Apple’s next-generation iPhone 6 will finally match up to its key Android rivals and pack a 5-inch, Full HD 1080p display.
Friday, November 29
The best tablets for under £200
Top 3 animated movies
Film : Up
The economy, grace and restraint of Up's four-minute "Married Life" montage, at the very start of the film, may alone be one of animation's finest achievements. At the peak of their flawless streak in the mid-00s, Pixar dared to follow that up with the tender, energetic and boundlessly adventurous story of Carl Fredricksen and Russell, the unlikeliest pair of South American explorers. Up is sillier and more committed to spectacle than some other great animated films, but it's told with Pixar's famously rigorous storytelling, along with precise animation that brings it all from perfectly cartoonish humans to dramatic vistas to roaring life.
Up is a story that couldn't exist outside of animation, with a flying house and talking dogs, but even the most realistic moments prove the value of the medium; Carl's weary movements through his creaky house, the vibrant colors the balloons cast on the ground, the cliffs of South America made that much more crooked and wild by being drawn. The film walks a taut line between fantasy and reality, so that the canine fighter pilots feel as important and authentic as Carl's grief. The emotional climax comes as the house is perched at the top of Paradise Falls the sacrifices and joys of marriage and age made powerfully literal.
Number #2
Film : Fantasia
The popular view of Walt Disney is that he was a pragmatist; even the recent quasi-biopic Saving Mr Banks, released by his own company, shows the animation legend handing out pre-printed autographs at his theme park. Yet at the height of his popularity, Disney set out to make a high art concert movie inspired by the abstract films of New Zealand artist Len Lye that would take the Silly Symphonies series of the 1930s to a place where "sheer fantasy unfolds". He knew the risks he was taking, telling the New York Times that "if someone didn't break loose with new things, the movies wouldn't be where they are today… Somebody's got to be a damn fool."
Even with today's resources the 1940 Fantasia is a remarkable undertaking, mixing the music of Bach, Tchaikovsky, Schubert and Beethoven with hand-drawn animation from his 700-strong team, using an innovative sound system Fantasound that would give the illusion of a full orchestra in the cinema. But Disney's plan was not for the music to accompany the images but the other way round, in perhaps the film's most extraordinary sequence we are invited to Meet The Soundtrack literally, the film's white magnetic strip gets its own surreal solo as it responds to various instruments.
This movement by movement approach made the studio's distributor, RKO, nervous, so Disney released the film in the roadshow fashion of the silent days, moving from city to city, which proved to be a costly mistake. Regular Disney fans didn't get the non-narrative aspect, and classical music experts hated its literal-mindedness. Over time, though, Disney's intent sank in; once known as his flop, it is now his high watermark. Indeed, its most famous section Mickey Mouse in The Sorcerer's Apprentice isn't simply a great piece of 20th century populist art, it is also the apotheosis of its creator's thinking: whoever would have expected Uncle Walt to bring Goethe to the masses?
Number #1
Film : Waltz With Bashir
This extraordinary, hallucinatory animation by Israeli film-maker Ari Folman is the story of what he sees as his nation's willed amnesia at the Sabra and Chatila massacres during the Lebanese civil war. The "Bashir" of the title is Lebanon's internationally admired Phalangist leader Bashir Gemayel who was engaged in a tricky diplomatic and strategic dance with Israel, appearing to connive at the Israelis' invasion of his country in 1982 to help drive out the Syrians and the PLO.
Gemayel was assassinated by pro-Syrian forces three months after Israel's invasion, but the killing was wrongly blamed on Palestinians. In the sinister atmosphere of fear, anger and revenge, Israeli troops helped close off the camps in Beirut's Sabra and Chatila districts to facilitate a horrendous retaliatory massacre by Lebanon's Christian militia: up to 3500 Palestinian civilians were slaughtered. Israel was not held directly culpable for this proxy bloodbath; its Kahan Commission accepted a partial or indirect guilt; and this, Folman suggests, is why the historical fact has never been entirely resolved or absorbed in the nation's collective consciousness, and is always threatening to break the surface of memory. It is evidently why he has chosen the medium of animation for the movie, digitally derived from live-action video like the Rotoscoping techniques of Bob Sabiston.
It starts with the director's appearance as himself: in middle age, having a beer with a guy who did military service in the Israel Defence Force with him. His friend tells him that he is plagued by a recurring dream about being pursued by savage dogs and says that he believes it has something do with the 1982 Lebanon war. The director himself realises that he has suppressed much of his memory of his own participation of these events. It is all a blur.
So he sets out to track down his old comrades, to ask them what they remember, and so the animation surreally assumes something of oral history and psychoanalysis as well as personal drama. They tell him bizarre and horrifying episodes which pulse out onto the screen: sometimes it is not entirely clear if these episodes were real, or if they are the traumatised dreams which are, however, nonetheless telling the dreamer something important.
And still the director does not know what he remembers about Sabra and Chatila or even if he himself was actually present. As his investigations proceed, he gets nearer and nearer to the truth, and the experience becomes more and more painful, and disorientating.
Waltz With Bashir appeared in 2008, seven years after Richard Linklater's Waking Life, which employed a similar animation technique; it did not become widespread or popular, like the style of Pixar and Dreamworks in their golden decade of digital animation, and it did not become a personal signature, like the "hand-drawn" work of the Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki. But it is distinctive and compelling and uniquely suited to a unique film.
Gemayel was assassinated by pro-Syrian forces three months after Israel's invasion, but the killing was wrongly blamed on Palestinians. In the sinister atmosphere of fear, anger and revenge, Israeli troops helped close off the camps in Beirut's Sabra and Chatila districts to facilitate a horrendous retaliatory massacre by Lebanon's Christian militia: up to 3500 Palestinian civilians were slaughtered. Israel was not held directly culpable for this proxy bloodbath; its Kahan Commission accepted a partial or indirect guilt; and this, Folman suggests, is why the historical fact has never been entirely resolved or absorbed in the nation's collective consciousness, and is always threatening to break the surface of memory. It is evidently why he has chosen the medium of animation for the movie, digitally derived from live-action video like the Rotoscoping techniques of Bob Sabiston.
It starts with the director's appearance as himself: in middle age, having a beer with a guy who did military service in the Israel Defence Force with him. His friend tells him that he is plagued by a recurring dream about being pursued by savage dogs and says that he believes it has something do with the 1982 Lebanon war. The director himself realises that he has suppressed much of his memory of his own participation of these events. It is all a blur.
So he sets out to track down his old comrades, to ask them what they remember, and so the animation surreally assumes something of oral history and psychoanalysis as well as personal drama. They tell him bizarre and horrifying episodes which pulse out onto the screen: sometimes it is not entirely clear if these episodes were real, or if they are the traumatised dreams which are, however, nonetheless telling the dreamer something important.
And still the director does not know what he remembers about Sabra and Chatila or even if he himself was actually present. As his investigations proceed, he gets nearer and nearer to the truth, and the experience becomes more and more painful, and disorientating.
Waltz With Bashir appeared in 2008, seven years after Richard Linklater's Waking Life, which employed a similar animation technique; it did not become widespread or popular, like the style of Pixar and Dreamworks in their golden decade of digital animation, and it did not become a personal signature, like the "hand-drawn" work of the Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki. But it is distinctive and compelling and uniquely suited to a unique film.
US commander in Afghanistan apologises for Helmand drone strike
Nato airstrike that killed a child and injured two women came as Hamid Karzai continues to stall on signing security pact
Fights break out at Asda as shoppers descend on Black Friday deals
A shopper is restrained by security guards after a row broke out on Black Friday at Asda in Cribbs Causeway, Bristol, when the man reportedly tried to buy two 60-inch televisions.
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US tradition of post-Thanksgiving discounts brings scrambles to stores in UK with customers eager for cut-price electrical goods.
Leica X2 hanya 100 unit seluruh dunia
Pengeluar produk kamera klasik dari Jerman, Leica, baru-baru ini mengeluarkan
produk kamera terbaru mereka dan sangat ekslusif untuk pengumpul kamera Leica.
Jom 'Periksa jantung percuma'
Seramai 70 ahli Briged Sukarelawan Media Prima-NSTP dan kakitangan Institut
Jantung Negara (IJN) menyertai siri jelajah kelima promosi kempen ‘Sayangi
Jantung Anda’ selama dua hari di Rompin, Pahang, bermula hari ini.
JDT intai Didier Drogba
Helikopter terhempas atas bumbung pub di Glasgow
Sebuah helikopter dipercayai milik polis terhempas di atas bumbung sebuah pub di
bandar ini menyebabkan beberapa orang mengalami kecederaan semalam
Jazeman Jaafar jalani ujian kereta F1 Mercedes
Pemandu Malaysia, Jazeman Jaafar semakin mendekati impian bertarung dalam
Formula Satu apabila menjalani ujian penilian bersama pasukan Mercedes di
Litar Silverstone di sini, semalam.
Thursday, November 28
3D Systems to Build Printing Platform for Custom Moto Phones
If the concept of build-your-own-smartphone takes off, Motorola will be on the vanguard. An agreement with 3D Systems means a system will be in place for actual production of the modules Project Ara developers design.
7 wonder Crazy Fitness Rules That Should Exist
Walk into any subway station in Moscow, Russia, and you might think you accidentally stepped into a gym. That's because city officials are now offering free rides to passengers who can crank out 30 reps of body-weight squats.
Press members get cold treatment at Keys' show
A three-line review of Alicia Keys’ recent concert in Kuala Lumpur is spreading like wildfire on social media.
Siti Aishah dikehendaki polis kerana aktiviti komunis
Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar ini mengesahkan wanita yang didakwa menjadi hamba selama 30 tahun di London adalah Siti Aishah Abdul Wahab.
Today is BLACK Friday of 2013
Wednesday, November 27
"Gerak Hati" yang buatkan saya Pilih Lana Nordin - Johan As'ari
Semakin hampir pada penghujung tahun 2013, semakin banyak kisah sensasi dunia hiburan tanah air Malaysia. Siapa sangka Johan As’ari akan bercinta dengan Lana Nordin? Memang tak pernah terfikir. Memang betullah jodoh itu sudah ditetapkan. Selama ini semua orang menyangka yang Johan bercinta dengan Shila Amzah, tup-tup Lana Nordin yang akhirnya mendapat cinta daripada si jejaka itu.
Dikait rapat dengan Shila Amzah, Johan akhirnya pilih Lana |
Tetapi semakin kami membacanya, semakin jelas bahawa ia bukan gimik atau dongengan. Johan As’ari, pelakon yang baru-baru ini digembar-gemburkan rapat dengan Shila Amzah, penyanyi sedang mencipta nama di luar negara, telah membuat pengakuan yang dirinya telah melamar pelakon seksi lagi meletup, iaitu Lana Nordin untuk dijadikan isteri berdasarkan ‘gerak hati’.
Saya berkawan dengannya bukan main-main. Saya tahu, dia juga mendambakan calon suami yang boleh membimbingnya. Kami akan sama-sama belajar untuk menjadi insan yang lebih baik.
Biarpun berbeza usia, dia menghormati saya. Andai kami disatukan, hanya tiga perkara yang saya pinta iaitu taat kepada Allah, Rasullah dan suami. Itu saja.
Gareth Bale on Fire as Ramos got RED card
Youthful Giggs shines on
Vidal the "HERO"
Top shopping destinations "MUST" go in Asia
Have passport, will travel and shop. Traveling isn’t complete without bringing home a souvenir or two. But if you’re the type who has more than a keychain or snow globe in mind, check out our list of some of the top Asian shopping destinations.
Most Ugliest new cars that have been made
Abysmal and horrific are two words that should be used to describe these cars, these are few cars that would leave some of us split between 'wow' or the 'nay' factor. But can they prove a point by being purchase-worthy within the right buying group? We shall see.
Thai man dies while talking on his charged iPhone
A Thai man from Chanthaburi province died laying on the floor talking on his iPhone while it was charging.
Tuesday, November 26
Top 10 Icelandic Players Who Have Played in the Premier League
What is yours? Nokia Lumia 2520 or Apple iPad..
Take NUTS as more as you can PLEASE!
HELP Her to Feel SEXIER..
Researchers found that women who were comfortable in their skin reported more pleasure, more sex, as well as stronger orgasms, better natural lubrication, and less discomfort.
WHAT !?! BITSTRIPS is a TROJAN HORSE Virus
Bitstrips, the fun cartoon generation app growing in popularity on social media, is it turns out a Trojan horse from the NSA to tap your Facebook feed and cell phone. Edward Snowden in his most recent disclosure revealed the origin of the bitstrip program.
Monday, November 25
OMG !! Instagram Cake here we go..
Madoona Pemuzik terkaya untuk tahun 2013
Ratu pop terkenal, Madonna membuktikan dia masih mampu beraksi dalam kariernya apabila dia mengungguli senarai tahunan pemuzik terkaya pada tahun 2013 sekaligus menewaskan penyanyi popular seperti Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Bon Jovi dan lain-lain.
RM 1.2 Juta Nilai untuk Mahligai Zain Saidin dan Che Ta
Pasangan romantis dan popular Zain Saidin dan Rozita Che Wan menamatkan teka teki tarikh perkahwinan mereka apabila mengumumkan 11 Disember ini sebagai hari disatukan sebagai suami isteri.
Sunday, November 24
Video Games that can make you at better LIFE.
Video games are always getting a bad rap. They’re too violent. They make you lazy. They make you stupid. Staring at screens is bad for your eyes. You’ll never get a girlfriend.
The Most easiest Way to keep Slim
Constantly texting usually receives a bad rap, but it turns out , those mobile messages might help you keep weight off.
The Ultimate Total-Body Move
The half Turkish getup might fall into the category of "core exercise," but it's far from an isolation move. "It works everything your shoulders, hips, back, core, arms, and so many other muscles you never even think of," says Robert dos Remedios, C.S.C.S., head strength and conditioning coach for California's College of the Canyons. "It's about as complete a full-body exercise as you'll find." That also makes it more complex than other moves with narrower target areas. Follow these tips to pull off this comprehensive muscle-builder with perfect form.
Manchester City ran RIOT Tottenham Hotspur
Friday, November 22
How the Internet Kills Your Day
Talk about a time-suck: Whether shopping, tweeting, reading, or researching, people who unwind online spend roughly 100 minutes of free time surfing the Web in every single day. And that doesn’t include email or gaming, finds a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
One hundred minutes: That’s a lot of time spent scouring Amazon for the best price on a new pair of Nikes, or Facebook-stalking old girlfriends. (No surprise, Mark Zuckerberg's baby represents the single largest occupier of our online leisure time, according to the research data.)
Scott Wallsten, Ph.D., the working paper’s author and a senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute, was curious to find out exactly what you aren’t doing now that you spend so much of your free time online. “If I worked at The Onion, I might title the paper, ‘Researcher Discovers Day Still Has Only 24 Hours,’ ” Wallsten jokes. (Not bad for a government economist.)
You miss out on the following activities when you pass your spare time online:
All Top 7 Best Football Adverts
The Famously person, Eric Cantona |
Football has been the basis for some of the best and most memorable television adverts over the years. These classic offerings from Nike, Adidas and Pepsi feature many of the world's great players and showcase a perfect blend of fun, showboating and imagination. Lets start count down from 7..
All Fact about Your Metabolism
5 Crazy Ways Hot Women Trick You
HELLO GUYS, This is why you all should KNOW!!
Hi Guys, Come here let me treat you!! |
Time flies when you’re babbling with babes. After talking with a woman, men estimated the conversation to be nearly 3.5 minutes briefer if she was attractive, according to new Canadian research. Guys also recalled more discussion topics if they spoke with a hottie.
Thursday, November 21
Ketahui cara bakteria tersebar melalui Alat Solekan anda
Semestinya anda tahu bahawa anda perlu untuk membersihkan berus alatan solek anda sekali seminggu dan buang produk kecantikan anda sebaik sahaja luput tarikh, tetapi itu tidak bermakna anda terlindung daripada mempunyai bakteria dalam produk kecantikan anda. Bakteria sangat licik, dan apabila ia menjangkiti alatan solek anda, ia menyebabkan terjadinya masalah-masalah pada kulit anda seperti jerawat, kemerahan dan jangkitan.
HI-5 datang Malaysia
"VILLA NABILA" bakal di docu kan..
"DEAD" baby awakes
A baby from China "awake" after declare Dead |
A Chinese baby boy who had been declared dead was saved from being cremated alive when he started crying at a funeral parlour, media reported Thursday.
The parents of the critically-ill boy, who was less than one month old, had agreed to end his medical treatment at Anhui Provincial Children's Hospital in eastern China, hospital sources told Xinhua state news agency.
MONSTER Caught in Vietnam
Every veitnese was shock of this monster |
Monster comes from nowhere |
Over the years, we've seen countless of videos and reports about nightmarish monsters getting spotted doing monster things. Like, for example, this dragon was spotted flying over England. Or this mermaid-like thing which was spotted in Spain. Or this 18-foot creature which was found off the shore of California.
Wednesday, November 20
THE HUMAN FACTOR
Our Data Protection is our properties |
Do we ever think to protect our data
either in our mobile phone or computer?What's common mistakes we did that will
lead to data leakage or stolen? No matter what we must keep our confidential
data from been stolen or leak.So it's up to us to prevent it from happen.
NOTE : Practice make perfect.
Like Malay proverb once said "Biar
pecah di perut jangan pecah di mulut "
Tuesday, November 19
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