No time to die

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Daniel Craig, oooops, James Bond did it again!

Here you have a spectacular movie from the World’s most beloved secret agent!

The landscapes are breathtaking, the special effects are state of the art and the gimmicks still steal our attention and makes us dream about using them!

An excellent movie so Daniel Craig can drop the curtain on this character!

You rocked, man!

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London read by M

Wojnarowicz: F–k You F-ggot F–ker

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The life of a revolutionary visual artist.
I knew little or nothing about David Wojnarowicz’s work, to my regret… It was with great pleasure that I now know his work.
A unique life, with a lot of toil and struggle, both with himself and with society.
A soul disfigured by life, but strengthened by art and the will to be.
I strongly recommend the documentary to everyone, because those who know him will perhaps better understand its path and those who do not know him will be able to exalt such a great work.

Last night I was standing around here looking at my photographs! They’re my life and I don’t know what to anybody to distort that, just for their comfort. Testing one, two, three…

David Wojnarowicz

Death to 2021

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Here’s a film that, with an excellent dose of irony, some idiocy, and a good deal of barbs for society, gives us a summary of the year 2021.
For me, it felt like 2021 got by running, but as I reviewed some of the events, I realized that it was much longer than I initially realized.
Nonetheless, if you want a 2021 retrospective with intelligence and humor, I strongly recommend this film (or is it a mini-film)?!…

A quiet place part II

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Well, not only the name gives the motto to this movie, but it’s the true part II of A quiet place.

This movie starts exactly where the first part ended… OK, it gives us a glimpse of the beginning of it all, but after that, goes straight to the continuum of “part I”.

Once again, silence it’s the character that brings the tension, the suspense of it all… Without it, it would have been just another monster movie!

With a few new nuances, the real feel still echoes throughout the movie!

If you like the first one, this is obliged to watch, if not, go watch the first part and then go straight ahead to this one!

There are people out there. People worth saving.

Evelyn Abbott

Campeones

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And there you have it, an amazing Spanish movie, about the most one-of-a-kind basketball team!

The story reminds us about the struggles in life, but the most important of it all is how we can surpass them with hope and a lot of work! We just have to believe in ourselves. And all these actors are the proof of it!

Congratulations to each and every one of you: José de Luna, Sergio Olmo, Jesús Vidal, Gloria Ramos, Alberto Nieto Ferrández, Julio Fernández, Jesús Lago, Fran Fuentes, Roberto Chinchilla e Stefan López.

They had unique co-stars also: Javier Gutiérrez, Athenea Mata e Juan Margallo that helped bring to almost real-life this amazing movie!

All, and I reinforce the ALL of you out there must watch this one and rejoice with the beauty and performances of all these actors.

Felicidades!

La vida es solo una… Vive hoy

gymnasium wall

Supernova

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Supernova is a star that reaches its peak and explodes into billions of small particles that will become life in another part of the cosmos.
This film takes us on a journey of love, sharing, remembering, wanting, leaving… And it leads us to an interior supernova.
A beautiful and pure love written in the stars of the night, in the Milky Way that not only encompasses the heavenly vault but is also inscribed in the core of each one of us!
The beauty of the photography in this film is idyllic, the landscapes are breathtaking, so beautiful and poetic the way they are screened to us and the soundtrack lulls us into a story shared by the road not only of the journey itself but also of the journey of Life!
The intensity of the story is sometimes stifling, as we feel so much in the skin of each of the protagonists, Sam and Tusker!
The brilliant work of the actors, Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci is chilling… The faithful delivery of a story that can be as real as it is vivid!
A delight and a grip are feelings that pervade us at the end of this film.
I do recommend it.

“We will not starve for lack of wonders, but from lack of wonder.”

Tusker

The Velvet Underground

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Whether you like or hate them, The Velvet Underground documentary it’s a piece of art!

History is exposed in this doc, not only the bands but also the 60’s explosion of art in its most ubiquity… The caldron that fostered miscegenation of arts was presented in the form of a unique band, The Velvet Underground!

To find the roots of alternative music in all its aspects within this doc!

Sunday morning, brings the dawn in
It’s just a restless feeling by my side
Early dawning, Sunday morning
It’s just the wasted years so close behind

Lou Reed & John Cale

Too beautiful

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May God forbid me to lose ROMANTICISM, even though I know roses don’t speak…
May I not lose my OPTIMISM, even knowing that the future that awaits us may not be so happy…
May I not lose the WILL TO LIVE, even though life is, in many moments, painful…
May I not lose the desire to HAVE GREAT FRIENDS, even though I know that, as the world goes around, they end up leaving our lives…
May I not lose the desire to HELP PEOPLE, even though I know that many of them are incapable of seeing, recognizing, and giving back, this help…
May I not lose BALANCE, even though I know that countless forces want me to fall…
May I not lose the WILL TO LOVE, even though the person I love the most may not feel the same feeling for me…
May I not lose the LIGHT AND SHINE IN THE EYES, even knowing that many things I will see in the world will darken my eyes…
May I not lose GRIP, even knowing that defeat and loss are two extremely dangerous opponents…
May I not lose REASON, even though I know that the temptations of life are countless and delicious…
May I not lose the FEELING OF JUSTICE, even knowing that the harmed one may be me…
May I not lose my STRONG EMBRACE, even knowing that one day my arms will be weak…
May I not lose the BEAUTY AND JOY OF SEEING, even knowing that many tears will spring from my eyes and run down my soul…
May I not lose LOVE FOR MY FAMILY, even though I know that it would often require incredible efforts to maintain its harmony…
May I not lose the desire to DONATE THIS HUGE LOVE that exists in my heart, even though I know that it will often be submitted and even rejected…
May I not lose my desire to BE BIG, even though the world is small… And above all…
May I never forget that God loves me infinitely!
That a small grain of joy and hope within each one is capable of changing and transforming anything, because…
LIFE IS BUILT IN DREAMS AND MADE IN LOVE!

Taken from an amazing PowerPoint of which I do not know who the author is.

A place in Peru

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In a place in Peru, there is a surprising landscape of salt terraces, they are “Las Salinas de Maras”.
Their exploitation is as old as the Inca empire and they are located on the side of a hill in the “Sacred Valley”. The name of the salt flats in Quechua is Kachi Raqay and it is made up of about five thousand pools of about 5 square meters each, the water is filtered in the pools and evaporates by the action of the intense sun, causing the crystals of coarse salt to sprout. After 1 month the salt reaches 10 cm tall and has to be harvested.
In one part of Peru, there are some islands built with totora, where a community lives whose origins date back to times before the Incas: they are the Floating Islands of San Pedro de Kapi in Lake Titicaca, home to the Uros. They are located in the Bay of Puno and there are about 20. Each one is inhabited by 3 to 10 Uro-Aymara families, who build and roof their houses with reed mats, as well as make the islands. The Uros call themselves kotsuña, “the lake people”, and maintain the tradition of artisanal fishing, especially karachi and silverside, as well as hunting wild birds.
In a place in Peru, there is a place of visual magnificence: it is the Cordillera Huayhuash, legendary for being the source of the mighty Amazon. It has peaks that rise above 6,600 m, the Huayhuash is a compact range of 20 main mountains knotted by the blue of the glacial ice and beautiful lakes. It is considered the best place in the world for Andean trekking. A trip around the entire circuit is 170 kilometers of hard walking.

Photography: own and from the internet

Taken from a PowerPoint design by: Eliza