Poverty: a documentary

This film is fairly interesting, however it had a troubled audio and is difficult to understand exactly what is happening because it has a lot of foreign language in in. The camera shots are, I guess standard. Lots of panning, and close ups, medium shots etc voice over images in a slide show deal, and I'm sure there was a close up panning of a still image in there somewhere. Not exactly my cup of tea, but its decent.

Mandatory school post: Somrthing Wicked this way Comes reaction

We are currently watching Something Wicked this was Comes and it is an interesting so far. I don't want to speculate on the plot to much, because we haven't finished watching it yet, which we will today. I will predict one this though, I think that Mr. Dark might be Jim's father. This is supported by many indications through out the film so far.

Mandatory school post:
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Rat Bradbury was the writer of many well known books such as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked this way comes and other novels. Ray was born on August 22nd 1920 and died on June 5th 2012, he lived to be 91 years old after battling a long Illness. Ray was born in the town of Waukegan, Illinois and married Marguerite McClureand stayed married for 57 years until she passed in 2003. Over his 70 year career, he published more that 50 books and other writing pieces.He inspire many popular directors and writers such as Joss Whedon and Stephen King.

Edward Scissorhands: A Critque by Austin Hammond

            Edward Scissorhands is a movie by Tim Burton starring Johnny Depp. In this dramatic romance, the main Character, Edward, Is discovered by Peg Boggs, (a cosmetic saleswoman) in the attic of a large mansion while she attempted to sell products. Edward at first is displayed as a monster with horrible Scissorhands but as he moves toward Peg, he is unmasked as a gently child who has been sheltered and secluded from the rest of the world, rendering him awkward and nearly incapable of human interaction. In contrast to Edwards inherited estate, which appears Dark and gloomy, the neighborhood below is bright and cheery, using bright paints and women wearing colorful summer dresses to create a sense of happiness and friendly people, partially creating a standard for society to yield by. Peg out of pity, takes Edward out of his groggy mansion and takes him to come live with her, and her family. However, the neighborhood group of women is suspicious of Peg’s new friend.

            Edward is a tall character with black hair, pale complexion and dark, nearly Gothic attire. Compared to the rest of the neighborhood, Edward is far from normal, not even taking into consideration his hands, or scissors yet. As Edward begins his new life in Peg’s neighborhood, Edward slowly develops his personality. He is a modest and respectful person, who, despite his handicap, is incredibly talented. One day, Edward observes Peg's husband cutting the hedges in the back yard. Edward decides to help his with his chore creating a large dinosaur bush. Edward is becoming popular among the neighborhood and town. He soon shares his talent with the rest of the neighborhood and gives them each their own custom hedge art.

            While he gained popularity he was falling in love with Pegs daughter, Kim. At first she viewed him as a monster, but eventually as a friend and even more, a lover. It is difficult to know exactly how Edward feels, since he barely talks during the film and his main form of communicating his emotions is through his eyes. Although his raising stardom, he is still very different from the rest of the neighborhood occupants. Kim's current boyfriend, Jim, persuades Kim to ask Edward help rob his house, which would allow Jim to buy a car with the money, while excusing him from blame of the robbery. In this scene it has Low-key lighting. This helps create a sense of suspense, but as they enter the house Jim takes a commanding lead. High contrast lighting is used to raise the importance of to actions taking place. They enter the house and Jim turns on the lights and knocks over his dad’s picture. This segment is shot with a low angle shot further increasing the dramatic scenario that is taking place. Edward is left after the alarm sounds and is caught and arrested. This starts Edwards social decline. The neighbor hood becomes uneasy with Edward lurking about and are now concerned for their own safety. As Edward experiences quilt and When Kim asked confronts Edward to try and help with guilt, he admits he knew what he was doing, and only did it because she asked.

 
            Edward is now caught in a downward spiral. He is an emotional wreck and becomes depressed. He goes out into the yard and begins to make an ice sculpture. As he cuts away Kim stumbles into the yard and is standing in a shower of snow, something that apparently never happens in that neighborhood. Music starts to play as she dances in the snow and back lighting is used along side a low angle panning shot. This creates a dramatic, and somewhat romantic scene. Until, of course Jim startles him and he slips and cuts Kim's hand. The police is called again and Edward treats to his manor, leaving a path a destruction behind him. Kim follows him and eventually finds him in the attic. Unfortunately, so does Jim, and this time he has a gun. He attempts to shoot Edward but Kim pushes the gun away and he fires at the ceiling causing a collapse. Kim is thrown to the floor while Jim beats on Edward. Kim gatherers enough strength to hit Jim over the head with a piece of wood. This gives Edward enough time to get to his feet and he stabs Jim in the stomach and pushes him out of a window. Kim and Edward then hug and kiss and Kim tells Edward that he loves him. Then she tells him he has to stay in the house and hide from the town’s people. Kim exits with a prototype scissor hand she finds on the way out and she uses it to help convince that he is dead

            After everyone leaves the estate and returns home, flash forward back to the scene of an old woman telling her daughter a story. The old woman is Kim and she indirectly tells her daughter that it was her who was in love with Edward. This creates a sense or understanding for the audience and leaves them with a sense of confliction that can often bring upon emotion. Edward Scissorhands is a dramatic romance film and i highly recommend it to all.

Religion : Mandatory school post: Research
- Religion is a concept created by man to explain what couldn't be explained by science at the time. It is the belief system that a group of people follow. There are thousands of religions world wide, the most popular being: Christianity with nearly 2.2 billion followers, Islam with about 1.3 billion followers and Hindu with 860 million followers.
- The Sumerians (who are known for being the first group of nomads to create the first civilization) were probably the first to create, or practice Religion, or "Systematic and organized spiritual practices". Sumerian religion is thought to be the basis on many other religions such as Akkadian, Babylonian, Judaic, Greek, Roman, Christian, and Muslim.
- Christianity started with Judaism. Judaism basically started When Hebrews Were enslaved by the Egyptians. Moses was one of these Hebrews and according to the Old Testament in the 2nd chapter of the Book of Exodus; Moses saw an Egyptian abusing a Hebrew. Moses became upset and killed the Egyptian. To escape execution, or punishment, He fled Egypt. according to the Old Testament God came down to Moses and told him to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt.
- Today, religion is practiced by 84% of the world, and it isn't going anywhere. As long as science can't explain everything, and even then, Religion will be popular among the human inhabitants of Earth.

Sources:
http://geography.about.com/od/culturalgeography/a/popularreligion.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion
http://genealogyreligion.net/sumerian-spiritualism-the-earliest-organized-religion
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

Chew on This: Mandatory school post

Chew on this by Eric Schlosser is basically a book that makes you not want to eat fast food, or meat really. Luckily for me, I am already a vegetarian, so some of the points in the book were already known by me. It was interesting hearing about the past and history of how each fast food franchise began. It was interesting to see how fast food started slow, and as it gained momentum, smaller franchises stemmed from the main franchise of McDonald's. It was interesting seeing how  Ray Kroc and Walt Disney were close friends when they were younger and basically grew up together, both got into business, and created vast fortunes for themselves and their companies.,This book sheds light on the darkness and secrets of fast food franchises and exposes them to the word through his book, Chew on this.

Edward Scissorhands

Edward Scissorhands: required school post
A common misconception about Edward Scissorhands is that his hands are scissors. He actually doesn't have hands he has a glove that i believe he puts on over a stump and each individual finger is a scissor, not just one big scissor each hand. If that was the case, the movie would probably be called Edward Hedge-clippers. However he is very good at making ice sculptures and hedge art with his scissors anyway
Directed b Tim Burton
Edward is Played by Johnny Depp
The film was released in 1990
Johnny Depp was in practically ever good movie ever, such as sleepy hollow, Charlie in the Chocolate factory, Alice in wonderland, Rango, pirates of the Caribbeans series and more
I love Johnny Depp, he is literally my favorite actor

Me

So this is my first legitimate post beside my introduction, and I will be talking about my main hobby.

-I am a mediocre skateboarder: I'd like to be better at it but, it is something I don't mind spending the majority of the day doing, and even though I'm not as skilled as my best friend Andrew; he taught me everything I know about skateboarding and I'm very grateful for him. I've since caught up with his progress but we make a good duo because we encourage each other to try new things and conquer scary obstacles (like a three stair). I'm very pleased with my progress in the skateboarding ladder of skill especially because I've only been skateboarding for a year, come May.

Also video games.

An introduction

Hello people of the internet!
My name is Austin.
I go to School of the Arts in New York and am taking a creative writing course as to improve my writing skills/abilities.
This blog is about me, well not about me but, it will be filled with my short stories and whatnot and I can only hope you will enjoy it.
Thanks.
-Austin