I love when people I know are able to think.

My father keeps an apricot tree on the frontyard. But it's very tiny, and this summer it gave many fruits. A LOT. It was kind of overwhelmed. Today, it broke irself, because of its own weight. It was such a pity, tens of apricots wasted.

Do you like apricots? My father asked my neighbours, trying to save the rest of the tree that was still on the ground, alive.

THE ART OF BLOGGING (I won't say this is my last post)

What can I say about my blog? I used to have one, with this same address, but I did not use it very often. I used to write weird things according my mood of the time. It’s very common these days that young people have a blog for writing about their complicated life, so stress, so alternative, so pokemon. I never wrote anything of that kind, in fact, I don’t know why I created this web site. I never uploaded anything, anything of interest at least. Until one afternoon of July, I started posting different things, well written things (I think), with an interesting theme behind, good points of view (I have so many interesting things to say to the world) and the best of them was that I started to write in English. At first I believed that it was a way for keeping the class at the lab, trying that everybody participates. I think that pushing us for making our posts during class time was a good idea; otherwise nobody would have ever done anything.

Definitely I have improved my written English with this method, I never had faith on this but yes, I have. It’s a very good way of improving it, every one of us knows how to use a computer, it’s easier than writing on paper, and you can have the entire internet world in your hands for making copy paste (kidding), for reading other things and then write about them. A whole amount of subjects that we are able to access.

I have learned how to use dictionaries from the internet, and to create opinions from my other classmate’s blogs. Other thing, I have visited a big amount of interesting web sites, such us BBC, TED, Word Reference, Guardian, web sites that I'm pretty sure I’m going to use (I’m already doing it) every day from now on.

English class was very useful. I think it’s been the best CFG I’ve taken. I will tell my friends if they want to improve their english in a pleasant ambiance, they should take this class.

I'm very grateful.
I just hope this blog never dies.

Life map (a little late)

Gisela’s first gift was this little house made with pvc, and she loved it cause she thought she could live inside. She remembers this very clear, she was like 4 or 5 years old, and she felt protected inside: no one else could enter with her. When she was a little girl, she was the only girl her street, so she acted like the boss of her male friends. She was a sort of princess, and that’s why her most favorite place in the neighborhood was the entire street. She liked to keep it under her control. It’s a very nostalgic history, because that neighborhood isn’t to far from her present home, and sometimes she passes by, and she can see how things are going on now days. She remembers everything of those days, good times.

As a child, she wanted to become a dancer, people thought so because she was tiny and she walked in a very non common form. Then, at high school she remembers a history professor that incurred her to learn history. He was a fascinating man for her, as a teacher, he knew everything of everything, and she hasn’t found any professor like him any more.

Anything else?
Yeah !

She is some kind afraid of swimming pools, because she almost had a very bad accident when she was younger. She is a lazy woman, and she regrets not doing things because of her laziness, like going to places or taking hard professor, stuffs like that. She doesn’t know very clearly about her model of pride, it could be her family, but I could note she was not so sure. She spends a lot of time on the PC room, at the Pc specifically, just like me and like any other architecture student.

And the best part, she owns a special notebook where she writes and draws many things. I’ve seen them on her fotolog, her drawing are very good, and she says something like “if any thing happen to it, I kill my self”. I understand that, with my super special things I own. That’s why her biggest dream is to get a new camera. She loves taking pictures, she’s a full made artist, and she’s about to get one with her new job in summer time. Let’s hope she could get one, for watching her drawing in her fotolog web site.

http://www.lagisela.blogspot.com/

www.fotolog.com/ser_transparente

http://www.uchilefau.cl/ (cuek)

This is not another Copy Paste

About Blade Runner, I haven’t seen the film, BUT, I’ve read a lot of it from the internet for making this very interesting ranking called 5 reasons for watching Blade Runner movie.

So, if you think that I haven’t seen it and I’m just making copy paste just for writing anything, you’re wrong. This is, in fact, a copy paste, but not any copy paste, because I’ve picked up for the best phrases about the movie, so you can have an image of what you would find when you will watch it (not like me).

number one

Although it initially gained a small North American audience, the film was popular internationally and became a cult classic and has been often referenced.

number two

Blade Runner's dark style and futuristic design have served as a benchmark and its influence can be seen in many subsequent science fiction films and television programs.

number three
Blade Runner continues to reflect modern trends and concerns, and an increasing number consider it one of the greatest science fiction films of all time. The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1993 and is frequently used in university courses.

number four
The film is credited with prefiguring important concerns of the 21st century, such as globalization, global warming and genetic engineering.

number five
Current recognitions for Blade Runner include:

- In 2007, the American Film Institute listed it as the 97th greatest film of all time, making it new to the list, having it been left of the 1997 version.

- The Internet Movie Database ranks the film as number 100 in the top 250 films. (November 2007)
Blade Runner is currently ranked the third best film of all time by The Screen Directory.

- One of Time's 100 All-Time best movies.

So, do not lose a second

go to the nearest blockbuster and watch it !

Today was "the exam day". Workshop's week. It's really different than it's looks like, because it's just a couple of days and not the entire week like it should be. YOU CAN NOT DO EVERYTHING FOR A FINAL WORK IN 2 DAYS (model, plans, conceptual tarjets and renders and images, and not only doing it, but thinking about them, really sucks).

I slept 3 hrs. I went to bed today thursday at 5.30 am., because I had slept 4 hrs the day before, so when my eyes started to see double lines of autocad in the pc screen I could not resist any more. I slept 7 hrs in two days, what an awful kind of life.

Anyway, I just hope I'm approved.

PS

the exam day is so bullshit, nodody takes you an exam of your project, no proffesor ask you about it, not like in PUC where a real exam is made to their students for every final work.

I think that's a resonable way of knowing what proyect it's ok and wich doesn't, showing them to others proffesors that haven't seen the process.

anyway, i'll have to wait until 4th year to be at Licenciatura Workshop to know what it's like.

Do schools kill creativity?

I've been listening to Sir Ken Robinson TED talk and I've found out many interesting things. The first one, is that my computer is a holly $·&)$#~( or my connection to internet). I spent hours trying to listen completly the TED archive, but it was a kind of joke that I could only get 5 seconds of continued talk. So, I started to think (a little more) and I discovered that I could download it as an mp3 archive and listen to it completly without any disturb. I felt myself very intelligent doing that. Kidding.

Anyway, the other thing is that I got a little bit worried about Mr Robinson talk, because this thought came to my head, something like "am I a not creative person?". Maybe, beacause I fit on the traditional education system pretty well. Sir Ken Robinson thinks that one of the factors that could help to grasp the future is our capacity of innovation, for making betters things and accomplish new knowledge. This Mr worked in the british goverment for many years in the education area, so he knows very well what he's talking about. Innovation comes from creativity, something that schools don't provide to their children. We're educated for industralization, to be good workers, so I'm afraid I've kept those steps and I've been a "good student". I was always afraid of making mistakes, so that's why I think I failed the first year of architecture desing workshop. Mistakes are the only way to reach something truly original, and being creative. I think I failed that workshop because of my way of thinking, from schools: for me everything had only one possible answer, a very "math way of thinking".

I believe Architecture has build a new way of thinking on me, a more open and dinamic way. Or maybe I have built a new me, and architecture has only been the medium. I think every desing process has something of that relationship "try-mistake". Many possible solutions. Many ways of expresing beauty, many ways of function, many ways of thinking, according to the people involved in the preoject. I've made many mistakes, but that's the only way of reaching the truth, my truth. I believe I've changed, for good.