When I was in Chicago, I went to go see the Blueman Group. The Blueman Group is a group of three men that are accompanied by a band. They are supposed to represent alien like creatures, with no hair, blue skin and no voice. Quoted from their website, "Blue Man Group is best known for its widely popular theatrical shows and concerts that combine music, comedy and multimedia theatrics to produce a totally unique form of entertainment. The blissful party atmosphere created at the live events has become the trademark of a Blue Man Group experience". They have the most interesting, most creative, new inventive way of mixing music together with art. I could have sat in the audience for days and not realize that days had gone by! Their show is so incredible that you can't even describe it. I think it's interesting because they do something different but aren't as advertised to world as much as they should be. If I asked a group of people who the Blueman group were, I don't think everyone would know about them. I think if they were more advertised in the media they could start a new revolution of creativeness that would just explode into something amazing!

To learn more about their influence on art and music click on that link! Check it out!

http://www.blueman.com/about/influence

You don't learn to love, it just comes naturally

Love is used as a theme for everything. Flick on the tv, turn on your ipod and listen to a song, love is something everyone can relate to. Everyone craves for their hearts to feel full of love. For that feeling of your heart getting caught in your throat, butterflies in your stomach, light headed feeling when someone tells you they love you. As if you are walking on air and everythings perfect. To go to sleep at night knowing that someone out there is thinking about you can be the strangest most wonderful feeling you could ever feel. But just as easily as those feelings come, they can slip through your fingers and no matter how hard you try, they just keep falling and falling. You're so used to the feeling of being surrounded by happiness, that just as fast as it came-within seconds darkness can come crashing down around your head and it's like you're the only one left in the world. The other day I was asked if I believed in fate. The truth is, I believe things will happen for a reason. There is no way to know if you made the right choice, or how it will impact your life. We are always told to look ahead, plan the future. Life would be less stressful if we all lived in the now. Sure, it can be a good thing to imagine the future, plan how you want your life to pan out in your head. But sometimes that's what can mess you up the most. Doubt is the biggest problem in out society. Doubt kills, before it's prey even gets the chance to prove itself. I think that's why a lot of relationsips don't work out. Especially in high school. We are always told they won't last, so what's the point of trying to make it work when everyone is told that it won't. Why would someone want to kill someone elses happiness? Let them find out for themselves whether their relationship will work, let them have their own feelings, make their own mistakes. There is no way to avoid heartbreak, but if every person found someone they could fall for, and believed in themselves and believed in forever, there may be less. That also brings up another question. Can you be young, and know what love is? I think you can. From the moment you are born, to the moment you die you love something. Whether that's your dog, your favourite doll, your mom, your dad- anything. You don't learn to love, it just comes naturally. So yes. I believe you can be six years old and be in love. There's nothing wrong with that. Why not have more love in our world. Maybe if we did we would accept difference, there wouldn't be any wars, people might not be afraid of other people. I think the world would be a happier place. Love is something everyone wants. Everywhere you look there is love. It's a feeling everyone craves, and in the media it can be glamorized, and blow up to something that's not reality. Is the media giving us a false idea of what love really is?

Believe in truth, freedom and above all things-love

The other day I was cleaning out my movie cuboard and I found the movie Moulin Rouge. Immediately, I put the movie in and watched it. I think this movie is so well done. The plot line, and the music give it such a good effect for the audience. The music gives the movie an modern feel to the 1899, Paris time period. The movie portrays the truth about living as a performer. The love story has twists and turns and keeps your eyes gluded to the screen because you want to know what will happen next. The lyrics and the story line, grab at your heart strings all through the movie. The movie is about love surviving through all sorts of obstacles that should tear them apart. It is a movie that you will never get tired watching, and it is a movie that even people who hate musicals would love. It gives you feelings of love, suspense, and sadness.

Every man wanted her. But One man dared to love her.

Writers Block

It is so hard to write a good blog when you can't think of anything to write about. Sure, it's easy to just pick something and write about it, but it won't be interesting for someone else to read. It has to be something you are passionate about. I know that when I write something good, the words just flow out from under my finger tips, knowing exactly what to say next. Every word fits into every phrase perfectly. I like the feeling you get when you can just sit down and write, it's so calming. You feel so powerful. Like you can say and do anything because no one but you is going to see what you put down on the page (possibly). I like the smell of a blue ball point pen on lined paper. For some reason it makes me feel so "old fashioned", I often prefer to write things out before I type it. I find I can think better. Most teachers these days won't accept a project that is hand written. I don't see why it matters? You would say the exact same thing if it was typed, and if you took all that time to write it out, obviously you put the same amount of time into it. Sure, technology is evolving, we have mini portable laptops for classrooms, Smartboards, but it's just something new, and there will probably be a new version of it next week. The written word has been around for thousands of centuries. Because of the changing times, the written word has changed and evolved along with it, but it is a constant change. It is something everyone can understand. It is something everyone has access too. It is simple, but complex, and when strung together can be turned into something beautiful. With all this changing technology, the written word is slowly dying away and eventually people won't be able to write because there is no need for it. I think writing should be something charished and we shouldn't forget it's history and the stories it has created.

Growing up

"If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!" — J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

Gerontophobia, is the scientific word for a "fear of growing up." To some people it is the biggest challenge in their life they can't over come. Being grown up comes with responsibilities. Having a job, taking care of a house, paying taxes, you can't rely on your parents to be with you every step of the way and to some people- that's scary!

Hypengyophobia, is the fear of responsibility. Even though Peter Pan flew to Never Never Land so he would stay a child forever, he still had responsibility to take care of the Lost Boys, to save Wendy, to fight Captain Hook and protect the treasure. No matter where or how old you are, you are still faced with responsibility.

In the 2004 film, 13 Going on 30, the main character Jenna wishes she could be "thirty, flirty and thriving." The thirteen year old is thrown into her future life as a thirty year old and discovers the ups and the downs of being an adult. She realizes that there is no rush in growing up, you only get once chance, so do it right.

In the future, I think there will be a huge change in our education. I think that it will be mandatory for every student to have a computer and access to internet. Students will have to be able to type and work computers. Lessons will be taught online and the students will hardly talk to their teachers in person, other than over emails. I think the level of education will change, where kids in elementary schools are learning material that high school students would be learning today. In the future, it's possible the courses that will be taught will be a lot harder, and because new jobs are developing every year, there will be lots of new courses and probably some of the courses we have now will no longer be needed. It's possible that because of everyone is working on computers, paper companies and factories, that make pens and pencils, will go out of business,because they aren't needed anymore. Society will no longer learn how to write, they will learn to type and communicate in new ways we don't even know about yet. Along with newspapers, magazines, books, everything will be over the computer, because there is no need for paper. In the future, I believe that life as we know it will be different. If technology and life has already developed so much within the past 10 years, imagine how society will change in the next 5?

Is it worth it?

Superbowl Sunday. Its been the championship game of the NFL since 1967 and is the second largest day for U.S food consumption after Thanksgiving. In 2010, it costs 3 million dollars to run a 30 second commercial. There is a large portion of the Canadian population who only watch the Superbowl to see the American ads. I think that the superbowl commercials are so exspensive because it is the most-watched television broadcast in North America. Even if you are not a consistant football fan, people usually tune into watch the event, just for the commercials.
The TNS Media Consumption web site says, "The data confirms that Super Bowl advertising has enormous holding power. In the 2008 game, the index of commercial viewers to program viewers was right around 100, indicating that people opted to watch the ads instead of switching the channel. The halo extended to pre-game spots as well, but not the post-game as viewers gradually tuned away entirely".
Below is a table showing the Index of Commercial Viewers To Program Viewers: 2008 Super Bowl

Pre-Game-101
First Half of Game-101
Half-Time of Game-99
Second Half of Game-99
Post-Game-85
Avg. Primetime Show -90
Source: TNS Media Research