Dressing my life

All this time I have talked about many things but my carrer. Stage design could be very exciting after all. You always are delayed (as most of the jobs nowadays), but you can do your work while listening to music or radio. It's makes more easily. That is something I never did before because in other works youneed some degree of concetration.

Last week, someone asked about my favourite subject in theatrical design. I thought for few minutes wich one it could be, because I like them all. Anyway, some minutes later I chose my favourite one: costume design. Although stage design could be very specific, it can be divided into three main areas: Escenography, Lighting and Clothing. I prefer designing and sewing together that biulding a scenography, for example. Many people could found it boring and slow, but I get so much fun doing that; how I said it before, you can get inspiration from some other things too. Lately all the clothes you can see all your work on a TV, movie or theater stage and that's very satisfactory. They come alive when an actor or actress put them on and the character of the play or show turns real... It's like my dream comes truth.

Zombies, zombies, zombies

I’m tired of zombies. I’m tired of the idea that the world will be literary eaten by zombies. Ok, it’s a great idea, and a great genre in fiction, but do you really think we are so stupid that some undead can kill our civilization? I think we are smarter and we could solve an eventual zombie apocalypse being a little bit creative. Here you have 3 ideas:

1. Motor Oil: Have you think about that? Surely no, because no author has tried it yet. It is simple: get a barrel of motor oil from the closer gas station and put in in the floor (ideal concrete) surrounding your base. Wait for the zombies wave and watch them walking over the slippery floor. They’ll never reach you, no matter how hard they’ll try. This should work amazingly with a ramp
2. Bows and crossbows: Bullets and gun powder do not grow on trees. Bolts and arrows do. Get a nice bow, or a crossbow, and a near forest and you will have enough ammo for a couple years.
3. Run to the hills: Forget about the city with their supermarkets, gun shops, electricity, or the beach with their ocean, all those places are a playing ground for zombies (with free food). Convince your fellow human to run to the mountains (ideally a hotel over 2000 mts.) Zombies will have a hard time trying to catch you there, and if at the end they catch you, you can apply solution 1 combined to winter… just imagine a zombie trying to catch you with -15°C walking over a slippery floor while you have your automatic crossbow system (2) to fire at them on sight.

A perfect idea… unless they learn how to fly…

You shall not pass!

I’ve seen a lot of pictures in my life, but the one I consider the best is that taken by Stuart Franklin in Tiananmen in 1989. It shows a column of 6 tanks going to the square, and a man trying to stop their way by standing in front of them, alone.

The first time I see it I was 5. My dad showed it to me in a newspaper. Obviously I didn’t consider it a great picture, because I barely knew what a tank was, and at that age I thought I was immortal. But when I grew up, I realized that the person standing in front of that war machine, probably is the most valiant person in human history. He stopped the tanks for half an hour. After that, he was taken away. Nobody knows his name or who was he. Some people say that he was a 19 years old student called Wang Weilin, while others say he was an unknown worker of a building near the area called Wang Aimin. And what happened to him is a mystery too. Some people say he is still alive, hidden in China’s countryside, while others say he was executed for the Chinese army some days later.

I hope someday we will know who he was. For the moment we only have this picture: a tribute to courage, real courage.

Cartoon theories

How amazing cartoons are, isn't it? They are funny and they're just like short tales. And, as well as the short tales they also have some morals at the end. I've always seen them like the modern versions of the classics such as Cinderella, Snow White, Little Red Ridding Hood or Ugly Duckling, but what if those toons do not mean what they seem?

The first story about this was the real meaning behind Thundercats. When I was at school, one day me and my friends were discussing about this serie, when a one of them said: "At the end, the Thundercats are the bad guys, and Mum-Rah was the protector of the Earth". At first I didn't believe it, but after thinking about I realized that it could be possible. It was my first time doing this.

Then I started to search for other similar stories and I found "the truth behind Doraemon". I begun reading and I couldn't believe it; IT WAS ALL A DREAM! Nobita, the main character was sick in bed and everything that he lived in the serie was not real. Obviously people in Japan got very angry and they started to send letters to the author, so he had to follow writting the strory like ussual. At the end it was like it never happened.

And what if I tell you that in "Pinky & the Brain", Pinky is the genius and the Brain is the insane? Just think about it, it makes sense.

A new era... for me hehe

I know that I've not written for a month. For my birthday on June, 7th, my mother gave me a smart phone. And, despite I liked a lot the old one, all the publicity and people in the streets using them made me feel like an old fashioned lady, hahahaha.
My smartphone is a Samsung Galaxy with a touchscreen, very technological (I always used phones with keys and this is too modern for me). You can listen to music or radio, surf on the net and talk with your friends through some free applications of text messages. I try to use it every day (well is my phone and my watch so is difficult forget it). Nevertheless, the size makes me feel a little bit awkward. It is bigger than my old cellphone and it doesn't fit in my pockets like the old one, but it is really funny and easy to use.
Maybe it is because the new touch screen revolution, but I love touthing the screen and make the whole contents move for themselves, see the pictures bigger than they really are just by moving your fingers through it. Anyway, if I lose it for some reason, I think I’m not going to die as other people say abaout their gadgets. After all is just a phone, Isn’t it?

One of the last survivor

 Near of my house, there is a singular wood that is very particular of the others. Tha Panul Wood is a place where some kind of native trees lives in the Andean foothills. Why I want to talk about it? Because the Panul is in danger for the development of the population.
 The Panul has many kind of native trees and native and exceptional fauna living in there like quillay and litre trees or Culpeo fox, Black-chested Buzzard-eagle and Condor between others.
 In the city where the Panul grows it's calling La Florida. This place is in the suburb of Santiago, but every year the population continous growing and theirs needs too, so the place is getting smaller for the houses constructions. The Chilean lay protects the Panul, but other kind of laws allow the use of that place to expand the city. It is that why, some months ago, the neighbourhood stands up and rises a protest defending the wood area. In the social pages like Facebook they organize and get informed about all to the Panul is related to. Here is the link to, maybe, add to your count and support them for a beautiful cause =)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/18486614462/10151539193794463/?notif_t=group_activity

After a week here I'm, posting again =)
Well, I've tell you about my carrer and my likes, so I'll united both and I'll talk about a web page it was very usefull in my begining in the art of teatrhical disegn (or stage design). This website talks about the simple and basic things on the stage, how to prepare the stage, learn about some elements like costume and ilumination.

The link is http://www.escenografia.cl/ and is very useful to get an introduiction with a little bit of history of scene, the most important parts of light instrumental, the parts of a stage and some idea of the sound in a teather. Also they give a list of some playwright and brief story about theirs lives. We can found some texts materials too for some homework o a report you've to do aboout it. It's very interesting, but to all the english speakers the page is in spanish. There is many others websites to see, you know someone?
Well, I hope you enjoy it.
Cya!

A german history...

Hi again =)

Here I am again telling you about me and the things that I like. If we speak about music I don`t have a only style that I can say: "Oh! I only hear this band or singer. There is nothing so good like this!". I like rock most of the time, but sometimes a hear POP, lounge, jazz, bossa, blues and so on.Although, so many year ago, I found out a band on a soundtrack of Matrix ( yes, the movie). This guys are germans and the name of the band is RAMMSTEIN. I really don't know what of their music I like the most, if the letters, the music, the staging of their shows or what, but a I love them. Their style of music can be classify like "industrial rock" and this music is mostly associated with germans bands or singers.  The singer, at the beginning, it was not so good, but after years it came an incredible unique voice.

Some years ago, 2010 exactly, they came to Santiago the Chile and, it is so predictable, I went to the show. It was amazing, they throw fire of some kind of artifacts around their mouth and some kind of bow too. There was fire on the stage and one of them went over the public of the show on a boat, like is usual on theirs shows. The light effect is so important like the fire and some fireworks too, but the hole staging it was excellent . 

Here I post a video to explain more clearly so you can imagine how was that...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpG-gPMyHT8

The grass was greener

Ok, after all these years I started a new blog.
My full name is Tatiana Vanina Vidal Vaccaro, but all my friends and family calls me Vanina. I was born in Mendoza, Argentina in 1984 where I had a incredible childhood. Mendoza is a place that I recommended to visit all the time; the Autumn is exceptional an the spring is more beautiful because the city is surrounded for a lot of vineyard and the wine's smell is in the air. When I turned 13 I moved out to Chile where my mom was born. I studied in a non-importance school, but the I was admitted in USACH ( Santiago of Chile University) to study translation (english-japanese). I have to say that languages are very interesting things in my life, but not to work with that, so I desert my career and try to find another one in my life.
I always like to draw, the colors, the costumes and similar things like that, so a friend told me about the theatre design in University of Chile and I gave it a chance. Now I'm in my third year and the next is my last one. The most excitement thing that I already worked in some plays and I have an incredible project front of my with a costume design to a all musical. I am very afraid about it, but anxious too... Well, this is it for the moment. Wish me luck!