FP Top 5

I was already very tired so it seemed like a good idea not to have classes during the week.

1-Movies

This week I saw a movie that I wanted to see for a long time. Dracula from 1958, is a remake of classic story from Bram Stoker, starring Christopher Lee as Count Dracula and Peter Cushing as Doctor Van Helsing, the films are very bloody, but more illuminated than the common vampire movies.

2-Laser Cutter

I also learned how to use a laser cutter, which will be very useful to be able to make my models. Learning to use 3D modeling programs is very difficult, but I think that with time I will learn how to do it well.

3-Cook

I cooked food for my family, we eat meat and empanadas, my nephews and their pets were there, 3 dogs and a cat, we had a great time.

4-Sleep

I think I slept a lot more this week than I did all semester. I slept more than 8 hours a day which made me feel very good, as I write this I already feel tired. This is what I enjoyed the most this week.

5-Shells and structure

I studied shell structures, I think this will take me the whole semester, these are light structures that resist large loads and have very strange shapes like sea shell or a walnut shell.

(I'm as tired as Count Dracula )

My Cutural Radar (Part 2)

My cultural snapshot at the moment contains the following items:

Tv Show 

Bailando 2023, Now I am watching the classic Argentine television program Bailando, this is the 15th version of the program hosted by Marcelo Tinelli, in the program 30 dance couples compete to win a grand prize.

Book 

To Kill a Mockingbird, It is a 1960 novel by writer Harper Lee. It tells the story of two children who live in a small town in the United States, they are raised by their father, the lawyer Atticus Finch, the central theme of the books is racism.

Film 

The Fabelmans ,The movie of 2022 tells the story of Steven Spielberg's childhood, a great film that shows Spileberg's love of movies and the separation of his parents.

Building 

Shells , Now in the workshop we are researching Shell structures, these are light structures that resist large loads due to their double curvature, an example of this are the constructions of the Uruguayan Eladio Dieste.

Podcast 

La One, la Vida de Moria Casan , Ana María Casanova is an "Argentine vedette", in an original Spotify podcast they tell Moria's life from how she became a vedette, a theater actress, being in a prison in Paraguay and her best phrases like "if you want to cry, cry."

Graphic Novel

X men days of future Past , Written by Chris Claremont and drawn by John Byrne, this is one of the classic stories of the X-Men group of mutants created by Stan Lee, and was influential by including time travel and a Post-Apocalyptic future. A movie was also made in 2014.

My Cultural Radar (Part 1)

I m going to talk about the article of Naomi Klein,  She is a journalist and writer, I know her from her book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) there she talks about the implementation of the capitalist system in Chile and other countries.

1. Music : Allison Russell, the sing returner tour

2. Visual art : Christi Belcourt, hich all speak to the sacredness of the natural world

3. TV: Feel Good, is in the subgenre of sitcoms about North Americans in London

4. Podcast : Conspirituality, It tracks how a lot of seemingly apolitical fitness instructors or yoga teachers suddenly got into QAnon and made some dodgy political alliances with the far right during Covid.

5. Memoir : Unearthing by Kyo Maclear, exploration of kinship, selfhood, memory, and the roots we share across time, space and species. 

6. Journal : Hammer & Hope

I found the podcast that she recommend interesting, about yoga teachers and the extreme right. And he has a new "Doppelganger" book that talks about technologies and fake news.

Festival

I would really like to go to many Festival of music. For many years I have been watching concerts on the Tv  like Rock in Rio, Lollapalooza or the Viña festival. and gone to minor concerts, of almost unknown bands. But  I remember that a couple of years ago I saw los Bunkers and Chinoy , i go whit my brother.I think it was a great experience, I really enjoyed it and I knew all the songs. I think I would like to do it again, or go to other concerts, I think I should go out more.

I haven't seen many concerts. but this year I would like to go to Fauna Primavera 2023.Fauna Primavera is a music festival done in Chile from 2011 have presented bands as Pulp , MGMT, Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas, Los Bunkers, The Cradigans. This year the most important artist is the english band rock Blur, is a band of britpop frormed in 1988, they won the britpop war on oasis in the brit awards in 1996.  I  have been listening to his music for many years, and I bought many of his records  i like the disc  Modern Life Is Rubbish from 1993, and the songs of Park Life (1994)  as Girls and Boys , End of a Century or To the End.