Rue du Cherche-Midi, originally uploaded by alexloyal.

“La Maga había aparecido una tarde en la rue du Cherche-Midi, cuando subía a mi pieza de la rue de la Tombe Issoire traía siempre una flor, una tarjeta Klee o Miró, y si no tenía dinero elegía una hoja de plátano en el parque.”

So I got this bit of spam to my work email today. Notice two things:

They used my last name to, not only address the email that came in…

Dear Leal,

I sent you an important email below as an attachment.Please view my attach email below and reply.

Regards,

Bernard Frank.

…but to name the file attached (screen shot above) and include it within the context of the letter. Obviously they forgot to change the font.

But still, dedicated, custom spamming. Impressive.

Doing a little IP trace magic on an IP within the email headers (82.128.35.51) tells me it originated in Nigera.

Sad, no fortune for me.

I deleted and reported it obviously.

Mauricio Moreno, fotógrafo de El Tiempo, realizó este video utilizando 1,200 fotografías por minuto que tomó de un día cotidiano en Bogotá. Todas utilizando la técnica de Tilt Shift.

Maravilloso.

Uno de los foristas en la página de City TV menciona que la obra de Moreno puede estar basada en los videos de Keith Loutit.

(Pese a que su contenido a veces es cuestionable, no cabe duda que el portal online de El Tiempo es uno de los sitios más innovadores y avanzados en tecnología web de Colombia y Latinoamérica.)

Inspired by this.

I’ve always been a city dweller. Grew up in a big concrete jungle down south (way south of the border) and spent hours wandering around the city. Sure I didn’t earn a street cred badge, but I knew how to navigate it and stay away from the rough areas.

Anyway, due to my family’s decision to move I ended up in suburbia, whereas once I could go outside, walk a few blocks and catch a bus to anywhere, I was now stuck in a place where the nearest form of urbanization was the municipal courthouse 15 miles away.

Needless to say I was miserable.

A few years later, and after I had acquired the ability to realistically be able to go anywhere, anyplace on my own, I went back home. What made it significant was not the fact that I returned but rather, that I knew that I belonged, and that regardless of where I was now, that I’d never forget that.

I also walked aimlessly for hours around the city, without a worry about how I would go back to my place of stay, or at what time. I just roamed and took in the sounds of the city as it breathed around me.

AWE.SOME.

One of my all-time favorite albums is Deltron 3030, the project created by the super group of Dan the Automator, Del the Funky Homosapien and Kid Koala. It takes the listener through the life and times of Deltron, an emcee living in a dystopian society in the year 3030, where he battles government corruption and engages in the occasional intergalactic rap battle.

The fact that it’s a hip hop concept album and a rap opera is thought-provoking enough, but I hadn’t realized/thought through as far as the source of the art for the cover.

It’s actually a photograph of people walking from the Trylon to the Perisphere, two structures constructed for the 1939 New York World’s fair, which was a showcase for the Art Deco style of the time.

The theme of the fair was “The Wolrd of Tomorrow.” So now you know.