Webquest 2

Part 1  Calculate your carbon footprint!

http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx

-What’s your carbon footprint?

My total carbon footprint is 6.45 metric tons of CO2e, I'm above national average.

-What’s the average carbon footprint of a person?

In Chile it is 3.87 metric tons for people.

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Part 2 Take these Recycling Quizzes

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/quiz-going-green/

http://www.quizmoz.com/quizzes/Science-Quizzes/r/Recycling-Quiz.asp

Questions:

-Hand washing dishes can use up to 50 % more of water than using an efficient dishwasher.

-Only about  18,49 % of global energy comes from renewables.

-True or false? Appliances that are turned off don’t use any electricity.

False, The appliances turn off consume a lot of electricity according to National Geographic It can be a quarter of the energy used in a house.

-Can you make paper out of hemp?

Yes, it is possible but currently it is most expensive than traditional way.

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Part 3 Video >> Top ten tips for recycling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjbSEIOUp4w 

Watch the video and choose the best 3 tips in your opinion

1. Reuse those carrier bags each time you shop

2. Try to minimize the waste with minimal packaging

3. Squash bulky Plastic bottles.

My blog expirience

This is my first blog experience, in general I felt good written, however I have had some complication with personal histories,  vocabulary and grammatical.   

Although it is difficult for me remember particular events and connect histories of my life with topics that I did not choose, I try to be honest in my writing. I only have Facebook as social networks and in this I don´t write a lot of personal information, so this blogs it is a real new experience about communication and amount of words used.     

One problem that I found it that I forget how do you spell the words many time, I confuse the order of the letters, sometimes change them. Then I needed to go to web to search the exactly way, I like the Macmillan dictionary online because you can see examples and listen the pronunciation. I believe I still need to learn more vocabulary, especially to relation with the Fine Art, but this is a good beginning.

  

Also, I often make grammatical mistake. While I wrote I strengthen a lot of knowledge and I understood better the logical of language. This blogs is usually about memories and Present, so I guess I need practice more the Future Time.

Well, in conclusion I think it has been a good experience, different than the traditional way of learning English.   

My best birthday ever

In my family there is a tradition, to special occasions as birthdays we prepare a great breakfast for the birthday person. This is very beautiful, because we express our affection and good feelings with this action.  However I don´t remember a memorable birthday, I mean, one that I could tell a good story.  I know for my mom and photographs that when I was a child I had a very great birthdays, but my memories are blurry.

I asked my sisters about their best birthday ever, the smallest reminded me of one of her birthday in which I was present. She invited her school´s friends –around 20 children- at big indoor swimming pool in a spa center and they swam around two hours. Although my mother and me were responsible of children and the control; we was very relax, because there are many space and not many people.  Also In the place there were jacuzzi, little waterfalls and a funny water slide. But in the last, my other sister doesn´t want jump and we try that she did it anyway.  In general event was very nice, different than adult birthday because the children were pretty spontaneous.

        

My work as an artist

I am in my fourth year studying fine arts and I know something about, over these years I learned mainly ceramic and painting, also I am very interested in videoart. I´m not sure that I can say I´m an artist now.
Usually in video I record some actions made by myself, those are absurd compared with normal, but they make sense in relation to gestures. For example, in one I walk in a circle for a long time, I have a backpack and it dropped small amounts of dust while I walked, finally the road is full of dusty, this action is related to the time and the accumulation, in some way you can say it is metaphoric.

The topics that I more interested this time is body, also the sensations, the language and the daily life, I try to reveal the paradigms. If you ask me about my specific area of work, I feel me close to the performance. My reference in the History of Art are  Bruce Nauman, Marina Abramovic, Ana Mendieta and Jospeh Beuys. I like the ritual in their works.

I think the art must connect people with reality, not a reality mediated or conditioned, furthermore existential. 

In the pictures some works.

An expert on my field.

In the picture you see Ana Mendieta. She was an important woman in the field of art, specifically in the area of body art. She was born in 1948 and she had an tragic death in 1985, she fell down from 34th floor. It's presumed that she was murdered by her partner, the artist minimalistic Carl André. Her origins are cuban, however she lived in United States much of her life . This biographic event was important in her work, especially for her physical appearance. She worked through to performance and videoart, one of the her most important work is the Silueta series, where she took particulars pictures of herself in natural area trying to blend her body with nature like a way to approach to earth, after she continued with variations of this work. The death is an important topics used by her, because her work is ritual and existential. Also the feminism and the violence are others line of her research. The blood is an element important in some of her works.

Personally I like very much this artist. Is a reference for me, because I do performance, I like existential essence in her work I really admire her passion.