This week has been kinda boring for me. I've been looking for a moving company, going food shopping, cleaning my whole appartment, and I spent two whole days trying to figure out where I put my passport. I've taking a summer reading and writing class since June to imporve on both skills. In the classes all you do is read a novel and write a book report on it. I need to impove on my public speaking too, I hate having to read in front of an entire room of people.

   On Thursday, some of my friends and I went to see "Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" in Real-3D. The movie was very funny and very good but seeing it in 3D is nothing special. I had more fun watching the trailers in 3D than Ice Age.

   When watching the trailers, my older sister wanted to see "Astro Boy" the movie. I didn't like the cartoon show so I'm guessing I won't like the movie. But if she goes to see it then I might go as well.

  "Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he has lost. Unable to fullfill the grieving man's expectations, our hero embarks on a journey in search of acceptance, experiencing betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before he returns to save Metro City and reconcile with the father who had rejected him."

   As I stated in a previous entry, I want to go see "A Christmas Carol". We all know about the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge but this time Jim Carrey takes the lead. I am a fan of his movies, Ace Ventura and The masked. I can't wait for Christmas, kinda funny because I dislike Christmas because I go so broke during that time of the year. 

   "A Christmas carol is a tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one night. Mr. Scrooge is a financier/money-changer who has devoted his life to the accumulation of wealth. He holds anything other than money in contempt, including friendship, love and the Christmas season. But an encounter with the ghostly figure of Jacob Marley sets the stage for a mysterious and magical encounter with three phantasmic beings to help him realize the true magic of Christmas itself."

  I save the best for last! "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs" is going to be a funny movie because it's a movie about FOOD!!!! I can also tell that it's going to be a very funny movie. It's a perfect movie to use the 3D effect. I can't wait for it to hit

  "A scientist named Flint Lockwood has spent his entire life creating inventions that were unwanted or faulty, which doesn't help his struggle to try and see eye to eye with his dad. Finally while trying to solve world hunger he develops a method to directly convert water into food and releases the effects on the world. Hunger is eliminated as weather delivers food, but a problem of global proportions soon evolves when the food weather machine that Flint invented rebels against him."

 I can't wait till I work in the film & animation industry. I am going to work so hard in college to make sure I get into this industry. It's my dream and goal in life.

                 Maya

    "Diane Arbus was a New York photographer known for her black and white portraits of eccentrics, carnival performers. The daughter of well-to-do fur merchants, she married her teenage sweetheart, Allan Arbus, soon after she turned 18. Together they had a fashion photography business for more than a decade, but in 1959 they ended their partnership and marriage and Diane began studying fine art photography. In the 1960s she worked as a photojournalist, received two Guggenheim fellowships (1963 and 1966) and received critical praise for her vaguely disturbing portraits of society's fringe members. After her 1971 suicide, a national touring exhibit by the Museum of Modern Art and a book of her photographs by Aperture magazine made her one of the most famous fine art photographers in the U.S.                                                                             ~From Answers.com

   I first learned about Diane Arbus when I watch a fictional movie about her in 2006 (Diane Arbus was a real person but the movie I watched was Fictional). I got so intrested in her that I did alot of research on the internet and in my local libray. When I saw the photos she took, I wanted to be a photographer right then and there. Her photos aren't like any other, her photo are consider unnormal, wong, and werid yet they are striking. Photography is something I do but I don't share it because it's a personal hobby of mine. But I'm so glad I watched the movie and found out about Diane Arbus because she is now my inspiration to take my photography skills to a new level.

           Some of her photos:

   I like the women laying in bed photo the most. To me the pictues says" Let me enjoy my pleasure", lol I know it's kinda corny but that's whats comes to mind when I see that photo. I think she took these pictues in the 1960's and I have always favor black and white pictues over ones in color. I think black and white makes the photo seem like it has a deeper story and way more emotions.

          Her two most famous photos that I'm sure everyone has seen:

   She really is one of the best photographer I ever seen. I wish I could've met her, I have tons of questions I love to ask her.

                    My next entry will be about the fictional movie about her.

          Maya