Monday, 20 May 2013

BRUNO MARS, HE CAN WITH ALL



I hope you know something about this genious called Bruno Mars who is from Hawaii, specifically from Honolulu, he began to 'make' music at the age of two, and when he finish the school he came to LA to began to work in it, he stayed in two recording devices before he found his actual recording device, Atlantic Records.
He has got a great talent singing but he can also play the gitar,the piano or also the ukelele like he did in Hawaii.

He has write so many famous songs like his first exit with B.o.B., "Nothong On You" or one of his hits, "Billioaire" with Travis McCoy.
He has also write songsto other artists, like F**k you of Cee Lo Green,  Right Round of Flo-Rida or Waving Flag to K'naan (It was the song that K'naan sanged with David Bisbal, a Spanish singer)
He is known all around the world for its own exits like 'Just The Way You Are'(his first exit) or "Count On Me", the song of the new spot of McDonalds, he has also write and sing one very famous song where he sing and dance with monkeys, "The Lazy Song".

He has won so many prizes, and he was nominated to seven prizes in different cattegories in the 53th Grammy Awards, winning in the category of Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Just the Way You Are)".

Bruno is a great artist and I recommend to everyone to listen to his music, is a great artist and I hope you like it, here I show you some of his songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJYXItns2ik COUNT ON ME.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjhCEhWiKXk JUST THE WAY YOU ARE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2RDLZ0668w&list=PLF70B7A43FECCFF37 THE LAZY SONG

Monday, 6 May 2013

JACK AND FINN HARRIES, OR SIMPLY @JACKSGAP



You would be asking who they are, so I would tell you:
 Jack and Finn are two twins of nineteen years old from London,they appear in youtube videos telling they life,basically.

Before they went to the university they took a gap year so they make videos of what they do to show to their family...(it was the first proposal of their videos..) They have been during this gap year in Sri Lanka, Ibiza, Rome... and they have done lots of incredible things during this year.

Now they are at the university, Jack is studying in Bristol, and Finn in a little town so far from Jack so he hasn't appear in any new video of Jack. 

And what is the paper of Finn here?

 Jack was the focus of all the videos,nobody knew anything of Finn until he appears "by chance" in one of Jack's videos, then, the whole thing change completely for them, Finn started to appear more frecuently and all the fans increased, and then they just grow up.. and now they have got lots of fan all around the world who daily send them e-mails and presents, this things are what they show in some videos for example!!

 Jack now is an actor,comedian and vlogger (video-logger), he has got his own youtube channel where he post his videos telling his history or just simply things like answering the questions that his 1.000.000 fans of twitter ask him dialy.


My opinion of watching Jack and Finn videos is that is good to learn english because they are from London and they speak quite clearly and they are sometimes funny and they show things that he have seen before or things that we can make use of this like how to live in another city on our own, or things like this.
I totally reccomend you to watch their videos, now I'll show you some fotos of they and some videos they have post recently.
I hope you like.


JACK 
JackHarriesSpotlight.jpg

FINN



THEIR VIDEO LINKS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX_lwbqQsOg
 here they talk about the british slang.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za7e4DoSd8g 
here there are some questions that people asked to jack on his account ( @jacksgap )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB5RK6j0gHs 
and that's the video of one day in Rome on their gap year.
HOPE YOU LIKE IT!!

Monday, 4 February 2013

COLDPLAY

Coldplay is a British Rock band who began in 1996, the group is formed by Chris Martin,Jon Buckland, who plays the guitar, Guy Berryman and Will Champion.

 The first works of Coldplay made the band to be compared with artists like Oasis, Radiohead and U2 for example. They found the exit with the launch of their  single "Yellow"

Coldplay's musical style, has been definited like "alternative rock".
The lead singer and composer of the group, Chris Martin, described once the group's music like "soft rock", Colplay's music was classify like mediative, romantic and that reflects their feelings.

It also was described like " dark and artistically hot", and according to the critics it reflects "Martin's doubts,hopes and loves" . The band recognise 'Travis' like their biggest influence.

On the other hand, 'Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends' style according to the critics, is influenced by Peter Gabriel, U2 and Brian Eno, who encourage them to test more with the sound.
The acoustic sound characteristic of Coldplay, it's replaced by other richer and with more cuantity of elementes like the organ, synthesizers, and whole orchests.

MYLO XYLOTO
From April 2009, the band has been working in their fifth album, with Brian Eno like new producer.

In June of 2011 the band launched officialy the new single called ' Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall' which included three songs: the one that gives the name to the CD, 'Major Minus' and 'Moving To Mars'
In August of 2011, Coldplay announced in their official web page that their fifth album will be launched in October of this year, by the name of Mylo Xyloto, and also the band said that their album will be launched in digital format, vynil and CD. About this CD style, the guitarist Jon Buckland said: " I supossed the subject is to make the music more fluid"
The album was launched in Madrid in a concert in las ventas square

Disney in real life

Everybody knows the famous Disney movie "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". It was performed for the first time in 1937 by Walt Disney. This movie was inspired in the German fairy tale written by the Grimm brothers. It was an animated move which earned 8 million dollars during its initial release.

Walt Disney was awarded an honorary Oscar, and the film was nominated for Best Musical Score. It was added to the United States National Film Registry in 1989 and is ranked in the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American films.

But not so long ago, in 2012, another film came out. "Snow White and the Huntsman" is a film equally inspired in the Grimm brothers fairy tale, but quite a lot of details are changed.



For example, in the second film, the evil stepmother is met by Snow White's father after a war, they marry and, when she realises that her stepdaughter can be more beautiful than her, she locks her up in prision. This film is darker and prepared for a teenager public.

In the original film, Snow White is left in the forest by the hunter who doesn't want to kill her. As we see, it's only the beginning and there are a lot of changes. 

However, none of the movies are completely loyal to the story, so they can be different faces of the same coin.

Thursday, 29 November 2012

Soundtracks

We are talking just about films, but what about the music in them?
Burlesque is the best example of how important is to develop a good music to involve the audience and make them feel like they are living it.

The plot starts when a waitress called Allie decides to change her luck and goes to Los Angeles to find a job were she can show her talent, singing. There, she finds a club, "Burlesque", were lots of pretty girls dance sassy choreografies and raise fame. Inmediately, Allie decides to work there, where she'll have to find her place with the help of Tess, the owner of the club.


Allie is stared by the singer Christina Aguilera. In my opinion, she plays really good her role (maybe a bit egocentric) and her talent is undeniable. The second main character, Tess, is stared by another singe, Cher. Cher was very criticized in the movie, because before it she had been seven year out of the music bussiness.

Anyway, that's the movie about: to follow your dreams, it doesn't mind what people think about you. All the soundtrack reflects it with the titles of the songs: "Ray of Light (Madonna)", "That's Life (Alan Cumming)" and "Express (Christina Aguilera)".

Is it better to enjoy your money when you earn it or is it better to save your money for some time in the future?

   Everybody is very interested in the way they spend their money. Each one choose what to do with it, but what we would do (if we had the money) is to save it. We have good reasons to say it.

 
 First of all, if there is an emergency, like bills, or a friend needs money because the bank is going to seize his house, and he begs you (in hipotetic situation, of course), are you going to deny your help? Another reason is to save a bit of money so you can buy something that you have been looking forward to a lot of time, like an iPod, in our case, or a car in a more serious situation.

 
However , society keeps telling us to spend more money in useless stuff that we will never make the most of them. For example, on the TELETIENDA channel, beautiful people offer continuously new products that apparently are the most perfect things ever made by humanty, but in fact, they are not as perfect as the commercial says. But you want to try this "spectacular" product, because this is the dream of your life! And when you buy it, they send it to your house and you notice that this is not the same thing that you had seen on TV. The product is simply a fake.


As conclusion, society tries to convince us to buy things but in our opinion is more useful earn your money for things really impotant.


Thursday, 8 November 2012

THE ART OF WRITING

All of us can write a sentence, a paragraph, or a text, but not all of us can write :
I mean write, like an art, because all of us like  a good book:

All the people read, but has anyone stopped to think, what about the people who write those books that we all like?

For example, the writer of Twilighit, Stephenie Meyer, is 'mormon', a  type of religion, wich doesn't want their "believers" to have "relations" before the wedding , so that's the explanation of Bella's and Edward situation, before the wedding, they didn't do anything, surprised?

I think, you'll never thought it was because the author was from an specific religion which didn't wanted it...
because everyone thought it was because Edward was a vampire and he could hurt Bella...

Well, that's the most curiously thing that I've heard of writers, but write is an art, and the artist, sometimes, are so weird..
There're so writers who only like to write terror stories (  childhood trauma maybe?), or writers who only write sci-fi books, but that's more common.
Or there're writers who write at the begginig of the chapters extracts of poems or songs, like in 'summer in jeans'..
  
So, here there're some photos so you can know, who and what are the things that I've just talked about