Friday, October 15, 2010

MSNBC Pictures

  • The shark jumping out of the water frames the mountains in the backround
  • The shark creates a good sense of movement while flying though the air


Thursday, October 14, 2010

Italy Vs Serbia Match Suspended

In this video a Euro 2012 Qualifier game between Italy and Siberia was suspended do to rioting fans. Police officers entered the stadium, but could do little to stop the riot. The video shows fans throwing smoke bombs and flaming objects on to the field and in the stands. Thankfully fire fighters were sent in to put out those fires. Three men then climbed the railing that separates the field from the stands and started to egg the other fans on. The three men threw road flares and held up flags while the soccer players were warming up. It was not long before the soccer players and referies left the field.
I think that these men did an extremely stupid thing. They paided all that money for tickets to the game just so that they could start a riot and end up suspending the game. They do not even deserve to be called fans  because they have no respect for the game or the players.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJSBy_9Qj84&feature=topvideos

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Daniel Igali preaches wrestling gospel

In this article Canada's first Olympic and world champion wrestler Daniel Igali talks about his effort to build a wrestling program in his home country Nigeria. It was at the 1994 Commonwealth Games that Igali made the decision to leave the Nigerian team to stay in Canada. These days he spends nine months a year working with the Nigerian wrestling team,while still maintaining his home in Surrey, B.C. These Commonwealth games have been very productive for Daniel's athletes. They’ve collected two gold, two silver and six bronze medals with two day of competition remaining. He tells all his athletes that if they want to prepare for the Olympics, they have to start here. Igali's wrestlers show a lot of respect towards him. He says “They almost believe your word as God’s word, they know where you’re coming from. It carries a lot of respect. If you tell them to do 100 push-ups, they believe you so religously they do 110.”
I think that Damiel Igali is doing a great thing by going back to his native country to help there wrestlers. It really shows that he cares for the sport because he is doing all he can to make himself and others better.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Langur Monkeys at Common Wealth Games

Trained langur monkeys are being used to scarre off dogs, snkes, and even other monkeys. Langur monkeys are said to be very intelligent but also aggressive and territorial, making them very effective in keeping other animals away from a given area. These monkeys are also feared throughout Dehli. They had attacked the mayor in 2007, causing him to fall from his balcony to his death. There is a team of 10 monkeys, four of them will be posted outside the boxing complex with their handlers, while another four will patrol the hockey complex, two are on standby in case of of an emergency. The athletes do not seem to be bothered by the monkeys. Canadian field hockey player said "I thought they were OK, they were fine."
I think that it was a good ideal for them to use the Langur monkeys as a way of protecting the athletes form other harmfull animals. As long as these monkeys are kept under control, I think that the athletes will have a muck more comfortable stay in New Dehli.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/867613--monkeys-on-security-duty-at-commonwealth-games

Old Spice- Blocker:15

The video starts with a large muscular black man screamimg "old spice odor blocking bodywash". Then out of nowhere the word "odor" appears several time. The man then attacks the words and screams "Block!" as if he were a martial artist attcking a wooden board. He punches, left and right, up and down, and even throws in some elbows. He kicks, knees, and uses his but, all of this to destroy the word "odor". His head then enlarges to the point where it explods. After which the man goes right back to puching the words. When all the words are destroyed, the man screams that "old spice will block odor for 16 hours!!" as he flexes his pectorals.The video then cuts to an image of a clock that says "16 hours B.O. blocker". The video finishes with the clock exploding.
In the video they seemed to cram as much special effects as they could into the 18 seconds of content. As I mentioned before there were lots of explosions, floating words, and some crazy sound effects. I think that in the video they were trying to conivnce men that if they bought Old Spice they would look like and be as strong as the man in the commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG0VGbcMeNM

Friday, October 1, 2010

Magazine Cover 1

                                                              First I got a picture of the olympic logo, then I put that picture inside the text "Gymnastics Monthy". Then I magnetic lassoed seven male artisic gymnasts out of there origional photos and pasted them to my magazine cover. I did them same thing with the barcode. Then I changed the backround to a light blue instead of white. Finally I added the headers and the page numbers of the articles in the magazine.