Interesting websites

Sometimes I find interesting websites that I consider worth sharing with other people. In this case, I would like to show you this website called Boredpanda which is frequently updated. The posts can be about anything... but they usually have one thing in common... the photos are incredible.

As Halloween is celebrated this week, now the main part of the posts are around this topic, as you can even see in the website design.

In this website you can find very weird posts about amazing things, funny facts about something, incredible photos, supertender pictures with puppies, kitties... have a look and tell me if you don't find some thing that catch your attention! It is impossible!!!

I encourage to choose one and show it in your blog and talk a bit about this. Which one would you chooose? I am very curious.

For example, scrolling down the webpage I have seen one that has attired my attention: a post about the most strange crisps flavours around the world. Have a look!

Thoughts about photography

Do you like photography? I think it is very interesting and it is an art. As a very clumsy and non-type art person, I am so fond of people who are able to capture some aspects of life that are astonishing. For example, I usually have a look at science magazines like "Muy Interesante" or "Quo" and I always find incredible photos, like these ones.

As you can see, they are very different from each other, but each one is very powerful, in my opinion. They make me think a lot about what I am watching in each photo... for some minutes.

I love also very old photos that show unknown people. Some of them speak volumes (this means they tell a story about something, a very powerful story indeed!). For example,

I can spend a very long time imagining the personal stories behind all these people. Where did they live? Did they have a good life? Were they happy?

Yes, I am very curious and I love guessing stories...

Air traffic (amazing!)

This morning a friend of mine has recommended this video on her Youtube wall, and I have to tell you that I think it will make you feel so small!

In this video we can see the air traffic that is generated above our heads. I admit I had never thought about this kind of thing before! And you?

Have a look!



Europe 24 from NATS on Vimeo.

Masterchef Junior

During last Christmas holidays I followed the children competing in Masterchef Junior. There were 16 children and they had to cook in order to see who was the best cook... the Masterchef junior.

I hadn't seen the adult version (despite one of the most famous contestants, Maribel, is from Benicarló like me) because I am not a very good cook and I thought that watching people while cooking would be so boring... but I saw the children by chance... and I got hooked... how can it be possible? They are so young, and they are so gifted with the knives and the saucepans and all that stuff!!! Incredible!!!

So I saw the four programmes and although my favourite boy, the eight-year-old Aimar, didn't win, he got until the third programme... so it was a very good position! He was so funny and cute!!!

The winner, Mario (12) was really amazing. He was so calm and organized!!! And the finalist, Eva Luna (11), was so good too.

And I mustn't forgive to mention Carlos, the 10-year-boy from Vinaròs! He was only during the first programme, but he cooked really well!!!

Amazing artists (1)

As I am not at all good at art, I always find any artistic expression as incredible... but, let me show you this photos I have found in a Facebook page called "Amazing things in the world", in the album called "Awesome creativity with everyday objects"

Artist Victor Nunes combines every-day objects with simple illustrations to turn them into pictures of faces, animals and other playful scenes. His images invite us to look at the world differently and find creative images in our surroundings.

Here you are! With popcorn:

 With biscuits:

With scissors...

If you feel like seeing more of Victor Nunes's creations, click here!

Goosebumps (2)

I suppose I am the last person on earth to have seen this video... it seems all my friends know it! But, just in case you haven't discovered the magic of the first year in Ward's life... just have a go.



Ward was born too early... two months and a half before he was expected to be born. He weighed about 700 grames... and as his mum hold him in her arms, his dad started to record (he is a professional photographer). Now, a year later, he has made a video as a present for his wife (Ward's mum), and also as a tribute to the hospital staff. It is incredible how tiny and fragile was Ward at the very beginning of the video... and what he looks like now, a year later.

Gravity

Two weeks ago one of my students told me about this film and I had seen a short clip on TV, so we looked for the official trailer and we saw it during a Practical English lesson.




I found it really scary and I even felt panic. How could an astronaut face a situation like the one we see in the trailer? Could I resist seeing the complete film? Well, I can answer the second question... I really could... but believe me, I suffered a lot yesterday at the cinema.

But I recommend this film to you. You won't be indifferent, I am sure.

Wow! 1

I have just found and seen this HD video and I have rushed to my blog to share it with all my students.

I think we are not usually aware of where we are living... the Earth. It is so amazing, so wonderful... This time this video was made from the photos taken by the International Space Station. I have run off of words to describe what I feel so... WOW! could make it.

Have a look, and tell me your opinion, please!!



Earth from Michael König on Vimeo.

My favourite parts are the storm ones. Lightings are so flashy!