SNEAKERS

Today I am going to talk about my latest hobby, that has driving me crazy this last 8 months, and feel very passionate about it. Today I am going to about Sneakers-trainers and Sneakerhead culture. Yes, there's people like me who collects sneakers, spend a lot of money on them and think they are an important issue in this world. Everything started on April I think, it was a rainy Sunday and I was walking through streets. I remember the streets of Santiago flooded. I was wearing old and only pair of sneakers I had. They were totally torn and wear away. I recall my foot totally soaked. It was a cold day and the only purpose that trainers have (which is covering the foot from the outdoor) was being clearly unsuccessful. The next week I went shopping. Searching for a new pair of trainers. And it was there when the curse began.  Joking aside. I really think that trainers an important part of our life, we spend all most 2/3 of our day on our foot. The commodity of your shoes or trainers could affect easily your daily mood. Besides "dressing your foot" has become through the time an important matter for fashion. I like collecting sneakers because I think they are the connection between fashion and common wear, I had been collecting shoes and trainers for 7 month and I have collected a total of 8 pairs that I love with all my heart. The most precious are my beautiful Adidas Ultra Boost Black. This are the trainers of the moment. I was crazy for them and searched it in Santiago for a long time. Until I found them. This model it isn't producing anymore so I could tell I got one of the last pairs in the world. Although my passion for trainers, collecting them is very hard. The prices for trainers are insane. When you start it seem like 100 USD trainers are way too expensive. But when you start knowing more about this matter, 100 USD is very cheap. Everything you want and is on the hype will cost at least 200 USD. I am a architecture student who doesn't work. The career is to absorbing to have a part-time job. So basically I can't afford all the trainers I want.

 Sneaker culture is bigger than you could though. Reselling market moves a lot money you could even imagine. 200 USD Jordans could easily cost 1000 USD at reselling. Millennials are crazy for sneakers.       Here is a ted talk video about sneakers reselling market:

Here is a ted talk video about sneakears reselling market:

a famous chilean

Sorry for the following words, but there is no other bad motherfucker in chilean culture than Nicanor Parra. I know you are thinking: Pfff, another cliché of a guy who just wants to look cool and intellectual. I promise it's not that.

First I want you to imagine the concept of poetry or how looks and express a poet. You see an older man, little fat who is cover in a little layer of dirt. He is starving because poets do what they do for love. He is in love and can't stop thinking in his lover. He writes poets for her, because he can't breathe is she is not by his side. Everything is overly sentimental. Corny.

 Then he says: "Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche. Escribir por ejemplo 'la noche esta estrellada y tiritan, azules, los astros, a lo lejos".

This is Neruda and he is one of the greatest poets that Chile has had.  That's why when we think of a poet, Neruda breaks into our mind.  The history of South-american poetry has written two names that surround the paradigm that rules this image of over-emotional people: Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz. This image has been building over hundreds of years of solid tradition of poets who show us the dreamy reality of the romanticism in everything we take us common. It seemed that poets were susceptible people who suffer too much.

Then comes Parra and says:

Él te ofrece el recuerdo de una flor amarillavista al anocheceraños antes que tú nacierasinteresante puchas que interesanteen cambio yo no te prometo nadani dinero ni sexo ni poesíaun yogur es lo + que podría ofrecerte."

no more words.

(artefactos,nicanor parra)

the ramblings of a mad man without good sense

I think I am quite scared with the project. It is known (or is recently being known) for the society that environment issues are threat are future as living creatures on this planet. But this project sounds to me like 1989 and "Andarez de la Luz" sect had a baby together. Victory City is a private investors project, which attends to resolve the ecological crisis that we are living in, and for me that's a paradox, the problems we are dealing today are the result of 200 hundred years of greedy over-exploitation of natural resources, it's like asking a serial murder how to save a life. Also, the concept of building a "private" city destroys every notion of political common life because every relation or human interaction is based in the idea of devoting your whole life to the functioning of the Victory City, which is the nice way to say the enrichment of the owners. I hope this doesn't become a reality or a future trend in the history on the architecture. Isolation is not the answer. We must search for a better solution.

and the rest it's literature

I think because of Bonsai I thought for a couple months (when I was a teenager) that I should deliver my life to the literature, and maybe become a writer. Bonsai it is written for the chilean Alejandro Zambra, a very prodigious writer who has recently turned 41 years old. He wrote Bonsai when he was 31. And I read it when I was 16. The book begins telling us the end of the story, something like: boy meets girl, girl leaves him and then she died, then Zambra writes the following words: "the rest is literature". I love how the author doesn't seems interested in the final events of his first novel, he doesn't even want to get an authentic plot. He just wants to write a 72 pages synopsis-story about the complexity in the daily nature. Sometimes it's better to take care for a Bonsai than face your own struggles.

Constantly, I think chilean literature it's lock to itself just like geographically Chile does. But Zambra doesn't give the feeling of being afraid of the outside. He face the big names in literature and turn them into the story. 

Just seems like Bonsai is also a novel that talks about literature.

                                                               

viva la france

Every year I always told to myself that this is the year when I will learn a new language. My parents since I was a little boy told me that language are a great tool to discover new countries and cultures. They didn't get the opportunities to learn whatever they want, so now I should be an intelligent person and take advantage of the chances that I have. I am grateful for them to instill this idea in my mind. So every year I told to myself that this year I will learn to speak french. I always love the idea to learn another language, it's mental challenge that fascinates me. I have tried to learn it in websites in the internet, sites like duolingo, but it's not the same as learning from another person who can teach you more about little facts about the language that makes it fun. Besides I don't have develop the ability to concentrate in front of a computer and, sometimes workshop doesn't let you make other activities in your home. I strongly believe that patience it's the only thing you need. I have met a lot of foreigners who have the ability to speak a lot of languages and I really envy them. But also I think that is a matter of culture, and if I make my mind up I will achieve this goal.