Blos session 7, Pizza time!

Hi friends, today I’m going to talk about my favourite food, PIZZA! I really think this is one of the most perfect meals in the whole world.

The origin of the pizza is in Greek. The ancient Greeks covered their bread with oils, herbs and cheese.  An urban legend says Pizza Margherita, was invented in 1889, when the Royal Palace of Capodimonte commisoned to Raffaele Esposito to create a pizza in honor of the visiting Queen Margherita.

In a personal opinion, I really like pizza because you can cook it with a lot of different ingredients, and give varied flavours. When I cook a pizza I tried to equilibrate all the flavours, trying to make perfect matches, like bacon and onion or pepperoni and mozzarella, but in my life experience all the classic topics are the best.

Some scientific studies reveal that the antioxidant Lycopene, which exist in tomato product normally used on Pizza, as having a beneficial health effects. Studies says the people who eat pizza at least one time in the week, have less chance to developing mouth, esophagus, throat or colon cancer.

In Latin-America, Brazil is the country who eats more pizza, having 6000 pizza establishments and 1.4 million pizzas are consumed daily, and that was because a lot of Italian immigrant arrives there, and until the 50’s you can only find pizza in the Italian communities.

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Blog session 6, The Ecstasy of Street Photography

This is an article written by Sarah Bakewell, and it was publish in 23th of December 2010. This article start naming several common actions that we can see in the street, but we really don’t pay attention, but for a photographer this details are very important, because we must have the “eye” to notice all the details.
 

Sarah Bakewell talks about two artists (Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren) who make the book “Street Photography Now” who celebrates the controversial art of lurking in public places, and taking candid shots of strangers. This book also coincides with a collaborative online project with others street photographers.
 

Other point in this article is about the difficulties we can find in outdoors, for example in winter our camera-hand could be burn by the cold air or even a bad light is a real problem when you do photography, but the real challenge is the patience, because when you do street photography you don’t know what are you looking for, Sarah Bakewell says -Those beautiful, quirky moments can pass before you have taken them in, and sometimes you don't realise that you have "seen"-.

Another problem named, is about the problems that can generate this, other people can feel exposed when a strange take a picture of him, some consider it an infringement of privacy.

To close the article Sarah Bakewell talks about experience of other artist in the streets, for example Trent Parke says “The camera helps me to see”, and from my personal experience that’s really true, because we don’t have the same view from our eyes than a lent.

Below is the link to the complete article

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/dec/23/street-photography-ecstasy

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Blog session 4, KungFu

Hi, today I’m going to talk about a very old and traditional unarm martial art, KungFu. This martial art is from China and it required a lot of patience and energy. According to Chinese legend, martial arts had begun more than 4000 years ago, in the Xia Dynasty.

I think I feel this fascination for this topic from very young, because I saw a lot of oriental movies and cartoons, and the martial arts are very common in all stories.  Also always is related to the good guy in the story, and who doesn’t want to be the hero in own life?

Another attractive point is how you can find the inner peace whit your environment and god, leaving the material things behind, because meditation is considered an important component of basic training. Others values are humility, sincerity, courtesy, morality and trust, and that’s very important in the moral formation in a person.

 

Actually exist a controversy, all the martial art we see in movies and shows are only acrobatic, and the most traditionalist say’s martial arts are a way for meditation and self-defence only.

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