Santiago Open City / Santiago Ciudad Abierta

god‘s theatre

2012-01-23T06:03:00.001-08:00

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god‘s shadow

2012-01-23T06:02:00.001-08:00

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thorough the looking glass

2012-01-23T06:00:00.001-08:00

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hong kong style:no room,billion of things

2012-01-14T13:11:00.001-08:00

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Lego building blocks / bloques de lego

2012-01-11T08:55:00.000-08:00

ants/hormigas

2011-12-28T13:59:00.001-08:00

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Bus Ticket / boleto de micro

2011-12-12T18:13:00.000-08:00

Lolita

2011-12-11T18:07:00.000-08:00

pilgrimage

2011-12-10T18:11:00.000-08:00

Little Princess and the Fox / la princesita y el Zorro

2011-12-10T17:34:00.000-08:00

"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world . . ." /

—Sí - dijo el zorro-. Para mí no eres todavía más que un muchachito semejante a cien mil muchachitos. Y no te necesito. Y tú tampoco me necesitas. No soy para ti más que un zorro semejante a cien mil zorros. Pero, si me domesticas, tendremos necesidad el uno del otro. Serás para mí único en el mundo. Seré para ti único en el mundo.....

Baquedano Underground Station

2011-12-07T09:33:00.000-08:00

a friend of mine always tell me this: " If I would be a really son of a bi¨¨ I would have comitted suicidade by throwing myself into Baquedano, because I woud collapse Santiago's underground system..." Thanks God he is an adorable human being... / La mejor manera de cagarse a todo Santiago es matarse en la estacion de metro Baquedano... lejos la forma mas eficiente de colapsar la ciudad .

Pies Pequeños / small feet

2011-12-06T09:38:00.000-08:00

Fairy tale princesses have small feet, like me, so I'm an undercover fairy tale princess... Hey, tha's explained a lot so I wonder : where is my charmed prince ? / las princesas de cuento tienen pies pequeños como yo, asi que soy una princesa de cuento secreta. jjjaa

Teleton

2011-12-05T09:31:00.000-08:00

Teleton Chile

Plaza Italia / Italia Square

2011-12-04T09:17:00.000-08:00

Italia Square is the invisible border of this city. If you live above Plaza Italia , you will belong to Chilean Upper Class, "la gente como uno", etc ( hypothetically). But If you have the bad luck of living below Plaza Italia, you will be part of the underqualified national work force or a member of the social climbist middle class. That is to say, if you are not part of them, you are a stranger, an outcast or a shadow... hard to explain because this is a cultural issue rather than something which can be explained empirically or something like that. / Plaza Italia: si vives arriba eres de la " gente como uno" si vives abajo, eres de los " otros", si no cabes en nunguna categoria, eres un alien... que dificil es vivir en Chile!

Error

2011-12-03T09:17:00.000-08:00

An error is a fossilized mistake that is already set in our linguistic perfomance. By example, when non native speakers of English say people is instead of people are ( shame on me). Here, the picture shows a literal error, because this guy has been tattoed Boz instead of Voz, therefore, he must live with an envident misspelling for the rest of his life. That is a real and fossilized error./ Este tipo se tatuó un error ortografico, porque escribió boz en vez de voz... eso si que es una fosilizacion.

May the force be with you

2011-11-29T19:42:00.000-08:00

Lord Yoda, Help me! I really want to pass my subjects but I haven't studied enough... damm it, I´ll fail everything, I will be at University forever!!! ( please, I don't want that)

Pontificial Catholic University of Chile, Main Campus.

2011-11-28T19:29:00.000-08:00

I could have been a great lawyer ( merciless and ambitious) but I decided to study literature instead... silly me

Transantiasco

2011-11-27T19:13:00.000-08:00

Santiago Public System of Transportation... no comments ( to see further information :transantiago)

National Library / Biblioteca Nacional

2011-11-26T19:12:00.000-08:00

The Big House of Books/ La casa del libro

Bilingual Chile / Chile, país billingue

2011-11-24T08:47:00.000-08:00

Praying.. Rezando

2011-11-23T08:45:00.000-08:00

an undercover shot.... from my secret camera.

and life goes on.. / y la vida pasa

2011-11-22T08:43:00.000-08:00

Life goes on and we can't stop it... I'm getting older every day

John Lennon in Technicolor walking on Plaza Egaña Underground Station

2011-11-21T08:41:00.000-08:00

John Lennon a Colores, caminando por Plaza Egaña

John Lennons is alive .. / John Lennon nunca se murió

2011-11-20T08:41:00.000-08:00

The mirror / El espejo

2011-11-10T17:57:00.000-08:00

looking through the looking glass.... will Alice be there? / a través del espejo...¿ Alicia estará al otro lado?

November theme Day/ Día temático Noviembre: Fences/ Cercas

2011-11-01T14:05:00.000-07:00

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Queen of Zombies

2011-10-21T10:43:00.000-07:00

Zombies.. never alone

2011-10-20T10:41:00.000-07:00

Who said that the police is evil? they are cool? ( because I was dressed up like Zombie )

2011-10-19T10:39:00.000-07:00

Oh my Gosh, she is a baby zombie!!! / Oh por Dios, Una bebè Zombie

2011-10-18T10:30:00.000-07:00

Zombies, Zombies Everywhere... ZombieWalkChile 2011

2011-10-17T10:29:00.000-07:00

Samurai

2011-10-10T14:01:00.000-07:00

This is my granny, don't dare to laugh

2011-10-09T13:40:00.000-07:00

When my granny was a child, she dreamt of being a nun. If she had become one, she would have looked like this. Interesting, don't you think? Sometimes, there are odd moments when the decisions we've made and those we haven´t meet at a same point. In fact, we can see them together for a couple of seconds and sometimes, these strange "cosmic" junctions are fixed in photos like the one above. Weird, isn't it?

October Theme Day: mystery object

2011-10-01T21:27:00.000-07:00

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The Magic Fountain / La Fuente Magica

2011-09-19T21:39:00.000-07:00

If you throw a stone, your wish will come true... Well, that's not quite true but Santa Lucia Hill is a beautiful place and Neptune's Fountain is a great spot for daydreaming, isn' it?/ Si tiras una moneda, tu deseo se hará realidad... o no, pero es bonito pensarlo asi

Panda Bear / Oso Panda

2011-09-18T00:31:00.001-07:00

PocketCultures

2011-09-18T00:23:00.000-07:00

PocketCultures

Stop scratching your balls, asshole

2011-09-06T21:18:00.000-07:00

Crystal clear, right? / mas claro echare agua..

ugly

2011-09-04T19:51:00.001-07:00

More Snow/ mas nieve

2011-09-03T23:16:00.000-07:00

a snowy day... if you live in Santiago's foothills / un dia con nieve, solo si vives en la precordillera, como las cabras

Yup, we are still on strike or something like that

2011-09-02T23:31:00.000-07:00

My high brow alma mater is on strike or at least part of it. There were a sudden and unexpected awakening and severa PUC students have started to raise their voices in order to change the system or something like, They are trying to raise awareness in favour of social justice, equality and a fare educational system but their little voices are heard ony between themselves. They scream and speak loud but the external noise is more oppresive than their voices and sometimes it is really hard to listen among too many cries. I think it is really difficult to find some certainty between this one way discussion. A sort of catch 22 situation, I dare to say,

Snow in Santiago

2011-09-02T23:15:00.000-07:00

yup, sometimes it snows in Santiago/ A veces cae nieve en Santiago

If You don't go to the demonstration

2011-08-24T12:57:00.000-07:00

The demonstration goes to you..

Si Mahoma no va a la protesta, la protesta va donde Mahoma

We are still on strike

2011-08-23T23:36:00.000-07:00

This Wall painting summarizes the students' request . The Chilean State does not invest its gross income appropiately, consequently, Chilean education is dramatically meagre and helps to reproduce a system which encourages social injustice and inequality. At the same time, the Wall painting is an open irony against globalization. ( an pure example of the think globally, act locally philosophy)

THe quote belongs to John F. Kennedy and the translation says something like this: those who don't allow the pacific revolution, they will promote the violent revolution ( I know, it's a horrible translation but you can google the spanish version and find the original one)

Student's strike : Universidad de Chile Main Campus occupation

2011-07-07T00:34:00.000-07:00

Studens are currently fighting for free education for all. Consequently, students from Universidad de Chile are storming into their main campus to occupy peacefully as an act of protest. In case you don´t know, Universidad de Chile is the most important public University in this country, it stands for the republicans values of the nation. At the same time, Universidad de Chile is suffering the consequences of the free market system that rules tertiary education. Besides, a great number of their students can´t afford the excessive costs of attending university because tuitions are excessive, there are very few scholarships and interest rates of student loans are the legal equivalent to usury.

Cesante Ilustrado/ protesta estudiantil

2011-07-06T00:30:00.000-07:00

I don't know how to translate this phrase. Perhaps it may be rephrased as erudite jobless or something like that. Anyway, this " title" is a cruel irony regarding tertiary education and the work world, because a " cesante ilustrado" is an individual who will study four, five, six, or ten years in order to get a university degree but when he or she leaves college, the " cesante ilustrado" won't be able to find a job.

Nowadays Education is a current issue in Chile. Students ( from public universities and secondaries schools) are demonstrating against Education statuo quo: they want non profit tertiary education and equal accessability to all. However, the right wing chilean government is not giving an inch in favour of students' claims. Well, maybe just a little. Nevertheless, this is an interesting debate which is happening now in Chile and nobody is fully aware of how both sides will work out this issue.

Skyline

2011-06-06T00:23:00.000-07:00

Toesca Underground Station / Metro Toesca

2011-06-02T19:16:00.000-07:00

4 minutes to everywhere.... except a bright future for me

June Theme Say : Under Construction / Dia Temàtico Junio: Aqui se construye

2011-06-01T22:55:00.000-07:00

Actually, This church is not under construction but this is one of the samples of the slow chilean reconstruction after the 27/2 earthquake. In fact, the earthquake happened a year ago and hundred of building are on the verge of falling apart, like the one which heads this picture. / Consequencia del Terremoto del 2//2/2010.. sin comentarios

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The inner Border... within a mall / La frontera interior... en un mall

2011-05-31T19:14:00.000-07:00

Street Art 2

2011-05-30T18:49:00.000-07:00

Street Art

2011-05-29T18:39:00.000-07:00

ShopWindow 3

2011-05-26T20:05:00.000-07:00

" Students without uniform"
note: It is customary for Chilean students to wear uniform. This outfit is usually blue navy and white. I think it mimics British school uniforms or something like that. Ironically, wearing uniforms is not mandatory for students, since Ministry of Education supressed that rule in 1982. However, schools encourage the uniform in order to "unifiy" students and avoid differences but there are disparate uniforms according to the disparate type of schools( public and private school ). This shopwindow is a claim against this odd tradition. Funny, isn´it?

ShopWindow 2

2011-05-25T20:02:00.000-07:00

Zara Deparment Store

Shop Window

2011-05-24T20:01:00.000-07:00

The Princess's little foot / El piecito de la princesa

2011-05-10T22:16:00.000-07:00

I'm just the princess because my mommy is the queen, and my granny is the queen mother / Yo solo soy la princesa, porque mi mami es la reina y mi abuelita la reina madre

La Viñita Church / Iglesia La Viñita

2011-05-09T22:28:00.000-07:00

lila's kitchen during the new year's eve / la cocina de lila durante la vispera de año nuevi

2011-05-08T22:07:00.000-07:00

is it correct " new year 's eve?

tiger lives in the jungle / el tigre vive en la selva

2011-05-07T22:02:00.000-07:00

I like cats... / me gustan los gatos

BBlue Cats / gatos azules

2011-05-06T22:00:00.000-07:00

sunflower / Girasol

2011-05-05T22:43:00.001-07:00

sunflower, originally uploaded by millamap212.

Paulina's equivalent to Van Gogh's paiting
El equivalente a Los Miraflores de Van Gogh

The beautiful city /La ciudad bella

2011-05-05T22:00:00.001-07:00

April theme day: Edges of Faith / Dia temático Abril : los limites de la fé

2011-04-01T16:38:00.000-07:00

Santiago's Cathedral... Speaking of Holy Week / Catedral de Santiago ... a propósito de semana santa

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Crossroads / Caminos Cruzados

2011-03-17T13:34:00.000-07:00

Green House / invernadero

2011-03-16T13:32:00.000-07:00

Veleta / Weathercock

2011-03-15T13:31:00.000-07:00

Birthday Party / Fiesta de Cumpleaños

2011-03-14T13:31:00.001-07:00

27th, February, 2010

2011-02-26T23:30:00.000-08:00

A year ago there were an earthquake and a tsunami in Chile. I couldn't take pictures of it because I live 200 km. or o more away from the core of the disaster. I was lucky, I suppose. Therefore, there won't be any pictures of that day in this blog, only images of its later consequences.

Hace un año a esta hora perseguía a mi hermana y a mi madre que corrían desaforadas por la calle tratando de llegar a la casa de mi abuela. Recuerdo que me alumbraba solo con mi pequeña linternita a pilas, gracias a lo cual no estaba completamente ciega. Minutos antes, mi hermana y yo estabamos abrazadas bajo el dintel de la puerta de mi pieza, yo sin despertarme del todo- puesto que estaba durmiendo en vez de ver el Festival como una inútil protesta pacífica en contra del show de Arjona- mirando y escuchando el conjunto de gritos, rezos y pánico que nacía con el movimiento de la casa. Es una suerte que vivamos en Santiago y no en el sur, de lo contrario, la casa se habria desmoronado sin piedad sobre nuestras cabezas, supongo que el conjunto de las partes convierte a ese laberinto en una sólida estructura. Mientras corriamos a tientas una detras de la otra ( mi madre tras mi hermana y yo tras las dos) mis primos se dedicaron a verificar el estado de nuestros parientes y conocidos repartidos por el barrio, tratando de captar alguna noticia que diera luces sobre el asunto, aunque lo único concreto fue el insomnio y el miedo como única respuesta, además de las típicas anécdotas de terremotos pasados que plagan estas situaciones ( como los chistes crueles en los funerales y ese tipo de cosas). Lo concreto es que fui el único miembro de mi vasta familia extendida que volvio a dormir a su cama, siendo el cansancio y la incomodidad superior a todo terror y por supuesto ignorando la magnitud total del desastre hasta el despertar definitivo del dia siguiente

Globalization / Globalización

2011-02-14T19:16:00.000-08:00

Patronato is the only neighborhood which resembles a cosmopolitan city : a sort of Chinatown, Little Korea and the Middle East, all those places in one. At the same time, Patronato is Santiago's fashion district. Fashionists from all over the city go there in order to find sales and buy the latest fahion trends but paying reasonable price for them or as I heard once... cheapy but not trashy, or something like that.
Patronato es la unica parte de la ciudad que parece cosmopolita: una mezcla de China, Corea y el Medio Este. Al mismo tiempo, es el distrito santiaguino de la moda. Las fashionistas de toda la ciudad van a comprar el ultimo grito de la moda... a precios rasonables. Como se dice, bueno, bonito y barato.

the hunting / la caceria

2011-02-05T16:59:00.000-08:00

who will win? the cat or the chicken? / quien ganará? el gato o los pollitos?

Stormy weather 2

2011-01-24T19:24:00.000-08:00

Mapocho River / Rio Mapocho

2011-01-23T19:18:00.000-08:00

51th Annivesary Firefighters Station From San Ramon, Santiago / 51° aniversario Compañia de Bomberos San Ramon

2011-01-22T19:15:00.000-08:00

street soul/ el espíritu de la calle

2011-01-21T19:13:00.000-08:00

Miau / Meow

2011-01-20T19:12:00.001-08:00

Chinese kitten / gatito chino

Film Proyector/ Cinematografo

2011-01-13T22:48:00.000-08:00

" get closer to Jesus".. fuentevilla? (private joke)

2011-01-12T22:46:00.000-08:00

Mirror. Mirror / Espejo,Espejito

2011-01-10T22:45:00.000-08:00

UFO/ Ovni

2011-01-09T22:42:00.000-08:00

I´m just kidding, the black spot is just the sun ( an optical illusion) / Broma, ilusion optica

Santiago's Cathedral / Catedral de Santiago

2011-01-08T22:41:00.000-08:00

path to god/ camino a Dios

2011-01-07T22:39:00.000-08:00

Ghost citizen/ ciudadano fantasma

2011-01-06T22:38:00.001-08:00

Happy Boxing Day/ Feliz Dia despues de Navidad

2010-12-26T09:03:00.000-08:00

Feliz Navidad/ Merry Christmas

2010-12-24T09:00:00.000-08:00

An good old fashion crib... / Un pesebre tradicional

"Chilean Miami" / "Miami Chilensis"

2010-12-23T08:57:00.000-08:00

Palms and Palms and Palms / Puras Palmeras

Life of the Rich and Famous/ La Vida de Los Ricos Y Famosos

2010-12-22T08:56:00.000-08:00

My Future/ Mi Futuro

2010-12-21T08:50:00.000-08:00

This will be my future.. an empty classroom and my tiredness because I will have tried to teach to some unbereable group of teenagers

Doraemon/Gato Cósmico

2010-12-20T08:47:00.000-08:00

Coqueta / flirtatious

2010-12-19T08:39:00.000-08:00

Volleyball

2010-12-18T08:33:00.000-08:00

Shiny and flashy / Brillante ( que brilla mucho)

2010-12-17T08:31:00.000-08:00

The mall is on the foothills of Santiago...in the middle of oa rocky and dry hill, it looks flashy and sometimes trashy but some people ( who have tons of money) seem to enjoy living in the mountain like goats. I suspect that the architect wanted to mimic Miami, but Miami have sea and the hills of Santiago only have rocks, dusts and dry bushes. Grass and palms don't look natural, this is a fake and phoney deconstructed space. No offense, this is only my opinion.

oops, my mistake/ lo siento, un error lo comete cualquiera

2010-12-10T08:26:00.000-08:00

That was a great picture, I swear it... but my finger was faster than my eye. This my tipical photo mistake. Thanks God there are digital cameras, otherwise I would lose hundreds of pictures :) / Este es mi error típico. Que bueno que existen las cámaras digitales sino, perderia cientos de fotos.

"little bride"/ "noviecita"

2010-12-09T08:11:00.000-08:00

Little girls used to receive their first communion dressed like beautiful little brides, but nowadays few girls make their first communion and almost all of them receive this sacrament wearing their school uniforms or a plane white robe instead. This picture is an anachronic piece of reality / Las niñas solian hacer su primera comunion vestidas como noviecitas, pero ahora pocas niñas hacen la primera comunión y la mayoría solo usa el uniforme escolar o una tunica blanca. Esta foto es una anacronica imagen de la realidad

Saint Marthe/ Santa Marta

2010-12-03T18:21:00.000-08:00

I made it up, I don't know how to translate Marta. No se como traducir Marta. Lo inventé

Happy birthday to me / Feliz cumpleaños a mi

2010-12-02T18:15:00.000-08:00

Today is my Birthday. A lonely and sad one

Theme day : Time / Dia Tematico : Tiempo

2010-12-01T22:27:00.000-08:00

As times goes by/ asi como el tiempo pasa...

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Lady in disgrace / dama en peligro

2010-11-30T18:11:00.000-08:00

bicentennial dog/ quiltro bicentenario

2010-11-29T18:10:00.000-08:00

Freedom

2010-11-28T18:07:00.000-08:00

Lego Building / Edificio Lego

2010-11-19T22:34:00.000-08:00