Fireworks

Here is a clip I recorded in Costa Rica´s 2010 International Arts Festival. It´s a street theater group from Germany called Titanick. In the video the French music group called Fanfare le Snob" is playing along a nice catchy song as lots and lots of fireworks appear in the sky behind them. It really was amazing!! :D

Fanfare Le Snob & Titanick from marco obando on Vimeo.

Inspiration

Today i´d like to show you some works that I really admire;Kosai Sekine is a Japanese film director, and he has done amazing shorts films that have been awarded in Cannes among others,

I like the way he entertains with short stories that show different sides of Japan´s society, besides, the visual composition is awesome! Check them out!

Busy but fine

It´s been a while since my last post, I´ve been very busy with work and projects.. but I think I like to be busy, (until some point of course).. recently it has helped me to think better about how are things going so it´s fine. By the way I applied to a scholarship to study visual media design in Shanghai, China, can´t wait to get the results.. but it will be announced until April :S! I hope it happens what´s best anyways, I´m try not to think about it a lot..

A poem and a song.

It´s been a while since my last post.. today I want to share a poem by Shuntarou Tanikawa, It´s called Ikiru, and it talks about the different; often unnoticed things we have in our lives..

It really made me think about how happy we can be if we want to, we don´t need more reasons to be happy than being alive.

If you want a translation please post a comment, though I think part of the feeling is lost when a poem or a text is translated to other language..

If anyone has another good poem or text please let me know :)

生きる 谷川俊太郎

生きているということ

いま生きているということ

それはのどがかわくということ

木もれ陽がまぶしいということ

ふっとあるメロディを思い出すということ

くしゃみをすること

あなたと手をつなぐこと

生きているということ

いま生きているということ

それはミニスカート

それはプラネタリウム

それはヨハン・シュトラウス

それはピカソ

それはアルプス

すべての美しいものに出会うということ

そして

かくされた悪を注意深くこばむこと

生きているということ

いま生きているということ

泣けるということ

笑えるということ

怒れるということ

自由ということ

生きているということ

いま生きているということ

いま遠くで犬が吠えるということ

いま地球が廻っているということ

いまどこかで産声があがるということ

いまどこかで兵士が傷つくということ

いまぶらんこがゆれているということ

いまいまが過ぎてゆくこと

生きているということ

いま生きているということ

鳥がはばたくということ

海がとどろくということ

かたつむりははうということ

人は愛するということ

あなたの手のぬくみ

いのちということ

By the way I have been listening to this song lately, I really like it, enjoy!!

Peace?

I ´d like to ask if anybody knows what peace means; because it just seems that nobody knows what it actually means anymore...Obama getting a peace prize for the things he is supposedly going to do?? I mean, I´m not against him or anything, I just think that there are thousands of people who have done better things for peace and they don´t get any credit for that..

And it´s pretty understandable,it happens all the time; but this case is like getting your diploma before you pass your tests don´t you think?

I just can't help feeling upset about the way this world works sometimes, everything is about "power", and money.. Don´t misunderstand me, I do support Obama, what I don´t think is that one single person is going to be able to (or should) stop every war.

The good thing is; I know there are people out there who are doing incredible things for peace; in any of it´s facets. I mean, the fact that somebody does not get recognized for something does not mean he/she haven´t done something, right?. In my opinion, peace is a lot more complicated than just avoiding to attack other countries or getting prizes , and I think we are the ones who should change this panorama with our actions; caring more about other people, about the animals, rejecting stupid behaviors like racism and sexism and any kind of discrimination... and above all other things, peace is about feeling good with yourself, with your friends,is about being tolerant and being always ready to be there when somebody needs you.

I think it is in everybody to do something to change the world; wether if it´s being a better professional or being a better son.. the point is , I do believe that it´s up to us, and not only the governments to reach peace. It´s just that people love the idea of blaming governments for wars and unfair conditions while they just step back when the time to do something comes...

This was pretty off-topic; but I can´t help feeling disappointed when I see that people like fighting for the stupidest reasons, and how despite "development", the status quo keeps being above basically everything.

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In a totally different topic; I edited another video of my stay in Japan, this time I wanted to show the places I loved just for their calmness and how completely happy I felt there.. hope you like it!!!

Decisions

Recently I read a post from my friend Kousuke about how hard it is to decide what you want to do in your life, and how difficult is to know when it it´s time for making a big decision; like when will I be ready to work, or what should I study etc..

The thing is, after I came back from Japan a lot of things changed in my mind...and it´s all about decisions after all.

Since I can remember I had always wanted to be a designer, I always kept drawing during classes at school, I loved to imagine things and beings where they were not, and I just liked the idea of creating my own worlds and sharing them with other people. Actually I´m pretty sure design is what I want to do for the rest of my life.. but when I started working, I realized how hard it is to create the designs you want when you always obviously have to stick to what the client wants. I guess it´s the hard part of it right?

But anyways; the point is... I realized that no matter what I do in my life, as much as I like this country; it´s my dream to go out, to explore different cultures, specifically I want to live in Japan someday, I want to meet new people, new places... so , that made me think if design is really going to allow me that someday.. I don´t know, sometimes I would like to study Japanese language and be a teacher and an interpreter someday... It´s really complicated how bad I want to split like in 5 persons and do everything at the same time xD

I think the problem is I find just too hard to decide what I want to do because I enjoy lots of things, I thought some years ago that music is what I was meant to do, because I liked to play violin and piano since I was a child; and not too long ago I was sure I wanted to be a cartoonist and a film director...

I guess I´m just worrying too much about the future, and that´s both good and bad I guess.. Maybe I should enjoy more the present because I won´t be young forever, but I still can´t help worrying about how am I going to be able to decide what I want to do... Time will tell I guess :)

Sometimes I can´t write properly what I´m thinking,(hope this isn´t the case), but anyways it´s not that important, it´s just more like something I feel I had to write.

By the way, I uploaded a vid from my days in Tokyo; hope you like it! :D

I would like to recommend as well two awesome blogs from my friends Rua and Kousuke; they´re very interesting and they have way more time blogging that I have; so I really enjoy and learn from their blogs, hope you like them too!