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A German Christmas

this christmas, me and my family went to germany.we arrived in Munich, where we spent 6 days, including christmas and boxing day. on christmas day, my family and i went to see a german circus. it was quite entertaining, with everything from jugglers playing the piano while juggling to dancing elephants. my father particularly enjoyed it, as he had never seen a dancing elephant before (he was getting quite over-excited about it). on the 27th, we flew to berlin, where we stayed for another 6 days. we visited the berlin wall, checkpoint charlie, and we almost got to see the reichstag, however it was closed. i was also enlightened to how much berliners drank for one meal. it was a jug of beer. per person.

all in all, i had a good holiday in Germany

sorry!

the embed code to the film is actually

presentation

i am going to do my presentation on stop motion animation. stop motion animation is an animation technique by which an object is placed down so it is still, taken a picture of, then moved slightly and taken another picture of. when a string of pictures is compiled then it gives the illusion that as you flick through them at high speed, the object seems to move on its own. i have always been facinated by stop motion. it takes a lot of time and patience, but i find this kind of simple activity enjoyable, as it does not take much mental input from you and you can listen to music or watch tv while animating something.

in my presentation, i will talk about:
-methods for stop motion and how to make stop motion look good.
-the origins of stop motion
-popular stop motion directors and different objects which are easy to animate
-camera settings, light levels, frames per second.

here is an example of a stop motion film

http://youtu.be/nAKUNMt4J10

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Mat Edgar's website post

matt Edgar recently posted a passage on his website called "the pace of change". one thing I found quite interesting about this post was how he illustrated his point that at this time we see things to be changing much faster than they were a century ago, however a century ago they would have seen things just like this except compared it to another century before that. i also liked how he described how humans have a tendancy to move on to new things quickly. i liked his argument because it went against common belief and questioned a fact that i had simply registered in my mind before and never bothered to think about it.