The Art Faculty...

Well, I think that the Art Faculty is very special, in so many ways, I could say that is one of the faculties in the campus of the university that has a very high extension of grass in its park, so we can lay down in the grass and rest and sleep all day. But in the other hand, is one of the most decadent, and I say decadent because the infrastructure is deplorable; the building is older, a little ugly probably, and it hasn't anything like artistic, or nothing aesthetic that goes with an Art School; I mean, when it's raining the workshoops and the classrooms are all wet! How can that happens in a university! Even, when a few days ago it was raining, with a classmates we had to go to the Painting Workshop to move and remove some pieces of work and some pictures, because in a place of the classroom it was all full of water that fell from the roof!

The structure of some rooms is not the best or the one that we expect for it. But, even though we have a special feeling with the school, because it has something "magic". One of the things that make me really sad, is when I look at the back of the faculty, is a piece of land that is not used, we could take advantage of it, but it seems that no one is interested in to do it. There is something like a wharehouse, but it's almost for fall down in any moment! I've looked inside of it and it's scary, there are a ot of things, trash, tailing, thrown and forgotten things.

Another thing that I think we have to improve, is the artless in our school; I mean, it souns really ironic, but there aren’t so many artistic things in the faculty, something like sculptures, wall-paintings, interventions in the corridors, I don’t know, an instance where we as students could express and show our pieces of work. For example, that space of the back of the faculty that I mention previously, it could be like the “Park of sculptures” but it isn’t, and it’s really sad, but it like a paradox… How an art school doesn’t has art in it?
I think, that more than students, the University and authorities they have and they must to do something at respect. We can’t study in a place, where the classrooms are all raining and where the structure can fall down in the less awaited moment. And we as students, we have to do something too; we have to take the responsability and make our voice to sound, because if we don’t say anything and if we don’t do anything for it, no one’s gonna do it…

I place i'd like to visit...

Well, there are too many places that I'd like to visit. I really love to travel and visit different places and know different people, different cultures, and I really would like to travel abroad... but there's a place that is very attractive for me: Morrocan.
Morrocan is a country that I'd like to visit; I think of it as a place that I can jump from all what is happening in the world, something like a way of escape and it could be a niceful, agitated and stimulant place.
I like the arabian culture that has this country, all the places, the architecture mainly. I love the buildings, full of things, colorful. And all the markets accumulated on the streets, the people running from here to there, I think that is an alucinating place; and sometimes it becomes a duality, because I love all the movement on the cities, the velocity, the faster things, the lights, the traffic, bohemian life and the city life, but in the other hand I need to be in a place where I can find myself and feel that conection with my mind and Morrocan is like the plug with I can connect with myself... I don't know, I think Morrocan has something that I find alucinating and at the same time inspirating.
The art is one the things more attractive for me in this country; because Morrocan has developed a mosaic of artistic traditions, that includes carpets, jewerly, carveds on wood, painted boards, and a lot of things that I find amazing.
The food is what I want to concentrate on if I'm in this country, there's a traditional food called "cuscús" that is semola with lamb and vegetables.. Mmmmmh.. delicious! and the tea is the drink by excellence. I love tea.
Well, I don´t know, the only thing that I can say about Morrocan is that it's like a land of fantasy..

Two wheels in the city

Well, I chose a new related with the environment and te green living... and something that for me it's just usual: bike ride. But this new is about the cycling in the city, and it makes an analogy between cyclists and pedestrians as a plankton and an amoeba, and the difference that exist between this two, and between the bikes and the cars, putting the cars in the whale possition.

One trick that cyclists in the city develop is the ability to make a "jink" around obstacles, pedestrians and the cars. But there are some tricks for the pedestrian too; for example when you're crossing a road, you look between the flow of cars and move trough it.

The treatment is really important int his. Because if you are a cyclist or a pedestrian or a driver you have to treat the other people as you'd like people to treat you.



I chose this new because I'm a very usual cyclist, most of the time I use it and I could go everywhere on my bike, because I really love it, and it's healthy for me and for the environment. And sometimes I feel that difference between the pedestrian, the drivers and cyclist. Sometimes cars don't respect the cyclists, or sometimes the pedestrian move on the cycling paths. That's really tedious I get a bit angry but it's something that I canalize and is in that moment when I say "well, we have to learn to live together..."



Here is the link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2009/sep/23/pedestrians-space

Blog 2: The shortest semester =P

First of all I would like to say that I'm so sorry because I didn't write this blog at the time... but I didn't knew it, I swear it, I had no idea that we started writing in this... well I have been absent in some classes so I have the responsability to go, I know it...

Well, about the topics that we could write in the blogs, mmmh I think that probably we could discuss about things related with our career, or with artistic areas or something about art, because that is our working area,and we have too many things to talk about and discuss and analyse.
A few classes before we were watching a video on TED.com and it was about the success, the fame and the happiness. We were discussing about this, and about our expectatives of life, and I really think that it is very important for us, because we are in the age that we have to make very important decisions, we have to stand up to the world on our own, and we have different points of view about life and about what we want and what we expect of it. I don't know; our personal dreams, expectations, our future, success... I mean, it sound very tedious, but it could be a divergent topic of discussion

CAMPBELL'S TOMATO SOUP

The series of Tins of soup Campbell, also known as 32 tins of soup Campbell, was produced by Andy Warhol in 1962 and it is one of his most famous works.

ANDY WARHOL

Well, I don't like to think in a "best artist", because I believe that every artist work in different ways. I really like the Andy Warhol's work, and I think of him like a very influential artist in the XX century and one of the most important in the latest years.

Andy Warhol was born in 1928. He was an american painter, printmaker and filmmaker who was a very influental figure in the birth of the Pop Art movement in the 60's and 70's. He became very famous around the world by his work as a painter, filmmaker, producer, author and a public figure who was working with a very diverse social circles that includes bohemian street people, homosexual, drug addicts, aristocrats and celebrities of Hollywood.

It was during the 60s that Warhol began to make paintings of iconic American products as Campbell's Soup Cans from the Campbell Soup Company and Coca-Cola bottles, and paintings of celebrities as Marilyn Monroe, Troy Donahue, and Elizabeth Taylor.

He founded "The Factory," his studio during these years, and point of meet between artists, writers, musicians, and underground celebrities. He began producing prints using the silkscreen method. His work became popular and controversial.

Warhol was a very polemic personage in all his life. And after his death in 1987 was object of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, films, and documentaries. And is because of this that is considered one of the mos influential artists in the latest century.

Mi Future

Well, I would like to do a lot of things in 5 years from now. Professionaly, I would like to be working in what I'm doing now: art. I would like to be working in this, having my own workshop, or working with more people. Or maybe making a theathre course or dancing course, I would really like to do it and I’ve thougth of it since I was 16.
I don’t know where I will be living exactly but I will be living alone or with friends maybe, of that I’m sure. Probably in the downtown Santiago or near it. I don’t see myself living at 25 years old with my parents, definitively No! I would really love to travel around the world, Probably, I go to Argentina (I have some family there) and live for a time in Buenos Aires, and then… I don’t know, I don’t want to plan everything in my future!

Whatever it be…