the art of blogging

to make a blogsite was a new experience for me,i never had a blog before, maybe i dont have the habit of keep updeated my journal. Sometimes, when im busy on workshop , i leave my blogsite aside to finish it, so, many times, i forget to ask the class task before the deadline, ( this thing is just a personal apreciation in that way , could say im not to much proactive) however , i think is an important support to improve english read, because every time you are cheking you own blog you can acces to the partners sites and get theirs opinions about the same theme, even if you dont know or speak them.
This kind of activity makes you exercise your readding comprention in a easy and didactic way.
The blogsite has become a kind of culture that allows you to be in touch with other people excange ideas opinions and themes. It is a great tool that itcoul be use more for education and entertainment.

victory city

well, i don´t understand so much the victoy cities proyect after i read the website, because it doesnt have any real reference about how the proyect will be build.
You can find a lot of good ideas into the proyect, many of them are close to "new urbanism"( an U.S.A. architecture tendence in the 80´s) but all the information seems to be superficial, there is no images of estructrure, legal parmeters, selling conditions etc., all you cand find in the web site information about the idea and his owner.
When you visit a new building proyect website( real state), you hope to find much more than that, even you want to check previous proyects build by the arquitects or something.... well, you are not goig to find any of that things in this website because seems to be an architect student joke.

Sunday

The song is performed by Sonic Youth, one of my favorite post-punk bands.
I really can´t remember when i hear the song first time, maybe at the end of the 90´s, but i remember clearly when i was walking to the school with my headphones, listening the hipnotic sonic-waves of Sunday, dreaming to play guitar in a rock & roll band.

I think i like the song because it´s so simple. the lyrics are frank, they express daily stuff, not stilted poetry or decorative constructions, some famous architecs says "less is more".
Today is always welcome a little blood in a song, to much post-production can kill an album.
The guitars are awesome, they make a "sound-storm" playing the guitars like layers, even some guitar-riffs get you through intense atmospheres and makes you feel hundred of guitars playing at the same time.
a really good song!!,.... i miss music like this one.


Sunday
Sonic Youth
Album : A Thousand Leaves, 1998


Sunday comes alone again
A perfect day for a quiet friend
And you, you will set it free
I see new morning yound your face
Everybody says it's another phase
And now, now it's come to me
See the magic in your eyes
I see it come as no surprise
And you, you turn your eyes away
Yeah, you, you turn it all away
I guess it's true, it's never too late
Still I don't know what to do today
Oh, why can't I set you free?
Will you do the same for me?
Sunday comes and sunday goes
Sunday always seems to move so slow
To me, here she comes again
A perfect ending to a perfect day
A perfect ending, what can I say
To you, lonely sunday friend?
With you, Sunday never ends

Should De Niro be a New York tourist figure?

The article talks about the new tourist political of the New York City, for attract visitors after 9/11 attack. Basically, explain in a humoristic or sarcastic way, the Robert the Niro choice like “the tourist figure” of the city by the major Michael Bloomberg.

The author ask himself why the city council try to reconstruct the city image, trough the revival of film characters from 20 or 30 years ago, like “taxi driver” or “mean streets”.

To take the image of the legendary characters seems to be a perfect tool for reactivate the tourist activity, because the people, who visit the city, had a nostalgic image about it. So, to get a meet with a film characters, turn the visits much more attractive for the tourist. Obviously, the city council can get some benefits of it

Finally, the author says the New York City doesn’t need a person to sale the city image, because the city and the movies speak by themselves.

Personally, I like the city very much, but , like an architecture estudent, I rather make different ways to create new tourist activity…..and I don’t like the major!!!

the article: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/09/its_either_inspired_postmodern.html

book review

long time ago i used to read a lot of novels for pleasure, it was a deeply -rooted habit from childhood , but from the start of the college, my freetime has lesseaned, and now the most kind of books i read, are about architecture.
however, i keep in mind many novels that make a change in my reading apreciation. actually some books still are referents in my architecture design work.
One of them is "el picadero", from a chilean writer Adolfo Couve´s work, this novel was the first i read about him, and was really moving because the descriptive way of narration is brilliant, ( he was also a painter) so, his way to show the narrative world is very graphic, and seems to make layers that shape an history, actually , the hystory is not the most important part of the novel, but the way he talk about all this melancholic lanscapes ( characters , places, ages,) and how he link them , make his work a master piece of intensity.

bbc

The bbc website it seems to be another website like many others to learn english, but if you really analyse the whole site you can notice that it has a lot of parts that makes the learning process a lot easier. It has the graphic look of a news site, really rigid and quite boring, so the first impression it doesnt really catch you. I liked a lot because you can learn an english a lot more pure, because the principal source of english that we get it`s from television and it is really mixed, with a lot of slang in it. I think that it`s really good that exist this kind of sites that allow all kinds of people to have access to learn without paying, it also has a special link to learn business english for all those people that needs to catch up with the global economy that we have right now in the world, so they can compite better with their pairs in their jobs. As the business english link, it also exist one for teachers so it also provides capacitation to make sure that the english that kids and other people are getting it´s an lenguage of quality and ruled by our days.