martes, 13 de diciembre de 2016

English class experience


My experience with the English class at the university was very little because i only had English 4, in this class i practiced my writing in English through the blog and the exercises with the classmates were definitely helpful, because it forced you to speak the language and look for the right words to say what you really meant, but in my opinion the English subject should be "language" subject instead, and that one could choose between, for example, French, German, English according to each one interests or a variation of that concept, and
I also think that the themes should be related to the careers, in this case, Art and so all the vocabulary and the topics of conversation in Arts should be taught in the language of choice and in order to achieve that maybe there should be a first year of the basics of the language itself and the start with the specifics.
The Blog mechanic relates with me in a comfortable way, it makes it easier to get along with the different tasks of the course and you get to read about some interesting topics.
My flaw with English relies in the pronunciation while talking fluently, for that, i should practice chating and talking son I'll get to say the words right. I also lack vocabulary for specific things like writing an essay.
I almost use English everyday because i read articles from pages in the Internet in the language so i practice it and i sometimes read books in English. I also watch a lot of series and movies and video essays in English.
It was a placer to write this blogs, have a nice end of the year y'all :)



lunes, 12 de diciembre de 2016

SUMMER PLANS

Hello Everyone
My plans for summer '17 are, as soon as clases end, moving from Santiago to Coquimbo for the summer to work babysitting my cousin during january and if i get lucky i will also be working as a waitress in some place near the beach in La Serena, since its vacations, the place fills with tourists and the tips are really good and that way i will earn some money so i won't have any problems with it for the trip i'm takin on february. Also, on january i will be staying at my uncle's house so i'll be doing lots of fun activities with my cousins because we get along really well and there's the beach and the pool and the Friends and we also enjoy watching movies or just listening to music and have long conversations.
For the first two weeks of february, i will be traveling to the "Patagonia", my uncle invited me to go with them in this exciting journey, we'll start in Argentina and then we'll go south and then enter Chile and go north.
I would also enjoy going camping to "Valle del Elqui" for a few days with my cousins and my Friends, the valley is beautiful and it is better to stay the night so you can see the stars clear.
During all that i plan on recording all that seems appealing to my eye and make little movies with it.

martes, 15 de noviembre de 2016

My favourite piece of art

Hello everyone!
 
I don't think i could choose only one piece of art, in my opinion, there are different kinds of beauty in art, but i could definitely mention a few i find deserve to be mentioned.
First, Richard's Hamilton collage on paper "Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?," from 1956 that's located at the Kunsthalle Tübingen in Germany. 
Hamilton belonged to the pop-art movement that begin around the 50's that was characterized for using images of the popular imaginary, and that is one thing that i like about this piece of art and the other thing that i like about this collage is what it is telling us about the culture in that specific moment inhabited the United States in a very sarcastic way, an aspect of art that i really enjoy and i also like it because it's also applicable to our current reality.

museumuesum:
“RICHARD HAMILTON
Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?, 1956
collage on paper, 10.25 in × 9.75 in
”

The second piece of art i want to talk to you about is René Magritte's oil painting "The Lovers", 1928. I chose this one in particular because it matters to me but there are other works by the same painter that i really like, and that show his mastery in the technique of painting and in creating this world that shouldn't make any sense and that has such neatness that immediately becomes something i enjoy staring at.
René Magritte belonged to the Surrealist movement and this painting i like because i once this a reproduction in acrylic, when i was in high school, for my art class and for my philosophy class i did a study about this painting and what the meaning of it was from the look of the subject.


moldavia:
“ René Magritte, The Lovers, 1928
”

I would also name any work by Picasso, Van Gogh, Velazquez and the Russians!

martes, 25 de octubre de 2016

Post 4. A movie a would recommend



A movie i would recommend is the fantastic movie “Fantastic Mr. Fox”, a 2009 stop-motion animated movie by director Wes Anderson based on the novel written by Roal Dahl (the same author of Matilda and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory), because its very stimulant and it touches themes like going against your true self or against your nature and it's also beautifully made, with symmetrical shots and matching colors, the characters are rough and round, the looks matches the personality and the stages match the story and so it goes on, you will definetly enjoy this movie, it is a pleasure for the eyes, the brain and the heart.
The movie tells the story of a Fox that lives with his wife, his son and his nephew, works as a columnist in a local newspeaper and of how he can not help to fall in the arms of his past occupation,that he had left completely since his wife told him she was pregnant many years ago, once he realizes that near by the recently bought “tree house” live three mean and very particular farmers of three different kind of eatable birds, and so he begins to plan his biggest and last robbery...
Resultado de imagen de fantastic Mr FoxResultado de imagen de fantastic Mr Fox

What kind of job i would like to have

When the question "What kind of job i would like to have?" comes along, the first thought i have is "I don't have in my future any thoughts about an imaginary job" and that's because i would like to do many things and i haven't been able to choose one; like travel, teach, study, make movies, make "art" and for now or maybe forever i wouldn't like myself to be one thing.
I could tell you what i never want to do and that is work in an office everyday for the rest of my life.
I think I prefer outdoors jobs or hybrids and for the salary of the job i just hope it'll be enough to pay for a place to live, food and materials.
Today, i am studying fine arts with a major on painting and i would like to study something related to cinema afterwards because it has become a subject of a lot of interest for me, i have taken some classes and really enjoyed it so i would like to go in depht into it. This semester i took two classes about filmmaking, one is "experimental cinema" and it's a practical subjetc and the other one is called "Cinema as an Art: Different schools and movements" and it is a theoretical subject.

martes, 11 de octubre de 2016

PETS

I've never really had a pet, my mother would'nt let me because we had a grocery store in our house and she said the inspectors could penalize the store if we had any animals living there. I've always suspected it was a white lie and that she simply didn't wanted to have one. 
The closest to a pet I had was a dog I named "Javier" but we called it "Javi", he lived at my grandmother's since it was the only place i could live the experience of having a pet. He was really loyal and ethusiast, but i don't have many memories of him, just that he was always so happy when i came to my grandmother's for the weekends.
Today, i would love to have a cat, a female cat, because they are more loving ans tiny and she could sleep with me at nights and cuddle. 
Cats are the pets i like the most because they are so independent and clean unlike dogs that need so much love and attention. I think that aspect of dogs makes me pitty them because their owners usually don't pay that much attention.

Since i'm not much a pet's person, i haven't thought of having exotic pets but an "Iguana" would'nt be a bad choice since they are so colorful and steady and I just read that they're sneaky but to be honest I think exotic animals are only to flaunt, althougt there may be people that actually likes them as I like cats!

martes, 4 de octubre de 2016

the best concert ever

The best concert  I've ever experienced was the version 2014 of Lollapalooza Chile, it was in Parque Ohiggins in Santiago. There I saw various artists like Red hot chilli peppers, Arcade fire, Vampire Weekend, Imagine Dagrons, the singer Lorde among others.
Lollapalooza is more an event than a concert, it lasts two whole days, so one arrives at noon and leaves at almost midnight. I ate there and in order to buy food you had to change your money for "tokens", with them
you could exchange drinks and diverse kinds of lunchs. I also did some tourism in the different stages, there are five, each one with different artists. Three are the main ones and in them you watch the headliners of the show.
The day was euphoric, there were lots of people running from show to show, we didn't had a single moment of silence, every hour three or two of the stages were on.
The show I enjoyed the most was the Arcade Fire's, I went with my best friend and we were very amused by the "Reflektor" song performance, a man dressed as some kind of mirror-prism danced over the stage. I also remember the ending of the show an explosion of colored papers and light effects,after that it inmediatly became my favourite concert ever. I didn't knew much about the band back then and after that they became one of my favourites.