This last year i’ve getting really into the matter of parametric design, mechanisms and stuff, and I (almost) convinced that engineering/ process will define all the productive areas in the next years, but not only in administration and economic fields, but entertaining, architecture, music and arts in general too… we are walking (not walking, flying!) to the inflexion point between reality as we know and a completely dependent cyber reality (yeah, I’m being too exaggerated…maybe).

The art examples I’ve chose are an example of how engineering and mathematical investigation can become art with the help of human sensitiveness, and a bit of geniality.

The Hoberman sphere is, in my opinion, a beautiful game of mechanisms, marketing and art, giving  shape to a fascinating effect of life in a bunch of scissors.

 

I get to know this through an investigation about the scissor-henge system for a teacher this year (I have to expose Friday), the same system Chuck Hoberman use to create that animated sculptures, the fascinating, from my perspective, is that isn’t really complex when you get to know it a little deeper, and the perceptual game is absolutely amazing.

 

 

The second one I chose is in the same way, a simple use of materials and physics to give life (yeah I like animated objects) to a couple of bars. These things are called tensegrity structures, and I know them for the same investigation subject. I can’t find the video to show you the expo of an specific artist who use this method to create living sculptures, so I left just an example of tensegrity and how it looks, I hope you’ll feel the same as I, with simple materials, physics and imagination you can create non-conventional art, but not less impressive than traditional.

Torrente

"Torrente: el brazo tonto de la ley", is an spanish comedy from 1999, directed, written and starred by the filmmaker Santiago Segura.

I get to this movie in my adolescence (2005/2006), when I started to get bored of typical Hollywood’s blockbuster, so put my attention in foreign movies (outside USA and Chile). Casually, my uncle recommended me a Spanish movie from director Alex de la Iglesia, titled “El dia de la Bestia”, a comedy/horror film about the final battle of a priest and a heavy metal fan against Satan. Well, I really enjoyed that movie, and one of the main reasons was the heavy metal fan played by Santiago Segura. Since that, I became an assiduous watcher of Spanish movies, and a fan of Alex de la Iglesia and Santiago Segura.

Ok, returning to our subject, Torrente is a private detective (ex policeman), who claims to be the Spanish James Bond, but is actually the antithesis. His life is a mess, addicted to alcohol and cocaine, fat, racist, xenophobic and totally incompetent in any task, so only he and a couple of teenagers believe he is a national hero. One day, and just for coincidence, find out a drug trafficking network and decide to put end to it and keep the money of a big “drug deal”, with the help of his teenager sidekick.

The movie was lots of laugh, with a really unique sense of humor, putting in evidence cultural aspects of Spanish society of that time and featuring an antihero who steals the affection of watchers with an irreverent way of law enforcement.

This scene show a little bit what i'm talking about, enjoy (formed criteria)

US drone strike in southern Yemen kills four al-Qaida-linked militants

A drone from USA killed four Al Qaeda militants in Yemen, an ally country of USA which have one of the most dangerous Al Qaeda base in the region.

The procedure was through An air strike with a flying drone to the car of the suspects, which were armed with power guns and explosives, killing four, left two wounded and one left scene.

This attack was a part of the US forces campaign to stop one of the most important networks left by Osama Bin Laden, because of the continuous terrorist attacks in government buildings.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/04/al-qaida-militants-killed-us-drones-yemen

VIRTUOSO!! (someday)

Ok, actually I’m doing a lot of interest stuff compared to last year. For example, I started as a class assistant at advanced construction 2: complex geometry, where we study the behavior of geometry with parametric patterns, and how to use certain software to put complexity to geometry, to finally turn it into a construction system. The other interesting stuff I’m already learning is Korean language, because I want to make a degree in Korea about construction materials and technologies…

So, based on that “learning schedule” (pretty tight) I’m not really into learning something else just because I don’t have time and energy, but that don’t means I don’t want to, so I’ll tell you briefly about  what I would like to learn in the future, but not necessarily with a real projection on accomplish it, just for fun (someday).

I literally (not literally really…) sucks at music. I barely hear some groups, and my only relation with an instrument was the flute at primary school (because was mandatory, other way I wouldn’t tried it). For that reason, one of my dreams (more than dreams, I just have imagined it) is become a virtuoso playing electric guitar, something that looks the most impossible thing to do in the universe, actually I think that flying a rocket to the moon looks easier to me… That guys who play unbelievable riffs while the stage explode in fireworks and the crowd shout insanely, must be one of the most adrenaline and exciting sensations in your life…I should give a chance to music someday.

Pucon

If I have to title one vacation as memorable, that definitely must be my first vacations with my school friends at Pucon. That was the first time the “wolf pack” (me and my 3 best friends) go out that far, so was a special occasion for all of us.

We stayed at Ignacio’s grandfather house (his grandfathers have various houses there, so they borrow us one), for two weeks. We all had different schedules so we split in “teams” to arrive. The two first was Ignacio and me, because we were free earlier, so just took a bus in Santiago and rode for something like 7-8 hours… the other ones, Emanuel and David arrived a couple of days later.

The first thing we do when we were all reunited was buy beer (a lot of beer) to celebrate, so we spent the day drinking and hiking the wonderful landscapes of Pucon/Caburga. The nights were similar, but instead of hiking we were to clubs like kamikaze or others, so each day was crazy. For example, in a club was the free tequila shots night, and we can barely remember what happened the rest of the night… another day, we were to the casino and play almost all the games there with a lot of luck, we spent like 30000 and leave with something like 50/60000, without knowing the most of the rules of gambling, we just said, “what is this??- I don’t know let’s play it”… was really sick.

So, for all that crazy and happy moments with my friends, I think Pucon 2010 was one of my favorite vacations ever.

PARANOID

 

Ok first at all I must admit that I’m not “that” fond for music, so I’ve always been more enthusiastic for visuals than sounds (actually I have a 20/20 sight but my hearing isn’t the best), but that doesn´t mean I can’t appreciate a good song nor I haven’t a favorite band or music style (a good soundtrack can make the difference between a good scene or a crappy one).

In my case I like rock, hard rock and heavy metal (heavy metal, not the loudly and incompressible kind of metal…). British bands from the 70’s-80’s like Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne, Ronnie James Dio, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest are my favorite, with powerful voices and great costumes singing about crazy worlds and epic fantasy stories, pretty cool…

 

Between these bands, I think the most relevant is Black Sabbath as the precursors of a new kind of rock with the song Paranoid, giving birth to the heavy metal we know nowadays. I’m not really sure when was the first time I heard it, but probably in 2006-2007 saw the video on VH1.

 

The lyrics and rhythm are really simply, but the atmosphere that generate is awesome, and sound like you’re falling down endless, which is perfect for the lyrics, because talk about an insane guy who realizes that he can’t control his life and now it’s too late to enjoying it.

ROFL

Hi everyone, this time I want to get my serious side apart and show you two funny videos which booming the internet a couple of years ago.

The first one is called “Leroy Jenkins”, just like the protagonist name. As you can see, the whole video is an screen capture from the online videogame World of Warcraft, which is basically a fantasy epic wargame with magicians, warriors, orcs, elves etc. (something similar like The Lord of the rings) and the idea is to create guilds with another characters to defeat “Boss creatures” and raise your level (and becoming addict).

So, to contextualize, we can see a guild who are reunited to defeat one of this unbelievable powerful and really hard to find Boss Creature (they’ve must expended at least 3 hours to find that place), and apparently planning the properly strategy, sharing goods like potions, weapons etc.

The funny begins when we realize that someone is not answering or moving, and stay quiet, but suddenly, we can hear the warcry “LEEEEEERROOOOOOOOOYYYY    JEEEENNKIIINS!!!!!!!!!” and the character start running across the dungeon like a maniac attacking everything in his path… because of this all the guild members try to stop him and, in a few seconds, they all get killed.

The most hilarious part comes when they asked him “what the F@ck!!!” and his answer was “I was eating chicken…” because of this Leroy Jenkins becomes a global superstar among gamers all over the world and even create a special character and a card (for the cardgame inspired in this videogame) named Leroy Jenkins.

I’ve spent all my words so I just gonna link this second video about the best cry ever (look for the remixes by yourselves).