Rita Indiana

I will write again about music. In the last days I'm been listening to Rita Indiana.
Rita is a writer, singer and performance artist. Rita lives in Puerto Rico but in New York to, this combination of nation (american and caribbean) is a mirror of her work. I love her music because she reflect the problem of the identity, she song in spanish but in english to. But the music that she make is always like an alternative merengue, she and her band 'Los Misterios' are creating music using the sound of traditional merengue with a mix of alternative rock and electronic music. I love the music of Rita because she show us her life, what she lived when she was a child, she sing about her family in USA. Rita and her music is a result of that mix, but she prefer to stay in Puerto Rico, that's why she stay in merengue style. When I listen her music I can imagine how is living in Puerto Rico, and the life in the street, the way the people speek, Rita sing about Facebook, but she call it 'Feisbú', or she use word like 'Esqueibol' (Skateboard), and she also created a new words with no meaning, just words to express some emotions. Her music, her performances and also the body are so powerful, that the people call her 'La Montra' (Dominican slang for 'The Monster'). She also don't forget her descent, that's why her record label is the same that produce some reggeaton artist. I love the secong song 'Pasame a Buca' ('Pick me up') of her album 'El Juidero'. In this song she sing about how is like a caribbean work and live in USA, she sing about the hard work after cross the country, but she always sing that she wants to celebrate, take some drinks and have fun because she don't die trying to cross to USA.

If you want to listen the song just click here.

How green

I really don't like to say what I do about my carbon footprint, is like a competicion of who is the best permaculture person. In the world of Permaculture that happend a lot, maybe everywhere, but in the 'hippie' world too, is so ironic. But more ironic is that i'm going to be one of them.

Last year I made the PDC (permaculture design course) in El Manzano, it was an experience so powerful, so emotional, I learned a lot of myself and of nature, in short words I learned how to live and comunicate with nature and with my self in nature. I always going to be so grateful of myself, my parents, and all the people I meet in El Manzano. Before that, I made an other course that maybe mark my like, I went to Quilpué, to 'Tierra de nadie', a house of some friends. There I take a course with my two fest friend of 'Natural Ginecology' and 'Medical garden'. In that three courses I lerned that I dont believe in that we can change the world, but i change for myself and my two friends made for her self. We have to star from our bodys, if we are not good we cant do much things. So I dont believe in allopathic medicine, just in nature, i have a garden in my house with just medicine plants, and a lot of other things.

I'm thinking that maybe i can try to work in a psychiatric hospital with a friend and teach about permaculture and make like a natural therapy in the nature, with plants, insects and ground, because I think that just be in the ground, eat from the ground and learn how to live in armony with nature transform my self and maybe could transform anybody.

I just invite you to visit the webside of my friends El Manzano, Lemulawen, Hogar rumbo a la sustentabilidad, PachAmrita and Ginecologia Natural. enjoy <3

Art is Trash: Francisco de Pajaro's work.

Scultures made with packaging tape or with a mattress, where you can find in any street from London, this is the Art is Trash. Francisco de Pajaro, this artist from Barcelona, made art from trash, an ephemer art, that is the nature of his work. He turning any detritus to an sculture, like human figures, monsters and animals.
Francisco's work can seen as artistic suicide, those are destined to be destroyed. That's why he has to work quickly, his work is an action, he pic the rubbish and make a piece of art in a few minutes, and then the piece die. De Pajaro said "I am creating fun and beauty out of something society considers gross and disgusting". This have a closed relation with his origin. This artist moved to London to escape the economic crisis in Spain and restrictive laws outlawing street expression. His art is not interested with money or with art gallery. That's why he turned his art to the street and for anyone.
His work has been captured on social media, like on instagram under the hashtag #artistrash. This event give to Francisco's work like a permanency to his ephemeral work. But he also took this event to laugh of people who hate his art, who are snobs and think they are better than others, he actually take them and included in his pieces.

The original article you can find here.

Heather Benjamin

All the designer speend so many ours in the internet, and I'm not the exception. I could stray in the computer just looking all kind of things.
One day a discoverd the work of Heather Benjamin, an illustrator from New York. This girls is 23 years all and her illustrations are sou beautiful and powerful. I love a zine that she publish call Sad Sex, where she draw a lot of people having sex or masturbateting and crying. I love the drawings of Heather, they are a combination between japanese illustrations, penis, vaginas, sweat, blood and hear.
Heather star drawing when she was little, she say that the draw became an obsesion at 10, when she became a fan of Sailor Moon. Sad sex is in part a biografy of Heather, the illustration are related with the way that people perceives Heather's sexuality, but is also the way that Heather saw other peoples, is her personal life, and how she feel about sexuality. I read an interview, where Heather said that she speen like 10 hours per day, a lot!I love illustration, and I love Heather's work, because when I look it I feel so many things, good and bad thing. I love when a work produces something any kind of feelings. So I just invited you to watch Heather's work, and if you don't like I don't care. Heather's work teach you to just do what ever you like, at the way you like, but just do it, and be serious with it even if you are 15 or 50 years old, just work 10 or more hours.

Fiona Apple

Today I will write about one of my favorites musician; Fiona Apple. I meet her music when I was in the school, maybe at my 16. In that time I was living with my cousin, and she lend me a CD with a lot of music and the first album of Fiona Apple called 'Tidal'. Since the first time I listen to I become a big fan of her music. Fiona Apple's music is so powerful, her voice is so expresive of what she lives. In her first album, she have a few songs about what she live when she was a child, specially in two songs; 'Sullen girl' and 'The child is gone', this two songs refer to a incident that Fiona lived at 12, she was victim of rape outside her apartment. In 'Tridal' you can find an other great song called 'Sleep to dream', with this song she won 'best new artist' in the MTV Video Music Award in 1997. When Fiona go on stage to recieve her awar she said: 'This world is bullshit, and you shouldn't model your life on what we think is cool, and what we're wearing and what we're sayig". Fiona Apple has always been radical, she is vegan and she colaborated with PETA (People fot her Ethical Treatment of Animals).
I love Fiona Apple's music, her voice, her piano, and a lot of her videos.
Last year she suppose to came to latinamerica, and Chile to, but she canceled, because she preferd to stay in home to be with her dying dog. I was so angry, but she write a beatiful and emotional letter to all South America explaining the reasons of the cancel, she write: "I can't come to South America. Not now". I hope I can see her show I meet her.

Kidkanevil & Daisuke Tanabe

Yesterday I read my horoscope and it's says that in my free time I should spend listening to music, thing that I do every day, but today I choose more carefully what to listening. This week have been very stressful so I decide to listening something to be more relax and that's a new band that I knew; Kidkanevil & Daisuke Tanabe, two DJs, first from England and the second one from Japan. This pair joined to create a new album called 'Kidsuke' in November 2012. I really love this album from the first time a listening, because of the combination of that two worlds (english and japan), the combination of many weird sound. Other thing that I love about this album it's that it seems that it was made in a toy factory, you can hear child voice, sounds of a video game, little sound of bells. I recommend this album because is like an explosion of imagination, it's maybe the sound of our dreams mixed with the sound of big cites like Tokyo for example (we can hear the sound of the public transport). Stop for a minute and enjoy this music, for that it was made for, and remember that we were all young one day when everything was simple, so breathe and don't be that stressful. Just click here.

My ideal job

Is really difficult to think about an ideal job because I dont proyect my self working in just one thing and making the same thing every day. But I think in three things; illustration, permaculture and friends. I really think that me ideal job have to combine this three thing but I just don't know how, and there is the difficult of this job, be creative and curious, I want a job where I can lear new things every day and never be bored. I think working on the ground with friends and more people creating a cooperative, actually that is not that difficult, you just need some ground, the difficult is to be organized and working with more people.

I really like the silence and to be alone too, so I need an other job for my self and that is to illustrate my own ideas or from others, making the illustrations for books or just create my own storys and make the illustrations for that.