Welcome back to my blog! Now with videos! Seems like I cam constantly finding ways to improve my blogs :D

For those of you who were wondering about my photograms, I turned in my assignment today and scanned them the night before. So here are my photograms.

This first piece was done using my brother's magic props (he is a magician). I used some sponge bunnies, a clear glass, some clear dice, and a clear tube filled with sparkly stuff that unfortunately did not show. The point was to make the bunnies feel like they were falling out of the glass and thus giving the piece some movement. I purposely cut off the big bunny's face to make it feel as if he's falling off the photo.

This second piece is much more simple. I used a figurine of Ichigo from Bleach and some kind of synthetic leaf I found in my house. The point was to give a circular motion with the leaf going up and left along with Ichigo's movement coming back in to the right. Also, it just looks cool.

My last photogram was also simple using only some plastic utensils and my iPod Nano. I wanted to place the utensils around something interesting like an object representing the digital world. My cell phone and DS looked too plain due to their rectangular shapes. I ended up using my iPod since it has the ear buds to give some circular motion and make it more interesting. My teacher liked it because the she thought the iPod looked kind of like spaghetti.

So those were my photograms. What do you think? Any critique would be welcome. Next week, we begin using our film SLRs. Should be fun.

In movie news, Superman Doomsday was released on DVD. My brother picked it up for me at Best Buy since I was too busy at school all day. It came with a cool little extra, a Justice League: The New Frontier comic book. It's mostly an ad for the new upcoming animated feature but extras are always nice.

It should be noted that it is the only animated Superman movie to be rated PG-13. So it should not be too bad for the kids while pleasing adult fans as well.

I plan to watch it soon and will let you know how it is.

Anyway, by now many of you have seen some of the new commercials for Halo 3. I really like the way the campaign is tailored. They know this is supposed to be the last of the trilogy and are giving it a sentimental feel. I really like the ad with the old man. It makes you kind of think it may be about some old war when it turns out it is actually about the war in Halo 3. And I love how they are making it feel like this is a war that has a forgone conclusion. A war with an end. And now we get to "relive" that war and be a part of history so to speak. So here is the ad with the old man.

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I think it is a smart campaign. They could have easily gone with a more predictable "badass shooting hero" ad but I think this is more appealing. What do you think?

Anyway let me know what you think about my photograms. See you next time! :)