the art of blogging

In the beginning of this cfg i thought "ok, this is like any other english classes, some activities from a guidebook and nothing else" but i was wrong, the first surprise was to spend lot of time talking in english with people like me, i did'nt use to do that like years ago and it was nice to meet people from other levels and careers from this university. The second surprise was that after the break we went to the computers and we had to create a blog, it was my first blog written in english.
This hole experience has been very good, and it has helped me to improve my talking and writing skills, the last time i had lost practice besides this last years has been very busy for me so i could spend enough time studing or something like that. Now i can say that i'm thinking in english again, that i can talk more fluidly and that i can write faster and using words that i had forgotten.
I enjoyed writing on my blog, sometimes i did'nt had enough time to be on time on my posts -like now, sorry :) - or sometimes i was a little bit uninspired. But i liked the idea of working in a computer instead of making exercices in a paper, posting in blogspot has been a new experience to get in touch with techonolgy, i enjoyed "posting" about my interest and watching the post and opinios of my classmates. I did'nt like the posts when i had to spend to much time researching or reading, because it was too slow to get them done, i just liked writinig about ted because what he said was really interesting but i got bored with the bbc's or the victory's posts (sorry Simon lol). The posts i liked most were talking about my favourite song and book.
I would like to be again in this class but there aren't higher levels to do :( , I expect that in the future would exist a level IV.
Thanks Simon for your dedication and your innovative way of teaching.

Blade Runner

I saw this movie four years ago in a free movie cycle at the Catholic University's East Campus. In that time i didn't ever hear about it, but after watching it, i really liked it. The atmospheres of the movie are amazing, its a world of high technolgy in some places but in others everything it old and decadence, everything happens in a distopic society where big companies rules the world and the globalization seem to apper everywhere, the story is about a kind of cop that must kill a group of rebel artificial humans.
As i said in a older post, i dont like utopic images of the future so i think this movie is good kind of advice that warns us about some future problems about technology, ethic, power, society, nature, etc. Lets face it, people in the past thought that our present would be almost perfect but in the reallity, still there is poverty, hungry, wars, etc. Maybe this things happens in a different way but we still been the same humans.

This movie reminds some movies like matrix or the fifth element that i like them too but this one its different, it's a little more realistic and darker also it`s not so comercial. A movie that an architech can miss because of the aesthetic and atmospheres.

Do schools kill creativity?

When i started to hear Ken Robinson, i though "this guy is very funny" and i laugh with many of his jokes, but then i started to hear him carefully and i notice that he had many intelligent and different ideas about education. He advice us that the actual school system in many countries doesn't help children to be more creative and to found and develope their fortress in different areas. I agree with him that schools doesn't help children to face their mistakes and go on, they make them think that they have to be winners all the time. Our society use to think that people who has reach the top are more intellegent or they have a kind of gift, but they dont think that those people had to effort and commit mistakes to be where they are. When he was talking i remebered when i was on high school and i had to choose like 8 academic hours beside the obligatory subjects, i'm really thankfull of my school, because i could choosed whatever i wanted, in other school you have to choose bewteen a biology, math or humanist program. But in my situation i had different interest (as many architects), so i choosed 4 hours of art, 4 hours of math and 2 hours of psicology, that helped me to satisfy my different interest, that maybe were a little kind of weird for other people. But as Mr Ken Robison said, people had many kind of different intelligences.
Now that children spend more time at schools, its a good oportunity to rethink the actual education system, to give more oportunities to children to develop all their different intesert and kinds of intelligences.

classmate website: ismael`s blog

I looked for an interesting blog to talk about, after seening all of them, i choosed ismael's blog because i think its really entertaining. I knew him the last semester in bendersky's workshop, he's very pleasant and outgoing. His blogs is called make it happen, i really dont know why he called it like that, maybe its because he considers himself a decided person that knows what he wants. He has eleven post. The post i liked most was the one about his favourite groups: Metric, i really like them too, their music sounds modern and "urban", the girl's voice is expresive, sometimes their music sounds fun, a little bit dark or very sentimental. It reminds me other groups like the cardigans or vive la fete.
Ismael blogs its very easy to read and its full of good stories, some jokes, intelligent comments and the most impotant, he express his point of view.
Well if i have to suggest something to improve his blog, it would be the design of it, its looks like an old wallpaper, personally I don't like but it's just my opinion.

Keep going with your blog ismael, is really good.

Radio Zero's web site

One of my favourites radios its "zero", i like the different kind of music they play, like electronic music, indie, alternative rock, post folk, etc. there is always something new and different. I like too some of the programs and anouncers are really interesting... i like the website, i discovered it hearing a spot on the same radio, I visit it like two or three time a month.
I like it because its a friendly user web site, its really easy to surf on it and its visualy atractive.
In the section "Lo nuevo en Zero" you can know about the programs, the schedules, who is the anouncer and who will be invited, what they are gonna talk about or which music is going to be played. You can comment about that if you want. In "Archivos Zero" you cant find info of old programs. In "Radar Zero" there are some articles about movies, new places, trends, etc. In "Seleccion Zero" there is a list of recommended song and albums.
You can heart online or download podcasts of your favourite programs, so if you miss and special program or an interesting interview you can download it and here any time you want.
This website it really good and what i estimate more is to know which songs were played in which program and day.

favourite piece of technology

My favourite piece of technolgy is internet. I have been using it for many years, i cant remember well when was the first time i use it, i think it was like 6 years ago. I use it almost everyday, like one and a half hour. I really love to download music, because i like electronic and "alternative" music, and there aren't many radios that play that kind of stuff and its very difficult and expensive to get some albums at the shops. i like to spend time searching for new bands and singers. I enjoy watching videos clips that i have never seen on mtv and repeting or rewinding them if i want.

I usually use messenger to talk with my friends from school or university. I like to spend lot of time talking with someone without worring about the bill. One of the tools i use a always its google, it helps me to find anything i want about news, architecture, music, etc.

If i would havent internet and a computer i would feel a little bit more restricted to comunicate from my house with my friends, and to get quick and diverse information and comunication.

I think internet has changed the way we comunicate and get information. It has helped a lot of people to get equal access to information and comunication around the world.

Victory City

I dont like utopic models of cities i think its better to re-plan what is already made in our reallity with its problems and benefitis instead of creating a model of a "perfect city" or a perfect "society" that will never exist. Models are often imposed on us by just a little part of a society and sometimes they don't respond to the real needs of the people.
This model called Victory City was created by Orville Simpson, it's an entire city operated by private enterprise. This city would be placed in the middle of a countryside, that consist of 5 builindings 102 floors high that would give you everything you need under just one roof.
One of the things it bothers me most its that the model is supposed to concentrate lots of people in a smaller space and that would mean to eliminate 95% of the streets and sidewalks. I think that it´s a really bad decision because the sidewalks and streets are one of the most important places to relate with other people.
I think this model was thought as an object that you can put anywhere you need: "There will not be just one, but many such cities throughout the entire world"...instead of a real city made of diferent people, with different needs, ideas, ways of life and thinking, neither does this model repond to the possibles and diferent contexts of the world. Its almost imposible to respond to that with such restrictive model as this. This model its just a dream...