Workshop Workshop

Today I really don't feel like writing, but as I still have to do it, I thought it would be easier if I talk about the workshop work I have been doing this last time (since Ricardo made his presentation I'm not quite sure if I should say "workshop" or "studio" but on this case I'm going to stay with workshop).

So the project me and my classmates has been working on it's called "Ocupo, Luego Exsito". The idea for this project was a result from lots of classes in which we all discussed about what topic we think was interesting to investigate and understand such as discrimination, Chilean educational system, medical abortion an things like that. All of them social topics which we have an opinion about and the idea were to create a statement that we could put out on the streets and make people notice about something that they usually don’t pay attention to.

My personal idea was to talk about the political and commercial control of the television media and newspaper, I think that common people usually don’t realize about how controlled are the information they receive every day, and how this affect the way we see our country.

Finally the entire class decided that we would work on three central concepts: Power, Information and.. Well I really don't remember this last one, anyway we ended up on the concept of a "Responsible Citizen" and what does being a responsible citizen mean.

So we conclude that been a citizen doesn't mean exactly what the laws says.. Actually being a citizen means to take action in changes that you would like to see on your nearest community or even on your country so you don't have to wait until some politicians take resolution about topics that affects you.



Well it's has been a lot of work since those first classes, but I would like you to check our youtube channel  where you can find most of the works me and my class group have being doing.

Especially this motion graphics that I made with one of my classmates.  Hope you like it

Slumdog Millionare

A movie that I will always remember maybe more because of my story around the movie than the movie itself, is Slumdog Millionare. It's a 2008 indian and british co-production movie, directed by Danny Boyle who won like 11 academy awards (oscars) including of course "Best Movie", music, and others I don't remember at the moment but the funny thing about this movie is that.. I usually watch the academy awards ceremony every year and most of the time I have seen the movies that are nominated for each category (of course it's summer vacations so I have a lot of time to do this) so I can have an opinion on wich movie should win each category, but in 2009 even though this movie was nominated for a lot of awards I hadn't seen it before the award ceremony, so in every category that this movie was nominated I ruled against it, and naturally Slamdog Millionare won every category so I was rally mad by the end of the ceremony.

Finally I decided that i should just watch the movie (I don't remember the exact date but it was someday in march), so I invited my mom to the cinema to watch it with me and big surprise... I loved it. It's about htis little poor indian guy who gets an opportunity on the indian "Who wants to be a millionare" show and he gets to answer the questions correctly thanks to flashbacks of his poor sad life as a poor indian child, but the real reason of why he entered the contest in the first place, it was to gen on TV so his lost love "Latika" could watch him. I'm not going to spoil the end of the movie for those who haven't seen it yet,  but I can guarantee it's really great, has a nice photography direction and it's a really good story, and the entire movie is set on the modern days India so you can really get a sight of how is it like to live there.

After watching that movie I became kind of a fan of Danny Boyle's films, actually another movie he directed, 127 Hours, it's one of my favorites as well. So I invite to those of you who haven't seen Slumdog Millioner or 127 Hours to enjoy them.

Maybe Daft Punk

I don't really like one specific band or singer, to me it's all about the music so if I get to like one particular song I may download it and listen it once in a while and that's it, I don't care about the band or what style of music is and if I do search for other songs from that same band, I never really like more than one or two other song different from the one I already like.

So actually most of my playlist is just a mix of a lot of  different bands and styles but there is one sort of music that appears on it more than others and that is techno or however you would like to call it. Then between a lot of unknown and freaks Djs there is this band that i'm quite sure you haver heard of, Daft Punk. I have been listening to their music for actually just a few years now, I don't known why, I know  they have been arround for quite a long time but for some reason I have never liked their music until like 2 or 3 years ago and now I have most of their themes on my cellphone so I can hear them anytime of the day.

I think I like them because they don't do like hard techno music and their music never get to be like trance songs like most of Djs do at some point. Of course I don't really have one particular favorite song (or band for that matter), but I think if there is one I hear the most would have to be "Harder Better Faster Stronger" and I also like "Superheroes" very much.

By the way I was really excited about them making the music for the movie "Tron: legacy", such  a shame that the movie ended up to be so bad, anyway here is a video of the main theme for that movie made of course by Daft Punk, hope you like it.