Art - interview

Me: What is your favorite kind of art?
Justina said that painting was her favorite kind of art.

Me: Are you good in painting?
Justina said that she was not that good in painting with brush but she was good in drawing with pencil and charcoal.

Me: Do you take any classes in painting?
Justina said she was going to start classes in painting the next month.

Me: How often do you paint with acrylic paint and how often you draw with the pencil or charcoal?
Justina said that she was painting with the acrylic paint mostly weekends but she was drawing with her pencil anywhere, even while riding the train.

Me: What do your family think about your paintings?
Justina said that her family was considering her as a very talented and they were thinking that she will become a famous artist.

Me: Do you want to become a famous artist?
Justina said that she didn`t want to become famoust but mostly she was painting and drawing for fun and for releasing the stress.

My favorite kind of art

     My favorite kind of art is the digital photography. This modern art can present one object in many different ways, expressing different moods and messages for the people. Digital photography can make even the simplest thing look special. Using a digital camera and its options allows the artist to catch a scene for less than a second and to photograph with a high quality very small details and objects. Digital photos have a lot of dynamic and deepness of details.

     Research and development continues to refine the lighting, optics, sensors, processing, storage, display, and software in digital photography. Some examples are: 3D Models can be created from collections of normal images. The resulting scene can be viewed from novel viewpoints, but creating the model is very intensive. Panoramic photography can be created easily directly in camera without software processing outside of the camera and even there also 3D Panorama uses a single lens. High dynamic range cameras and displays are commercially available. Sensors with dynamic range in excess of 1,000,000:1 are in development, and software is also available to combine multiple non-HDR images (shot with different exposures) into an HDR image.

About me

My name is Maya. I am 30 years old born and raised in Europe. I have Bulgarian-Greek origins and a huge family! I came to the United States few years ago where I met my husband and stayed with him. I don`t have kids but I have a 4 years old male cat. He is the cutest guy, dressed in black and white fur, really playful, and social. My immediate family lives in France and Bulgaria what makes my life really dynamic and fun because I travel a lot to visit my relatives. My favourite food is vegetarian and my hobby is hiking and bike riding.

The Elephants

Quote from: “David Braun`s article on National Geographic Magazine”

   In this article the author talks about Daphne Sheldrick talks about her experience living and working with elephants. She says that scientific studies have led to the acceptance of abilities that we didn`t think the elephants have. Elephants share the same emotions as we do. They have a strong sense of family and a strong sense of death. The most surprising is that elephants mourn the loss of loved once. Each elephant has individual personality lust like the people. They can be mischievous, playful, hold a grudge or feel slighted.

   The author also talks about their ability to communicate over distance using low range sound hidden to human ears. According the article they also have telepathic capabilities, as well as being sensitive to seismic sound through their feet. Yet for all the worldly reverence for elephants, they are today being hunted and killed at catastrophic rate for something as simple as a tooth.

Reading the story made me realize that elephants are very intelligent and sensible animals and it reminds me of a story I read recently about a baby elephant born in Chinese zoo which was abandoned by his mother right after its birth and the baby elephant spent 6 hours crying for his mom. The most impressive thing was that there was a photo posted with the article and the elephant`s face was wet of crying under the eyes!

My question to the author is: Do elephants have a feeling for people? Like who has a good personality and who has bad personality.


CAPABILITIES - power of ability, being able to do something.
SEISMIC - relating to earthquakes or other vibrations of the earth and its crust.
REVERENCE - deep respect for someone or something.

The Expedition Of A Lifetime

Quote of Andrew Evans of National Geographic

In this article the author tells us about his great job as a photographer working with National Geographic. He describes his assignments as spectacular and too special. Andrew Evans tells us about the last few years spent in travelling, chasing penguins, sightseeing in London, the cultural capital of the world, being kissed by pandas in China, etc.

The most important for the author is the opportunity to travel and see some of the most desired places in the world, and the excitement of living on foot and today being in London and tomorrow waking up in Antarctica.

I would like to ask the author did he feel any fear during his trips and being close to exotic animals?

I have personally experienced the magic of travelling being employed by a magazine and travelling for work to Paris, Istanbul, Greece.

LIFETIME - the duration of a person's life.
MERELY - only.
EMBARK - go on board a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle.

After The Hurricane Sandy

Quote of Marianne Lavelle for National Geographic

   In her article the author describes the consequences of the Hurricane Sandy and the difficulties which the local residents met. One of the stories Marianne tells is for  Ligia Siguencia who used a generator providing power only to cook some dinner using candlelight to serve the food and to feed friends of her who gathered in her home several days after losing thir homes in the hurricane.

   My question for the author is: What she felt when seeing the homes of so many people destroyed by the hurricane?

I have never experienced something like this but floods and earthquakes happen  in my country and many Bulgarian people aslo had lost their homes.

I remember the series of earthquakes near the city of Sofia that started in May 2012 and continued for more than 2 months causing damages to some people`s homes and at the same time earthquakes happened in Greece and Italy where the damages were more serious.


GENERATOR - a thing that generates something, in particular.
CANDLELIGHT - dim light provided by a candle or candles.
GATHER - come together.

Chicago Museums

Quote from: Jason Foumberg and Elly Fishman

In this article the authors give us the best idea about the best exhibitions we can see in the museums of Chicago. One of the exhibitions is in the Art Institute of Chicago where the artist Zarina Hashmi sculpts pulp into three-dimensional forms and uses it as a support for her abstract prints and drawings, which contain imagery reminiscent of hand-built structures and hardscrabble existence, all spun into modestly beautiful shapes. Other interesting event is the exhibition in DePaul Art Museum where the photographer Paul D`Amato doesn’t sugarcoat his subject matter: the lives of the socially dispossessed trapped in a wasteland—specifically, African Americans on Chicago’s West Side, whom D’Amato has been photographing for a decade.

I would like to ask the authors do they practice any art-related activities or they are just interested in exploring and analyzing art exhibitions?

I would like to add to this review that everyone who lives in the City of Chicago and has a card for the public library can take free passess for all museums in Chicago.

SCULPT - create or represent (something) by carving, casting, or other shaping techniques.
ABSTRACT - existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.
SUGARCOAT - to make something seem better than it is.