NEGRITA

The story of a meeting

Such a lovely topic Claudio sent me to write for this post: Pets.

Negrita is a canid, a dog, and although nobody in my family conceive her as a pet (not even she herself), i supposed that Negrita could be the most closest thing to a pet, at least for the rest, so i`m going to talk about her in this text. I`m going to talk about Negrita. <3

She came into our lives in 2010, here in Chile, the year of the bicentennial. I was eleven years old. I remember it almost perfectly, we were on nineteenth of September and we had been staying for some time with exchange students coming from Argentina, all of them were (or are) Europeans (mostly Spanish people, one French and two Germans, in total eleven). We hang out them to a typical chilean restaurant, Pancho Causeo, because they wanted to know something very our, something that could represent our idiosyncrasy. And on our way to the "Picá", there she was, small, round, entirely black; so innocent, sweet and tender, breaking a garbage bag that was leaning on a lamppost on the sidewalk, there was Negrita. As soon as we saw her we caress her, and we thought that she had escaped, so we took and put her in a nearby house (thinking that she had left from there), in the front yard behind the bars, we said goodbye and went to the restaurant. Back home, after two or three hours having fun, eating and drinking, we found her again, on the sidewalk, breaking the same garbage bag. We couldn`t resist, it was the destiny, that dog had crossed us twice on our way, it was a signal (my mom said), so between prayers and prayers we finally managed to convince our grandmother to take her home and adopt her as our.

NEGRITA IS SO F#@$ING  SPECIAL, and the reasons for this are too much, they give for another post, so for the moment you'll have to content yourself with this: I LOVE HER!

We live in the world of images

I like a very intense photo taken by Malcolm Browne, a photographer who never though that that capture became in a whole symbloic and shocking image throughout the twentieth century...

On June 11th, 1963, in the framework of strong protests organized against the government of Vietnam by Ngo Dinh Diem for its repression against the Buddhist religion, Thich Quang Duc, a sixty seven years old Buddhist monk, sat down on one of the main avenues of Saigon, where there were a few press correspondents and a small crowd. After two of his brothers sprayed him with fuel, he himself set himself on fire using a box of matches he had in his hands. Then it became a real human pyre, although the monk did not emit a single sound or move a single muscle while he was burning.

I really find this photo super fascinating because i saw it for the first time in january of the past year in bachillerato (the Arts subject, specifically the Theater module). We were talking about the Realistic Theater and how some mains cultural factors conduced to a very positivist paradigm wich it get noted in various facets of the society. Then, the teacher gave us some examples, and she led us to the photography. This photo is very useful to criticize to what extent a photo weighs more than reality, how we trust that photography shows the world as it is and not just one facet.

In nowadays, just like happened in 1963, we prefer take a picture and publish it than intervene if there is something polemic; as if a photo had more validity than the action...

I LIKE GLUMY FILMS

Novels and films have been part of my life since i can remember, i read a lots of books, i saw a lots of films, and even if that could be a good reason to can`t find a favourite one, i have to tell you my readers that I LOVE glumy films and books, most of them are also of thriller or fear, if we categorize them.

Tim Burton is such a great director, a whole artist of films and everybody can see it on his movies. Some of them wiches come to my mind are "9", "Corpse Bride", "Sleepy Hollow", "Alice in Wonderland", "Big Eyes", "Miss Peregrine`s Home for Pecualiar Children" and "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street", wich is the most i like, i think it is my favourite movie i ever saw. Every time i see it takes me back to he first time, when i was younger (arround ten years old) with my twin brother in a winter day, an ideal climate to enjoy his movies...

I like the mystery of the plot, the suspense latent in the scenes, the intrigue of the characters and their solid personality whices don`t become static or simplistic; the rhythm of the actions on how they are carried out. The environment is fantastic, Tim Burton always creates an atmosphere so typical of his work, something betwen the glumy, the mystery the magic; whose effects are fascinating. He has his seal very characteristic of him, a whole imaginary that makes you recognize a film when it was directed by Tim Burton. I like most of his films, his consolidate aesthetic is which i most appreciate of his works.

You have to see some of them! they won`t scare you...