Perspectiva: Distancia o alejamiento desde los que se observa y considera un hecho o una situación con la intención de ganar objetividad.
RAE Juan Pablo Restrepo
RAE Juan Pablo Restrepo
Fin del mundo
No es asunto nuevo predecir el fin del mundo. Cada fin de año aparece alguien que con certeza impone fecha y hora para que todo lo que vemos desaparezca. La verdad, no me inquieta ni intimida que algunos se sientan con la capacidad de predecir el final del planeta y toda la raza humana, sin embargo, y para mí ahí está el misterio, es el fin del mundo, es decir, del globo terraqueo, o de la raza humana.
¿Implica esto que las especies vivas diferentes a la humana también desaparecerán?.
La declinación de la raza humana, por llamarlo de algún modo, tiene que ver con la depredación desmedida de los recursos naturales, marcando así, el camino hacia la destrucción del planeta.
Contemplar el fin del mundo es el sueño de un sector absolutamente egoísta, como quien es testigo de una batalla desde la cima de una colina. Este es el ideal que albergan aquellos que confían en que se salvarán por sus creencias, yo por mi parte debo decir que… Es largo el fin del mundo.
Navidad
Llega la fecha en la que necesariamente hay que estar felices. Yo soy feliz, con moderación. La fecha es un día más, pero entiendo a quienes quieren separar el día de hoy de los demás. Hoy es una oportunidad para ver a los amigos y desearle a todo el mundo lo mejor, agregando que el próximo año será mejor.
“Brittle Heart”- Brett Anderson. Como siempre, ando en busca de buenas canciones, esta es mi elección de hoy.
The Internet: Judge Rules You Have a Right to Be a Horrible Monster on Twitter(via @Gawker)
Congratulations to all the horrible people on Twitter (and there are so, so many of you): A judge has just ruled that posting thousands of creepy, insane, obsessive rambling messages at someone is a constitutional right. William Lawrence Cassidy spent a lot of time from 2008-2010 harassing a…
Recordando a Cesaria Evora
Drawings On Wood by Michelle D. Ferrera
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Louis CK: Funny Man, Entrepreneurial Genius
If you downloaded Louis CK’s latest comedy special—available for $5 exclusively at his personal website—then you received this fascinating email yesterday from the man himself (who also just so happens to be one of GQ’s 2011 Men of the Year). We’re passing along a portion of Louis’s email not just because it’s funny but also because it’s a rare, revealingly candid insight into the business of being funny. Basically, it’s Louis explaining why he’s selling this concert film in such a unique way. And it’s working—in fact, the film is such a hit that at this very moment the website appears to be overloaded. Anyway, here’s Louis:
The show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hours later, we had over 50,000 purchases and had earned $250,000, breaking even on the cost of production and website. As of Today, we’ve sold over 110,000 copies for a total of over $500,000. Minus some money for PayPal charges etc, I have a profit around $200,000 (after taxes $75.58). This is less than I would have been paid by a large company to simply perform the show and let them sell it to you, but they would have charged you about $20 for the video. They would have given you an encrypted and regionally restricted video of limited value, and they would have owned your private information for their own use. They would have withheld international availability indefinitely. This way, you only paid $5, you can use the video any way you want, and you can watch it in Dublin, whatever the city is in Belgium, or Dubai. I got paid nice, and I still own the video (as do you). You never have to join anything, and you never have to hear from us again. I really hope people keep buying it a lot, so I can have shitloads of money, but at this point I think we can safely say that the experiment really worked. If anybody stole it, it wasn’t many of you. Pretty much everybody bought it. And so now we all get to know that about people and stuff. I’m really glad I put this out here this way and I’ll certainly do it again. If the trend continues with sales on this video, my goal is that i can reach the point where when I sell anything, be it videos, CDs or tickets to my tours, I’ll do it here and I’ll continue to follow the model of keeping my price as far down as possible, not overmarketing to you, keeping as few people between you and me as possible in the transaction. (Of course i reserve the right to go back on all of this and sign a massive deal with a company that pays me fat coin and charges you straight up the ass.). (This is you: yes Louie. And we’ll all enjoy torrenting that content. You fat sweaty dolt).
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I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is hoarded, fought over, protected, stolen and withheld. Or it can be like an energy, fueled by the desire, will, creative interest, need to laugh, of large groups of people. And it can be shuffled and pushed around and pooled together to fuel a common interest, jokes about garbage, penises and parenthood.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwb01g8ivT1qe6vsbo1_500.jpg)
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Louis CK: Funny Man, Entrepreneurial Genius
If you downloaded Louis CK’s latest comedy special—available for $5 exclusively at his personal website—then you received this fascinating email yesterday from the man himself (who also just so happens to be one of GQ’s 2011 Men of the Year). We’re passing along a portion of Louis’s email not just because it’s funny but also because it’s a rare, revealingly candid insight into the business of being funny. Basically, it’s Louis explaining why he’s selling this concert film in such a unique way. And it’s working—in fact, the film is such a hit that at this very moment the website appears to be overloaded. Anyway, here’s Louis:
The show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hours later, we had over 50,000 purchases and had earned $250,000, breaking even on the cost of production and website. As of Today, we’ve sold over 110,000 copies for a total of over $500,000. Minus some money for PayPal charges etc, I have a profit around $200,000 (after taxes $75.58). This is less than I would have been paid by a large company to simply perform the show and let them sell it to you, but they would have charged you about $20 for the video. They would have given you an encrypted and regionally restricted video of limited value, and they would have owned your private information for their own use. They would have withheld international availability indefinitely. This way, you only paid $5, you can use the video any way you want, and you can watch it in Dublin, whatever the city is in Belgium, or Dubai. I got paid nice, and I still own the video (as do you). You never have to join anything, and you never have to hear from us again.
I really hope people keep buying it a lot, so I can have shitloads of money, but at this point I think we can safely say that the experiment really worked. If anybody stole it, it wasn’t many of you. Pretty much everybody bought it. And so now we all get to know that about people and stuff. I’m really glad I put this out here this way and I’ll certainly do it again. If the trend continues with sales on this video, my goal is that i can reach the point where when I sell anything, be it videos, CDs or tickets to my tours, I’ll do it here and I’ll continue to follow the model of keeping my price as far down as possible, not overmarketing to you, keeping as few people between you and me as possible in the transaction. (Of course i reserve the right to go back on all of this and sign a massive deal with a company that pays me fat coin and charges you straight up the ass.). (This is you: yes Louie. And we’ll all enjoy torrenting that content. You fat sweaty dolt).[…]
I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is hoarded, fought over, protected, stolen and withheld. Or it can be like an energy, fueled by the desire, will, creative interest, need to laugh, of large groups of people. And it can be shuffled and pushed around and pooled together to fuel a common interest, jokes about garbage, penises and parenthood.
