My future job

Hi!

I usually avoid think about what I would work after finishing my film and TV career, it gives me a little nervousness choose just one thing I’ll be doing for a long time. It’s a little scary because I’d like to do a lot of things. 

I think my dream job would be to be able to work as freelance illustrator, specifically a horror novel. It would be a big challenge be able to do it. 

    Loré Pemberton.

What I love the most about illustrating is that allow me to work with the words and transform it into an image with infinite possibilities of using color, shapes, style of drawing, all based on the message of a story. Although I still have a lot to learn about, it's something that I would enjoy doing at some point of my life.

As it’s a work that can be done digitally and analogously implies on the one hand greater ease, as it can be done both indoors and outdoors. Although draw in digital is more flexible in that sense wich is good, cause stay at home sometimes is really relaxing and pacific to me, but after a time is a bit suffocating.

I don’t know how much an illustrator will earn, Maybe i wouldn't matter if it was little, as long as it was enough to pay the bills I guess. Anyway, it's difficult to devote full time to something artistic in Chile and well, it is a privilege to work in something we like  but it would be nice to try.

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Baba Yaga

 

Hi!

The slavic folklore has an extensive mitology full of magical creatures and mysterious forces which ruled the societies prechristian. Within their tales we found a witch called Baba Yaga, althought her name can refer to one of three witches. She looks like an old women with a big nose that use to smell her victims. Also can change the way she looks to trick them and devour them more easily. Lives in the depths of the forest in a hut supported by one or more chicken legs, and  flies in a mortar holding a broom.

The origins of Baba Yaga or a faithful transcription of the myth, as well as the rest of folk tales, is difficult to establish because were stories  transmitted orally. So the nature of this witch is ambiguous in her representations, mainly because of her duality between the threat of destruction as a form of release of the victim. One of her most famous appearence in literature, is from a tale compiled around 1800 by Aleksandr Nikolayevich, a Russian folklorist who collected the story of Baba Yaga together with other Slavic stories.

In the tale of Vasilia the beautiful, her father married again with the sister of Baba Yaga. One day the stepmother, conspiring to kill her, send Vasilia to the Baba Yaga's hut for one of her shining skulls. When she comes there Baba Yaga give to her multiple seemingly impossible tasks, if she makes it will get the skull in otherwise will be eaten. To Baba Yaga's surprise Vasilia makes all the tasks. Back to home, her stepmother’s plan to kill her is discovered by her father. However there are different versions of how it ends, in one the skull ends up incinerating the whole family of Vasilia, in other she becomes a seamstress and reunites with her father.

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Wong Kar-wai

Hi!
One of my favorite filmmaker is Wong Kar Wai. He is a Chinese film director, born in Shanghai in 1958. He never studied cinema, so all that he knows about how to make films is for the influence of his mother, which loved the seventh art and took him to watch a lot of movies. He is mostly recognized for his films; Chungking Express (1994), Happy Together (1997), In the Mood for Love (2000) and 2046 (2004).  

In his films, he use the time as narrative element, either with slow motion and jump cuts. Frames with saturated colors and elements. I admire his capacity to tell this wonderful stories, trought this exploration of the cinema resources.  Sometimes it seems that is confuse to understand, cause the way he structure the story it is. For me this is great to involve the viewer making pay attention to the details and in the absence of dialogue, understand what the images express. And one last thing about the dialogue, is that he use it just when it's necessary  to establish closeness between characters. 

  I think his filmography is like a portrait of human in modernity, the loneliness surround. Every time that I watch some of his movies, the pictures stay fixed in my memorie, the warm colours, the music and the melancholy characters.

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