Saturday, July 20, 2013
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
This photograph calls "Lunch atop a Skyscraper" and it was taken by Charles Ebbets on september 20, 1932. The photograph shows a group of 11 workers seated on a girder with their feet dangling 256 meters, on the 69th floor! above the New York City streets. They are having lunch during the construction of the RCA building at Rockefeller Center.
The men haven't any security. They don't have safety harness. They are seated like if were in the dinner room of their house. This picture was taken during the Great Depression, a time when people were willing to take any job regardless of safety issue.
The photographer
Charles Ebbets was born in August 18, 1905 in Gadsden, Alabama. He bought his first camera at the age of eight by charging it to his mother's account at a local drugstore. Ebbets started his career during the 1920s in St. Petersburg, Florida, as a still photographer.
By the 1930s Ebbets was a well known photographer and had work
published in the major newspapers across the nation including the New York Times. In 1932, he was appointed photographic director for the Rockefeller Center,
which was under construction in New York. In September of that year, he
would take the photo which would later define his work, Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper. This picture appeared in the Sunday photo supplement of the New York Herald Tribune on October 2.
I really like this photo because you can see the buildings of New York behind the workers and it's really awesome how they can be so relax at such a high height. In fact, it causes me a little of vertigo. The other thing that I like, it's that they look like if were floating, because the photograph doesn't show the entire girder. Although I like that the picture is in black and white, maybe if was in color, the details could be more appreciated.
Monday, June 3, 2013
Today I'm going to talk about my new favourite serie. It calls Girls.Girls portrays the life of four girls of
twenty-somethings that live in New York city. Created by and starring Lena Dunham. The serie begins when the aspiring writer
Hannah gets a shock when her parents visit from Michigan and announce they will no
longer financially support her as they have done since her graduation from Oberlin College two years before.
Some Characters
Shoshanna Shapiro
I love this
character. She is Jessa's bubbly and innocent american cousin, 21 years old. She is very
intelligent and has a math major at New York
University. Shoshanna loves the serie Sex & the City, and
keeps a poster from the first movie in her apartment. Her "biggest
baggage" is that she is a virgin. I like the way she talks (she talks very fast) and express. I think Zosia Mamet, the actress, acts very good, is very believable
her character.
Adam Sackler
I love this guy. At the beginning I found him a
little freak and crazy but now I think he is very kind and funny. I love his
personality. Adam is usually seen in his apartment where he and Hannah have
sex, but their relationship deepens over the course of the first season. But
then with time they get serious and he becomes her boyfriend. In the season one finale, he offers to move in
to Hannah's apartment but then breaks up with her after he says he loves her,
and she doesn't respond.
I think I don't have many technology articles,
in fact I only have my computer and my cellphone. I use my computer to study
and to be in facebook or to buy some stuff on internet, but in general if don't
have to use my computer I use my cellphone, because is more accessible and
fast.
So my favourite piece of technology is my iPhone. I got it like two years ago and I use it all the time. I check my emails, I send emails, I take pictures with my iPhone, and also I talk whith my friends using the aplicattion of chat called Whatsapp. I whatch videos and use the aplicattion of facebook and the most important or the thing I use more is to listen music.
I like my iPhone because it has a lot of things in one aparat. Like I said before I can check my emails, browsing on web and listen music, I don´t need a mp3 or my computer if I want to do this kind of stuff.
So my favourite piece of technology is my iPhone. I got it like two years ago and I use it all the time. I check my emails, I send emails, I take pictures with my iPhone, and also I talk whith my friends using the aplicattion of chat called Whatsapp. I whatch videos and use the aplicattion of facebook and the most important or the thing I use more is to listen music.
I like my iPhone because it has a lot of things in one aparat. Like I said before I can check my emails, browsing on web and listen music, I don´t need a mp3 or my computer if I want to do this kind of stuff.
What life would be like without it
Well like a week ago, the day when it was raining very strong, my iPhone accidentally got wet, and for two days it was turned off. I was a little freak out not because I couldn't listen to music or send emails, but because I couldn't called my parents or friends.
Well like a week ago, the day when it was raining very strong, my iPhone accidentally got wet, and for two days it was turned off. I was a little freak out not because I couldn't listen to music or send emails, but because I couldn't called my parents or friends.
Maybe if I spend more time with out my iPhone I
will be like the girl in this picture jajaj
Monday, May 20, 2013
Yesterday a new integrant come into my family. His name is Sam. It's a very handsome puppy!
My little syster found him in this website: http://animaliaadopciones.wordpress.com/.
This site has a huge number of annoucements of cats and dogs which were abandoned and don't have any home. It's suppose that every person who want a pet has to taking guardianship of and responsibility for a pet.
All in my family are very happy and Sam as well. He is very intelligent and a little naughty. Now we have to organizated very well, to take care our Sam.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
One of the websites that I really like is www.ciperchile.cl. CIPER is Centro de Investigación PeriodÃstica, (Center of Journalism Investigation)
I think it's a fantastic journalism agency that always has great reports and they know how they can have a dramatic effect with their investigations.
Also, Ciper is a non-profit institution, and this is very important these days because they have all the freedoom to write about whatever they like. There is not conflict of interest in this agency, like it's common to happen with the media.
Another thing that I like about Ciper, it's that they don't have any affilation with any corporation or party, so their editorial line it's no conditionated to anyone. At least they say that on their website.
The last week, on 1th May, it was Ciper's six birthday and they presented a special article where they mention 24 of their reports that have a very hight impact in the Chilean society.
I think it's a very etical, soundness, and good agency, and I would really like to work here in the future.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
The last time that I came to a concert, was the last year. It was a very hot day and I was on my way to Lollapalooza Festival. The subway was full of people. They were all talking about their favourite bands. Finally, I arrive to the O'Higgins's park and I meet with my friends. We ate something and we were walking around, wathching some bands. Suddenly it was nine o'clock, and the great great band of Foo Fighters, it was about to come out to stage. The people started to scream and applaud. I was very anxious, and then, the music started. It was very loud and the vocalist Dave Grohl, say "¡Good night Santiago!" to the public. It was a very exciting moment. The whole concert I was very happy, singing and jumping around. I will never forget this night. It was the best concert ever!
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