It was hard try to choose a picture but I did it. This photo was taken for Vivian Maier. I will talk about her before make some comments about the picture because for me it's important to know a little of her life. 

First, she wasn't a professional photographer, she was amateur. In fact she worked as a nanny for forty years in Chicago. In her free time she went out and took photo of the things that called her attention in the streets. She never shared her work with someone else, so nobody saw her work until 2007, when a historian and collector called John Maloof discovered it. Thanks to him, who started to show their work, we can see her amazing photos.

The photo I chose doesn’t have a title, but I know it was taken in New York on 1955. If I have to say what was exactly the place I would say that looks like the Central Park.

The reasons I like this photo are many. In first place I like the landscape. I don’t love the cold weather, but the snow is beautiful. Also, the trees without their leaves are something that I always like to look and in this picture we can observe it perfectly. Another reason is the perspective of the photography. It makes that the man in the center (between the rows of trees)look so lonely. And this is the most I love.

Before finish I share with you a Vivian Maier's self portrait and  the website with her work : http://www.vivianmaier.com

My favourite piece of technology

Well, I don’t have a favorite piece of technology, but if I had to choose one, this would be my cell phone.  A few months ago, my aunt bought a new mobile. She didn't know what to do with the old until she realized that my cell phone wasn’t in good conditions, so she gave it to me.

Obviously I use it every day to call people, to send messages, like an alarm clock, among others. But the most important thing and the reason because I like it is that I can listen to music. I do this when I walk or I lie on my bed.

What life would be without it? My life wouldn’t change. I’m sure that if I had to live without my mobile I wouldn’t have any problem because I’m not addicted or a lover of technology.

This is my cellphone. At the beginning it was a little difficult to use it because is "touch".

The catcher in the rye

Today I’m going to talk about one of my favorites books, “The catcher in the rye”, a Jerome Salinger’s novel published on 1951. Probably you heard something about this book, for example that the John Lennon’s murder had it in his hands when he committed this crime.

But, anyway, this isn’t important if we think about the story. The novel tells us the Holden Caulfield’s story, a teenager who was expulsed of his school and then went to New York to spent time before meet with her parents and sister. This sounds a little crazy and also like a typical story of a rebel young, but it isn’t of this way. The trouble he had  is that he didn’t want to grow up because the world of the adults is disgusting. He thinks it’s full of hypocrisy, lies, superficiality and stuffs like these.  As the story progresses we can appreciate this point of view, specially at the end of the book. The message we can find at the end is beautiful and confortable, but not easy to take.

To finish with this post I put a Wilhelm Stekel’s quote cited in the book.

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”