Tuesday, July 21, 2009

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Por la carretera.






.Chachapoyas.

Le giornate a Iquitos si fanno monotone.
In un mese abbiamo seguito lo sviluppo della lotta popolare e indigena, il caso Andoas e il processo che si svolge tuttora nella sala penale del tribunale di piazza 28 de Julio.
Abbiamo appoggiato e documentato le marce, i blocchi, le assemblee popolari e le riunioni cittadine.
Abbiamo parlato con gli avvocati di José Fachìn, Marco Polo Ramires e John Vega Flores.
Nelle nostre potenzialità abbiamo cercato di far da megafono alle loro grida di sdegno e di rabbia.
Dopo un mese però a causa del tavolo di dialogo di Lima (instaurato solo per prendere tempo e per far buon viso a cattivo gioco di fronte the public and the international community) the situation seems asleep, the struggle asleep, anesthetized. In stand-by.
The discontent is always strong and with it the disappointment in seeing representatives lend the negotiations of the government trying to buy the leaders of various communities without fact to back down in what is the Treaty of free trade and privatization of the Amazon and also of the Andes.
E 'stalled, for inactivity.
The climate is wet and at times suffocating and now we know the city well enough to not know anymore where to turn. In addition, the tremendous chaos in the capital of Loreto is a drill in the brain.
decide then leave the city, taking advantage of the pause in the process of the case Andoas, to name a few around Iquitos and close out a few days in the wilderness to purify mind and body. We rent a scarlet red Honda
old but with a very handsome return, we fill and backpackers go exploring the surroundings iquiteñi.
Take the road to Nauta and we pass along the snake of asphalt by zig zag between the countless motorcycle taxi and turn every road that we encounter along the way.
One of these is a road full of potholes that can be slipped between palm trees and dense vegetation. For our sides
huts and shacks in the background.
We enter a few miles with the butt che risente del terreno incidentato fino a arrivare in qualche piccolo paese dove la vita sembra scorrere fuori dal tempo.
In mezzo alla strada ragazze e bambini fissano reti occasionali per giocare a pallavolo (sport praticatissimo nel paese) e noi ad ogni campo improvvisato rallentiamo e abbassando la testa passiamo sotto le reti per continuare lungo il percorso.
Ai lati campi da calcio in terra con porte costruite con piccoli tronchi si susseguono tra file di case e piccoli negozi di paese che vendono giusto l'indispensabile.
La gente ci osserva incuriosita inoltrarci verso la periferia selvatica.
Arriviamo nei pressi dell'aeroporto dopo aver superato il paese di San Juan, patrono della foresta amazzonica.
Accostiamo l'aeroporto proseguendo to not know where.
The damaged road leads to a small village at the entrance has a sign saying Laguna Azul. Village of 150 souls sprigionante natural energy and overall sense of calm and balance.
A small river runs alongside the village men and women here and wash, do laundry, fishing and swimming to get a respite from hot and humid at times unbearable.
horizon we see a high bridge about three meters and turn right to reconnect to a dirt road too. Some of the canoes
lords build log cutting and digging with chisels.
The bridge is built with planks of wood about 20 cm each in successione alle altre; il problema è che ogni tot alcune scompaiono lasciando piccoli vuoti che rendono visibile la laguna sotto i piedi..
Divertiti accendiamo la moto e percorriamo il ponte provando qualche brivido quando le ruote superano i vuoti lasciati dalle assi marce.
Alcuni dei presenti e tra questi i falegnami ci osservano divertiti.
Continuiamo fino ad arrivare dopo un paio di centinaia di metri al paese di Santa Clara che si stende sul fiume Nanay.

Questo paese di pescatori di circa 4000 persone si localizza intorno alla piccola piazza centrale e finisce sul fiume, in questa stagione ancora alto, dove baracche fluttuanti in armonia col rio servono birra fresca, pesce e succhi di frutta.
Here is the famous beach of Santa Clara where the locals pouring over the weekend when the river is low and gives birth to many beaches.
We stop to enjoy the sunset while sipping a Pilsen (local cerveza), but we do not have time to get off that two men from the Honda Tugging inviting us to their table in a small cabin-bar-restaurants-nightclubs fluctuating.
accepted the invitation and we sit, on the round table, plastic bottles of 66 cl beer are a dozen empty.
The atmosphere is fun and enjoyable and one of the boys is visibly happy because of the hops, the other is quieter.
someone swims in the river and someone puts in soaking clothes.
I colori si fanno pastello e la luce tramontina del sole splende sulle acque scure del Nanay.
Hanno 24 e 28 anni; entrambi sono fidanzati, convivono ed hanno figli.
L'allegro ventottenne dice di avere due donne che ama in ugual maniera.
La madre di suo figlio vive la situazione senza problemi e lui racconta quanto lei sia comprensibile e amabile.
Sono entrambi pescatori e sono amici sin da piccoli; lavorano insieme lungo il fiume da quando avevano dieci anni.
Sono come fratelli.
Il più giovane lentamente si lascia andare e si chiacchiera piacevolmente.
Eric, il ventottenne, ci parla della sua famiglia; ha due fratelli che hanno studiato a Lima, uno avvocato e l'altro ingegnere.
tells of how different from his brothers, as he prefers to practice at the Academy, talks about his knowledge of the Amazon.
She left school for fishing.
He likes to live well, naturally and in harmony with the lungs of the earth where he lives. A
eight years already and was fishing along the river was at home. It speaks of
curanderismo, traditional medicine and plants.
E 'happy and you can tell by how we look.
You are resting at the table and are drinking to celebrate the return to Santa Clara after four days of fishing and camping along the Rio Nanay in 'Amazon.
have captured a small manta that will sell to the Japanese.
It is almost dark and the clouds threatening and full of rain approaching, and we salute you, we hug and go back to Iquitos. In moments of dead
short trips like this we've done a lot: A
Quistococha and lagoon rich in ancient legends which we have embraced the anaconda and where to get the rest of the purchase of two water and two tortillas we had to wait two hours ..
In Belem, the Venice of the Amazon, the outskirts of Iquitos ..
Here the country is built into the Amazon River, cabins and floating on stilts one another, schools, churches and the large market emerging from river.
can be visited by canoe or small motor boats. You switch between the
flooded streets, the light poles are almost completely submerged, the soccer fields can be glimpsed only the crossbar that emerges.
Dogs families sunning themselves lying in the courtyard floating home.
boats carrying children to school.
People go from house to house or boat or swimming.
's something magical and harmony. Also because
Belèm is not small.
Its market is the size of a quarter.
Part of it is built on the road, part of the River.
Narrow alleys and shacks full of chaotic and goods crossing the road and down the River.
vegetables, meat, tobacco, clothing, monkeys and chickens, fish, games, tools .. it sells everything to the market of Belem.
The most characteristic and charming alley is that of herbs and medicinal plants;
infusions to treat diabetes, for other circulatory problems, others for menstrual pain or bowel.
plants that treat stomach pain, roots for the skin, bark for pain due to arthritis.
Herbs that heal the mind and body, plants and trees used by shamans curandeiros.
All this in a small alley along fifty yards, the side curtains are located in a sequence to another.
The ladies are from San Juan, and from the forest to sell their drugs.
After a day of all waste vengono assiepati in una piccola stradina dove prima del tramonto alcune donne e bambini vengono a trafugare in cerca di resti commestibili.
Corvi giganti stanno sopra le loro teste e tra di loro, a trafugare anch'essi.
Il tutto sembra di una normalità incredibile.
Abbiamo scritto con un indelebile nero su un paio di magliette bianche ¡Yo no soy gringo! stufi di essere chiamati gringo dalla gente.
I primi risultati in senso positivo li abbiamo riscontrati allo stadio di Iquitos dove gioca la squadra del CNI ( Collegio Nazionale di Iquitos) che lotta per la salvezza.
E' l'unica squadra loretana presente nel campionato peruviano.
E' un'istituzione per i loretani dato che Loreto è una regione enorme, la più Peru's great.
We put in a queue at the ticket counter in a corridor, limited by the presence of the police and we are going to buy two tickets for Sur, where the curve are the 'hinchas' of the CNI. We pay eight
soles (about two euro) and we get curious, in our Latin American imaginary curves are all like those of La Plata dell'Estudiantes Veron (fresh winner of the Libertadores Cup) of Boca, the St. Paul 's Allianz Lima, and so on.
Once up in the stands we see that the hard core of the curve protagonisti.Siamo children are surprised.
The stadium is new, has about two years, holds up to 25,000 people sitting on all four sides of the synthetic pitches.
CNI navigating in low-lying areas of the rankings, is ten-game losing streak and needs to win.
Its lighthouse is better known as Carlos Barrena El Chato, 24, playmaker slightly higher than one meter and sixty.
The game is tense and it affected the show but the NIC goes ahead and closes the accounts in the second half ending on 2 to 0. Ola was born a
the stands in which all participate in making them do at least five laps of the stadium.
Spectators applaud from the sidelines and in leaving the children and some adults give us pats on the back and turn us happy for the victory smile .. and for our shirt.
Along the way home we run into two elderly people who stop us curious about the presence of two foreigners.
They ask us where we came from, what we do and, surprised by our interest in indigenous people's struggle and think about two journalists who knows that size, they hug us and asked us to inform the world what is happening in the country, the genocide of the Native when that is not due to snipers' bullets as Bagua comes from the ultra-liberal policy of the Government, and the exploitation of the Amazon from contamination by oil and mining companies.
They also know that their wars of tomorrow will be for water.
They feel in danger as a people and ask us to support.
We tell them that we will do everything possible but the apathy and ignorance are a cancer in Italy, a nation that they, like many other modern and developed image. Hungry
salute and go home after having exchanged phone numbers.
back to stage two more times during our stay in Iquitos and we find ourselves lucky as the team wins both games thanks to the good of the coils 'chat'.
leave the fourth from CNI (relegated the last three) with four points ahead of the team that follows.
We go from Iquitos to do some day the silence of the Forest.
When we return from the forest when he finally left Iquitos to continue our trip to Tarapoto, Chachapoyas and Bagua great.
Before we salute John Vega Flores, a friend like many native Kichwa victim of Peruvian and global system.
informs us that Teddy War INDAM (Apu Andoas native community during the events of March 2008 and imprisoned for over a year without having been tried yet) to the nth request of lawyers have been granted probation.
can finally reunited with his wife and children, one of whom was born in captivity.
Saul Sanchez Rodriguez remains in prison.
Meanwhile, the government changes its skin with the new Premier of the Republic; Javier Velasquez Quesquén but not in substance.
has not been made any step back, ten of twelve law decrees that plunder Peru, the Amazon and with it the world continue to exist, the radio La Voz Bagua AA continues to be forced to keep their doors closed because of the government which wants to gag (it's a great act in solidarity campaign carried on by 'National Association of Journalists of Peru-ANP-, by the people and journalists from all over South America); oil exploration agreements with foreign oil companies remain undaunted and worse than before (Alan Garcia has sold hundreds of acres for 'extraction of crude oil to Perenco), Bagua to continue to mourn the disappeared and the country is increasingly militarized and Alberto Pizango, president dell'Aidesep still in exile in Nicaragua along with other representatives.
The government is trying to delegitimize indigenous representatives giving word and launching arrangements with pseudo native representations (representing none and condemned by their own community who say they represent) will actually buy.
And the farmers are fighting across the country, especially in the region of Cusco. On July 5
popular demonstrations in Bagua and Lima were bloodily suppressed with hundreds of arrests.
But the international news is silent and plays into the hands of the government denying the problem and stating that the factual situation was resolved with the repeal of Decree 1020 and 1064. Victory of the peoples of the forest and the government step back ..
Why does not mention the free trade agreement or the other ten orders still in force as the 1081 decree creating the national system of water resources and opens a possibility than the private management of water against the right of communities to manage individually?
Come into the forest to pull the plug a bit and find 'ourselves.

. Tuesday, July 21, 2009.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

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Dogs








Molti Friends and customers often ask me whether there are schools in Italy for the preparation of dog actors, or just some good places to go for their dogs to participate in the so-called "casting film."
The activity of training animals for film was once done by the circus, who were able to provide, in addition to the animal required a number of extras and stunt man. Today
productions make use of specialized professionals of proven experience in the industry with a growing interest in the more complex figure 'of the animal trainer "(which deals with most animals), which is increasingly request and preferable to that of the trainer of "dog actors."
That said, I believe it is necessary to remark that the production from the first place (the script) have quite clear ideas on the dog they are interested.
In fact the authors in their imagination that would normally choose the subjects according to the message they want to give.
The dog, at the earliest stages of writing a movie or a commercial, is tall or short, small, medium or large size, of one race over another, with long hair or short, leaving little room for research "last minute" or simplistic.
From here one can easily imagine that the "casting" for dogs players in the exhibition industry, not exist or are almost useless in the case were brought by someone.
This does not mean that your dog might be of interest to a professional. It can happen, but it happens rarely, an animal trainer who uses animals that are not owned by him.
The reasons are many, starting with the unconditional trust (including each other) that the animal must have regard of the trainer (who wins special after much time and effort), leading to the preparation of various kinds of exercises pinpoint passing by a factor of safety.
In addition to this the cost of a set (thousands in € per hour - considering all relevant staff).
The director certainly can not answer << wait a minute>> or << the dog can not do this or that >>, or even worse << a moment and try again ... >>. "The moment" is very expensive productions and, quite rightly, do not ever allow.
For these and other reasons, therefore, proposals for "casting" dog actors have nothing to do with the real making of a film or a commercial, but still simple database of dogs (often not suitable under Profile temperament or training) that no production will look mai (perché non è così che li cercano).
Le produzioni conoscono bene i pochissimi rappresentanti di questa disciplina e nel caso in cui non ci fossero soggetti disponibili in quel momento, non rischiano migliaia di euro/ora con soggetti alternativi che non possono dare garanzie di riuscita, ma li cercano attraverso le agenzie estere (l'ultimo “Rex” è solo uno dei tanti esempi).
Poi c'è un mito da sfatare per quanto concerne la “bellezza” del cane: i cani per il cinema sono in prima battuta “ iper addestrati ”, in seconda battuta sono “ iper socializzati ” ed in terza sono caratteristici – non good or bad.
The film does not care much that the dog is champion ACCP, BOB, has won the world championships in morphology or is simply "beautiful" for the owner or the taste of the director. The proposal will normally be subject to the scrutiny of the "director of photography," which recognizes the specific function under the parameters and criteria of film (which are a different story).
Regarding the schools, becomes the first to ask one thing: why the trainers for the cinema are few trainers as "generics" are many? What's the difference between the two categories?
The answer is very simple: not all dogs can do the actors, so that no academy can ever make a human being an actor ... if the base is not the talent.
In the case of dogs this component must be actors from both sides, which makes it even more difficult.
First, then, should take a course in direction in order to learn to see the scene through the eyes of the director and not the trainer. Only in this way, acquiring the ability to interpret that need technical and creative (the director), we can begin with the specific training for the set.
courses directed, if well done, also help to know how to read the scripts in the correct way and then provide those characterizations that the dog dovrà necessariamente avere in un preciso contesto.
Dopo questo primo passo obbligatorio si passa all'addestramento per il set, sempre che il soggetto sia adatto per tale attività.
Il lavoro da quel momento è molto lungo e impostato sui “close up” (comandi facciali), sulla guida a distanza, sull'interazione naturale con gli estranei, sui comandi “non vocali” (a causa delle microfonature e dei dialoghi che rischiano di distrarre il cane o prevaricare addirittura la recitazione degli attori), sui “target” (il cane guarda o lavora in una direzione opposta a quella dell'addestratore senza un punto di riferimento) e sui movimenti in piccoli spazi (soprattutto quando si gira in interno).
schools for this particular activity not exist today in Italy, for the simple fact that the mix of studies is multidisciplinary, interdependent and time-consuming and, as a personal assessment, I do not recommend approaching the "clicker training". Dogs "clicked" their eyes maniacally fixed on the objective (usually animal trainer or the object of stage) and jerky (too quickly and often in a "robot") at the expense of naturalness and 'interpretation.
ethologically talking about, but still it is a personal opinion, the clicker is a training system that limits the mind of the dog, since it is based on "influence". A dog conditioned
will also be a trained dog (although we would have to discuss this very thing), but little able to take personal initiatives in particular situations, especially those in the film sets (the dog must understand what they are doing, in what context and why).
The advice I can give is to start with courses in directing, ethological and parallel approaches to the study of classical training, moving then to mess with a recognized animal trainer (properly evaluate its curriculum) who can give you those tools that can you grow in business.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3pl7Psb5ic&feature=related

In this excerpt from the film "Something has changed" (Gracie Films - 1997 - Columbia / TreeStars Pictures) the sympathetic Brussels Griffon trained by my dear friend and colleague Roger Schumacher.
Note the confined spaces of work and the difficulty of the exercises (repeated several times in the same way by the way), as well as the use of targets and natural interpretation.
Many dogs do this series of repetitive exercises at home, it is true, but it is difficult to control, on a set with actors who do not know the dog, in the spotlight, being on time, in a clear shot without cuts never leave it, while maintaining the natural ... Try
to believe.