Wednesday, May 28, 2008

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.

Monday, May 26, 2008

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 :



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

Friday, May 23, 2008

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 :) ...

Thursday, May 22, 2008

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.

Monday, May 19, 2008

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.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

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

Saturday, May 10, 2008

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

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

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.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

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 !!!