This is the personal weBlog of Mexican Multimedia Developer Lozbo.
Here I share anecdotes and nonsense with friends and family, if you do not know me, you probably won't find it interesting, but do try my academic site, maybe you'll find it more useful.
I don’t know how I ended up among this blogs, I don’t really understand what they are but have a look at some extracts of their posts…
(Master Yoda, having some drinks with Mace Windu and watching a football game):
“Strong running game leads to play action, play action leads to touchdown, touchdown leads to victory,” said Yoda watching the screen.
I think it’s some kind of community in which each member has adopted a character role and they just post crazy entries:
“I am ready, too,” said Yoda. “I hear that it is a very good show.”
“Master Yoda, you’re talking… backwards,” I said.
“I am, ahem,” Yoda cleared his throat and regained some composure. “Drunk I am.”
But these folks really get inside their characters, and they are extremely fun to me, hope you enjoy them also!
Jar Jar, narrator:
“(…) Jam Jar! You have to get with the spirit of the season! (…)”
“Issen Jar Jar, Mister Chancellor.”
“Yes, yes, what was I thinking? Jar Jar. Mind if I call you Marmalade for short?”
Links to some of these blogs (more on each blog’s sidebar):
I am very excited to announce the upcoming new design for my family of websites. It has taken so many hours of photoshopping and coding (among other things) and it is not even finished! Furthermore: I am releasing it as a beta, as it still needs a lot of additional tweaking.
Since I installed WordPress on this subdomain, I have had the intention of releasing a custom template design totally made by me, from the graphic side to the advanced WP template tag tweaking. Almost a hundred thousand years ago!
And it is finally coming to an end! Though I must admit I had a lot of help from the internet, the silk icons from fam fam fam, the theme toolkit, some scripts from here and there, and a bit of twisting the sandbox WordPress theme.
All credits of the template will be shown on in the about page, once the final version is done, and as soon as that happens I will make it available to download from my (not so) new academic site.
I spent a lot of time in the development of this theme, I added a theme options menu to show or hide content, set customized logo or background, edit custom information for the footer and a lot more.
This is a beta, and it might have some errors here and there, please if you note something wrong, get back to me.
For those who don’t understand what I’m saying: It’s about technical stuff related to web development, another hobby of mine.
Please note that this beta does not currently support Internet Explorer 6 (nor 7 for that matter). Actually it’s more like IE does not support my theme (and Web Standards). So if this site looks all ugly to you, please upgrade or install a better browser! It’s really easy!
This is the film I put to the Flimmernacht 2008 contest, it didn’t win anything =( there were really good films and mine was obviously not the best. But it was not the worst either, here I share. I wrote, produced, directed and played both characters of the film, hope you enjoy it.
I will be reworking the sound when I finish some other projects, I want to add my point of view to it. The sound was designed by someone else, as the contest said.
I really thought I could win something in the contest, because, besides this entry, I delivered three more projects, for which I worked on the sound design, and that magnifies my defeat, because I was involved on 4 of 15 projects, and I couldn’t win anything.
But…! In my defense, I must say that most (or maybe all) other entries were worked by a group of people, and I did everything myself (except the camera handling in the film). For the sound design I got some special fx from a very cool free sound effects website, I recorded my own voice and I think a couple of other fx, and I even composed a small song and some musical background.
I’d like to upload those but the copyright is not mine, so I will ask the film makers if it’s ok…
I was highly disappointed in the Flimmernacht contest. I expected to win something. I worked very hard and put a lot of effort into it. I must admit there were really cool films and soundtracks, and mine was not the best.
Pero no gané ni una hostia partida por la mitad. Dos días, es decir noches, no dormí trabajando en los proyectos, los demás días no me dormí antes de las 3 am, cuando muy temprano. A pesar de que esto sólo me motiva a seguir adelante y luchando, sí me siento algo tristón.
Here are the bloopers of the Eisenbahn project shooting. They are fun!
And in other news, my first short film is coming… Murderer! The premiere is on the 19th of July, then I will post it here on my blog.
Beware!
Me encontré con Nel Telcel, sitio que busca protestar por el precio de las tarifas de iPhone en Telcel (Mexican mobile phone company). Interesante…
Today I dreamt that I was back in México. And I was sad because I didn’t finished traveling and visiting countries, and I wanted to go back.
But it felt so real, I thought that I was already living there! I even remember I went to sleep and woke up again in the morning (all inside the dream!), and was starting to have breakfast or something, still sleepy and so on…
Weird…
Here’s one more video I hadn’t finished, until now! It’s almost the same as the part 2…
Leía un artículo de Los Tubos, y me llegó una pregunta a la mente: ¿qué sucede? Una triste historia que desafortunadamente se repite en todo el mundo.
Me empujaron varias veces… me querían tirar al sueño para patearme o pegarme con palos que traían, yo no quería pelear
¿Qué pasa? ¿Qué tenemos en la cabeza? ¿Es esto normal?
Me hallé este video por ahí y decidí compartirlo, si tú eres Felipe, un saludito.
I have just received an email from Paypal, that states they now accept Mexican pesos as a currency for transactions. It is surely a step forward, though it makes me think also of the implications of Globalization, will all forms of Globalization be positive?
At least now we have one more way to spend away our precious money.
Fifth and final part of the Flimmernacht post series.
Context: didn’t finish on Sunday, had to finish that day (deadline for the contest had been already postponed once or twice before, and it was the last time it was going to be postponed), Enam wouldn’t be available, what will I do? Continue reading
De Mural…
Emilio González rechazó ofrecer, de nueva cuenta, disculpas públicas por los insultos debido al tema del Santuario como se lo pidió la CEDHJ.
¿Qué pierde con disculparse de nuevo? ¿Qué tanto trabajo le cuesta? Por otro lado, ¿de qué le sirven a cualquier persona dicha disculpa? El donativo ya se regresó (o por lo menos se aprobó regresarlo), y el pasado no regresará y no se puede cambiar.
PRD y PT dijeron que presentarán un recurso de apelación en el Tribunal Electoral contra la prohibición de que se use en spots presidente legítimo.
Otro ejemplo de qué tan linda es la política en México. ¿De qué sirve usar en spots el título de presidente legítimo? El hecho en sí de usar o dejar de usar esa frase en un spot no hace ninguna diferencia, hay cosas más importantes…
Fourth part of the Flimmernacht post series.
What happened before? I began shooting without my original camera girl, I really wanted to take part on a that crazy contest, and I wasn’t going to be turned down that easily. Enam promised to help out… Continue reading
Well, they censored me. They didn’t like my videos and they were not shown in the festival.
I was disappointed and confused in the beginning, but now that I think about it, it’s the first time someone censors a video (actually, this time they were two) I made, so I think I am honored…
Pues qué caray con ciertos bancos en México. Me cancelan la tarjeta de crédito por movimientos sospechosos (pagar una caseta de autopista en España, y realizar compras en eBay, pagando a través de Paypal, que con Paypal me manejo desde que estaba en Wanatos), me dicen que me envían un nuevo plástico acá a Alemania, luego siempre no, que lo mandan a mi casa en Mx, luego que tampoco, que es necesario ir a sucursal, luego que necesito ir yo en persona, que sí que no, que siempre sí lo mandan a mi casa y que lo puede recibir cualquier persona, nunca llegó, fué necesario ir a sucursal, que sólo me lo dan a mí, que siempre no, que sí que bueno, al final ya me mandaron mi plástico acá y sigo haciendo uso de mi preciada tarjeta.
Les llamé otra vez para preguntarles qué es necesario hacer para que me dejen de hinchar las no me cancelen la tarjeta cada que hago uso de ella, y me dijeron que me reportara cada mes a un cierto número telefónico.
Pues llamé y me dicen que no es necesario, que en caso de alguna duda, el banco me contactaría directamente. Pregunto: pero, ¿de qué manera me contactarían? Respuesta:
En este caso el contacto sería directo…
Insisto: “No me queda claro cómo sería el contacto, ya que el banco no tiene ningún dato personal de mi estancia en Alemania”. Me preguntan si proporcioné un teléfono, les digo que nunca me lo pidieron. Pero yo lo único que quiero es que no me molesten y me dejen gastar mi precioso dinero en paz, pero mi amigo el asesor que de ahora en adelante denominaré mi amigo el asesor insiste que si sucede algo, a pesar de que el único dato que tienen mío es el correo electrónico (del cual obviamente no hacen uso más que para mandar publicidad y más formas de tirar mi platita), el banco contactará conmigo.
Directamente claro está.
From Mural:
La mitad de los municipios en México es controlada por crimen organizado, que financia campañas y soborna a funcionarios, afirma un asesor de la ONU.
Ni hablar…
And here I am, paying for the boobs I just won on eBay, after a very tight auction, because I destroyed the nipple of the boobs of a friend.
Don’t ask.
Sorry Marco!
This is the third part of the Flimmernacht post series.
Context: I wanted to take part on a crazy contest, I had some progress already with the story and found someone to help me out for making the film. Continue reading
Here’s another entry I made for the same contest, but this one is far more direct (the musical video has a subtle message which is only understood by a few privileged 
).
Crazy video!
This is a video I made for another contest. Actually, I don’t know if it’s a contest or not, but I just made the video. I had a lot of fun doing it (and a lot of not so funny -but still worth it- hours of work).
The song is completely made by me, from the recording of the train sounds and the sampling, computer made music and the actual guitar riffs. I know it’s not very complex but for some one like me it’s a big achievement, I learned so much! Though this is not the first song I make, this is certainly the first I put so much effort in, both on the music and video.
Thanks Marco Avella for his kind help with the camera and some tips. Dude you rock!
The festival is about a protest the citizens of this town are making to avoid a new railway they’re planning to build. This is what a person in the organization told me in an email:
Imagine: the railroad company plans to build an extension of the existing tracks right through your town. Because it’s loud (3000-6000 cargo trains per day) they build a 6 meter wall along the railway. That’s not enough of a noise shield, so about 4000 households get equipped with windows that are soundproof and cannot be opened - the houses get ventilation systems instead.
It’s sounds funny though it’s about to become reality.
The short films should visualize the consequences or thoughts about these plans: How will life be? Who’s gonna live there anymore? How does it affect me?
Update!
Forgot to mention! Sorry… thanks Rajit for borrowing his guitar and Offenburg University for the nice Camera, the Flash recorder, the microphones, and the cool iMac where I edited this video!
Update 2!
I would like to thank my friend Eztrada for his moves in our crazy Mexican South East Trip. I was inspired by him on the “Ya apágale a esa madre” move, almost at the end of the video.
Pues que siempre sí regresan la lana…
La Fundación Pro Construcción del Santuario de los Mártires anunció que regresará con intereses el donativo de 30 millones de pesos para el recinto.
De Mural…
Navegando por dEscribiendo, página de un tocayo que ganó la categoría de hipercuento en el premio Julio Verne ediciones 2006 y 2007, me encontré con un texto muy gracioso e interesante.
Zalüdhóz ala vandá k avita x ayá en gdL, mejikÖ.
…invasión de los llamados insectos “k” que no dejaban de repetir: “¿k es eso? ¿por k? ¿k de k?”…
Les dejo el link al texto completo de la Calavera en Prosa a Doña Ortografía, por Leonardo Ruiz.
Weird things you find on the net. Pero muy gracioso, debo admitirlo. Behold, the crucifixion.
