CD! ...and all it's players

The CD it´s my favourite technology piece since it appear becuase it was the first efficient information bearer...we all remember how tedious was to rewind or put forward on the cassettes or VHS players. Im a music/film lover so i remember clearly the difference that CD made in my life, the quality of the music changed, the music player wasn't the hateble walkman anymore... you could rewind or put forward, turn on/off just pushing a button...later it appear the dvd, and dvd player ...in both cases the quality of the image/sounds and the option to burn it made our lifes easier. (basic step to get to i-pod and pendrive things). Nowadays it's losing more and more it's importance in the musical industry (beacuse of the music downloading programs available on the net), it's not even necesary to burn the downloaded songs/information in a CD thanks to i-pod or pendrive, but it's still very popular in the film indutry (DVD format)...this is actually one of the great things about it...it comes in many formats, it adecuate to each need...plus there are many technology pieces made around it, it have a space in our culture, our generation grew up around it. Even though i-pod may be better is not the same...i keep using my cd player!

Isma's blog!

After seeing many classmates websites, i have found ismael’s one of the most interesting blogs. There aren’t all of the reviews or comments written but the ones that appear are fully-interesting ideas, smart opinions and some stories about his personal life...that always fun to read, plus...here’s something not everyone can do in the english class: he can express clearly and completely every thought, that makes it easier to read (mostly). I like many post he’ve done, basically because i agree with him...like in his opinion about Da Vinci code, i laugh about the Britney review and i liked very much the canadian band Metric, i’ve been downloading some of their songs and i’ve ask him for some others... I have to say one of the thing you could do to make your blog even better is talk less about your school...i’ve read Instituto nacional almost in every post! What’s up with that?...and in an academic way, i see some mistakes, but they are not big deal at all, so isma: keep writing that well and post more links =).

MySpace.com

There’s non particular website that i frecuently visit, i prefer to go from one website to another all the time finding new things...especially new music. Lately i’ve been visiting many myspaces from some friend’s bands and national music, most of the time.
This page is just a presentation of the band or singer, where you can listen some themes, watch videoclips (if there are), and read the history of the artist. There are also photos and comments to the band.
I discover myspace time ago when a friend from highschool send me his band space. I didn’t like the band so much, but i dicover some good music in the links of the page. Later i visted my bass teacher’s site, and i also didn’t like it, but i found many new interesting bands. From each band that i didn’t like there were 5 good groups. The best of all is that most of the links are national bands too and there are flyers and invitations for their shows...support for national music!
I dont know what link i can provide...just look up for some band you like and it will appear many more music related to that group.
www.myspace.com

victory cities...

My first impression about this website was: ..."what are these people thinking? (particullary Orville Simpson II, the inventor of this crazy initiative)...it made me remaind the utopian cities from the industrial revolution period...non of those ever really work, did they?...non of those ever were built...and i think there’s a reason why.
On a second thought, after seeing the city tour i started to get the way everything was planed and meant to work, the way activities were organized in each place and time. Every location, every shape seems to be founded in an interesting urban idea plus there are "serious studies" about the way to finance the city. I gess we all know every proyect work fine in our heads and in the paper sometimes, but being realistic on it...basically because of the city growing subject, i think is un-natural to predetermine the way a city can gorw...probably this stablish a limit in it’s own development, and thinking as a human an not as another ambiciuos architect, i don’t think this may be any good for the people...they wouldn’t be able to make any choice at all!, not even about the furnish in their houses, not even about what they want to eat or how many kids they want to have.
Seems to me just as an experimental standarized moular sistem, an industrial way of life...this doesn’t work for me.