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Blog Vlll: A subject I enjoyed studying this semester

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Hi everyone, today I am going to write about CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DISABILITY AND FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY , subject that has made me a better impression from what I thought before starting this semester. In a normal day of classes we often talk about a new concept given by our teachers that is related to being critical about our vocabulary, practices and situations that involves the disabled. The way we address this kind of experiences is an important and frecuently discussed topic that we might not give the importance that I think it has, considering its impact on society.  Sometimes we have invited persons who talk us about their own experiences and  and how they cope in a world that handicaps them.  This subject really surprised me in a positive way, because it has made me reflect on many things and I have learned a lot in class. Among the reflections that I most value is to correctly understand the terminology, the symbolic charge that words have and how this affect t...

Blog Vll: A career-related website

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Hi everyone, today I am going to talk about a website that in my career we always use as an "image bank" that serve as references and inspiration in our design projects. This website is called Pinterest, it is a visual social network that allows its users to create and manage personal boards with different themes, saving images from the main board. It really is a well-known page and people use it in a recreational way rather than for professional use or for academic purposes, but it is very helpful to my career colleagues, because in this place there is a gigantic amount of images that serve us when we have to design a work. The truth is that in academic times I use this page daily and for many hours a day, since I constantly come up with new ideas related to my final exams and I need to find images that serve as a reference doing this can take a lot of time. I love Pinterest, because it is a platform that although I use it mostly in a university context, I also use it for pe...

Blog Vl: How can my career make the world a better place?

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Hi everyone, today I am going to talk about how theatrical design can affect the world. Theater design is a career where it took me a lot of time and effort to find him another sense in addition to the aesthetic, the beauty or the spectacular. I'm sure that everything is political and this career is no exception, through of visual convention it is possible to propose political and social positions, criticize them and at the same time suggest possible solutions. I like to think that we can give a social role to a career that goes unnoticed but is present in every product/ audiovisual material that we consume. However, I feel that is not the only way to contribute to a better world, there are other options like pedagogy or artistic workshops, wich can granting expression skills to children, adolescents and adults,it can be useful to contribute to the social reintegration of grown woman's and grown men's, but also of those children whose rights have been infringed and who are...

Blog V: A photograph I like

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Hi everyone, today I am going to talk about this photo: This photo was taken by my friend Javiera in 2017 while we were taking photos for her art homework proyect, in which she had to reinvent the photo cover of the first EP from the band Cigarettes after sex. In this photo I am holding an alien mask surrounded by pink lights with Benito, my baby who passed away almost two years ago :( I like this photo because it was a very happy day, full of laughter and support. Benito really liked spending time with me and that day wasn´t the exception, he wanted to be petted and play during all the photo session, he really was mommy's little boy! lol  Today i look at this photo and i remember a happy Benito and a happy me for having him in my life. I miss him every day since he's gone. I often watch this and other photos to remember the moments we had the opportunity to enjoy together. I am very grateful to have been his mom 💖💖💖

Blog IV: A meal or food I really like

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Hi everyone, today  I am going to talk about my favorite food.  Crispy teriyaki tofu , it is a relatively new discovery in my life and it is definitely here to stay. A tip in this recipe is to have a good soy sauce, not necessarily expensive, but it has to be tasty. The instructions are easy, the excess water is removed from the tofu, in a bowl put the tofu and add the cornstarch. Now in a frying pan add olive oil and minced garlic, when it is fried add the tofu. To make the teriyaki sauce we need soy sauce, vinegar, sriracha, sugar and cornstarch, we put all the ingredients together ans stir. Then we add the sauce to the frying pan and let the sauce and tofu thicken.  Add sesame seeds and green onion at the end and voila. I really like this recipe because it is full of flavor and is very versatile. It us definitwly not very healthy but is not something you eat every day, it is that food that you make because it is irresistible lol. (I got this recipe from the @lachanchav...

Blog lll: My favorite piece of technology

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I am one of those people who really enjoy music in their daily lives, wherever I go I am accompanied by my favorite songs, cheering my way. So my favorite piece of technology are my  headphones , because doesn´t matter if I listen to music from a cellphone, an Mp3 or even a computer, they adapt to any of them. I really like listening to loud music on speakers although I prefer listen to it with my headphones on, it has the privacy factor and I can listen to it in any volume I want and no one will ever know, so my varied musical taste will not be disconcerting to anybody but me. Another reason I like them so much is that I can be listening to my favorite podcasts feeling accompanied and at the same time feeling that I am part of that conversation, it really allows me to get involved and focus on what I´m hearing. I think it helps to get disconnect from reality, which I find necessary sometimes.                I suppose it is not necessary th...

Blog ll: why did i choose to study theater design?

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When I was a child I dreamed about being veterinarian, my motivation was to save all the animals in the world y make them happy. But that dream did not last long, I still remember the day when I realized that I had to see animals suffering and sometimes even die...in that moment I admitted that I was not strong enough to handle it, so I gave up. After that I wanted to be so many things: nutritionist, camerawoman, writer and teacher (in honor of my grandpa). However, after PSU I decided to study journalism, but it wasn´t for me. After leaving journalism, I did not know what to do and in my search I found theater design, a career that looked beautiful and cool, and that also had something that journalism didn´t, being off-camera but still being related to the audiovisual world. I´m not going to lie saying it was easy, because it wasn´t. It is a career with a lot of academic load and living far away (about 5 hours’ round trip) is not very compatible. The first few years I literal...