Archive for February, 2008

Title in Progress… 2

A few years ago I wrote a fictional story about a subject I’m all up about… confusion. For all non-Spanish speakers, I’ll give you a small rundown of it. The story is about a teenage girl whose life is turned upside down by her ‘adult’ (20 something year old) boyfriend. He becomes possessive and obsessive, and drags her out of her friends, family, and life she knows of. To avoid making this narrative any longer, at the end, boyfriend dumps the girl for no reason and she spends all summer wondering what she did wrong.

As summer goes by and classes resume, she feels she’s still not over her now ex-boyfriend, but she finds out he impregnated a girl and moved to another town. The catch of the story is that, girl cries for days and days, and she doesn’t even know if she’s crying because she feels sorry for him, or because she wishes deeply she could be that pregnant girl, only to be near him. That’s what I’m about to write today, a very subject I think I know.

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My Butterfly Effect 5

Have you ever ended your day thinking what would have happened if you woke up with your left foot instead of your right? If you had a healthy breakfast like an apple instead of that morning taco? Maybe you would just have had a little more energy through the day… How about bigger things like, what if you had said something different at that important meeting? Maybe you would have lost that big contract. How about things a little more in my experience… what if you had just treated differently that one person you really like. Maybe things between you two would be better right now. I always wonder.

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Photoshopography - Seeing is No Longer Believing 0

Photo manipulation has always grasped my interest. With the art of image editing and retouching, you are able to produce anything now a days and make it look as real and believable as your skills allow you, in order to create an illusion through digital means. With this 21st century technology, “Photoshopping”, the slang term for it, has raised a lot of ethical concerns in the world, since the regular eye fails to distinguish what’s real and what’s not these days.

A very common use of photoshopping can be seen in Journalism. Throughout the years there have been a lot of images that have been caught being manipulated by the media, in order to achieve certain personal goals, like influence the people one way or another or even something as greedy as to sell magazines.

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American Idol 2

Debo admitir de una vez, que si salio en la TV… de seguro ya lo vi.

Como todos los años, estoy una vez mas pegadote a la TV viendo (entre otras cosas) American Idol. No solo lo veo por las audiciones iniciales y como Simon Cowell destruye el autoestima de los jóvenes de América, aunque tengo que aceptar que eso lo hace mucho mas interesante.

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