Crystal River

I saw the most amazing thing the other day, it's called the Crystal River. The colours are the result of algae waste, and it creates these beautiful colours naturally.

The Crystal River

It's so wonderful how something like this could just happen, without the influence of humans. I love how vibrant the colours are, and it is impossible to not notice them.

At first I thought this was photoshopped, but it's real. The colours work together so well, especially the reds and blues. It almost looks natural, like it is normal.

Peacock Feathers

A friend of mine gifted me with a few peacock feathers recently; I've always liked these feathers, but haven't physically seen them for years. Pictures are fun to look at, but it's only in person when you can appreciate their true beauty.

The colours are so vibrant; it's hard to beilieve that the metallic lines are just a genetic trait. It's amazing how something that stunning was created.

I love how the colours work so well together; looking at my feathers I know I want to do a peice with that colour scheme. They really make any dull colour look beautiful, for example my living room colour is beige, but the feathers give it a nice pickup and it directs attention towards them.

Anyways, I thought I would do a quick post on this, so it wouldn't drift from my mind.

Have a good St. Patrick's Day tomorrow!

Paint Sound Sculptures

Paint sound sculpture, click for more

Now playing: Marry You - Bruno Mars
Now reading: The Red Pyramid - Rick Riordan

I thought that might be a good way to start off my blog posts. I saw this and thought it was really interesting. For a printer advertisement, Canon used these paint sound sculptures in their commercial.

I actually stumbled upon this (using stumbleupon) and it caught my attention immediately.

The way this was done was by wrapping a membrane around a speaker, and dropping a few paint drops on the membrane. When the speaker was turned on the paint would bounce up and down.

My mind was blown when I read this. It's such a cool and creative piece, and a great idea for a commercial. If you want to see how it was done, here's the video:


Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

I really love the colours. They're so vibrant and dramatic.  I imagine it would have been difficult and fun to do at the same time, as they needed to take the picture at exactly the right moment.

That's all for this week. Have a good long weekend:)

Garba - Gujrati Folk Dance

Hello again!

I've been looking for songs to dance to for a dance that myself and a few other girls are involved in. We've been talking about improving our synchronization, hand gestures, etc. Just really small things that make a big difference from an audience perspective.

My choreographer showed us this dance, and I think it's the perfect example of what our garba should look like. There's so many people in the dance, yet they're all in sync with each other. They make really big hand gestures that are controlled, so that it looks really good from an audience view.

It looks like it took a really long time to get it perfect, but it was probably really worth it for them.

I was really inspired by this video just because I could tell there was a lot of hard work put into this dance, and one day I hope I can be as good as them.

Knowledge Will Set You Free

Hey!

I just wanted to share a project I did in my tech class. We made t-shirts based on The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

I did mine based off of article 26(2):
"Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace."

I really liked the article, because it reminded me of the quote "knowledge will set you free," which I believe it does. I think education can give people freedom, because it gives them a sense of wrong and right. Education teaches people to act civil to each other, and to respect all ethnicity and genders. And if education isn't used to do that, then it's wrong.

If all people around the world had a basic education and were taught to respect everyone, I think the world could be like the picture. Maybe not to such an extent that there is confetti spraying from a person's head, but there could be less war and dislike among nations.

I'll blog again soon!

Rebel Without a Cause... On Stage

Hey guys!

So last night I went to see my old school's main stage. They performed Rebel Without a Cause. When my sister (who is the stage manager) told me that was the play they were doing, I was shocked. It has alcohol, gangs and violence. I wasn't sure how well a bunch of middle school kids would be able to handle all of that maturely.

The play had professional lighting and sound. They even had headsets, to communicate when the cues would be (when to turn the lights on and off, and when to play the music.)

When I went to see it, I wasn't shocked to see that most of the fight scenes were interpreted by dance; that's what we did when I was in the same school's production of Animal Farm. Even though I was expecting it, I still thought it was really interesting that the director would think of something like that to do.

There was one actual fight scene, including knives, (I guess some things are better not interpreted in dance) which was done very professionally, and their stage falls were really good.

The thing I was most impressed about was that there was a technical issue. The lighting board wasn't working at one point; the lights were supposed to go off and the two actors were supposed to exit the stage. When the lights did not go off, they were completely professional and frozen. They didn't even twitch. When they got the signal, they left very professionally. I know many people were talking about how mature they acted, and that's what really impressed me that night.

If I have the chance, I'm definitely going again:)

The Girl Effect and Typography

Hey guys! I hope you had a good weekend.

So you may have read something about "the girl effect" in my previous blog, well today I'm dedicating this post to the introduction video.

A little while ago in tech class we had a whole unit about typography, and I saw this video and was amazed by how simple it is, yet it still gives me chills when I watch it. The video is made entirely of writing in a simple and readable font in all capitol letters. The whole video is made of the colours black, white and orange, which I thought was very simple and effective, especially because there are no words actually being said, but only music in the background, but the timing of the words is in sync with the music, especially at 0:31, where is says (DRAMATIC PAUSE) and the music stops briefly at the same time. There's actually a voice in my head kind of pausing and going faster or slower with the words


I also like the meaning behind it, I thought the girl helping a girl concept was really interesting. It really doesn't take a lot of effort to keep someone on the right track, all people need is education and a decent living space, so it's really unfortunate that developed nations have too much, while some developing nations barely have anything, even clean water to drink. I think everyone should check the website out.

Well that's it for now, I'll be back soon!

-Roshni

Green, Blue and Gray

I was recently hanging out with my friend at her house, and we thought that the weather was too good to stay inside. I brought my camera that day, so we were goofing around and taking a lot of pictures. Most were of the two of us, but some were of plants and landscapes.

The pictures actually turned out really nice, especially the one shown below.

Even though the sky wasn't perfectly blue, I still like the picture because of the contrast in the bright green leaves compared to the duller blue-gray sky. I like the angle of the leaves and the composition of the pictures, how the leaves are in the corner of the picture. It's cool how you can still see some of the buds of the leaves still blooming, so you can see it's still spring

I also like that it was a spur of the moment picture, instead of actually concentrating and taking many snapshots, it was just one picture that I really liked, and for me, those are when I take the best pictures.

This is another picture I liked; my friend's little cousin gave me some flowers that she picked, and I thought the variety in flowers and the colours were nice, so I took a picture.

I especially like the smaller purple flowers, because they were scattered on the grass in their backyard, and I think that purple with the green grass looked really pretty.

Anyways, that's all for now, so I shall be back soon!

-Roshni

Hey There Spring!

Wow So it's finally springtime and the weather is in double digits, just in time for March Break!

I can't wait to go outside; it's been incredibly gloomy before. Because it's so nice and sunny I just wanna run around and be active.

It makes me so happy when I can step outside with only a light jacket on, and not only that, but now I can stay outside longer because it won't get dark till late.

At night, it looks so good when the sun sets. I can actually go out and enjoy the weather, and it reminds me of past summers and springs and how much fun I've had, and the memories I've made. Now I can't wait to have more fun and make more memories.

I can't wait to walk home once school starts again; I just feel like being active in the sun, even though I'm incredibly uncoordinated.

That's it for this week, I'm gonna enjoy the weather!

Avatar

Hey guys!

So I was finally dragged to the movies yesterday to watch Avatar. I was a little sceptic at first, because really, another movie about aliens? But it has been at the top of the box office for some time now, so it was obviously something people enjoyed.

You can read the summary here.

And what I'm about to write contains spoilers, so only read what comes next if you've already watched it or if you don't really care.

It really got me thinking when I came out though. One of the main themes was that humans will do anything for money. They drove over the Na'vi's sacred trees just so they can get access to the valuable material there.

Humans destroyed the Na'vi's homes and even killed some of them. People are driven by greed. I love that so many people acknowledge that and raise awareness of it.

Filmmakers sneakily put in the message that humans are destroying the Earth, and in Avatar, they showed that humans were going to destroy Pandora, (the Na'vi's planet) too. It made me think that there are people that care about our planet, and they are smart enough to make people think about it in a movie.

Seeing that, and remembering other movies I have seen that convey similar messages, I want to communicate messages like that through my art.

I think I'm going to try and work like that now. New projects I start, I think are going to have to do with that; I really want to make a difference.

Anyways, that's all for this week, I'll post again in a few days.

Roshni