Webquest 2

Part 1

1) What is your carbon footprint?

Well, I only calculate the secondary carbon footprint because I don't have specific data in units of measurement about the other items.

Total Secondary Footprint = 5.85 metric tons of CO2e

2) What's the average carbon footprint of a person?

According to Wikipedia, for Chile it is 4,213 tonnes for year for person (per capita)

Part 2

1) Hand washing dishes can use up to __50____ % more of water than using an efficient dishwasher.

2) Only about 8 % of global energy comes from renewables.

3) True or false? Appliances that are turned off don’t use any electricity. False, clocks or remote control continue to use energy.

4) Can you make paper out of hemp? Yes you can, even from sheepskin or panda excrement.

Part 3

In my opinion the best tips are:

10) reuse plastic bags or having only one cloth bag for life

6) to recycle plastic bottles, clean them and then crush them to take up less space in the bin

2) try to use non-disposable and reusable things, like diapers.

My blog experience

Well, I thing it's a little bit strange, I mean to write a blog with my life experiences to share with people that don't know very much, but in a different language...! I got a bit nervous when my classmates commented my post, so I've tried to be the most funniest possible. Is there something interesting to have to think about the issues of the post, like childhood or my personal tastes, because there are things that even I don't know that I thought, like the camera is my favorite piece of technology.

The most difficult thing to me in this class was the time because I can hardly get up early, and I seem like a zombie looking at the computer, but this semester I was focus on my academical activities so I decided to do well all my task... well, sometimes maybe I failed. It was very funny when I wrote a post and some days later I discovered that I made a terrible mistake with words, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, so I ran to correct it... So sleep have all the fault!

Finally, another hard thing to me was to comment on the post of my classmates, because it's difficult to me to talk with people that I don't know, so I admite that I only commented on my degree classmates, but I promise today I will do it! haha

My experience at university

I am still in the middle of my degree and even now I considere my college experience as good, despite having had bad periods. My life has changed a lot since I came to college and that was because it has been expanded my circle of friends and acquaintances, besides my hobbies and schedules. Now I'm meeting new people all the time and have more options in my free time. If I want to go to a party, there is always one at friday. If I want to read and study all day, I have libraries available. I am also forced to get up early so I take a lot more day, but I have not taken away much my insomnia!

Besides all the social life that I have acquired, I learned a lot of my office, cinema. I learned a lot more of authors and especially cinema from all over the world besides Hollywood, and I love everything about hard and soft skills in photography and edit programs. I think the hardest semester I've had, have been precisely because it took me over my career and I had to spend much more time and effort, sleep and why not say, of many nerves.

Finally rescued most is the people I've met. Meet new friends from other parts of Chile and Santiago, people of other classes or with another education has been very nice to me and has helped me to be more tolerant and see life differently, removed prejudices and know that much remains to discover this world and its people!

My childhood monsters

When I was very very young I lived only with my two parents. One day in a TV program showed an ostrich stealing something to a baby and I was so scared that I ran to protect my dolls and toys. My dad was a little bit sadistic and poked his hand as an ostrich head in my door just for fun! My mom didn't make it very different... when I didn't want to eat she threatened with ostrich!! and I started to cry.

There was also a song of Mazapan that spoke about a white cat who lived in the moon and watched all the children's behavior. I think that for me it was the closest thing to the idea of God. I was scared so much when told a lie or committing mischief, because I remembered the white cat and I was afraid that he would be angry with me. Around the same time someone mentioned the existence of hell and I was really scared to go when I die. I think this idea crossed my childhood because when was grow up a little more still giving me much fear the idea of hell and the Devil. I got to dream about the Devil visiting my room and once finished a month sleeping in the bed of my mother.

I remember once some classmates began to play with a Ouija board and said they invoked the spirit of the joker, and it scared me a lot when I remembered the movie The Exorcist.

I think my last major childhood fear was the movie The Ring. I suffered a lot not only seeing, but a week later I was so much scared thinking that Samara would go out from TV to deform my face.

Today make me laugh all the stories and almost not afraid to paranormal things, I am one who is more scared by the living beings than the dead, but if I had kids I would try to not frighten them at least with beings that will punish for their little pranks, like a white cat living on the moon or the Devil himself.

An expert on your field: Gordon Willis

Gordon Willis was a photographer from USA that work all his life in Hollywood as a "cinematographer". He was a very important person because his unique way to see and show the spaces and characters. He believed that he had to not only make the images were harmonious, but should be consistent with the content, be part of the film, and that makes a beautiful cinematography. This thought led him to be the cinematographer of The Godfather saga where he won the nickname of "The Prince of Darkness", by showing the godfather Vitto Corleone (Marlon Blando) under shadows that hid his features, image immortalized the sicilian mafia character.

Also made the photography of some films by Woody Allen, still well remembered the image of Brooklyn Bridge at dawn in "Manhattan".

In 2009 he was awarded a special Oscar for lifetime achievement. He died in 2014.

About a photograph

This photograph was taken by my friend Victoria in november 2010, when we were coming out from our paint class in Balmaceda Young Art, Mapocho Station. The bicicle was also hers. I choose this picture because I remember with very much nostalgia that time. I was 19 and I worked in a videoclub renting movies, and I took cinema and art classes for fun, but all of this made me think about my future and what I wanted to do with my life. I enjoyed very much to watch movies and I think that in that times my life became very cinematographic to me! haha. It was spring, I was meeting new people, knowing love and alcohol for the first time, and I liked very much all the things that I was doing, and I have discovered that it's very hard that all this things happen at the same time. "Paradises remains a moment" wrote a writer, and that time was for me a little paradise... It seemed that it was magic in the air. Also I remember that I listened "There is a light that never goes out" by The Smiths all day! so this photo, that time and that song go together for me.

My favorite food

I’ve always had the same favorite food, and that is the artichoke. When I was a child I expected very much the winter only because this food (my favorite season is spring). I like the artichoke with oil, lemon juice and very much salt. I not only like the taste of all of that, but also like the entire process to get the heart removing the leaves, and arranging them carefully on the plate making a flower. I'm so used to do it in that way, that when I go to another house seems very strange when they eat it with mayonnaise or vinegar. Sometimes even prepared artichoke first removing all the edible part of the plant and serving a viscous paste along with some other accompanying... for me that is killing the artichoke! I love so much to defoliate it! My favorite part is the heart, I enjoy it so much that I take all my time to relish it. I can eat two or three or who knows how many artichokes can I eat one after another. Artichoke I love you for ever!

My childhood series

When I was a child I watched many series that I remember according the age that I had. When I was very young, I liked very much Meteoro, The Zodiac Knights and Power Ranges, but I don’t remember very much the characters or the adventures. When I grow up a little bit more my mom bought cable TV service and that changed everything. I watched in Cartoon Network “Scooby Doo” and I enjoyed very much to resolve all the mysteries with Wilma, Daphne, Fred, Shaggy and Scooby. But my favorite cartoon ever was an animé about Peter Pan that relayed on a channel that I can’t remember the name, but the series was called “Peter Pan no boken”. When the program began I felt so excited, I seemed mesmerized by the TV. I loved the love triangle between Peter, Wendy and Tinkerbell, and Captain Hook makes me laugh very much.

Time passed and we had no more cable TV, I can’t remember the reason, so I began to watch “The little tigers club” and there I watched the TV series that every child of my generation watched: Dragoon Ball. I liked very much when Gohan killed Cell!! But then my mom forbade me to watch the series because it contained a lot of violence, so I begun to watch Ranma ½ and El chavo del 8.

Then I grow up and I can't remember if there were another series TV in my life, because I began to listen the radio and music became in a most important thing than the TV shows. 

My favorite technological invention is the photographic camera, because this changes the way we see and represent the world, and the idea that we have about time and memories. In fact, the material things that I value more are the photographies… if my home would be on fire, the first thing that I’d save should be my familiar album. I think that is too necessary to remember who were we and where we come from, to know how we have changed and who are we now, and a photograph can remember us all of those things, just with a image of the past.

 I like very much photography and I have a professional camera. It´s so fun to learn all the possibilities that camera give us and take pictures better and better. Also I like very much to record, especially about my family. Also I take pictures in protests. It is more dangerous but I like very much history and I think that it´s a very small contribution, but in the future it could be important… who knows!

For this semester I have high expectations. This is my 3th year in this career and I feel that this time I am more focus on it. I think that the past years I was not to much concentrate because I had so many other silly distractions, but this time is different. It will be more hard because this semester I have a work, I need to keep myself and I want to save money to travel next summer, and this winter too. Also, I want to know how is to be a film director, so I want to perform my own screenplay. I want to watch more movies, to read more, to travel more... in summary, I want to be a better student and more responsable with myself, so it´s a great challenge.

My name is Constanza Liberona. I was born in Santiago of Chile at October 17th, 1991. My parents are from Santiago too, he is a musician and she is secretary. When I was born we moved to La Florida, where my parents bought a small house in the limit of the city. When I was 2 years old my parents divorced.

I went to the children’s garden and school in La Florida and Puente Alto, and my mother worked at the same district, but when I was 8 years old, my mother’s company moved to Huechuraba. That year was very hard to me and my mother, so we moved to much close of the downtown. I changed school and friends. When I was 12 I changed school again, to the high school. My mother sold the old house in La Florida and bought an apartment in Santiago Centro, because she said that she was tired of lease. Also, we went to live with my old grandmother.

At the high school I met my best friends and we still be friends today. Here I started to know my way and I chose the humanistic elective, and watched a lot of movies, but cinema was not one of my options to study at college. When I left high school I liked very much social sciences, and I went to de college to study anthropology. But my family was in very hard economic troubles and I had to leave the college. That year, when I was 18, I stared to work in a videoclub and I liked very much cinema, so I took film classes in Balmaceda Arte Joven in my free time, so was then when I discovered that to be a filmmaker was my passion.

I kept working until I was 21, so then I went to college to study Cinema and here I am. My mother still working in the same company, and she became very religious, and my father retired and he is very excited with his music project.  

PET