Tuesday 31 January 2012

Photo Essays are AMAZING

I am currently being required to choose a photo essay and write about it. I'll be doing that in this blog post. Another rule was to not pick the first one we saw. I broke that rule because I reeeally liked the first one I saw. Here it is. Please feel free to view it to your heart's desire. So the photo essay I picked is about the Hariban Snow and Ice Festival in Hariban, China. This festival takes place in very cold weather. This one was in -18 Celsius. That is extremely cold. I think that all the statues, expecially at night were so beautiful and magical that I would have hardly noticed the freezing cold weather.

Thursday 26 January 2012

Life in a Day

One day, July 24 2010, the world was doing the same things we do everyday, going to work, getting married, and celebrating life. Only on this particular day 800,000 regular people carried around video cameras and documented the day. All the submissions were sent to Youtube and compiled into a movie that shows every aspect of daily life. Many of the scenes were gory and some were exciting and interesting but the most memorable of these scenes is none of the above. To me the most memorable scene of the movie was a young women getting ready by herself then calling her overseas husband on Skype. The scenes that I found were the most happy were the shortest. They were short clips of people dancing and singing. The scenes I found the saddest were the ones that involved the gory, fighting side of life. Sadly, this negativly horrible side of humanity is the one that I saw the most throughout the film.
Another theme throughout the movie was juxtapositions. The one that I noticed the most was happening during my most remembered scene. During the young woman's morning a voice over played about her husband in Afghanastan. The scene sometimes was punctured with clips showing the good side of Afghanastan.
In all I thought the movie covered a lot. It showed all sides of any situation, but I'm not sure I would recommend it to a friend. It doesn't seem like a movie most of my friends would enjoy, but thier loss.

Thursday 5 January 2012

TIME Magazine's Top 100 People of 2011

I really don't feel like writing about a full 100 mini articles about a bunch of people I don't care that much about. After tons and tons of consideration I picked the 3 that I found the most influencial.
1) Mark Zuckerberg- He was person of the year for one thing. You may not know this but he also invented a little website called FACEBOOK! Facebook has started a revolution. Without Mark Zuckerberg all those middle eastern countries would still be in dictatorships. THANKS MARK! Click for his article
2) Oprah- I mean who hasn't heard of Oprah? She runs the worlds most popular daytime talk show, now has her own TV channel, and works with tons of charitys. Of course, on top of all that she probably has enough money to rent out Australia and a long lost sister sob story. Click for her article
3) John Lasseter- I didn't know who John Lasseter was until about 1 minute ago but, he's the guy who runs Pixer. Without him the world would be without cute animated movies that no one really wants to see but we do anyway and most of the time we like them (except for Cars2 that SUCKED). This guy gives us movies that remind us what it's like to be a little kid again. Click for his article