Friday, October 22, 2021

An informal work, necessary but improvable

I admit that answering this task makes me very anxious. Let's see, to begin with, I currently work informally selling reproductions in stickers and posters of works I do: paintings, drawings, illustrations, etcetera. I take advantage of cultural activities where I can get tables or I am allowed to put "cloth" for free or cheap. So, if I continue with this, how do I see it in the future? I think that by having a table or exhibition artifacts that facilitate the display and review of the work that I bring. 

Cultural activities usually take place either outdoors or indoors. In each case there are advantages and disadvantages. They tend to take place all over Santiago, so I am used to travel constantly around this city. And since I am from the outskirts of San Bernardo, it seems that everything is far away. If I have the opportunity to travel to another region or even country, I will do it if I can afford it. About the salary, what can I say? As in any job of this kind, it is unstable. Sometimes I sell a lot and sometimes almost nothing. It seems to me that the ideal is to get a part-time job to have a regular income, which being little allows me to continue dedicating myself to this. I am currently finishing my degree in Visual Arts. I would also like to start managing my work in order to prepare exhibitions.

I have to attend an activity tomorrow! I take the opportunity to spam:






Friday, October 8, 2021

Film: just fiction or some reality?

For me it is not easy to choose a single favorite film, I have several for different reasons. In this case I choose Blade Runner (1982) by Ridley Scott. It seems to me that it is a sort of intermediate between mainstream films, I mean, "digestible", but with a number of features that give it complexity. Based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (1968) by Philip K. Dick, Ridley Scoot's version presents us with a dystopian future where there is an artificial production of human beings - called "replicants" - who are employed as slaves for colonies in the outside world, because they possess greater physical conditions and less emotional response. However, a riot in one of the colonies indicates that the latter is relative, and a special police force, the "blade runners", will be in charge of "retiring" the fugitives who reach land. On the basis of the above the film will raise a number of ethical questions.

The most recent film I saw is Dersu Uzala (1975), a Soviet-Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa. I highly recommend it. Based on the 1923 memoir Dersu Uzala by Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, it shows the adventures of a Soviet expedition in the Russian Far East that receives the help of a native on more than one occasion, and with it, a beautiful story of friendship and disagreements between civilization and nature. 

I don't have a favorite category of films. I commonly rely on reviews and/or recommendations. 

Both this and Blade Runner, I highly recommend them. They are very easy to watch for free.


Original movie poster from 1982 for Blade Runner 




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