Post 8: Arts

I think art is important because the mission of it is show to the people the reality with images. In fact, i like Courbet because he wanted to show the real life of the workers, and he had ideas of Marxism and Socialism in his paintings. i think that Arts are a weapon for made more digerible the ideas with many kinds of forms.
i was interested in arts since my childhood. I remember when my mother maked me draw and paint in papers, and i remind that i played a lot with paints, papers, cartons and anything that I had near to me, in fact i made a lot of toys with this materials. In 2000 I took an Oil Painting class, but i was so bored in this because i was the only child in it! So i decided to quit. Then in 2007, I took Dye and Painting Classes in my School, because we have to take an obligatory extra class of arts or sports on Mondays.

My best artistic abilities are everything except sculpture. I really hate sculpture because I don't have "3d" abilities. Well, talking serious, i think that my artistic abilities are painting and drawing... i also like the textile arts but that is my hobby. I never participate in art competitions because I am so lazy. I really like the work of Alyssa Monks, Sylvia Ji and Conrad Rosset, and i want to paint like them one day.

I like modern art sometimes. When they have any message I usually like them, but if it is "art for art" I don't like it too much, because I like when the artist expresses himself and shows a message to the people... that's why I like graffitis like ones of the artists "Os Gemeos" or Banksy".

Banksy

os gemeos

One of my favourite visual art expression is Guerrilla Gardening and Yarn Bombing, because the public art is the best form to near people to the visual arts.

Yarn Bombing Or Guerrilla Knitting

 

Guerrilla Gardening

Finally, i can say that my favourite artist of this year (because my favourite artist last year was Audrey Kawasaki) is Michael Borremans. I really like the things that he paint, the colours and the atmosphere that he makes in his paintings. It shows a break of the quotidian and no quotidian things and that's really amazing.

Michael Borremans

Post 7: Related Website

One of my favorite website is Felt Cafe. My speciality in my career is Painting but i really love another disciplines like Fiber Art. I studied Fashion Design in 2010 and I knew an older fibre technique called Felting and i keep doing this.
Felt Cafe is a website by a woman who lives in Kyoto, Japan, and she sell Japanese craft books. She makes a lot of objects with this technique.
This website is separated in different parts, like:

* "Craft guide" where you can find photos of the books that she sells, and a lot of tutorials in it (this is the most interesting section), and it's wonderful because all is made of whool!!
* "Japanese craft shop" in this link you can find her Shop at Etsy.
* "Felt Cafe Japan Design Shop" in this link you can find her Shop at "bigcartel"
* "About" in this section you can find information about the shop and the designer.

I learned a lot of this technique in this page, and that why i recommend it for the people who wants to learn about felting and a lot of things that you can do with felt! (now i want to make felt slippers... but i need a shoe shape of wood!)

Post 6: Animals.

I'm definitly a dog lover and a cat lover too (but i HATE the birds). The first pet that i remember i ever had is a duschound called Lupi. I remember that i loved her, because she was so little and quiet. I loved to play with her ears and singing at the same time. Lupi died when i was 3 or 4 years, but there was always a pet in my house. Now i have 2 dogs, called Jeshu (of jesus.... because we found him outside the church where we went when i was a child) and a Samoyedo called Kali (like the Indian goddess of destruction). Jeshu is 10 years old and Kali is 3 years old. i have two cats too.I took Pandora (the oldest cat) with me because i felt so depressed in 2010, and i thought that i needed something for make me a responsable person. My mother's husband doesn't like cats and he doesn't talk to me like 2 days because i took the cat!. 6 months later Pandora got pregnant and she had 5 kitties. One of those kitties was very very ugly and my mother called her Cerebro. We give away 4 cats and Cerebro now live with us. I have a lot of worms too, but they are my slaves because they eat my organic trash!

I prefer don't eat meat, because i don't like the taste of it. I'm against of the medical reseach with animals, because the scientists doesn't treat them very well, and a lot of these animals never see the light and never feel the grass in their feet in his entire life!. I'm against with the animal abuse in general, but i think having animals in zoo's are not so bad, because they have food, medical atention and love.

Baby Kali! <3

Post 5: My Favorite Photo

This is one of my favorite photos. Obviously i didn't take it, this beautiful photo was taken by Elena Kalis, also known under her nickname "sugarock". Elena is a russian photographer, but she lives in the Bahamas with her family, and she usually use their daughters as models in the photos.
This photo was taken in 2009, and it shows a girl falling into a window or a hole, and is a  reference of a scene of the book "Alice in Wonderland" (but she called it "Alice in Waterland"). I definitly like this photo because she make the scenes underwater. This kind of photos are really difficult and expensive to do! And i think she is so smart and creative for made this kind of pictures, specially this, because she rotate the photo for made the falling illusion.

If you like this photo, I recommend to visit her flickr, or deviant art: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sugarock or http://sugarock99.deviantart.com/

Post 4: Films

I like blood. Well, not necessary the real blood, but i like bloody movies.
My favourite film director is Quentin Tarantino, because he makes action movies with very great actors like Harvey Keithel, Uma Thurman, John Travolta, Lucy Liu and Samuel L. Jackson, and my favourite film of his is Kill Bill Vol. 2.

The best movie I have ever see is "From Dusk Till Dawn", a film directed by Robert Rodriguez. The cast is made up by Juliet Lewis, Salma Hayek, Harvey Keithel, George Clooney and guess who!: Quentin Tarantino!. This movie is an action/thriller/horror movie and is about two brothers that are escaping from the FBI because they have robbed a bank. They kidnap a family in a motel because they need to go to Mexico in their Trailer. In the middle of the kidnapping, the father makes a deal with the criminals: he promisses to take them to Mexico but they can't hurt the family. Finally the brothers and the family arrive in Mexico, and they go to an eccentric bar called "Titty Twister" which has the best show of the night: Santanico Pandemonium, a beautiful and exotic dancer. When she is ending the show, she transforms into a vampire, and all of the other dancers and bartenders do it too!. That's all i want to say to you, because it is the best movie of all times, so you must see it! ( i have seen it like 10 times...).

Finally, i can say that one of the movies that i would see again is "The birth of the Octopus" (i'm not sure if it's the right translation, because it is a French film). I saw it in the Cinema of Universidad Catolica, in one of the movie cycles that they have. It was a really lovely film (it doesn't have blood...), the story is about a girl who wants to be a swimmer. The music and the locations are spectacular, and the story is fascinating. I definitely recommend this film, but it is not easy to find it on internet or the tv... 
 

Post 2: Music

I have liked music since i have memory. My dad listened to Michael Jackson, Joe Satriani, Toto and Corona, and my mom listened to Illapu, Silvio Rodriguez, Sol y Lluvia and Joe Vasconcellos when i was a child. I grew up with a mix of sounds and culture influences and that's why the music and the influence of my parents is very important to me.
When i was a child i loved Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi and Raúl Diblasio. I don't know why i started to listen to their music, but I think it was because that music is very relaxing. Now i listen to Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Jeff Buckley, Gorillaz, David Bowie and other bands and singers. I specially like Jeff Buckley because he had an extremely beautiful voice, and he played the guitar very well. Im so sad about his death, because he left us when he was so young! and  his death is still a mystery.
 My first concert i went to was maybe in 2006. I went to see Coldplay in Espacio Riesco with my cousin. Then i saw Incubus, Gustavo Cerati and Ismael Serrano in Movistar Arena and the last concert that I went was Carlos Santana in Festival de Viña.
If I were a song i definitely would be Atomic of Blondie. That song is in the soundtrack of Trainsppoting, one of my favourite movies and it makes me walk secure in the streets and it was my anthem! (i know the lyrics are a little bit stupid but the sounds and the rythm is more important to me).
I don't have any music talent, i tried to play the guitar, piano and bass and it was a total failure! i can't read music and my voice is extremely ugly and off-key. I really love karaoke and sing songs of Gilda (yes!!! i really love Gilda and "Fuiste" is my hit).
Finally, i can say that music is the soundtrack of my life, i have a song for every important moment and i'm sure it is the same of a lot of people. That's why music is important for everyone.

Post 1: my autobiography

I was born on 1991, in Santiago de Chile. I lived in Puente Alto for fourteen years and then in la Florida. I grew up with my big sister, my mother, my grandmother and a lot of pets. I studied in "El Bosque" School, a pretty and little school with a lot of animals, like dogs, cats, chickens, peacocks and lamas. Then i went to "Raimapu" School, an other special education proyect. I really loved that school, i made a lot of friends.
i decided to study fashion Design in Duoc UC, but i really didn't like the career. In 2011 i was admitted on Universidad de Chile, and now im here, studying Arts.
Some of my interests are animals, specially dogs. I like design my clothes, cooking delicious and exotic food, painting, drawing, sewing dresses and knitting scarfs and caps.