jueves, 26 de noviembre de 2015

My next vacation

















I really looking forward for my next vacations, I have had a difficult time in college this semester, mainly for all the things I have to do for different classes, including English. During January, I will go to Woodstaco, the chilean version of the mythic festival "Woodstock" and then I will travel to Argentina with my girlfriend, unless I don't have any money. That would be a bummer.
In Argentina we are going to visit Buenos Aires with my girlfriend's best friend, Filomena, and also with her boyfriend, Maximiliano. That was the first idea, but a few weeks ago I told to Catalina, my gf, that maybe we could visit Montevideo too and go to some beaches down there. 
I would like to visit more places in Argentina or maybe go to South Chile then, but that cost to much money and I can't do nothing with that. Just like I said, I don't have time this semester for studying and less for find a job. 
Argentina is a really nice place to visit, all my life I have planned a trip to there and hopefully reach all the corners of that beautiful land. Probably we are going by bus , is just one day travel so ain't that bad. 
I do not know how much it will cost, not more than 300 thousand pesos, I guess. 


"La Ruta"

Talk about the TV & film  industry product

I really like the TV series, but the ones who treat about humanity matters, like documentaries or journalist reports. Since I was in 6th grade I got used to watch many documentaries like "La Ruta (of)..." from Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) with the journalist and anthropologist Ricardo Astorga, I really loved to see new landscapes and cultures recorded with a first person camera. Also, I liked the feeling that a Chilean was recording all those adventures, not just an international reporter from the US or Europe. 

I think the genre is a mix of documentary and travel, also a little bit of adventure inside big jungles, the highest mountains or in the last corner of the earth. The series last for 8 seasons with more than 10 chapters, each one, and ten countries visited by Astorga and company.

The cast was always composed by Ricardo Astorga, who was also the director of the documentary, and another woman, like an actress or a TV entertainer. 

The reception from people I think was good, of course, in Chile we aren't use to watch educational television, and less if its not a silly cartoon from united states. So, I don't think the expectations were the best, regarding that at that time, during the early 21 century, the internet wasn't so massive, so not a lot of people could go on the website to watch the beautiful landscapes that were recorded in "La Ruta". 
I still think it was a really nice tv series because it shows how people live in a remote part of the world not just threw the news, it was about showing the feelings of that person, wild animals or environment. 



jueves, 5 de noviembre de 2015

Naomi Klein, Journalist





I really admired the Canadian journalist, Naomi Klein,who has published many books about ecology, feminism and critics about capitalism and globalism. She was born in Montreal, Canada on 8th of May in 1970 ( so now she is 45 years old).
She was raised in a Jewish and hippie family, his parents are both famous artists and scientists. Bonnie Sher Klein, her mother, is a famous filmmaker known for her film Not a Love Story, and her father, Michael Klein, is a physician and a member of Physicians for Social Responsability.
Her Alma Mater is the University of Toronto, where she studied journalism many years, but she didn't graduate because all the troubles she had at home and her early career in college newspapers and also on the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail.
Her first important publications was in 2000, with the book No Logo. This book treats all the corporate globalization, making a critic about the consume culture is inserted on our, occidental, minds.  This book had such an impact, that even the trademark Nike published a response, because of the over million copies from this book.
This first book is the one I like the most and also "The Shock Doctrine", where she deals with the tactics of capitalism for found their doctrine over the socialist or communist economic system.