Evita me ama

Dear readers, I do not wish to make any political statements on this blog, as I truly believe everyone is entitled to their opinion and I don't want to inforce any of my own political ideas [at least not through here :)], but I just stumbled upon this Argentine book for first graders and thought you would like to see some pages and make your own personal appreciation, 'cause I know you love to think! So on this Tuesday morning I'm just going to make you THINK from your own perspective. Enjoy!! :D Click on images to see larger (If you need the translation into English just e-mail me and you'll hae it in a heart bit!)

Queridas, no quiero emitir ningún tipo de opinión política en este blog ya que creo que cada uno tiene derecho a sus propias opiniones y no quiero meterles mis propias ideas [al menos no en este blog :)], pero encontré este libro argentino de lectura de primer grado y me pareció que les gustaría ver algunas páginas y poder hacer su propia apreciación, porque sé que les encanta pensar! Así que en esta mañana de martes sólo las voy a hacer PENSAR desde sus propias perspectivas. Disfruten!! :D - Click en las imagenes para ver más grande.

Last day

Last Friday was my last day at my job... I'll be moving onto a different field in my carreer that I absolutely love, but of course anxiety is killing me!! I know it's for the best, so I'm getting busy with all the things I've been neglecting these past few months and getting ready to start anew.

I'll deffinitely miss this place though! And all the fantastic people that have worked with me for more than a year now. :')


El viernes pasado fue mi último día en mi trabajo... me cambio a un área de mi carrera que me encanta, pero obvio que la anciedad me está matando!! Sé que es para mejor, así que estoy haciendo todas las cosas que dejé de lado estos últimos meses para poder estar lista y empezar a full.

Voy a extrañar este lugar! Y a toda la gente genial que trabajó conmigo durante este último año :')

Happy Halloween!!

Have fun!

Pasenla genial!


Photo credits: Martha Stewart, via Unruly-things

Movie apartments #1 {Before the Sunset}

I absolutely adore certain movie homes, and I'm going to start sharing them here. For the first post on Movie Apartments I'm going to start with Celine's apartment in Before Sunset. I seriously can't find a single thing in this movie that I don't love. From the amazig characters (performed by Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawk), their past, the untold feelings and twisted emotions through nine years, the amazing Parisian shots, the uttery real dialogues... EVERYHING!

And Celine's apartment is a perfect way to end this movie; the photo above is is a still shot of the last scene... Her her messy, cool loft, filled with hundreds photos and polaroids is in one of those Parisian apartments I love so much, where you have to go in a little pedestrian street and you appear in a courtyard and then there's like a hidden patio with antique bikes and all... *sight* I need to get myself back to Paris!! ASAP!

Céline: Un café et un citron pressé, s'il vous plait. (A coffee and lemonade, please.)

Jesse: (Sighs.) God, I love this cafe. I wish they had places like this in the U.S.
Céline: Yeah, I missed cafes when I was living over there. I mean, I find a few places I really liked, but there was...
Jesse: (Interrupting.) You...You were living in the U.S.?
Céline: Yes, from, uh, '96 to '99. I was studying at NYU.
Jesse: OH, GOD (looks down in disgust) don't tell me that, Céline! (Covers his eyes.)
Céline: What?!
Jesse: No, it's just...Nothing, I mean I...
Céline: What?
Jesse: I've been living in New York since '98. You know, we were there at the same time!
Céline: In New York?
Jesse: Yeah.
Céline: Ah, that's weird. It actually crossed my mind a few times that I might run into you, but...The odds are so slim, right? So...I didn't even know what city you were living in. Weren't you somewhere in Texas? You were in Texas.
Jesse: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely, I just...I was for a long time, I just...You know, wanted to try New York.
Céline: (Softly.) Wow.

Algunas casas de películas me encantan y voy a empezar a postearlos acá. El primer post de "Movies Apartments" es el departamento de Celine en Antes del Atardecer. La verdad que no hay una sola cosa de esta película que no me fascine. Desde los increíbles personajes (por Julie Delpy y Ethan Hawk), su pasado, los sentimientos y emociones ocultos por nueve años, las fantásticas vistas de París, los diálogos increíblemente reales... TODO!

Y el departamento de Celine es un lugar perfecto para terminar la película; la foto de arriba e una toma de la escena final... Su loft desordenado me parece re-copado, lleno de fotos y polaroids, es uno de esos departamentos parisinos que me encantan, donde hay que entrar por una calle peatonal y llegás a un patio interno con bicicletas antiguas y... *sight* Tengo que volver a Paris!! YA!


Photo credits: Reverse Shot (If you knew the ridiculous amount of time it took me to find this photo you'd be surprised... but that's how much I love this movie!!)
Script transcript by SunriseAndSunset, found here.

A modern vintage twist

Sofía totally saved me a few weeks ago from a super boring 400km drive with no music by lending me her iPod and big iSpeakers and I've become quite fond of the little device :) But when I saw this ceramic phonophone my heart just melted! Is this sweet or is this sweet??? Needless to say this would look good anywhere, and it uses no power!!

Desde que Sofía me prestó su iPod y sus parlantes hace unas semanas para salvarnos de un viaje de 400km sin música le tomé cariño al aparatito :) Pero cuando vi este fonófono casi me muero! No es genial??? Creo que quedaría bárbaro en cualquier lado, y además no usa electricidad!!

Phonophone II designed by Tristan Zimmermann, via Frolic.
Second photo from Totonko

The world through my real eyes

This is how my night vision works (pretty much) - Photo by moS., via WeHeartIt

Yesterday I had a full physical exam, and by the time I visited the oftalmologist she made me take off my glasses and read whatever the Snellen chart said. This is how it went:

Doc: Okay, take off you gasses and tell me which is the first row you can read properly.

Me: I can't see any of the rows, I can barely distinguish the first row...

Doc: What? Which one? (pointing at the chart) Which one do you see properly?

Me: Neither, I can barely see the first row, the big ones...

Doc: (staring at me in utter annoyment) Just tell me the number of the row you can see...

Me: I CAN'T SEE ANY OF THEM!!

Doc: (stares in utter disbelief) Oh... and with your glasses??

Me: (I put them back on) Yeah, I can even see the fine print now!

Frustrating... I know. On the other hand... you have to agree I have a fantastic night vision!!

Snellen chart, via Wiki

Ayer me hice un examen clínico completo, y cuando llegué a la oftalmóloga me pidió que me sacara los anteojos y que leyera lo que había en la tabla Snellen. La conversación fue algo así:

Dra: Sacate los anteojos y decime cuál es la primer fila que podés leer bien.
Yo: No veo ninguna, apenas puedo distinguir algunas letras de la primera, las más grandes...
Dra: Qué? Cual? (señalando la tabla) Cuál ves bien?
Yo: Ninguna, apenas puedo ver la primer fila...
Dra: (hartándose) Sólo decime el número de la fila que podés ver...
Yo: NO PUEDO VER NINGUNA!!
Dra: (no lo puede creer) Ah... y con los anteojos??
Yo: (me los vuelvo a poner) Sí, ahora hasta veo la letra chica!

Sí, ya sé... es re frustrante. Por otro lado... no pueden negar que mi visión nocturna es genial!!

Travelling back in time

I loooove this site I found trough Loveology that lets you age 100 - 150 years whatever photo you have (ideal for those slow afternoons at the office... :P ) So this is what my photo would be like if I had gone to Rome back in 1857!!


Me encantaaaa este sitio que encontré vía Loveology que te permite envejecer unos 100 ó 150 años cualquier foto (ideal para esas tardes interminables en la ofi :P ). Así se vería mi foto si hubiera viajado a Roma en 1857!!


Photo credits: Me.

Museo Larreta {Jardín andaluz}

I don't know why, but lately I can't read in bed at night anymore... I just fall asleep by the time I hit the third line, so I've got to get creative on beautiful afternoons where I would just read in bed, but I know I want to make the most of the sun and the great temperatures we've been having these past few days.

So yesterday I took off with my camera and a book to the Museo Enrique Larreta, the Museum of Spanish (from Spain) Art of the city of Buenos Aires. They have this amazing Andalucian style garden adjacent to the house that's just great to go to for a walk, take hundreds of pictures or just sit under the shade and read by the fountain. The jasmin, fruit trees, bushes and roses generate an ambience that is abosultely enticing. And the many trees all around the garden provide a great cool shade, even if the scorching heat is right outside the garden walls.

The museum in itself is not very large, but they have lovely literary expositions, and for the 1$peso entrance fee I highly recommend it!

No sé por qué, pero últimamente no puedo leer en la cama a la noche... para cuando llegué al tercer renglón ya me quedé dormida, así que tengo que ser un poco más creativa estas tardes lindísimas donde me gustaría quedarme en la cama leyendo, pero sé que en realidad está bueno aprovechar el sol y el clima genial que estamos teniendo estos últimos días.

Así que ayer me fui con mi cámara y un libro al Museo Enrique Larreta, el Museo de Arte Español de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Al lado de la casa hay un jardín andaluz increíble y que está buenísimo para ir a caminar, sacar cientas de fotos o sentarse en la sombra y leer un buen libro. El aroma a los jasmines, árboles frutales, arbustos y rosales es genial y los árboles que hay en el jardín generan un clima súper templado, por más que detrás de los muros del museo haga un calor infernal.

El museo en sí mismo no es muy grande, pero tiene unas exposiciones literarias muy buenas, y por la entrada que vale 1$ es super recomendable para darse una vuelta!


Photo credits: Me.

The princess and the pea

I have always thought that the Princess and the pea tale by Hans Christian Andersen was a bit weird, and I've been torn between two thoughts even as I was really little. On one side... how much of a snob must this princess have been to notice the little pea placed by the queen under several layers of mattresses??

So when I came accross this Motorolla ad on Vogue España I just burst out laughing. The phrase says "If you have noticed the pea, we have something for you". And there's an actual (plastic) pea stuck to the magazine!!!!!!!


Siempre me pareció que la historia de La princesa y el guisante, de Hans Christian Andersen era un poco rara, y desde re chiquita estuve dividida entre dos posturas. Por un lado... qué tan snob tenía que ser esta princesa como para no darse cuenta del mini poroto que la reina le puso abajo de todos esos colchones??

Así que cuando encontré esta publicidad de Motorolla en la Vogue España me mató de risa! La frase dice "Si has notado el guisante, tenemos algo para tí". Y hay una arveja (de plástico) pegada en la revista!!!!!




On the other hand... a bed full of mattresses????? I could totally dig that!!


Por otro lado... una cama con una pila de colchones????? Yo quiero!!



Totally adorable Principessa bed by Doshi Levien, via Minor Details.

The Graduate

Yes you, I'm terribly proud! Have you realised yet what a great year this has been for you?? I seriously hope you have! :)

Photo credit: Really cool collage by Artjunkgirl