Piece of Tecnology

My favorite piece of tecnology it's a thing that already have many years, about a 100 years. This is the fotographic camera.

First it was the daguerrotype, that give us a picture en almost 7 hours, using plaques of cooper. Then it came the paper plaques. And then the firts cameras as we usually know.

Why I like so much this intrument? Because captured moments, precious moments that I like remember always... It's not only just take a picture, it's more than that. It's create something with your view and give them live. It's see the light beyond your imagination.

If you want to, you cant give them movement. There is a technic called "stop motion" in the cinema, that is about put many, many fotograph together, in secuence acording the movement of the subject, many films of animacion or video clips are done with this form.

It's also fun develop the fotograph in a dark chamber, when you turn on the red light and see how the light burn the paper, and then put this paper in the chemical liquid for keep the figure. That is something that a few people know how it's feels.

My father is who teach me everything that I know about fotography. Since I was I little girl that I join him developing pictures. And i love it.

I hope that when I finish study cinema, can I also study fotography, and use both career to do what I like.


This is a video done using stop motion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY

Guernica

Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" is one of my favorite master piece. Painted in 1937, by this spanish artist, it was keeped in many museums (like The Museum of Moder Art of New York) before it came to Spain

This work is a symbol of the crimes against the spanish people by the power and abuse of the dictator Franco who rules the country in that time. But it was the Republic of Spain who pay the paint.

The colors are in black and white and some greys, and his size is about 3,50 x 7,80 meters. It's very large, and complicated to interpret. If you see it carefuly, you will see many action in the canvas. Like for example: a black bull, who according to Picasso represent the brutality and darkness. There is a mother with a dead child in her hands, who represent the city of Madrid in the hands of Franco (very similar with the Piedad). There is a horse too, a dead soldier, a woman in knees, a house burning in flames, etc.

This remarcable work respresent for me, all the chaos in the world (not only Spain) in that time, the horrible of war and destruction, and how there are some people who dares to say "stop".
Besides, the art and style of Picasso it's really the best of the last century.

Priests, pederasts and privilege

This world is falling apart. When it turns down so quickly?
Really, it makes me vomit thing about priest and adults that enjoy to corrup little children.
What kind of perverssion they have in their minds?? And how are they so selfish that they didn't care about their little victims.

The horrible of this, is that the most of the time this kind of crimes is also covered by very important people, people who has power. And they forget the rights of our kids. And someother allow that.

Many movies have tried to represent and acuse this acts, films like "doubt", or "Mistic River" That put us in a word beyond our imagination, all this crimes actually happen, and meanwhile, nobody does anything to punish this disgusting kin d of men.

(funny video about the new Catholic Church)

Charlyn Marchall

Cat Power is the alias of this american singer/songwriter that I love, born in 1972. She dropped the high school and went to Ney York, where she found herself like an artist and started to work in his first albums, very undergroundly thanks to some friend in the music bussines (like the drummer of Sonic Youth). Then, after many publicated discs, she became alcoholic, and try to express her sadness and thoughts in her lyrics like in the song "Lived in Bars".

Owner of a beautiful and unic voice, she turned my life in backwards. She make me love the music beyond rock and jars, I really admire that woman. With eight records in her back, she became in a indie-country icon for me, and when I need inspiration I use to listen to her and her lovely songs. That's why I can't beleve untill now that I saw her here, in this country when she came to Chile in july of last year.

(this Picture was tooked for me that day)

Well, the friday night of february 26th, I was with my friends in the Ex-Doghouse (that now is a Cultural Center). It`s ubicated in Balmaceda street with Bulnes, in the old neiberghood of Santiago.

It was around 3. 15, when I started the earth shaking, my friends don't believed me, but then, the movement was more strong, and the dog stearted to bark. Then the lights turn off, and I scared a little bit, because I listened the noise of broken stuff, but I couldn't saw anything.

When the movement ends, we keep drinking some beer until it was safe went out to the street.

Around 6am we went to a friend's house near, I started to see all the broken houses in darkness, in that moment I didn't know the damage of the city in general. I just could talk with my mom who called me very scared. Later, in my friend's house we turn on the tv, and saw in the news the caos in the city and in the country. I never knew that what I felt, it was a earthquake until that moment.

The next day, when I came home, I saw that my family it was allright, even my family in Concepción. And my mom told me that my exboyfriend, went to my house very scared about me in the night an hour after the earthquake, but I wasn't there.

Hi

I don't use this tool many often, but... is a homework
So.. here I go.

My name is Alexia (yes, it's weird) that's becouse is greek, like my lastname.
I actually study Cine. Third Year
So, i like (veeery much) the movies like, i don't know... Trainspotting, Fargo, Clockwork Orange and many many more, very much weirds.

I love music (rock, indie, alterno, garage, noise, grunge, trip-hop, punk) and pizza too, jajaja. And yes, of course sometimes drink beer with my friends.. aajajajaja.

I don't know how much I have to say, so.. Cheeers :)