Miel de Maple

Besides delightful Carmeneres, condors and one of the biggest telescopes on Earth, Chile is also the home place of a sparkling electronic-music scene and community. Within this community of record labels, collectives and musicians, lays Pueblo Nuevo, a two times Qwartz-awarded electronic music net-label and collective of multidisciplinary artists based in Santiago.

They publish awesome music and some graphics from time to time; and they just republished an old series of photographs I took for them a little while ago. The series is entitled ‘Mind Your Own Business’ and consists of eight images of micro-business in Mexico City.

Check it out!

I can’t stop feeling fascinated every time I see an x-ray plate: they reveal an invisible interior stopped in time. Nowadays, we all know there are bones and other stuff inside us, but an x-ray is the definitive visual evidence of their existence; the depiction of an otherwise imperceptible phenomena.

They were discovered in 1895 by Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen, first causing buzz in the urban scene and later being used by many super heroes (Superman included) and for medical and scientific purposes.

Oh! and this is an image of my teeth (took this evening).

That’s right! We are working on a new iPhone application. Yesterday we finished an important phase of the project. I think the worst part is over.

Next week, I will be testing the performance of the app, refactoring some code and finding bugs while my team focus on the visuals of the  app.

More details? Coming to the App Store this March!

Yesterday, and for just an instant, I felt like the happiest man on Earth. No fancy triggers or spectacular experiences: I was just having lunch.

I then wondered if every man is once in a lifetime “the happiest man on Earth”, even if it’s only for a mili-second. Odds are 1 to billions so I guess not. Despite the stats, I believe that the feeling can be easily and repeatedly experienced if you slow down for a second and focus on the joy and pleasure small things can bring.

A slip of Coke, a gold-lighted afternoon, free ice-cream or a slow kiss can be just enough to make you feel the happiest man (or girl) on Earth.

Just found that UK-based Jammy Toast Podcast, in their Episode 18, featured a song of my friend Rubinskee (Iván Riestra) along with a song of my last release (Living Undercover).

The podcast really worths a look at. It makes an amazing selection electronic music published under creative-commons licenses and other copyright-safe agreements.

Cheers to Pete, the hilarious host of this wonderful podcast!

If you are one of the lucky ones to live in Mexico City and own an iPhone or iPod touch, your fantastic voyages accross subway, rapid bus system (MetroBus) and other rail-based systems are about to be mathematically optimal.

I decided to employ this summer vacations on the development of my first commercial application. I thought on something I really needed in my everyday and  ended designing an optimal route calculator for the main public transportation systems in Mexico City. I called it Ubicate!  which translates as ‘locate yourself’ and which is a phrase grown-ups love shouting at youngsters when they misbehave.

In brief, you input a start station, your destination and my software tells you the precise instructions to arrive shortly (or comfortably if there are too many line exchanges), dry and safe .

I’ve got some future plans for the software, first of all, international localization, some integration with the phone’s GPS system, etc…

You can visit the mini-site (Spanish) or even better, download it from the App Store!
Remember your purchase helps a young software-engineering student pay for his college expenses and vices: fancy restaurants, stripped Adidas sneakers in every possible color, luxury traveling, … Just kidding!!

If you liked the application’s logo, you should know it’s the work of a very talented designer and wonderful collaborator, Ulises Arvizu.

PS: I’m looking for a young developer to work with. Contact me if you feel interested. iPhone SDK experience strongly suggested)

Now you can start listening to my podcast!

It’s called “A Dar El Rols Rois“, it’s in Spanish and the drill is much like this blog: a smart-young look to everything that could worry a college student.

I can’t wait ’till Saturday to start recording Episode Two: my co-host, Hector Flores, is going to buy a new mic (a fancy SM-58), I’m going to start recording in Pro Tools and we’re having a special guest in the show.

Suscribe to the feed with iTunes.

Visit our Liberated Syndication website.

Or become a fan in Facebook.

What’s the sound of war on the poor? Maybe it’s like a noisy blender, a controversial and desolate silence, an experimental opera or something else.

PublicRec, an internet-based archive of the Ultra-red organization, asked this same question to several people, including worldwide audio artists, and published a two-volume compilation with their 1-minute replies.

Volume two features my very own answer. Go ahead!

If you are looking for a Spanish-written guide regarding Programming Paradigms. It’s your lucky day!
I just published a school report I did during this last semester for my course of “Formal Languages and Automata”.

It includes an analysis of the most important programming paradigms and its characteristics, some words about language, the meaning of paradigm, lots of quotes, Creative Commons licensed illustrations…

Surf to Scribd and start reading!

I love those beautiful days plenty of good luck and good news… Yesterday was one those days.

After receiving my Programming Languages final grade (a good-looking 100) and having a tasty ice-cream, fortune smiled me with something else. One of my favorite photography magazines, FILE Magazine, has added one of my photographs to its fancy collection.

Special thanks to Tabata for her patience and trust.