Photography

I am not a specialist in photography but I can to point out that sometimes I feel an attraction to ‘the art’ of take photos. Depending on the case I enjoy to seeing photos too, but it’s very difficult to me to say: “that is my favorite picture” or “I really love the work of this photographer”.

In my room I have a collage that I made in a long afternoon of looking trough in familiar photo albums. In that albums I found very olds images that are surprising to me in which I appears in my grandmother one’s arms when I was a baby, for example.

Moreover, I really like pictures taken in soccer matches and rock concerts. Photos that include rock stars in normal situations like playing guitar at home, or recording a song in studio are interest to me. Besides those kinds of photos, in the sports case I like pictures that depict some cultural expressions like soccer ‘barra bravas’ in Latin America, in which it shows supporter’s manifestations in his neighborhoods, and also his flags or canticles.  

In connection with the above, a photo that I have recorded on mind is that was taken while the planes smashing the World Trade Center in New York on September 11^th of 2001. The photography capacity to catch a historical moment trough the capture of and objective in the photo that depicts what these moments was lived by the persons who’s lived the “terroristic attack” as it was called.

That kind of photos are taken by common people as well as professionals but the talent is the same, essentially in order to a faithful representation of a historical moment.  

Pedophilia In The Church

Certainly this topic involves a difficult in the moment that we want to express an opinion.  The pedophilia in the church currently has taken headlines on Chilean press because of the called ‘Karadima case’.

The ethic debate was opened by that case because were the most painful situation about sexual abuse that Catholic Church has must to face up as institution.

Is most difficult even to set an opinion about if molester cases are an exception or not. To me, molester cases are an exception which must to be raised and analyzed deeply. Catholic Church should to learn about that and must to ask herself about her mission in the world.

I neither believe in the Catholic God nor her doctrine, and I think persons can commit mistakes. Every human act occurs because of something. The deviation could obey to a mental disorder, to a weak concept about human relationships.

We can see, according to some approaches that the term ‘pedophilia’ has a range of definitions though the International Classification of Diseases defines pedophilia as a disorder of adult behavior in which there is a sexual for children of pre-pubertal or early pubertal age.

In that sense, I don’t want to justify the attitude but I think that molesters shouldn’t be consider like persons who acts in absolutely emptiness but some conditions operates as decisive factors to motivates these kind of behavior or disorder.   

We as a society should be on quest of that factors and we should to repudiate this kind of irregular practices on though social institutions. Pedophilia is finally a crime but solution is not the jail only.

Free Time

Currently free time to me is a double-edge sword. I tell that because I am in 6^th grade of my sociology degree, and I don’t have unresolved subjects, except this English course. So, on my schedule free days are predominant.

However, this free time has to be organized by me in accordance to make progress with my thesis. This is an obligation to me, but at the same time the responsibility to assign hours to work is only mine. Because of that, free time has converted to me in a difficult more than a facility.

Besides of preceding I still have developing some activities of my interest, consisted in play music, playing soccer, or to go to cinema with my girlfriend. The first one of those activities is which spend majority of my time. I take drums classes with a teacher, and currently I’m drummer in two bands. Therefore I have to rehearse with these bands at least twice a week.

Sometimes I also read some novels or literary work which distracts me from my academic work.

In this way danger of a double-edge sword like that requires too much organization and a far less of time waste.   

Music beats me

Title above doesn’t exaggerate anything. Music can beats me because I ever feel music should be my principal activity in my life, not sociology. Music makes me feels really good, hearing it or playing it.

So, since I was child music were present in my life. My older brothers introduced rock music to myself. Could it say that I  grow up in a rock ambient and that was good luck.

As a result of that, I was developing a sensible ear and a specifically inclination to play music that I liked. I play drums because my brother did it, and he had a drum in my grandmother’s house.

A lot of musicians commoved to me, from different styles, rhythms, and techniques. In my early years as drummer when I played with my brother, I usually play Red Hot Chili Peppers songs, the most important band of my life.

Over time I have expanded to music styles which put more attention in lyrics, process coincident with a personal quest for meaning in the music, looking for a message in music. Therefore, I started to hear punk, folk, psychedelic, classic rock, and also hip-hop music. Bands as the clash, sex pistols, the who, the beatles, the rolling stones are amazing to me. In chile I like bands as fiskales ad hok, conspirazion, salvaje decibel, chinoy, the ganjas, aguaturbia, los prisioneros, los tres, los tetas, etc.

I think music is not understandable within a culture connection, or a historical link. And also over time I learned that music can convey sense both by lyrics and trough itself. I recommend always pay attention to each kind of music that appears on our ways.

Blogger experience begins

I’m Diego Mora, a 6^th grade sociology student (little behind, you can see). At this opportunity I would like to welcome to my blog “off the beat”. The title has a music connotation, specifically in relation with drums studies. How you could to imagine I’m a music lover and a amateur drum player.

So, in this, my first experience being a blogger I expect to learn a lot writing in English, and also to share opinions between mates and teacher. The blogger experience is just begins…