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Aaron Blaise: Animator and Illustrator Aaron Blaise is an artist and animator who worked for 21 years creating some of the greatest animated films of the 20th century. He began with illustration work, but learned to create animation in the late 80s under Glen Keane, helping him to eventually becoming director of animation in several films at Walt Disney studios. He is not only an animator but a painter, digital artist, and instructor. In his many years of training, he has travelled around the…

“The Gift” – Poem Essay Li-Young Lee, an Indonesian-American author, uses phenomenal diction and literary devices to represent the passionate adoration and affection that a father will show his son. The prying of the thorn out of the son’s hand is not only a physical occurrence to explain to his son how to live a fulfilling life, but is the main theme of the poem. The theme is the key for one to realize how they are living, which is not likely to be in accord with what they strive to be. With…

Have you ever imagined not being able to go to your hometown? Chernobyl is what that's like. About a couple months after the accident the elephant's foot was found. The foot has many life-threatening effects. The effects were way worse back then, then they are now. The elephant's foot is a very scary thing. After the tragedy of Chernobyl, a toxic lump of radiation was found. Even though it happened over 30 years ago the elephant's foot is still lethal and it will be for 50,000 more…

The Geological Society of America’s news site provides a variety of geological news sources from research papers to a live twitter feed. The purpose of the site is to provide a hub where someone can find recent research and current events in geology. Most of the content being shown focuses on geology. However, some posts will be heavily focused on biology, chemistry, or physics since geology can rely on knowledge in any of those disciplines. An example of this is the research on…

think about which part of the body to respond to the particular exercise and you've done exactly the given exercise. Be aware of what you are doing and what your body needs. The sequence in which the fluidity of moving your spine is actually a thumbnail sequence that moves your body. Fluidity: The spine works so that you feel each vertebra and wriggle up and down. Vertebra by vertebra. Fluidity as a last principle of Pilates, a synthesis of all previous conceptions. If controlling your…

American author, John C. Maxwell once said this about tone, “People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.” Tone is the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, etc. In our world today, we use tone for various things such as understanding texts. In the poem, “The Gift” and “Those Winter Sundays,” the characters describe memories of or with their fathers. You would think that in these poems the tone would be described as a positive, happy, loving tone. However, in…

In their book “Scenic Art for the Theatre: History, Tools and Techniques”, Susan Crabtree and Peter Beudert emphasized, “Don’t draw things; draw relationships. It’s so simple: just put every brush stroke in the right place.” The quotation basically summarizes the job of a scenic designer, who is responsible for bringing the world of the production onto the stage. The scenic designer (or set designer) is expected to fulfill five basic goals in order to design an overall concept for the play.…

Jelly London and RKCR/Y&R go 'Shwopping' with M&S Commissioned by RKCR/Y&R, Jelly London’s in-house animation team; The Kitchen, has produced a series of quirky animations to promote Marks & Spencer's latest Shwopping campaign to raise money for Oxfam. Featuring Absolutely Fabulous star, Oxfam ambassador and legitimate british icon, Joanna Lumley, the online campaign invites customers to leave their old and unwanted clothes at Marks and Spencer stores to be resold or recycled by Oxfam. The…

Many people believe that Eastern Oregon is void of beauty. The mountains are bare and the air is dry. However, if these folks would follow me to the Snake River for a fishing trip, I think they’d change their minds. If they were to join me on the river, they’d hear the sound of motor boats traveling up the water, and they’d smell the engine exhaust and hear the laughter of the fishermen. They’d be able to look across the river to the Idaho side and see a white pick-up truck parked in…

would have followed that very boy to the present, they would have arrived at the moment in which he now removes a splinter from his wife’s right hand. Much like his father, the son carefully and skillfully removes the splinter: “Look how I shave her thumbnail down / so carefully she feels no pain” (ll. 21-22). The son remembers how his father had removed his splinter painlessly before the story he recited was even done, and in this way, the son has grown to become like his father. He…