Anamorphic Street Art

Well, this week I’ll write about a photograph that I like. So I’ll write about this one that I like so much.

In first place this is a picture from the official website of Julian Beever, a street artist who paint the most of his art on pavement, he also have paintings on walls but the most impressive and awesome pictures are on pavement. Particularity of his art is that use an anamorphic perspective, which means that you only can see the picture from a specific point of view; otherwise you’ll see a strange spot on the floor.

Well, this one is my favourite because mix two things that I love too much.

1. 1. It’s about batman, one of my favorite comic book character of all time and

2. 2. It’s one of the most complex paintings that I saw, because Beever painted not only Batman and Robin, he also painted a crowd watching how Batman and Robin climbing up the building, simply amazing.

This picture reminds me not a special feeling, only I like it for the technique of the artist that still shock me when I see anyone of his pictures.

So, if you like to see more of Julian Beever’s pictures just click HERE.

A useful tip

Hi again, this week I’ll post about a career – related web site. As it’s been said in my profile, I’m studying sociology so the present web site that I’ll show you shows one of the founders of the discipline, theoretically speaking and his vision about the nineteenth century industrial society was one of the main ways of understanding social behavior, social history and society as a totality. This character is no one else but Karl Marx.

Well, on the entire web there are too many sites that show Marx's theories condensed in handbooks, letters, etc. But there is one that I prefer over the others, Marxists.org, I think this is one of the more complete sites about Marx's theory, first and foremost because it contains the most of his work digitalized so you may download any document that you want for free, besides the site not only have information about Marx but also have information and documents from many Marxist authors like Marcuse, Gramsci, Lenin, Hanecker, etc.

I found the site when I had to read a lot about Marxist theory in some courses of my career and I didn’t have money to spend on photocopies, that, added to my internet addiction led me to this site and I don’t regret it.

Now I don’t visit it very often, because I’m in a new stage of my career, in which I do more practical courses than theoretical ones, so I have kept away from this site, but I recommend it every time I can.

Only one bad thing I can say about the site… its loading time. The site is very heavy, so when I browse on slow-connections PCs it takes a long time to get to see the entire site, and when you are on an internet center where time is money, it’s very annoying.

Anyway, if you are interested on learning somethin about Marx's theory and marxists in general, just click on the picture and "voila".

see you next week

Dr. Stein is back online

In this post I’ll write about my favourite piece of technology, my PC. I suppose that it isn't necessary to give some more information about what is a PC, I just want to add that however it's my favourite piece of technology because I assembled it on my own, I chose each part carefully from different stores and when I got every necessary piece I proceeded to assemble it, so I have a PC fully personalized according to my own needs and requirements.

For many years I have assembled my own computers and the last one I got it on last year, in march exactly, I bought it on my own with money saved after working for a whole summer, instead of vacation... I did work, but it was worth it.

I use it very often, every day, for assignments, playing, chatting, downloading movies, mp3 and videogames, etc. I loved it because of that. And my life without my PC would be a torture, because I think that now I depend on my PC and lately it has become an important part of my life, you can call me freak or geek, I don't mind.

image 1: Sirius black case.

image 2: sapphire ati radeon HD4850 PCIE 512 MB (Video card)

image 3: CPU Athlon 64 x2 5400+ Dual core