By: preme | On: 30 Dec, 2009
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This 1962 special marked the last hurrah of Mr. Magoo, who starred in 43 cartoon shorts, including two Oscar® winners, from the UPA Studio between 1949 and 1959. Magoo appears as Scrooge in a Broadway production of “A Christmas Carol” in this minimally animated hour. The play-within-the-show features forgettable songs by Jules Styne and Bob Merrill: Tiny Tim (“played” by the animated character Gerald McBoing-Boing) sings, oddly, of “razzle berry dressing” and “woofle jelly cake.” This retelling of Dickens’s holiday standard is much tamer than Richard Williams’s Oscar-winning adaptation: the ghosts aren’t scary, nor does Magoo confront the specters of Ignorance and Want. Small children who might be frightened by more dramatic versions of the story will enjoy this mild program. And the self-satisfied chuckles and bromides Jim Backus gives Magoo in his lighter moments remain as delightful as ever. This film is suitable for ages 6 and older. –Charles Solomon
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By: preme | On: 24 Sep, 2009
In the second installment of Stephenie Meyers phenomenally successful TWILIGHT series, the romance between mortal and vampire soars to a new level as BELLA SWAN (Kristen Stewart) delves deeper into the mysteries of the supernatural world she yearns to become part of—only to find herself in greater peril than ever before. Following Bellas ill-fated 18th birthday party, EDWARD CULLEN (Robert Pattinson) and his family abandon the town of Forks, Washington, in an effort to protect her from the …
By: preme | On: 19 Sep, 2009
If life is your inspiration and memory your retreat, then Nokia N93i is the phone for you. Nokia N93i is all about capturing and cherishing memories. It is a compact and stylish digital camcorder and multimedia computer packed into one. Thus, what we have in Nokia N93i is a host of advance features – DVD like video capture to video uploads. Nokia with its Nokia N93i wants to establish mobile video as a much bigger phenomenon, like that of mobile photography. Nokia N93i comes in a slim and compact design, to smoothly slip into your pocket. The exterior has a metallic finish keymat with a mirror effect cover. This exudes sophistication as much as it attracts the onlookers. The 2.4″ main display of up to 16 million colours has a 160° viewing angle. Further, an easy-to-use joystick offers smooth video control. The dedicated buttons camera keys adds more thrill to the imaging experience. It enables to capture images, switch shooting mode and operate the flash instantly.
Nokia N93i is empowered with a MPEG-4 VGA video capture. It allows you to shoot DVD like videos, up to 30 frames per second. It also has the advantage of stereo audio recording and digital stabilization. The camera of Nokia N93i comes with a 3.2 Megapixels camera with Carl Zeiss optics, 3x optical zoom, autofocus and close-up mode. Moreover with 1 GB miniSD card, you can make up to 45 minutes of quality video. Nokia N93i offers everything you need to capture, uploads and yes to share. Thus integrated in Nokia N93i is a new personal video and photo blogging service called Vox. You can simply select videos or photos and upload them directly from Nokia N93i.
Nokia N93i gives wings to your imagination. The device is enabled with various editing features and enables you to shape the story just as they want to. Nokia N93i sales pack comes bundled with Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 software to make things easier for the users. Creating your own home theatre is also not a hassle. Simply connect Nokia N93i with compatible TV with the supplied video-out connectivity cable and see the magic begin. If you would rather want to go wireless, take the advantage of the integrated wireless LAN (WLAN) technology to get connected to a compatible UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) enabled device.
The Nokia N93i is based on S60 3rd Edition software on Symbian OS, and offers great connectivity features as well.
By: preme | On: 19 Sep, 2009
We love to tell stories as part of our daily conversation. When we want to convey an important thought, we make use of stories for people to relate to it. Before kids hit the sack, we condition their minds through stories. Even when making a presentation, we cite tales or stories that prove a finding or a hypothesis to be worth accepting. These things that we pass on from one person to another have been going on for centuries. How did you think you knew about how your mother and father met if it were not for the stories they have shared with you?
Stories are also important in describing how wonderful a wedding ceremony could look like. Without cameras, these will only be told by the word of mouth. Since our technology has been fast advancing, things that happened on your wedding day can be shared to your kids with the aid of videos. This time around, anyone who is interested to know about your love story will not have a problem visualizing what has transpired because it is better presented on videos. No one will miss the details of your wedding from the gown you wore till the tiniest expression that you had when you said “I do”. Thanks to wedding videography, wedding stories are better told.
Any couple whom are about to marry can have their video taken cinematically or journalistically. These are just two of the many styles that is typically offered by professionals. Of course, you can settle with the traditional way on which videos are captured as it is and chronologically whereas, these two styles add a dramatic twist to your wedding stories.
Cinematic is one style that makes your videos look like what you see in the movies. These are customized in a way that it can tell a story, reliving the days when you met each other until the special day. It can be romantic, action or even comedy depending on your preferred genre. A professional is fully equipped with high-end equipment that allows them to make your wishes come true. It is also better done when the professional uses a high-definition technology.
Journalistic is a different discipline or art that is used for this kind of activity. It is simply done by capturing images and edits them to make them more organized. Your wedding stories will be told in a way just like that of the documentary films: nothing too fancy nor would it be even fictional. This wedding videography is done spontaneously. Images are taken as it is and the editing just adds a little tweak to it by forms of captions or music.
Videographers commonly use these two styles for their wedding package. Either way, both styles can be used as a better way to convey a love story. Anyone who will watch this can be deeply touched and even you as the main actors of the story will never fail to appreciate the beauty of your wedding day that you surely have missed. Time can fly so fast and even though it has been years from the day that you were joined together, you can still re-live the day or even tell the story in the most concise way.
Summary
We all have our ways to convey our love stories to our kids and interested parties. Commonly we do it by word of mouth. However, if you want to make things more vivid for them, try telling it through videos. It has a better impact.
By: preme | On: 16 Sep, 2009
Radiohead tickets are now available at Stubhub.com, and can be purchased or sold on the Web site.
Radiohead is now considered one of the biggest bands on the planet, and certainly an institution among indie rock fans that like their bands a little more artsy. They’re on tour again, and Radiohead tickets will no doubt sell out quickly.
But while the band itself has become infamous for its chilly pop and paranoia, its members have also started to go off on their own and develop independent music projects. Frontman Thom Yorke has done this with “The Eraser.” Jonny Greenwood has also done this with a solo career, releasing two soundtracks in the past few years.
In 2003, he released a soundtrack to a film called Bodysong, a documentary about human life composed of a mixture of amateur video and well-known media clips. The film follows the various stages of human life, including birth, the teenage years with all their awkwardness, adulthood, rearing children and the bliss of domestic life, and finally the waning years of old age and death. Greenwood’s score provides an important commentary on the scenes themselves, as they’re often presented without narration, so the music sets the tone and intention of the filmmaker when certain scenes are presented. Flowing from jazzy to electronic, the score was hailed as an interesting new move from Greenwood by music critics, and many Radiohead fans perked up as well, hopeful to see Greenwood accomplish more movie scores in the near future.
They were pleased to find that Greenwood was taken on to work with P.T. Anderson on There Will Be Blood, the 2007 film that vied for the Best Picture Oscar with No Country For Old Men. With its epic scope about the steady climb and gradual unraveling of a callous oil man, a strong score was needed that could match the impressive images crafted by Anderson. At times, the score almost suggested a horror film, with the monster at the center of the movie being the misanthropic oil prospector Daniel Plainview. Set to a montage of him scouting land and amassing a fortune, what the music suggests we should be afraid of is his forceful will.