"An it harm none, do as you will."
My life revolves around art and its history. In art, as well as life, I believe wisdom greater than that of our times was arrived at thousands of years ago. Sometimes, in some talk circles, I feel like the attending mummy: antiquated, misunderstood, heart and mind heavy with dust, linen bandages, and memories of ages past.
My interests include Photography, Digital Design, Cultural and Media Studies, Natural Science, Natural History, Anthropology, Music, Bioethics, the nature and structure of reality.
Those who find in art the unexpressed in themselves. People experiencing a personal renaissance. Existentialists with a cheerful attitude. Other inquisitive and creative minds.
On a more fantastic note, like Papini's Gog, I would like to have private audiences with the most relevant figures of history, and ask each of them the questions they are best suited to answer. I would want the truth.
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Angel Villanueva
Music to me is a tool, and I classify the items in my collection according to their various powers. I use my favorite pieces sparingly, and I can always rely on them to ignite a creative fire. I tend to favor harmonious sounds that fuse elegance with complexity and depth, but everything has its place. I can also be lost in convulsive, mind-bending electronic beats or hardcore rock played at ear-splitting levels when the times and tunes are right.
Real life is a lot more interesting.
"I followed all the dramas; I suffered indescribable torment with each of those creatures battered by fate, and was always surprised that in the end things worked out so well for the heroine, who for sixty installments had acted like a moron."
~Isabel Allende, Eva Luna
I'm not a TV person. I frequently find myself at a loss in conversations about the unfoldings of television shows.
I own a substantial, eclectic, constantly growing library: there are in it art books, physics books, essays on political and natural science, software bibles, works of philosophy, Latin American novels, cultural studies volumes and comic strip collections. I especially appreciate works that elucidate the why and how of things on a solidly constructed theoretical framework. Hocus Pocus is not welcome and will be burned at the stake upon arrival. Yes, my books and I are the empirical inquisition. About that Wiccan star up there... longer story, you may ask if you wish. I have kept all of my college textbooks, as I prefer fact to fiction, unless the fiction comes from the right pen. On the rare occasions when truth is best spoken figuratively, those who can manage command my respect.
Thinkers who have devoted their lives to demystifying the universe with the purpose of sharing their findings with the rest of us.