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La eternidad en un instante | Alan Munguía | TEDxPaseoSantaLucía


I want you to think about your last
I remember something that marked them in the
last year in recent months something
that has already been important to you
it’s easy because it’s something that ends
to happen but if I ask you to
remember something of your childhood from the
first years of his life maybe not
it’s a bit more difficult than
it happens in our mind because we lose
certain memories we make up growing
our brain is forming connections
neuronal
this is creating knowledge memories to
throughout our life we go
learning and growing constantly
but after a certain time all
those connections that were not what
strong enough they become other
New connections to generate memories
Memories that is why it is very difficult for us
remember what happened before surely
We do not remember when you want panda
we took the picture
30 percent of our learning
is visual and 55 percent is visual and
auditory
that means that roughly 85
or 90 percent our learning is
partly visual
we are visual beings and throughout the
history we have realized that
prehistory in the caverns we shape
the reality that we live memories
what we wanted for our future
ritual generations food etcetera
we have changed our eyes then
lenses our optic nerve by
sensors our pupils by diaphragms
and all this thanks to technology
we remember days and sometimes also
moments I said it for abc
and talking about memories some of the
present still have those old
Cameras some here
present uses it still
nowadays it is very difficult due to the
advance the technology count yet
with development cameras and it’s very
difficult to find the processes for
generate photography we pay a little
of conscience
this is a roll chamber and before
to generate a memory was something
completely delayed and complicated was
what we have to do buy a
roll open it to put it adjust
take care of the opening the speed the
sensitivity and then we went to the
street to our vacation with
only 24 or 36 photos to remember
is that for future generations and
are going to be our memories for
our children for our grandchildren we
We were a little oblivious to what
what is behind this
someone knows why the sound of the
healers this know that there is a mirror
behind him
surely not and many of our
digital devices emit this sound ni
we do not even know what it is
it could be weeks or months until
we reveal our photographs and
we could have network record be
adjusted that weight that we had lost
the vacation is what is happening
now what we have become is what
that we are taking pictures and
documenting from us well yes to
ourselves in different versions
ourselves eating ourselves
on vacation ourselves
seeing ourselves in a
mirror is what has happened lately
during the last years and thanks to
our technological advance
our smart devices
cell phones mostly have cameras
powerful with a good resolution and that
has caused us to forget a little of these
apparatuses of all this mechanics that
behind and what has happened has been
increased and a lot every time they are
more people who have access to
telephony and so for the same
they have access to a camera
our tablets these cameras even
digital cameras have gone on
increase and what do we do with those
super technological equipment expensive if
We all take pictures of our pets
what we eat from places that
we visit as we are visual beings is
red catches their attention
those are the total of photographs that
will take the end of Spain is a
forecast of all those photographs
how many are really worth remembering
That’s when I decided to have
I said I can not be part of this no
I can be taking pictures of myself
in each place in each event that I go
to food or pets or to
anything because it was already
turning into a vice and I said what
I can do to change that to put
that little grain of sand at least of my
part and the answer was there in the
street although you do not believe it because
the street because the street is delivering
architecture environments characters
nostalgia
there’s everything on the street and it’s free and it’s
free and anyone can use it is
what I need to go to the street coffee
because it ‘s substantial to take good
photographs the camera either roll
or either digital the street that like them
I say it’s always there and a good book
because to be on the street does not have
what to expect and wait a lot
and what better to wait for law have
found on the street found me
characters many characters people who
enjoy simple things that if they are
food but
all in a different way
I have played with friends and it has arrived
that nostalgia of missing one’s own
especially with this picture when I took
I immediately thought of my best friend
is out of the country
a photo that you marked or this photo of the
comadres dressed alike talking
conversing
after so many years with the value of
the solid friendship as it should be
I came across images a little bit even
even surrealist you could say
this photo is aguascalientes at the fair
of Aguascalientes and was a girl who
is complaining with mom calls them is
that my tooth hurts because it’s
eating a punch and the brush wait for me
and he got to win Leo and started to take out
poke and the the day before and right in that
moment is to capture that when I go to
go back to take other pictures and such
never again
not everything on the street and not everything in the
public is nice
it also makes you empathic makes you
understand the other and it makes you feel
average of other people like this man
whom we want sad defeated with
some pain some event that
surely it was not pleasing surely it is
a moment that he does not want to remember
but also the bad times are the
that strengthens us and what can I say about
this photography
this photograph was taken here in
this city at the zoo when
I took this photo I did not believe it
I said the truth is expression that
expression is human
that is not an animal many times we are
unconscious that when I took this
photo was walking through the cage of
those of the apes
and several people were throwing
food where they were
there is a huge frustration because no
they reached the food and they had to
go through the grate to grab it take
several and one of them was this
Photography
when I arrived at the house the discharge in
the computer and I saw them they left me
thinking for a long time
that photo I printed lamarque and
currently he is still in my
room but the photograph does not
it was there left me thinking and acting
and I started writing about what of
the freedom because this photo
I remembered what freedom is
the value of being free that frustration
that many times we have in life
daily and not because we have a cage
because it is our way of life that is
we are locked in ourselves
then I saw the photograph as a
tool that is not only to walk
there taking pictures and capturing moments
it also serves to create something juan
rulfo one of the Mexican writers
most recognized was also a photographer
and we owe him many of the
photographs of mexico is known
more for his writing so own a
facet of photographer and that was what
I made rulfo taken pictures and create
stories today his verse
I started with inspiration in Russian and go
down the street when I saw this character
He immediately reminded me of my grandfather
maternal and I said in my maternal grandfather but
with a mixture as well as clint
Eastwood like eyes like that
immediately return to the room
and I said something something has to come out of
here is how clint eastwood with my
grandfather and I started to create a character not
only atmospheric characters and this
Atmosphere is one of my favorites during
long time
during many nightmares this was the
stage
when I was a boy my nightmare is
It was the fourth of my grandparents ‘ house
place I did not want to go
already in my late twenties I was encouraged and
I went with the camera and I took the picture and
I came out very fast the photograph does not
it is only the image also serves
to create other things like the case of
the hyperrealistic painting that stays there
it’s a painting is not a picture but the
level of details so much that you get to
capture even the facial hair is something
incredible obviously supported in the
photographic technique or that I can
say of architecture
we analyze the architectural spaces
for photos it serves the architects
for the study of spaces for
dance the theater and all the arts
scenic
I want to invite you then to three things
first go back to the beginning all
those that we have a camera so
less analogous take out the show to their
children to their relatives to their friends
teach them how this is handled
teach them how valuable it is to take a
image and everything that requires taking it
I also ask you before taking a
photography think but more than think
feel feel that is what we are
photographing because food and all that
because if it’s okay but there is more
we have to dig it out and say what it is
what I really want to translate
print it remember it show it
talk to our friends and for
last that photography are used
in his different professions in his life
daily in their hobbies and they use
as a complement do not see it like this
cliché that we have that to the photo
well and modeling and pure I purece the fis and
pure portraits there is nothing beyond
a creation tool and it’s a
very powerful
he invited them then to create that
awareness about the photo because the
images that we are taking were screaming at
talk about us in a future think
really how we want to be remembered
thank you very much
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