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Origin and history of the Dreamcatcher

Mónica Boixeda New Yorker, Only-Be

The tale tells us that Iktomi, the joking master of knowledge, appeared in front of Lakota, the old spiritual leader, in the shape of a spider, and then he began talking about weaving a web, a spider web, on a willow hoop with feathers and horse hair. Once he´d finished he gave it to old Lakota and told him: “The spider web is a perfect circle, but in the middle there´s a hole, use to to help yourself and your people. If you believe in the Great Spirit, the spider web will trap your ideas and the bad ones will disappear through the hole”. Old Lakota showed it to his people, the Sioux indians, and these began to use it as a net for their life. They believe that the dreamcatcher held their future destiny and they hung it over their beds. The nightmares escaped through the hole in the middle of the net, not being part of their dreams anymore, while the good dreams remained in the web of life. Etymologically, the word ´dreamcatcher´ comes from native American culture, ihá?bla gmunka in Lakota language, which is the Siouan language that was spoken by Lakota´s people in the Sioux tribes. Meanwhile, in Ojibwe, the indian language that belonged to the Algonquian languages, asabikeshiinh is the inanimate form of the word spider and bawaajige nagwaagan means trap for dreams. It´s an object generally made by hand with a willow hoop in which they knit a big web. It´s decorated with sacred and personal objects, such as feathers and other items. The dreamcatchers are one of the most fascinating traditions of native American indians. Its origin goes back... read more

Brooke Fraser in Barcelona

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

The New Zealander folk-rock singer Brooke Fraser will perform a concert on the 16th of April at Bikini concert hall in Barcelona. This new tour is aimed to promote her new album Flags, which that has been a total success by obtaining five awards at the Vodafone Music Award 2011 in New Zealand. Along with Flags, Fraser also promote some social actions to help Africa. Brooke Gabrielle Fraser, Brooke Fraser´s real name, was born in a traditional New Zealand family in Wellington in 1983. When she was 7, she started to take some piano lessons. At age 12, she became interested in writing lyrics and took the guitar to accompany them, learning to get the tones that her lyrics required. While she never took singing lessons, she learned to train her voice and make the most of it, which led her to sing at the Parachute Festival 2000. Before becoming a professional musician, she became interested in media and wrote articles for the Soul Purpose magazine since she was 15. She was then editor and hosted a cable television program, before moving to Auckland to start his musical career. Just after her arrival in Auckland, she met the elemento P drummer, Scotty Pearson, who helped her get an interview with producer Matty J. This was an excellent meeting to the point that he immediately became her manager, while he positioned her in several record labels. Finally she decided to stay at Sony Music Entertainment New Zealand. Her first album What to do with Daylight was released in 2003. In just one week it reached No. 1 in sales and... read more

Hackers in Amsterdam

Mónica Boixeda Amsterdammer, Only-Be

With the great impact of the hacktivist group Anonymou, many people started wondering about the true value of being hacker, and how this movement is taking a twist in our understanding of the condition of hackers in the Western society. The media publicity that is generated with each of the operations carried out by Anonymous, is transforming the way of protesting, defend our rights and politics in the real and virtual world. It is because of these reasons that the image of the hackers should stop being demonized. Hackers are making a change by giving the pattern of how to speak out against corporate fascism. Since the outbreak of the Internet phenomenon worldwide, we are accustomed to hearing about hackers and their various illegal activities. While it is true that some have been arrested for bank fraud and theft, not all of them work the same way. Similarly the image of the hacker has been mythologized, a few years ago, the movie Matrix fascinated us with its leather-clad characters within the virtual reality to which they were condemned to live, but in which they were righteous, seeking a way out of the machine control. All those who were freed from the Matrix, proved to be just hackers, people with a mastery of computers out of the ordinary and with the ability to develop new forms of network communication. Nowadays, the tools at our disposal, with both operating systems PCs and Mac are much more “user friendly” than before. One need not be a programming expert to install and uninstall programs and applications, format memory disks, etc.. While companies seek... read more