A book

Today I´ll write about a book that I could recommend. The book is called The country of last things. This book was written by Paul Auster, who is american guy. I knew this book because a partner of class, Mauricio Arenas, had it, and he wanted to share it with me, like other books he have. I really liked this book, because talks about a city on ruins, where the protagonist (Anna Blume) had to face lot of material obstacles, conflicts with other persons, and be exposed to danger, but the most relevant for me is all the controversial that she could  experiment inside of her by all the travel. As we know since we are childs (because of Language and Communication class subject)   "every travel brings and means an inside travel", and I think you could recognize by yourselfs and your owns ways of life that it's true. 

I like the writing way of Paul Auster, I think he express profound things with simple phrases. And simple doesn´t mean easy.

Left here is the cover of the original book, and the man at the right is Paul. I hope you could enjoy if you read this book eventually.

                     

Quisco's post

Hi geos! I want to tell you about the great holidays when I was a child. Great part of the holidays of my childhood I was on the Quisco. I came there with my cousins, uncles, aunts, and, of course, my grandfathers. We used to go in a van, that we rent specially for those ocations, and came to pick up us house to house. It was really funny, and a chaos. When all of us was ready on the van, we start the travel, singing, listening some music on the "new" discman of one cousin, and doing lot of things for pass the travel. Being there, in this big and red house (we rent always the same one),  I was the most happy child in the world (I remember it like that).
the beach (water and sand) was part of all those days, so I preffered to tell u about some things that make special this holidays.  Some kind of things that I used to do with my cousins, was play to the restaurant with snacks (we simulate, for example, that the Duetto's cookies are the finest food of our luxury place), play to the Enchanted House (the house had beds of two levels, so we put bed clothes over the up level and this covered the down level, making a kind of "dark state", where one person inside makes of the magician with a football's ball, and other ones be down the bed puting is arms into the dark state, scaring the victims jajajajj); and, for mention one third stuff, we used to go to the craft fair, just with the purpose to buy some joke objects. One joke object that we bought every holiday was a little toilet that cames with a synthetic paste, and when you push it with your fingers sounds like a flatulence. Yes, very funny.


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A website

Hi geopeople, today the subject is "a website I like". Well, the website that I used to visit almost all days is Youtube. This page allows to people share and upload videos of many kind of thems.  I like this because have things of any topic you wanted to find; is infinite: you can find movies, music, audiobooks, people on talent's shows, social movements, learn a new idiom, political, cience, culture, and a reeeeally long "etc.".
I think I used this website since I have 11 years old, or less, but I didn't used it so much over those years.
The last uses I have been giving to this website is for watch movies. The last weeks I've seen "Los amantes del círculo polar". "La soledad de los números primos", "La elegancia del erizo", "Persona", "Tan lejos, tan cerca". The filmmakers of this movies are Julio Medem (spanish nacionality), Saverio Constanzo (italian), Mona Achache (french), Ingmar Bergman (swedish), and Wim Wenders (german), respectively.  Yesterday I wanted to watch a movie called "La fille sur le point", but I get out of my house, so I didn't seen it yet. I think this site is so much better than Netflix.
Other use that I give to this website is to listen music (like the common of people do).
Well, I have ready the 200 words, so I think Ive done it for today.

"Dont you think I undestand?. The hopeless dream of being. Not to look like, BEING. Conscious on every moment, watchful. At the same time, the abyss between you are for the others and for yourself, that feeling of dizziness and constant wish of, at least, be exposed, analized, dissected, even annihilated. Every word a lie, every gesture a falsehood, every smile a grimace. ¨To kill yoursel?¨ Oh, no, yo wouldtn do that. [...]". Persona, 1966. Bergman, I. -


 

Memrise

How would you describe the app to a friend?
Hi! i was knowing an app for study English on a funny way. It calls Memrise, and the courses that are in this app are really didactic. And not just english, you can try with many others languages, like French, Spanish, Japanese, German or Italian, between others. You can try with it and then told me how it seems to you.

What did you deduce about the methodology?
I think that is very didactic, because you are like "playing" with the apps, it doesnt seems like you are studying.

Did you enjoy using the app?
I enjoyed using the app, i think its dinamic and easy to use.

Wich courses did you choose?
I choose two courses:
-Practise your listening (Actions, Emotions)
-English expressions

Do you think is an usefull languaje tool?
Of course it is, in fact i think im going to use it for practise French.

A place I like to go

Well, the place about i want to talk i dont know if it keeps existing. His name is (or was) "La Naranja". This is a coffee where i used to go when i was a child with my grandpa, and used to be on Providencia. Many times on summer/ winter vacations, or often saturdays, my  grandfather (i call him "dad") had to left for work (he was a "junior´s office"), and i always asked him for taked me with  him. A 90% i had a Yes by answer. I really enjoyed to go over central streets by his hand, got into banks (he always give me checks that dont had nothing wrote, and i full them of scratchs), and other places that i just remember like offices. When we finished the things of the day, he used to took me to La Naranja. He asked for a beer (a "pilsen") and an ice cream or juice for me.  I have great memories of those instances on that place; my dad use to make everything fun/interesting for me. When we went back on bus, we played counting how many "A", "N", or any other letter we can find on the signs into the bus; or other times we played i was the bus driver and i gave him a ticket price. He always kept the ticket for this play.

Well, i cant remember how older i was or how many times we left for his work together, and i dont know if this count for you like a "place i liked to go". But for me, it works. 

Ps: i couldnt find an image of the place, so i draw it.

A piece of art: Eadward Muybridge

 Edward James Muggeridge (what is his birth name) was an english photographer who was pioneer working on the capture of movement. On 1877, the state gaves him a plates assembly of a horse trot, and then he could make a set of continuous images which showed the amazing movement: The horse in motion.


                                      

His most appreciated instrument, which he invented on 1879, was the "zoopraxiscope". The play consists on inssert a plate (at left) over the machine (at right). Then, we have to make roll the plate, because the quickly serial of the images is the thing that gaves the effect of movement, and finally this one is proyected at backside. 

                                      

I think it was an amazing invent, a kind of "art machine". I know this since the last year, by a music video that I found driving on internet (Youtube). When I saw the video, I felt lot of interest by the serial of female subject. I put replay many times, until I get down and read the key name: Eadweard J. Muybridgde. I searched it and found it. Nice. Looking a little bit more, I could know other instrument, the "zootrope". You can search it if you want.

I think that the more that I like about this type of work was the analogous way, what requires more deddication at the moment of make a piece of art.

Here I left the music video that I talked to you. Hope u like it.





                            

A geographical feature: Zhangye Danxia

Hello bloggers, today is...i'm going to talk about... (drumroll...) a piece of art!. Yes, i know that this is the topic of the next homework, but i think that this one treats about it too. Have you heard about Zhangye Danxia? Well, this is one of the most beautiful landscapes of China, on the Gansu's province; a geological formation (a gift of the plate tectonical plus the erosion and climate factors) that exhibes marvelous colors under the sunlight. It have a lot of stratums on parallel, that shape many hills, cliffs and valleys. On this place the rain is scant (so, for this reason is the erosion). This landscape has been taking shape since 24 million years ago, and actually shows like a really beautiful monument. By the way, since 2010 Zhangye Danxia is considered as one of the World Heritage Sites, by UNESCO.
I know this place (just on photos) since i was 12 years old or less. I think that i was driving on internet and PUFF! there it was, making me feel wonder.
I can remember that when I had Facebook, a couple years ago, i put this as a cover picture, and i put on the description: "I would like to have a stronger bike that hold on until China".
Here is a picture of the place...
I hope I can see it someday and walk for its nooks

Postdate: there are so many photos on internet that shows the hills with intense colours...i dont like those, because i think it isnt real jajaj the pic upside is more authentic (I suposse).

Second postdate: the first shadow its me, taking the photo! (ok, no)