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…

MUSIC FOR LIFE

There are too many things that I can live without them. But there is a thing that I really can’t live without it: my MP3 player. I suffer when I don’t have it, even more if don’t have headphones… When I go on the bus, when I take a bike ride, when I go walking in the city, when I’m in classes of drawing or painting in the university, when I’m working in home, in my bedroom, sleeping, I mean; everywhere I could use it.

I didn’t buy it; I got this in a contest actually, about 2 years ago in a visit that we did in the secondary school to a university of Santiago, there they made a contest, a drawing actually, and I was the winner of the prize: an MP3 player. I was very happy, because I didn’t have one, and I needed it.

I use it everyday I can. And I feel like… I don’t know, like if I could disconnect me from the real world and connect me to another world, an own and personal world. But sometimes it’s not really good, because I can’t hear what is happening out there because I’m with a very high volume. I’m very sad when I don’t have it. Because of that I try to take it everywhere I’m going. Life is very different when I’m not listening to music, it’s so monotonous…

Silk-screen printing

Well, my favourite subject in my career this year is "Silk-screen printing" and it's a skill of engraving, useful for printing images, pictures and related to photography. Francisco Sanfuentes is the teacher of this class... and I know him because I took the draw class with him the last year, and he's a great teacher, and a nice guy - he's very compromised with what he does. Also there're two assistants in the class.
I really like this, and I like the silk-screen printing since a long time ago, when I knew and heard of it at secondary school. I remember that my art teacher show us some photos of some contemporary artists like Warhol who used the silk-scren printing on their art works, and I was very excited with the images produced with this skill of engraving, I dind't know how to use it or how to make a print, but the results... I don't know... I really liked it, and I wanted to do a print. All the colours, images and draws, I found it amazing.
This semester in school I have learned too many things, and I've learned things that I didn't know the last year, in this class for example, I learned how to make a silk-screen printing and I have made some prints... I don't really like what I've done now, but I hope to learning more and achieving more for make too many prints and images.