Hi, today i’m going to write about my relationship with films. Well, I used to watch a lot of movies when I was an adolescent, I mean, classic movies like The Clockwork Orange, The Wall, The Shinning, and so many more.
I started watching movies when I was a child. I don’t remember when I watched my first movie, but I do remember a couple of them. I hadn’t a VHS player and neither cable TV. So, my only approach with movies was at the cinema.
I was living in Coquimbo, and I, my grandmother and my parents used to go and watch Disney movies. But not all of them, just the princesses’ films. I remember I watched Pocahontas, Mulan, and Cinderella. I watched movies like toy story just this year. And The Lion King I just watched yesterday by first time. Can you believe it?
Now I prefer TV series than movies, because I like the character’s development than just a couple of hours knowing a character. But when I do watch films, I always prefer something like girlie and family topics, beautiful art direction or auteur cinema.
For that reason, my favorite movies nowadays are almost all the films of Hayao Miyazaki,Sofia Coppola and Wes Anderson. I love the art of Miyazaki, and of course the stories and a culture very different of ours. What I love about Sofia Coppola films are the girlie topics like in Marie Antoinette, Lost in Translation and The Suicide Virgins. And talking about Wes Anderson, I’ve watched The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited and Life Acuatic, all of them just wonderful.
Which is your favorite movie?
See ya!
lunes, 28 de octubre de 2013
lunes, 21 de octubre de 2013
Sorry about that
I’M NOT ECO-FRIENDLY AT ALL. I think this is very embarrassing, but it is true. It’s strange because my mom is always keeping our environment clean and healthy, maybe I’m too lazy.
I think people learn about environmentally friendly practices at home. I mean, of course a good teaching at school is important, but without the family example, that school lessons would be worthless.
Nowadays I’m living alone at my apartment. Often this condos offer something like recycling programs (separating glass from plastic bottles), but I ignore those practices. I don’t know why, because I don’t follow any “un-eco-friendly” practices or theories, I have no foundations in what I do. I just think that my effort is not necessary for a better world.
Well (I’ll sound like a hermit) but I don’t leave my house so often. So, I rarely use some transport methods. But when I do, I always prefer public transport: it is cheap for students in Santiago (not like other parts of the country), I can travel long distances and I can take advantage of it and study while traveling. When I don’t use public transport, I use my legs because I hate bikers, they are so disrespectful!
Like you can notice, I don’t do anything to reduce my carbon footprint and I haven’t joined any eco-organizations. I think I can join other organizations, maybe for help homeless people, or defending some ideas that I agree with, but not with some environmental NGO.
Maybe, if we just use bikes, public transports or our legs, we are doing so much more for our environment than some big companies whose just pollute more than all the people living here.
I think people learn about environmentally friendly practices at home. I mean, of course a good teaching at school is important, but without the family example, that school lessons would be worthless.
Nowadays I’m living alone at my apartment. Often this condos offer something like recycling programs (separating glass from plastic bottles), but I ignore those practices. I don’t know why, because I don’t follow any “un-eco-friendly” practices or theories, I have no foundations in what I do. I just think that my effort is not necessary for a better world.
Well (I’ll sound like a hermit) but I don’t leave my house so often. So, I rarely use some transport methods. But when I do, I always prefer public transport: it is cheap for students in Santiago (not like other parts of the country), I can travel long distances and I can take advantage of it and study while traveling. When I don’t use public transport, I use my legs because I hate bikers, they are so disrespectful!
Like you can notice, I don’t do anything to reduce my carbon footprint and I haven’t joined any eco-organizations. I think I can join other organizations, maybe for help homeless people, or defending some ideas that I agree with, but not with some environmental NGO.
Maybe, if we just use bikes, public transports or our legs, we are doing so much more for our environment than some big companies whose just pollute more than all the people living here.
domingo, 20 de octubre de 2013
lunes, 14 de octubre de 2013
Music
Hello classmates,
Today it’s free theme again, so I’m going to write about me and the music I love. Well, when I was a child I listened music my mom liked. We could spend the whole day listening to Charly García, Víctor Jara, Violeta Parra and Inti Illimani.
Now, I can’t stand this music anymore. Maybe I decided to be a different person from my mom. So, when I was an adolescent I started to discovered music, but just the classics. I’m talking about Pink Floyd, Nirvana, The Beatles, I don’t know, bands that everyone knows.
But then, I went beyond and I realize there are a lot of cultures and music and I decided to listen all the new things my ears could stand. If you ask me about a favourite kind of music, I wouldn’t tell you which one I’ll choose. I’m comfortable listening reggaeton, salsa, classic rock, anything, because I think music is worth in every shape. Listening different kinds of music doesn’t bother me, but I really prefer to ear some artists, depending on the season.
Now I’m totally in love with Miranda! an Argentinean electro pop band. I listen to them when I do the house work, washing dishes and stuff like that (An advice: Miguel Bosé is really good for that too). For walking in the street, I always prefer strong music like Gogol Bordello, Die Antwoord, Balkan Beat Box, Daft Punk and funk music.
I hope you enjoy music as much as I do, and maybe we can talk about it!
xoxo
Now, I can’t stand this music anymore. Maybe I decided to be a different person from my mom. So, when I was an adolescent I started to discovered music, but just the classics. I’m talking about Pink Floyd, Nirvana, The Beatles, I don’t know, bands that everyone knows.
But then, I went beyond and I realize there are a lot of cultures and music and I decided to listen all the new things my ears could stand. If you ask me about a favourite kind of music, I wouldn’t tell you which one I’ll choose. I’m comfortable listening reggaeton, salsa, classic rock, anything, because I think music is worth in every shape. Listening different kinds of music doesn’t bother me, but I really prefer to ear some artists, depending on the season.
Now I’m totally in love with Miranda! an Argentinean electro pop band. I listen to them when I do the house work, washing dishes and stuff like that (An advice: Miguel Bosé is really good for that too). For walking in the street, I always prefer strong music like Gogol Bordello, Die Antwoord, Balkan Beat Box, Daft Punk and funk music.
I hope you enjoy music as much as I do, and maybe we can talk about it!
xoxo
lunes, 7 de octubre de 2013
Wildlife Photography at the 1800s*
Do you imagine being inside an ox to take a picture of some bird’s nests? This sounds unbelievable, because now we have a lot of modern equipment to take pictures and even film in 3D.
Well,those things weren’t available at 1890, but somebody had to do the hard work. To take good wildlife pictures, two Yorkshire brothers were willing to use strange methods, maybe really strange. It’s about Richard and Cherry Kearton.
These two brothers were able to get inside a fake ox; they converted a sheep into a pneumatic camera, they slept in trees, or even they built giant rocks to get inside and put the camera in a hole. The tried all these methods to hide and take pictures of natural life. They were interested in insects, birds and mammals.
Of course they suffered several damage, like back pain, attacks from seabirds, and a lot of falls. However, they took the firsts wildlife photographs with a cheap box camera. As time passed, they built more cameras, always keeping their singular style. Now, one of many Kearton brothers’ film camera has been bought for £4,000 by the National Media Museum in Bradford, England.
The camera belonged to Cherry Kearton, and it will be exposed in exhibitions of the war and wildlife photography, as a spokeman of the museum told to The Guardian.
*This post is a summary of the following text: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/06/wildlife-photography-pioneers-attenborough-camera
Well,those things weren’t available at 1890, but somebody had to do the hard work. To take good wildlife pictures, two Yorkshire brothers were willing to use strange methods, maybe really strange. It’s about Richard and Cherry Kearton.
These two brothers were able to get inside a fake ox; they converted a sheep into a pneumatic camera, they slept in trees, or even they built giant rocks to get inside and put the camera in a hole. The tried all these methods to hide and take pictures of natural life. They were interested in insects, birds and mammals.
Of course they suffered several damage, like back pain, attacks from seabirds, and a lot of falls. However, they took the firsts wildlife photographs with a cheap box camera. As time passed, they built more cameras, always keeping their singular style. Now, one of many Kearton brothers’ film camera has been bought for £4,000 by the National Media Museum in Bradford, England.
The camera belonged to Cherry Kearton, and it will be exposed in exhibitions of the war and wildlife photography, as a spokeman of the museum told to The Guardian.
*This post is a summary of the following text: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/06/wildlife-photography-pioneers-attenborough-camera
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