Arab country (I'm not a covered muslin)

I would like to visit an arab country because I always have been wished to learn how to write like  an arab master calligrapher. I like how they uses the qalam for to write quotes from the Coran, as well I like the calligraphy drawings (they can’t  represent religious figures so they represent using calligraphy)  and kufi calligraphy patterns.  I try to learn by heart some words, but I always forgot all (my memory is failing because I get sleep late and wake up early ). 

One day I disarmed a pan flute and I made my own qalam even I printed arab calligraphy worksheets for to learn, to write and to feel their gestures (culture behind their calligraphy). It’s really hard to understand the arabic writing skills because It’s written left to right.

The only problem about my travel is the violence shown on television (I try to calm my parents saying “All shown on television is fake and exacerbate”) . Regardless I have made up my mind and I going to buy a ticket in my next summer holidays.

National Holidays

Well I'm not sure if I would to tell this history because was a really bored national holiday (or not).  The only that I remember is: I was eating meat (barbecue) like ten days or more. I must confess I have gotten fat too much. As well I remember particularly because It was an earthquake and I was with my grandparents and dogs. We were having dinner (five o clock lunch). I remember my grandma She was so nervous, was trembling and she said “I’m not nervous” but I felt her fear. Then I called the girl that I was going out (nowadays she is only a friend and she help me in my work of art and projects). She was good. I remember I was going out to the “piojera" for get drunk. The heaven and stars get troll me so hard. The next day I finally went out for some fun and relax. About 5kg overweight I gained. It will not be easy to lose the overweight (I hope, finally, a shirtless summer and to get a six pack)

CARBON FOODPRINT

Part 1- Calculate your carbon footprint!

http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx

• Don’t forget to select English before starting the activity.

Questions:

• What’s your carbon footprint?
  0.07 metric tons of c02e
• What’s the average carbon footprint of a person?
  The average in my house is 0.023

Part 2 - Take these Recycling Quizzes

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/quiz-going-green/

http://www.quizmoz.com/quizzes/Science-Quizzes/r/Recycling-Quiz.asp

Questions:

• Hand washing dishes can use up to __spend____ % more of water than using an efficient dishwasher.
• Only about _________ % of global energy comes from renewables.
• True or false? Appliances that are turned off don’t use any electricity.
  False, They're plugged then consume electricity
• Can you make paper out of hemp?

Yes, you can make paper and many other things ()

Part 3- Video >> Top ten tips for recycling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjbSEIOUp4w

Watch the video and choose the best 3 tips in your opinion.

1.Minimal packaging

2.Maximize Space (cardboard boxes trash)

3.Reuse carrying bags ()

EVALUATION OF BLOG EXPERIENCE

Once time ago I made a blog using the blogger platform, but this blog was for sharing my own music (I used to have a rock band). This is my first time  that I writing a blog. This is the most embarrassing thing that I ever made.

This experience was really weird (I never saw myself writing a blog) because I never have shared a thing of my personal life in social networks (my feelings are very confidential). I always have shared random things that do not represent me and my feelings, wishes and opinions

Leaving aside the problem of sharing, the second problem was the grammar (I have been forgetting all) and I always used the google translate (I hope they will improve the language translation algorithm ) but It wasn’t reliable as I would have wished.

In conclusion, It was a good experience  I think that I have learnt a little more but I still feeling insecure when I try to talk in English because I always finished like Lucho Jara –joke– . Finally I think I can learn more that language outside a classroom It is as absurd to insist on "teaching " in that way (in my opinion) it’s just like a laboratory English vs life English, we need to feel the English in natural conditions.

My best birthday ever

I don't like to talk about my privacy. I don't remember so well about a memorable birthday, but I think that It was when I had ten-years-old period approximately. I remember those parties, they were very happy. I remember full of gifts parties with many guests. All we were laughing, happy sharing, It was so sweet.

Well, I think that my very best party was exactly (now that I have checked tons of family photo) when I was eight-year-old. It was very especial for me, I remember...(remember is very hard to me) This birthday was the last time that I saw her smile, I'm talking about my first girlfriend.I remember her pretty face as it was yesterday (a friendly shadow). Grace was my frst love and I always remember her. As well I remember many old friends (now, They are unfriends).

 

My work as an artist

I'm going to talk about my work as an artist. At the present time, I've been working in design pieces leaving aside a bit the art work I'm developing a wheat coffee trade mark (callana toasted). Always I've tried to make profit things.



I hate romanticism like a production strategy in art –art for art’s sake– and I hate the Chilean cryptic conceptualism (wrong way to generate better audiences and to reach to ordinary people).



Well, in my short time as an artist –cof, cof, artist postulant I'd say– I've been producing many photographic projects from parody (using Chilean way to generate contrast with the first world art tendencies) to social documentary photography (not in common way centered in specific "social groups" like ). Now, I'm working with Arduino and electronics. My last work (using Arduino) consist in controlling the flow of people in a specific place, the data is sent to my computer where is processed and displayed as visual and sound data (keeping in mind "discipline and punish" work).
                                           

Fig.1 Lilypad Arduino.

Fig. 2 Cartagena's landscape.

Antonio Quintana

Antonio Quintana was a Chilean master of black and white photography. He portrayed the Chilean people. He worked as a professor of chemistry and physics for photojournalists in the journalism school in the University of Chile. He was also a political activist and member of the communist party.

His photographic work covered many photographic genres from portrait to architectural photography. He worked portraying the Chilean people. His main work was "El Rostro de Chile". In this work, he traveled along of Chile photographing all kind of peoples. He introduces the social genre in Chilean photography

I like because we can see in his work the mix of poetic and technics at the same level. His style and composition remember me the masters like Walker Evans and Ansel Adams. When I see his work, I see how He worked the light/dark, his sensitivity, and composition. He trims the reality in the decisive moment when the light intersect the shapes. Finally, I like the social connotation that involved his work, he made a visual radiography of the Chilean people.

                                                         Fig. 1 Antonio Quintana, self portrait.