With Scratch you can pretty much create anything you imagine.
Including making a dance scene!
The Scratch video "Penguin Party" was just so cute and adorable that it inspired me to learn how to make my own creations dance as well.

 Here is the link to the "Penguin Party" video so you can view it yourself:
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/12238841/


This link leads to a great site that has helped me learn to make figures dance!
http://www.resources.digitalschoolhouse.org.uk/key-stage-2-ages-7-10/218-scratch-teaching-dance

Gaze : A psychological reflection on womens beauty

From my understanding the concept of the gaze is the psychological comparison between who is doing the looking and what they see verses what other people see, which can be completely different.
I find this common in todays magazines about women and women beauty. Women are constantly wanting other features that other women may have. What they don't realize is that those other women might want their features. Magazines are constantly telling women how to look a different way instead of loving what they already have.

Many women want to look like the women they see in magazines. What they don't realize is that those women don't actually look like that. Their pictures have been altered with applications such as Photoshop to create an unrealistic image of beauty. So they're seeing a false image of beauty, comparing themselves to it and pressuring themselves to look like this false image. Not realizing the beauty that other people see in them. Just concerned of what their false ideal of beauty is.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/08/swinson.airbrushing.ads/

 http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/what-your-teens-are-reading/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Heres another example
Teens always want to look older and older women want to look younger.
Why can't they love being their own age? Probably because the women their age in magazines have been altered to look different. Young teenagers will have makeup and thinner faces that are altered and older women in magazines wont have wrinkles gray or gray hair.

http://www.wikihow.com/Look-Older-As-a-Teen

http://www.wikihow.com/Look-Younger-and-Feel-Better

Instead of always seeing beauty that we don't have. All women should learn to love the beauty they do have that other women envy. Remember all the magazine images of beauty ... aren't real!

I've posted earlier about the gaze and used women's ideal image of beauty as an example.
I had mentioned that the images of women on magazines is false due to the changes made by programs such as Photoshop. The same techniques that can make you look beautiful can also make you look like an awesome zombie from a movie. Think about it.

Here is how its done! The magic of creating a beautiful fake person!

http://www.appsheriff.com/tutorials/13-glamorous-photoshop-techniques-for-extreme-facial-makeover/

http://www.photoshoplady.com/tutorial/beautify-and-retouch-a-lady-image-in-photoshop/5683

I hope that who ever reads this will use the information provided to understand that those women in the magazines don't have smooth radiant skin. They most likely have wrinkles, dark spots, dark under eye circles from a busy schedule with no sleep, even a pimple or two. You don't have to edit your picture like this to be beautiful. Just love what you have.

I myself like make up and have fun playing around with it. So I'm not saying that using make up and the way you like to look is not ok. Go ahead have fun, use make up to enhance the beautiful features you already have. Just don't look at a magazine and expect to look like that.. its fake! Be you.

Remixed ruined for money

   Remixing comes naturally since it can be argued that we all base art work off of what we've seen before. Which in this case means everything is some sort of remix. I don't believe that someone should steal someones work and call it their own. I will how ever argue if an artist uses a small amount of information in their own and uses it in different context that, remixed art work should not be penalized.

  Why has remixing become such a problem if its something that comes naturally?

I understand artist being upset that their hard work has been taken and someone is taking all the credit for it... that is unfair.
  However when big companies try to claim remixed art work as their own, I don't sympathize for them. The artist in the company can be upset because it was their hard work however all the company wants is claim over the remix so that they can make money off of it in some way.

Here is an article in NY TIMES that talks about this issue:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/technology/16tube.html?_r=1&

If you read the letter carefully you notice that it says "In some cases, ads may appear next to it."
If this content was owned by lionsgate and they really had a problem they should just take it down not leave it up only if they can put ads on it to make money. It just shows that all they care about is making money off of it. Not that they're upset about someone stealing their images.


Remixing laws should be put in place to protect the right of the owner. Not to make money off of.