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Hiking and searching for locations or ideas for new projects, Jeffrey Katzenberg visited the Alto atacama Hotel in San Pedro de Atacama. Katzenberg is one of the DreamWorks founders, the studio behind blockbuster movies like Shrek, Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda.

Steven Spielberg and David Geffen’s partner reserved rooms in the Alto Atacama, where he stayed with two other heavyweights of American film industry: Andrew Cripps, president of Paramount Pictures International, and Ian George, senior vice president of that company.

Katzenberg, who is vacationing in Latin America, arrived in his private plane to Calama and stayed a couple of days in San Pedro. After his stay in Alto Atacama, he will be travelling with his friends from Paramount to other countries in Southamerica.

Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen formed DreamWorks in 1994, making it one of the most successful independent film production companies, with Oscar-winning like American Beauty and Gladiator. In 2005, Paramount Pictures bought Dreamworks for U.S. $ 1,600 million.

Between 9 and 17 March, Animal Gallery held the exhibition and awards competition of  the third version of the Remade in Chile Design Contest, an initiative that seeks to promote and disseminate the ideas for the reuse of waste materials , giving a new use through an innovative design.
As we posted in our blog last January, Alto Atacama hosted this version of this encounter, which received 250 projects of which 48 were selected by a jury confomed by Ximena Abogabir, Rodrigo Alonso, Felix Maldonado, Douglas Leonard.
The contest had as winner a design student from the University Diego Portales, Montserrat Flores, who through a material “Ewe”, created from the reuse of discarded woolen chain called Noils (grain short that shows remains grass and straw), devised a flexible waterproof sheet for sustainable housings of electronic devices.
We invite you to review the blog Remade in Chile where you will see the second, third place and honorable mention, just click here.
Photo: View of the exhibition at the Galería Animal, by María José Urcelay.

This February, San Pedro has a special show of Chilean handicraft, one awarded in 2009 by the UNESCO “Seal of Excellence” and “First Crafts and Design Competition CREA”.
ARTEMINGA and NGO TSA opens tomorrow Thursday February 11 the exhibition “Multiple Parallel ” in Caracoles 183, which I consider one of the most interesting shops in the area, the perfect place to go if you look for special pieces that combine  design with materials and traditions.
On my vacations I had the privilege of meeting  Silvana Martinez, manager of this initiative, a young law student who carries the art in her veins, which was motivated by her atacaman ancestors, and has developed a career as a goldsmith reusing old atacaman  tissues, combined with work in copper, which works in creating jewelry crudely carrying the history of its previous owners, in this case the Zutar family, (her paternal grandmother).

Everything on their collars emulates the desert, the red and earth colors of the tissues, the metal she uses, which together with the reuse of materials earned merits enough to be one of the winners of CREA.
The installation “Multiple Parallel” evokes in its structure the way our long country is transversally divided by parallels, imaginary lines that create divisions within our territory, where locations are also different and unique cultural expressions, which are part of a larger agenda: our idiosyncrasy

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The pieces presented in this exhibition are Loza Rings by Carolina Contreras Collao who presented framed fragments of pottery belonging to the ancient northern Chile saltpeter, wooden rings by Marcel Pinilla Cancino, native objects made with wood from old fallen buildings of Valparaíso, Loom Necklace by Nicolas Hernandez Meza and Juan Pinochet Acosta a pectoral ornament with saddlery and goldsmith techniques with ancient materials used in handicrafts; Manto Intervenido by Irene Vacaro Cuevas made from felt and multiple techniques; Kallwe Necklace by Valeria Martinez Nahuel a creation of silver, sheep and alpaca wool hand-dyed with natural products; Jewels of native wood and silver by Pauline Aranguiz Montesi inspired in Mapuche traditional ornamentation.

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit models found the perfect fit at the Alto Atacama Desert Lodge & Spa in Chile’s Atacama Desert—part of the hotly anticipated 2010 Swimsuit Edition, which hits newsstands today. The Atacama, the driest desert in the world and one of the most otherworldly destinations beyond the moon, gave celebrated photographer Raphael Mazzucco the chance to work with a endless array of colorful and one-of-a-kind Andean “altiplanico” backdrops to showcase high-fashion swimwear and the beautiful models who wore them.

Four of Sports Illustrated’s models traveled to the Atacama Desert including Julie Henderson, Daniella Sarahyba, Irina Shayk, and Zoe Duchesne. The models posed for thousands of photos in the Alto Atacama Lodge’s guestroom terraces and against the dusty orange hills that surround the lodge property, at turquoise-colored salt flats, sand dunes and oases.

Following two days of acclimatization, Julie Henderson and Irina Shayk traveled to altitudes of up to 14,000 feet to pose at the Salar de Tara’s wetlands and the world’s highest active geysers at Tatio. The Alto Atacama Lodge’s alpaca “Pepito” got camera time too, sidling up to a bikini-clad Irina Shayk.

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