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On 15 defebrero the deadline for the writers (those guys who "live off the subsidies") present our development projects feature film script, in order to qualify for grants from the MINISTRY of Culture.

The thing is that you present a) a synopsis of the movie you want to write, b) treatm sequencing of the story, c) a decent curriculum, d) a document briefly explain why this project deserves to be funded and clearly that you have in your head, etc..

If you are one of fifteen lucky bastards elected by the ministry, receive a grant of 40,000 euros that will solve life for a while. A good season in which (at least in theory) can afford to give up other jobs to lock yourself in your house to make that "draft script" in a dash of truth.

Anyway, fairly recently I had an idea for a feature film that I found interesting. I shared with a few people, some of them told me basically that these grants should be submitted to the ministry. Because it is a story that is basically "meat subsidy." It has everything: the political, social burden, with baited hooks for fishing bait actors, low budget, fertile ground for a possible international co-production.

has never been easier to get grants of this kind, and I never I had the luck (or skill) needed when it comes to awards, grants or competitions. But I think my friends are right. If you've ever had an eligible project, it probably is.

So here I was, doing rundowns and banging the keyboard trying to write something coherent before 15 February.

But I can not.

Why?

I have spent several days trying to find the cause. Fear of failure? Fear of success? "Tired? "Ineptitude?

do not think so ...

I have most of the story in my head. Folios just need to transcribe what I have in the Seseras, if perhaps a couple holes to fill ...

Maybe discourages me to perceive the fact that easy? Absence of challenge? Bored? Did my unconscious, an expert in sabotage itself, not welcomed as much "comfort"?

I have thought much about it, I referred to in the mirror trying to dispense with any kind of "filter" or preconceived idea. And I concluded that my block is emotional.

Every time I put the project in question, whenever I can feel the energy project bothers me, I listen to myself and when you hear a car failed to find "where the hell is that small noise. "And in my case the little sound comes from the heart.

acknowledge that little sound because, in essence, is the same I've heard on other occasions, when either by money, by contract or by various manipulations, I have" forced "to act against my principles.

Suddenly I realize that I was not motivated by the project. It excites me. I admit that I was excited when I saw it, but then the concept was lost purity, became contaminated, perhaps it was deformed to fit into our world ... I do not know! One begins to make concessions without realizing it, and end up writing for others, without knowing exactly who these "others." Nobody pays you to do so. Nobody tells you what you have to capture on paper. But somehow, one day you realize that history has ceased to come from your heart. Now do not write from the inside out, but "out" to the paper, or to the form of grant whore.

I left the project. At least for now.

I find it very sad to invest my time in a story only because there is a "remote possibility but less remote than usual," it is eligible.

I know that may sound like a Pharisee speech, "this is throwing flipao roll." But I assure you I'm serious. Write honest I do not think it "could be subsidized." Why Why?

Because I do not believe in subsidies .

I believe that our subsidies are designed as are the English audiovisual cancer. Close more doors that open. Promote conservatism. Favor inbreeding.

And here I was, swinging on that opinion as categorical grants and, nevertheless, striving to be subsidized. Barking at the hand that feeds me and then lick it when I offered her lunch leftovers. Suddenly I snetí like those "comeflores" who addressed anti-globalization and pro-Greenpeace as they put their shoes sewn Converse Taiwanese children on a table shabby Malasaña a den in which they feel very gustito because they put the heating on full blast.

And like me, so many others. Many people who disagree with these policies and with those systems, but nevertheless agree and bow their heads and beg with their tails between their legs.

"Because of the subsidies do not really have an industry in this country," they say. And as I say, are extending a trembling hand and insecure to "daddy state" if they like a bit of loose change. Then the excuse that "we must fight the system from within." And a dick! That in two of every three cases, cheap excuse, such as "I control tranqui" of alcoholics and premature ejaculation.

I think I belong to a generation of people who still can be considered young, and yet those of my generation still dancing to the stale and accommodating criteria of previous generations. Never mind that the "young" come with new ideas and energy in abundance. Science has been responsible for increasing life expectancy and the operability of the other people who were "cool" thirty years ago.

That yes, the experience of "older" is invaluable, and this world should offer a council of elders each twenty meters. But the audiovisual sector is renewing a dizzy speed that even the thirtysomethings like me. I remember reading in Bloguionistas an appointment Joaquín Oristrell that shocked me. He said the main problem of our profession is that we age, but the public always has fifteen years.

But to return to the heart of the matter: We dare not change things. Maybe it's the increase in employment longevity of the "obsolete." Maybe it's because we are a generation that, in general, has been dormant too easy and has the fighting instinct. Face it: 90% of us (even the most unfortunate) life more than our ancestor settled fifteen, twenty, thirty years. And that comfort us anesthesia.

We complained in our comments on Facebook, with small mouth, and then not do anything to change our situation. Follow the yellow brick caminito imposed on us, without trying to get out of line. We complain about the inadequacy of the grants, the injustice of the minimum wage, trade unions and the lack thereof.

but do nothing about it.

And see that in the case of audiovisual have it fairly easy!

In times of the French Revolution had to resort to the guillotine Shaving and irreversible. Today, thanks to new technologies, we have mechanisms much simpler and more peaceful (at least at first sight). We youtube (and internet in general), which is the American dream of this new global village. We have in house digital cameras offer a quality that they would have wanted for himself Truffaut, Goddard or Lars Von Triers. We have computers that can do real magic that James Cameron would have been scared shitless to twenty years ago.

We have all the ingredients to come together and do different things. Things to say implicitly: "This is the voice of a new generation. We are courageous people. We are not stagnant dinosaurs ever. "We can spread our works free of charge, and what is now published on the net I can see a few seconds a certain Lars in Denmark and a certain Sazuke in Japan.

know many talented writers (half of them are eating boogers.) filmmakers I know unemployed who could shoot well Alatriste triple what was shot and the third of the budget. I know people can do, without leaving your own bedroom best special effects and best soundtracks to many others who charge big bucks to do crap. I know producers who (believe it or not) have an open mind, they feel a genuine love for the seventh art.

If all these people would join if all these people formed a "Team A", each specializing in what he does best, perhaps many things would be different.

But many of those people, if you offer any bold initiative, will tell you things like, "Oh, that's not profitable", or "That's not what you subsidize or God" or "not worth it."

matter how much talent we have new generations. Whether you have the F1 motor of Fernando Alonso. Because they lack fuel. They lack the enthusiasm. We have had a couple of lies and have believed. Because it is very comfortable believing the lies. It is very easy to bet on a mantra that you are resulmen inviting to just sit on your couch and do nothing. So treat us this society dust century spared in exchange for a mediocre blowjob. But boy, the feeding does not require any effort. You stay lying on the couch, and I will squeeze the semen and then invest in the bag without giving anything in return.

And then there are the ashes and frustrated. Those people who do not get things because it does not fit, or because he has not done enough. People who do not feel comfortable savoring his failure alone, and thus sowing the world the same message of skepticism and disappointment for those who come after desist in their attempts to get what they want. Vampires illusions trying to attract others to their slew of shit, mumbling a song siren Bajonero toothless.

I will confess that lately I feel like I'm waking up (too slowly) from a very long dream of several years. Try again to find myself after accepting too many "lies" (or, rather, too many "half truths") Try to start slowly collar "Danny the Dog." I think I have tamed. Pure Pavlovian behaviorism. Through awards and shock, the first bland enough not to compensate, the second mild enough not to wake me. I am aware

that probably would not be writing an entry as "reactionary" if not collected by an unusual environment in our "visual scene" lately. Within a month we have attended two controversies related to a couple of important filmmakers of our country and their twitters. Such controversies do not have much relationship with this post, but hell! make you think, make you rethink what kind of country do you live, and to what extent we do not have some "guilt" that things are as they are. I just hope that, just how the events of recent days I've been invited to self-criticism to me, do the same with people who can spread their opinions more powerful than it can afford this humble homespun blog.

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Caviar and egg, vegetarian

Well, are dressed up:) :). In fact, a dessert that is very popular in Asia. All ingredients are available at any Asian supermarket. The components of this dessert are

egg yolk = mango jelly. Do not forget to use the agar-agar (instead of gelatin) is that he is 100% vegetarian

Egg whites = coconut milk

caviar = cassava cassava pearl formed

Since Valentine's Day is coming, I've molded gelatin in a bowl of mango the heart. Deserve our special ones:):)

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This bag is loaded with ...

This case is full of ... dreams, I've been putting it all the ideas that come to my head and want to come out as TIA NUNA pieces. All these little things, I've been working slowly and with great affection. In short, will be on sale in my new project: "on-line store NUNA TIA " .

I hope you can see it prontito all (more clearly). A bico and happy weekend.

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TALK OF LAW SINDE PUTA ...


apologize I hope you know these days of silence. I've been sick, like half the inhabitants of this country.

My idea was to return to absurd concept, but I have several days discussing with people on the controversial " Sinde law" and its environs. I had to pronounce the same arguments many times in so little time that I decided to write here.

lazy I usually take a view on these things on the blog, but for some strange reason this matter Specifically motivates me.

I think that I will not say anything new on the subject, but I like to speak with my words as I told these days to a few colleagues (it sounds that the "colleagues", eh? )

First, I want to clarify that I will not speak of the "Law Sinde" as such. I have read, so any opinion on my opinion it would be an illegal immigrant. My intention is to discuss the inevitable problems that motivated the law.

Second, I highlight a few things about me, about what to wield fairly neutral reasons for considering:

SGAE I am a member of more than a year, but still have not received a single euro of them (despite having spent over two years working on a program that generates royalties). On the other hand, I am "author" two films that have been distributed in Spain (and in one case even say "author" twice) However, I have not received a cent for any of them. And even give me my share percentage for each copy - or input - sold, I assure you that my piece of the pie is so tiny that I did not solve the life even for a couple of days.

One of these two movies is very easy to find on the Internet and, according to figures I have seen, has been downloaded "illegally" for some people. I'm pleased with that. You can not imagine how grateful I am to all those people who have downloaded our movie through some of those pages that they now want to close.

And despite all this, I think YES we should pay for movies, books, etc ... we consume.

On a purely selfish. We all like to make good movies. We all like to tell us good stories. And to make these stories have to buy the time and dedication of people dedicated to them (directors, writers, makeup artists, props, caterers, etc.) These people need - like all my neighbors - to make ends meet, and if the "top" decide it is not profitable to pay for storytelling, will have to come later this month working on other things.

What, in my opinion, the error being committed by the State on this issue?

into a moral debate!

I propose that we forget if you download movies is right or wrong. This moralizing going to hinder any kind of understanding. Furthermore: If you forbid something, "the people" saying it's bad, people will react to the contras. We are human! Worse still: We are English! I once read a saying that said: "If the water was prohibited, everyone would drink it."

Here is the error, in my opinion!

are demonizing the matter. They are accusing and threatening people. They try to excuse that you are only against profits from piracy. But I disagree! The mantra floating in the atmosphere is that everyone who download movies from home is a thief. Remember those ads that made us swallow every time I saw a DVD purchase: "You would not steal a car! Would not steal in the supermarket! Hacking is a crime! Law now goes for you!"
TORPEZAAAA
! Let's stop scaring

and argue that the ordinary people and adopt a more pragmatic, even business. Conceive

citizens almost as clients. As people who have to seduce. Let

understanding.

We are in a country where, if we get people to adopt certain behaviors, we first have to change their mentality and their (perhaps justifiable) preconceptions.

Whenever I talk about this give the example of taxes. In Spain people are more given to evade their tax obligations in countries like Germany or Denmark. And I assure you that in Denmark the percentage be paid to the Treasury is much higher than we pay in our country. Why are the "true European" pay those taxes without complaint? Well probably because they make sure that these taxes will directly affect their welfare. Because they know that money out of their pockets are going to enjoy as parks, roads, scholarships, health, etc, etc, etc, etc, etceterísima.

What about Spain? Well, people believe that much of the money that the Treasury "rob" will not affect the benefit of citizenship, but will go straight into the pockets of three or four smart-ass of the "highest levels". Unfortunately, we do not have too many arguments to refute that belief. It is therefore logical that in the English mentality can even applaud the fact that someone spare the odd euro to the Treasury. There are so far from Spain in the Lazarillo de Tormes.

And in the English audiovisual something similar happens!

People have the feeling that those who are dedicated to this are the "subsidies." They think that if pirating a movie or series are not hurting anyone. People who make movies is spent taxpayers' money on champagne and cocaine orgies! And I fucked

the matter is that today we can not deny it with their heads held high.

Oh yes, that 90% of the "puppet masters" it costs us to make ends meet and we must work to bind a crappy job to the next. But make no mistake: We all know first hand more than a story about movies already written off a priori born thanks to grants and broadcast rights for television. We've all heard of this or that case in which a high percentage of a given subsidy "pied in the way" for profit to those who need it least.

And while this is so, the "Internet" can leave us flushed with the mouth closed with his arguments, much as most of us engaged the audiovisual suffer such injustices as much as they (or even more than them)!

have to clean up the way to make movies in Spain. If we want the public to pay for our content we must lead by example and make him see that there is indeed a direct relationship between how they invest their money in buying or renting our work and how because of that are effectively supporting the type of films they like, and contributing to the development of the English audiovisual industry (if the day comes that we consider industry)

Who knows? Maybe to get to that has to stop subsidies "a priori" the ministry, as suggested my friend, partner and producer Alberto López Garrido .

Also, I think to really convince our audience we have to make another parallel reform:

FACILITATE ACCESS TO LEGAL CONTENT.

I have no right to require people to purchase online works as a legal way much easier to get that content illegally . For hours

same things are well.

If you want to download "Avatar" for free, just give a button. If you want to get it legally, probably have to fill out a form, give a credit card number, then get into your email to click on a link I do not know why, or download a "license" do not know how ...

Each of these steps is a spit in the face of your potential buyer, an opportunity to consider it and send you to hell and end by going to the place that offer the same content for free ( and with the same quality or better, if you know to look life)

I put an example: Our film was, among other things, the first in Spain to be opened in legal downloads. Many people tried to download it legally for a project so small. But many gave up after several attempts. The managed web legal downloads put things very difficult. Had to fill many bullshit, calling card numbers (some of us wrote saying they could not buy online because they were underage and had no credit card), then take ages to download, and they could not remove the hard disk ( you could only see the movie on your computer) and if you were using a Mac, it turns out that you paid in vain, because the legal file did not work on Mac

guess that many of these limitations have been fixing the over time but tell me, is still much more laborious and convoluted legal route that illegal.

I myself not long ago, would like to download a novel for my e-book. I was interested in paying for it. He was a contemporary English author who wanted to support me. I assure you that I traveled all over the internet and not found a way to get that book legally.

"What the hell happens to us!?

We specialize in corporate work. Sell \u200b\u200bcontent. Any other company in any other sector strives to deliver the product to your customer. Seduce. Provide access. If Cola Cao wants people to buy Cola Cao, put their jars yellow visible on the supermarket shelf. What will Cola Cao is not asking people that instead of getting the Cola Cao free in the parish of the corner, climb a mountain on all fours, wait six hours and pay a fortune to the happy polvitos cocoa. What does Cola Cao is calling you a thief in the face if these efforts do not inadmissible to buy your product.

Take the example of the bar:

Imagine that you are in your home with some friends. You have beer in the fridge, but nevertheless decide to go out for some beers in a bar. Because the bar brings you a series of satisfaction that you pay a little more than make up for that beer: Move to fresh air, see other people, the environment, local decor, friendly waiter, how good is the Maid ... Then you come to the bar in question and it did not even have worked to make a nice decoration. To make matters worse, it takes ten minutes to serve you, and the waiter who serves you is an edge that treats you as if you had to thank you for coming to your site, and serves up the reeds you bad throws, and the cap puts you is not no big deal, and last but not least, I charged the canes to the extortionate price. Damn! It makes sense that you and your friends arrive to the conclusion that such treatment, the better you stay at home and you you take the beers in the fridge, which I have come a lot cheaper (which cost you your internet connection the canon of your hard drive, etc)

I think the public, when you make it easy, do not mind paying so much to consume. The people are much given to compulsive buying. Think teens spent three euros on ringtone download a mobile, or send an sms to "save me" (why? Because it is almost as easy as pushing a button. Do not have much time to think) Think about that group of friends who orders another round of reeds, and on and on without worrying about how much they are costing these beers (why? Because the waiter serves them right away, without giving them time to think twice, without breaking the magic of time. Surely if the waiter takes a quarter of an hour to serve you and to ask them to fill out a form to order the reeds and make them go to a window at the bottom of the bar to pick them up, would be far fewer would ask for another round) Think of the people who pay a bonus of I do not know how many euros for 25% more than Coca Cola in McDonald or theft insurance on the train ticket. It become so easy that many times they pay without stopping to think about whether they need it or not.

If people pay for things so easily that sometimes could even be considered a scam, why can not we educate them to pay for things that really worthwhile?

I do not know what is the best formula for return of cultural works in this era of internet and home cinema. "Prompt and effective legal download a spotify of audiovisual advertising, a canon VOLUNTEER?

Maybe all at once.

only thing I think to be clear is this: What if we require our clients to pay for our products, we have to a) lead by example and b) facilitate access.