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Well now, friends and neighbors, today we celebrate a man who sat behind a keyboard and opened doors. Not the kind with hinges and brass handles, the other kind. The kind that swing inward when the lights are low and the mind’s feeling restless.
Ray Manzarek.
Born on the west side of Chicago, where the wind cuts through your coat and the trains rattle your dreams into rhythm. Chicago’s a city that knows about the blues. Knows about brick and smoke and the long road out. Ray Manzarek took all that with him when he headed west, chasing sun instead of snow. You can leave Chicago, but it doesn’t always leave you.
Out in California, where the palm trees lean like they’re listening for secrets, Manzarek met a poet who didn’t want to just write words, he wanted to set them on fire. Jim Morrison had the storm; Ray had the switch that turned the lightning into sound.
Now most folks think of rock ’n’ roll as guitars slung low and drums kicked hard. But Ray, he made the organ sing like it was raised in a cathedral and baptized in a roadside bar. He played a Vox Continental like it owed him money. Notes curling up like incense smoke, winding through the rafters of whatever room he happened to be in.
Some players hide behind their instruments. Ray Manzarek didn’t hide. He built landscapes. You could walk through his chords. There was something classical in the way he held a melody steady while everything else threatened to drift off into the desert. He was the hinge on the gate, the engine in the getaway car.
The Doors, that name wasn’t about carpentry. It was about thresholds. About stepping from one state of mind into another. Manzarek understood that. He’d studied film, philosophy, the old European composers, not to mention jazz! He knew that a song could be a little movie for your ears. And when Morrison’s voice rolled in like thunder over the Pacific, Manzarek’s keys laid down the highway it traveled on. There’s a certain kind of musician who knows when not to play. He had that gift too. Silence can be louder than a drum kit if you let it breathe. He’d leave a little space in the corner of a song, like an empty chair at the table, and that space would start talking back to you.
He didn’t play bass with his hands on a bass guitar, oh no, he worked those bass lines with his left hand on a keyboard. Split his mind in two, maybe three. That’s a rare thing. Like patting your head, rubbing your stomach, and solving a riddle all at once. But he made it look easy. Smooth as a late-night DJ spinning records nobody else dared to spin.
Fame came knocking, and it knocked loud. The ’60s were a carnival - bright lights, strange mirrors, cotton candy skies. The Doors walked right into the funhouse and brought their own soundtrack. Manzarek stood steady through it all. When the carnival packed up and the dust settled, he kept the music alive. Guarded the flame like a lighthouse keeper who knows ships are still out there, even if you can’t see them.
There’s something about keyboard players. They sit instead of strut. They anchor instead of roam. But don’t mistake stillness for quiet. Ray Manzarek’s playing had motion in it, like a river under ice. You might not see the current, but it’s there, strong and patient. He had a laugh that sounded like he knew something you didn’t and a the most pleasant smile whenever he played. Maybe he knew that music isn’t just about youth or rebellion or breaking things. Maybe he knew it’s about opening doors inside yourself and having the courage to walk through.
When he passed on in 2013, it wasn’t silence that followed. It was echo. You can still hear him if you listen close oh that swirling organ, that carnival waltz in minor key, that sense that something mysterious is just around the corner of the next chord.
So today, wherever you are, sitting on a bus, driving down a long stretch of highway, sitting by a window with the city humming below, or just staring at the ceiling while the day does its work, tip your hat to Ray Manzarek. The man who proved that a keyboard could roar, whisper, and prophesy all in the same breath.
Some folks open doors. Some folks walk through them. And some, like Ray Manzarek, build the frame, oil the hinges, and hand you the key.
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A Glitch "Copulat Eam (συνουσία) ~ Ètude V”
This art piece were created for my PhD and based on a Digital and Analog Aesthetic Research on "Artistic Practices, Digital Art in Social Networks and Net Art", some digital techniques used of artistic diversity, such as the re-mixed appropriation of image or video, also work conceived as original data work called creative altered binary code, datamoshing, generative art and glitch art worked in all its forms and expressions; works of art with a strong focus decoding the i-frames of images and videos (also known as key frames and altered or distorted creative binary code) mixed with seductive techniques of Pixelsorting Art; making it seem extremely sensitive and abstract; created exclusively for the virtual gallery on-line.
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A Glitch "Sanitarium (Σανατόριο) ~ Ètude I”
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Today we’re drifting through the fog and lantern light to celebrate a man who painted storms in black and white, Akira Kurosawa.
Akira Kurosawa didn’t just make pictures, he summoned them. Like calling spirits out of the wind. Born in Tokyo when the century was still stretching its legs, he grew up watching a world that kept breaking and rebuilding itself, like a mirror that never quite forgets the cracks. And maybe that’s why his stories feel the way they do, like they’ve already lived a few lifetimes before you ever press play.
You ever notice how the rain falls different in his films? It doesn’t just fall, it confesses. It accuses. It washes things clean and then dirties them right back up again. And the wind… oh, that wind… it don’t blow, it argues. It pushes men into corners they didn’t know they were standing in.
Kurosawa had a way of telling a story from all sides at once, like turning a prism in the sun. Truth in his world ain’t a straight line it’s a circle, maybe even a maze. One man says one thing, another swears the opposite, and somewhere in between sits something that looks like the truth but won’t shake your hand.
And his heroes, they ain’t always heroes. Sometimes they’re tired. Sometimes they’re broke. Sometimes they’re just passing through, carrying a sword or a secret or a little bit of both. But when the moment comes, they stand up anyway. Not because they’re sure, but because they can’t stand sitting down.
Kurosawa made samurai feel like poets and poets feel like fighters. Took old stories and set them loose in a modern world that wasn’t sure it still believed in them. And yet, there they were, cutting through doubt like steel through silk.
Folks say cinema’s a young man’s game, but Kurosawa made it feel ancient. Like it had roots deep in the ground, tangled up with myth and memory and the kind of dreams you only remember halfway.
So if you ever find yourself caught between shadows and sunlight, wondering which way the truth bends you might already be walking through one of his scenes. Keep your eyes open, your stories close, and don’t trust the weather, it’s always trying to tell you something.
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His stage name Dogge Doggelito. His non stage name Douglas León. But most of all, he is just Dogge for us. One of the founders of The Latin Kings, Sweden's most successful rap groups.
Dogge formed The Latin Kings in 1991 together with the DJ brothers Chepe and Salla, also known as The Salazar Brothers. Their first album titled Välkommen till förorten (Welcome to the Suburb), released in 1994, became one of the biggest breakthroughs creating a sensation in the Swedish music world. Culture journalists claimed that The Latin Kings was the most important thing happening on the Swedish popular music scene since epoch-making suburbian punk band Ebba Grön.
In 1994, they were among the first to release a hiphop album with lyrics in Swedish, (archives say the first to do so was the group Just D), swedish rappers had before that time always used the English language.
The Latin Kings lyrics reflect life in the less affluent suburbs of Sweden and became famous for rapping in the local Rinkeby Swedish, a Swedish dialect, a multiethnolect youth linguistic phenomenon developed in the 1980s in Rinkeby, a Stockholm suburb, characterized by loanwords from Turkish, Aramaic, Spanish, Finnish, Persian, Arabic among others.
There had been a hiphop scene in Stockholm throughout the entire '80s. But the Latin Kings were the first to reach the charts rapping in Swedish and their music, lyrics and existence has meant lots to my generation and probably new ones, especially for us coming from other countries but also for the one who thought being born in this country is seen, counted and treated as an immigrant.
A sick global mindset.
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A Glitch "Khonvoum(Χο Μπόρν) ~ Ètude IV”
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Obra: En Casa/ En Kabul.
Autor: Tony Kushner.
Dirección: Carlos Gandolfo.
Labor: Diseño de Escenografía. (Junto a Carlos Gandolfo y Florencia Del Gener)
Diseño de Vestuario. (Junto a Florencia Del Gener).
Teatro: Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires Teatro San Martín.
Sala Casacuberta
Temporada: 2004.
Fotos: Mariana Del Gener.
Title: #172. Painting... 24x24 inches, Acrylic on Canvas. Painting by Terry David Silvercloud (Butch).
We’re drifting way up—way up—into the thermosphere, that part of the sky where the mercury runs wild and the particles get so lonesome they start glowing like neon signs on an empty highway. They say in the thermosphere the temperature can climb above three thousand degrees, but it won’t burn you, kind like the applause after a bad play. All heat, no heat. Reminds me of some clubs I used to visit.
Now, if you ask an art historian about the thermosphere, they’d probably squint, light a cigarette, and say something like: “Well, it’s all about liminality.” That’s an art-historian word meaning the threshold, the in-between.
Victor Turner talked about it in anthropology, but the art folks grabbed it like a painter grabbing a new brush. The thermosphere is a liminal zone, not quite earth, not quite space… just hanging there like an unfinished fresco by some apprentice who wandered off. You look at it through the lens of formalism, you see a big blue-black canvas, all shape and color and emptiness. Through iconography, maybe those glowing auroras are symbols, messages from the sun written in green fire. And if you’re a Marxist art historian, well… you’d probably blame the whole thing on capitalism anyway.
Now theater folks, they know all about altitude.
The Greeks carved amphitheaters into the sides of mountains, hoping the gods would catch the matinee. Imagine a stage set in the thermosphere: no scenery, no backdrop, just stars and the shimmering curtain of the Northern Lights. That’s what we call site-specific performance, honeybees. You don’t need props when the universe is doing the lighting design. Stanislavski would’ve told his actors to “live truthfully in imaginary circumstances,” but up in the thermosphere the circumstances are so imaginary, you got to hold onto your truth like a lucky coin. And Brecht? He’d love the whole thing, nothing says “alienation effect” like performing in a place where sound doesn’t travel and the audience can’t breathe.
So that’s the thermosphere for you, a place where science dances with art history, where temperature’s a rumor, where theater gets cosmic, and where humanity sends up little metal satellites hoping someone or something might tune in. Up there, the atoms glow. Down here… we just keep trying.
Whether you’re drifting in the thermosphere with a broken heart on a Monday morning keep your feet on the ground and your imagination in orbit.
See you next time.
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You ever hear a voice that feels like it’s been waiting for you longer than you’ve been alive? Jaime Sabines, he’s one of those.
Jaime Sabines didn’t come dressed like a poet. No velvet, no ivory tower. He came like a man who just stepped out for cigarettes and came back holding the universe in a paper bag. Born down in Chiapas, where the heat sticks to your thoughts and time moves like a tired animal, Sabines wrote the way people confess: quick, uneven, necessary.
Some poets build cathedrals out of language… Sabines? He built a kitchen table. Sat you down. Poured you something strong. Then he’d say the kind of things that make you look at your hands like you forgot they were yours.
He wrote about love, sure, but not the kind that floats. His love had weight. It dragged chains. It got sick. It stayed too long or left too early. He could take something as simple as missing someone and turn it into a room you couldn’t find the door out of. And death… yeah, death walked through his lines like it had a key.
When his father died, Sabines didn’t dress it up in metaphor and moonlight. He wrote it raw. Like grief was sitting right there in the chair across from him, breathing. You read those poems and you don’t feel like you’re reading, you feel like you’re overhearing something you weren’t supposed to. There’s a kind of honesty there, the dangerous kind. The kind that doesn’t ask for anything to be. You get the sense Sabines didn’t trust poetry much. Or maybe he trusted it too much to lie with it. So he kept it close to the ground, close to the body. No tricks. No disguises. Just the truth, walking in without knocking. And maybe that’s why he lingers like a melody you can’t quite place, but it follows you out into the street anyway.
So if you find yourself awake some night, thoughts circling like they got nowhere to land, you might hear him. Not loud. Not polished. Just a man, telling it like it is. Somehow, that’s more than enough.
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ESPERO CURARME DE TI
Espero curarme de ti en unos días.
Debo dejar de fumarte, de beberte, de pensarte. Es posible. Siguiendo las prescripciones de la moral en turno. Me receto tiempo, abstinencia, soledad.
¿Te parece bien que te quiera nada más una semana? No es mucho, ni es poco, es bastante. En una semana se puede reunir todas las palabras de amor que se han pronunciado sobre la tierra y se les puede prender fuego. Te voy a calentar con esa hoguera del amor quemado. Y también el silencio. Porque las mejores palabras del amor están entre dos gentes que no se dicen nada.
Hay que quemar también ese otro lenguaje lateral y subversivo del que ama. (Tú sabes cómo te digo que te quiero cuando digo: «qué calor hace», «dame agua», «¿sabes manejar?», «se hizo de noche»... Entre las gentes, a un lado de tus gentes y las mías, te he dicho «ya es tarde», y tú sabías que decía «te quiero»).
Una semana más para reunir todo el amor del tiempo. Para dártelo. Para que hagas con él lo que quieras: guardarlo, acariciarlo, tirarlo a la basura. No sirve, es cierto. Sólo quiero una semana para entender las cosas. Porque esto es muy parecido a estar saliendo de un manicomio para entrar a un panteón.
//1959, J. Sabines
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I HOPE TO HEAL FROM YOU
I hope to heal from you in a few days.
I must stop smoking you, drinking you, thinking you. It’s possible. Following the prescriptions of the moment’s morality. I prescribe for myself time, abstinence, solitude.
Does it seem alright to you if I love you for just one more week? It’s not much, nor is it little—it’s enough. In a week you can gather all the words of love that have been spoken on earth and set them on fire. I will warm you with that bonfire of burned love. And also with silence. Because the best words of love are between two people who say nothing to each other.
We must also burn that other sideways, subversive language of the one who loves. (You know how I tell you I love you when I say: “it’s hot,” “give me water,” “can you drive?”, “it’s gotten late”… Among people, off to the side of your people and mine, I’ve said to you “it’s late,” and you knew I meant “I love you.”)
One more week to gather all the love of time. To give it to you. So you can do with it whatever you want: keep it, caress it, throw it away. It’s no use, that’s true. I only want a week to understand things. Because this is very much like leaving an asylum to enter a graveyard.
//1959, J. Sabines
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Obra: En Casa/ En Kabul.
Autor: Tony Kushner.
Dirección: Carlos Gandolfo.
Labor: Diseño de Escenografía. (Junto a Carlos Gandolfo y Florencia Del Gener)
Diseño de Vestuario. (Junto a Florencia Del Gener).
Teatro: Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires Teatro San Martín.
Sala Casacuberta
Temporada: 2004.
Fotos: Mariana Del Gener.
A sensual close-up capturing delicate hand gestures over a woman's waist adorned with golden jewelry. Taken at sunrise by a peaceful lake, this photo reflects feminine expression, elegance, and body awareness.
Model: Alina — psychologist and visual creator from Kyiv. Official image for artistic and identity confirmation purposes.
Visual artist/guitar;
Fukushima - Amsterdam herdenkt ramp in Japan;
Huis De Pinto, Amsterdam,
March 11th, 2017;
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A Film Glitch “Regina Spectris (Morrigu)”
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Obra: En Casa/ En Kabul.
Autor: Tony Kushner.
Dirección: Carlos Gandolfo.
Labor: Diseño de Escenografía. (Junto a Carlos Gandolfo y Florencia Del Gener)
Diseño de Vestuario. (Junto a Florencia Del Gener).
Teatro: Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires Teatro San Martín.
Sala Casacuberta
Temporada: 2004.
Fotos: Mariana Del Gener.
A Glitch “Crypto-Normativiste-Séduction ~ Ètude III”
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Title: #168. Painting... 24x24 inches, Acrylic on Canvas. Painting by Terry David Silvercloud (Butch).
Some afternoons seem stitched together by rain.
You can see it in that window, the drops falling slow and steady, tapping a rhythm on the glass like a quiet drummer keeping time for the street outside. People move by in coats and scarves, heads slightly bowed, the way folks do when the weather asks them to think a little deeper than usual. Inside, though, the world feels warmer.
There’s a small dog perched on a red cushion, looking out like a philosopher in a black coat. A dachshund. Long body, steady eyes. In Spanish we call them “perro salchicha”, si, that means “sausage dog”. Those dogs always seem to carry an old soul with them, like they’ve been around the block a few more times than the rest of us.
Watching the rain.
It reminds me of one of the dogs we had when growing up in Mexico. His name was Gumaro. Same kind of dog, low to the ground but full of heart. The kind that doesn’t just belong to a family… the kind that chooses one.
Gumaro chose my father.
Now the strange thing about loyalty is that sometimes it has to prove itself against the world. Twice people stole that dog. Maybe they saw something in him — the shine in his coat, the proud way he walked, or maybe just the quiet dignity dachshunds carry like a secret. But twice they took him away. And twice my father went and got him back.
You can picture it like an old border-town story, dusty roads, questions asked, doors knocked on, long car drives in the middle of the nights, somebody recognizing the dog that wouldn’t stop looking for home. Because that’s the thing about a loyal animal: even when you move them somewhere else, their compass still points toward the people they love. And Gumaro always pointed back.
Looking at this dog in the window, watching the rain fall on a quiet street somewhere far from where Gumaro ran his little patrols… you realize dogs understand time in a different way than we do. They don’t measure it in years or miles. They measure it in moments beside the people they trust.
A rainy afternoon.
A warm cushion.
A hand resting on their back.
Sometimes that’s all the world needs to be. And somewhere in that rhythm of rain on the glass, you can almost hear an old memory padding softly across the floor; long body, short legs, faithful heart still finding its way home.
A Glitch "Originale Peccatum (αμαρτία) ~ Ètude I”
This art piece were created for my PhD and based on a Digital and Analog Aesthetic Research on "Artistic Practices, Digital Art in Social Networks and Net Art", some digital techniques used of artistic diversity, such as the re-mixed appropriation of image or video, also work conceived as original data work called creative altered binary code, datamoshing, generative art and glitch art worked in all its forms and expressions; works of art with a strong focus decoding the i-frames of images and videos (also known as key frames and altered or distorted creative binary code) mixed with seductive techniques of Pixelsorting Art; making it seem extremely sensitive and abstract; created exclusively for the virtual gallery on-line.
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Obra: En Casa/ En Kabul.
Autor: Tony Kushner.
Dirección: Carlos Gandolfo.
Labor: Diseño de Escenografía. (Junto a Carlos Gandolfo y Florencia Del Gener)
Diseño de Vestuario. (Junto a Florencia Del Gener).
Teatro: Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires Teatro San Martín.
Sala Casacuberta
Temporada: 2004.
Fotos: Mariana Del Gener.
Obra: En Casa/ En Kabul.
Autor: Tony Kushner.
Dirección: Carlos Gandolfo.
Labor: Diseño de Escenografía. (Junto a Carlos Gandolfo y Florencia Del Gener)
Diseño de Vestuario. (Junto a Florencia Del Gener).
Teatro: Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires Teatro San Martín.
Sala Casacuberta
Temporada: 2004.
Fotos: Mariana Del Gener.
Obra: En Casa/ En Kabul.
Autor: Tony Kushner.
Dirección: Carlos Gandolfo.
Labor: Diseño de Escenografía. (Junto a Carlos Gandolfo y Florencia Del Gener)
Diseño de Vestuario. (Junto a Florencia Del Gener).
Teatro: Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires Teatro San Martín.
Sala Casacuberta
Temporada: 2004.
Fotos: Mariana Del Gener.