Wednesday, 23 June 2010

...Airplanes...



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B.o.B ft Hayley Williams

...Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now...

Tuesday, 22 June 2010

...Korda...


"Forget the camera,
Forget the lens,
Forget all of that.
With any four dollar camera you can capture the best picture."

- Alberto Korda

...Psaxno Tin Alitheia...



...Helena Paparizou...Searching For The Truth...
Really Loving Helena Paparizou's new tunes! Think she is a great contemporary Greek artist! Since bringing the Eurovision Song Contest to Athens, Greece for the first ever time in 2006 (Her song My Number 1 was the winning song in Ukraine in 2005) it's been nothing but increasing success for her! Love this woman!!!

Wednesday, 2 June 2010

...Studio Ghibli...

My cousin has recently got me into watching works from Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation studio. To date I have seen Howl's Moving Castle, The Cat Returns, My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away. All of them have been really good. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed them! The animation style is simply beautiful. Not sure which I preferred out of all of them. Though I loved the characters in The Cat Returns and Spirited Away was such a beautiful story, In fact I want to watch it again! Though I'm not sure why but the lead character in Spirited Away reminds of someone - maybe it's just the voice????? Hmmmm I'm not sure but I just have this weird feeling of familiarity with the main character Chihiro Ogino. Either way familiar voice or not it is a brilliant film.

The film follows Chihiro as she and her parents move to their new home in the Japanese countryside. On route they take a shortcut and accidentally enter a world of spirits with her parents who help themselves to some lunch after the long journey and are subsequently turned into pigs. A mysterious stranger known as Haku helps Chihiro to get a job in the bathhouse to the spirits while she tries to find a way to free her parents before they become the main course for the guests of the bathhouse...





I created a hero who is an ordinary girl, someone with whom the audience can sympathize. It's not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish.
— Hayao Miyazaki