With the passage of time, one thing that I have noticed is that in all of the experiences, no matter what, nothing is what you were expected at a first time. There is always an event or just a little detail that is going to happen to you to get finally to your predestined destination. And that was exactly what happened to me when I have a review of this year, although not in a bad way, but in a different way that maybe I can answer to me too at the end of this text, because I though about it before but not so deeply.
At the beginning of the year, in the academic way, I had different plans than those that I have now. First of all, I was going to enter in another workshop, but I finally could not, so I applied for another which I did not know at all. I do not deny that I wanted to go to the previous one, because I liked their working program, but once I was inside of my new, but unknown to me, workshop, I realized that it was for me. I liked the program even more, I got along with teachers and the majority of my companions and I was freer to express my own concepts in the canvas, so I was happy with that.
In terms of my own production, I think I`m satisfied with what I have done. Now that it is the second year of the career, we have to think more by ourselves to make our own projects with our ideas, andI like that a lot. In my opinion, we need to reinforce this, because to me, a good piece of work has 50% technique and 50% concept, and that can be maybe our “Achilles’ heel”, by our lack of confidence.
In what respect to mistakes, I have to say that I was a bit lazy, plus the fact that I work slow. Even though this cannot give me many problems as long as I work well, at least I have the knowledge of what I have to improve to have better results next year.
In brief, it is reasonable to say that this was a good year, better than last year, so I am glad. The reason I mentioned that fate takes part of this, is because something similar happened when I applied to this career: I was about to study another thing, but finally I choose arts and until this day I am very happy for my last hour decision. For that I can say that both the conditions that surrounded me and my achievements by my own decisions made this a great academic and personal year.
viernes, 27 de noviembre de 2009
viernes, 20 de noviembre de 2009
Blog # 7: About presidential elections
I`m inscribed since the past elections (to choose a mayor), and also to be more ready to vote for a president, because in that time I got a civic fever, actually. Nowadays, I regret a little sometimes, because i don't believe completely in any of the candidates, but the most part of the time I`m happy anyway for having opinion in my country, and vote, in mi opinion, for the better (but not the best). Like the saying "In a blind persons' country, the one with only an eye is the king".
So now that I`m going to vote, I`ve been more worried than the rest of elections about debates, propaganda and politics in general, but I`ve always though that pamphlets, the shows on TV before the news and speeches for themselves aren't useful at all. The information dissapears and politicians only try to get along and cause a good impression in the people by being charismatic and nice in the videos that they show us, wich is like a joke. So therefor, the plan of goverment goes unnoticed. I think that in those cases politicians spend a very lot of money for nothing, and what it's worse, It's something so persuasive that people believe it and finally they vote in many cases for the person with the best campaign, instead of what they and the country really need.
But we have to be careful too with what politicians say, because I think that the fifty percent is just to have more votes, like Frei telling us that he is going to be like Allende`s goverment, and Arrate saying that is going to lower the cost of all water to help poor people, when that finally would be a benefit for rich people, because they use more water than poor and they will not pay for it too, and being low a scanty resource, it's going to waste with no reason.
I would not like to participate in politics in the future, like in a party or something like that, because I'm not feeling represented with one party in special, and people is very corrupt in those circles. Maybe there are few that start entering in parties to make good for the country, but I think that in the most of the cases, the power make them opportunists of people and they stay in for the quick and easy money from the state.
So now that I`m going to vote, I`ve been more worried than the rest of elections about debates, propaganda and politics in general, but I`ve always though that pamphlets, the shows on TV before the news and speeches for themselves aren't useful at all. The information dissapears and politicians only try to get along and cause a good impression in the people by being charismatic and nice in the videos that they show us, wich is like a joke. So therefor, the plan of goverment goes unnoticed. I think that in those cases politicians spend a very lot of money for nothing, and what it's worse, It's something so persuasive that people believe it and finally they vote in many cases for the person with the best campaign, instead of what they and the country really need.
But we have to be careful too with what politicians say, because I think that the fifty percent is just to have more votes, like Frei telling us that he is going to be like Allende`s goverment, and Arrate saying that is going to lower the cost of all water to help poor people, when that finally would be a benefit for rich people, because they use more water than poor and they will not pay for it too, and being low a scanty resource, it's going to waste with no reason.
I would not like to participate in politics in the future, like in a party or something like that, because I'm not feeling represented with one party in special, and people is very corrupt in those circles. Maybe there are few that start entering in parties to make good for the country, but I think that in the most of the cases, the power make them opportunists of people and they stay in for the quick and easy money from the state.
martes, 17 de noviembre de 2009
Today I`m going to be a bit selfish because I`ll write about something I like only:
In short, the news is about the top 50 albums of the last decade, and the top #1 is the band that was once my favorite: The Strokes
The first album "Is this it" won the first place of the NME's ranking of albums of the decade. The second place belongs to "Up the bracket" of The Libertines.
I wanted to talk about this because I got happy when I read it in Guardian.co.uk and I remembered about three years ago when I was in the school and I had a band with some friends and played their songs a lot. When they came to Chile, we did some moves with people so we could go to the hotel to meet them, and they were so kind and nice and everything that we loved them much more than before. Me and my friends really enjoyed those times.
I remember too that in the early 2000s people said that rock was dead. The world of music was full of electronic interventions, such as a lot of techno, hip hop and pop too, all with technological mixes, and rock music was in its time of aggro and metal tronic music, that I, at least, found it boring. The Strokes went back to the esence of rock with their music inspired of the sounds of the early 70s but giving it a total new view of the contemporary age. The result was very good, but in my opinion, this was a type of music that wasn`t very common, and as any change, is difficult to be accepted at a first impression, therefor it was people that dislike this music by it simple compositions and with a touch of nonchalance, without being depressive, maybe the feeling of the world in that time, but it was music that made a whole new view for creating new styles that developed from this ingenious band.
Nowadays, each member of The Strokes is working on different projects, but they are going to keep making music together.
miércoles, 11 de noviembre de 2009
Correcting a classmate's posting
Well, the posting that I choose to correct is this following text:
¨the news that i choose, is about a photographer who makes a study of the polaroid photos. we could say he talks about the magic who has that photos. it turn refers to his model, the person whom he takes the picture.he says that the attitude of the model to pose, makes it look that doesn`t require much production, to take a good picture, to capture the moment, disposition only.he talks about the difference that is created respect to the digital photos, which can be errased or modified, a polaroid photo captures a moment and let it embodied.....maybe you can capture intermediate moments, in which one are not posing for the photo.about he regrets, is that we dont use it very often, also argues, is that is not used for meaningful purposes. He loves the format, but he feels it is a waste, the lack of importance to it.basically, i didint choose just something in my special field, but i interested in photography and i also work with it often.I think it is quite right when he talks about the moments that do not move back or change, and that moment is special...soemtimes we think that to take a good photo, we need a some kindof preparation or setting...but the spontaneous and unexpected is an element to, interesting in the area of arts in which i use.
And my correction, according to my knowledge (which I do not know really if they are a hundred percent well) would be this:
¨the news that i choose, is about a photographer who makes a study of __ polaroid photos. We can say he talks about the magic that have those photos. It turn refers to his model, the person whom he takes the picture. He says that the attitude of the model to pose makes it look that doesn`t require too much production to take a good picture, to capture the moment, disposition only. He talks about the difference that is created respect to __ digital photos, which can be erased or modified. A polaroid photo captures a moment and let it embodied.....maybe you can capture intermediate moments, in which one are not posing for the photo. About his regrets, is that we dont use it very often, also argues, is that is not used for meaningful purposes. He loves the format, but he feels it is a waste of ... , the lack of importance to it.
Basically, i didn`t choose just something in my special field, but I`m interested in photography and I also work with it often. I think it is quite right when he talks about the moments that do not move back or change, and that moment is special... sometimes we think that to take a good photo, we need a some kind of preparation or setting... but spontaneity and unexpected things are an element (that I find) interesting in the area of arts in which i can use it for.
Of this exercise I can say that i could noticed some mistakes in Kamille`s writing wich are most of all about draft and punctuation, I think that is because maybe she sees blogs more like a way of expression over formal writing, so she doesn`t worry by writing well in terms of structure, she just worry about say what the blog ask you to do. I`m sure that if Kamille want it she could be fix those mistakes without difficulty.
Another mistake that I noticed happends with a lot of students I think, including me. We often forget many conectors that make phrases sound good in english, because we don`t know yet completely how to tell well many sentences, although we can make people to understand us in english. In my case too, I think that I`m more worried by vocabulary than grammar, I don`t know if another students as well.
¨the news that i choose, is about a photographer who makes a study of the polaroid photos. we could say he talks about the magic who has that photos. it turn refers to his model, the person whom he takes the picture.he says that the attitude of the model to pose, makes it look that doesn`t require much production, to take a good picture, to capture the moment, disposition only.he talks about the difference that is created respect to the digital photos, which can be errased or modified, a polaroid photo captures a moment and let it embodied.....maybe you can capture intermediate moments, in which one are not posing for the photo.about he regrets, is that we dont use it very often, also argues, is that is not used for meaningful purposes. He loves the format, but he feels it is a waste, the lack of importance to it.basically, i didint choose just something in my special field, but i interested in photography and i also work with it often.I think it is quite right when he talks about the moments that do not move back or change, and that moment is special...soemtimes we think that to take a good photo, we need a some kindof preparation or setting...but the spontaneous and unexpected is an element to, interesting in the area of arts in which i use.
And my correction, according to my knowledge (which I do not know really if they are a hundred percent well) would be this:
¨the news that i choose, is about a photographer who makes a study of __ polaroid photos. We can say he talks about the magic that have those photos. It turn refers to his model, the person whom he takes the picture. He says that the attitude of the model to pose makes it look that doesn`t require too much production to take a good picture, to capture the moment, disposition only. He talks about the difference that is created respect to __ digital photos, which can be erased or modified. A polaroid photo captures a moment and let it embodied.....maybe you can capture intermediate moments, in which one are not posing for the photo. About his regrets, is that we dont use it very often, also argues, is that is not used for meaningful purposes. He loves the format, but he feels it is a waste of ... , the lack of importance to it.
Basically, i didn`t choose just something in my special field, but I`m interested in photography and I also work with it often. I think it is quite right when he talks about the moments that do not move back or change, and that moment is special... sometimes we think that to take a good photo, we need a some kind of preparation or setting... but spontaneity and unexpected things are an element (that I find) interesting in the area of arts in which i can use it for.
Of this exercise I can say that i could noticed some mistakes in Kamille`s writing wich are most of all about draft and punctuation, I think that is because maybe she sees blogs more like a way of expression over formal writing, so she doesn`t worry by writing well in terms of structure, she just worry about say what the blog ask you to do. I`m sure that if Kamille want it she could be fix those mistakes without difficulty.
Another mistake that I noticed happends with a lot of students I think, including me. We often forget many conectors that make phrases sound good in english, because we don`t know yet completely how to tell well many sentences, although we can make people to understand us in english. In my case too, I think that I`m more worried by vocabulary than grammar, I don`t know if another students as well.
jueves, 22 de octubre de 2009
A bicentenary faculty
I like my faculty. I like it more than faculties of private universities, for example. Although they are very "modern" and aesthetically well built, it seems that there`s no soul in there. It`s like a cube with more cubic things inside where people go and when classes are finish, they doesn´t stay so much there, but go to the pubs near because their university is not so "comfortable" as another institutions like this one. I don`t know exactly what it is, but I feel that. Maybe is the time, and the tradition of the boulding as a human group. In spite of this, I accept that this faculty need some arragements...
The most visible problem is our infraestructure. The building, wich is like an old fashioned school of the 50`s, is falling into pieces. Besides, the maintenance is poor, there are some rooms that are flooded when it rains; the material of the doors and tables are the worst, and is not that I`m a refined person, but with so much years of movement, this things can`t hardly stand with its function.
There is a Bicentenary proyect that includes the improvement of all JGM campus, but the ideology of most people of the university doesn`t want this plans to work, because they say there are another things that are more important, and most of all, they think that annual fee is going to get more expensive if the proyect is accepted. I don`t think so; the authorities of the university already said that this is not going to happen, and I think that is an useful inversion, because we need improvements to work better. And by the economic conditions of the world, the annual fee is going up anyway. Sometimes I feel that student centers of politics only search polemic themes to be against with, because in part, they have the feeling of changing the world and, in the oportunity of being important in a good university like ours, take advantages to protest and be someone.
Apart from all those things, I like my faculty, because it`s big and has a lot of green areas. And it`s located far from the noise of the city. In this place (forgetting infraestructure) I think I can work very well and calm.
The most visible problem is our infraestructure. The building, wich is like an old fashioned school of the 50`s, is falling into pieces. Besides, the maintenance is poor, there are some rooms that are flooded when it rains; the material of the doors and tables are the worst, and is not that I`m a refined person, but with so much years of movement, this things can`t hardly stand with its function.
There is a Bicentenary proyect that includes the improvement of all JGM campus, but the ideology of most people of the university doesn`t want this plans to work, because they say there are another things that are more important, and most of all, they think that annual fee is going to get more expensive if the proyect is accepted. I don`t think so; the authorities of the university already said that this is not going to happen, and I think that is an useful inversion, because we need improvements to work better. And by the economic conditions of the world, the annual fee is going up anyway. Sometimes I feel that student centers of politics only search polemic themes to be against with, because in part, they have the feeling of changing the world and, in the oportunity of being important in a good university like ours, take advantages to protest and be someone.
Apart from all those things, I like my faculty, because it`s big and has a lot of green areas. And it`s located far from the noise of the city. In this place (forgetting infraestructure) I think I can work very well and calm.
Country(ies) I`d like to visit
Hi Hi!
I found this question was very difficult! because I want to visit a lot of countries, allmost all of them. But if I have to choose one, it would be Italy.
Why Italy: To me it has everything. The best food I've taste, beautiful and nice people, a lot of the most perfect art (let's no forget that Italy was the center of the new art and culture of the renaissance and also a bit of barroque -Caravaggio is what I'm interested in-), the famous ruins of the Roman empire, passing through the medieval age and a big quantity of culture that I think a person should know, and finally, its great climate and its beatiful fertile landscapes.
With all those points that I want to know of this country, I think I would have to stay a few months maybe. Because Rome isn`t everything. There are at least Florence and Tuscany too. In Rome are located the ruins, in Florence the uffizi gallery and most of all art, and in Tuscany actually I`d like to go there to live. Also I have to visit Napoles for its food (There spaghettis are the best) and Venice for its festivals. Anyway, whole cosmopolitan world with a calmier view (not like New York, for example) in only one country.
That`s why I want to study there when I finish here, because it has the birth of occidental art, and also I found it a beautiful country with even more beautiful people. Italians are not like french o english people. They are happier and nicer. But the question for me was in fact difficult because I`ve travel a lot: I`ve been in Brasil, Argentina, EUA, Bahamas, Costa Rica for example, and my conclusion is that every part of the world I know (even Santiago) has it`s charm. For that, I`m happy here in Stgo. But I hope I`m not dreaming now and I can go at least once in my life to Italy.
I found this question was very difficult! because I want to visit a lot of countries, allmost all of them. But if I have to choose one, it would be Italy.
Why Italy: To me it has everything. The best food I've taste, beautiful and nice people, a lot of the most perfect art (let's no forget that Italy was the center of the new art and culture of the renaissance and also a bit of barroque -Caravaggio is what I'm interested in-), the famous ruins of the Roman empire, passing through the medieval age and a big quantity of culture that I think a person should know, and finally, its great climate and its beatiful fertile landscapes.
With all those points that I want to know of this country, I think I would have to stay a few months maybe. Because Rome isn`t everything. There are at least Florence and Tuscany too. In Rome are located the ruins, in Florence the uffizi gallery and most of all art, and in Tuscany actually I`d like to go there to live. Also I have to visit Napoles for its food (There spaghettis are the best) and Venice for its festivals. Anyway, whole cosmopolitan world with a calmier view (not like New York, for example) in only one country.
That`s why I want to study there when I finish here, because it has the birth of occidental art, and also I found it a beautiful country with even more beautiful people. Italians are not like french o english people. They are happier and nicer. But the question for me was in fact difficult because I`ve travel a lot: I`ve been in Brasil, Argentina, EUA, Bahamas, Costa Rica for example, and my conclusion is that every part of the world I know (even Santiago) has it`s charm. For that, I`m happy here in Stgo. But I hope I`m not dreaming now and I can go at least once in my life to Italy.
sábado, 5 de septiembre de 2009
About some topics...
Hi,
First of all I have to say that last semester we talked a lot about our career, what do we want in our lives and so muchs things like that. So for the blog to not to get boring writing in it, I suggest to writing about things that we like, but out of our area: this can be another kind of things that we are interested in, like our second option of career to study, or maybe art itself but our area. For example, I'm in a painting workshop, so I can write about sculpture or performance etc, except painting.
The other suggestion is to watch a movie maybe or select a poem, a tv program, a work of art, or even a country and talk about them and show our opinions. Or to put us in situations of real life life (or maybe more fantastic too) and explain what we could do about it in the blog.
First of all I have to say that last semester we talked a lot about our career, what do we want in our lives and so muchs things like that. So for the blog to not to get boring writing in it, I suggest to writing about things that we like, but out of our area: this can be another kind of things that we are interested in, like our second option of career to study, or maybe art itself but our area. For example, I'm in a painting workshop, so I can write about sculpture or performance etc, except painting.
The other suggestion is to watch a movie maybe or select a poem, a tv program, a work of art, or even a country and talk about them and show our opinions. Or to put us in situations of real life life (or maybe more fantastic too) and explain what we could do about it in the blog.
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