Animation advances killed the celebrity ?

Shrek 3, which came out just last friday, is such a good movie. But one thing that really stuck out to me was the highest level of animation. they've advanced so much just from the last movie, its insanity. You could really notice all the little things like laugh lines, and wrinkles, and even their hair looked better and more convincing. It really made me think about how quickly theyre advancing. will they even need actors and actresses by the time im forty, or will it be nothing but human voices and computer animation ? at this point I think they could so easily make animations that look like humans. at the rate of their advancement, I strongly doubt the need for actual actors and actresses. this is in part sad, because so many people feel the passion to act and express themselves through theatrical movie preformances. at the same time, i think it would be good to not idolize people for acting in movies, and maybe we'll have less of a celebrity phenomenon, and less little girls will grow up trying to act like hilary duff just because you see her in movies and on television. I think maybe it would help everyone in their everyday life if their were less celebrities dominating the face of every magazine, billboard, and commercial.

Celebrities Bias in the media

I think that its ridiculous that the news can be affected by bias. why is it that so many writers and photographers feel the need to attack celebrities through their own bias? (note: bias is a prejudice used to influence ones opinion through a different point of veiw.) I know that celebrities earn loads of money, and have pretty much everything they could ever ask for... but still. I do feel bad for alot of celebrities. I couldnt stand to be followed around by cameras and have horrible things written about me all the time. No matter how confident you are, its never nice to have mean things written about you, especially in such a public format. recently Jessica simpson woke up to see the headline "Jessica simpson: Its not a fat suit!" showing an unflattering angle saying that Jessica has gained soo much weight... shes only 130 pounds right now as opposed to 105 pounds. Star daily said that she was hosting the pussycat dolls show as opposed to hosting it because she didnt want to "squeeze" into a revealing outfit. as you can see by the picture, jessica simpson is simply obeise now...yeah right. I think it would have been so much nicer..not to mention make so much more sense, if they spun the story so that she is now a healthier weight (130 pounds is roughly the average north american womans weight,) and said that she was not going to degrade herself by performing with the pussycat dolls.

Imogen Heap

Imogen heap is a band that ive really liked lately. . well they arent so much a band as a vocalists, the only instruments she uses is her voices. what i particularily like about this band is that they're lyrics are much more like poetry than regular song lyrics. their song that im most familiar with is "Hide and Seek", which is a really mellow but extremely good song. their lyrics are very poetic as seen below.

where are we?
what the hell is going on?
the dust has only just begun to fall
crop circles in the carpet
sinking, feeling
spin me round again
and rub my eyes,this can't be happening
when busy streets a mess with people
would stop to hold their heads heavy
hide and seek
trains and sewing machines
all those years
they were here first
oily marks appear on walls
where pleasure moments hung before the takeover,
the sweeping insensitivity of this still life
hide and seek
trains and sewing machines (you won't catch me around here)
blood and tears
they were here first
Mmmm what do you say, Mmmm that you only meant well?
well of course you did
Mmmm what do you say,Mmmm that's all for the best?
ah of course it is
Mmmm what do you say? Mmmm that it's just what we need
you decided this
Mmmm what do you say?
Mmmm what did she say?
ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut out
speak no feeling
no I don't believe you
you don't care a bit,
you don't care a bit

James Audubon: naturalist, artist and... hunter?!

James Audubon is one of the most famous american naturalists, who painted and catolouged the birds of north america. Many of whom are now extinct. While this is a perfectly respectable way to go down in history, very few people know that James auduborn was actually a very avid hunter, and he actually killed every bird that he every painted. shocking, but very true. One of audbournes biographers revealed that the rarer the bird, the more eagerly Auduborn would attempt to hunt it down, regardless of the worry of extinction.
From actual diary entries of James Auduborn himself, he admitted that in order to paint the birds in natural environments, he would actually use wires to prose the corpes of the dead birds before painting them onto canvas. He even once bought a caged eagle, killed it, then painted it. over one thousand birds have been painted by james auduborn, but the body count is even higher than this considering he didnt consider every bird he killed worthy of being painted.
I think that this is proof that this so called naturalist, was actually a very sick man and it surprises me that so few animal rights activists, or art lovers for that matter, have ever heard of the disgusting methods James Aududon went through to create his mediocre art work. at the top of the page, are some painting of James Audubons birds, all of which are now extinct.