Nollywood & The Hyena by Pieter Hugo

Look what I ran into by chance... I was browsing for spooky stuff and I found these amazing yet perturbing photos by this African photographer Pieter Hugo.
Have to say I devotely hang to his astonishing work; these photographs are from Nollywood and The Hyena & Other Men serie, he shot in Africa, during ‘ Reportage Trip’.
Each photo goes along with an explanation.
Nollywood is settled in Nigeria and they produce about 1,000 movies per year, portraying African reality.
I love black skinned people, like Alek Wek ♥
Mexican wannabe filmmakers should learn from great people like this Third-world-country man.

Phantasmagoria

Ghosts are the most intriguing things on Earth.
I live in a 200 y/o house and there's something very spooky about the house itself.
I sometimes imagine about the people who have walked, slept, laughed, cried, lived in this house.
One of my friends told me she has this student who can see the ghosts...
I haven't seen ghosts that clear, but I've definitely felt something...

About PERFECTION

Perfection, my friend, is no more made for us than infinity. We must seek for nothing in it, demand nothing of it, neither love nor beauty, happiness nor virtue; but we must love it if we would be virtuous, if we would attain the
greatest happiness of which man is capable.

Alfred de Musset, The Confession of a Child of the Century

Pic taken from LIFE

I am bored and want to start work

This summer has been kind of a therapy for me. It's like a transition from my independent life, living in my own flat and now being at home with my pops.

I've done a lot this summer: I've read 6 magazines that had been waiting for a good read, I've read 3 books and watched a film I was given. I've watched my favorite films and taken my dog for a walk.

I've been kicking it around the Valley and it's pretty shocking to see my surroundings are changing completely. There are people I don't know, teenage kids swarming around like a bunch of mosquitoes wearing preppy clothes... I feel so fucking old.

When I take my dog for a walk I always try to keep up at the town's people's pace but I can't... They are ver slow when walking... They're not worried about time...

Once one of my professor's at the Fac, this very skinny always-late-4-work Ibero woman, told us that Time is money, and we should not waste it.

When I was working at the Fac, a year ago approximately, I was living on a fricking constant rush, and I had to walk a lot and solve all the incoming problems throughout the day...

At the end of the day I was exhausted. I used to get up at 7, start work at 9, finish work at 3 then start teaching at 4 and finish teaching at 9.

I earned very good money I have to say, but I was wearing out and I was a fricking walking bunch of nerves...

Tomoko, my beautiful Japanese 20 y/o student told me that in Japan students always arrive 10 before the class starts and in Mexico students arrive even 40 minutes later. She loved that...

Now, for much I try to slow down my pace a little a feel the need to jog...

I really want to start work again. I still have five more books to read and some chores to be done around da house, but I miss the interaction with students and people. I miss my friends too.

Now I want to start working...

Pics taken from The Visual Dictionary

Zoophilia

I'd like to kiss a horse... Nice legs and hair...

They remind me a voluptuous woman...

Move the fuck on!

Votre âme est un paysage choisi

Clair de lune
Votre âme est un paysage choisi
Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques
Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi
Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques.

Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur
L'amour vainqueur et la vie opportune
Ils n'ont pas l'air de croire à leur bonheur
Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune,

Au calme clair de lune triste et beau,
Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres
Et sangloter d'extase les jets d'eau,
Les grands jets d'eau sveltes parmi les marbres.

Paul VERLAINE, Fêtes galantes (1869)

Michael Jackson on Vanity Fair September issue

Michael Jackson, photographed by Annie Leibovitz in Los Angeles, October 1989.

Vanity Fair cover for the September issue featuring Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett.

Cool B&W pics...

The Valley

I live in a very small, green Valley in the south of the state. I like it here but it's very dirty, you know, typical Mexican problems: garbage everywhere, dog poop, the size-of-craters puddles and unecessary bumps in the streets.

There's a hill with a small cathedral on top, called 'El Calvario'.
I really like this place, I go there almost every weekend because of the fantastic view of the city.

Some 200-y/o trees were cut down because a couple of months before a lightning stroke one of them.
I sometimes go there and just stare at the peeps walking and driving in the Valley, listen to the situations and try to understand peoples' behavior.
I ask myself silly q's and smile with certain glee...
I took these pics myself...

As Patrick Wolf in Pumpkin Soup says:

"Sometimes in the evening ii find a green spot in this town

And i hide myself thinking of those circling skies..."

Slumdog Millionaire

I graduated a month and a half ago and as a present my dearest friend Tania got me 'Slumdog Millionaire' film directed by Danny Boyle.

I didn't have the chance to watch it, until yesterday and it's a fucking good film!!!

I have to admit that I cried right in the end, when Jamal finds Latika.

It's written...