Post 8: A career-related article / An expert in your field

I read an article about the artist Banksy this morning. He is a grafiti artist and his identity is anonymous. He did a performance in which he sold a few of his works in 60 dollars in Central Park, clearly a lower price for an Baksy piece of art. The article exprlains that two of this works are on auction in London and the price increased to almost 70.000 ponds, that is equivalent to 117.400 dollars. I think that is interesting beacuase the price at which it was sold is so little and with the name of an important artist the work is now a very expensive piece of art. It's an interesting discussion, beacuase what is important? the quality of a work or the artist who created it? In my opinion it's a very difficult question, there's a lot of points of view in this subject, but I like the work of Banksy, if a have the money, probably I would a lot pay for his job. So this is it! see you all!

This is the article: http://www.latercera.com/noticia/cultura/2014/06/1453-582193-9-obras-que-banksy-vendio-en-60-dolares-se-subastaran-en-casi-120000.shtml

P.s: Fernanda requests it!

Post 7 : An Artist you admire

I would like to write about a group of comic artists. The group is call Clamp and is a japanese group of  four womens that make japanese comics, called mangas. The groups was formed in the middle 80's and is formed for Nanase Okawa, the leader of the group, Mokona, Subaki Nekoi and Satsuki Igarashi. At first they were eleven members and they created mangas based in others famous stories, it was in 1987 when they begun to create orginal works. Their first famous work was RG Veda in 1989.

In 1993 the other members left leaveing the four memebers who are currently still in the group. The art style of Clamp is very variable, it changes depending of who is in charge of the work, because the four of the girls vary the leaderchip depending of the story or the style they want to put in the manga. The most importants works of this group are X, Chobits, Cardcaptor Sakura, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles and XXXHolic among many others.

My favourite work of this girls is Cardcaptor Sakura, was one of the first mangas, and then the Tv adaptation, that I really love, the characters are so loveable, the sotry is full of magic and the art is gorgeous. Their work is always important in the japanese comic and animation scene, their works is always magical and beautifly done, the storys are great and always having good critics from the especialist and the fans. I admire them because they put into animation and comics magical stories, beautiful characters nad amazing arts and I love the way that they handle their characters relationships, there's no judgement, there's no discrimination, that I think is amazing. So this is it, the next videos is the opening credits of other of my favorite clamp's swork, Chobits, I hope you like it! see ya!

Post 4 : "Gabismo"

Hi bloggers friends! Well, in fact I don't know much about Garcia Marquez. He's not one of my favourite writers, I didn't read much about him or his work. I think I read "Crónica de una muerte anunciada" the school but I didn't like it, maybe I was too young but in that time I thought it was really boring. I think, after that I read "100 años de soledad" but I can't remember a lot of it. A can't give an opinion about him because I'm not very acquainted about his work but I know he made a change in the Latinamerican literature. In fact I'm not a reader of latinamerican literature,I mean I had read and I'm not a hater of it or the writers, It's just tthat I haven't found a latinamerican book that I like. So for me it wasn't relevant his death, but it was a loss for the literature for sure.


Ps. song of the month! I just can't get it out of my head!

ACT. 4 - WEB QUEST: HOW STUFF WORKS

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/literature/harry-potter-quiz.htm

1. WHY DID YOU SELECT THE ARTICLE?

BECAUSE I LOVE HARRY POTTER AND I LOVE THE QUIZES.

2. DID YOU FIND ENOUGH INFORMATION IN THE ARTICLE? DID YOU FIND THE INFO YOU WERE LOOKING FOR?

IA WASN’T LOOKING FOR ANYTHING IN PARTICULAR, I JUST LOVE HARRY POTTER, AND  IN CERTAIN WAY I LIKE TO REMEMBER THING ABOUT THE BOOK AND REMEMBERING THE GOOD OLD TIMES WHEN I WAS YOUNG.

3. WHAT WAS THE MOST INTERESTING THING YOU LEARNT ABOUT IT?

WELL, I DIDN’T KNOW THAT THE WORD “MUGGLE” IT’S NOW IN THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY, TO REFERING A PERSON WITH NO MAGIC SKILLS. I THINK IS AMAZING!

4. MAKE A LIST OF 15 WORDS FROM THE ARTICLE THAT YOU FOUND DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND. FIND THEIR MEANING. USE ONE OF THESE ONLINE DICTIONARIES:

Unwittingly: without knowing or planning.

Infuriatingly: extremely annoying

Schedule: a list of planned activities or things to be done showing the times or dates when they are intended to happen or be done.

 Infatuated: having a very strong but not usually lasting feeling of love or attraction for someone or something.

ACT. 1 - WEB QUEST: ONLINE SHOPPING

Computer: http://www.overstock.com/Electronics/HP-EliteDesk-800-G1-Desktop-Computer-Intel-Core-i7-i7-4770-3.4GHz/8772248/product.html?refccid=YRONEGPSHS4ZAEKEZIOEHAZOQA&searchidx=6

This computer seems very useful. It have a lot of memory and a good speed. The look of it its fine, very classic, and it’s a HP.

I choose it because it’s look like a very strong computer, with a good memory, a DVD writer which is very important for me because I need to back my information. It’s have a lot of memory, a good operative system and a mouse and keyboard. The design is very classic and clean, I don’t care much about this aspect so it’s ok the way it looks. And, it’s a HP computer which in my opinion it’s a very good computer brand.

Desk: http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Inval-Credenza-Computer-Workstation-with-Hutch/6234262/product.html?refccid=CKLC63XYQZBZLWKGHDKY7L3OSM&searchidx=1

It’s a very large desk, in a brow colour, with very useful drawers, and a few ledges for different things.

I like de desing, it’s very nice, I like the colour and I like al the ledges and drawers because I always have a lot de Cds and cables for different devices so I can put all in order in those drawers. I like de ledges because I like to listen music and watch movies in the computer, so I can put a good sound system in there. I don’t think I like too much the place where the printer is, I think it’s too high, but I can get used to it. 

Post 3 : Your favourite piece of technology

My favourite piece of technology is my computer. I've had many computers in my life since I was 6 or 7 years old. At first just played videogames but a few years later, and with a conection to internet, I started to do websites about things I liked in that moment. When i was a teenager, like 14 or 15 years old, I started to get interested in the japanese animation and, with a slow connection, I dowloaded many many japanese series, I left the computer on for entire nights to download only one episode, now I download one episode in like 10 minutes.With the computer a can do all the things that I like, I love to draw and create thing in Photoshop or makeing videos or watch things in Youtube. I think that, in this point in my life, I could not live woithout a computer.

Song of the week! :D I started to watch this serie, Shameless, it's sooo good! I love it, so this is the theme song :)

Post 2 : Expectations for a new semester

This year, I hope pass all of my classes, I failed some of my classes from de last year, so iI need to push me for that not happen again! I’m trying to concentrate more and write more notes during the classes. I’m not doing any extra activities yet, I would like to get a par time job, but I don’t know if that’s a good idea for my study. I liked a lot the classes I’m in, I like this career, so it’s not a hard time in the university, well, maybe, except the classes that I’m doing for second time. Well tha’t all for now folks! It’s Friday night so I’m staying in home studying… nahh, just kidding, I’m out!

Ps: Song of the day! :)