Post N°5: What kind of job would I like to have?

Hi. Today I am going to talk about my future job.

 

I am studying Theory and History of Art so I would like to work in art area. I have not decided what to do, but It will be something like documenting art works, restoring mistreated art, investigating old cultures or selling antiques articles. I think my job will not be like an engenieer’s, probably because I will need more contacts and constantly finding whatever to do in arts. I do not want to sit in front of a desk, except if I work in researching issues, doing a catalog for a museum or whatever it needs art’s world to do.

Maybe I will travel a lot, it would be amazing. I want to travel to Europe, because I like Baroque a lot, and the ideal place to know about that era is there, the place that saw everything. If someday I have the chance, I want to do lot of researches about that period. Also I want to find out and take care about art in Chile, my country. There are a lot of things to do in Chile, a los of missing periods that, someday, someone is going to eludicate; I want to be one of them.

 



Perhaps I will make this wishes comes true. Until then, I am studying hard.

My Blogging Experience

Well... We have riched the final blog post, and It is about my blogging experience at English class.

This was not my first time blogging, I used to write a blog when I was 15-16 years. I am still writing a blog, but not so often like before, but when I am bored I used to upload an new entry. And well... I found out a lot of things af my classmates that I did not know, some were more personal experiences and others were funny. I am glad to have written almost all Fridays in this blog because It was very relaxing. We have to work and study all week, but this class was so light (not easy but light). Was like "Ok, Ximena, It is Friday. Take it easy and enjoy this class.".

What else can I say about this experience?, I can say that It was a good choice to write about stuff of our careers and about a particular situation or hobbies. I enjoyed a lot this time, and I expect that, 2015's generation will have fun with this kind of activities. And I think that I have more vocabulary than before. Maybe we should do same activity, or something like this, in English IV.

Ok... See you guys.
And thank you for reading.

My favourite writer

Hello, today I have to talk about my favourite writer.

I really do not have favourite writer. I like genres, not authors, but if I have to choose one, I would take Anne Rice, J. R. R. Tolkien or George Martin. Why them among a lot of writers?, because, for me, they are a such tanlented fantasy novels writers and I particulary love that genre above (almost) all. The aspect that I do not like, for example, on George Martin is his lethal way to write (ALL ARE GOING TO DIE IN NEXT TEN PAGES, ALL OF YOU!!), he kills a lot of people in just one chapter book, but he is still brilliant for me and his way to describe places and situatiuons makes my heart beat so fast.

I also like Oscar Wilde, particulary "The Nithingale and the Rose", which is part of an anthology of tales (The Happy Prince and Other Tales) written in 1888, and "The Canterville Ghost" written one year before. I love this last one even before read it, because when I was young my father used to tell my sister and I his own version of the story with them and I as the main characters; so, when I finally read the tale it was so nostalgic.

Well... See you, guys!

Article of my interest

Today I am going to show to you an article of interest of the area that I want to work in the future.

In first place, the aspect of my career that is interesting for me is cultural heritage documentation. This semester I am taking Lina Nagel's course about patrimonial documentation. It is not fun for all people, because you have to do the same thing many times, but I think it is completely necessary to have a database of pieces of arts; in the future museum's people would need this archives to find a, for example, stolen piece of art.

Particulary, the article that I chose, is about a 3D scanner (Terrestrial Laser Scanning) which can quicly scanlate patrimonium of a country, has high definition resolution quality, and can get a lot of object's information in a short period of time. The scanner was used by galicians to put many patrimonuim objects in 3D during 2009. This project involved people from galician Superior Council of Scientific Investigation (in spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas or CSIC).

You can read the article here.

The project was interesting because you can obtain 3D models of patrimonial objects in a short time, for a country is very useful. I do not know if in Chile exist something like this, but they should have one.

See you next week.

Artist that I admire

Hello, guys. Today I could not attend class because I went to the hospital.

Well... Today I have to talk about an artist that I admire... There are a lot of cool artists in this world, I admire various of them, however I admit that I do not like much contemporary art; I prefer old school.

I admire Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, commonly known as Diego Velázquez, this artist born in Spain at the end of 16th Century and was a painter from Baroque period. His style is known because he did not do sketchs at his paintings. Instead, he chose to instalntly apply the brushwork. Fow this reason, when you reach a certain distance from a Velázquez's your eye can unite all this brushstroke and see a figure; nevertheless, when you are so close to his paintings, you can not see a solid figure; instead, you can clearly see his brushworks. I like that kind of illusion at his paintings.

Well... that's all!

See you later, guys <3. Have a nice weekend.

Films

Hi, how have you been, guys? This time I'll talk about which kind of films I like or dislike.

Well... In first place, I think that I do not dislike any genre in particular, I can bear even bizarre stuff in movies. But well... If I have to choose, I'd say that I don't like movies without romance, I don't care if it is a weird romance, but I like romance. With romance I'm not saying "strawberry romance", nah... is not that; with "romance" I mean building human relationships through the film. Except in case that the movie wants to criticize this condition of "love" between characters creating something completely illogical. But is not a huge problem if the movie does not has some love scenes, as I said at the beginning, I can watch everything. Well... besides I do not like so much the adaptations of books and TV series; I think that essence changes so much. For example, I do not like Pete Jackson's version of Tolkien's book "The Lord of the Rings", because he drastically manipulated the order of original story, and eliminated characters as he pleased. It is not a bad movie if you only watch movies, but for someone who read is terrible.

At the other side, I like many type of movies. I like a lot of animated movies from Studio Ghibli, because I does not matter how old are you, everyone can watch and enjoy this kind of films. I also like to watch, if my mood is odd and I don't want to do anything, movies without sense. And... I like action movies and Disney movies.

That's all.

My Favourite photograph

My favourite photograph is about my favourite pet in the whole world: my dog Pongo.

Pongo died two years ago and when I see this picture I renember our good times. My dog arrived to my life when I was 8 years old (now I'm 23) and even if his hair was completely black, for me he represents light. This picture was taken for me on his last day, he died 13 years old after he came home for the first time. We picked up him at the entrance of a church next to my family's home, and it was love at first sight; he was running in circles, surrounding me and my family, so I wanted to take him home.

He was a good friend, and I like this picture because I see his tired eyes, his rigid legs, his body laid on the concret and I'm glad that he could finally rest in peace as he deserved... I see this picture and I become completly nostalgic, I can't bear the pain, but it was the best in his condition... Death.

R. I. P., Pongo... I still love you.

See you next time, guys.

Gabriel García Márquez

Today I'll talk about Gabriel García Márquez. In first place, I don't have the right of a deeply talk about this writer because I barely know him. I read some books of him at school, but I've never read "Cien años de soledad". His style is special, but not my genre. Well... I renember two books of him, and both produced me different reactions; "La increíble y triste historia de Cándida Eréndira y su abuela desalmada" was a good book for me, a bit depressing and with a world that was strange to me because since I was young I used to read fantasy novels and not stories with magic realism, but quite good; the other was "Crónicas de una muerte anunciada", this was boring to me, but I don't renember exactly the reason. Maybe if I read his novels again (I'm older and more mature for this kind of books) I'll find something new. 

And that's all. I wasn't ready for his books, but maybe I should read his work again.

Activity 04: 'How stuff works'

Hi again!

Now I have to choose an article and answer a few questions.

Article selected: "10 of the biggest lies in history"

1. Why did I choose this article?

Because is interesting to know which are the biggest lies in history since ancient greek until our days. I'm still reading it, but I thing that's so interesting.

2. Did you find some information in the article?

Well... It's a smalll amount of information, but is not that what makes the article interesting, the small amount of information about one of the issues mentioned in the article invites the user to learn more in others sourses, like books, or maybe Wikipedia (for people who wants to know just a bit more about the topic).

3. What was the most interesting thing you learned about it?

About a guy who wanted to buy a Vermer's false painting, and copied very very well the painting in 20th Century.

I'll keep writing this later.

Activity 01: 'A laptop and a desk'

Hello, people. Now I will talk about how to get a good laptop and a desk with a budget of $1000.

First step: the laptop

You can't get a desk for a laptop without get the laptop first (oh my god, this is too obvious, but well... it doesn't matter). We have... $800, we won't get a mega computer to play games with a very good graphics requirements like Battlefield 4... But we can buy a laptop to work at university, play Candy Crush to kill time whern you're bored, and also see movies and stuff alike.

I chose a mid rate computer wich I'd probably buy with all that money: a Sony VAIO. Why this laptop?, because my second laptop was a Sony VAIO and I've never had problems with that computer... until I stupidly hit my own computer, when I was picking up a paper from the floor, and fell off from my desk... (I'm so clumbsy...). It cost $799.00, not bad.

You can see it for your own here.

We have $201.00 to spend now.

Second step: The desk

Well... I found something amazing at web: "Dorel Home Furnishings Princeton White L Desk for Home Office". Is cute, loos comfortable and cost $187.67. Not bad for a desk wich normally cost $227.99.

You can see ithere.

See you in activity 04!

My favorite piece of technology: The computer

Hello, today I'll write about my favorite piece of techonology: The computer. Why a computer?, because you can work and have fun there without wasting a lot of money. They're not so expensive, except if you want an advanced computer; for example, to play a powerfull videogame which needs a good graphic cards or a great bunch of memory to properly run it, or to have more applications in Office (a program which makes the work easier to people who have to constantly being archiving their work's stuff) the user has to pay more money than a guy who wants a 'basic' pack.

I really like computers, I won't say that I love them because I can love my mother, my dog (even if he died a couple years ago...) or the rest of my family; but not a machine. Ok... I'd keep talking about how much I like computers, but, as my father always says (Originally in english!) 'Is time to say goodbye'.

Have a nice weekend.

Hello again, I hope you've enjoyed the last post about a few things about me. Now I'm going to tell you, guys, how is going this term at university.

I'm not doing all subjects, I couldn't take all because I didn't pass all. Luckily, I went to spoke to career's chief and she allowed to take some subjects of this semester besides the asignatures I didn't approve in 2013. I'm took a lot of interesting subjects this semester.'Restoration' is one of them. It is really amazing, we're going to restore some artworks and crafts in class. I took a CFG (Curso de Formación General/Course of General Formation) at university's gym. I'm having fun in that class because a couple years ago I was practicing aikido at a paid gym, but I've to stop going because my family was out of money.

Well... That's all

Thanks for reading.

Introducing myself

Hello, guys.

I'm a student of Art's History and I've to start a blog for my english class. I like blogs because it can give an opotrunity to write about a lot of things. This time I'll introduce myself properly. I'm Ximena Muñoz, as I said before, I'm studying Art's History at Universidad de Chile and I love my career. I'm 23 years old, the Elder of 4 sisters and I'm still living with my parents (also with my sisters). I love them, they're three Little and lovely devils of 21, 18 and 16 years old. When I was at school, I really couldn't imagine myself studing this kind of career, I was thinking in something with maths, not with history (my teacher of history at school wasn't good at all... their classes were completely boring, also he had difficults to speak well, so I couldn't understood what he was saying a many times). But I ended here because I changed my mind after meeting an amazing person: my history teacher of my precollege, he teached me a lot of interesting stuff. Now I'm really happy with the result, my career is really awesome.

About my hobbies... I like to play videogames (MMORPGs, PlayStation games, and all types of games... even if you put a computer with only "Buscaminas" installed I'll play anyways), watch anime series, Read books (I mainly like fantasy literature), practice some sport, go to have fun at a party, etc etc... Like a typical young student.

That's all, bye.