de las personas más aleatorias de la vida, gente en la que no pensaría bajo ninguna otra circunstancia: el bombero de la BP de El Cafetal, el muchacho del café de la panadería de Santa Eduvigis, la vecina antipatiquísima del tercer piso. En el instante dudo, no de la identidad del doppelgänger en cuestión porque alguna neurona misteriosa logra identificarlos con una precisión que da miedo, dudo de si se trata de nostalgia o de un brote psicótico. De una manera u otra, lo único que me queda claro es que mi cerebro me la está jugando.



II.



La mayor parte de la gente me conoce como Ana. Tengo una cantidad importante de sobrenombres, todos contextualizados en el tiempo, sin embargo, mi otra personalidad, es sencillamente Patricia, mi segundo nombre. Ahora que lo pienso, Patricia empezó a existir desde que era una niña. Cada vez que me portaba mal ese era el nombre elegido para el regaño, Patricia, ven acá. Ana escapaba siempre, Ana sería incapaz de haber roto un termómetro para jugar con el Mercurio. Patricia entonces, me dicen quienes la han llegado a conocer de grande, es mi opuesto. La que toma mi lugar para hacer lo que yo no haría. Suele hacer apariciones fugaces en situaciones de alto estrés, al momento de tomar decisiones impulsivas o en noches de excesos, de copas, locas, de esas que se prolongan hasta que sale el sol. A veces juraría haberla visto llegar a una fiesta y desde el otro lado de la sala mirarme a los ojos mientras sostiene esa copa de vino que no debería tomarme.



III.



Las historias de dopplegängers (alemán para “doble andante”) son famosas en la literatura, en los libros de fenómenos paranormales y en consultorios psiquiátricos. Su existencia podría incluso ser explicada según los principios de la mecánica cuántica. Nuestros dobles serían probabilidades de nosotros mismos en múltiples universos. Alan Guth, reconocido físico del MIT dice “hay un universo en el que Elvis está vivo y Al Gore es presidente”. Me pregunto si Alan tendrá un segundo nombre que usaban para regañarlo cuando era pequeño. A mí la posibilidad (o probabilidad) de Patricia me fascina y me intriga. Me gusta pensar que está caminando por ahí, siempre en la acera de enfrente, y que un día de estos la veré pasar, tal vez junto a la mujer del kiosko de revistas de Los Palos Grandes o al chico aquel que se graduó conmigo pero estudiaba en la tarde.



Doppelgängers... can’t live with them, can’t live without them.

















Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Remember, remember the 5th of December



So, I've been partying since Saturday because lots of my friends happen to be Sagittarius as me, we've done all sort of things even go kayaking at night. Yesterday was my turn of a birthday party and being Monday and everything I chose diner. We ate some delicious curries at Bangalore and then have some more drinks. I really loved it. Loved that I got to share both with some old dear friends and new found ones. The four-days-non-stop celebration will finish tonight with the Kings of Convenience concert in La Trastienda. I'll post photos of this lovely days all together soon! Thanks to all my beloved friends for being there, always :)

This is a Birthday mixtape I made yesterday, hope you like it!

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Bye bye November


This are random photos of things that happened in November. My mom visited me and there was, of course, a lot of sightseeing in Buenos Aires, a delicious breakfast in Oui Oui, Punta del Este minitrip, Ale and Ceci working, Marilyn and Axl in San Telmo, a beer called like me, and a book I bought after reading Hila's post. Overall it was a good month. Hope December will be better though.

The bench photo was taken by Ale and the last one by Ceci :)

Monday, November 21, 2011

My Own Private Mercury Retrograde





This last couple of days had been really uneasy. My printer broke the exact instant I had to print some important stuff. I got a whole bunch of clothes damaged because of some stupid short that painted all black. Decided to uninstall the Whatsapp to update it and I never could download it again. Went to a bookstore to return a book... and forgot the book at home! None of this things qualifies as a big tragedy obviously, but just a bunch of annoying little ones.

Is someone, somewhere, trying to tell me something or am I just REALLY distracted? Where's my mind? I guess we all go thru stages like this one, right? Did this ever happen to you?

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Le People
















Le people dans Paris... and a monkey.

Today I've been listening to Gruff Rhys and loving it.
I didn't know you, but you felt like a friend.





Monday, October 31, 2011

The Beginning is Near




This is my last design: The Beginning is Near. If the end is near, as the prophecies, Anonymous, and the beard guy in the corner said is near, well, a new beginning is near too... and personally I rather focus on that. For me 2012 hopefully is going to be a year full of changes and beginnings (fingers crossed).

If you like this tote bag, that's a very good news, and if you desperately want to buy one, is a better one and you can do it in my Etsy Shop clicking here.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Fish & Chips

Soho, Central London. June, 2011.


I've just received a mail from Society6 saying that one of my photos, the one above of course, is been promoted to appear in their shop. Even though I'm not sure on how this site works, these are definitely good news, so yay!

If I have to guess I would say that the charm of this photo is the look and smile of the gentleman that staring right at the camera, don't you think?

And well, since we're on it, if you want to see my recently created profile on Society6 please click here :)

Friday, October 14, 2011

Five Years Time


Today is the birthday of my little brand Objetitos... it's FIVE years now! That's a lot, or it feels that way, so I'm making a giveaway in the Facebook page. Click on the photo to go to the post on the page and like it or leave a comment to participate... join the little Objetitos party!!!

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Summer in Film (I)








There's something about film photos. About their texture, their colors, their grain, their everything. They are perfectly imperfect. There's also something about the waiting, for me specially I reckon. I usually wait a long time to develop my film pictures, not for any particular reason but my usual distraction. It takes me ages to take the reels to the photo shop, and some more ages to pick them up. In the meantime I usually forget what's on the reels, so when I finally got the photos I end up with a handful of surprises.

Some photos arrive just in time to color your day with beautiful memories. Some photos are like a delayed mini epiphany that arrive a little too late and that's part of their perfect imperfection.

Well, I said too much, except that this photos belong to the gorgeous towns of Sidmouth, Lyme Regis and Durdle Door in the wonderful West Country in England.




PS: I know that I took one too many photos of that Mr. Whippy, but come on, look at it, is the most beautiful ice-cream ever, isn't it?

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Pin up!


Trying new things with my badges, mixing some new and old phrases with my doodles. Soon to be in the shop :) How do you like them? Please leave a comment!

Monday, September 26, 2011

Ephemeral




Ephemeral things (from Greek εφήμεροςephemeros, literally "lasting only one day"[1]) are transitory, existing only briefly. Typically the term is used to describe objects found in nature, although it can describe a wide range of things.