May 28, 2010

I prefer chocolate and pizza

Eating is necessary. But i think the idea that the human race dependent on the need to eat is terrible. Is impossible to imagine a man without food and be able to fulfill all the functions without problems. However, reality said us we need to feed it so that our body can function.
Maybe the life would be most simple without worries of our hunger, that would make many worlds problems would be solved. Although would be impossible to live without a energy source, it could be food or something else. In the life cycle the animals are chained searching for the vital source.
Surely there is a lot of people who can’t conceive life without eating and who loves eat! In fact, I enjoy delighting many things, especially sweet food, like cake, cookies, ice-cream, pies, natural juices, tea with lot of sugar! [I’m in heaven!]. Maybe one day i will have a diabetic coma. Specially I love chocolate and truffa in all varieties possible: hot chocolate, chocolate bar, chocolate cake, chocolate cookies, milk and chocolate, white chocolate, chocolate souce, chocolate liqueur, etc. If I need something special to feed me, must be chocolate.
I love pizza too… a lot! I think it is because since I remember with my family have eaten pizza always, in all occasion type. We cook Neapolitan pizza, Hawaiana pizza, Greek pizza, Spanish pizza, Italian pizza, etc., we are experts. When my father was jung, he worked cooking pizzas, he knows make a good pizza dough! Anyway, the food I hate: beans, corn, ketchup, mayonnaise, some meats, seafood (except fish), chili peper and pasta… I prefer chocolate and pizza, it is a pleasure, specially when I share it with my family and friends.

May 14, 2010

Web-sites!

I think there aren’t many web-sites about Theory and History of Art that could be so good to be complete or organized. But on the field I visit some art portals regularly, which always are available for know what is happening in the cultural stage.
“Dibam” is the Governmental Direction of Libraries, Archives and Museums, where are all the information and resources of the official cultural activities. Have many links to official webs and portals, you can see how is the cultural system in the country and it is updated always. It is a good place for take a look the activities, organization and strategies that the government has and plans.
Other web-site is “Estoy.cl” where you have all the cultural agenda and actuality of the month. You can find the artistic activities in dance, theatre, music, expositions, events, etc. It is very clear and precise and entertaining. This web-site have a free magazine with the same information which is distributed every first of the months.
Other kinds of web-sites I like to visit are “Dialnet”, “Escaner Cultural”, “DDOOSS” or “Crítica.cl”, which have many texts about art, esthetics, interesting and fun things.
All this webs can be dangerous. Maybe you can lose inside there and take all your time with all the distraction if you don’t have attention.

May 8, 2010

I love books...

I love books and I love read. I grew up in a "humanist" family.. with a lot of books in our bookshelves. Stories, biology, encyclopedias, dictionaries, fantasy, education, psychology.. Several topics were available, always within reach of my hand.

Immersed in the pages of a book is one of the most pleasurable experiences there.



Currently, for requirements of the university, I read many books of art, philosophy and history. Among them I discovered a new author: Susan Sontag, that is one of my new favourite.

But in my spare time (the short time I have between many pages of study) I enjoy reading fantasy stories.


The story of Harry Potter was part of my adolescence, and the books of "The Lord of the Rings" written by Tolkien. Recently discovered Cornelia Funke, author of the book "Inkheart". Nor stranger to fashion, I read the Twilight saga that I enjoyed a lot. This kind of book allows us to ignore our reality while we are between the pages. To our minds is a permissive action, where there are no rules, freedom of action and everything is possible.

It is not the same reading online, it is true that you can save money by downloading free books and you can help not spend as much paper by not printing the texts, but finally after some time you get tired, our eyes complain and many choose to print the texts.

For me nothing is better than the experience of touching and smelling the pages of a book, are the necessary interface for the phenomenon of evasion is complete, because after a while to read, let perceive the printed letters, your eyes run down lines of the paper, but your mind is elsewhere, building what you read. Living what the author tells to you.