Visual diary end, conclusions

To end with my visual diary I want to do a reflection about the whole subject.

During the creation of my visual diary I was not sure if I was doing it well or not. By the time, I realize that a visual diary is something that you have to adapt to yourself in order to express what you want and make it yours. I don't know if I did what I was asked to...But I'm sure that I reflect about my learning process in this Culture subject and I also make it mine, because a part from show the learning process I use different things not learnt in class but things that the classes inspire me to put in my visual diary like the ''culture is about...''.

With this project I had the opportunity to express myself as I wanted and also to do with a subject my own project, to work on it as I wanted (when it was possible).

I learnt and discovered things that I find very interesting, I become more critical and I feel that I progressed.

I don't know if I learn yet what is culture but I'm sure that the perspective that I have now is different from the previous one.

I also want to add that through the visual diary I arrived to different conclusions everyday but not to a final conclusion. I discovered that culture is a learning process, a process of feeling, of reflect, even of discover yourself, so I think that culture and culturize yourself is a life long learnig that I already started.


Karen López.

Culture is about ADVERTISEMENTS

As I've been showing to you something that I like a lot is advertisements and spots. I don't know why I like them that much but I simply think that they are an extraordinary thing.
Why am I saying that? It's simply, in all my post I've been using spots or advertisements, in fact publicity, that make me cry or laught or think or reflect a lot. So, they can produce me the same as a film, as a paiting or as a book that's why I think some of them are artworks.

In the other hand, I think also that some of them use the feelings of people to sell different things. And when I say ''some'' I mean the majority. But if we leave this a part, what make them shoking is that they sell things by using feelings , emotions or whatever they think it will work. And the result is amazing because it works!! (maybe capitalism helps a little bit... )

Well, today I'm gonna show that publicity sell things, yes, but you can laught a lot with them a feel different things. I would like to show some funny spots because I'm always using the most shoking ones and I want you to see how different can be the art of create advertaisments.


What do you think? Whic are really artworks? I don't know if they are art or not but I like them and I enjoy watching them as if I was watching a film.... My favorite one is the Darth Vader one!!!!! Is not funny??? Start divocovering spots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See you!

Culture is about MUSIC

Music is an art. Music is culture. Music represents feelings. Music represents people. Music represents generations. Music is an icon. Music is whatever you want.

I think everybody agree with the idea of music as an art and also as a culture. Then, what can I do? I think so.

There I leave some of the best songs ever! Enjoy it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Primeros puestos de la Lista Mundial (1997)

• 1. The Beatles ~ Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane
• 2. The Kinks ~ Waterloo Sunset
• 3. The Beach Boys ~ Good Vibrations
• 4. Bob Dylan ~ Like A Rolling Stone
• 5. Jimi Hendrix ~ All Along The Watchtower
• 6. The Byrds ~ Eight Miles High
• 7. The Beatles ~ Hey Jude/Revolution
• 8. Bob Marley & The Wailers ~ No Woman No Cry
• 9. Pink Floyd ~ See Emily Play
• 10. Small Faces ~ Tin Soldier

Primeros puestos de la Lista Mundial (2000)

• 1.- "In My Life" - The Beatles
• 2.- "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" - Rolling Stones
• 3.- "Over the rainbow" - Judy Garland
• 4.- "Here, There and Everywhere" - The Beatles
• 5.- "The Tracks of My Tears" - Smokey Robinson y The Miracles
• 6.- "The Times They Are a-Changin'" - Bob Dylan
• 7.- "Strange Fruit" - Billie Holiday
• 8.- "I Can't Make You Love Me" - Bonnie Raitt
• 9.- "People Get Ready" - The Impressions
• 10.- "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin''" - 'The Righteous Brothers
• 11.- "Yesterday'" - 'The Beatles

Also I want to show some of my own favorites songs. They are so special:

Culture is about sport

After posting a lot of posts called ''Culture is about X'' I've been thinking in something that I'm really not sure if is culture or not, but is a lifestyle : the culture of sport.

Since I was born I swim in a team called Club Natació Badalona. Since I was born literally means since I was born. During the years I've been training hard. Training hard means to get up at half past 5 and start your day at 6.00 h with a training session of two hours long. Then go to the school and without having my hear dry come back to the pool from seven to half past nine. And what is worse repeat 6 days per week. Of course, when we have an important meet instead of 6 days per week it's seven.
Yes, I think you have to be crazy to do it. You have to choose what you want when you are really really young. And it is hard. It's hard to see while your classmates enjoy Saturdays you're in a pool racing.
But, with the years you establish priorities and surprisly what you choose is your sport, in my case swim. Why does it happen?
It's simple, all these years of effort, diet, no social life are addictive. Only athlets could understand it but the sport give you all. Give you real friends, a good life style, give you strong mind, sacrifice, be constant, no give up and what is the best part fight for your dreams.

I would not express what sports make you feel like and I'm also sure that is not an art. But I'm thinking about sport as a culture. A culture of sacrifice, of constantly of lots of things... that makes you bigger as a person. What you learn inside the pool is what you do outside and it is totally true. For me, beeing an athlet is a culture. A different one but I could understand sport as a culture after this subject!


In honor to all the people who loves sport (at any level) :



We are what we repeatedly do.
Exellence then, is not an act, but a habit. -Aristotle

Culture is about LITERATURE.

Another known art is literature.
What you cannot find in literature (books, quotes, sentences...) you cannot find in another place.
In literature all is possible and all appears, in one or in another book. That's why writting is an art and it is difficult to make all people feel indetificated with a text.
That's what good writters do: make people feel and use irony.

There you can find a list of the best 100 books ever written: 100 BEST BOKS

Now I'm reading an interesting book called ''Ha vuelto'' written by Timur Vermes. Is a comedy that that talks bout Hitler living once again. He got up in Berlin in 2011. The book makes you laught from Hitler but also laught with Hitler. Is it legal???? Discover it by reading the book!!!!

Enjoy lecture!

See you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Culture is about films

Movies, also known as films, are a type of visual communication which use moving pictures and sound to tell stories orinform (help people to learn). People in every part of the world watch movies as a type of entertainment, a way to have fun. Fun for some people can mean laughing, while for others it can mean crying, or feeling afraid. Most movies are made so that they can be shown on big screens at cinemas or movie theatres. After movies are shown on movie screens for a period of time (ranging from a few weeks to several months), movies are shown on pay television or cable television, and sold or rented on DVD disks or videocassette tapes, so that people can watch the movies at home. You can also download or stream movies. Later movies are shown on television stations. (from weekipedia)

Cinema is also known as the seven art. What do you think about?

In my opinion cinema is a combination of different arts: music, acting, texts... etc . This combination makes cinema unique and speciall as well as theatre. Cinema is also about subjectivity, feelings and emotions. What makes it speciall is the combination of all the elements and the result which consequently has an impact on the spectator. 
When I use subjectivity I also mean that you cannot consider all films as art or as culture. Why? Because is subjective. Every point of view see films from a different perspective and the same happen with the rest: music, paitings, photographies... There are a lot of universal artworks because they have the capacity to make themselves special for some reason and to make all people in the world from all the ages agree on it. But there only a few artworks with this characterics. The rest, depends on people subjectivity. I think the Culture subject is making me be more critical and not accepting all as art or culture as ''easily''.

There I want to post some of my favourites films:

-Charlie and the chocolate factory

-Big fish

-Lost in translation

-Forest gump

-Harry Potter

THE HAPPINES OF BEING IGNORANT

In the globilized world where we live everytime is more difficult to don't know something, we are all connected and we have to much information in our hands.

It is difficult to give a meaning to globalitzation but is not as difficult to see the consequences of it. I've been listening all my life that beeing happy is beeing ignorant. So, globalitzation private us of this ignorance so fast.
It's good to be informed but to much information on an early age will destroy us. In this case, for me, the sooner is not the better.

To reflect about that I want to explain you and spot that I'm not able to find.
This has two parts.
In the first one the two main characters and old women and a black immigrant gay are together in the bus stop. The gay has an instrument and is playing it. The reaction of the women is to say that is very annoying. The other people do nothing.

In the second part the reaction of the women is totally different. What she does is sit next to the gay and talk about the instrument that she already knew. The other people is surprised.

It is interesting to ask to ourselves why we like the most the second attitude. What really means globalitzation? In this case is good? We want it? What is the relation between globalitzation and empathy?


See you!!!!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Mothers are art on itself! Or not???

Well, there I leave some spots that I like a lot. They are authentic artworks and all of them dedicated to mother's day. I hope they make you call your mother, or say to she something beautiful as well as realize how difficult is to be a mother and also reflect about the commercial fact of this day !!!!














Congratulations to all the mothers of the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See you!

Culture is about BEING DIFFERENT.

''18 cosas que las personas altamente creativas no hacen igual que el resto''

Discover what creative people do...

Culture is about CHANGE YOUR POINT OF VIEW

SANT JORDI

Sant Jordi is my favourite day and its very ancient tradition in Catalonia.
This day is magic.
The tradition consists in the following:
Mans has to buy a rose for womans and womans has to buy a book for those mans.
But of course it is only the Catalan culture... Sant Jordi is a international day and every country has given a meaning to it.

(see the information in: SANT JORDI'S INFORMATION )

What I would show of this day are things that I consider as culture, because they are very artistic and they make you feel, it's a very special day and all is magic this day.

That's why I will show some of my poems (or a part of them) that I like a lot...

Creo que no te quiero, que solamente quiero la imposibilidad tan obvia de quererte. Como el guante izquierdo enamorado de la mano derecha. -Julio Cortázar

Así que uno planta su propio jardín y decora su propia alma, en lugar de esperar a que alguien le traiga flores.- Jorge Luís Borges

Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos- Pablo Neruda


Dins un cafè ple de brogit, en un racó,
inclinat sobre la taula, seu un vell,
amb un diari al davant, sense companyia.

I en el desengany de la vellesa miserable,
pensa que fruí molt poc dels seus anys,
llavors que tenia força, eloqüència, bellesa.

Sap que ha envellit molt. Se n’adona, ho comprèn.
I el temps en què era jove li sembla com ahir.
Quin interval tan curt, quin interval tan curt!

I pensa: la Saviesa, ah, com es burlava d’ell,
com hi va confiar sempre, quina follia!
Ella, mesquina, li deia: “Demà. Tens molt de temps”.

Recorda els impulsos que va haver de refrenar i tantes
alegries sacrificades. Ara, cada bona ocasió perduda
es mofa de la seva prudència insensata.

Però a força d’haver reflexionat i recordat tantes coses,
el vell ha quedat ben atordit. I s’adorm
recolzant el cap sobre la taula del cafè. -Konstandinos Kavafis



The tipical rose...

And the imagination that Sant Jordi' day brings to us to create different things as funny and beautiful as this ones...

(mrwonderful is a little bit comercial but it's funny and beautiful sometimes!!)

See you!

DEATH IN VENICE

Death in Venice is a novella written by the German author Thomas Mann, first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig.^[1] The work presents a great writer suffering writer's block who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed, by the sight of a stunningly beautiful youth. Though he never speaks to the boy, much less touches him, the writer finds himself drawn deep into ruinous inward passion; meanwhile, Venice, and finally the writer himself, succumb to a cholera plague. The novella is powerfully intertextual, with the chief sources being first the connection of erotic love to philosophical wisdom traced in Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus, and second theNietzschean contrast between the god of restraint and shaping form, Apollo, and the god of excess and passion, Dionysus.

The boy in the story (Tadzio) is based on a boy (Władzio or Tadzio, nicknames for the Polish name Władyslaw or Tadeusz respectively) Mann had seen during a visit to Venice in 1911.

(from weekipedia)

After reading Death in Venice and watched the film at class I would like to do few reflection.

My first opinion of the book is good, because is strange but at the same time interesting. What makes the book interesting is the biography of the author that the book hides. Read this book is a good exercise to invest about the life of the author and also see how it has impact on the book. In a few words: the book shows what the author tries to hide in his real life.

Then, about the film, first of all I want to say that I consider cinema as an art and also a culture on itself. But not all the films have the same characteristics and in consequence they have more or less attractive. When I use attractive I refer to the characteristics that an artwork needs to have: make you feel, make you reflect, make you invest...

So, for me this film is not as attractive as the book is and in consequence I cannot consider the result as art or as culture. 

It's a little big contradictory to say that cinema is an art and a film is not but as I said it deppends on the film, as well as I don't consider all the paitings art, or all the music, or all the books, or all the spots... etc.

What do you think? Am I wrong? Do you agree?

See you!!!

Culture is about TRYING

VENEZUELA

Ucrania

The truth

SOCIAL CONVENCTIONS

Social convections are part of culture. They influence our minds since we were born depending on the place and the time we are living.

This are related with social stereotypes. It is in our hands to contructs a culture in which sterotypes don't have the value that they have nowadays.

I would like to show two videos that I watched in a subject of my degree in Primary School which is called Education and Educational context. There we can see how social stereotypes influence on children and also how stereotypes can make us laught!!






After seeing this once again I have to say that I don't consider it as culture but they are a fantastic way to show what I wanted.

"Un chien andalou"

With this post I would like to show the reflection that I've done after watching ''Un chien andalou'', I find it quite interesting because I see lots of similarities with two other artits that I like. Read it!!!!!!!!

My interpretation of Un chien andalou.

Un chien andalou remind me the Black Paintings made by Francisco Goya. This are a group of fourteen paintings from the later years of his life, likely between 1819 and 1823.They portray intense, haunting themes, reflective of both his fear of insanity and by then, his bleak outlook on humanity.

 Also, un chien andalou remind me the book ''Luces de bohemia'' where apears the ''esperpento'' which is a way to distort reality, in the spanish literature created by Valle- Inclán ( the writter of the book ),he uses distorted descriptions of reality in order to criticize society. Leading themes include death, the grotesque, and the reduction of human beings to objects. 

For me to stablish a relation between Black Paintings, the ''esperpento of Valle-Inclán and the film Un chien andalou makes sense. What Goya was trying to show remind me the fears and the panics that are showed in the film Un chien andalou, the distosion of the reality made by Valle-Inclan to criticize the society or a person in concret remind me also to the undertone of the film. And of course, because this two things make the reality different an horroros and difficult to understand like in a nightmare. And for me ''Un chien andalou'' is a nightmare, in which are shown brilliant metaphors , as in all the dreams or nightmares also.

In conclusion, for me they are looking to the world with the same eyes.

Culture is about gastronomy

As a little gourmet I could not consider food as culture and also as an art. An special one.

Every country is represented by its own food, by its tipical dishes. Those recipes represent the essence of the country throughout the ingredients tipical of the zone.

It is said that you can conquer the love of a man through the stomach? Well, with turist is the same!!! They feel fascinated for mediterranian food and Catalonia is one of the best.

I would like to post some recipes from my country or from some others and said that our recipies define us and they are part of our culture making us feel and enjoy!!!


Calçots, Xató, Pa amb tomàquet, Anxoves de l'escala, Coca de recapte, Escudella barrejada, From some other I like the most...Gazpacho, Salmorejo, Pintxos, Cous-cous, Paella, Fajitas...

And some other dishes... If you are wishing to taste it you cannot say that it is not art!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See you!

FEMINISM

It is impossible not to do a reflection about feminism after women's day.

What is feminism?

Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, cultural, and social rights for women.This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. A feminist advocates or supports the rights and equality of women.

( see more in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism)

As I did on the last post I would like to relate some artworks worked at class or some artworks that I know that can be related with this day.

For me the most impactant one was one video called ''3000 feminismos'', it make me laught but also reflect about womans right in nowadays society. But, even it make me feel and think I'm not considering it culture at all. I don't know if I'm beeing more critical since the subject started or simply is a question of stereotypes or fixed idees but I cannot considered this video culture or art at all, eventhough I recomend it to all kind of persons and I showed it to all my family!!!!




Also I want to use this post to talk about one of the most important problems of current society, in my opinion, which is gender violence.
As feminism is asking for the rights of womens one of them is the security. The security of beeing safe at home, in your job and alone.

During lots of years in my school which is IES La Llauna we work on that topic, because we considered it important. As I said, I like spots and to show how publicity can become art and at the same time make us reflect or raise awareness I would like to show some of them really shocking. Also I would like to show an spot that some of my schoolmates did fight against gender violence.




Also I would like to post some ''news'' that I find interesting in relation with the new law  of abortion.

Mi coño, tu coño

WOMEN'S DAY

From weekipedia:

International Women's Day (IWD), also called International Working Women's Day, is celebrated on March 8 every year. In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women's economic, political, and social achievements. Started as a Socialist political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries, primarily in Europe, including Russia. In some regions, the day lost its political flavor, and became simply an occasion for men to express their love for women in a way somewhat similar to a mixture of Mother's Day and Valentine's Day. In other regions, however, the political and human rights theme designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner. This is a day which some people celebrate by wearing purple ribbons. 

To celebrate the most important day ever created for us, I would give you some artworks related with womens in some kind of sense... As always, I would ask you if for you those pieces of art (in my opinion) can be considered as culture...or not????????

Frida Kahlo
Pies, ¿para qué los quiero si tengo alas para volar?

Madonna
Soy dura, ambiciosa, y sé exactamente lo que quiero. Si eso me convierte en una zorra, ¡de acuerdo!

Hellen Keller
Nunca se debe gatear cuando se tiene el impulso de volar

Maria Mercè Marçal i Serra
A l'atzar agraeixo tres dons: 
haver nascut dona,de classe baixa i nació oprimida.
I el tèrbol atzur de ser tres voltes rebel.

El baño turco, Georgia o'Keffe, Pin-up n.9 Starring Jennifer Miller..

   

La Venus de Milo


“Sin ti las emociones de hoy sólo serían las envolturas muertas de las del ayer” (Amelie)

Siempre se llega a alguna parte si se camina lo bastante. (Alicia en el país de las maravillas)

Creo que es oficial. Estoy enamorado de Summer. Me encanta su sonrisa, su pelo, sus rodillas. Adoro la marca de nacimiento en forma de corazón que tiene en su cuello, cómo lame sus labios antes de hablar algunas veces. O el sonido de su risa, que es como cuando estás dormido. Escucho una canción de amor cada vez que pienso en ella. Me encanta cómo me hace sentir. Como si todo fuera posible, como... como si la vida valiese la pena / Odio a Summer. Odio sus dientes torcidos, su peinado de 1960, odio sus rodillas huesudas, odio su lunar en el cuello que parece una cucaracha, odio la forma en que se moja los labios antes de hablar. Odio el sonido de su risa. ¡Odio esta canción! (500 días juntos)

I could be all the day posting things.. but I also think that a person has to discover what is art and also what is culture on his or her own way. And in this way you can also see that there are only a few artworks in which womens don't appear, it is interesting to think about it....
What is in this post today is culture for me: the culture of some sentences, paitings, songs, sculptures or significant parts of films and books. They make me feel and reflect, I can be for a long time reading, seeing or listening and thinking, it always make me feel.
Enjoy it, I do it!!!!!!!!!