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Monday 15 December 2014
Writing a review: Abducido (Lifted), by Pixar
Lifted is a computer-animated short film, produced by Pixar and directed by Gary Rydstrom in 2006. It was the first short film directed by Gary Rydstrom and the first produced by Katherine Sarafian, who went on to produce Pixar's Brave.
The film was presented on June 29, 2007 and also received a sneak peek at The 42nd Chicago International Film Festival.
The action doesn't take place in a specific location. Everything happens in a deserted field, in a house where the main protagonist lives.
This short explains the story of a young alien who's inside a spaceship and has to do an exam of alien abduction. The alien has to achieve get the human out of his house, controlling thousands of buttons of a board. He starts pushing lots of buttons but nothing happens until he realizes and he should look at the instruction manual. After a while he pushes the right button, and at the exact last moment he stops pushing the device. The examinator, seeing that disaster, decides to recover the control and he orders everything the alien made a mess of. But when he sees the young alien sad, he thinks letting him happier and he does so. The young alien collapses against a house but the men and his bed remain untouched.
After seeing all the shorts I didn't decide what to do the review, and eventually ended up getting this. I liked a lot. That has made me laugh was the personality of the young alien and the faces that the examiner makes.
Tuesday 2 December 2014
Monday 17 November 2014
I can't hide it, it's a part of me: It's a nightmare.
It was a normal day in Konno’s life. She woke up at the same hour as usual to go to high school, go back home, eat, do homework and sleep. She spent her days, weeks and months doing the same exact thing. Maybe, for her the weekend was too short to disconnect. She was tired of the routine: do always the same thing. She didn’t practise sport for years and she didn’t even care about having good friends. She lived well alone with herself.
One day, at midnight, she decided to go outside and relax a bit, because she had a really busy day and she couldn’t sleep. She had nightmares with zombies, ghosts and terrifying creatures that spoke. They all told her that she would end up alone, that no one loved her or supported her, not even her family, … Once outside she thought it was a good idea to go for a walk into the Aokigahara forest, half an hour away from her home. She always heard rumors about people who killed themselves in the forest and that in the nights you could hear their screams and weird noises.
While she was walking she felt this cold air in her skin and she was scared. She didn’t want to do anything strange out there, she only wanted to know if any of those stories were real or just tales that people spread in the town. She was walking silently through the forest, she didn’t want to drag any attention on her. She was walking for twenty minutes and suddenly she started to hear screams. She got scared and she screamed. In that moment, she covered her mouth and continued to walk searching the answer to her questions. She felt like someone was following her, like someone wanted to catch her but in a slowly way. Then, she noticed this strong presence around and she started running fast, very fast.
She ran really fast for some minutes when suddenly she stopped and found a tomb in the ground. On the stone there were these words written: LEAVE ME ALONE. Konno got scared and decided to keep walking leaving the tomb behind. Suddenly, her phone rang. She ignored it and she starts walking again: she went there to discover something and she kept that in mind. She found a pond and she sat there to rest for a while, but them the trees leaves start to make a strange and loud noise that bothered her. She covered her ears and convinced herself to forget but it was too late.
She looked around and then she saw a lot of horrifying creatures: zombies, ghosts, vampires, witches and demons screaming at her: NO ONE LOVES YOU, YOU’LL END UP ALONE! She started crying and screaming: NO, NO, NO!
But… Then, she woke up.
All was a nightmare, one of many that dragged her into her own hell.
One day, at midnight, she decided to go outside and relax a bit, because she had a really busy day and she couldn’t sleep. She had nightmares with zombies, ghosts and terrifying creatures that spoke. They all told her that she would end up alone, that no one loved her or supported her, not even her family, … Once outside she thought it was a good idea to go for a walk into the Aokigahara forest, half an hour away from her home. She always heard rumors about people who killed themselves in the forest and that in the nights you could hear their screams and weird noises.
While she was walking she felt this cold air in her skin and she was scared. She didn’t want to do anything strange out there, she only wanted to know if any of those stories were real or just tales that people spread in the town. She was walking silently through the forest, she didn’t want to drag any attention on her. She was walking for twenty minutes and suddenly she started to hear screams. She got scared and she screamed. In that moment, she covered her mouth and continued to walk searching the answer to her questions. She felt like someone was following her, like someone wanted to catch her but in a slowly way. Then, she noticed this strong presence around and she started running fast, very fast.
She ran really fast for some minutes when suddenly she stopped and found a tomb in the ground. On the stone there were these words written: LEAVE ME ALONE. Konno got scared and decided to keep walking leaving the tomb behind. Suddenly, her phone rang. She ignored it and she starts walking again: she went there to discover something and she kept that in mind. She found a pond and she sat there to rest for a while, but them the trees leaves start to make a strange and loud noise that bothered her. She covered her ears and convinced herself to forget but it was too late.
She looked around and then she saw a lot of horrifying creatures: zombies, ghosts, vampires, witches and demons screaming at her: NO ONE LOVES YOU, YOU’LL END UP ALONE! She started crying and screaming: NO, NO, NO!
But… Then, she woke up.
All was a nightmare, one of many that dragged her into her own hell.
Sunday 26 October 2014
One of my favourite photos
This photo was taken by me in summer 2014. It shows the "late afternoon" in Parc Central del Vallès, in Barberà del Vallès.
I took this photo when I went one day with my father at the park. He taught me how to handle the new camera that I had bought that day. It was a fun afternoon. He was taught me how to change some options to do different things at different photos and we ended up doing many pictures.
In the background of the photo, you can see the different color of the clouds as the light they reflect them (the higher clouds are darker than the lower clouds) and how slowly fades.
In the front of the photo you can see the trees, who are black because it doesn't gives them the light.
I chose this picture because it's one of my favorite from that afternoon and it brings back many memories with my father in summer. I really love it.
I took this photo when I went one day with my father at the park. He taught me how to handle the new camera that I had bought that day. It was a fun afternoon. He was taught me how to change some options to do different things at different photos and we ended up doing many pictures.
In the background of the photo, you can see the different color of the clouds as the light they reflect them (the higher clouds are darker than the lower clouds) and how slowly fades.
In the front of the photo you can see the trees, who are black because it doesn't gives them the light.
I chose this picture because it's one of my favorite from that afternoon and it brings back many memories with my father in summer. I really love it.
Monday 13 October 2014
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