BLOG 9: PARANORMAL PHENOMENA

Hi, the topic of the blog is about paranormal, so I am going to talk about paranormal things that happened to closer people and to me. My mom always say that she has more “connexion” with things related to paranormal, she sometimes has dreams about people that later have an accident or died, so she always calls to the people the next day of the dream to make sure that the people are okay or if something happened. Also, she speaks about “energy”, like good or bad energy that some places have, and the situations that happened in that place, so, the paranormal topic it´s something common in my family. In my experience   I didn´t have so much experiences with paranormal things, the most common are dreams like sleep paralysis, where I can´t move and are very frustrating. When I was a child happened like several times that I saw things like shadows moving in the house or the feeling that someone sat in the bed when I was trying to sleep, but that things happened when I lived in Antofagasta, so I only lived 2 years there and things like that did not keep happening in the other houses. Well, I always have been in an ambient where the paranormal things are something more common that in other families, and I never thinked in more logical or scientific answers, are experiences that I have and no need more explanation, only happen. Thanks for reading!

BLOG 8: A SUBJECT I ENJOY STUDYING THIS SEMESTER

Hi, today I am going to speak about a subject that I enjoy studying this semester, that subject is Institutional Analysis.

The professor of this subject is Horacio Foladori, and the dynamic of the class is established in a lecture of one of the authors related to the concept Institution and in the end of the schedule block we have a discussion between the students, about the concepts of the class, and the conclusion of the discussion is shared with the professor, who give feedback about what he thinks about the treated in the discussion.

The contest of the subject is related to the institutional analysis, so we see different authors that they refer to the creation of the institution and the state, the influence of they from the state and the place that we occupy in the different institutions. We also see the different points of view and how is possible to develop an analysis of an institution that has problems in its operation, and how can they solve it.  

I like the design of the class, the dynamic of discussing after every class about the topic is very interactive and the opinion of everyone is considered in the class.

Who is a person/expert on your field that you admire?

Hi, today I going to talk about an expert of the psychology of the development, his name was Lev Vigotsky. He was a Russian psychologist of Jewish origin, was born in November 17 of 1896 in Belarus and died in June 11 of 1934 at the age of 37 years old. The fundamental idea of ​​his work is that the development of humans can only be explained in terms of social interaction. Consequently, most of his work involved the study of infant and child behaviour, as well as the development of language acquisition and the development of concepts.

His studies also include interpretations of the cognitive role of mediation tools, as well as the re-interpretation of concepts in psychology such as internalization of knowledge, he introduced the notion of zone of proximal development, and the perspective of the education and the development of the child. The studies change the form of knowledge in the human development, the concept formation and the importance of the language in the development. I like Vigotsky because these studies have been very important in the knowledge about the development of the child, and highlighting the importance of the stage of childhood in a moment when it was not highly valued. 

BLOG 6: FAVOURITE MUSICIAN

Talking about the topic of music, at present I heard different genders of music, but nothing established. So, I going to talk about a band that is very important to me. When I was younger, around 15 years old, I starting to listen grunge music, with bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains. In this moment I started to listen the band Pearl Jam, but it not was until 2 years later when I started to really like the lyrics and the musical composition of Pearl Jam and about his main singer, Eddie Vedder. 

When I was 17 years old, I went to a concert of Pearl Jam here in Chile, 2015, meaning that concert a lot to me.

 The meaning and the feelings that the songs give to me are the more important that I consider of this band. I really enjoy heard them, in bad and in good moments, but the memories that I have related to this band are very important to the form in that I think of me. Memories of older friends and cities where I lived, relationships that are gone and others that grown more with the time, the music always helps with this sort of things.

Well, I really thinked a lot about what music video include in this post, so I finally decided for something of the emotionally side of Pearl Jam.  

BLOG 5: A PHOTOGRAPH

Hi, I am not related to the topic of photography, so I decided to select one photo of the World Press Photo, searching across the years I found one photo of the year 2016, that I liked and think that I can use. 

This photo shows a humpback whale and her new born calf in Roca Partida, the smallest island of the Revillagigedo archipelago, off the Pacific coast of Mexico. 

The photo was taken the 28 January of 2015 by Anuar Patjane Floriuk, a Mexican photographer and anthropologist. This picture won the second place of the World Press Photo in the category of Nature, Singles.

When I look at this photo I lose my breath, it´s like being under the water, in the silence that the sea represents and the slow motion of the movements. Is in this moment where the whispers of the whales can be heard, where the mother and her calf share the peace of their migratory season. 

BLOG 4: MOVIES AND SERIES

Hi, today I am gonna talk about a movie called Interstella 5555 - The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, this is an animation musical science fiction film, from origin Japanese-French, and is the visual realization of Discovery, the second studio album of Daft Punk. This film was produced by Daft Punk, Cédric Hervet and Emmanuel de Buretel with Toei Animation under the supervision of Leiji Matsumoto. The particularity of this film is that it doesn´t have dialogue and uses minimal sound effects.

The plot of the film tells the story of the abduction and rescue of an interstellar pop band, where the objective of the kidnaping was erase and take their minds in disks, to use the alien band to obtain fame and the “Golden Record Award”.

The main character of the movie is Stella, the bassist of the band, the others members of the band are Arpegius, the guitarist, Baryl , the drummer and Octave the keyboardist and vocalist. Other members are Shep, the astronaut that want to rescue the band and The earl de Darkwood, the captor of the band and the main antagonist.

When I was a child I saw part of this movie, I really liked the music of the movie and the form in that only the music can relate what is happening in the movie, the sad and the happy moments, the changes of the tones in the moments of mayor tension. Later like 5 years ago I try to find this movie, but my memory is not good so was very difficult. The moment when I find it was very special to me, the memory and the emotions of my childhood when I saw the movie come back, and I was really happy of find the movie.  

The movie has as core the use of the music, the rhythm of the sounds and the tone of them are very related with the film, so if you like that type of music and the animation of the 2000´s I think that you are going to like this film. 

BLOG 3: MY FAVOURITE PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY

My favourite piece of technology is my actual computer, in my life I had like 3 computers, always computers of desk, the first that I had was when I was 5 years old and I was very impressed with the games Solitary and Searchmines, we didn´t had connection to internet so I and my sister always try to play that games. With the pass of the years the computer was changed and the things that I would do too, so I started to play videogames after the school and the study, that until the day of today. The last year for my birthday I received my last computer, this is a real change to my past computer, because was very old and it had many problems in the moment of use it.

The mentioned computer 

  I use the computer to talk and play with friends that I meet and live in other cities of Chile, so, with the computer I can share and talk with them. I use the computer every day, always I have something to do in the computer, read a paper, study, play and talk with friends, listen to music, search images to draw, the things that I enjoy and that I dislike are connect to my computer, so I really feel like a mainstay of my life. So yeah, I think that a part of my life is linked to my computer.