YOUR-SAY(4): calacas or sugar skulls

CALACAS: a new concept of what death means

A lot of culture considere that death have bad conceptions: for exemple, the christianism has invented a hole concept of a pesimist live that ends with the death (that's the real world for them because you go to heaven with all the people that you love). But, what happen when you aren't the perfect christian that they want?

They say that you go to the Hell.

Hell is a synonym of pain, sadism, eternal suffering...

I mean that so many cultures described the death with cruelty, making frightened people that live thinking about the suffering of death and don't enjoy the real world where they are.

And I'm thinking... Why can't we live without thinking about death?

or If the death is one of the principal concepts that torture the mind...

Why can't we put more optimism in this concept?

And appears CALACAS.
Calaca is the coloquial form to say skull or skeleton in Mexico.


They're used in the Day of the Deads (November 1) to decorate the celebration:
they are characterized by their colorful clothes, their happy faces and their festive decorations.

They're represented as gratifying rather and they aren't regret figures because the Mexican belief considere that dead souls doesn't like to be remembered as sad souls, so they think that death must be happy and optimistic event.

Mexicans even make humoristic poems to death; and cakes or sweets with the representation of calacas (so it's for this reason that the english people say "Sugar Skulls" to refer to a calaca).
Another food include pan de muerto: a sweet egg bread made in various shapes and often decorated with white frosting to look like twisted bones!

YOUR-SAY(3): Will Smith

A LEGEND: Will Smith

The last time that I watched the television, I saw that there was Will Smith in one interview for the program "El Hormiguero" and recording when I use to watch the tv program The Prince of Bel Air, I decide to watch the interview with a bit of melancholy.
And it's for this reason that I decide to make a post about this man that, for me it's just a true legend (like one of the movies where he participated in).
A legend of the humor, the cinema and even the music.

He's good vibes and his natural and cheerful character, makes that you can't stop listen to him when he appears in TV.


Will Smith starts in a career of humor and hip hop doing beatbox and songs with different bands to make some money.
He not used the money to pay his debts and the bank took away all of his property.
Will Smith, totally ruined, decided to accept the contract of NBC to star in The Prince of Bel Air (1990). The tv program became so popular, and discovering that he served as an actor, he decided to be "the best cinema star of the world" as he literally said.
And he became a big star like he said.

Some of the best movies that I saw have him as the protagonist.
Films like Men in Black (a funny and interesting movie about the anonymous saviors of alien presences), ALI (the biographical film about muhammad ali, the professional boxer), I robot (a futuristic movie), HANCOCK (a movie about a retired and alcoholic superhero), The pursuit for happyness (a emotional movie based on real events about  a struggling salesman that takes the custody of his son and decide to begin a life-changing professional endeavor; Will Smith doing, I think that, one of his best representations), I am legend (the story of a survivor of a plague that kills most of humanity; very sad and emotional movie with Will Smith as a incredible actor), seven pounds (a dramatic movie that makes people think about life; a emotional representation of Will Smith that puts you goose bumps...), and much more.


I think that Will Smith is the representation of the optimism, the overcoming and good feelings.

I wish I could meet him.