session 7, free post.
Drawing.

Actually, I'm not really sure how to expose this topic, but I would like to increase the importance of this activity.
These days it's common that when a child starts to draw, a lot of people think it's just for playing, the same happens when you are in school and instead of taking atention during the class, you draw. This, I think, it's because there is a cultural convention that relate drawing to activities more related to the arts, and unfortunately, the world of arts has been taking has something uselees, because the contemplative characteristic of this and the fact that a lot of artist are bohemians to. Besides, right now the most important thing for the society is to consume, so you need to earn a lot of money, and if you don't do that, you are a failure. What common people don't realised is the fact that a lot of other careers need to draw, it's a tool that permits the understanding of diferent projects, it's the way, a step to make something for real, like a building or a robotic piece. I'm not trying to say that drawing will make you a millionare, I just want to appeal the importance of this, to tell a lady that it's not bad for his son to draw or to motivate teachers to make the students draw (but NOT to force them to do it). 
I like to draw, and I love the fact that it's a way to make things for real, but a lot of people think that drawings are just dreams or imaginary worlds and can't see the possibility of construction. Maybe I'm just resentful because in school they told me drawing was useless, something fun that brings you joy and fun it's not useless...

session 5, free post.

Steampunk.

I known this concept a couple years ago, when a friend told me about one of her classmates. She showed me the way he dressed and the things he made and brought to the class, those things were really cool, then she explained that when she ask him what was that, he said: Steampunk. 
After that I started searching for information and images to learn more about it. In a few words, It's a literary movement that grown into a cultural movement, it takes the aesthetic of the 19 century, specifically in the boom of steam powered machinery (like trains for example) and the industry revolution, this movement it's against consumer society (this is the "punk" part of the concept), the idea it's to bring the past in the present and correct the things when they started to take a wrong way, it's a retro-futurism.
The people that identifies with this movement love the historicity of things, so it increase the value of crafted things, the way the human uses the tools and machinery to create something together (and I say together because the "machine" it's treated with the respect of a human). Rescue the way of this century's production, the fact that things were meant to last forever (not like today, that the production just want more consumption, so the things broke immediately and we just accumulate garbage).
In Chile there is a community of steampunk, I'm part of it and it's really fun to share opinions and to learn new ways to craft things. Has a fun fact, right now I'm dating the boy that my friend used to talk to me about (the one that teach her the concept of steampunk), and we always try to take care of things, or think of a useful way to manipulate garbage, like make decorations for example.
I would like to invite you to get more information about this, and, if you are not interested in the nineteen century, at least think of taking cafe of your garbage.