Hello everybody!

Today is our last post, in blog, for this semester. 

In this blog i'm going to talk about my blog experience.In this semester  my blog experience was very good and funny. I think that this help me to know  better my classmate. I enjoy it more than to do talk about my self jajaj. Also I could say that this help me to improve my written in english, before this I didn't have so many tools to write in english language. So I believe that blog experience is a very good type of learning.

Fot other side, I would like to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of blogging in the English class. 

The advantages are the good connection between everybody in class and that we had great feedback.  

The disadvantages are that we don't have any feedback at time from the teacher or somebody with more experience in english language, I know that will be very stressing for the teacher, but I believe this is a problem of english program: to many student for one teacher. 

I would like that the program and the University put more resources in the learning of language, either french, german, english or any language.

Good bye everyone!

See you the next semester!

Cheeeeeers!

My Favorite Subject

My favorite subject in the University is called "Politic, Neo-liberalism and Narcotraffic" this is a aestetic seminary, I go to this subject in UMCE (University of science of education), the University of Chile have an agreement of student mobility with that University.

In class we have seen different things, like drugs history in a book by Antonio Escohotado, also we have seen a lot of texts by Michel Foucault, additionally we have seen one book that I really don't read yet, this is called Gore Capitalism by Sayak Valencia.

I can't tell you more because this semester has been a little busy, both University have been in constants student demostration, because of that we have not had regular classes. Umce still in student action. I hope they go back to class soon, I REALLY WANT TO GO TO THIS SUBJECT!  

This is a seminary, this mean that I could do anything that I want, while this it be connected with the subject, this give us so many freedom for think and work, I think this is so important in our career, because we need to work in our self formation all the time!

For that and so much more things I love this subject!

Thanks for reading, cheeeeeers!

Beauty

Today I'm going to talk about a subject very controversial: beauty.

Beauty across the history was very discussed, since we have conscious. 

This is studied from different disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, but especially from the aesthetic. Ordinarily, people say that beauty is what causes pleasure in the perception.

I think beauty is an personal and cultural experience, at the same time.

Has subjective and social components, building a personal vision, that is adapted to the social vision. A micro-vision that adapts to a macro-vision.

Beauty is the subject of the video made by TED: Ideas worth spreading (www.ted.com) , called ¨A Darwinian Theory of Beauty?", in this video Denis Dutton talks about a relation between beauty, biology and art.

 He think that beauty isn't a social construction, but has to do with evolution and natural selection. He links all this with Darwin theory of evolution.   

I think that his ideas are too basics and unsustainable, above all when we know and study this in our University. A lot of philosophy and theory could deny with better arguments, from sociology or antropology, all that Denis Dutton Says.

How could we know if prehistoric humans think this or that was beautiful?

He have a really positivist way of thinking.

Well, that was my comment about this video

Cheers!

My Favorite Artist

 today I’m going to talk about Slinkachu one of my favorite artist

He is a british street artist, photographer and blogger. This artist, was born as Stuart Pantoll, he says that he always has been interested in small things, when he was young, his dad made for him a train set,  but he never was interested in the trains, it was always the figures, houses and trees that fascinated him.

Born in 1979, this artist of 34 years old, uses every day’s objects, and tiny figurines, to create very small street-­-based installations and then photographs them: from far away and up-­- close. He could also be described as a miniaturist; he modifies tiny human figurines from model train sets and places them in real urban situations, capturing them in sight-­-seeing, camping, grocery shopping, fighting or dying.

He spent the last eight years shooting his miniature tableaux on the streets of London. Funny and touching, he put urban life under the microscope. Slinkachu's approach to street art is more subtle, more sensitive. You could easily walk right past one of Slinkachu's installations and not know it's there. His photographs are the key: the close-­-ups make you feel like a participant, while the far-­-away shots leave you feeling like a spectator.

His first solo exhibition was in august 2008, London, on the Cosh Gallery, but began his series of Little People in 2006, as respite from his day job in publishing. In relation with little things he says: “I didn't expect people to empathize with the characters so much. We have an innate pull to look after small things – kids, dogs, hamsters... People project their own feelings on to them.”

Slinkachu has become very famous , Now his photographs sell for up to £7000. Well, to fnish , maybe we could say that this works are meant to be published or to be in the museum, without that , Slinkachu couldn't exist as an artist.