Showing posts with label magic world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label magic world. Show all posts

12/01/2007

The Magic World of Disney or The Magic World of Matt Groening?

Nice lively animals with beautiful smiles in their faces and delicate activities, the beginning of a world that it loved were only and it delighted boys and big during decades, a gender that had an only end in their beginnings: to entertain.
Go idea that of the father of the animation Emile Cohl who took that art with the limited means of the time (neither color neither sound), until the limits of the comicality and aesthetics. Although some consider with contempt their entertainment character. But that magic world, from the nice mouse, the sweet gray elephant or the funny duck, (some of their main characters), it was no longer enough to satisfy the hours free of the spectators...
A world postmodern where new creative minds advanced in the item, he/she gave cause to the development of new characters, new worlds and a new gender: the lively series.
In spite of the fact that the old and dear lively characters have not been assigned the item of “pensioners”, they have been faced to other who, in their evolution, they have been forced to adapt to the current reality.
The market has not only conditioned changes in the new characters of lively series, but rather, like in the case of The Simpson, the same North American reality has motivated to that several producers, knowing about the “magic world” that was illustrated in its country, they rushed to create puppets that speak and they think different to those of before and they no longer represent to individuals or exemplary families: these new characters have been revealed against the values of the traditional comics (good and bad clearly differentiated).
Today they are more human and they paint the social reality of the place where they are created. Faithful at the times that run, they are also presented sceptical (unbelievers that doubt), violent many times and mainly, full with irony and with a sharp critic. The Simpsons is the best representatives in this tendency, since they are a clear example that the animations are not always exclusively infantile,
since in this case it is a ribbon for adults: a son whose only aspiration is to create conflicts; an arrogant daughter, know-it-all, with serious emotional problems; a wife with a mane of blue color of more than half meter of high and with such a cold blood that for more problems than him of their family, he/she never gets angry or it ends up being irritated; and as if it was little, an exceptional husband, uncultured and alcoholic vagrant! The only one that seems to survive is the small Maggie.
But the truth is that in the bottom, they love each other. They are the alive image of the family typical American taken to the extreme maxima.
Springfield is the town where the family lives Simpson and all those that surround it. A place where things not happen very normal, a microcosms full with humor and sarcasm.
Their creator, Matt Groening, chose the name of the place being based in that it is a name of very common city in the United States.
The certain thing is that this family comedy has not only wakened up the interest of the children, but also of the adults who have preferred to change the old drawings encouraged by images that combine the ugly thing and the tradition of expressing, to represent common beings and currents as anyone of us.

11/30/2007

Lost Atlantis

It would have been an old civilization settled down in an island that, according to the philosopher, it was destroyed by a natural catastrophe (probably an earthquake) more or less 9.000 years before their time, that is to say, more than 11.400 years ago. Plato refers to the Atlantis in two of his works: Timaeus and Critias. In them he/she speaks of the greatness of the civilization Atlas and it describes their geographical characteristics and physical resources with great detail, giving information on the size and location of the island / continent of the Atlantis. Keeping in mind that many important archaeological discoveries were made following the rakes of old legends, a lot of people have looked for the missing person location and mysterious continent endlessly, although you/he/she exists the possibility that the description of the Atlantis has been a work of fiction, created by Plato to allow him the description of an ideal government.
After Plato, the mentions to the Atlantis vanished of the literature for about 2.200 years, with the exception of Francis' book Bacon New The Atlantis. In 1882 Atlantis was published: the Antediluvian World, of Ignatius Donnelly, a politician from Minnesota, USA that before had been a writer. Donnelly took seriously into account Plato's Atlantis and he/she tried to leave established that all the civilizations old acquaintances descend of its culture that would go back to the Neolithic one for the managed dates.
Later occult writers, as Helena Blavatsy and Edgar Cayce, intended that the Atlantis was a place where the spirits were embodied in human bodies. Cayce added that the Atlases possessed ships and air ships that moved impelled by the energy of a mysterious glass.
The geology has demonstrated that there was never a continent amid the Atlantic, so the enthusiasts of the idea were her locating in an incredible quantity of places, as Sri Lanka, Peru, Scandinavia and until the center of a hollow Earth. A recent theory is based on a recreation of the geography of the Mediterranean in the time that the existence of the Atlantis is supposed. Plato defined that the Atlantis was located beyond Hercules' Columns" that is the name that was given to the Crag of Gibraltar in those dates. Eleven thousand years the level of the sea in that area some lower hundred thirty meters was behind, what exposes to the air a quantity of islands located in the strait. One of them, Spartel, it could have been the Atlantis, although it presents a quantity of inconsistencies with Plato's story. Another theory that leans on in the ago 11.000 year-old geography the Atlantis locates in the antarctic archipelago (that is to say that the location of the mythical continent would continue being, technically, in the Atlantic). The flood or sinking would be due to the culmination of the Age of Ice, time in which the immersion of many costs took place. You speculates with how I fry it could have been there the climate. In this theory it is supposed that Troya, the Crete minoica, possibly Santorini —entre those that believe in an invented Atlantis the accepted theory are the one that says that the idea of the destruction of this continent was inspired by the gigantic eruptions in the island Santorini, in the Mediterranean, during the time minoica—and other old port cities would have been colonies of this civilization.
It is said that the Atlantis was in war in the moment of the destruction, a situation that could belong together with the call invasion of Towns of the Sea in Egypt. Plato, after his teacher, Sócrates, was executed he abandoned Athens for a while and Egypt visited, where he/she can have listened the old histories. Recent discoveries, as the case of the Mummies of Cocaine in Egypt, they have reinforced the idea that old knots existed between South America and Egypt.


Recently time, the geographer and English cartographer James. M. Allen has thrown a [Alone the registered users can see the links. Register making click here...] on the location of the Atlantis. Based on Plato's stories on this culture and lost continent, Allen argues that Plato was speaking of the central Highland of you Walk them, located in Bolivia. Allen carried out a study of the old systems of measures used in Plato's books and he/she affirms that that region surrounded by mountains and crossed at the moment by a channel that connected with the sea, dry, it would be in fact in Bolivia. Many of the investigations of Allen were carried out in the region of Pampas Aullagas and the lake Poopó, in the Department of Oruro, to about 350 kms to the north of The Quiaca, the Argentinean city located more to the north, in the county of Jujuy. The theory leans on in several sources and results of investigations regarding the formation mineralogy of the mountains that you/they surround to the Highland, as well as in results of the expedition Akakor carried out in the bottom of the lake Titicaca in 1999. The quantity of coincidences with Plato's text is astonishing. Another evidence that Allen mentions it is the mention that makes Plato of an alloy of gold and copper called orichalcum that he/she is only in you Walk them.
Allen affirms that the current Bolivian Highland would have been surrounded of sea in the time of the Atlantis and for that which presents many evidences of paleontological and archaeological remains found in you Walk them in the last years. The book The Atlantis: The Solution: Walk them", of Allen, it describes the antecedents of these theories and other conjectures that their —en case has revealed of being confirmed—formidable discovery. In a titled video The Atlantis in you Walk them", very diffused in the television channels in the United States, Allen presents to several archaeologists that propose an antiquity of around twelve thousand years for the ruins of Tiwanaku, present in that region, that which enables it to be part or to be connected with Plato's Atlantis. Allen argues that Tiwanaku and the town Aymara was one of the ten Kingdom of the Atlantis. In this video several Bolivian archaeologists participate. Geologists and other Bolivian academics affirm that it lacks to explore 97% of Tiwanaku, because of the chronicle it lacks of budget and poverty of the Bolivian State. The video also gathers the comunity participation Aymaras of the lake Titicaca that narrate passages of the oral history Aymara of the Lake Titicaca that speaks of how a city collapsed in the Titicaca and that this would be in bottom of the lake.
The egiptólogo John Anthony West participates of the video and he/she argues that apparently it already existed a type of global culture in those times because in the tombs of faraones of old Egypt they were residuals of pasta of coca and tobacco, original plants of America. Another thing that Allen affirms it is that the name of Atlantis comes from two native words of America, " atl " that means " water ", and " antis " that means " copper ". In tombs of the old Egypt they have been derived of the cocaine that you can only extract of the plant of coca, it would originate of South America, what would be evidence of a contact of the Egyptians with the before Columbus atlases. The history related by Plato could have arrived to hearings of Plato in Egypt, where it was of visit. This theory is at the moment in investigation. The video also explains that the ships Aymaras of the lake Titicaca demonstrated in 1948 that is possible to cross the seas in gigantic rafts of Totora and that they prove that the overseas trips in the remote antiquity yes they were possible and that Tiwanaku would have it was surrounded of a port.
Jim Allen trained and he/she worked as Planner of Air Picture with the Real air force of England. When abandoning the air force Allen he/she decided to live in a cruise ship off which was proprietor, with the one that navigated until it arrived to Cambridge, where later on he/she worked as designer cartographer for a company of public service. He/she was interested in the topic of the Atlantis like consequence of an exhaustive study on the origins of the old systems of measures and for that reason he/she ended up noticing that the Highland belongs together with the region that Plato described. The argument of Allen has received the critics of several academics to consider it too general, while other academics lean to accept it to consider it sufficiently coherent. Several agencies of news, including CNN, they have covered the news. Allen has invited to deepen the investigations in Tiwanaku and in you Walk them to confirm its theory. The theory of J. M. Allen finally has delighted many experts and inspired the Expedition Kota Suckles South America, driven by the British scanner John Blashford-Snell and supported by the Society of Scientific Exploration of England.