English languages challenges

First of all i try to explain my experience with english language in my school time, when i was a boy and i really don´t care this matter. In that time i had to learn english from memory, and in school i had many troubles to learn many subjects because something that i don´t care was something that i take and throw away. Still, i learn the basics, but i have troubles to know for example how use what verb or other basic form of make a sentence. Beside of that i never couldn´t talk with somebody or speak in front of people because of my fear to miss, remember in school miss is like give yourself to the general mockery.

Later when i was grow and many of that fears disappear with time, i began to listen music in english like rap or metal and i started to understand some words and sentences, and with that i start to train my english. Then i enter to Art career and i have the english class with Gabriela and in first time of my life i could understand many things that before it i cannot do, i could speak with somebody and understand him/her with not many trouble although not many time because is very exhausting to me, but i thing that is a big step. So i am very happy because i thing english class was a very possitive experience to me, i could break a big wall in a way. 

In my life i really don´t use english for anything besides of comic situations or lost words in a conversation, and really i thing that i won´t use it at less i have a situation with people of other country with english like a common factor, i hope i can do that with no many troubles.

Changes to my study programme

First of all, the art career have different weakness in the way of the structures. In the classrooms the water can enter when is raining. Some classrooms have no windows with glass, in change only have tables (the mine for example), and that is claustrophobic. Other weakness are some teachers who don`t knows how is the work of teaching, they are artists not teachers and that creates problems in the learning area because they have not teaching abilities. Another problem wich i believe is elementary is the focus in the instruction of the art. The university wants teach abilities to solve problems in the conceptual area and many times the work with the materials is forgotten. And that is a great problem to me, because i don´t want to became in a conceptual artist but in a craftsman, someone who can creates things with his hands and who can go deep inside of a matter and know that in time. 

In other area the faculty have many workshops in wich we can work many hours at the day, many many teachers with different forms to teach and that is positive in the way of we have many possibilities in our hands. Something that not exists in other universities.

I think the faculty should be dedicate more hours to the workshop, and less hours to matters in that you are not interest, because that is time lose, and i hate to lose my time. 

In a couple of years the programme study is going to change for a new one, well, we see how is that. Good bye.

Summer holidays

I am almost 27 years old, and i now that im not an old person, but im not a boy. I have many things that i like a lot, some of those things are very hippie things, some of those not so much. For example, in the last months i began to enjoy very much that moment of the day in wich the sun start to descend, and the light is began to show the things in a different way, the colours start to change, the shadows go more longer, and for one moment, the only thing that exist, the only thing that its matter is what its front of you, nothing more. Its beautiful, maybe im starting to be an old man, ajajajja.
Other thing that i really enjoy is meeting people, and talk with other persons, persons wihc other experiences, with others ways of talk, dialects. Is like a hobbie, and a challenge too.
Of course that i like to find places with other colours, and buildings.
So, i must to say that in my school years i couldn´t go on in a studies travel, because we don´t have a good relationship with my classmates. So i have thing a lot, many year actually, and in the last times i have this thought in my mind of take my bag, and go on alone in a trip.
I like to go a couple of months to bolivia, alone in a beggining.
I have scared, but also i have exciting about it, maybe i go, maybe not, who knows.

Best childhood anecdote.

Does exist destiny? Yesterday, a friend make a question to me and several of my classmates: ¿do you believe in destiny? I answer to her that i believe in selfdetermination, but before of that i relate to her two stories. The first of, it happens last weekend when i was drink a beer with a guy that i meet in the university, we talk about many things, and one of those was a topic about nietszche and his theory about something that its like the destiny, but is not destiny. Nietszche says, life is like a circle, you gonna live for eternity, many lifes. But every life that you live, its gonna be the same of the last one. For example: if you don´t take the desicion of make that travel of your life, never, in none of your lifes you gonna make that travel. ¿Do understand? Its like destiny, but is not destiny, is something more.

The next day i watch a woodlouse walking on the earth, and he turning down many times. When a woodlouse its turning down, he died. But i was there and i turn it up several times, untill i go. When i return the next day, the woodlouse was there, dead, in the same place.
Because of that, i remember a situation that happens many many years ago. I was with my family in the south of Chile, and i found a similar bug in the earth, and the creature it was dying, someone was put the shoes on the bug. So i toke them and i run with my parents. They tell me this story a few months ago, and they remember me asking the next question. ¿Why they was killed him? And they tell me, save him, and the three try to save the bug. And that is my story, goodbye.

Postgraduate studies.

In the present, i´m currently studying pottery and sculpture and i think that the time of this career (four years) is not enough to learn well the work of the material, that happens with years of practice, reflection, trial and error, and a guide, a teacher is a positive tool to follow that way and find the conclussions that you need to have a real knowlegde, with good foundations and domine of the techniques. 

And thats way i think that is necesary keep learning and go deeply in the trade. Its like alchemy, if you give something you got something in change. If you dedicate enough time of your life to learn how can do better the work, your work slowly is gone to be a masters work.

So i would like to keep studying in the same practice, like a Master in Plastic Arts focalized in Sculpture or Pottery (one of this). If i study more of sculpture i would like to go inside in the work with the wax sculpture. Because is a material with some of temporary and some of definitive.
By the other way i like to stay in the pottery because she have so many techniques that is impossible learn all of that in four years, a entire life is necessary to transform you in a master of this material.

If i have to choose other university of this, maybe i would chose one in Italy or France for the past that sculpture have in those countries, i choose Greek to. And in the case of pottery i choose Japan, denitely, because that is the born place of many, many techniques in pottery, in Japan exists a entire culture surrounding the pottery.

But, if one day i have the resources, i prefer to practice and keep learning by myself, in my own workshop, with my own times, even if that way needs more time to find a real knowlegde about this things.

Goodbye.





Wax sculptura of Edgar Degás. Ballet dancer.

My future job.

Hi, this night i will talk about the job. First of all, with the point of view of an art student or a simple student, i have the next thought: "If you learn something, you have need to pass the knowledge", if more people knows more of some areas wich have not been studied in deep, maybe the understanding between us it be mayor.  So teach, i really like to be a teacher with all the circunstances that be envolved in that job. And the money, and the work in home, that things that it comes in the pack.

   But i have a job in my mind since a time, back a few months, and i really like that job in special, on some beautiful jobs like pottery or sculpture. And thats is like a dream, it would be beautiful if i do that job. Im speaking of furniture. I suposse that the money earned it would be like "work to work". Not something shure and specific or established. I would like to try and do it.


    I think that is a job it must in a workshop, and the building can be in or out, really i don`t care that question, but i prefer in outdoor. I imagine furniture like a work in that a person necesary need put love in the object, and so much concentration.

    Really i think forniture and teaching it can be do, one like a paid work and the other like a hobby,  so i can do both in my life.




 

My favourite book.

    Today i will talk about one of my favourites books in the life. This book is an epic story made by JRR Tolkien. The writer do a recopilation work about the miths and leyends of nordic countries and the celts. Upon this information the autor made a new universe with Gods, Demons, Elfs, Orcs, Trolls, Wizards, and many other creatures that coincide in this world.

    There are more than three books made by this autor, but in this occasion i´ll talk about The Hobbit. Is a story in wich the principal character is forced to abandoned his home, and go to steal a treasure guard by a dragon. He have fourteen companions, a wizard and thirteen dwarfs. They must go the Lonely Mountain, his ancient home and fortress to recover the treasure.

    I don´t remember how many times i read this book, since my adolescence untill now, but i really can´t read this book for complete now because i now it too much. However i still find the magic in the descriptions of the landscapes and the tales that the characters relate.

   One interesting tip, is this: the autor never want his book made into a movie, So the family sold the rights for the movie, after his dead. I really think that movie sucks, but the movie Lord Of The Rings is a masterpiece.

Most hated subject at school.

Mathematics.

In this day i will talk about my most hated subject at school. I finish my school in 2008 at the age of eighteen years old. In that time i believe that subjects in school was useless, in general. I was a good student in subjects like history, language, philosophy, art, but not in science subjects. And mathematics is a science. Is logic pure.

       In that time my teacher was Marta Arriagada, a small person with no passion for teaching. I was one of those students who needs big explications for the problems. And Mathematics in that way there are axiomatics, the things are only in one way, not other.

      I remember one day in school in that i ask a question to Marta. I ask, Teacher: ¿why two more two are four? She look at me like "oh my god help my with this kid", and she answer me with this: "Antonio, go back to your homework please", and no more.

     Since that day i think my teacher was a terrible teacher, she was unable to wake up my interest about that área in particular, at the contrary, since that day i began to down my califications, and i was an incompetent student, of course not all was responsability of my teacher, but i think that a teacher is a guide, and if is not capable to guide their students, maybe is not a good teacher.

    Now i think that mathematics are so useful for the daily life, like shopping, to organize the time, to organize the money that you have, to measure distances, quantify the space that surround you, and in my case to use it for art.

My best holidays.


This day i will talk about one of the best holidays that i´ll had ever. Really, that holidays cover several years, in my childhood and adolescence. I remember my family gone to the eight region of Chile, Concepción. In that place we know a river affluent with the Bío bío river, called Huebquecura. It was beautiful. Usually we gone to a camping with all my family members, parents, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, cousins and some friends of the family. We camp one weekend once a year from many years. The place that surround the river it was beautifull, like a dream. It set between cliffs, and the river was so bigger like a hundred meters of width.

Usually we gone to search wood to the bonfire all surround the place. One family had to cook the lunch for one day and do all things that to do with the food and clean up. And we spend the day in the river, swimming, playing cards, laughing, sleeping. Relax.

Sadly, now the place is flooded  by an hydroelectric plant, but i remember with so much love and nostalgia. One day we have our revenge by all the beautiful places that the money has destroy.

One country to visit.


Hello. In this day i will talk about a country that i would like to go (in one day). That country is in South America, is the biggest of the continent, with the biggest population and field of the Southern Cone. Inside the country there are some of the most beautiful and impressive places of the world, like the Amazon River and the Amazon jungle that surround it, in that place live unique species of flora and fauna.  In that country is founded one of the most biggest cities of the world, actually is a metropoli, famous by the people, the joy, the carnivals, and they social problems. Sao Paulo. Not all is beautiful, in that city and in the country in general, the marginal neighborhoods are famous by the poorness and the violence that exists in there. So, Brazil. Really is one of the places that i like to visit, and i think this: if you like to know a place, you need to live in it, not like a tourist, but like one more of the country.

  

Hello, this time i will talk to you about one of the best music that exists in the world: Rap music. I met this music when i had ten years old, i remember my father give it to me a rap disc, from a crew of La Florida, and i love it. And then, when i enter to the secondary school i met some friends, and they love the rap music to, so i begin to listen more, and more rap. This music comes from the United States, from the poor neighborhoods of this country. Black people begin to sing, and dance, and do music with the sounds of the mouth because they haven´t any money for buy instruments. So the most important instrument of this music is actually the body.

One of the most important exponent of the rap music, its ME, ajajajjaja. Really, in the past i sing and do the beats of my music, and i did really well. But in serius now, for me the best exponents of this music are, Biggie smalls, he die by shots. A several crews like: Heltah Skeltah, Disfunctional Family, Cypress Hill, and others in english. In Chile there are several crews that they are really well, like: Eskina Familia Skuad, Jotadro, Portavoz, Complot Signo Peso, and others.

This semester i really enjoy something that i want to do since the last year: Clay. 

I really like because i feel so relax doing it, in fact i just talk about it with my companions. i love the work with the hands, and the materials, because is earth, and we are to, ajajajjaja is so hippie, i know it, but i love it. 

In the beginnig of this semester i talk with Cecilia, the teacher of Clay, and she haven´t problem with it, this because im from second year, and the complementary is since the third year. So i enter, and i learn to do the mixture, i learn the modeling work, and the cook job, is so interesting. In the future i will like to build an oven of clay. 

I really enjoy this job, is beautiful when i look the piece before of the cook, and after the cook, because it suffer a transformation, like a metamorphosis. It cover life. I have this class two days at the week, i think three hours at day. Untill this day, my teacher is not influence me, but i suppose that she it will soon, i hope that. 

So, after this class i will back to the clay class because one of my jobs is broken, and i have to do again. Good bye.

HI, i love the thing i do it in this time, art. Is the most beatiful career that i can chose from me, independent from the money that i percibe it. Maybe i´ll live like a poor person, but only in the material way, in a spiritual way i will be and i be in this moment, a very rich person. One of the things that i more like from this career is the sculpture, i love it, and i like to practice all day, but i can´t because of others classes that i must to do, and i hate that, i hate that, i hate that. Another thing that i hate it´s the long trip that i must to do to come to the university, i live in Maipú and sometimes is so far man.  But the grateful is enough to ignore that. In the future i will like to travel in America Latina, and i really don´t know what i´m going to do from live, i will work all be necesary to do this, i will do it. I love this, i love it. The posibility of find a job of "artist" is almost zero, the technique is work from your own, untill you generated an hability so great, that the work be your life.

Hi, this time i would like to talk about an artist of the xx century that i like. he thinks that an artist need to do things what go beyond the reality that we can touch, smell or hear, and of course beyond the things that we can see. he met some of the great artists of the xx century, like Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Federico Garcia Lorca.
He is the most important and representative work of the surrealism movement. and i personally like his paints more than any other of his works, considering he did sculpture, engraving, and he wrote too. he met Sigmund freud  and they studied his dreams and his subconscius. after that this artist used the investigation to get better and go deep  in his work.
So, the name of my favourite artist is Salvador Dalí, and i like his paintings because in it the artist show the world beyond reality, or better said: his reality. for example, one of my favourites paintings of this guy, i don´t remember clearly his name but in it, the artist show a sea and an elephant walking in, and in foreground shows a shotgun coming out of the mouth of a tiger coming out of the mouth of another tiger coming out of fruit pomegranade, and i like it so much. So, Dalí, goodbye

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Hello, im here again. Today i came to the university in the bus, and i want listen to music, so i remember my beautiful and precious and lovely and valuable and useful mp3. With this wonderful piece of art i can hear all the music i want, where i want, when i want, and im happy for that. My precious mp3 come to me when i was a normal human being, before of that i hate the world, and people, because the life is no life without music. This happen about a six years ago more or less.  Usually i used a lot, almost all the week, to travel to university, to go to the city, to go to see my sister, to go to see my friends, is so necessary in my life, i love it. I think life not be the same without it, maybe turn it in something grey and boring, not always but in times. Well, now is uncharge so i cannot use it, but i can read a book and see people in the street, always have possibilities. Goodbye.

The First thing i remember is a collection of books that my father gave me. They were about dinosaurs, and i love it. I love to see the pictures of, and i dreamed to find the skull of a great one. So when i was a boy, the job what i like to do was a paleontologist. Obviously i didn`t do it.
Until a few years ago, i did not wan´t to study, nothing. In that time i thought that the university was a place to lost time and get into debt, and it´s true in so many ways, but here i am.
 In my last job full time i feel the sensation that i need to do something that i really like, so i chose art.
Honestly i don`t have other options than art, but i had other options of universities like UPLA and Universidad de Concepción.
Up to this point my university experience has been good and well, so entertain and interesting. And i meet very nice people.
The job what i like, i try to not think so much in that.

Hello, my name is Antonio, my second name...

I am twenty six years old and I live with my parents, Eugenio and Leonor, and my sister Elisa. I adopted a dog seven years ago, his name is Mister. 

I live in Maipú all my life and went to school there. When I was a boy I went to a school named Alberto Pérez, and the uniform we were was green and white. I was the smaller boy in the classroom, and now i am one of the tallest in every place I go.

So, I tell you some of my life in primary school. I still live in Maipú, but I study art in Ñuñoa, is so far of home.

I like to read, one of my favorites books is The Hobbit. A story that counts the travel of some characters finding a fabulous treasure care by a dragon, under the Lonely Mountain. It´s a great story.