My blog experience

I think that my experience is fine in general. Sometimes I enjoyed the topics of what I got to write about, for example, I could write about my favorite elective and filmmaker, but there were other blog topics that did not interest me at all. Also I hated to have to come home very late every Monday to write the blog that I could not write complete in the class, because we all have other things to do, like eat, or clean, or sleep, or cook, or sometimes just do nothing, just being relax (something that you need, for your mental health). But out of it, it was fine I think.

However I do think with no doubts that my writing skills have developed well. I feel that I have improved in terms of grammar, vocabulary and writing in general.

In addition, I would like to say that there should be more freedom in matter of the topics of the blog for the students. So in that way, if the students are more inspired by the topic of the blog, we could write even better than we do, and improve more than we have improved. If you are happy doing something, the result will always be great.

A movie scene that I ❤

Wild Tales is an argentinian movie that belongs to the genre of black comedy and drama. The best thing about it is that the film is about six stories, independent in itselfs. Al lot of them tell really rare situations that explain and make me think about the small line that divides the society from the barbarism. What makes us being civilized in some situations can scape from our hands.

As I said before, this antology was directed and written by and argentinian  filmmaker called Damián Szinfron. And the cast in every story does not repeat during the movie.

My favourite part of this film is called ´hasta que la muerte nos separe´. The context is the celebration of a wedding. Romina realize that Ariel was cheating on her a long time ago, with a co-worker who is also at the party . She don't know what to do. So she decides to get revenge in front of everyone. But no one knows the truth or what is really happening. This scene makes me feel so many emotions; I feel sorry for her in the beggining but then I get scared of what is going to happen, and somethimes it makes laugh ironically, specially in the end, that was so unexpected.

I totally recommend this film, I think everyone can enjoy this movie because of its dynamism never bores you. Photographically speaking, it's fine and the music too, but the soul of this film for me is the script, that is very carefully, and effectivly planned.

Happy P-R-I D-E month

My favourite subject this semester is called Sexual diversity and gender: inclusion, rights and nondicrimination . I chose this elective because I feel very passionate about everything that concerns the LGTBQ+ community. In first place, we saw the LGBTQ+ history, and even their ''prehistory''. There were factc related to: toys and a really weird chinese dildo, I mean the oldest dildo. As the first lesbian political movement . Or the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS. The firsts homoerotic magazines. How society changes their way to call members of the community through time. Also we saw the complexity of human being, it means that gender, sex and sexual orientation are not the same thing.  Either legislation about homoparentability, same-sex marriage or how is like changing a name for a trans person.  At the end we saw gender violence, heteronormativity and gender ideology.  The fun thing about this elective was it's dinamic: for every class there was a different teacher related to the main topic. For example, the class about trans community  was imparted by the president of the main trans organization of the country.

At the end of this elective I can say that I am an informed mind that is able to recognize the complexitiy of the human being. My way of thinking is based on respect and love.   

Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson is someone on my field that I admire a lot. He is an american film director, writer and cinematographer. Being young, Anderson studied at the Sundance Institute, founded by Robert Redford. In 1996, PTA wrote and directed his first feature film, Hard Eight, that had a lot of problems while being produced, because of the creative differences between Paul Thomas Anderson and the executive producers and distributors, so the film was not as good as was expected to be. But one year after this, PTA writes and directs the movie that made him one of the best young filmmakers in the world, Boogie Nights, that had three Academy Awards nominations. Then, he continued this way of success, creating critically acclaimed movies such as Magnolia (1999), Punch Drunk Love (2002), There Will Be Blood (2007), The Master (2012), Inherent Vice (2014) and Phantom Thread (2017).The reason why I love PTA, is because of his genius and style of creating films, and especially very interesting characters. One example of this, is that in There Will Be Blood, the main character is one my favorite characters in the history of cinema, especially because of the performance of Daniel Day Lewis. Furthermore, Anderson always collaborates with people that I admire a lot, such as Philip Seymour Hoffman, Daniel Day Lewis, Joaquin Phoenix, and Johnny Greenwood that makes beautiful music for his films. And, as Greenwood is the lead guitar player of Radiohead, PTA even has directed one video clip of Radiohead (Daydreaming) which is my all time favorite band!

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CA 4 WEBQUEST  2

Part 1- Calculate your carbon footprint

http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx

 Don’t forget to select English before starting the activity.

Questions:

 What’s your carbon footprint?

My carbon footprint is 9.52 metric tons per year.

 What’s the average carbon footprint of a person?

The average worldwide carbon footprint is about 4 metric tons, also for Chilean people is about 4.69 metric tons.

Part 2 - Take these Recycling Quizzes

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/quiz- going-green/

http://www.quizmoz.com/quizzes/Science-Quizzes/r/Recycling-Quiz.asp

Questions:

 Hand washing dishes can use up to 50 % more of water than using an efficient dishwasher.

 Only about 10% of global energy comes from renewables.

 True or false? Appliances that are turned off don’t use any electricity.

    False.

 Can you make paper out of hemp?

yes

Part 3- Video >> Top ten tips for recycling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjbSEIOUp4w

Watch the video and choose the best 3 tips in your opinion.

1.    Get a bag for life, for everytime you go to shopping.

2.    Use carrier bags or old storage boxes for any extra recycling you may have.

3.    To double bag end tie any food or potentially smelly waste before placing it into you bin.

The colors matter

When I was a child I used to watch many cartoons of super heroes. Even in my games I played to pretend that I got super powers or something. I always played with my cousins at my grandsmother´s garden to be the power rangers. And I always asked myself why my cousin, that is a boy, always could choose the red or blue character (the main character of the series) and I couldn´t.  I always had to choose the White or Pink character just because of my gender. It was so unfair. Moreover, the creators and writers of the series, always gave an especific gender to the colors. For instance, the color Pink was always a women (considering that are more than twenty different Power Rangers editions!). And with no exception at all, the red power ranger was always a man, the lider, and the most powerful power ranger.

A little history of my childhood

I took this picture like two years ago… one day I was bored at my grandmother's garden, so I moved a wood bench that always has been in the same place and the same position. I never expected to find this tiny treasure, that for my surprise wasn’t unknow for me. I found two of the toys that with my cousin we used to play with, when I used to visit my grandmother. We saved there (and surely without reason) this doll from ‘’Sailor moon’’ and a tiny TV and we didn't remember that, I think because these are old toys, should have at least ten years old. So, when I took this picture, I was so surprised and nostalgic. I like it because finding these things was so weird for me, is like they were frozen in time. It makes me go back in time to so many good memories and of course to my entire childhood too.

My favourite movie have a really long name

When I was fifteen years old my heart was broke because of my first love. I became to feel depress and lonely all the time, and so bored too. So the only thing that I did was watch a lot of movies. I became to ate any movie I found; independent films, really rare movies or even bad movies. haha

In that situation, and I don't know why, destiny maybe? I found what I can call my favourite movie ever.

 Its called ‘’Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind’’. This movie is a love story about Joel and Clementine. Shows how they begin to fall in love and how they became to hate each other. One day Clementine goes to a place where doctors can erase your memory forever. Then Joels notice that, and he went to erase his mind too. In the process he finally understand that he loves her and he doesn’t want to fogert her. That shows what really happens in real life with relationships.

Is about the cycle of love: you met the person. Then you fall in love. Then you know the bad side of this person. Finally you want to forget it, erase from your mind all the bad memories. But then you realize that if you delete the bad parts the good ones are going away too. Also, it doesn't matter how many times you erase you memory, destiny is true and curious. You will find the same person anyway. Over and over again.

I like it because I think that's true. I wanted to erase my memory when I broke up years ago, but then I understood that I have to apreciate the bad memories to keep the good ones.

P.S The soundtrack of this movie is a gem <3

My favourite piece of technology (seriously)

The menstrual cup is like a tiny recipient that is inserted in the vagina during menstruation because it containsmenstrual flow. Menstrual cup is very different to tampons and pads because the cup does not absorb the blood. Actually, the blood stand inside the cup till is remove from the vagina. 

In 1867 existed rudimentary menstrual cups. But in 1987 started to manufacture latex cups, however some women thought that they were too big and heavy, or that could be something weird and disgusting to do. These are some of the reasons of why the menstrual cup wasn’t popular until today. With the help of the feminist movement some women began to change their lifestyle and way of thinking and started to use the cup.

 I bought my first cup one year ago and it changed the way I live my period. The most important thing about menstrual cup is that it doesn’t pollute, because it can be washed, and you can re-utilize it.

Why I choose Cinema

When I was a child i thought that I was going to be a veterinary or an astronaut. But then I grew up, and my interests changed. When I got eighteen and had to apply to university I had no idea of what to do. I knew that I liked films and photography, but I never told to my parents because I was scared of what they would think about me. So, the first thing that I did was apply to the lawyers career. My parents were so happy and proud of me. Then i figured out that I didn't like it, so I decide to study cinema. Fortunately, my experience in university has surpassed my expectations. I like the idea of being part of any piece of cinema, that can make me fell something. Furthermore, I would like to do the part of esthethic in cinema.

this was my first visual composition test (the final test)

Who I am (basically)

Hi, my name is Javiera, I’m 20, I was born in Curicó, on September in 1998. I used to live in a green small town near the  beach, with my dad, mom, niece, dog and cat. During my life I have moved three times, but last year me and my family left the green small town to live where I was born. When I finished high school two years ago, I move to Santiago with my best friend. My hobbies have changed a lot during my life, but now I enjoy being with my family and sometimes, going out and taking pictures or doing anything with my old friends from the small town.

I took this picture to my best friend :)

she is my dog ''Marraqueta'' <3

my old garden in the small green town.