It was hard try to choose a picture but I did it. This photo was taken for Vivian Maier. I will talk about her before make some comments about the picture because for me it's important to know a little of her life. 

First, she wasn't a professional photographer, she was amateur. In fact she worked as a nanny for forty years in Chicago. In her free time she went out and took photo of the things that called her attention in the streets. She never shared her work with someone else, so nobody saw her work until 2007, when a historian and collector called John Maloof discovered it. Thanks to him, who started to show their work, we can see her amazing photos.

The photo I chose doesn’t have a title, but I know it was taken in New York on 1955. If I have to say what was exactly the place I would say that looks like the Central Park.

The reasons I like this photo are many. In first place I like the landscape. I don’t love the cold weather, but the snow is beautiful. Also, the trees without their leaves are something that I always like to look and in this picture we can observe it perfectly. Another reason is the perspective of the photography. It makes that the man in the center (between the rows of trees)look so lonely. And this is the most I love.

Before finish I share with you a Vivian Maier's self portrait and  the website with her work : http://www.vivianmaier.com

My favourite piece of technology

Well, I don’t have a favorite piece of technology, but if I had to choose one, this would be my cell phone.  A few months ago, my aunt bought a new mobile. She didn't know what to do with the old until she realized that my cell phone wasn’t in good conditions, so she gave it to me.

Obviously I use it every day to call people, to send messages, like an alarm clock, among others. But the most important thing and the reason because I like it is that I can listen to music. I do this when I walk or I lie on my bed.

What life would be without it? My life wouldn’t change. I’m sure that if I had to live without my mobile I wouldn’t have any problem because I’m not addicted or a lover of technology.

This is my cellphone. At the beginning it was a little difficult to use it because is "touch".

The catcher in the rye

Today I’m going to talk about one of my favorites books, “The catcher in the rye”, a Jerome Salinger’s novel published on 1951. Probably you heard something about this book, for example that the John Lennon’s murder had it in his hands when he committed this crime.

But, anyway, this isn’t important if we think about the story. The novel tells us the Holden Caulfield’s story, a teenager who was expulsed of his school and then went to New York to spent time before meet with her parents and sister. This sounds a little crazy and also like a typical story of a rebel young, but it isn’t of this way. The trouble he had  is that he didn’t want to grow up because the world of the adults is disgusting. He thinks it’s full of hypocrisy, lies, superficiality and stuffs like these.  As the story progresses we can appreciate this point of view, specially at the end of the book. The message we can find at the end is beautiful and confortable, but not easy to take.

To finish with this post I put a Wilhelm Stekel’s quote cited in the book.

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”

Hello, how are you?

Well, I don't know what to do honestly. I know I should write about a career-related website or about a person on my field that admire, but I don’t have anyone. This makes me feel a little bad, I’m sorry. I started recently on anthropology so my knowledges are just a few. I hope I can talk about one of them in the future, but now as you can see I can’t do it :c If I find something in these days I’m going to put it here, there’s no doubt.

Regards!

The Killers c:

My favorite band is "The Killers". The first time I listened to them I was playing "Guitar Hero" (I used to play too much this game 3 years ago). They are 5 guys who started playing in Las Vegas on 2002. The band plays indie rock or alternative rock. I don't know a lot of things about them, but I really like their music, the rhythms and lyrics are great. Sometimes makes me wanna dance, other times just makes me think. Most of the time I agree with the messages that there are in their songs, in fact, the title of this blog is a part of a song called "Spaceman". I don't know what is my favorite song because everyone has something that I like, but if I have to choose one in this moment will be "Smile like you mean it", one of their first songs. It talks about how things change when we grow up. They came to Chile 2 weeks ago and I went to their concert. I was so haaappy (:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9uyb35McKM

About my life

Hi! I'm Constanza Javiera Tobar Tapia and I'm eighteen years old. I was born in Santiago on March 2nd, 1995. I live with my mom, my sister and my brother. I'm the oldest, but people think that my brother is older than me (he's so big). I live with them since 4 years ago.  Before I lived also with my grandma and my aunt. 

I studied in three differents schools. The most important for me was the last. There, I met to my best friends and I learn a lot of things not only in a academic way. Now I'm studying anthropology and I'm happy for this. 

I love reading, especially literature. When I read I forget the time and where I am. It's like a little journey. My favorite writer is Oscar Wilde, I think he was and amazing artist. Also I like Hermann Hesse, Jane Austen, María Luisa Bombal, Ernesto Sábato, Vicente Huidobro, Jerome Sallinger, among others. My favorite books are "The catcher in the rye" and "The elegange of the hedgehog. I like music so much too. In fact I love arts, they're important in my life. Also I like animals. I have two pets, a female cat calls Perla and a female dog calls Lucy (this is because of the song of The Beatles "Lucy in the sky with diamonds").