Animation Movies

Animated movies are my favorite because of many reasons, first i lke to see how new technologies are being improved and used on animation to make you forget that you are watching a movie not imagining it urself, i like it because it takes me to another world like the second life game, where everything can be made because it is not real, how it is related to reality in a way.. it is really funny in the same time it can be dramatic also...

Casshern

Casshern is a science fiction adventure animated thriller, it contains a lot of special effects, and the image is Japanimation and manga-inspired, it is released in 2005. Casshern show us what happened after a very long war between Europe and the Eastern Federation, that lasted 50 years, and how it affected later the human race, and later a proferssor called Azuma a geneticist offers a solution. It is an action movie, that wont bore and it will pass so fast, it is different.. i advise you to watch it, Enjoy

latest news !!

-did you know that June the 7th is the drawing day in the world? if you are interested in art just drop evrything and draw for the sake of art, help creating 1million drawings on 7 june, 2008. to be a part of this visit www.drawingday.org


By Farah

Latest News

-The 33 years old italian artist Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo was killed in turkey on the hand of a 38years old turkish man. the italian artist was on her Brides on tour project, she was hitchhiking through Turkey in a white wedding dress to promote peace in the MiddleEast.

-what is Quidam? create your own 3D character and make it more natural with your own creations, just by following certain steps to achieve finally your character. its really amazing and interesting .. its very realistic ! visit http://www.n-sided.com/

By Farah

EyeFetch Community.

Do you enjoy art? are you interested in art and photography ?

EyeFetch is a place for people who are interested in art and photography, where you can share you digital art work with others and meet new friends. it contains art news, photoblogs,groups, tutorials.. now you can become a member and sign up by visiting the EyeFetch website and let your imagination leads you. http://www.eyefetch.com/ .

By Farah

Waking Life

Waking Life is a computer- animated movie, that was released on the 17th of October 2001, directed by Richard Linklater and screen written, produced by Anne Walker-McKay, Jonah Smith ; composed by Glover Hill and produced by Tommy Pallotta. This movie talks about a college guy who dream while he is awake about philosophical discussions and ethereal experiences meeting with characters along the way that are principles roles of his dream, they discuss together and listen and observe and respond.. Viewers learn eventually that each day whenever he wakes up in bed, appearing to start a new day, he is just dreaming but knowing that he is dreaming and trying to control his own dreams. Waking life, was shot on a digital video cam, edited and then finished by 30 animators. Everything in this movie is amazing in my opinion, the colors, the characters how they are drown, the story, the lighting, the shooting, everything is unique especially the amusing dialogues.

GMX-PhotoPainter

Do you want to transform your digital photos into artistic painting ?
GMX-photopainter is a software that transforms the any digital photo to a great artistic painting. to know how to transform a digital photo to a painting step by step, click on : the steps of transformation. i think that its an amazing software and very creative and useful and entertaining at the same time.
This program includes many styles of painting which is amazing, such as :

• Pen and ink


• Crayon


• Oil


• Water color


• Pastels


• User defined styles like Van Gogh, seurat and many others.

To learn more about this software visit http://www.gertrudisgraphics.com/gmx.php

You can also download this software by visiting the website above.

By Farah

Gatchaman

Gatchaman is a new animated movie, written by Paul Dini and Robert Mark Kamen, that will be released on the 3thd of April 2009, it talks about a teenagers team that will become ninja's to fight the menace of Galactor, it is based on a Japanese Tv Series , on the movie Super hero, and on the Anime manga comic book"Gatchaman Battle Of Planets" and on Ninja, its content are not violent, every one can watch, produced by the Japanese company Nikkatsu and it is in English ofcourse.. it's an action and science fiction movie .. the movie is directed by Takeshi Miike .. it is a funny animated movie, that suits everyone .. Don't forget to watch, i will remind you next year :) ...

Persepolis

This is a wonderfull animation movie, i am writing about it because when i have watch it, the image and how everything is drawn is really amazing, the colors, how everything is combine made it perfect. This movie is based on best-selling for the author Marjane Satrapi, about her life, a life of a young Iranian girl during the Islamic Revolution. How curious she is about knowing everything since she was young, knowing stories of resistence in her family, how they fought to stay living the way they want it, how when she got a bit older discovered Iron Maiden music for exemple. Then she leaves to another country, her parents send her to school.. many things will happen in her life there, everything will change, she will find alot of difficulties as a girl first and as an Iranian citizen outside of her country.. It's a great movie, a smooth but deep one, watch it to find out what will happen last with this girl, will she be able to go back to Iran? will change give up on her country ? ... This movie was nominated to the academy award in 2007, as the best animated movie and won an award in the Cannes Festival Film Award 2007, and also won in Los Angeles Film Critics Association - 2007 as best animation and in New York Film Critics Circle - 2007, New York Film Critics Online - 2007 won as best animated, best foreign film and was nominated as a best picture.

Cool School : Where Peace Rules.

what will first cross your mind when you say cool school?, this game took months to be developed, in this game, every thing you can find in a school is alive and has a different personality, like the erasers, blackboards, book.. everything you can imagine, it's a game for children, to make them learn how to be peaceful, calm and polite. Professor Killen, and Nancy Margie (a doctoral student), invented 52 different scenarios in 10 levels of different conflicts solutions that can happen at the Cool School.
Cool School runs on both windows PCs and Macs and you can download it for free from this website :
http://www.curriki.org

It is a very fun game, that provides a lot of actions, colors, images, sounds but in the same time has goals, it is a wonderful game for the kids and for us too if you like to explore new games and how everything is virtual.

The scream movie award

Yesterday i was watching on TV the scream movie awards of the year 2007, and this event gives awards to a specific genre of movies : Science fiction, fantasy, horror and also to comic books and graphic novels. So you might be interested to know who won the ultimate scream movie award of the year, best director, best comic book and graphic novels writer. well, all genre ( horror, fantasy,sci-fi) fights for this category, The ultimate scream movie award, and the winner is : 300

There is an award called "the comen con icon award" this award represents the best comic book and graphic novel, and the winner is : the writer Neil Gaiman (writ ting Sandman) he is a fantasy and science fiction writer . one of his latest movies he worked on is : Beowulf shot in a 3D animation .

And the award for best director of the year goes to : Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez for the movie : Grindhouse, and they said that this genre of movies (horror) are for diseased mind people ! so freaky i know !

So these were the most important awards in the event ..
To know more about The scream awards click on "Scream"

Cant wait for the cream award 2008 !!

By Farah

who is Banksy ??!

Banksy: a very famous British artist !

I was reading an article about some artist and Banksy got my attention specialy the title of the article "who is banksy?" .The media loves this guy and they have been following his latest artworks over the 18 past months.So introducing you to Banksy, he is an artist. Here's a famous quote to banksy to understand more his perpeous of creating art : The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit
The BBC website claims that Banksy has no formal education about art and that he was in detention for many crimes. Seems that Banksy is really getting the attention of media by his works and millions of people knows him, maybe because he is a very controversial person when it comes to his artwork. check out Banksy website !!!
A journalist called Simon Hattenstone did an interview with banksy check it out.

By Farah

Wawww !! 3 Dramatically Controversial Art Pieces

Nowadays, art is becoming more controversial, but some societies don't accept the controversial works.. some controversial arts comes out strong and artists face problems . i chose 3 controversial art pieces, i chosed the most controversable ones !

Number 3

by Cosimo Cavallaro

This piece is named : "My sweet lord" because it represents the last memorable moments of jesus christ dying, cosimo said that he felt pressure by the religious community while doing this piece of art.

Number 2

By gregor Schneider

This piece of art represents : " the Beauty in death" well here the controversy will arise when youll see this piece of art and say that there is no beauty in death, there is only death in death !!

Number 1

By David Cerny

This is a controversial art piece of the iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein known as : " The Shark" its an amasing controversial art piece .

By Farah.

Sweaty Palms

Sweaty Palms is a dating game. you take the role of a nervous girl or boy who is trying hard to hold the hand of your date in the movies.exactly as u are nervous in ur first date, when the movie ends you get a rate of how u acted and you get to experience in this game all the feelings you get on your first date .. play this game in case you are short on experience :) This game is also created by Ian Bogost.

Cruel To B Kind

Cruel to be kind is an experimental game of how you can become a benovolent assassin created by Jane Mcgonigal and Ian Bogost. you will be given secret weapons, you choose how many assassins you want in your team, you should stay always with your team, you can never work alone. you should all attack together. The team who scores the highest points in the end recieve Top Assassin Awards. This game is really famous now in my countries such as Canada, Usa, England and many other. Before 24 hours of the game you and your team members that are registered will recieve an email from the game master who will descrive each of the 3 weapons function for you.. check it how surprising it is.. ill keep this for you to find out !!!

Media - Digital Art

i wanted to assure that digital art is related to media because maybe some are wondering how it is related ?! click on new media art . Media is about communication, its a wide field that has many ways of communication or learning certain information or to entertain ! it can be mass media(tv, radio, films, books) or digital media( computer,video games,virtual reality,digital art..) getting you into more details, for video games you need digital art to design your game and images.. or what about second life! also it use digital art to digitize the character you chosen or anything else.. this is some terms related to new media : digital television, video games, digital art, internet, digital audio ...

By Farah

Darfur is Dying

Darfur is dying this game is to help stopping the crisis in darfur its a good experience which u can choose from it a caracter you want or "darfurian" to represent your camp the caracter are from age 10 till 30 then you start your experience. it is a serious game, where you feel that your are living in Darfur really, you should search for food, build shelters, collect water, stay healthy, help others... and you should beware of the attack that will destroy everything you do, so beware or you die. play this game so you can feel how other humans like you are suffering instead of playing a game where you kill and rob and steal..

Finding Zoe

Finding Zoe is a game that ecourage children to report domestic abuse, it is a game for childer between 8-14, Suzana Ruiz designed this game after the game Darfur is dying that was sponsored by mtv.

Susana Ruiz: RePlay: Finding Zoe is about a girl in trouble and her friends that act on their feelings of concern in order to help her.

The game requires players to make decisions surrounding a scenario in which the character Zoe is presumed to be in an abusive relationship.

try out this game even if you are old enough but maybe you can help your siters for example or their friends or the kids you know to live a better life. Maybe the questions that are asked in this games are dull for you, but maybe you will find urself not able to answer or to choose an answer for it. just check this and advice kids to stop playing violent games, these types of games is more helpfull.

Its all about the idea not the medium !

while reading a magazine on the web, i was attached by this article : Digital art Media, talking about how nowadays artist are using digital tools to create fine art. and how all these latest technological digital tools has opened a new wide window for artist sharing more creative ideas for media. now that i am talking about IDEAS AND MEDIA , Catharine Clark, owner director of the Catharine Clark gallery says "I’m interested in content, not media," explains,Good art is not about the medium; it’s about the idea. The artists’ ideas drive the art, not their choice of tools, technology or media. For Clark, art is content-driven, not media-driven.

And when talking about Digital art, Clark says : I describe my paintings as “combined media on canvas.” They originate as paintings created in Corel Painter (sometimes based on photographic reference); they are printed out on canvas and then have various media, such as acrylic paint and pastel, applied on to the canvas surface. I avoid using the terms “digital art,” “computer art” and “computer-generated art,” all of which imply that artistic skill is secondary to the fact that the computer was used. After all you’d never describe a Van Gogh painting an example of “oil paint-generated art!”

so we can summarize that,nowadays we're living in a digital world,everybody using computers in all fields. Media needs creative ideas: the content is very important therefor, the digital work help the artist to be more creative with using an infinite type of tools, but first the concept of the idea must be found, this is what enrich the digital art! .. the idea..

By Farah

TwistedBrush Pro Studio.. so amazing !!!

while searching on the web, i found this amazing website for professional artist, and it is easy to use, it has more than 3,000 brushes and it goes along with all the themes or features that you care to for. I just love it, i loved the pictures they are amazing. Well i guess any company related to media will be concerned to check out this website, because its very helpful to create still images for billboards or for any other type of media. The features are really interesting:

-layers, realistic media, photo cloning, tracing, masks, particles, filters, script recording, scripts to AVI, drawing tablet support, brush shapes, patterns, textures, integrated scanner support, image brushes, drawing guides, reference image views, dirty brushes, scratch layer, dynamic palettes and a whole lot more..

when it comes to cinema(movies) , there is a special type of drawing which is amazing that artists use while drawing an image related to a movie, that is being released like this picture of Johny Depp taken from a certain movie for him.

you have digital painting and also photo editing, and this program goes along with all windows operating system versions. So you can visit this website http://www.pixarra.com/index.html and find more information that you need if you were interested in this twistedbrush pro studio.

By Farah

Digital Art

i couldn't wait to talk about arts because for me its the best way of communication but when it comes to Digital arts it is more used for media which is a creative way of understanding a message whether it was billboards,video games,music,digital paintings..

First of all to understand digital arts you must know what Art and Digital mean

ART :

the most expressive activity for humans that use to show their emotions by it and by showing what they have inside and want to be expressed by a way which can be like i said before there is many ways of expressing yourself or you want to send a certain message to people by music,cinema or painting ....

Digital :

it is a computing and electronic system that follows a certain binary codes that are : 0-1 this is how it reads programs.

So digital arts are arts used by a computer system in a digital form, it is usually used to facilitate for the media to achieve its message for the audience and make it more understandable like billboards use digital photos.. are you feeling anxious ??? what to release your worries ??? you have free time and you want to be useful? check this website http://artjournals.suite101.com/article.cfm/art_journal_why_youre_anxious

well, we all know that painting is a way of expression in the art field,t has a certain communication between the human and the painting, but nowadays digital painting is growing and growing and people are becoming more creative that makes you fly away beyond all your imagination to another world, the imaginary world, i was attracted by this artist called Sylvie Robert she was born in Paris, she was a passionate for art specially digital painting, and she specialised in a very original way : The fantasy vision

By Farah

Anti-violence Games

We always think when it comes to games and video games about football, violence, blood, fast cars, etc.. Ian Bogost had chose to change this theory and create new games that will go beyond entertainment to education, art and peace. For example games to solve the middle-east problems or games regarding the immigration or food ..

Persuasive Games :
Our games influence players to take action through gameplay. Games communicate differently than other media; they not only deliver messages, but also simulate experiences. While often thought to be just a leisure activity, games can also become rhetorical tools.

One of the games that Ian Bogost created and really attracted me is "Selene", it's a game about Lunar Geology founded by NASA and created by his students.

To play this game you must be sponsored by a Selene recruiter, youth who have parental permission can play for about an hour, this game teach kids and youth science while they are playing. The Selene project is a part from the NASA programs to teach youth and to help them know more about science, technology...
visit the Selene website to learn more about the game.

-mayssa

Smart Clothes

Ever heard about smart clothes ? , i heard few month ago someone asking why old fashion is coming back, so a friend of mine answered that they are doing this because after few years all this clothes won't be used again, they'll disappear and SMART CLOTHES will take its place.of course now you are wondering what smart clothes are.
Smart clothes are clothes that are made with fabrics that have numerous sensors, which they every second check your vital sign, if any danger sign is detected they are programmed automatically to contact your doctor or to send information to the nearest hospital or to send you a text message warning you, that's on the medical side and if you get really cold with the solar power that is stored in your clothe it will make you warm.
For work, in your suite jackets their Will be implanted phones in the lapels and the pockets could record meetings.
As for night life, what's better than a smart wardrobe? that lights when its dark, that always make you smell good, that will alarm when you drink more than the average, that will control the temperature of your body so u don't sweat while dancing or if its hot? . And you don't have to worry, to buy clothes that fits you a 3D measearing system is being developed that scans your measurements exactly and record it on a ship so people can view on the Internet the clothes they want to buy and try them in a virtual way on their body. And there's a company that advice you what to wear and what fits you more.
Smart clothes are being developed each day as Simon Jones said : Forget Parisian haute couture, the real avant garde rule breakers in future fashion will be scientists.
That's ironic right ? i think a Fashion design major will be under the faculty of science not arts in the future.So enjoy the old-modern fashion now cause tomorrow it will be dump with the Smart Clothes invention.

-mayssa

ROBOTS !!

nowadays, we can't deny that robots are a part of our lives ! we've reached a place where we can't limit this invention that is growing more and more reaching the : UNKNOWN ! so i chosed this topic because i find it very interesting, its also interesting to search about the latest technological robots.like you've read in my last articles im so into searching creative fashion styles, maybe one day robots will have their own fashion like we do.. !!

One of the latest technologies about robots is :

- Let robots get more sensitive

Scientist are working on a type of skin that will allow robots to have touchy feelings. it is a high-tech skin that have small buttons which are the sensors. the sensors allow a robot to "feel" changes that are surrounding him and move accordingly. and in the near future scientists will try to improve this new technology by adding more sensor buttons on this skin to allow robots to have different kind of feelings.

Farah.

Steampunk

well, it took us a while to really understand steampunk beacuse we've never heard of this word before maybe cyberpunk was a bit known because of the word : cyber, we can figure out what cyberpunk would be, steampunk is derived from cyberpunk so our definition of steampunk should tie-in to the definition of cyberpunk. Cyberpunk involves society's response to an ever advancing technology that transforms life faster than culture can adjust to it in a time when information has more value than material goods. Cyberpunk is traditionally dystopian, presenting a dark view of the future in which technology creates more problems than it cures. A starting point for our definition of steampunk, then, should be a dystopian view of the role of technology in the nineteenth century, the Age of Steam. Steam punk about technology that never existed , well but probably could . Steampunk is often outfitted with a variety of techological gadgets. Clockwork limbs, steam- powered automobiles, tanks and robots, aerial warships and an endless variety of modern-day inventions built using Steam Age technology .

Steampunk, like so many genres, is broad enough to allow great variety. As a world setting for gamers, it has the potential for great fun and appeals to players of all outlooks

lets see some of the steampunk inventions,

- The steampunk home: a way to combine the past and the future , its a living life that looks old-fashioned, yet speaks to the future.

- what about steampunk fashion ?? nice..

- Some Steampunk gadgets.. amazingggggggg !!!!!!!!!

Steampunk mouse

Steampunk MP3 Player