Gorillaz

Hi! Today in this new free post I’m going to talk about one of my favorite bands ever!

The name is Gorillaz and it is a virtual band, where every single member of it is a cartoon character developed only for the band.

The lead voice, keyboard and melodica of Gorillaz is called 2D or two dents, but I think his real name is Stuart Pot, he is a male on his twenties with blue hair, no eyes and with two missing teeth’s.

The real person who brings 2D voice to live (but only for the songs) is Damon Albarn, the vocalist of the British band Blur and so many other bands

The bass guitar and drum machine is played by Murdoc Niccals and he is sort of the devil spam on Earth, he is 47 years old (or something like that)

Murdoc is voiced by Phil Cornwell and the real bass is played by numerous other bass players

The guitar, keyboard and occasional vocals are made by Noodles, a little Japanese girl who came to London in a FedEx box, since Noodle is Japanese she never speaks because she does not know how to.

The Last member of the band is Russel Hobbs and he plays the drums and percussion, he is a big, fat and black man that is usually possessed by Del, a blue rapping ghost.

Gorillaz is an English musical and visual project created in 1998 by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, the last one is the one that drew all of the characters.

The Bright side of the Bronx

Today I’m going to do a summary from a career related article that you can find in the online page of “The Guardian”

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/14/wayne-lawrence-bronx-riviera-new-york

The article talks about a photographer named Wayne Lawrence and his last book of photography where he created an archive of pictures of the only public beach of the Bronx in New York City.

Lawrence did not take the advice about not going to the south Bronx; he did not care about the bad reputation of the people that lives in there, in fact, that was the most attractive for him.

In the two pictures that we are able to see in the article, we can see how he took the pictures of what is considered as the most lowly that you can find in that state and make it beautiful.

The photographs are very attractive, they are colourful and sincere, you can see the personalities of the models just by the looks of them.

The portraits dignified their models, and as the article say:

 “Lawrence's work reinforces the fact that striking, honest images can change people's expectations. Framed in a spare, frontal manner, there's rare raw emotional cadence here, and each portrait is a willful look at vulnerability”

Lawrence was born in St Kitts and he regard himself as an “immigrant artist”, that’s why he want to dignified the people in his portraits, he’s just like the people in his pictures “ (…)I committed myself to using photography as a tool to confront long-standing ideas about race and class."

Free Topic: Pets!

Today I have the opportunity to tell all of you about whatever I want, so, in this case, I’m going to talk about the pets that I had have in the past (and the one that I have in the present).

In my entire life I have had three pets, one kitty, one hamster and a pair of birds.

My first pet was a kitty, the story of how I got it is quite funny, because when I was like six years old I was walking with my big brother and we passed a house with this little baby kitty. It was so cute and tiny that we couldn’t help ourselves and just stole it. We had it just for a couple of months until one of our neighbours saw the cat in our fence and, just like us, he stole it, so basically the cat grow old in the house next door.

The second pet was a female hamster, she was a little bit crazy and really smart (and suicidal too). She learnt how to open her cage so she could run away (she never make it far, we always caught her), after opening the gate she used to run until the end of the table where she was and just jump to the nearest curtain, once she was there, she jumped from it to the ground. Thanks Alá we always got her on time.

The last ones were a couple of birds, actually I just have one because one of them died from a heart attack. They were Diamantes Mandarines, very cute and fat, the one that’s still alive is Pancaca, the male of the two.

NY

As I said in the last post (post II) I want to live in (and of course visit) NYC, not because is in the US but because it is NEW YORK CITY. When I was younger I wanted to live in England (just because it has bad weather, I hate sunny days) but that changed the moment I decided to study Photography. The truth is that I got everything kind of planned, the idea is to leave Chile like in 5 years with one of my best friends (she studies publicity)

We both love NY because the whole city is related to what we do, every tendency is born there, and because in there, mostly all kinds of art is appreciated and well paid.

We were thinking in living in Chinatown in Manhattan, I know that Manhattan is expensive, but that's why we want to live in Chinatown, we could do it in the Bronx.. but that will be a little far away from the 'artistic' part of the city (Broadway - yes, I’m interested in theater too -, TriBeCa, NoLita, etc).

The idea is to get to work like a fashion photographer there.

The language is not really a problem, I don't really speak English in the proper way, I mean, I'm sure this blog is full of misspellings, but in a city that is made of immigrants... I don't really think that the language is going to be a problem, and anyway, I think I can manage myself there.

My ideal job

My ideal job is to be a photographer, that’s pretty much why I study photography, this may sound a little egocentric, but I know that I have a future on it; I have a good technique and a good eye, and a lot of faith in my (someone has to have it, and if it isn’t me then who?)

I had always liked photography, since I was a child, so, I’m kind of reaching my dream or goal or something like that, I just have to keep going.

I want to work in fashion photography, working in a studio is the best, of course I want to do personal projects too, but I want to get paid for taking pictures for magazines and such, the fashion world is an interesting one, and I have always been interested in working with models, I don’t like casualties in a picture, everything it has to be prepared, everything it has to be exact, even perfect, that’s why I like studio photography, I’m a little bit of a control freak.

Im not sure if it will be difficult to get the job, when you are good at something, it usually isn’t, but anyways, I don’t want to work in here, i want to go to New York City with one of my best friends (she’s a publicist), we both know our place isn’t here.

Last Semester

Last semester was a good one, I learned new techniques in serigraphy, which is my favorite discipline after photography, I got to work in aluminum with acids, that was amazing and I had a good time doing it, the only problem was that it was smelly as hell.

In my free time I keep attending to scout, I can’t leave them, I got too much responsibilities with the boys in there that I can’t just leave, but last semester was kind of troublesome, I got less and less time so it’s becoming really hard to go.

That I remember, I didn’t have any trouble in general, it was a good semester, I had good grades, met new friends, I had lots and lost of good days.

Even my family had a good semester, it’s seems that life is getting brighter and brighter.

I think the only awful thing was the weather, we where supposed to be in winter, but it barely rained, I miss old winters, when everything was really cold and there was lots rainy days.