Youtube

Hello! Today in this new post I have to talk about my experience with the website youtube.

I use this website all the time, because you can search a lot of things, like music, movies, series, t.v shows, etc.

I think youtube is a very great website and it is easy to use, if you are subscribe to youtube you can post your own and favorites videos, but this is not only necessary to use this website, for this reason I think this site it is make for all the people. For example my grandfather uses this website to search music like tangos, Chilean music, and also sometimes he search old movies.

I’ve never post comment in the videos that I see, but I click on “I like it” so in my history of youtube I have all the videos that I like it, this way is very useful to see some videos lately.

In youtube you also can subscribes to channels related with things that you like it. There are many different channels about everything, the things that I search most are music, bloopers about series, videos of people falling, etc.

About the series that I search, I see a lot of bloopers about How I met your mother, 30 Rock, I search also videos about t.v shows like Ellen Degeneres and The soup.

I think that when I use my notebook, youtube is always open even if I have to do a homework, so this maybe could be sometimes bad, because is a distraction and you can waste a lot of time in this website.

This is the latest video that I see and it is so much funny, enjoy!

 

Well, this is all for today, Bye!

Food and eating habits!

Hi everyone! Today in this new post I have to talk about food and eating habits.

So I would like to talk about my personal eating habits. When I was a child I didn’t eat a lot, I remember one day when I was in the school my mother bring me McDonalds food, so in my childhood my eating habits didn’t so well.

Now in the present I eat more about everything, but still now I love eating in McDonalds, I know this is not good to my health, but it is my guilty pleasure.

I would like to be a vegetarian person because is healthier, but in my home nobody eat too much vegetables and we eat a lot of meat. But I would like to do a change in my eating habits, maybe be vegetarian is too much drastic for me.

When I don’t eat in my house or in the University, I like eat in fast food restaurants with friends, but I try to don’t do this so frequency.

I think is not good sold in school fast food, soda and sweets, this is not good for kids in growth stage, but maybe this is responsability of their parents and is not a duty to the scools not sold this type of food.

I don't eat too much when I was sad or happy, I ussually eat the same quantity of food all days, but I'm very disorganized, so I eat at odd times a lot.

Well, this is all for today, bye.

How green are you?

Hello everyone! In this new blog I have to talk about how green I am.

Since I was a child my mother teaches me about not littering, so still now I’ve never throw trash in street.

I think the recycling is very important, because we living in a big city like Santiago where the pollution is huge, every single people must have recycling habits so maybe if this happened we can have a better place to live.

I don’t have a bike and neither a car, but I walk a lot because I prefer sometimes walk instead use the public transport. My mother doesn’t have a car neither and she walk to her work, so probably from her I take this preference for walk.

Also, one of my very best friends is a member of Greenpeace Chile, so I know what kind of activities they do to save our country and protected our nature.

I think in our country the government doesn’t worry too much about the pollution in Santiago, or the problems about cut down so many trees, maybe we don’t have enough or good laws about this topic, and we must know if we doesn’t take care about our nature, in the future probably we are living in bad conditions.

I would like to do more things to save our trees, all the nature and the animals, and I think the recycled is a great idea, and definitely I would do in my house.

Well that is all for today, bye

Animals and pets

 

Hi all again, in this new post I have to talk about animals. Since I was a child I remember had pets, when I was maybe 5 years old my uncle gave me a dog and then the same uncle gave me a tortoise.

So I consider myself an animal lover, my first dog past away in 2011, and then one of my cousin found a puppy near hers neighbourhood so she decided to gave us the puppy, this dog is my pet in the present. The tortoise that my uncle gave me when I was a child still live now, I really don't know what age have, because I never go to the veterinarian with she.

I’m a dog lover because I think a dog is very easy to play with, for kids is a great present, dogs are very friendly with other dogs and with people, also they are loyal and smarts.

My dog have 2 years old, he is very frisky and friendly with people, also he can understand like 10 words, he understand orders, since we have in the house he makes some damage in the garden, but now he doesn’t do too many damages.

So I have two pets, one is my dog and the other is my tortoise, on the contrary my tortoise is pacify and walks very slowly, and she hibernate in winter, is a very easy pet to have, she doesn’t make troubles and damages like my dog does sometimes.

Well that is all for this post for today, bye.

Summary from a career-related article

Hi all again, in this new post I have to make a summary of a news connected with my area of studies, so I’m going to talk about a news from the section of culture. The news is “Albrecht Durer’s rare work goes on display in London”.

The news is about the artist Durer who is famous for his drawings. Now in London a new exhibition of his masterpieces is arrive, the exhibition show the process in which creates new ways to make their prints and drawings.

The curator of the exhibition is Dr. Stephanie Buck, she said from the art of Durer: “It is always, for him, about a combination of invention and the past”. So you can understand more easily his masterpieces like the portrait of his wife Agnes, where he uses a combination for his imaginary and his real life.

The time when Durer was living was an age where the technology change, so he can reproduced and distributed his own drawings and prints.

Durer was a very smart artist for his age, because he has two agents to sell his prints, he also created a brand.

The exhibition “The Young Durer” is at the Courtauld Gallery in London from 17 October to 12 January.

Well that is all for today, bye.

 

 

Durer, portrait of his wife Agnes.

 

 

Durer's Brand.

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/16/albrecht-durer-exhibition-courthauld-gallery

Japanese animation

Hi all, this blog is about Japanese animation. So the questions are: you know what is anime? Yes I know. 

On television there are many Japanese animated series, these are of many types, some are made for children and others are made for young people.

When I was a child, I saw Sailor Moon is a Japanese animation, one of my favorite animes was Conan, this kid was a detective and even now I remember the theme of that serie.

Well, I have some friends who love Japanese culture because they began to see anime as children, and then even now they see on TV Japanese animation.

Isn't my case, because now I don’t watch Japanese animation at all. But sometimes I sing the songs of those series that I saw in my childhood, and I search in youtube some series and the themes.

In Chile the people who love the anime are named "otakus", some of they are so fanatic that they dress up as their favorite characters. In the center of Santiago, exist a place call "Euro centro", in this place you can see people dress up like Japanese animation. 

Well that is all for this blog, bye. 

A country I would like to visit

Hi all again, today in this new post I have to talk about a country I would like to visit.

I have a lot of countries that I will like to visit, but since a long time I feel attracted to one country in special, that is Brazil.

When I was a child I saw a lot of brazilians t.v series , and the places that they show are very fantastic, also I believe the people in Brazil is very nice and fun.

I like the culture, the music, the cities, the food, so I hope one day I can go. Another thing I feel  attracted to this country is the names of the cities, because I think the names are very beautiful, this is probably because I like the language. So I would like to visit cities like, Río, Recife, Manaus, Curitiva, etc.

I would love to go to the carnaval in Río de Janeiro in february, the music and the people are very happy, they know how celebrate.

Well in other post maybe can I talk more of this beautiful country, Bye.

 

 

My ideal job

 

Hi all,

in this blog I have to talk about my ideal job.
Next year I will graduate from university, and I have to think about what kind of work I enjoy doing. I love my career and I would like to work in another country, such as France, my ideal job would be in the Musée d'Orsay, a museum that is very famous and important.
But that idea is highly unlikely, so I have no plans for that yet but I'm planning to go to Paris to live, and then find a job related to my skills and studies.
I have another ideal job, but this job has nothing to do with my career, it's about working on a cruise. In a cruise you can visit a lot of countries because you travel so much, I think I can work in the cruise taking pictures of tourists, or something like that.
Well, I really do not have plans for my future, but next year

I must think about that. 

 

 

Blogging experience

Hello everyone! This is my last blog, because my English class ends today, so in this post I have to write about my blogging experience.

Well, this was for me a new way to practice and learn English, I think it was good to practice the writing, because I don't have a great write in English, I can understand more listening and reading.

Personally I didn't enjoy writing blogs, maybe for the topics that we have to write, I think the experience could be more interesting if we have to write a different things choosing for everyone.

Before this experience, I never had a blog, so this was my first time blogging, it was ok, maybe in the future I will have another blog where I can write about things I like.

This experience serves to me learning more about writing, and also we have to read the other post of my classmates, this help us in our reading and also we can know another things more personal and funnies that they talk in his blogs.

I have a suggestion for the class, maybe during the class we can see a film interesting in English, not subtitled and then we have to write about this movie in a reading test, the interesting exercise here is listening in English and then write in English, maybe comment the movie too, and by this way we can practice and learn differently.

Well, this is all for today, Bye !  

Favourite Subject !

Hello everyone! Today I am going to talk about my favourite subject in this term. I think it is my class of "Apreciación cinematografica" in this class we see a lot of movies that are very important to the history of the cine, such as the first movies made by Lumiere brothers.

In the class we learn about the history of the cine, and the same time the professor explain us the different parts that the movies have, like the types of shots that make the cameras do in the film.

In every class we see a movie and then the professor explain the meaning and the important that movie has. Is a very entertaining class, and then when you see a film in your house or in the cinema you remember the things you learn in class and you can apply in every movie.

I really love see movies not so well known, in black and white and silent pictures. In the last class we see a film named "Triumph des Willens" in english is named The triumph of the will is a 1935 film made by Leni Riefenstahl, is a Nazi propaganda film, and became one of the best-known examples of propaganda in film history.

I really love when the films narrate parts of world history, and this film has a lot of that.

Well this is all for now, I hope some another day can talk more about this, because I really love it.

Bye!

Beauty ...

Hello everyone! Today I go to talk about an interesting video that I watched this video is called A Darwinian theory of beauty by Denis Dutton.
The theory try to explain the concept of beauty, it is, indeed, a very difficult topic to explain, because we can consider beautiful a lot of different things. Dutton talks about three categories where the people found beauty, like art works, natural landscapes and human beings.
Dutton also says, that the consideration of explain beauty by the social culture it is not hundred percent determinant, Dutton thinks it is in the evolution of the human beings where we can explain why consider beauty something.
Is for that why Dutton used the theory of Darwin to explain, that while the human beings evolved they want more comfort, a better life, and Dutton says we found beauty in the things they are well done.
I don’t think it is correct explain only by the evolution of us the beauty, because the concept of what is beautiful it is changed a lot across the time and the history. This is because many factors are involved, such as the economy, the modernity, the policy, the globalization, etc, all this factors are inside a very same topic, and this is the culture. Maybe the taste and the concept of what is beauty it is evolved with us, but the culture and society influence in our conception of beauty.
Finally every person in the world is different so what we think it is beautiful is not the same that the other person thinks.
Well I hope you can think about this. For now this is all! Bye (:

My favourite artist!

Hello everyone, today I want to talk about one of my favourites painters, his name is Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. He was an Italian artist, her style of painting it is called Baroque, and this style used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, it is from XVI century.

I choose him, because, to me, his paintings are very beautiful and the same time they are very dramatics, maybe the last characteristic is because the utilization of the light and the colors that are present in all his paintings.

I really love one of his paintings; this is Narcissus, painted circa 1597–1599. It is housed in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome. The name of the painting and the history of this, it is for the myth of a handsome youth who falls in love with his own reflection, in rapt contemplation, unable to move away from its image he throwing over the waters. At the site where his body had fallen, grew a beautiful flower that did honor to the name and memory of Narcissus.

Here I put the picture of the painting, I hope you like it! 

A picture is worth a thousand words!

Hello everyone! Today I want to comment a picture of me from 2011.

In this picture I am literally flying through the skies, because I'm enjoying a tourist attraction in an amusement park in France.

The attraction is flying chairs, and the park is called Asterix, I visited that country in 2011 in winter vacation in Chile and summer holidays in France. The photograph was captured by one of my uncles, who live in that country for many years.

For me it was a challenge to get on these chairs flying, because I suffer from vertigo of heights, I was afraid when I first began to rise, but was one of the best feelings of my life, it was like freedom.

The feeling is so incredible that all the afraid you feel at first, then turns into adrenaline and do not want to get off anymore.

Asterix Park has a variety of attractions for all the family, and is the symbol of Welsh culture, also enjoyed roller coasters. I also met Disneyland in Paris, where the coasters are great, they play music and you can see projections of lights as you head spinning and it's the most cool ever!

The picture brought me many flashbacks, not only of that day; I remember the whole trip where I met many beautiful places and interesting people.

I hope to go soon to visit my French family, and as a dream in a future, I want to work in a museum there, if not much dreaming, The Louvre! :p

I hope you liked my story and photography!

Blog correction!

Hello all again! I have been absent for a while, because I didn't have classes in this last month. So now in this new blog, I have to correct the last post of my classmateThiare Leon.

Here it is:

Hello, my followers!

Today I’m going to talk about movies, this is a (an) awesome subject because allow to talk about many others things, is very wide.

Well, in these last months I have been considered (as) my favorite movie “Tesis”. This is the first movie of the Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar. The director of others movies like “The Others”, “Abre los ojos”, and many others; but I preferred “Tesis”, obviously the coolest movie ever!

Is the best (movie) because it talks about very interesting topics like violence in the media and the cinema industry. But more important, (this is) the coolest movie ever because it have the best character:  Chema (Fele Martinez). He is a very funny, ironic and irreverent character.

The movie was released int 1996 and was starred by Ana Torrent, Fele Martinez and Eduardo Noriega. The movie is about a young woman call Angela that is making her thesis about the audiovisual violence. But the professor that was helping her died suddenly by a heart attack while he was watching a movie. The movie was a snuff-movie that Angela found and keep it.

Snuff movies are grotesque and crude real movies in which torture and kill people in order to satisfy the desire that produces the violence. Is like a pornographic movie but in which the desire is the crudeness of the violence. The snuff movies are part of a huge black market that remains underground and developing.

When Angela discover this movie is presented to her a new and dangerous world in which she can be the next star of (on) a snuff movie. “Tesis” is a thriller movie in which the mistery is always present.

Here is the trailer:

This (is) a part of the movie that I like alot (a lot), is a story that Chema tells to Angela:

But also the movie related the media violence with the cinema as a consumer product. The phrase: “give the public what they want” is very interesting for this analysis. Create movies that are submitted to economics factors like, in the case of the snuff-movies, in order to compite (compete) with the northeamerican (American) cinema industry. But hre (here) is when the moral question emerges: Can we violate the rights of people in order to fulfill the desire of a market?

Until next post, cheers!

Movies

Hello again!

Today I want to talk about a movie that I really like, is not my favorite because it is very difficult to choose one. I love a lot of movies!

But I decided to talk about a movie of one of my favorite directors, Quentin Tarantino.

Inglourious Basterds, tells a fictional story set during World War II, is based on the idea that a group of U.S. soldiers have a mission to kill Nazis.

During the film are narrated different stories but they are united in a common goal. The music of the movie I really like, in general the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino's movies are my favorites.

Actors who appear in this film, including Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl.

The film is a bit controversial, by its scenes of explicit violence and because historical facts are altered.

The Quentin Tarantino dialogue writing are ironic, playing with reality and fiction, what makes this movie always keep continuing interest, never get bored of it.

The film was released in 2009, and was nominated for best supporting actor Christoph Waltz, who won in this category in the Cannes Film Festival awards, in the Screen Actors Guild at the Golden Globes and the Oscars .

The film was commercially successful, grossing over $321 million in theaters worldwide. It received multiple awards and nominations, including eight Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture.

Well, I hope you like the post, and if you have not seen the movie yet, do not think more and watch it, will not regret.

xoxo

Websites that I like

Hello all again! This post is dedicated to websites that I like and that are related to my career. I enjoy visiting websites where they show more interactive artworks.

For example tour the Sistine Chapel, without moving from my house.

I also like to see the paintings through a Google website, called Google Art Project.

The website of the Prado Museum has interactive videos that teach art in an entertaining way.

I like to visit these pages recursively, as the history of art is what I love about my career.

I left the links to the pages for review; I hope to help you to be more interested in art is also more entertaining. Then do not say that art is boring.

• http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html 
• http://www.googleartproject.com/es/artworks/
• http://www.museodelprado.es/exposiciones/info/en-el-museo/rubens/rubens-360/

Well, hope you like it the websites.

Bye. 

Music (:

Hello everyone, today I will comment on the type of music I listen to, this includes several bands and singers, music in English and Spanish and some in other languages ​​like French and Portuguese. My favorite band is Muse, I like the Bossa Nova and old songs in French as songs of Edith Piaf.

I also listen to more pop music, last year I went to the Lady Gaga concert and really enjoyed his songs, is one of my favorite artists too.

Well, later I will discuss more about my musical tastes.

xoxo

Hello everyone!

In this post, i want to talk about my life. My name is Catalina, as you know, I'm 20 years old, I live with my mother her name is Patricia and my grandfathers, Hugo and María. My mother is a paramedic, she work hard for pay my carrer in the University. I have two pets, a tortoise and a dog, my tortoise it's called Matilde and my dog it's called Pillín.

I'am very happy with my carrer, and I have a good friends in the University, in the future i hope travel a lot and know many museums and historical sites.

Well, this is all for today, see you in the next post.

Bye! (:

First post

Hello (:

My name is Catalina I'm studying history of art at the Art Faculty on Universidad de Chile. This blog is dedicated to my English class. In this blog I want to write about different things I like.

About:

-Art

-Movies

-Famous people of Hollywood

-Music

-T.V programs

-Favourites places of the world

Etc.

Until my next post, bye!