Prójimo
La palabra ‘prójimo’ es una hermosa palabra que viene del latÃn proximus y significa próximo, el que está cerca, el que es como tú, tu vecino… ‘Prójimo’ no hace distinciones, ni especifica si eres de derechas, ni de izquierdas, ni mujer, ni hombre, ni homosexual o hetero, ni de qué equipo eres, si eres gordo o flaco, o gracioso o más bien tirando a serio, si fumas, te gusta la butifarra, o comes caracoles con las manos.
Prójimo es MarÃa, José, Antonio, Carmen, Ana, Luis, Teresa… Es fácil reconocerlos, están ahà cuando hace falta, manchados de pies a cabeza. Solo te preguntan si necesitas ayuda, no te clasifican antes de ofrecértela, no dibujan una lÃnea roja para decidir si te ayudan o no.
Es imposible trazar una lÃnea roja en el barro.
Basta ya de que la polÃtica ocupe todo. Que no te engañen. No son los tuyos, no es tú equipo de futbol, no son tus colores, y desde luego no es ni tu familia ni tu vecino y, hoy en dÃa, desde luego para los polÃticos tú no eres el prójimo. Tres semanas después de la tragedia siguen ahà a los suyo, escurriendo responsabilidades, intentando mantener el relato, aprovechando la oportunidad, ajustando cuentas y llenando titulares que la verdad es solo dejan mal sabor de boca. No es que este cansado, es que estoy asqueado.
Basta ya.
Peter Higgs
My little tribute to Peter Higgs, who passed away few days ago.
If you don’t know who Peter is he was a British theoretical physicist who predicted the existence of a new particle and waited for almost 50 years to be discovered and confirmed. That’s the reason why I love one of his quotes: “It’s nice to be right sometimes.”
Because of this he won the Nobel in Physics in 2013.
The particle was called the “Higgs boson” or the “particle of God”, despite the fact that he was a self declared atheist.
The vector portrait of Peter is composed with all names in list of Nobel laureates in Physics from 1901.
Words of the Queen
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II passed away last September. She was not only a beloved person in Commonwealth countries but also a historical character with a huge and widely respected background. She took responsibilities very young, and I think she was a great example for his people.
I took more than 330 Queen speeches from this site https://www.royal.uk/speeches including her Christmas broadcasts. I only found speeches from 1970 and one of them was missing (broken link) so I had to recover it from Internet Archive (https://archive.org/).
With text cleaned, taken only Queen words, and removing some translation to French, I counted all relevant words. It drops a list of more than 4600 different words with repetition from 480 times to just one appearance.
The beginning of the list: Commonwealth (480),future (250),Prince (246),Christmas (244),celebrate (226),service (218),Philip (197),Kingdom (194),welcome (189),communities (188),thank (187),peace (167),opportunity (165),support (164),shared (163),Parliament (152),achieved (147),success (145),challenges (144),Mr (142),pleasure (132),reminded (128),delighted (124),occasion (124),anniversary (122),contribution (121),Wales (121),Britain (120),generations (120),present (120),Gentlemen (117),Royal (114),inspiration (112),Queen (109),spirit (107),faith (100),Australia (99),recent (99),events (97),Canada (96),culture (96),courage (92),friendship (92),international (92),proud (92),reflect (91),Minister (90),respect (90),London (89),memories (89),traditions (89),prosperity (88),throughout (87),relationship (86),Jubilee (84),confidence (83),de (83),partnership (83),responsibility (83),Assembly (82),message (81),society (81),encouragement (76)…
As base image I selected two very different portraits. First one the official image used to announce her death and another one from a very young Elizabeth, close to the moment she becomes Queen.
In between, a whole life dedicated to her people.
Keanu Reeves
Keanu is probably the most loved and nice actor out there. Despite his great success and extensive filmography, everyone that meets him talks about how kind human being he is.
So, I decided to pick a ‘very human’ portrait of Keanu, instead of any of his fictional characters. Original photo from Governo do Estado de São Paulo, taken in a meeting with the actor in 2019.
I took all more relevant words from his movie’s titles. A total of 144 words.
White background is a challenge when talking about text illustrations. I tried my best combining multiple text layers to keep everything in vector. It’s a complicate task and a huge native file but I think it worth the effort.
I guess Keanu deserves it.
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was an American poet born almost two hunderd years ago. Even living in isolation, she created about 1,800 poems, many of them really beautiful.
For this illustration I went back to my old habit of counting words, I counted the words of almost all of her poems and used them to generate a portrait of Emily. This is the list of some of the most used with it’s repetitions:
heaven (53),bee (51),soul (41),noon (28),sweet (24),dew (23),breath (22),purple (21),eternity (20),butterflies (19),immortality (19),grave (18),slow (18),angels (17),robin (17),afternoon (16),Lest (16),pain (16),creature (15),dare (15),prayer (15),spirit (15),stir (15),content (14),failed (14),late (14),lips (14),tune (14),bliss (13),fair (13),faith (13),fashioned (13),frost (13),hurried (13),none (13),storm (13),anguish (12),beyond (12),brook (12),departed (12),exists (12),forget (12),gain (12),grace (12),half (12),Paradise (12)…
Since there was no portrait of Emily with enough quality, I used Midjourney to ‘imagine’ a possible portrait of her. It’s amazing what an AI can do, even not knowing where inspiration comes from.
Ultimate Play The Game
Para celebrar que hace 40 años apareció el ZX Spectrum me he decidido a publicar una vectorización del logo de la compañÃa que probablemente hizo los mejores y más innovadores juegos para el que fue el primer ordenador de los que ya hemos rebasado el medio siglo. O estamos en ello!.
Es imposible meter en unas pocas lÃneas todos aquellos maravillosos momentos que pasamos con unos juegos de modestos gráficos pero de dificultad endiablada, que sobre todo conseguÃan transportarnos a un universo paralelo que cabÃa en unos (ahora) miserables 48kb.
Tantos juegos, tantas compañÃas (muchas españolas!) que no se puede hacer un listado sin caer en la injusticia de no mencionarlas a todas.
El logo es una adaptación de una de las pocas imágenes en las que se publicó del mismo en alta resolución. He tratado de mantener el carácter artesanal combinándolo con las lÃneas puras que destacaban en las versiones de baja resolución.
Descargar logo Ultimate en PDF.
Ponerme esta camiseta hace que me sienta, una vez más, como un Sabreman tras un teclado de goma.
Ukrainians Hands
It is terrible to see how a few can do so much suffer to so many people. How a few can make thousands go against other human beings. Make you think of sick our world still is.
This is not a war, not a conflict, not a fight, not a dispute, not a confrontation, no anything you can argue. There is no shitty reasons for this.
This is about heroes and assassins.
And again, victims are just people trying to live their lives. Ukrainians who have children, mothers, sisters, brothers… They have souls, they have names, they have hands…
Just like you and me. Don’t forget it.
Isabel
Siempre me ha costado mucho hacer mis ilustraciones para la gente que realmente me importa. Ilustrar a alguien con el que no tengo ninguna vinculación es fácil, hay como una distancia, una barrera que me mantiene a salvo a este lado. Observándolo todo a través de una pequeña ventana con botones abierta al universo digital.
Pero si es alguien que me importa se deshace la frontera, las palabras rompen la pantalla y me acompañan todo el dÃa recordándome que no están en su sitio o que no son las buenas. Asà que tengo que hacer un enorme esfuerzo para dar por buena una ilustración que siempre creo que está sin terminar.
Y a mà me parece que es un poco como la vida misma, que andamos tratando de hacer las cosas bien pero sin creer que hemos terminado nunca nada, entre lo mÃo y lo tuyo, el egoÃsmo y la generosidad, las risas y las lágrimas. Por un camino de grises donde raras veces se topa uno con el blanco o el negro.
A medida que me hago viejo me doy más cuenta que lo importante en realidad es ese camino, quien te acompaña y los que se van sumando a tu destino.
La imagen es una de mis fotos favoritas. Esta lejos en el tiempo, pero yo sigo viendo en ella las mismas cosas de siempre. Isabel aún no lo sabÃa, pero ya estaba llena de palabras, de promesas y de razones.
Feliz Cumpleaños Guapita.
Diego Simeone
Este año se cumplen 10 años del primer partido de Simeone como entrenador del Atlético de Madrid. En ese tiempo ha cambiado la historia del club basándose en los valores históricos de la institución y que le caracterizaban a él como futbolista: trabajo en equipo, intensidad, coraje y sentido de pertenecÃa. El “Cholo” se ha convertido una de las figuras más importantes de la historia del club.
Este es mi pequeño homenaje que dedico a los seguidores del Atlético de Madrid, cuya actitud siempre me ha parecido digna de admiración: Jose, Javier, Brutus, Pepe, Carlos y tantos otros… va por vosotros!
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Drazen Petrovic
I remember how tough was to see my basket team lost against Cibona and my mixed feelings about that invincible guy named Drazen Petrovic. He was so competitive, so aggressive but so talented that become my all time favorite player even before he moved to Real Madrid and eventually to NBA.
We lost him to soon. He was so fearless that I’m sure he was going to conquer NBA sooner than later.
This is my little tribute for all those hours of passionate basketball that pushed me to truly love this game.
Creative Calendar 2022
I updated some of my ‘crazy but funny’ calendars for 2022 in the hope of this one will be a great year for us all. You will find Crisis Calendar, Spiral Calendar an Binary Calendar, some of them in both Spanish and English.
At the end of the post you can find links to vector version of all of them. It’s my little present for this holidays!
Links to Vector Base PDFs:
Crisis Calendar Black
Crisis Calendar White
Spiral Calendar English Black
Spiral Calendar English White
Spiral Calendar Spanish Black
Spiral Calendar Spanish White
Binary Calendar Black
Binary Calendar White
As a bonus take a look at this Matrix Calendar. Hard to read but fully functional!
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla in one of these people that combine science with a mystery halo. He was an absolute genius, ahead of his time, with countless inventions and patents. Thanks to him we have the AC electric system, but the number of ideas he put on the table makes him one of the greatest inventor in history, even above of his rival Thomas Edison.
This vector illustration is based in a great restored image of Tesla from Ivan Krsev who also choose related words.
James Randi
My little tribute in memorian of James Randi.
In the age of information is hard to believe that people prefer to believe blindly in so many stupid things. We need more people that think by itself and use logic and commons sense instead of believing anything that arrives to their screens. People present in media, pointing to liars, teaching us to use critical thinking… more people like Randi or Sagan. I miss you guys.
This illustration is my way to pointing out those who are taking advantage of people. My way to say we can see them, and we are not going to take their bullshit.
One Currency to Bring them All
Looks like Bitcoin is taking over all other currencies. I don’t really know if this is something good or a total disaster, but it seems to be inevitable.
This vector illustration tries to express Bitcoin raise over other currencies or, if LOTR excuse my daring, maybe a way to say “One Currency to Bring them All”.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk is, without a doubt, one of today’s most awesome characters. Always controversial to the point you can only love or hate him. For this image I have used the words of one of his best quotes “I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”
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Crisis Calendar 2021
Last two years have been hard to me, especially at personal level. Not related to Covid, but I feel I fully understand all those who are loosing their loved ones. And time, what you did and what you didn’t, becomes an important subject in my mind. So I think it’s right moment to recover some of my olds concerns.
Crisis Calendar is a fully functional calendar, but at the same time is a little jigsaw. I’m not going to give you any clue, only that this one if for year 2021 because I don’t want to put the year in it.
The idea of this calendar comes to me after watching one of these wall scratch calendars prisoners do when they are captive. I like the simplicity but thought there was a better way to sort all these scratches.
And I think all we are captive by time.
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Never Give Up
I did a tribute to Winston Churchill long time ago. I think it’s time to update it by using one of his more powerful quotes “Never, never, never give up”.
Alternative version.
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Rosa Parks
I think Rosa Parks represents how a single person, in a single moment of courage, can change our world. Four simple words, “No, I am Not”, cost her a lot, but became such an inspirational symbol and a point of no return for civil rights.
Even today, your voice can emerge over all those digital noise. Because sometimes what you think is shared by common sense of most of people, like a glass of water about to overflow waiting for a last drop… Just remember it, you are not alone.
I recreated Rosa Parks portrait using words I feel represents her: Justice, Boldness, Strength, Dignity, Fight, Resistance, Education, Defiance, Refusal, Decision, Audacity ,Courage, Together, Acceptance, Determination, Equality, Freedom, Humanity, Reasons, Union, Life ,Oneself ,Valor and Rights.
Alternative version.
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Afraid Of Future
Long time without posting… What can I say?, life sometimes makes you clear where priorities are while your act like a dyslexic juggler.
I made this picture a while ago, thinking about all those things that could menace our future… they said. And I think that today, considering news, it’s time to publish it.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t say we shouldn’t be worry about all those terms. Yes we should. But I have confidence in human being, in our ability to overcome adversity. And I’m sure that living afraid of future is not the best way to help overcome whatever get in our way.
My point of view is that fear is such an extreme feeling it can be used to block our rational thinking. Under fear we are easy to manipulate.
So please don’t be afraid. Be concerned and act like human being we should be.
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La Grande Bellezza
Esta pelÃcula me atrapó hace unos años, cuando pasaba un momento difÃcil. Y como en casi todas las grandes pelÃculas de mi vida me pilló de sorpresa, tras un doble click tirado al azar sobre un mar de archivos. Al igual que en aquellos tiempos, en los que uno se perdÃa buscando tesoros en los infinitos planetas irisados que venÃan con las revistas.
Y asÃ, sin preguntarme porque, ocupo el sitio como mi pelÃcula favorita. Seguramente porque era el momento perfecto para verla. Llego como esa pieza del puzle que la encajas y justo te deja ver lo que será la escena completa. O quizás sea porque a veces yo me siento un poco Jep Gambardella, viejo y cansado, pero todavÃa sorprendiéndome por los ‘destellos de belleza’ que pasan fugazmente, que te capturan, pero que te dejan el amargo sabor de aquello que no puedes atrapar en el tiempo.
Mi ilustración no hace justicia a la poesÃa que surge de las imágenes y de la música de esta pelÃcula. Recoge las palabras de la escena final, que pongo a continuación.
“Finisce sempre così, con la morte,
prima però c’è stata la vita,
nascosta sotto i bla bla bla bla.
È tutto sedimentato sotto il chiacchiericcio e il rumore,
il silenzio e il sentimento,
l’emozione e la paura,
gli sparuti incostanti sprazzi di bellezza
e poi lo squallore disgraziato
e l’uomo miserabile.
Tutto sepolto nella coperta dell’imbarazzo
dello stare al mondo,
bla bla bla bla.
Altrove c’è l’altrove,
io non mi occupo dell’altrove,
dunque che questo romanzo abbia inizio.
In fondo è solo un trucco,
si è solo un trucco.â€
MatchRotation for Autodesk Revit
MatchRotation 1.3
Autodesk Revit Addin (Donwload from Autodesk URL)
I recently updated my MatchRotation Addin for Autodesk Revit to version 1.3. And I think it’s a good moment to post it at my site and keep this url where talk about it and perhaps add some beta or take users comments or suggestions This addin cost as little as 1.99$.
Description
This is a perfect complement for Autodesk® Revit® Align command, it will try to match Z rotation between almost any Revit Element.
It will help in all those cases where align doesn’t work, for example (but not only!):
– Rotate Section View or Elevation to align to Facades.
– Rotate ScopeBox or SectionBox to align to Wall or Grids.
– Rotate Annotations or Detail Items
– Rotate Plan View itself by selecting crop to align to a grid or any other element.
If you Shift+Click on target it will rotate perpendicular to target.
Also you can align to a linked model element.
General Usage Instructions
Simple use as pair wise mode: Select Element to rotate, then select Element to get Rotation. Press escape to stop matching.
Mass mode: Pre-select multiple Elements to Rotate, then select Element to get Rotation.
If Shift+Click on target it will rotate perpendicular (add extra 90º to rotation).
Additional button will let you choose target rotation in linked model.
Tips
To move MatchRotation to default Revit addin tab:
You just have to create, in same folder as DLL, an empty text archive called add-ins.txt.
If you are using Revit 2016 just create C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\MatchRotation.bundle\Contents\2016\add-ins.txt
Help
See a sample of use here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5SxIkCXs6M
Diario de un BIM Manager
Mi gran amigo, y mejor persona, David Barco ha publicado recientemente su libro “GuÃa para Implementar y Gestionar Proyectos BIM”, acertadamente subtitulado como “Diario de un BIM Manager”, en el que he tenido la suerte de poder poner mi pequeño grano de arena con el diseño de la imagen de portada.
Este libro es probablemente el mejor recurso en español que se puede encontrar hoy en dÃa sobre el complejo, y a la vez altamente satisfactorio, mundo del BIM.
Y para demostrar que es en efecto complejo, la imagen fue compuesta de los acrónimos más utilizados cuando se habla de esta tecnologÃa. Hay más de 500 diferentes!
Más información sobre este libro aquÃ:
http://www.costosperu.com/diario-de-un-bim-manager/producto/guia-para-implementar-y-gestionar-bim/
Trump on his Tweets
I was curious about what kind of words did Trump used in his polemical Tweets. With the help of http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/ I was able to collect about 30.000 Trump Tweets and Retweets, from 2009 to 2017.
I counted words and keep only these said two or more times (also removed some I found less relevant like “Trumpâ€, “butâ€, “we†or “Iâ€). I got more than 10.300 different words.
Then spread these words, with sizes based in repetition, over Trump portrait. It mean each word has a proportional size based in word repetition. He said 4182 word “Thanksâ€, 4135 word “Greatâ€, and so on…
And here you have the result!. The man on his Tweets.
Another sample.
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Tracy Chapman
Hace poco he vuelto a encontrarme con Tracy Chapman y su increÃble “Fast Carâ€, una canción que me trae a la memoria muchos buenos momentos y recuerdos que curiosamente vienen como con nombre y apellidos.
Una canción que desde luego no ha envejecido tanto como yo y que suena tan intensa, o más, que en aquellos años de bolera y centro comercial.
Para los que no quieran olvidar…
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