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For my Oxford finalist friends.
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Urban Lights at LACMA. Our movie moment! #nostringsattached (Taken with instagram)
Gael García Bernal, Pablo Larraín 'No' Cannes 2012 - Hollywood Reporter -
If you had any doubt about whether people in advertising can create positive social change, No seems to be the film to watch.
Bernal: I knew about, obviously, Pinochet. I mean, I grew up with a lot of Latin American exiles in Mexico, but I didn’t get a sense, a real sense of the pain, and the deep pain that a dictatorship cost until I arrived to Chile.
Larraín: It’s unique because if you have for the very first time, after fifteen years of dictatorship, you have a little moment on TV when you can express for first time what do you think, and convince people, in order to convince people to vote for the ‘No’ option, the very first thing that you would do is to go, “Pinochet is a bad person, he killed this, he did this.” And then one guy, a couple of guys would come in—and that’s what Gael represents—and they said, “no, no, no, no—that’s not the way. If we do that, they will win because we will spread fear. We have to say, “Man, let’s, you know, the storm is over. Now, it’s the spring coming, the joy is coming.” Let’s spread a positive message.” And they were so smart and brilliant and unique. But these people that were coming from advertising, that were used to sell spaghettis, or pop sodas, or whatever, they changed the history of a country.
Because they asked so nicely.
(Source: jhnmyr)
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Scone and coffee at Intelligensia, Pasadena. :) (Taken with instagram)
Increasingly, Men Seek Success in Jobs Dominated by Women - NYTimes.com -
A male dental assistant, Mr. Alquicira is in the minority. But he is also part of a distinctive, if little noticed, shift in workplace gender patterns. Over the last decade, men have begun flocking to fields long the province of women.
Mr. Alquicira, 21, graduated from high school in a desolate job market, one in which the traditional opportunities, like construction and manufacturing, for young men without a college degree had dried up. After career counselors told him that medical fields were growing, he borrowed money for an eight-month training course. Since then, he has had no trouble finding jobs that pay $12 or $13 an hour.
He gave little thought to the fact that more than 90 percent of dental assistants and hygienists are women. But then, young men like Mr. Alquicira have come of age in a world of inverted expectations, where women far outpace men in earning degrees and tend to hold jobs that have turned out to be, by and large, more stable, more difficult to outsource, and more likely to grow.
“The way I look at it,” Mr. Alquicira explained, without a hint of awareness that he was turning the tables on a time-honored feminist creed, “is that anything, basically, that a woman can do, a guy can do.”
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