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A funny classic animated short film by By Elian van der Heiden and Jeffrey Schreuders for their Bachelor film project from the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam. Used an original, to me, technique: drawing the characters on top of photographed stop-motion sets.

Un clásico y divertido corto de animación de Elian van der Heiden y Jeffrey Schreuders para su proyecto de fin de carrera en la Academia Willem de Kooning de Róterdam. Han utilizado una técnica original, para mí, dibujando los personajes sobre escenarios fotografiados en stop motion.


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Jokes

27th Thanksgiving Day !!!








Telling the time

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For once, a short animated film by a professional, Kevin Jackson, but it is exactly a metaphor of my daily life: Wake Up Call.

Por una vez, un corto de animación de un profesional, Kevin Jackson, pero es que es una metáfora de mi vida diaria: "Llamada".





Have a nice weekend.
Feliz fin de semana.

Día de Acción de Gracias: mitos



Celebrado el cuarto jueves de noviembre, El Día de Acción de Gracias es una tradición anual en Estados Unidos desde 1863. Y según esa tradición, la primera celebracióntuvo lugar en 1621 y la realizaron los Padres Fundadores, un grupo de puritanos que abandonaron Inglaterra en 1620 huyendo de las persecuciones religiosas y que, después de cruzar el Atlántico en el Mayflowerfundaron una colonia en Nueva Inglaterra (New PlymouthMassachusetts). Para dar gracias por una cosecha abundante ymostrar su agradecimiento a los indios Wampanoag que les ayudaron a sobrevivir su primer invierno, se sentaron todos juntos ante una comida compuesta de pavopastel de calabaza y arándanos.
Pero, ¿hasta qué punto son ciertos estos hechos? Parece ser que no demasiado. He aquí algunos datos erróneos sobre esta celebración.
First Thanksgiving Dinner
(Celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, Thanksgiving has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863. According to tradition the first American Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621 by the Pilgrim Fathers, a group of Puritans who left England in 1620 fleeing religious persecution and, after crossing the Atlantic on the Mayflower, founded a colony in New England (New Plymouth, Massachusetts). To give thanks for a bountiful harvest and show their appreciation to the Wampanoag Indians who helped them survive their first winter, they sat down together to a meal of turkey, pumpkin pie, and cranberries. But, to what extent these facts are true? Not very much, it turns out. Here are some common misconceptions about this celebration.)
Pilgrim's hat
MITO: los colonos fueron llamados Peregrinos.
LO CIERTO: ni siquiera se referían a sí mismos como 'peregrinos' - se llamaban "santos". Los primeros norteamericanos aplicaron el término "peregrino" a todos los colonos, y no fue hasta el siglo XX cuando se empezó a usar dicho término exclusivamente para describir a la gente que desembarcó en Plymouth Rock.
(Myth: The settlers were called Pilgrims.
The truth: They didn't even refer to themselves as Pilgrims - they called themselves "Saints." Early Americans applied the term "pilgrim" to all of the early colonists; it wasn't until the 20th century that it was used exclusively to describe the folks who landed on Plymouth Rock.)
Pilgrim's hat
MITO: era un acontecimiento religioso solemne.
LO CIERTO: es poco probable. Se trataba de una Fiesta de la Cosecha de tres días que incluía bebidajuegos de azarjuegos atléticos, y hasta tiro al blanco con mosquetes (concebido, dicho sea de paso, como una advertencia amigable a los indios de que los colonos estaban preparados para defenderse.)
(Myth: It was a solemn, religious occasion.
The truth: Hardly. It was a three-day harvest festival that included drinking, gambling, athletic games, and even target shooting with English muskets (which, by the way, was intended as a friendly warning to the Indians that the Pilgrims were prepared to defend themselves.)
Pilgrim's hat
MITO: se celebraba en noviembre.
LO CIERTO: se solía celebrar entre finales de septiembre y mediados de octubre —después de que la cosecha hubiera sido recogida. En noviembre, dice el historiadorRichard Erhlich, "Los aldeanos estaban trabajando para prepararse para el invierno, poniendo la carne en salazón y secándola, y acondicionando sus casas para el mal tiempo."
(Myth: It took place in November.
The truth: It was some time between late September and the middle of October - after the harvest had been brought in. By November, said historian Richard Erhlich, "the villagers were working to prepare for winter, salting and drying meat and making their houses as wind resistant as possible.")
Pilgrims
MITO: los colonos llevaban sombreros grandes con hebillas.
LO CIERTOninguno de los participantes llevaba ropa parecida a la que aparece en los cuadros: los colonos no vestían de negro, ni llevaban hebillassus sombreros o sus zapatos, y no usaban sombreros altos. Los pintores del siglo XIX que los retrataron de esa manera porque asociaban la ropa de color negro y las hebillas con una moda antigua.
(Myth: The Pilgrims wore large hats with buckles on them.
The truth: None of the participants were dressed anything like the way they've been portrayed in art: the Pilgrims didn't dress in black, didn't wear buckles on their hats or shoes, and didn't wear tall hats. The 19th-century artists who painted them that way did so because they associated black clothing and buckles with being old-fashioned.)
Pilgrim's hat
MITOcomieron pavo.
LO CIERTO: los colonos comieron venadono pavo. Como más tarde escribiera el colono Edward Winslow: "Durante tres días nos hemos divertido y comido, y los indios se marcharon y cazaron cinco venados, que trajeron a la colonia." Winslow también menciona a cuatro colonos que salieron a cazar aves, pero ni él ni nadie más especificó las especies de aves que en realidad cazaron —y si comieron pavo, sólo debió de ser un plato más.
"Lo más llamativo del banquete para los colonos fue la carne de venado, porque era algo nuevo para ellos", dice Carolyn Travers, directora de investigación de la Colonia de Plymouth, un museo colonial en Massachusetts. "Allá en Inglaterra, los ciervos estaban en las fincas de los nobles y la gente era arrestada por caza furtiva si mataban algún venado... Los colonos mencionaban la carne de venado una y otra vez en sus cartas a casa."
(Myth: They ate turkey.
The truth: The Pilgrims ate deer, not turkey. As Pilgrim Edward Winslow later wrote, "For three days we entertained and feasted, and the Indian went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation." Winslow does mention that four Pilgrims went "fowling" or bird hunting, but neither he nor anyone else recorded which kinds of birds they actually hunted - so even if they did eat turkey, it was just a side dish. "The flashy part of the meal for the colonists was the venison, because it was new to them," says Carolyn Travers, director of research at Plimoth Plantation, a Pilgrim museum in Massachusetts. "Back in England, deer were on estates and people would be arrested for poaching if they killed these deer ... The colonists mentioned venison over and over again in their letters back home.")
Thanksgiving Dinner
Otros alimentos que pueden haber estado en el menú: bacalaoróbaloalmejasostrasmaízbayas y ciruelas, todo ello acompañado con aguacerveza de maíz y alguna que otra copa de lo que los colonos llamaban cariñosamente "agua fuerte". Algunos alimentos desde luego no estaban en el menú, como el pastel de calabaza —en aquellos días, loscolonos cocían la calabaza y se la comían tal cual. Y puesto que los colonos no tenían todavía molinos de harina o ganadono había otro pan que el pan de maízni carne debuey, ni leche, ni queso. Y los colonos tampoco comieron langosta de Nueva Inglaterra. Motivo: las confundían con insectos de gran tamaño.
(Other foods that may have been on the menu: cod, bass, clams, oysters, Indian corn, native berries and plums, all washed down with water, beer made from corn, and another drink the Pilgrim affectionately called "strong water." A few things definitely weren't on the menu, including pumpkin pie - in those days, the Pilgrims boiled their pumpkin and ate it plain. And since the Pilgrims didn't yet have flour mills or cattle, there was no bread other than corn bread, and no beef, milk, or cheese. And the Pilgrims didn't eat any New England lobsters, either. Reason: They mistook them for large insects.)
Pilgrim's hat
MITO: los colonos celebraron una fiesta parecida cada año.
LO CIERTOno hay prueba alguna de que los colonos celebraran la fiesta de nuevo en 1622. Es probable que no tuvieran ánimo para ello - la cosecha había sidodecepcionante, y se vieron desbordados por la llegada de un barco de nuevos colonos que tenían que alimentar y alojar durante el invierno.
(Myth: The Pilgrims held a similar feast every year.
The truth: There's no evidence that the Pilgrims celebrated again in 1622. They probably weren't in the mood - the harvest had been disappointing, and they were burdened with a new boatload of Pilgrims who had to be fed and housed through the winter.)
"El Día de Acción de Gracias se celebra, por ley, una vez al año; para el hombre de bien, se celebra con tanta frecuencia como su corazón agradecido le pide."
Edward Sandford Martin (1856-1939)
("Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow."
Edward Sandford Martin)
Si quieres probar a ver cuánto sabes sobre el Día de Acción de Gracias, haz este trivia.
(If you want to find out how much you know about Thanksgiving Day, take this trivia.)
¡Feliz fin de semana de Acción de Gracias!
(Have a nice Thanksgiving weekend!)
Fuente: Neatorama

Thanksgiving Day


“Thanksgiving Day” or “Día de Acción de Gracias” is a national holiday with religious significance in the United States, this year Thanksgiving Day falls on Thursday, November 27, 2014. Here you have a text with some questions to know more about it.

Friday .... at last .-8


This time it is a short animated film made by professional game engine developpers but its mayhem on the streets of San Francisco reminds me of this first week, so is: The Butterfly Effect.

Esta vez se trata de un cortometraje de animación realizado por profesionales desarrolladores de juegos, pero su caos en las calles de San Francisco me recuerda esta primera semana, así que aquí va: El efecto mariposa.

Simple Present

Telling the time

Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day or Poppy Day is a special day observed in England to remember all those men and women who were killed during the two World Wars.
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month marks the sign of the Armistice, to signal the end of World War One.

                  
                    photo from malowonthamespeople.co.uk

The Sunday nearest to 11 November is Remembrance Sunday. Special services are held at war memorials and churches all over Britain. At 11 a.m. people across Britain hold a two minute silence to remember the millions who have died in war.
The week before 11 November, you'll see people in the streets and on TV wearing a poppy. They are red flowers made of card and they have been used since 1920 to commemorate soldiers who have died in war. Poppies are also used to raise money for people whose lifes have been changed by war.

Animals - Hangman



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