The Hoppin' John String Band preformance in Kuwait

Today I attended the event of The Hoppin' John String Band from NY, I am not a country music fan but after this event I can say that I will start listening to country music ^.^


The best part was that they were preforming live! they danced, sang, and played with instruments, I found it more interesting than just listening to the music or watch a video, the whole show was awesome.. I took this video, sorry it is not clear because It was with my mobile ;p



Today was the first performance for them so for those who love country music they still have the chance to attend... there next performances will be in
June 16, 2011 8:30-9:30 pm at the Higher Institution for Musical for Arts
June 19, 2011 7:15 – 8:30 pm at Al-Babtain’s Central Library for Arabic Poetry

what else ?
oh yeah they sang this song and I loved it, It just give you some positiveness so smile, enjoy and keep on the sunny side ppl!

Animation from the last century

I found this collection of American animation that created in the early 1900s and it is considered as the origins of the American animation, I think it is nice to see the past and compare it with where we are now

The first short movie is for its creator and producer Blackton, he used his hands only to create all this in 1906, that was in the United States. The name of the movie is "

[Humorous phases of funny faces]

Funny I like it

The second video animation talks about Men styles, created in 1915.

[Men's styles]

Last video animation is about a lil boy , it was created in 1919.

[Dud leaves home]

If u want to watch more American old animation visit the library of Congress website or Library of Congress youtube channel

The Smurfs ! the lil cute creatures

Who love them ? I do ! they are one of my favorite cartoons since my childhood! I still enjoy watching them and searching for there series.. so now what is the story behind those little blue creatures and how they were created ?

Before talking u should know that they are not real and there characters were created by a human being

ٍٍSo now everything is clear !! Let's smurf our journey !! I mean "start"

The first appear of the smurfs was in October 23, 1958 by Pierre Culliford, a Belgium from Brussels.
He drew his series which called 'Johan and Pirlouit' , Johann and Pewit (English Names) and their attempts to recover the magic flute. On their journeys, they discover strange new creatures: The Smurfs! then the smurfs became so popular that they were given their own series.
The first Smurf figures appeared in 1965. There were three produced in the first year, the Normal Smurf, the Gold Smurf and the Convict Smurf.
In 1966 three more figures were produced , Spy Smurf, Angry Smurf and Drummer.And again in 1969 more 5 smurfs joined the family, The moon smurf one of the most successful characters that appeared in relation to the first Moon landing in that year. The other smurfs were Winter Smurf, Brainy Smurf, Guitar Smurf and everybodys favorite Papa Smurf.

In 1971, the first female smurf appeared and commonly known as Smurfette.

Smurfs have been produced every year since then and more smurfs were added except for 1988 and 1991.

In 1992, the creator passed away. However, his son Thierry Culliford is continuing to sculpt Smurfs. In the last few years there have been new smurfs including Anniversary smurf which released for the 50th anniversary of The Smurfs and the 80th anniversary of the birth of its creator.

You will find smurfs in every country and everybody know them, but the funny thing is that they have many names the orginal french name of the smurfs is Les Schtroumpfs. here are how the call them around the world ..

• De Smurfen - Netherlands
• Die Schlümpfe - Germany
• Los Pitufos - Spain
• I Puffi - Italy
• Estrumpfe - Portugal
• Smurferna - Sweden
• Sumafu - Japan
• Lan jing ling - China
• Poland - Smerf

In the end of 2011, there will be a movie called The smurfs! waiting for it
take a look at the trailer and smurf ur life ^^



Sources:
ToyDreamer
Wikipedia
History of Smurfs

Who is Marilyn Monroe ?

Everyone knows her but we don't have a clear idea about her life, maybe because many of us specially me born after her sudden death. So let's see who is Marylin Monroe ?

Her name is Norma Jeane Mortenson, She was born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California. She never knew her father, and her mother suffered from a severe physcological problems that made her unable to raise her daughter .


Growing up, Norma spent much of her life in foster care and in an orphanage. She wanted to escape from the dufficulties that faced her in the foster care so she get married with her boyfriend Jimmy Dougherty in1942 who was a merchant marine. Dougherty was sent to the south Pacific with the military and by that time, Norma started to work in a Munition factory until she has been discovered by a photographer


After being a successful model Norma dreamed to become a famous actress, she divorced from her husband when he return back in 1946 because she became more busy with her career and their life together was to the end . in the same year of her divorce she signed her first movie and by this she created a new look and a new name for herself, she dyed her hair with blond color and called herself "Marilyn Monroe"


Her small part in John Huston's crime drama The Asphalt Jungle (1950) garnered her a lot of attention. after this movie she attended many auditions and her career started to be more bright .

After a series of successful movies her last 2 movies Let's Make Love (1960) and The Misfits (1961) appeared to be disappointed in the box office. and in the same time her personal life became worst.She had a string of unsuccessful marriages and relationships.

At the age of 36 years old, She was dropped from the unfinished movie "Something's Got to Give"(1962) due to chronic lateness and drug dependency, her absenteeism caused delay after delay in production, resulting in her being fired from the production in June of that year.

It seemed to be the end of her career. She was eventually re-hired, but died on August 5, 1962, in LA at her home and they found an empty bottle of sleeping pills by her bed. There has been some speculation over the years that she may have been murdered by mafia because she knew information that can destroy important persons due to her wide relationships, but it was officially ruled as a drug overdose.


On June 1, 1995, Marilyn was featured on a 32¢ US commemorative postage stamp.


Here are some of her Quotes

"Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one. " ~Marylin Monroe

"I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful. " ~Marylin Monroe

"I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. " ~Marylin Monroe

So by now u know who is Marylin Monroe !

The reason why I wrote this post? is because I love this song Byebye

Sources
Biography Marilyn Monroe
IMDb Marilyn Monroe
IMDb Something's Got to Give