FAMILY GUY :)

Family guy was created by a man called Seth MacFarlane. At first he did two shorts of 10 minutes each, one of them emitted in Cartoon Network. Thank to that the executives of Fox saw those shorts offered Seth the opportunity of creating a series.

The first Family Guy episode was emitted in 1999.

This series was canceled on February 14, 2002 and brought back in May 1, 2005.

One of the extraordinary things I think this series has is that Seth puts the voices to Peter, Brian and Stewie, and he cooperated with Mila Kunis (Megan Griffin Voice).

Another thing that I like is that each character has its own personality; they all have a thing that makes them special and different, and that’s difficult to create nowadays where everything is a copy of everything.

We can see that even if it’s a Cartoon series it’s not for children because of some of the words, things they refer to, gestures… Are not for kids to watch. It’s like the Simpsons, but the only problem with The Simpsons is that is a series that everybody has seen, and we all know all the episodes, they even did the movie (That I personally didn’t like) and Family Guy has taken over now.
What do you think?

50.000$ = Sneakers!!!!!!??????

Ok… Let’s just think… Would you pay 50.000$ for a pair of sneakers? … Even if you had enough money to pay for them?
I’m going to give you my opinion about it. I would NEVER pay that amount of money, not even half of it, for sneakers. Ok, I have never had that amount of money in my life, and I can’t afford buying those sneakers, but I think it’s just a waste of money. Even if I was rich enough I would buy other stuff, or invest that money or give part of it to people that need it. Nowadays celebrities receive so much money with movies, football games, advertising campaigns, going to shows explaining their lives or just telling lies; that they don’t know what to do with their money and they waist it in things like that, or even more unintelligent things that I will never understand, maybe cause I’m not in their position.
In conclusion I want to say that paying 50.000$ for a pair of sneakers is wasting/throwing your money down the toilet. But if you have the money, and you are willing to waist it on that you are free to do so!

What do you think?

FERIA DE ABRIL 09

At the beginning, La Feria de Abril de Sevilla, was a fair of cattle with some stalls to "celebrate the trades".
The first Feria de Abril took place in April 1847 with a big number of people and a great success.


Several years later it started to become a festivity with attractions, places where to eat, and installations to celebrate the local party of Sevilla.
Seeing the great result this fair had, the city council had to expand the place of the celebration and the publicity of the occasion.
In 1890 the first poster that annunciated the fair was done.
In 1914 the three days of celebration turned out to be five, and the sixth day was added in 1952.


Nowadays La Feria de Abril takes place two weeks after Semana Santa. The fair begins at midnight on Tuesday, and lasts six days, ending on the next Sunday. Each day the celebration begins with the parade of carriages and riders that make their way to the bullring, La Real Maestranza, where the bullfighters and breeders meet.


I think traditions are really important in all the countries; it’s a way of maintaining the people and the spirit together. It’s true that most of those celebrations have a commercial part to, but without them it wouldn’t be the same. Many Sevillan people achieve most of their money in those fairs. I also have to say that in this year’s fair workers have earned less money than other years, all because of the crisis?

I’m just against one thing, the bullfights, I have never understood them, I know is something that has been living in Spanish culture for a long time and I respect it but I don’t share it.


VIVA LA FERIA DE ABRIL!

Tattoos?

So... Just tell me, what do you think about Tattoos? Do people wear them because of their religion? To call attention? To express feelings? To represent something or someone? To remember an important person?

I think we can find all kinds of tattoos and all kinds of reasons to wear them. For example, I have two tattoos and I wear them because I like them, they have no meaning for me and love them!
The other day I was having a discussion with a guy about tattoos. I was saying that everybody is free to wear what they want because its their body, but that depending on the work you have wearing tattoos, piercings, a different haircut, or maybe just a weird nail polish is not accepted in the company’s policy. Its true that its not good to go to an extreme or the other. What do you think?

So, tattoos, something accepted in society nowadays? I think… yes, each day more and more.

MARTIN MARGIELA

Who is Marin Margiela? Is he just a person or a group of people?
We have never seen Margiela on TV, interview, fashion events...
Who is he?
I can only say that I don’t care who Martin Margiela is... Simply a genius!!!!!!

He is considered part of the new avant-garde designers.
Martin Margiela is a master of deconstruction and reconstruction of garments.
Makes his imagination a reality.

MATTHEW WILLIAMSON FOR H&M

Matthew Williamson:

Born in 1971, Manchester

Studied Fashion Design at Central St. Martins College, London

His first job was a freelance design project with Marni.

Then he was employed by British fashion company, Monsoon and Accessorize.

Matthew Williamson was founded in February 1997

In 2005 Matthew Williamson become the Creative Director at LVMH Italian house

In September 2008 Matthew Williamson returned to London to focus fully on his own label


MATTHEW WILLIAMSON FOR H&M


I think H&Ms idea of collaborating with different designers for small collections is a great idea and helps H&M a lot on the fashion market. We have seen those collections have always been old out in hours, people go to H&M before the opening and run in to get whatever they can. I think is something different, even if you don’t like the collection you have to go there and observe the people. I remember:

Karl Lagerfeld for H&M 04
Stella McCartney for H&M 05
Viktor&Rolf for H&M 06
‘M’ by Madonna for H&M 07
‘Love Kylie’ swimwear collection by Kylie Minogue for H&M 07
Roberto Cavalli for H&M 07
Comme des Garçons for H&M 08
Matthew Williamson for H&M 09


Are you going to be there? (Line for H&M will be available in May 2009. Cheap is the new chic.)

NO LOGO: Brands, Globalization & Resistance

No logo was a book written by Naomi Klein a Canadian journalist, frequent media commentator, a Colum writer and a bestseller.


Naomi Klein:
"On 1995 I saw there was the beginning of new political movement that would take aim at the growing power of multinational corporations"


"We knew there was something big going on in the mid 90s, we knew there were global shifts taking place around free trade, around corporate consolidation and that those shifts didn’t respect national boundaries in anyway"


"We didn’t even have the tools to imagine this thing called globalization"


"There was a lot of angry directed at multinationals like Nike or McDonalds... What I wanted to understand is, why? what where the conditions to create this and also what liberated this generation of young people to be so bold as to go after multinationals directly"


This is just a short description of Naomi Klein´s concept, and what she tried to express on her book NO LOGO.


The question here is... What do you think about logos? Without logos the industry would be the same? Would we have low medium and high brands? What was the perception of the logo before and today?


I really think some brands like Tommy Hilfiger, Louis Vuitton or Chanel need a logo to be what they are. It’s not only about the fabric they used, the pattern or the product they are making. The logo they each have is part of the garment. We also have to see that logos are little by little disappearing and that maybe there is going to arrive a point where the logos aren’t gong to be important. But in the times we are living people, countries, companies, brands... give a big importance to it and some of them wouldn’t be what they are, or wouldn’t have the same meaning without a logo. At the same time we can also say there some other brands don’t need a logo to identify them, or to express exactly what they want to express.



... what do you think?