Thursday 27 March 2014

Weird Guinness World Records

The tallest mohican measures 113.5 cm (44.68 in) and belongs to Kazuhiro Watanabe (Japan). The length was verified at Bloc de l'art hair salon, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.
The tallest mohican measures 113.5 cm (44.68 in) and belongs to Kazuhiro Watanabe (Japan). The length was verified at Bloc de l'art hair salon, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.



Favourite song of the week



How can I decide what's right? 
When you're clouding up my mind 
I can't win your losing fight all the time 
How can I ever own what's mine 
When you're always taking sides 
But you won't take away my pride 
No not this time 
Not this time 

How did we get here? 
Well I used to know you so well
How did we get here? 
Well I think I know 

The truth is hiding in your eyes 
And its hanging on your tongue 
Just boiling in my blood
But you think that I can't see 
What kind of man that you are 
If you're a man at all 
Well I will figure this one out 
On my own 
(I'm screaming "I love you so")
On my own 
(My thoughts you can't decode)

How did we get here? 
Well I used to know you so well, yeah
How did we get here? 
Well I think I know 

Do you see what we've done? 
We've gone and made such fools of ourselves 
Do you see what we've done? 
We've gone and made such fools of ourselves 

Yeah...!

How did we get here? 
Well I used to know you so well, yeah yeah
How did we get here? 
Well I used to know you so well 

I think I know 
I think I know 

Ooh, there is something 
I see in you 
It might kill me 
I want it to be true

Saturday 22 March 2014

The Hunger Games Catching Fire review




After winning the 74th Hunger Games in the previous novel, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark return home to District 12, the poorest sector in the country of Panem. On the day that Katniss and Peeta are to start a "Victory Tour" of the country, President Snow visits unexpectedly and tells Katniss that he is angry with her for breaking the rules at the end of the last Hunger Games, which permitted both Peeta and Katniss to win. Snow tells Katniss that when she defied the Capitol, she inspired rebellion in the districts.
The first stop on the Victory Tour is District 11, the home of Katniss's deceased friend and ally in the Hunger Games, Rue. During the ceremony, Katniss delivers a brief speech, thanking the people of District 11 for their participants in the Games. When she finishes, an old man whistles the tune that Katniss used in the arena to tell Rue that she was safe. The song acts as a signal and everyone salutes Katniss, using the same gesture that she used to say farewell to Rue. To the horror of Katniss, the old man and two others are executed.
Katniss and Peeta travel to the rest of the twelve districts and the Capitol. Hoping to placate the growing rebellion and settle the dispute between Katniss and President Snow, Peeta proposes to Katniss during an interview. Despite this, Katniss learns that their attempt to avert revolt in the districts has failed.
Shortly after returning to District 12, Katniss discovers on the mayor's television that District 8 has had an uprising, and she fears that what she has done to placate the crowds is not enough as there may be uprisings in other districts as well. She then meets two runaways from District 8, Bonnie and Twill. They explain their theory which contradicts what the other districts have been led to believe: District 13 was not completely wiped out by the Capitol, and that its residents survive in underground shelters.

Later, it is announced that, for the 75th Hunger Games, 24 victors from previous years will be forced to compete once again. This is the third occurrence of the "Quarter Quell": an event that occurs every 25th year of the Games and allows the Capitol to introduce a twist. Knowing that she and Peeta will both be competing in the Games a second time, Katniss decides that she will devote herself to ensuring that Peeta becomes the Quarter Quell's victor and convinces her mentor to try and help her. Likewise, Peeta is devoted to protecting her, but both Katniss and her mentor are determined that only Peeta reaches back home safely.

During the Games, set in a jungle with a saltwater lake, Katniss and Peeta join up with two other previous victors: Finnick Odair, a 24-year-old man who survived the Games at the age of 14, and Mags, Finnick's 80-year-old mentor, both from District 4. The party encounters poisonous fog in which Peeta comes into contact with the gas and cannot walk. Mags sacrifices herself in order to save Peeta and dies in the poisonous fog. After Mags's death, Katniss, Peeta and Finnick join forces with Johanna Mason, a sarcastic and often cruel victor from District 7, and Beetee and Wiress, an older couple from District 3 who are said to be "exceptionally smart". Wiress soon proves her genius by revealing to Katniss that the arena is arranged like a clock, with all of the arena's disasters occurring on a timed chart. After Wiress is killed, Katniss learns of Beetee's plan to harness lightning in order to electrocute Brutus and Enobaria, the two remaining Careers Tributes from District 2. In the final chapters, Katniss instead directs the lightning at the force field that contains the arena, thereby destroying the arena and resulting in her temporary paralysis.

When Katniss wakes up, she is being transported to District 13, joined by Finnick, Beetee, and her mentor, Haymitch Abernathy. She learns that Peeta, Enobaria, and Johanna have been captured by the Capitol, and is informed that there had been a plan among half of the contestants to break out of the arena— Beetee had been attempting to destroy the force field in the same way that she did. The book ends when Katniss's best friend, Gale, comes to visit her and informs her that, though he got her family out in time, District 12 has been bombed and destroyed.

Friday 21 March 2014

Favourite song of the week




Dry lightning cracks across the skies
Those storm clouds gather in her eyes
Her daddy was a mean old mister
Mama was an angel in the ground
The weather man called for a twister
She prayed blow it down

There's not enough rain in Oklahoma
To wash the sins out of that house
There's not enough wind in Oklahoma
To rip the nails out of the past

[Chorus:]
Shatter every window 'til it's all blown away,
Every brick, every board, every slamming door blown away
'Til there's nothing left standing, nothing left of yesterday
Every tear-soaked whiskey memory blown away,
Blown away

She heard those sirens screaming out
Her daddy laid there passed out on the couch
She locked herself in the cellar
Listened to the screaming of the wind
Some people call it taking shelter
She called it sweet revenge

[Chorus:]
Shatter every window 'til it's all blown away,
Every brick, every board, every slamming door blown away
'Til there's nothing left standing, nothing left of yesterday
Every tear-soaked whiskey memory blown away,
Blown away

There's not enough rain in Oklahoma
To wash the sins out of that house
There's not enough wind in Oklahoma
To rip the nails out of the past

Shatter every window 'til it's all blown away (blown away)
Every brick, every board, every slamming door blown away (blown away)
'Til there's nothing left standing, nothing left of yesterday (blown away)
Every tear-soaked whiskey memory blown away,

Blown away, blown away, blown away, blown away, blown away

Compare how teenagers are represented in the Hunger Games and The Amazing Spiderman

Compare How Teenagers Are Represented in the Action Essay Work by marthawho10

Hunger Games reaping scene annotation - screenshots

The Hunger Games Annotation Finished by marthawho10

annotation from magazines related to films

Annotation of Magazines by marthawho10

Friday 7 March 2014

Katy Perry Dark Horse


Katy Perry Dark Horse Lyrics

I knew you were, you were gonna come to me, and here you are, but you better choose carefully, cause I, I’m capable of anything, of anything and everything. Make me your Aphrodite, make me your one and only, don’t make me your enemy, your enemy, your enemy.
So you wanna play with magic, boy, you should know what you’re falling for, baby do you dare to do this? Cause I’m coming at you like a dark horse. Are you ready for, ready for, a perfect storm, perfect storm, cause once you’re mine, once you’re mine, there’s no going back.

Mark my words, this love will make you levitate, like a bird, like a bird without a cage, but down to Earth, if you choose to walk away, don’t walk away. It’s in the palm of your hand now baby, it’s a yes or a no, no maybe, so just be sure before you give it all to me, all to me, give it all to me.
So you wanna play with magic, boy, you should know what you’re falling for, baby do you dare to do this? Cause I’m coming at you like a dark horse. Are you ready for, ready for, a perfect storm, perfect storm, cause once you’re mine, once you’re mine, there’s no going back.

Uh, she’s a beast, I call her Karma (come back) She eats your heart like Jeffrey Dahmer (woo) Be careful, try not to leave her on, shawty’s heart was on steroids , cause her love was so strong, you may fall in love, when you meet her. If you get the chance you better keep her, she’s sweet as pie but if you break her heart she’ll turn cold as a freezer, that fairy tale ending with a knight in shining armour, she can be my sleeping beauty I’m gon’ put her in a coma. Woo! Damn I think I love her, shawty so bad I’m sprung and I don’t care she ride me like a roller coaster, turn the bedroom into a fair, her love is like a drug I was tryna hit it and quit it, but lil’ mama so dope, I messed around and got addicted.


So you wanna play with magic, boy, you should know what you’re falling for, baby do you dare to do this? Cause I’m coming at you like a dark horse. Are you ready for, ready for, a perfect storm, perfect storm, Cause once you’re mine, once you’re mine, there’s no going back.



camera takes for film poster design





Finished versions of film poster draft

1st Attempt

2nd Attempt

Tuesday 4 March 2014

collage from poster designs




My collage design from the finished poster I have done using the different colours and materials in which I used in my work.