There are so many years that it has been Iker Jimenez (‘Fourth Millennium’, Four) looking for extraterrestrial creatures, ‘aliens’, that may have visited us, or even that are here, among us, camouflaged, which has made an album. She has taught us.
There is a repertoire of strange beings in it, perhaps coming from the Alpha Centauri star system, or from the Orion Constellation. Perhaps there is missing – to say the least – some copy of Raticulín, the planet of the seer Carlos Jesus, so famous in ‘The Martian Chronicles’. But the most interesting thing about this album is that Iker He has done it by uniting his marvelous imagination with AI, Artificial Intelligence. Years ago, in 1986, the Mundicrom Publishing House released a Monster Album that had a section titled ‘Extraterrestrial Beings’. They were very ingenious cards with striking figures. So the album Iker has precedents, without the need to resort to AI.
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The fascination with ‘aliens’ is a recurring theme in ‘Fourth Millennium’. Lately, great attention has been devoted to the Nazca mummies, tiny skeletons found in Peru. There are ufologists who say they are ‘aliens’ buried here for 700 years. Others point out that they are small bones glued with Superglue 3. Iker He enjoys sowing a disturbing anxiety in the audience. Maybe instead of searching the galaxies, Iker You should look at the personnel who circulate on TV, on sets and in programs. I believe that there are real ‘aliens’ there.
Plucking out hairs. – Let’s change registration. Let’s go to ‘Salvados’ (La Sexta). Gonzo He has sat face to face with an Israelite and a Palestinian. She was looking for a contrast of views on the Gaza war. The one from Israel has had a brave point of catharsis: “Israel has to apologize to the Palestinian people, the history on which my country is built infringes drama.” The Palestinian was asked what he feels when he sees Hamas murdering children, women and the elderly, and he used a metaphor: «That’s like entering a movie theater when the movie has already started a while ago, and the first image you see is an Apache scalping a white man. The concept remains that the Apache is the savage. And that is false. “You have to see the film from the beginning.” It is a very meditative metaphor.