Stunning America video from old photos by Alexey Zakharov

America in the beginning of the century!

This is where Alexey Zakharov brings us on this amazing short video.
What we get is a video with the lenght of 3 minutes and 48 seconds, taking us on a wonderful time travel through America during the years of 1910-1920.

[caption id="attachment_2462" align="alignright" width="150"] Work made by Alexey Zakharov. The author of the Stunning America video I will show you below.[/caption]

The author of this masterpiece was Alexey Zakharov. I confess I don't know that much about Alexey Zakharov, all I know is that he is from Russia, and he his an amazing designer with serious 3d and video working skills.
You can take a look at some of his works here: (LINK https://www.artstation.com/artist/seccovan)

This is a travel back in time with some sort of steampunk time machine. Most of the animation was built witch camera projection based on photos from the beginning of 1900.
The video is black and white, it does simulate 3D animation and the music is quite pleasant.

Stunning America video watch it below!

https://vimeo.com/160024074

Linus Torvalds Ted Talk Feb 2016

Linus Torvalds is the person behind Linux.

I will spare you the long bio details, if you are looking for that I suggest you to read his Wikipedia page Here



 

Linus Torvalds Ted Talk review and opinion

In a rare interview with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Linus Torvalds discusses with remarkable openness the personality traits that prompted his unique philosophy of work, engineering and life. "I am not a visionary, I'm an engineer," proclaims Torvalds. "I'm perfectly happy with all the people who are walking around and just staring at the clouds ... but I'm looking at the ground, and I want to fix the pothole that's right in front of me before I fall in."

This are two quotes from this great Ted talk. The video as 21.30 minutes so it is not a boring long interview at all. Everyone can and should take a look at it.

Linus Torvalds is no entertainer, he his a programmer. But the interview gives us access to the "Human" side of Torvalds and as great entertainment value, even if you are not into technology and Linux.

The interview takes us behind the story of how linux was created, and explain how and why Linus Torvalds as chosen to make Linux open source, instead of going the easier commercial route.

The big controversy point on the interview is when Linus Torvalds chooses Edison over Tesla

Personally I would take Tesla over Edison any day :) But Torvalds point was that Edison actually got the job done, while Tesla would have great ideas but no final product.

You can watch the video below, or just see it on the official TED webpage LINK

 

 

Eduardo Galeano Tribute

Eduardo Galeano, was a Journalist, a Writer, a philosopher, but specially a real Rebel!

 



 

This post is a tribute I make to one of my idols. Eduardo Galeano.

Iam not going to enter in great details about his life, for that you can find much better results like this Wikipedia link.

But still Iam going to give you the normal details:

Name: Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano

Nationality: Uruguayan

Death: 13 April 2015

For the rest of the stuff you really should check Wikipedia. And a bog I found with great information About Eduardo Galeano: autonomies.org

Now, about how I got to know the work of Galeano?

A few years ago (2009), I was taking part on a lot of social movements across Europe; specially where I live in. When we are with other activists, we are not only talking about how to destroy the police and take the government down :) (sometimes we do but not always).

One day, a friend told me about the work of Eduardo Galeano, and how much he could relate what was happening in Europe at the time, offcourse I went to research him and found the books "memories of fire" those were the first three books I read from Galeano but much more would follow.

A few years after I got to know him, he become really mainstream by his appearance on the Spanish Occupy movement, where he gave the most amazing interview you can see in this video: (Spanish only sorry) No point in trying subtitles to English they are all wrong :(



 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVQPvBwgUUg

 

There are some greate quotes from this Interview, one that I like the most is:

“Este mundo de ‘mierda’ está grávido de outro!”

That means: "This shitty world is pregnant with another one"

This because people were complaining against several "injustices" and Galeano point is: Maybe the world is not perfect now, but with this persons rising up it will become.

 

And this brings me to the next video I show you, this time translated into English. The right to dream.

In it Galeano approaches several topics but mainly focus on World injustices and what should change by using the right to dream.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y15JyHP1jbk

 

This last video I chose to show you it's named "Vivir sin Miedo" or "Live without fear" Is an amazing video to exemplify all the wisdom and sweetness of this amazing men.

In it Eduardo Galeano appeals every person to live without fear in a way they can act to change the society were they live in.

These are small videos, around 10 minutes each. I recommend you watch them and after search for related videos there are hundreds of videos from Eduardo Galeano on youtube, not all of them in English, but its never too late to learn Spanish :)

Offtopic - The quote I have on the image on the start of the post was taken from this interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rygqfWagvhQ

 

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Patiently waiting for UFC fight night

To lighten the mood off this blog.

Getting tired of posting all the tutorials and security info.

On this post I will talk about the return of one of my favorite fighters Anderson (the Spider) Silva.

 

 



 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(UFC) Conor McGregor vs The Mountain (Game of Thrones)

One of my hobies is to watch MMA and the UFC.
If you follow the sport, you probably already know there is a new player out there named Connor McGregor



He is riding a fifteen fight winning streak and is scheduled to face Rafael dos Anjos on March 05 for the UFC lightheavyweigh title.

His professional record is 19-2-0 (Wins, loses, draws)

Birthday: 1988-07-14
AGE: 27

Country - Dublin, Ireland
Height - 5'8" 172.72 cm
Weight - 145 lbs 65.77 kg
Association: SBG Ireland

Class: Featherweight but will probably move to lightweight



I just happen to stumble into this video from Conor, I believe it was made around the time that he was getting ready for the Siver fight, in the video we see what seems to be a sparring session between Gregor Clegane AKA The Mountain from Game of Thrones, against the notorious Connor McGregor UFC featherweight champion after his flash KO to the old champion José Aldo. And I just find it nice so I post it why not :) enjoy the video below.