I got FROOT!

"Froot!"

"Froot" - Marina And the Diamonds

 

Last Thursday (yesterday, to be honest) my parents gave me a very special gift: they bought me FROOT! Yes, FROOT, Marina and The Diamonds' new album! I was the happiest thing on Earth (and still I am!)!

The Deluxe Edition of the album includes a booklet with the lyrics of all the songs, which make a rainbow effect: each track's lyrics are written in a color, from yellow and orange ("Happy" and "Froot", respectively) to dark green and warm green ("Savages" and "Immortal"), passing through light red ("I'm A Ruin"), dark red ("Blue"), pink ("Forget"), strong pink ("Gold"), purply pink ("Can't Pin Me Down"), purple ("Solitaire"), dark
blue ("Better Than That") and greensh blue ("Weeds").

I love all of the tracks in the album ♥ ♥ ♥ ! My personal favorites are "Gold", "Immortal", "Forget", "Blue" and "Savages".

♥ A M A Z I N G ♥

I've been to Italy!

"I just wanna be able to say that I have lived my life"

"Immortal" - Marina And The Diamonds

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We went to Italy on a school trip two weeks ago, and it was fantastic! We went from Bologna to Rome through Pisa, Firenze (Florence) and Siena in five days and then came back to Spain.

So, for today's task (as if it wasn't typical to turn special occasions to tasks), we had to choose a photo from the ones we took during our trip (from that whole lot of selfies and lamely focused pics, I mean) as our favorite and explain it.

The photo I chose is from Florence, and it portrays the base of the street lamps near the river Arno. We had just arrived to Firenze in the morning when we walked near the river and saw it. To be honest, I took my time to notice that detail in the street lamps, but once I saw it, it was amazing!

The reason why I chose this picture and not, for example, one of the Duomo of Siena (which I also loved because of the lines that paint it, which make a really amazing effect), is that I found it curious and awesome. Some of my classmates said it was slightly spooky or even creepy, but I think it's the best thing I've seen in my entire life: I think putting lion legs to street lamps was a great idea and definitely something beautiful and curious for people to see.

So, definitely, whenever I'm reminded of this trip to Italy, the first thing that will come to my mind is the base of the street lamps near the river Arno in Firenze (I realise how weird this sounds like, though)!

What if I was an animator?

"Imagination, life is your creation"
"Barbie Girl" - Aqua

Lately I've been thinking about starting making animations based on my drawings and thoughts. I've been thinking, also, about animation in general: apart from made-for-children animation, I can see a lot of people expressing thoughts and views through stories, sometimes in a quite subtle way and sometimes loudly and clearly.

Jack Croc meets clothing!

So, what if I created a world for my characters? They would stop being empty bodies, they would have their own thoughts and opinions, which would lead them to act in different certain ways (I guess J. Croc would start wearing some kind of shirt at last!)... And that's simply wonderful! I'll always say creating a virtual world is a very special thing (hello, science fiction authors) which really helps a human to grow, so I've started to work on my first animation. I've already done the script (in Spanish, though) and I'll end the characters' design in some days (I've got two characters out of four!).

Regarding movement and animation, I guess it will have to wait until I get the possibility and experience to do it right, but I'm sure it's going to be worth it!