Monday, June 6, 2016

ROMEO AND JULIET : BOOK vs. MOVIE

This will be like a review and a conparison between the movie and the book of Romeo and Juliet. At the begining I didn't like neither but after seeing the film I can confirm that the adaption of the book that we read is much better than the film ... Anyway, for doing this task we will focus in some sections and talk a bit about them.

The first one is the setting, where and when does the story take place? 

In the book it is located in Verona, a town of Italy meanwhile in the movie it is in the United States of America. The town is also called Verona but isn't just Verona, now it is called "Verona Beach". Of course the two don't elapse at the same time ... The original story pass in the 14 th century and the new 6 centuries after, at the 20 th.



Then we can compare too the imagery, the symbols, metaphores ...

I'm gonna talk about the movie symbolysm because in the book we read there is nothing to stand out ... One of the symbols I want to highlight is the night, it represents that the love between Romeo and Juliet must not be seen by anyone and they need to keep that in secret. Two other important symbols are the water and the fire, obiously they are opisites. The water means the pure love between the two main characters, there is water in all the romantic scenes : in the aquarium when they meet each other, in the swimming pool where Romeo goes to speak with Juliet ... It means the freedom to, that's why Tybalt fall in a  fountain when Romeo shoots him, it's like this scene wants to show us that the couple of lovers will be free of threats, but we all know that's not true ... On the contrary of the water, the fire means the violency, the shoots of the guns ...
You can see some more symbols in the fancy dress party, for example: Juliet wear's an angel dress, because she is Romeo's angel. His cousin Tybalt is dressed as a devil, because he is evil and loves fighting. Romeo wears an armor like a knight, and with that armor he will defeat all the problems that push him away from Juliet. Paris's dress is important too, he is dressed as an astronaut, that represents he is in the moon and knows nothing of the current situation.


There is is diferent language

The book is writed in prose, with modern english, but the only character that speaks in prose in the film is the news reporter who tell us what's the story about. All the other characters speak in verse and it's a bit problematic because sometime you can't understand the dialogues.

Another diferences between the movie and the book are the objects and some elements that changed with time.

The most noticeable are the swords, in the movie they are guns, there is obious too that in the 20th century the people drives by car, while in the book they rode a horse to move theyself. Insted of two important families as in the book, in the movie the Montagues and the Capulets are two important corporations. The same happens with some characters that are not too important, they're "updated" in the movie for a better fit. Lady Montague dies of a depression in the book, but in the book she stills alive. Of corse there are lots of diferences, so I lend these ones here and I let you the find the reaming.






Thursday, June 2, 2016

MY WORLD

LEAGUE OF LEGENDS

This post is for everyone who got curiosity for this game and is too lazy to try it for knowing about it. League of Legends mostly known by LoL is the most played computer online game in the world. Every day there are more than 27 millions of persons playing it, and yes, there is an study that proves it. It was made in 2014, now the number has grown. But why is this game so popular? What is the fact that attract all this players?

League of Legends is a MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) game, that means there are two teams formed by some persons, in case of League of Legends there are 5 players in each team, and they got a different role. For understand the roles must know how is the field where you play, it's called the Summoner's Rift and it is like this:


As you can see I've marked some sites with red, yellow and blue lines, these are the three lanes: The red one is called the top lane, the yellow one the mid lane, and the blue one the bot lane. If you pay attention you can see some pictures that have some monsters in it, this set of monsters is called the "jungle". There are too some structures in color red and blue ( There are a few unable to see because the lines cover them, that was a big mistake when I was editing the photo ... ). These are the towers, the inhibitors and the nexus. This last is the most important because if you destroy the enemy's one you win the game, that's the objective in this game. After have seen the map, now we can explain the play stile, and after that, finally I'll can explain the roles.

In League Of Legends there are exactly 131 characters called "Champions", and all them have different characteristics. In every game you select one of these champions and play with it, you'll start at level 1 as everybody and as much you will reach the level 18. During the game you should buy some items in the game shop with the gold earned in the match and upgrade you champions stats to deal more damage to enemy champions or just for resisting better they attacks. You can get gold from killing enemies or destroying their towers. The most important characteristics are the AD ( Attack Damage), the AP ( Ability Power or Magic Damage), the HP ( Health Points ), the Armor and the Magic Resistance. There are some more but they're not same important. All the characters have 4 different active abilities and a passive one that are stronger or not depending what you're upgrading. Every lane have one or more players in it with a different function :

The Top: The player who goes top must have a powerful character specialized in endure enemy's hits and survive after team battles. For make that possible he must upgrade the Health Points, the Armor, and the Magic Resistance. Some Top champions can also have Attack Damage, because it is good to kill the enemy or destroying the enemy buildings.

The Mid: Mid characters are specialized in inflict tons of Magical Damage to the other team, so, if you want a good mid champion it must have Ability Power skills and you must buy items that give you some Ability Power. It is dangerous to play mid because your character will be very fragile, the good part is that the enemy will be similar to you and have the same problems and advantages. There are some exceptions that can work in mid with Attack Damage, but they are just four or five about 131 characters ...

The ADC and the Support : This player is called the Attack Damage Carry, because it is the champion in the game that have more Attack Damage points and it carries the match with it. It have such characteristics than the mid but  is  in the bot lane with the "Support " a player who has the mission of protecting and helping him to kill the enemy and getting gold. The support it's like the top but without Attack Damage or any aggressive characteristic, his skills are in the most of the cases trapping the enemy, generating a shields or healing abilities. Depending the enemy the support must upgrade Health Points, Armor, Magic Resistance and sometimes Ability Power.

The Jungler : Maybe it is the most rare role in the game. This character assignment is to help all the lanes. It is always trough the jungle killing monsters to get experience points and level up. When the jungle sees a good opportunity, he goes to a lane and tries to attack the enemy form the back with an ambush. Their characters have some more Attack Damage than the tops but less than the ADCs. This role is just for experienced players who know about the game.

As I said before, the objective in this game is to destroy the nexus, but for get in there you must destroy all your towers of your lane, one of the inhibitors at lest and the two towers that are protecting the nexus. And that's it, see how much simple is the most played game in the world. I've forgot talking about some facts but you must played LoL once or twice to understand it so now i'm done. I'll leave a video down here where you can see a commercial of the 2016 season in Lol. In the video there are some moments where the people says GG, that means Good Game but is also used as "good job" or "nice".


Thursday, May 19, 2016

LOVE FILM

50 FIRST DATES

First of all, I got to say I'm not a fan of the cinema or the movies in general, I don't like all the genres and I know just a few about good actors, so doing this job has been difficult to me ... One of the performers I like the most (and the only one who I have seen more than five films) is Adam Sandler. He has been in a lot of movies with different topics, so maybe if this task wasn't about a love film I could choose another of his movies...

The movie is about a man called Henry Roth, a veterinarian at Sea Life Park on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. He isn't a liable guy, he is always trying to get sex with the female tourists and seems he is not interested in being in a serious relationship. One day he meets in a café a nice girl called Lucy Whitmore,  and ask about be with her again the next morning, and of course she say yes. So the next morning Henry goes to the same café, searching for same girl, but it's like she doesn't know him. Then the restaurant owner explain him that Lucy had a serious car accident one year ago and left her with anterograde amnesia, and every day she wakes up thinking it is the October 13's Sunday, the day of the car accident. When she wakes up ever morning, she remember absolutely nothing what she did the day before. Surprisingly  Henry doesn't cares and goes every day to see Lucy, and slowly he starts falling in love. Of course he know there are a lot of problems with that, for example when he spend a night in Lucy's house, at the morning, she doesn't got idea about who is the man that was sleeping with her. That's why Henry decides to record a video called Good Morning Lucy with the finality to give a Lucy a way to recognize him, and eventually they add some more scenes to the video of the current days. The movie ends when one day Lucy decide to get married with Henry and go in a trip trough the Antartic sea.

I liked this movie a lot because I think the argument is really well found, and the problems they got with Lucy's disease are very realistic. It is really funny too because Henry and some more characters are funny, so there are a lot of jokes, wordplay ...  



Wednesday, May 18, 2016

MY WORLD

NANATSU NO TAIZAI

Hi everyone! Today I'm gonna talk about Nanatsu no Taizai! I'll don't judge if you are asking to yourselves   " What the hell is this dude?" This is the name of my favorite anime series, and translated to English it means "The Seven Deadly Sins". The most anime series aren't known around the world if they're not really famous like Dragon Ball or Doraemon... This series have the important advantage to be in TV since the 90s and everybody have heard about them, but what about the new anime series? OK, before continue explaining I want to make clear  not all anime series are kid's cartoons with funny and weird characters. There are plenty of anime series and a lot of generes too of course : scary, funny, someones that include a lot of action ... They are in different eras too, not all are in a "technological" future like everybody thinks. Nanatsu no Taizai for example is set in the medieval age, and there are kings and lords in every country. There is a complicated society where some people called "Holly Knights" got like supernatural powers and instead of use them to help the people and do kind things they are always killing, stealing and humiliating the citizens. Because of that, the princes of the kingdom started searching a group called "The seven deadly sins" who are enough powerful to destroy the whole kingdom if it's necessary. But they're not grouped as before, and the task of finding them is so difficult and dangerous. The main character of the story is Meliodas, and he is the leader of this brigade, looks like a kid but can destroy a town with a single sword slash. He seems interested in group everybody and put an end to this tyranny, so he and his pet ( a talking pig called Hawk ) start a long trip with the princess Elizabeth to save the kingdom. As I said before this is my favourite anime series, it have just everything a series need : action, adventure, a lot of funny scenes, suspense, and a bit of love of course.


Monday, April 25, 2016

"Georgia On My Mind" - Ray Charles


Georgia, Georgia
The whole day through (the whole day through)
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind (Georgia on my mind)

I'm say Georgia, Georgia
A song of you (a song of you)
Comes as sweet and clear
As moonlight through the pines

Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you

I said Georgia, oh Georgia
No peace I find (peace I find)
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind (Georgia on my mind)

Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you

Woah, Georgia, Georgia
No peace, no peace I find
Just an old, sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind (Georgia on my mind)

I said just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind


TRADUCCIÓ AL CATALÀ

Georgia, Georgia
Durant tot el dia (durant tot el dia)
Nomé una vella i dolça cançó
Manté a Georgia al meu cap (al meu cap)


Una cançó per tú (una cançó per tú)
Arriba dolça i clara
Com la llum de la lluna entre els pins

Altres braços arriben cap a mi
Altres ulls somriuen tendrament
En els meus pacífics somnis segueixo veient
La carretera que em torna cap a tú

He dit Georgia, Oh Georgia
No hi trobo pau (no hi trobo pau)
Nomé una vella i dolça cançó
Manté a Georgia al meu cap (al meu cap)

Altres braços arriben cap a mi
Altres ulls somriuen tendrament
En els meus pacífics somnis segueixo veient
La carretera que em torna cap a tú

Woah, Georgia, Georgia
No hi trobo pau, no hi trobo pau
Nomé una vella i dolça cançó
Manté a Georgia al meu cap (al meu cap)

He dit que només una vella i dolça cançó
Manté a Georgia al meu cap



Love isn't just for a people, you can love for example one thing, one conutry ... I've choose this song because the feeling Ray Charles have about his country. He maybe is far away from Georgia, but he is allways thinking in it, even in dreams he see a road to back there. The expressions he uses to tell us how in love he is are just beautiful, and show us a true expression of love that we didn't think in yet.


Tuesday, April 19, 2016

#shakespeare400

William shakespeare was born in 1564, he has been one of the most important dramaturgs ever thanks to his popular plays: Romeo and Juliet, Hamelet ... Today we are celebrating his 400 death aniversary, that's why the 23rd April will be an important day, and that's why we are studing his life and his plays right now. 

#stratford-upon-avon

This was the place where he was born and he spent his childhood. We can ubicate it in the center of England, it is a paceful village at the north of London. Now it's famous just because Shakespeare lived there, people go there to visit his house and his properties.


#annehathway

Anne Hathway was the wife of Shakespeare, they were married when he was 18 and she was 26. They had 3 kids : 2 girls and 1 boy. Susanna was the oldest, and Hamnet and Judith, the youngers, were twins. Hamnet however died when he was only 11.

#theglobe

The Globe Teatre was a teathre in London built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company. It was destroyed once on 29 June 1613, and the same teather was built one year later and closed on 1642. The modern reconstruction of the Globe is named "Shakespeare's Globe", opened in 1997.


#plays

William Shakespeare wrote more than 35 plays in his life. Maybe not all are famous, because they are not like Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet but the thing is he wrote them. Most of his works are comedies, but he wrote some tragedies and histories too. Actually Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet are tragedies.

#plague

Since 1592 to 1594 London's theaters had to close because it was dangerous for many people to be together in a small place. In this time Shakespeare wrote poetry, and began his sonnets.  

#queeneliazbeth

During Queen's Elizabeth reign there was a lot of activity in all the arts: architecture, painting, music and poetry. In drama the activity was extraordinary, there were many good playwrights writing nice plays, but Shakespeare was the best, he was known everywhere in the world.



#thearmada

This was the name of the army Philip II of Spain sent to England in 1588. It failed because of the bad weather and the tactics of the smaller English ships, more than 11.000 Spanish soldiers were killed.



#shakespearequotes

"To be, or not to be: that is the question." This is probably the most famous quote of Shakespeare, it is from Hamlet, but isn't the only one he wrote. There are a lot of his quotes in Internet, here is a link where you can find some of them: http://www.buzzfeed.com/sarahgalo/happy-451st-birthday-to-the-bard#.pw5qn4lLg



Tuesday, April 12, 2016

EXPERIENCES IN LA VALL D'ARAN

When we arrived it was dark and cloudy. It was night, we traveled a lot with car. The trip took 4 boring hours spent in the car playing with the mobile phone or just telling bad jokes that made us want to go back home. I was with my little cousin, and he was like 8 years old and hated long trips like that. My sister was also there but she was sleeping, without making noise. Finally we arrived to La Vall d'Aran, and the fist thing we did was get off the car and walk for a few minutes. We park the car in a Mercadona's parking of Vielha and we started doing sightseeing trough the capital's streets. After some calls we meet a girl who let us her flat for some days. When we finished we look for a cheap restaurant to dinner, because we bought nothing for cooking that night. There were some good restaurants but we end in a pizzeria basically because the other places didn't like to my cousin and sister. Anyway, the pizzas were good. After spending maybe hours searching the apartment we found it near my uncles hollyday home. It was comfortable and welcoming, really clean and tidy. The first thing I noticed was the TV, and then an Internet router, and quickly I started laugh like a possessed. I was thinking everything was too much perfect for being real when it started to rain. It was a heavy storm with lightings and thunders, but we were calmed, we were in the flat, without need of going outside until the next morning, so we sit into the sofa and started watching an old movie in the TV. Suddenly stroked a powerful lighting next to the house, so we went to the window to watch the show. There was mistake, the mistake of this perfect apartment was in the windows ... It passed a lot of water trough them and carefully start wetting all the floor while we were thinking a solution desperately. The best one was to cover the windows with a towel so that was what we finally did. But it still raining during all the night and the towel was insufficient to stop all the water ... I couldn't understand how can it rain like this in summer ... Finally we went to sleep, we didn't care about what happen to the floor or to the flat ...

When we got up the next day, it was sunny, hot, and I was like "Really? You must be kidding me... ". There was less water than we thought. Everybody was alive, there weren't any serial damages, and the most important, the Internet router and the TV were absolutely dry. Fortunately it just rained twice when we were there and the other time it rain we were prepared. My first impression of La Vall d'Aran wasn't so good but I knew the weather will change and my opinion too. And that was it, but ... We were going to France about every day, AND IT RAINED IN FRANCE EVERY DAY WE WENT THERE !



Thursday, April 7, 2016

MY WORLD

PARKOUR

Everybody knows about people who does parkour, there are a lot of videos in YouTube about great people getting nice results of weeks, months and years of hard training. It is funny because a lot of people say it is or looks easy, but, did they tried to do the same things than this athletes? Everybody can run in a dangerous zone like a roof and jump awkwardly to the floor, but not everyone can do this movements again once they fall the first time, and then combine stunts and somersets to travel fast across the city's sights and public parks showing their skill. Maybe there are persons thinking that the people who is doing parkour are crazy, that they are just adolescents trying to seem cool risking his life, but there is more than this! As I said before people dedicated to this has been training for a long time improving his physical level, and took a lot of classes about techniques and tricks. Of course there aren't just teenagers who practice this sport, so this could be an evidence that prove that not everybody who is learning parkour wants to presume of this. I can tell you for example about the first traceur ( this word means a person who does parkour, it's like saying cyclists or  swimmer, it comes from the french ). His name was David Belle, and he was in the French army since he was nineteen, he is considerate the creator of parkour. His finality was to create a faster movement method to move trough the cites without impediments, what was useful for his job. But with the time this definition has been modified because as you know good traceurs are amazing and that's what the viewers want now: tons of deadly jumps, stunts ... and without stop any moment! So that's what we understand now about parkour, and even have changed his original meaning it still being the same important or maybe more! Because you know, with YouTube publicity you can make famous every single thing you want ...




Okay that was the "positive" part of the traceurs, now comes the negative one. Who haven't search a parkour fails video? Nobody! Because it's good to see these persons realizing successfully risky and dangerous jumps, but it's better to see the part of traceurs or false traceurs who doesn't! These persons must take care of his devil-may-care attitude! According my deductions 8/10 thoughtless are drunk while they are risking they life. Scientifically proven ( just kidding ). We all know try  to do something spectacular sometimes is hard, but what is really spectacular is the sum of fail videos that are nowadays in Internet... What's going on? Is this people recording on purpose videos where they are hurt ? Oh my god, what a few YouTube visits on your videos do ... 



Tuesday, April 5, 2016

MY WORLD

MICRO VOLTS

How many shooter games have you played? Call of Duty ? Batelfield? Counter Strike maybe? You can play them in computers or video game consoles. There are a lot of commercials (especially about Call of Duty ) in webpages, YouTube and some are in the television too, that's why these games are famous. Another fact that popularize these games are the online streamings, where normally a youtuber is playing and commenting the game with his subscribers. But not in every case the most famous is the best one. Today i'm gonna talk about Micro Volts an underrated online game with a lot of nice game modes, toons of weapons and great and dynamic playstile. There are the classical shooter game modes like team deathmatch or elimination where the blue team fights against the red to get the maximum number of kills possible, but there is a difference between the normal shooting game modes and Micro Volts ones: normally in the popular games you can take with you just two weapons when in Micro Volts you can bring 7! In the deathmatch mode the players revive until one team get the maximum number of kills that usually is 100 or 80, but in elimination there are rounds where the people don't wake up again once they are death. The people get points surviving and killing the other team members, and the team who reach the maximum number of points win. In these game modes there is time too and when it ends the game finish and win the team with more kills / points. But these are just two of the forteen game modes! I don't got space to explain them all so I'll talk about my favorites.

ZOMBIE MODE

When the game starts you don't have ammo and there is just fiveteen senconds to find it trough the map, because once the fifteen seconds are passed one of the players is infected by a virus and converted into a creepy zombie. His mission is to infect each other with the virus to end the round and get a point for every zomie. The mission of the figures ( because the players are not humans, are collectionable figures ) is killing the zombies or avoid them for 3 minutes to stay alive and win the round. The good part is that zombies can only use a melee weapon so is so hard for them to catch a figure and infect it. I like this game mode the most beause it is really intense and you don't know who will be the zombie at the start, maybe a random person, maybe the friend who is playing with you , maybe yourself ...


BOSS BATTLE

This is a PvE game mode, PvE means Players versus Enemies ( controlled by the computer ). Your mission is to defeat with the help of three more players one robot called the "Tracker". Why is called like this ? Honestly I don't know ... This battle is pretty cool and isn't so difficult : this monster have only four weapons, that means he can attack you in four different ways, and once you memorize them they are really simple and easy to dodge. Of course there is a reward for the players who beat him, but for getting this reward you must'n die more than three times, basically because you only got three lives. If you spend them is just game over, the " Tracker " defeat you and maybe the next time you are more lucky.





Sunday, March 20, 2016

THE REFUGEES

When we went to Barcelona we saw an exposition about refugees photos. All the photos were really impressive, but there was one that impressed me the most. It was about a man with crutches walking alone in a road in night, alone. He is in Australia, but have nothing there, he is just hoping to find someone who help him. We can see he is one leg less, probably this man escaped from a war where he was injured. Unfortunately there is nobody with him, maybe he lost his family in the war or they had to leave to another country. Everyday a lot of people is suffering like this, remember this is just one of the lot of pictures of the exposition, one of the lot of persons that are in this regrettable situation, with no help.


MY WORLD

POKKEN TOURNAMENT  AND POKEMON GO

To commemorate the 20th birthday of Pokemon Nintendo have announced three new games for this 2016. Pokemon Go expected since 2015 and there were a lot of rumors about when will they be able. People was really exited bescause a revealed adverstiment showed it was a mobile game, and supposedly free! But nobody expected there will be two more games in this year.

POKEMON GO : As I said before, it was expected since the end of last year. Nintendo revealed a trailer that became popular in few days. There appeared people using a virtual reallity app to find and catch a lot of Pokemons. They also trade them with friends and battle agnaist other players. The quality if the trailer thrilled a lot of public, and in few days everybody was interested in this project.


POKKEN TOURNAMENT: This game isn't released yet in Europe but we know will be in the european markets the 18th March. Nowadays just the Japanese people can play it, and there are only a few gameplays posted on YouTube. The game seems pretty cool and I'm sure a lot of people will play it. The only ''problem'' is that only the people who have a Wii U console will can play it. Pokkemon Tournament is a 3D game about pokemon fights where you can choose one between 15 characters and fight a 1 vs 1 fight with somebody. It is really popular in Japan now but will be not here because a lot of people prefer Play Station Games before Nintendo ones.






Saturday, March 12, 2016

MY WORLD

20 YEARS OF POKEMON

The 27 February of this year was the 20th birthday of Pokemon! Was 20 years ago when you could buy the firsts games of Pokemon: Pokemon Red and Green. And now there are more than 60 Pokemon games and Nintendo still working in new games. In my opinion Pokemon is one of the greatest games ever, I've been playing on this series since I was a child, and I've never get tired of this kind of games! People says all Pokemon games are the same, but this is not true! Maybe the battle system is the same, but not the main story, or the GYM leaders ( People who you must defeat to prove your power ). There are several facts that keep the game alive, and not all the games have them, that's why some videogames stop being famous in few years. The most important are these:


THE COMMUNITY

A lot of people plays Pokemon games, and the most of players are proud of it. People who really loves this game have no problem to go into webpages like forums or social webs and share his experiences to other players. There are a lot of persons asking questions to veteran players to solve his problems or sometimes are the veteran players who ask about doing an online tournament with a big prize for the winner. It is like everybody is happy and makes the other players his friends, just for playing the same videogame! This kind of things create a strong community that will love this game even they don't play it.

THE RELATIONSHIP OF NINTENDO WITH THE COMMUNITY
Nintendo really loves their community. This company is not the typical who work just for getting benefits , it take cares of every single of his game to guarantee a good experience to the players. How do they do it? One of the things that like them a lot is creating events. The most famous Nintento events are like this : They choose a game, like Pokemon for example, and they give to the players a limited edition character that will not appear anywhere in years. Of course this is not the only thing they do, Nintendo has organized every year a Pokemon World Championship, where the best players of the world fight for the master Pokemon title.

ORIGINALITY
At the first game of Pokemon where just 151 pokemons to catch, now there are up to 720. There is a design team doing a great job in the Nintendo offices, creating new characters and skills for them. And not just the characters! All the pokemon world where the action is is also did by them: the structures of cities and towns, the landscapes of forests and seas ... I just think their job must be really hard, but his results are just spectacular.






MY WORLD


REVO AND SOUND HORIZON
Revo's real name is Yasuo Kamanaka, and he was born on June 19, in 1973. He is a Japanese composer that has been for many years working in videogames and anime soundtracks. He isn't very famous, but he's songs are awesome. The song I like the most is called ''That Person's Name Is'' and is from a game called Bravely Default. It is just one of many games he composed for, being the most important the games of the Final Fantasy series. He is the founder of Sound Horizon, the musical project who did the opening theme of the famous anime Shingeki no Kyojin. Revo has started composing music at the 90's, at 17 years age, and he post his works into a webpage nowadays deleted.When he was 28 he convinced some of his friends to create a musical group ( Sound Horizon ), and his first performance was in an event called Comiked, in Tokio. There the people sell and buy dôjinshi ( A kind of Japanese comic books ), and sometimes musical groups, or important people go there to play musical pieces or talk about something. Sound Horizon first performance was a success and they start becoming famous ( Not around the world ). Was on 2006 when they start to compose and play music for videogames and anime series, and that like them a lot, so they decided to  continue doing that. Nowadays they cooperate with big companies like Nintendo to create the best soundtracks for his games.

 




NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS

Well, here are my New Year resolutions, but actually they are no from New Year eve's, they are more like ''Last days of January Resolutions". I Hope you like it.

LIVE ONE MORE YEAR

 This is the most important thing in this list. I'm not tired of living yet so I wish live one more year and if its possible this must be a good year, basically because I think this last year I didn't do things that now I want to do, and at least I'd like to have one more year to try them.

GO ONCE MORE TO THE GRANOLLERS CUP

The Granollers Cup is an important handball tournament where participate teams from around the world. Every year people from Russia, Norway, Denmark, China and other countries come expressly to take part in this tournament. It is in Granollers, as the name says, and the matches are played there or in close towns like Canovelles. There are people of different ages, but the matches are played by people of the same. Last year I went there with my team HC Empordà and we win some games, but the funny is not go to play and win or lose, the best part is meeting people from around the world and talk to them. Well there is not all OK, the worst thing is the food, and you must eat 3 times a day so ... Another bad fact is when you are playing and someone does a mistake, everybody see it and start laughing or else, it is like play in a professional team.

LEARN TO PLAY THE PIANO

At the last days of 2015 I've been trying and learning to play the piano, I'm not going to a music school because when I was like 10 yeas old I tried it and the results weren't good. When I talk about the results I mean be there studding every day without playing nothing, and if that was not enough I didn't like my teachers and I didn't like to them because they said the music I used to listen wasn't music. So I hope can learn without taking lessons, or take them by YouTube or something ... Because I don't time to go to the music school again to learn nothing.

START THINKING WHAT I'M GONNA DO AFTER ESO

This is currently one of my worst problems. I know after ESO I want to continue studding, but what? There are a lot of subjects that I like a lot : Physics, Chemistry, Biology ... And that's a good point, because I know
I'll go for scientific studies, but after two years focusing this I don't have an idea if I will get tired and  want to try something new... Maybe I need to go to talks about this where different universities explain what kind of jobs I can go for, which are the best places to learn about things that interest me... A lot of people is telling me : ''You are young yet to start thinking like this'' or ''Don't worry, you got time to decide''. But I still worried, because I know probably I will find the answer of the questions I ask myself too late ...

I post this late because at New Year's Eve I didn't know the resolutions yet. I'm find living like this and nowadays I don't have too much objectives.

WORLD'S BEST PHOTOS


This photo is from an album of National Geographic called Deadly Instinct, it shows us a caterpillar devouring his prey. Is really striking and unusual too because normally we think caterpillars are the preys but in this case not. This two insects are in a green leaf where we can suppose the caterpillar was camouflaged. It seems the fly was resting quietly in this plant when suddenly this predator jumped into hiss back to stab it with his deadly fangs. Thanks to the powerful camera the photographer used we can appreciate every single detail of this picture : the difference between  the colors of the fly and the landscape ( that probably put the fly into a defenseless position ), the hideous posture of the fly's corpse, the mighty legs of the caterpillar penetrating into his prey ... This unusual king of caterpillars live in Australia, and they evolved from simple preys to professional killers. I've found a National Geographic video about this spice that could be interesting:


Tuesday, February 23, 2016

NICHOLAS SAMARAS

Nicholas Samaras is one of the most passionate and committed underwater photographers worldwide. He is from Thessaloniki, Greece, but he studied photography at Central Saint Marins College of Art and Design in London. This man has been working in photography for 11 years, travelling across seas around Europe to find the perfect photos. Some of his works are important because National Geographic has used his photos in magazines or in their official webpage. One of his important photos is this, of a seahorse eating seaweed:



His first step to participate in an international contest was in DAN EUROPE CONTEST, an underwater photography contest, where he get the third place. That award answered all the questions he had about the quality of his work and pushed him to continue participating in international contests. He has received more than 50 awards and distinctions in international festivals of underwater and wild life photography and his photos still being important. In he's photos there aren't just sea animals or landscapes, there are models too. Nicholas Samaras plays a lot with the lights and the shadows to get his photos, that fact make his photos unique. The last exposition he did was with photos taken in South Pelion, Greece on  this February.