Life Map

i spoke with Max who is a nice and sportive person. He was born in the south of Chile, in la Union, he lived his chilhood there, he stills remember his old house there, his favourite room there was his bedroom cause his toys were there. His grandfather "Lucho" was a person he really admired when he was young.
He travelled to Rome, he really liked it, especially the roman forum. His biggest success was winning the national championship of hight jump, he left it but he stills doing sports, he really enjoies riding his bike. He likes to spend time with his dog Bruno that its very sweet. He would like to be a better student and being more responsible.

Nothing's gonna change my world

One of my favourite songs is "Across the universe" by Fionna Apple, this song was written by John Lennon & Paul McCartney and it was originally performed by The Beatles in the album "Let It Be". I first heard it around the year 2003, i was at school, sometimes my friend isabel and i used to hear music together, one day she was hearing an album of Fionna an she said...hey! Have you heard this song?. When i put the headphones on my ears i started to hear this beautifull song. it was like hearing someone talking quietly to my mind, the music inmerse me in a deep state of mind, everytime a heard it, provokes me the same feeling between happyness, sadness, nostalgic and peace.
I really liked that song, im still not sure about if i have heard that song before that time, i think it was in my unconscious. Maybe i heard it before because the Beatles will be always popular and i knew some song of her song but i didnt knew that she was the perfomer.
Like two moths after, at my birthday my friend gave me the album that she had. I really liked it.
Then i saw the video on mtv, it was like been watching the really it other way. i really love when everything its upside down, and she sings in front of the camera so calm and at the back there are lot of people around chaos and destruction.
A song that will always will remind me a stage of my lyfe.



here are the lyrics

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind
Possessing and caressing me
Jai guru de va om

Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes
That call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box
They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe
Jai guru de va om

Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

Sounds of laughter shades of earth are ringing
Through my open ears inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me
Like a million suns, it calls me on and on across the universe
Jai guru de va om

Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

Jai guru de va om, Jai guru de va om
Jai guru de va om, Jai guru de va om
Jai guru de va om

Jai guru de va om
Jai guru de va om

Modernity and Contradiction -CCTV building-

Nowdays its very important for cities to have modern and amazing builidings to reflect their power and future. But what happens when that means to destroy the past?. Dutch Architect Rem Koolhaas tells Jonathan Glancey why even he gets nostalgic.

Koolhaas is one of the most famous architechts in the world, he was born in Rotterdam (1944). He lived four years of his childhood in Indonesia and in 1956 returned to Holand, to his home city. Rotterdam was in reconstruction because it was destroyed by the germans, probably many people in that time could think about being an architect. Firstly Koolhaas was a journalist but he left that career and started to study architecture. Koolhaas is responsible of some of the most challenging, controversial and critically acclaimed buildings of the past decade like Seattle public library, Casa da Musica and many more.
Koolhaas its actually working in a very ambitious project on the new headquarters for China Central Television (CCTV). due in time for the Olympics next August
The tower its ambitious: 230 metres high, designed in the shape of a 3D Chinese character, its steel structure forms a continuous spatial loop climbing up and around the volume of the building.

This architect has to face with being the constructor of a new image but at the same time to be part of the destruction of the old kind of life at the "hutongs", these are tight webs of hotchpotch homes and alleys gathered around wells from the age-old courtyards of Beijing. The olimpics will find the hutongs old fashioned and unnecesary, most of them will be gone. Those who live there are being given new high-rise flats.

Koolhaas shows to the reporter some old photos of the streets at hutongs and he looks at them with affection... He`s a complex and intriguing architect, a man who thrives on free thinking and seems that his heart belongs to a world closer to Beijing's hutongs and old cities but the next day he can be design the architecture demanded by ultra-capitalism or absolutist governments.


taken from

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/architecture/story/0,,2156966,00.html