Is it a peice of artwork or just another bad design for a tower? The answer depends on where you stand, what time of day, and the lighting of the sun on the building itself. The Auqa tower, in Chicago Il is one of the most uniqe buildings that you will see in downtown Chicago. Each side of the building has a pattern that makes it look like it has waves on it. Comparing it to other towers in Chicago they usually have a flat plane on their sides, however this building is different. When you look at a balcony on a apartment building they are design to be square and looks the same, as for Aqua tower each balcony is different and is not the same size as the ones around it.
One of the facts about this building is that it is one of the tallest buildings in the world that had a woman as a lead architect named Jeanne Gang. Another fact is the way they were making this building, they would make a stone floor and the shape it into a certain way that would make it look wavy, they would have to do thins for every floor of that building. One of the best qualities of this building is the way it looks after a certain things that a person must do if the building want to look good. For example, if you were to look at Aqua tower when the sun is setting then the building would look like its part of the sunset sky and almost camouflage into the sky, but if you look at it in the middle of the day it would almost look like any other build downtown. Also if you are to stand a certain angle at a certain distance you be able to see the patterns that the wavy balcony give and the spacing between the balcony on the tower can be seen better.
As for the building itself it is one of the best buildings in Chicago. Not only is this building one of the fancy buildings it is also one of the artistic buildings that you will see. Even the location of the building is a good idea, because it near the lake front as well as Millennium Park. If your looking for any famous buildings in Chicago than the Aqua tower is one of the buildings you must see at sunset.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Princess Mononoke
We all know that James Cameron's Avatar story is basically a lot of other storyline we have heard so much about, if that the case than this movie is probably one of them that was fitted into the story. Princess Mononoke is one of Hayao Miyazaki best work, both on a scale of animation and story work. For the animation portion of the movie is breathtaking, for example when you would look at a character in a normal animation film you would just see the shape of it and some details. But when Miyazaki does it then you would see every detail making almost life like.
As for the story portion of the movie it is also incredible. It take place in feudal Japan era, and it mostly about a man who is traveling to find 'eyes unclouded by hate' he travels across the land until he finally reaches a mining town. When he reaches there he find out that the leader of the town is destroying the forest so that they could reach the iron materials. But in order to do that they would have to kill the spirit of the forest and the animals god that protect it. But the man refuse to help and tries to find peace between the to warring groups. But when he goes into the forest, that hasn't been taken down yet, to see if the creatures of the forest will want to make peace with the humans. but there hatred for them blinds them to ignore the peace and continues to kill the humans that enter or destroy the trees of their forest.
This story is interesting because it is one of Miyazaki films that talks about green peace but they don't foam it in. Also it show the human nature in this film and what it is sometimes about being human. In most storyline there is a battle of white and black, in this movie everything is grey and you would have to use your own judgment on what is right and what is wrong.
For most japanese animation media they don't have the best hollywood actors, but in Miyazaki films they have all the famous actor in it and even some of oscar winning ones. This shows how powerful his movies are and that most actors would want to be a part of them. In conclusion if you want to see a movie that has good animation and story line than this is your movie to see.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Negative review on Demon Days
Demon Days by Gorillaz is the most bland album that anyone would here in this day in age. The lead singer of this album has no felling when he is sinning the lyrics, also the words in the song do not make sense. When comparing this album to one of Disturbed, they talk about how people should not give into anger and other stuff. But in Demon Days they mostly sing about stuff that is hard to make out and it sometimes doesn't make sense which can be a real pain in the neck to understand.
Another thing that is bothering is how the music is formatted, at first they would play some guitar music then in the middle of the song they would have a different person singing a completely different genre of music. One of the things that you may have notice about this band is that the members of this group are cartoon characters instead of live people. The type of theme that the artwork is based upon is a gothic feel to it. It might be interesting to others but gothic type artworks can be strange and feel creepy from time to time.
Although the idea of having a cartoon based band is kind of cleaver it can also be a problem because in most bands they have their members with back stories that people can relate to or that is similar. But if the members of the band are cartoon or not real than nobody can look up to them or relate to them because they are not real or are not given a back story. Also the artwork of the music video is hard to understand because most of the times it is hard to make sense of whats going on in the video and with the lyrics to the song doesn't help that much either.
In conclusion Demon Days by Gorillaz is just another strange album that does not need to be bothered with. If you wanted to hear a song that make sense and has a good beat to it, then do not listen to this because it doesn't deliver both.
Another thing that is bothering is how the music is formatted, at first they would play some guitar music then in the middle of the song they would have a different person singing a completely different genre of music. One of the things that you may have notice about this band is that the members of this group are cartoon characters instead of live people. The type of theme that the artwork is based upon is a gothic feel to it. It might be interesting to others but gothic type artworks can be strange and feel creepy from time to time.
Although the idea of having a cartoon based band is kind of cleaver it can also be a problem because in most bands they have their members with back stories that people can relate to or that is similar. But if the members of the band are cartoon or not real than nobody can look up to them or relate to them because they are not real or are not given a back story. Also the artwork of the music video is hard to understand because most of the times it is hard to make sense of whats going on in the video and with the lyrics to the song doesn't help that much either.
In conclusion Demon Days by Gorillaz is just another strange album that does not need to be bothered with. If you wanted to hear a song that make sense and has a good beat to it, then do not listen to this because it doesn't deliver both.
Monday, January 30, 2012
2 Reviews links of The Lost Children by Disturbed
http://www.revolvermag.com/reviews/disturbed-the-lost-children.html
http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-news/article/disturbed-the-lost-children-4-out-of-5-stars/9745108
http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-news/article/disturbed-the-lost-children-4-out-of-5-stars/9745108
Asylum by Disturbed
Asylum by Disturbed is an album that entertains people with their metal rock music. When ever you would listen to the lyrics on the song of this album, you would notice that they talk about not letting anger or hatred take control of you and that if you do then it will probably destroy your life. One of the songs in Asylum called Another Way to Die has a message about how the human race is destroying the planet and that if we continue to do so then our own lives, and those born after use would be left in a ruined world.
When people listen to this songs of Disturbed they sometimes get an emotions that they fell like they can take on the world with their music being played. If you were a Disturbed fan than you would notice that the lead singer of the band voice has changed over the years. At first the voice of the lead singer had a high pitch in the voice when he would sing, but in the Asylum his voice has gotten deeper.
In conclusion, Asylum is worth checking out if you are into the heavy metal music or if you want to feel energize. When you buy this album you will not regret it.
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