It's all in the mind, you know

Hello my reader! Today the topic is free, so I’m going to talk about my favourite movie: Yellow Submarine (1968) by George Dunning. This movie was released in the middle of the psychedelic pop culture of the 1960s with the very special design by Heinz Edelmann and the incredible songs by The Beatles.

Basically, the plot of the movie consists in that The Beatles must save a place called Pepperland and to restore the order with music and love. The Beatles must “fight” with the Blue Meanies –they’re music-hating-, who come over the land under a surprise attack. The Blue Meanies make the inhabitants immobile like statues throwing big green apples upon them and take away the colours of Pepperland. A character called Old Fred is sent to seek help, for which he travels in the yellow submarine until to arrive to London. In London, he meets with The Beatles and the five characters travel back to Pepperland going across different seas: Sea of Time, Sea of Science, Sea of Monsters, Sea of Nothing –here, The Beatles meet a singular character called Jeremy-, Foothills of the Headlands and finally the Sea of Holes until to arrive to Pepperland. The Beatles must supplant to the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and to fight –in a particular way- with the Blue Meanies. If I continue telling this story, it’ll lose its magic. I invite you to watch this movie if you want to know what happen in detail and of course, to appreciate the special magic that it has (design and music specially)

  

If you want a motivation, this movie (animated musical film) is unique in its kind because all the ohter animated movies are similar, but Yellow Submarine is different. Briefly, this movie is highly recommended. The songs that appear are: Yellow Submarine, Eleanor Rigby, All Together Now, When I’m Sixty-Four, Only a Northern Song, Nowhere Man, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, All You Need Is Love, Hey Bulldog and other songs. If you want to watch this movie but you haven’t the movie, there’re pages in Internet that allow you to watch this movie online or download it.

Green conscience

Hello my reader. Today I talk about a very important issue: Environment and its protection, in special, that I think is the most important of all. What it will be? Read and discover it.

I think that the environment protection is a job of all people that it should be promoted principally by the government through plans and projects that are focused to change the mind of the chilean people on this subject, but you know this isn’t there.

In Santiago, the city that I live all the year, there are areas that promote this “green  conscience” through parks, cycle paths, organic food, buildings environmentally friendly (reduction of carbon footprint),  using alternative energy sources, using products that are friendly with nature, saving energy to use devices that consume less energy and so on. The things that I, you and all of us can do it is longer than this.

The problem is that this things and the people that do it, are preferably located in the towns (municipalities) with more economic resources –in the east zone of the Santiago- in contrast to towns of south zone. This is shown when we found cycle paths or organic gardens.

But I want to focus in the mind of the chilean people. Everyone speaks about environment, protection, alternative energy and so on. However, the majority don’t make anything, they’re only beautiful words that the wind takes. I think that the real change involves a deep change in our minds. This change begins at the elementary schools and at home. Each day there are many places, fairs and similar –really there aren’t a lot- that the people don’t take advantage of this opportunities. Is useless to promote this things if the people isn’t interested in this, if everyone of us says: “it doesn’t matter” The first step is change our minds and thinking about the environment and its protection and care. All of us must consider to the environmet like a part of us that needs care and attention.

Do you think the same?

Picture yourself in a boat on a river...

Hello my reader.

Today I talk about one of my favorite songs. Yes, you’ll say that this topic is repeated and very boring, but in this opportunity is different. I had spoken about this before, if you remember in that occasion I spoke about the song “Help!” Then, to follow in the topic, today I’ll write about another song by The Beatles, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”. Can you see the difference? The same topic with the same musicians but the song is different. Let’s go my reader; you won’t regret to read this post. I promise.

 This song is much known because is very special both its music (chords, lyrics and similar) and the feelings that it’s evoke. In my case, this song helps me to write my stories –I like to write stories and novels like the song “Paperback writer”- and every time that I listen it, I feel like if I travel to another world, a world of pure imagination where dreams come true and the things that seem impossible are possible. I imagine beautiful scenes that I write in my stories later. An example is to think about the “leocornio” (an imaginary animal that looks like a lion but it has a horn of unicorn in its forehead) and its ability for running longer distances and even, running over the deep water (see, ocean).

I like a whole song, in special the strophe number three:

“Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain,

Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies.

Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,

That grow so incredibly high.”

I imagine this strophe like an invitation to travel to this world and don’t worry about problems, just go for a walk or flying or what you want (really, the whole song is a travel)

I suppose that you think other things about this song, but you know that each person can think what want and I respect all opinions. I don’t like judge.

What you think about this? I post the link of the song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7F2X3rSSCU

PS: The link is from movie "Yellow Submarine", but i like the animation and the interpretation of this song.

Physical Anthropology is alive!

Hello my reader!

Today I talk about an interesting discovery published on 10 Feb 2010 in the journal Nature and titled “Graphic: Inuk, ancient man resurrected from DNA in hair” because I’m interested in Physical Anthropology and I think that this article is interesting if you like this area of Anthropology in general.

Basically the article is about the discovery of scientists, who have reconstructed the physical characteristics and lifestyle of a young man they have called “Inuk” (in the local language means man or human). These scientists work at Centre of Excellence in GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum (Copenhagen) and how I’ve talked to you before, they reconstructed lifestyle and physical characteristics of a young man in the Arctic permafrost some 4.000 years ago.

The man was part of the Saqqab culture. This culture is the first known to inhabitant Greenland. What has been found is the Inuk’s hair in the Qeqertasussuk region (Greenland) Analysis of his hair allowed to compare his genome with nearby populations. Scientists discovered that Inuk was most closely related to the people of eastern Siberia, rather than closer tribes in North America. Then, this is important because it’s related with migration points across the Bering Strait from Siberia to North America.

And, what did scientists discover exactly?

Genetic analysis of the Inuk’s hair concluded that this man was a young man with dark skin, brown eyes, and shovel-shaped teeth well adapted to life in a cold climate. Other characteristics are his blood group as A+; this man has a high probability of going bald and the dry consistence of his earwax. Moreover, other test suggest the man survived on a marine diet (hunting seals and seabirds)

So, if you think that Physical Anthropology has not utility, I’ve given you an example yet. I hope that you have read very interested and you’ve liked  this article. The link is below.

PS: the first photo is Qeqertasussuk, Greenland and the second is a possible appearance of Inuk.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/interactive/2010/feb/10/inuk-ancient-human-dna-hair?INTCMP=SRCH