Tuesday, April 26, 2011

My first CD


Before I had a CD i used to listen cassettes in the radio. I liked a lot to groups like Molotov, then I was like 8 years old and my first Cassette was "Donde jugaron las niñas". My first CD was a gift from my brother Rodrigo, it was "The dark side of the moon" by the british band "Pink Floyd". It was in my 12 years old birthday.
In that moment I didn't understand that music too much, it sounded too weird for me. Anyway it started to change the way i saw the music, not only as a "melody with rythm", but as a complex art filled with different emotions and intentions, with different ways to express it, lyric content and a different way to understand the sound. Actually i love to Pink Floyd, i think they are creators of a new path, mixing several art tendencies (surrealist, impresionist, realist, and so on) and styles with music, lyric and graphic expression, all in one scene.
The songs i like best of this album are: "Breathe", "Money" and "Time". Maybe are the most melodical song, but they have an awesome content too, talking about greed, illness, the meaning of life, aging and so on.
My favourite album of Pink Floyd is "The wall". They talk about the power abuse, the war, the economic systems, the meaning of life, and how the man is abused and teached to follow a way that doesn't allow any diversity or freedom: the way that the boss, the general, the president and the jerarchys want you to do. I like it because it shows how life is a lot wider than the "Progress" idea that drive us to war.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Correction to Beligomita

My favourite field trip

One of the field works that I most liked was the field work of Cultural Geography, with the proffesor Enrique Aliste,(P/ . The site) the site was Huasco, located in the third region of Chile. Before all (WE/ Above all), this place is the most far to north that I've been in my life. Initially, I'didn't feel good because I was sick, but then, when we arrived to Huasco and we saw the wonderfull scenery,(P/ without comma) I got better. I think that Huasco made me undesrtood what it is the mean of territory, one of the main concepts for our career. The people was very nice, welcoming (WE/ kind), kind, and was a beautiful life experience and definitely the best field work that I ever had.
I got closser (SP/ closer) with my friends and I think this area marked a turning point in my career, my life, even in how I see human groups today, because there we saw large contingency issue closely, (SM/ like) Pascua Lama.

There have been other field works that I liked very much, that even relate more (WE/ That relate even more) to what I like most of Geography. However, the field (SM/ work) of Huasco goes beyond (WE/ goes against or goes away) my personal taste of geography, but it was the experience that I liked (SM/ most).
See you the next week!!!

My favourite Field trip


My favorite field trip wasn't really a field trip like a university student, but as a student of my own life. It had two stages: First stage I went with some friends to the coast of the ninth region of la Araucanía. There we worked, helped and learned from the local people and their culture. The subject could be about aproach to the local people territorial experiencie. My own subject was about a lesson of Diversity and how the Vertical Power can be resisted and combated. Who taught it? Maybe no one, but if some one taught it, was the local people, the friendship, the humility and myself.
I started from la Araucanía in a cloudy and rainy morning to the south with one of my closest friends, we taked car ride. The landscape was awesome. We went to Puerto Montt, where we met another 2 good friends to start the second stage of the trip by taking car ride to different zones of the Región de Los Lagos. In this second stage we shared with a lot of kind people and learned from them, we saw water falls, rural towns, native woods, awesome lakes in the Andes zone and learned to survive there. Also we went later to Chiloé (Ancud). We made friends along the trip and enojoyed some traditional fest.
This trip changed the way I see the life and my own life... it made me feel a great huge world, with lots of lovely landscapes, cultures, misteries and experiences. I think this trip is a step... a way to "make this life free an beautiful. To make this life a wonderful adventure" like Chaplin said.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

The Youtube project tool

Today i want to talk about a very special social network to me: Youtube project. Youtube is a website created to share videos and media with all the people around the world, for free.
I started using this network when not much people used it (in may of 2006). I think its a great plataform to approach people to the world events. In youtube you can find thousand of tutorials of anything you want; you can find some of the music you like: live concerts, exclusive publications, and so on... You can find amazing notices of the world wide happening... you can share your opinion with other people to debate contents or anything you like. But... not all is perfect: in 2009-2010 youtube was bought by the google company and then started to be comercializing, censoring the online contents. Now you can't see all the artists and videos.
Anyway youtube is a great plataform, i use it almost everyday, mainly to listen music, because its easier than download it and you can create your own playlists and albums with music. Thats why i like Youtube, and i think it can be a powerfull media to conscientize society... or to make society stupid...
I think that this social network is less invasive than other networks like facebook or twitter, because it doesn't control that much your social relationship.