Arquivo para January, 2014
Japanese develops paintings with Excel
20
Jan
The spreadsheet can be used for many things, the main
ones are tables and graphics, also for accounting, do statistics , but the Japanese Horiuchi uses to paint.
His story is not new, in 2006 won an award in Excel Art Contest, and since that time his art was much more expressive than their competitors .
For him Excel is a much better tool than Paint , simpler and used by many people or even Adobe Photoshop used by designers and artists , says that initially thought a hobby, and seeing Excel thought ” I can probably draw it.”
He was ready to retire, Tatsuo Horiuchi wanted a challenge for the rest of your life. He then saw people using Excel to create charts, and thought ” I can probably draw it.” He never needed to use Excel to work but did not take to master the techniques of software. And now, he believes that Excel is best for this kind of thing than the Paint , the simple Microsoft software for creating and editing images.
But the news does not stop there, his works are shared and you can download the Excel file of two works: Cherry Blossoms in Game Castle (2006) and Kegon Falls (2007), will probably be the first master paintsourcing or prefer crowdpainting.
Some will say it is not art, but Tatsuo is happily shares with all the beautiful cloth that does.
First physical library without books
17
Jan
A few months ago she began to operate, and was very
well received by the public, but some questions must be made since the very news opinion say an Apple Store , with librarians imitating Apple’s robes “with matching shirts with hood.” Ask the Library called BiblioTech mimic the Apple Store , the news from the Associated Press says : ” The Texas saw the future of public libraries , and they look a lot like an Apple Store : rows of iMacs bright beckon . mounted on a table tangerine-colored iPads invite readers . And hundreds of other tablets are ready to be taken by anyone with a register in the library.”.
Looking at the pictures of the interior BiblioTech it seems to be a common store and not a library , perhaps a laboratory information system some college but not a library , even modern libraries with cultural sights and plenty of space . The building where the BiblioTech has 45 iPads, 40 laptops and 48 desktops to be accessed by its visitors , who can browse through a catalog of 10,000 e-books .
The person who does not have a tablet or e -reader can also lend the device to read the digital version of the book at home, she can pick up one of the machines and rent it are 600 traditional e-readers and 200 other child-oriented , not necessarily Apple.
For while there is much discussion of the future of books , whether they be digital only , or if there is still space for their physical forms , to see our libraries can begin preparing for two scenarios : one in which everyone reads only versions digital works without the need to carry heavy books , and those who feel that contact with the physical book you need and not open his hand.
If the future would be cruel with physical or not , books do not yet know , but the mission of libraries is to share information and can enable , among others , the two services.
The new nation-World
16
Jan
As already clarified Morin and Anne Brigitte Kern call
Fatherland-Earth (or homeland), and although they see the ontological importance of the concep , understand that see the world as homeland is more comprehensive because it incorporates besides the people and the planet itself, the world as a living being and present in the reality of cultures and peoples .
Chapters 2 and 3 of earth and planetary identity agony , even though the topics are relevant essentially think that the crisis involves something beyond the contradictions and cultural and political issues at stake , what is at stake , it agree with the author , that man is now seen as a whole attends his planetary experience and communications play an important role in human vision is clear , but with media aids.
A new civilizational step is performed , and their analysis in chapter 4 , although divided into five stages, namely : the beginning of human evolution , homo erectus , homo sapiens , birth history (agriculture , farming , city-state ) and fifth who was going to be the birth of “society / community of individuals, ethnic groups and nations ” (page 112 of the book Earth – homeland of the authors ) .
Essentially I agree that would be the end of the Iron Age, and that the “concept of development has to be rethought , totally and radically ” (p. 112 ) , but the authors state that this happened from the 50 post-war however the vision Fatherland- World is enlarged understanding that from the late Middle Ages was the imprisonment of the “human spirit ” ( the noosphere so ) linking it to the realm of nature and with it of man by man himself .
The authors address correctly “because we have to separate the notion of developing its housing economist ” (p. 112 ) and find that it is a mistake of reducing economic nature “judge that the market itself contains all solutions to the problem of civilization “(p. 113 ) and ” socialism and capitalism were in their , myths development “(p. 114 ) and that both cannot be “designed as providentialist, imperialists and reductive notions”(p. 114 ) .
The authors find the key phenomenon of planetary era: ” the moral , psychological and intellectual underdevelopment” (p. 115) developed , and the proliferation of general ideas: “hollow and mutilated vision, loss of global, elementary and responsibility” (p. 115) .
We must respect local cultuas in the planetary era, but the authors cite using M. Murayama that every culture has something “dysfunctional (default functionality) of misfuncional (running in a bad sense) of sub-functional ( making a performance at the lowest level) and toxifuncional (creating losses in its operation) ” (p. 116) and that is why we must open ourselves to “other cultures” without losing our.
A pause for technology
15
Jan
We are sailing by reading about Edgar Morin was the
emergence of a “global” era in a world that is seen together, perhaps more united while respecting their diversity .
Finished last week the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, attended by more of 150 thousand people, with 3.500 products, ranging from the 4k TVs (four times the HD high – definition), drones (drones), smart cars, versatile devices such as washing machines and other appliances more intelligent machines.
A novelty already known but promising in 2014 , are the smartwatches , smart watches some interesting and unobtrusive as Toq , Qualcomm , others more creative and showy as the Galaxy Gear of the Samsung, but the highlight for technologists was Nabu, Razer, which changes the concept of clock and looks more like a bracelet with various functions .
Another highlight are the smartest cars , the most appreciated features are those which prevent collisions during parking maneuvers and go, but the trend of driverless cars seems to be for real , because they are already testing the automakers .
After some time without much novelty, the new chips with graphics processing seem determined to migrate from games for tablets and PCS , Nvidia promises to bring visuals worthy of the new generation computer games for tablets and smartphones . One with 192 cores, K1 employs the technology of Kepler graphics cards and elevates the picture quality of the games of mobile devices to the level of home consoles and PCs.
The 4K TVs are now much advertised and should reach the domestic market this year , 3D iterative equipment for interactive games also showed incredible realism (see photo).
A planetary tele-participation
14
Jan
This whole process excluded people and cultures, Edgar Morin
and Anne B. Kern to analyze the emergence of Earth – Homeland, remember that the invasion of China by Japan in 1931 was ignored by Europe , the “Chaco War between Bolivia and Argentina (1932-1935) was another planet ” (p. 38 ) , and ” only after 1950 is that the Korean War , the Vietnam and ( with the generalization of television) the Middle East have become close. ” (p. 38) .
It is then that world events begin to seem that occur in our backyard , the authors cite Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas in 1963 , the arrival of Sadat to Jerusalem and his assassination in 1981 , the attack on the Pope in Rome , the assassination of Indira Gandhi and her son Rhajiv and murder of Mohammed Boudiaf the House of Culture of Anaba , and they add ” if only for the duration of a flash human emotion wells up to the point we take our clothes , our mite to international aid organizations to humanitarian missions.” (p. 39) .
It is only when people see is that the medical and food aid arrive , but when the authors wrote the book ( in 2000 ) said they still ” we felt for planetary flashes ” (p. 39), is now with videos and simultaneous photos can say the same ?
Tsunamis , hurricanes , floods seem to occur in distant places make us feel more part of the people so far away , and bring us the “feeling of belonging to the same community of destiny , now the Earth community ” (p. 39)
The authors finish Chapter 1 , despite the concern with “agonizing convulsions” claim that ” although there is not now a community of fate , there is still no common awareness of this Schicksalgemeinschaft . ” (P. 41 ) (in certain situations that communities share the destination : shipwrecked people trapped in a mine, etc. and it can now become a common feeling to the entire planet ) and here I include the noosphere, “the spirit” planetarium..
The authors also analyze the planetary identity (Chapter 2) and the problems of planetary distress (Chapter 3), but I’m optimistic I think it is possible now that we have a media mirror network , see the fact that we have to face and decide how it her pleasant creating a new nation – World´s peoples, cultures, biosphere and noosphere shared by all.
The globalization of culture
13
Jan
The development of a world culture and also its counter
is noted by the authors Morin and Anne B. Kern to suggest that while the world moves towards greater unity, diversity also reacts and seeks to subsistence crops.
Although the “consumption, food (fast food), travel, tourism “and also the” communications multiply among adolescents and carriers of the same aspirations , the same cosmopolitan culture , the same codes “in contrast, engineers, scientists and businessmen circulate through international networks of relations, conferences symposia and seminars , but it must be said also that the undercurrents that sacralized the nation and ethnicity restore the partitions and rejections . Also in this case , the process involves a deep ambivalence” (p. 35 of the book Earth – Homeland of these authors).
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And this ambivalence is pointed to by the authors as having two opposing aspects : ” 1 ) homogenization , degradation , loss of diversity , 2) meetings , new syntheses and new diversity ” (p. 36 ), but having this understanding multiculturalism long term means it will be possible to harmonize into a “unity in diversity” .
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It so follows the text : ” when it comes to art, music , literature , thought, cultural globalization is not homogenizing … so was Europe with Classicism , the Enlightenment , Romanticism , Realism and Surrealism ” (p. 36), now the twentieth century witnessed the globalization of this cultural process . The translations multiply. Japanese Latin American novels , and African are published in major European languages and European novels are published in Asia and the Americas. ” ( p. 36 )
” At the same time , Eastern cultures in the West raises several questions and curiosities … already translated Upanishads and Avesta: the eighteenth century , Confucius and Lao Tse objects scholarship “(p. 36 ) … ” Then comes a demand to which place the vulgarized and commercialized the yoga and Zen forms that promise harmony of body and soul ” (p. 37), while it was forming an “planetary folklore” as the authors call them .
At the same time the American film world folklore propagated by movies western , the musical comedy , the animated Walt Disney grew co -productions of different nationalities as Leopard of the Visconti or Kurosawa’s Ran, cited in the book .
Finalize this topic noting that cultural globalization is inseparable from the development of global media networks and global dissemination of media playback (movies , compact discs ) are cited as the book is 2000 , but now we can add Blu-ray, USB sticks , smartphones and sharing in the clouds .
Sketches of a planetary consciousness
10
Jan
The atomic threat (initiated by the West in second War) 
continues to be a factor present , remember the recent episode of the tsunami in Japan that affected nuclear plants Hiroshima, Edgar Morin and Edgar B. Kern initiate the issue of planetary consciousness”, analyzing this issue together with the ecological issue and “the entry of the Third World ” until then just a plaything in the hands of the economic struggle of the most developed countries .
“Decolonization the years has raised proscenium 195-1960 Globe 1.5 billion human beings hitherto thrown by the West in the dustbin of history” (p. 34 ) and that humanity “inspire fear or compassion , his tragedies , its shortcomings , its mass force us to relativize our permanent euro- Western difficulties … the problems of the Third World ( demographics , supply , development) are increasingly felt as the problems of the world itself “(p. 34 ) .
This has advanced a unit of man on earth, “despite all the setbacks ethnocentric” (p. 34 ) which can be seen in the anthropological works of Levi – Strauss, Malaurie, Castre, Jaulin “and films and documentaries mentioning several among them Derzu Uzala, Akira Kurosawa who speak in a new way of “primitive” people.
It’s something new that Western culture tries to regain consciousness lost in thought of modernity , he sees the man only as “Awareness is the immediate perception of the subject of what ‘s going on inside or outside” in dicionaire, or as the relationship with their instruments of production, consumption , or in the case of science , with the objects of study , but is not yet an awareness of the world , planetary , who see everyone and everything with a relational and human sense .
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The planetary consciousness of wars , economic and social problems are growing prisoner is subject-centered vision, and ecology is the first attempt to free the consciousness of an anthropocentrism, is what I call home – world, to be greater than the Homeland Earth, although this global perception of the subject is very importante mas isn´t complete.
Economy and planetary consumption
09
Jan
Even before the fall of the Berlin Wall , there were “forces of globalization and integration of cultural
disintegration, civilizational, psychological, social, political , globalized economy itself was ( and is weakened ) increasing : thus the economic crisis born in 1973 the shortage of oil has undergone several transformations without ever truly recover” (p. 30 of the book of Patria Land – Morin and Anne B. Kern ), occurs in a “global dialogic”.
The authors explain that the fall in the price of coffee, for example , encourages farmers to cultivate coca in Colombia, feeding international drug trafficking networks , as well as wage increases in Germany can affect the price of cocoa in Côte d’Ivoire ivory, and the authors point to the “general slowdown in economic activity” which highlight two :
” … d ) the United States , with lack of money , drive up interest rates ; … f) Third World countries where the interest rate is indexed must reimburse at a higher rate ; … “(p. 31 ) that are interesting to reflect for those who think there is in Brazil and other countries Latin American independence from any “global” economy.
But the other aspect of planetarization, which the authors call “hologram” is that “every part of the world is increasingly becoming part of the world , also the world as a whole is increasingly present in every one of its parts . This happens not only with the nations and peoples , but also with individuals” (p. 31 ) .
Cites numerous cases ” takes from Ceylon , India, or China tea, unless it is a moka coffee Arabica from Ethiopia or Latin America … can be found on his desk winter [ my case in Italy ] strawberries and cherries from Argentina or Chile, fresh green beans from Senegal …. “(p. 32 ) , etc. . a globalization of consumer objects .
Thus , ” for better or for worse, each of us , rich or poor , has in it , without knowing it, the entire planet . Globalization is both evident fear , subconscious and ubiquitous “(p. 33 ) , but will be in our awareness and consumption of culture , not just the technology but all together, we reflect on this ?
Changes in post-war and hope
07
Jan
Their analysis follows , and despite the post-war there was ” immense hope in a new world
of peace and justice … weakening or in ignorance of the Red Army brought not liberation , but another servitude and colonialism that will relaunch its influence in Africa and Asia … the Cold War begins in 1947 ” (page 29 , the book Earth – Homeland Edgar Morin and Anne B. Kern, we are analyzing here) .
” Despite passing openings , antagonisms of the two great systems maintain its virulence until 1985 and exasperate during the Afghanistan war ” (p. 27 ) .
But “the withering away of the myth of ‘ real socialism ‘ , started with Kruchtchev report continued repression of the Hungarian (1957 ) and the Prague Spring (1968 ) , The Myth of Chinese socialism also languishes in 1975 ( the ‘ plot ‘ of Lin Piao , the case of the Gang of Four ) , as well as the myth of releasing Vitename ( subjection of Cambodia ) … the reforming process of perestroika , which leads to implosion of communist totalitarianism and the dismemberment of its empire (1987-1991) , did ruin the great religion of earthly salvation that the nineteenth century had developed to suppress the exploitation of man by man … “(P. 28 ) .
The subsequent period seemed to show that ” the laws of the market and free market principles apparently triumph ” (p. 28 ) but ” the convulsions of post – communism accelerate and amplify a formidable process of return to the past , tradition , religion , ethnicity born all over the world , the crisis of the future [ that the authors return in Chapter 3 and we made this blog a relationship with technology in the text of Alvin Toffler ] and startle identity against homogeneity. ” ( p. 29 )
Although the analysis may seem chaotic, and it is towards complex, there is a prospect of unity in diversity in the homeland-world environment that builds on this analysis, but is necessary others “walls” similar of Berlin will be destroyed.
Beginning of the ideas of the Homeland – World
06
Jan
Edgar Morin and Anne B. Kern called Fatherland- Earth environment of the early fifteenth century, 
and explains that the universalist religions ” opened up since the beginning of the earth to all me ” (p. 21) but “at the beginning of the planetary era the themes of ‘good wild’ and ‘natural man’ antidotes were, it is true that many weak “against the contempt by civilized barbarians , but it will be around that develop the ‘nation- state’ of modernity .
The evolution of these ideas will make the European anthropology mainly seen in the archaic not ‘ noble savages ‘ , but ‘ early childhood ‘ the authors state ( p. 21 ) .
But are precisely the ‘ theorists ‘ of ‘ infant primitive ‘ that trigger the 1914-1918 war , when a shot in Sarajevo kills the heir to the Habsburg throne ( p. 22 ) and ” a local attack in a remote corner of the Balkans determined an explosive chain reaction that ” just covering almost all Europe.
The authors show that the analysis can not be simplistic , ” the explanation of war is Marxist ( rivalries between imperialism ) or Shakespeare ( triggering turmoil and fury, frenzy of desire for power ) , because war is a monstrous historical product of copulation strength of Marx and Shakespeare “(p. 23 ) pass judgment .
And advances in the analysis of the period as follows: ” The world economy is shaken by upheavals in the early 1920s , until, in the middle atmosphere newfound prosperity , the great crisis of 1929 has lead to global disaster economic solidarity : Crashing Wall Street leads to economic depression all continents “(p. 24 ) .
” The 30 years are dramatic ” … ” Nazi Germany invades Norway, Netherlands, Belgium , France in 1940 ” … comes to Eastern Europe and Africa … “A total of 100 million men and women engaged in global conflict”
End of the war , founded the UN (United Nations), restart the Cold War, “the planet is polarized into two blocks , locking up everywhere an ideological war with no remission” (p. 26).
What lessons do we draw the bombing of Guernica (April 16, 1937) and the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) ?
