Movie Makeup:From DIY to Digital Effects

Summary
Lon Chaney was a silent movie star in early days. He acted over 100 movies, for example, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925-1929). In these movies, Lon Chaney usually plays the role of horrible monsters and he often to make up himself. Today, this technology has improved, professionals use computer to change the actor’s look. Movie makeup is very important in the film, however, makeup artist were late to be recognized. There are some materials on using face paint, for instance: flexible rubber or plastic pieces affixed onto the faces and other different parts of the body to change their appearance. Both Horrible and science fiction are all attracted makeup awards.

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After I finished this article, I realized movie makeup plays a very important role in the movies. Many successful movies rely on movie makeup. It also helped these movies to win prizes.

Outside Reading
http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/chaney/

Lon Chaney is a great person which help movie got more progress. Even though he meet a lot of trouble, but he never give up, that’s why he succeed finally. I think when I want to do something I want; I should never give up, and do not afraid of getting into trouble.

Modern-Day Pirates

Summary
There are still a lot of pirates in our society. Most of the piracies in nowadays usually use sophisticated tools to attack. Long time ago, pirates usually boarded on the boat and stealing money, commodities or value stuff if they want. By using some kinds of high technology system can avoid piracy.
How often have you done each of the following?
＊ bought or used illegal software
＊ bought or used illegal CDs
＊ downloaded copyright music without paying
＊ made photocopies of a magazine or book
If you have done any of the above, it means that you are illegal.
And there are three issues that we need to discuss: the first one is the cost of piracy ads to the cost of the product, the second one is that piracy discourages innovation, the last one is intellectual property piracy create a culture of using things without paying.
We have some ways to approach, for example, education, legal prosecution, copy protection and compromise. Education including letting people know the questions in intellectual property piracy. Legal prosecutions involves can impeach the people who break intellectual property. Copy protections also provide people to download and share. Compromise offer some discount for students to download.

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I think we should protect these inventors, and download any materials without any permission. Because they were so work hard and they spent a lot of time to create creations. So I think we should respect them.

Outside Reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement

Copyright infringement is using something that is copyrighted without permission from the person who created it. If you steal the material that inventors created, then you are illegal. In mi opinions, if you were the inventors and somebody steal your idea without your permission, I think you will very angry because. Respect others the way you want to be respected.

Secret Codes for Spies?

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We are all spies and we all use secret codes every day. In barcodes, when I work i always have barcodes but we don't see them as secret codes. Barcodes give stores different types of merchandise their ow distinctive identity and price. The first codes used in spying was the begining of World War II. British intelligence used Morse code to send messages from Germany. Morse code is still used today. In this article it talks about the Enigma machine and how it was broken. A number of the England's brightest scientists and mathematicians were recruited to break the work. But their works were not recongnized because the mission was top secret. However they are all heros and everyone should give them credit.

Outside Reading

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine

I was fasinated by the Engima Machine so I read more about it on wikipedia. The Enigma machine was a cipher machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages. It looked like a type writer. It was used by the German military in World War II as it could decrypt a large number of messages that had been enciphered on the machine.

Don't Believe Everything You Read

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We should not believe everything we received from newspapers, television or Internet, especially Internet.
We should very careful about the spam. For example, these mails would ask your signature and bank account information to let your money to be transferred. Then they would transfer all your money to the sender’s account. However, there always exceptions, such as a woman who sold her car called “Mercedes Benz” only for $75 on the Internet. At first, a man who did not believe the mail, but after he checked several times, then he bought it. After few days, the man can not stand anymore, so he called the woman, the woman told him that it was her husband’s car. Her husband left her because another woman, so her husband told her to sell the car and send him half the money.

I think we should very careful about the spam, advertisements and the telephone call and so on, or you would lose your money even your families. In modern society, technology become improvement, you never know what their next plans.

Outside Reading

http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39128382,00.htm

After I read this news I think we need very cautions with our ID, even in the UK, we also need to careful about the fraud gang. There are a lot of bad guys in the world. Always be careful the strangers, the mails and telephone calls to ask your personal profiles.

Body Language

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We use body language everyday, whether you are an adult or if you are a child. For example, in Japan, they usually bow when they greet each other. However, the most intersting item is they even bow to each other while they are talking on the phone. Body language is very important in communicating with each other, but it is easily misunderstood, so it is very important to learn how to use body language. There are different kinds of body language, these include: Open/Closed positions. People often cross their legs or arms if they don't agree with what you are saying. Even if they cross their arms it might mean that they are angry. Proximity is about the distance that the speaker is talking to the listnener. This distance varies from country to country. The last and the most common one is "Hand gestures" it is very complicated and is often misunderstood by many. Common hand gestures include the Ok or thumbs up to show agreement between you and your friends. In conclusion, body language is also a language that everyone should use. It can help us during our communication with people not only from our country and to those who we meet the first time.

Outside Reading

http://www.deltabravo.net/custody/body.php

This is an outside reading I found on the internet, it shows some examples of body language. Some are very common body languages in Taiwan. These are biting nails which shows nervousness, rubbing hands which mean anticipation. Some I found that is uncommon in Taiwan are rubbing nose which means lying, walking with hands in pocket which means dejection. Through this list we can learn the simple body language and it is very usefull.