Classical music Vs. Crime!

It's said that music soothes the savage beasts, but what would also be possible that with her beauty, did deter the criminals of their intentions?
In the case of a stop of the "light rail", "tram", "thing going on rails but it is not a train or a subway train" or as you call Portland!, Oregon (USA) seems be yes.
Authorities say vagrants, criminals, drugg addicts and men of low moral  was wandering in that station terrorizing travelers. How they can stop crime, then?
The officer John Scruggs, no friend of repressive measures and used to practice in a neighborhood with little security, which had once read that in cities where public transport stops could hear classical music to prevent passengers of going tense to work .Just thought that maybe Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and all the "Pandi" could exert a beneficial influence on potential aggressors.
The funny thing is that since has installed a speaker that emits music such crimes have virtually ceased to exist. So authorities are satisfied that it is possible that the measure be implemented at other stations and stops.
What happened?, How criminals have suddenly become sensitive souls, or maybe the criminals go to other places to drink their beers,  or listen to their satanic music? The truth is that we have no idea, but we fear that some day the thieves will adapt and return with all their power, but this time with sticks, vests and monoculars ... or as the band that the film "The Mechanich Orange" that of "Cubrish" ...

Everyone wants a Geminoid!

The Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of ATR and the Tokyo firm 'Kokoro' created in 2005 the first human look robot: geminoid HI-1. A geminoid is an android designed to look exactly as its master, and is controlled by a comoputer system that replicates the facial movements of the master in the robot.

And... that is not all, in the spring of 2010, a new geminoid was created: the new robot 'Geminoid - F'. A simpler version  than the original HI - 1. The second one, Geminoid - F, has a human aspect more real. However, none could be such good as the last geminoid...

Geminoid|DK will be the first the first robots of this kind outside of Japan,and with this last robot is trying to advance on android science and - as they said - pshilosophy, in searching the answers to fundamental questions, many of which had the Japanese researchers. The most importan questions are:

- What is a human?

- What is a presence?

- What is a relation?

. What is identity?

They are traying to get the answers to these questions through looking at areas such as emotional responses in their androids - the novel concept of Blended Presence - and in studyin cultural differences in the perception of robots.

He / It has some forced moves, of course, it's still shocking how the robot developers have managed to be able to make so many facial movements.

Maybe, some day, we could buy a friend, literally...

Oscars!

At the last Sunday of April, we could watch the prestigious Oscars, wich awards the best films of the last year (or it should as I say...). It seems that eventually almost every  film that came out at the last 2010 has been nominated (If we took that films has been released in the US, because here always come later).

The ceremony, hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway - young players that are intended to give good atmosphere to it - but they didn't ahice it very well... The ceremony lasted about 3 hours, because in the end if you don't make an effort, you'll end fondled on the couch!


So... you've got here the winner list!:

Oscar for best picture: The king's speech.Oscar for best actor: Colin Firth by the king's speech.Oscar for best actress: Natalie Portman black swan.Oscar Best Director: Tom Hooper for The king's speech.Oscar for best original song 'We Belong Together' Toy Story 3.Oscar for Best Editing: Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter's network.Oscar for Best Special Effects: Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb by Source.Oscar for best documentary: Inside Job.Oscar for best short film: Luke Matheny by God Of LoveOscar for best documentary: Strangers No More.Oscar for Best Costume Design: Colleen Atwood and Alice in Wonderland.Oscar for Best Makeup: Rick Baker and Dave Elsey and The Wolfman.Oscar for best sound editor Richard King by Source.Oscar for best sound mixing: Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick by Source.Oscar for Best Original Score: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for the network.Oscar for best delivery sctor: Christian Bale in The Wrestler.Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film: In A Better World in DenmarkOscar for best original screenplay: David Seidler of King's speech.Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin for the network.Oscar for best animated movie: Toy Story 3.Oscar for Best Animated Short: The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann.Oscar for Best Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo for The Wrestler.Oscar for Best Cinematography: Wally Pfister by Source.Oscar for Best Art Direction: Alice in Wonderland.


There are things that are not surprising, as the undisputed triumph of 'The King's Speech', because as you can see the Oscar s was more important. It was also the night of Ntalie Portman with her Oscar as best actress - personally, I haven't seen the movie, surely she deserved it!. 'Toy Story 3' is neither other surprise, this films had just being chosen to the best animated film. The best fail is for 'Tru Grit', which with 10 nominations has not taken any award. We haven't forget the Oscars for the best supporting actos, as both have fallen on the side of ' The Fighter '.


But there are many things that can surprise me, as the award for the best sountrack. Comen on guys... the soundtrack of 'Inception' by Hans Zimmer is greater than  'The Network' - that I admit that Network's soundtrack is not bad, but you can not compare to the talent of Zimmer because everyone knows that if this man takes part in a movie, the good music is assured.

Promos of 'Game of Throne'

The title of the post say almost everything. The first trailer is just a simple teaser that will show us a lot about the characters in the serie: their names, their customes, their voices and some scenes!
If you don't  undertand them very well, I advise you to read  the comments of the video that in some of them you will discover the more important parts.
The second one is a Making Off  by the Canal+, in which the actors will tell us what they think about the footage and their own opinion of their characters. And the most important fact is: the serie will be at ours TVs in APRIL!

PS: This fact won't sound awesome, if you didn't know that the serie would be at summer... So please, pay attention!