tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946341575036726672023-11-15T07:06:21.009-08:00Cartoon-in-TrainingI, Jacob Derricott, am learning more about the worlds of animated characters.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-18465131380757648362013-01-23T21:07:00.001-08:002013-01-23T21:07:28.719-08:00Stranger Danger! Stranger Danger!Do certain foods give off radiation (other than their smells when they rot?) What kind of secret allergens live inside the rug and your carpets? We live in a time when people are afraid of everything around them. It doesn't help that there are videos of people doing daredevil stunts that I certainly could not replicate at my level. The only stunt I think I could replicate is the hand-between-the-leg dance in "Gangam Style."Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-57345780227830637242012-12-14T21:51:00.003-08:002012-12-14T21:51:40.275-08:00The End of the Wo- NOWe have probably heard over a million times that the world will end on December 21, 2012. While it is true that the Mayan calendar ends on that day, there is no mention of the end of the world. The Mayans also did not have leap years, so the calendar would already be finished. It looks like we will have Christmas after all. But since Hostess, the company that makes food that could survive the supposed apocalypse, is out of business, it sure seems like the end of the world.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-3321732197480013132012-11-13T21:02:00.002-08:002012-11-13T21:02:36.490-08:00World Domination!Disney is the proud owner of ABC, ESPN, Touchstone, Pixar and, more recently, Marvel and Lucasfilms. Makes you wonder what companies they could purchase next.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-53999744029902726802012-11-12T21:17:00.000-08:002012-11-12T21:17:04.899-08:00Christmas Already?On campus, and in every K-Mart and Wal-Mart I bet, they're setting up holiday decorations. I know it's a bit early, but I want to share a few holiday tips with you.<br />
<ul>
<li>Even with a big thick coat and thick gloves and hats, you can still feel cold. Keep moving, the energy your body gives will keep you warm.</li>
<li>If you make a snowball while wearing mittens, carefully remove the snowball before throwing, as snow tends to stick to cloth in cold weather. </li>
<li>Today there are string lights that make it possible so that when one light goes out, the rest do not go out.</li>
<li>Most importantly, never, ever, <i>ever</i>, eat a candy cane before brushing your teeth. Believe me, I know what that feels like.</li>
</ul>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-20074559825154150042012-11-07T21:19:00.000-08:002012-11-07T21:19:13.850-08:00Star MouseEver since George Lucas sold Lucasfilm and <i>Star Wars </i>to the Walt Disney Company, the internet has been abuzz with videos, art, and news articles of the possible "relationships" with the characters. Actually, I think it began a little bit after Lucas let Disneyland build "Star Tours." There will be three more movies, and only time will tell if they will be as successful as the older films.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-35536593958114115942012-11-05T21:12:00.002-08:002012-11-05T21:12:37.502-08:00Try Me! III see that some of you have accepted my challenge from my blog "Try Me!" (Oct. 25) You shared some quotes of famous characters. I'm going to take another step and try to identify characters by their dress/appearance, or even color scheme. Ready?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-78048755029008014162012-10-31T21:21:00.000-07:002012-10-31T21:21:21.417-07:00Happy Halloween!I made it through another Halloween night. I have had <em>Thriller</em> and <em>Ghostbusters</em> stuck in my head all day (new music mix?) I also helped Mom with our church Trunk-or-Treat dressed as a cowboy. And now I will decorate my blog for Christmas.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-88554920946025438912012-10-25T21:00:00.000-07:002012-10-25T21:00:41.560-07:00Try Me!I'll let you in on a little secret; with a few minute details, I can identify a wide range of cartoon characters. Don't believe me? Think of some cartoon character, and I could identify them.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-32973340589798464532012-10-24T21:36:00.001-07:002012-10-24T21:36:08.607-07:00I Like CameosMy favorite animated movies are the <em>Toy Story</em> movies. It's Tim Allen and Tom Hanks at their best, along with cameos from other famous toys. The new movie I was talking about earlier, <em>Wreck-It Ralph,</em> may have the most cameos of any single Disney movie aside from <em>Who Framed Roger Rabbit?.</em> There's Sonic the Hedgehog, Q-Bert, Frogger, and more. (Mario and Luigi were planned, but Disney couldn't pay Nintendo enough money to use them. Fortunately Mario's arch-enemy, Bowser, <em>does</em> appear.) <br />
I think cameos are an interesting way moviemakers share their opinions of those characters.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-929491888262061222012-10-23T21:33:00.000-07:002012-10-23T21:33:39.794-07:00Big Five-Oh!This is the 50th blog that I have posted. I made changes to my blog last night, but I don't see them. Do you?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-13658274490475904752012-10-21T21:16:00.002-07:002012-10-21T21:16:55.217-07:00Costume Me!I want to have a costume, too. I want to do something with cardboard panels, but what?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-76954155937453400272012-10-19T21:44:00.000-07:002012-10-19T22:02:46.324-07:00Ghostbusters Gangam StyleTonight I listened to an interesting music mix involving "Gangam Style" and "Ghostbusters." Amazingly, the two fit right in with each other. The vocals of the first were mixed with the soundtrack of the second, then the reverse happened, back and forth. I guess you have to hear it for yourself to understand what I'm talking about.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-14158411034105035382012-10-18T21:15:00.001-07:002012-10-18T21:15:33.652-07:00Make Mine MusicI haven't blogged in a while because I want to get to sleep earlier. Goodnight everybody (just kidding!) Anyways, every year the orchestra students at BYU perform a Halloween concert revolving around a certain theme. Last year it was "Idaho Jones and the Search for the Crystal Baton." This year it's "A <strike>Christmas</strike> Ghostly Halloween Carol." Makes you wonder... Goodnight. This has been fun (goodnight again). Now a song. (goodnight yet again.) 'Is this the real life, Is this just fantasy...' (goodnight for realz this time.)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-25870594570211570702012-10-15T21:32:00.000-07:002012-10-15T21:32:31.455-07:00It seems that if you put orange and black together, it automatically means "scary." Take Clu-2, the enemy from <em>Tron Legacy.</em> He's pretty scary, don't you think? But put yellow and white in, and it looks like candy corn. Who wears candy corn colors?!?!?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-52333330903092811552012-10-10T21:50:00.002-07:002012-10-10T21:50:45.387-07:00A Change in PlansCome to my blogspot. No pink background, candy colored spots or cartoony text await you. In keeping up with Halloween, Cartoon-in-Training is going scary. There will be no humor whatsoever! At least, not so much of it.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-26324621907644165082012-10-09T21:15:00.005-07:002012-10-09T21:15:54.863-07:00Popular why?What, exactly makes a success? How do things like the Super Mario Bros theme and Garfield become known worldwide, and how can certain web images be so popular?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-67585046580450436212012-10-08T21:21:00.000-07:002012-10-08T21:21:11.899-07:00What wall?Have you noticed that there is a "wall" between us and the cartoon world? Sometimes a character will interact with an imaginary object in our world and respond to it. This is called "breaking the fourth wall," and it is handy to use in a cartoon series. To them, there are only three walls and the paper or screen is a window they can open anytime.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-85675866916991667472012-10-04T21:32:00.001-07:002012-10-04T21:32:25.260-07:00Halloween is coming! Call me crazy, call me morbid, but Halloween is one of my favorite times of year. There are some things that are a little too creepy and horrorific (try decaying zombies with parts missing) but I try to stay away from that. I was thinking about what to carve into my pumpkin this year. Any ideas?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-30144543846083830532012-10-02T21:34:00.004-07:002012-10-02T21:34:57.034-07:00Portals?I just noticed that the font I selected for my blog looks strange whith letters in italics (<em>slanted letters.</em>) I also noticed that my blog is purple on my computer, but pink on the home computer. I hope I have not entered into another dimension!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-37202015674033506322012-10-01T21:43:00.000-07:002012-10-01T21:43:48.000-07:00Today was my birthday. Sure, I still had school while my brother and sister take Harvest Week off, but it was a good day. After my homework was done, we went to Taco Bell where we each got our own meal (I got a cheesy potato burrito.) We also to a new ice cream shop where they sold each scoop of ice cream for a dollar. Then I took my family on a tour of the campus at BYU-Idaho. We also went to CAL Ranch (an farming strore) and WalMart. Back at home we had white chocolate cake frosted with BYU's "Y." As for presents I got one video game, <em>De Blob 2.</em> I also got three books; <em>Super Mario Series for Piano, The Everything Cartooning Book, </em>and <em>The Art of Epic Mickey. </em>What a wonderful birthday!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-33714624310983333192012-09-30T21:50:00.001-07:002012-09-30T21:50:21.059-07:00Quiz 2I have a new quiz, and it's going to be tougher. Each question involves each of the numbers 1-10 in some context. I promise to provide the answers next week!<br />
<ol>
<li>Name the first dog on the moon</li>
<li>Name the two Smothers Brothers</li>
<li>Name the three Gorgons from Greek mythology</li>
<li>Name the states that make up "Four Corners"</li>
<li>Name the five elements in a "Take 5" candy bar</li>
<li>Name the six colors of a regular bag of M&Ms</li>
<li>Name the Seven Dwarves</li>
<li>Name the gift given on the eighth day of Christmas</li>
<li>Name the other name for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony</li>
<li>Name the tenth month's most recognizable holiday</li>
</ol>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-29233828502961966802012-09-29T22:47:00.001-07:002012-09-29T22:47:27.114-07:00Nothin On Ma NogginI have a bunch of random thoughts to share.<br />
Cookie Monster doesn't eat the cookie, he just rips it apart and sends the peices around the room while making horrible noises.<br />
I know what "bouncy" means; what about "trouncy," "flouncy" and "pouncy?"<br />
"It's a bird!" "It's a plane!" What were the first two people excited about?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-9921279235265189582012-09-26T21:34:00.002-07:002012-09-26T21:34:39.034-07:00How do I take "pictures" of web pages?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-5134621245436401092012-09-26T21:15:00.002-07:002012-09-26T21:15:35.835-07:00Comic CrazyComic strips show us small snippets of exaggerations of real-life situations that we wish could happen to us. What is your favorite strip? (It's okay if it doesn't exist anymore.)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94634157503672667.post-48989747013951937712012-09-23T21:48:00.001-07:002012-09-23T21:48:54.888-07:00Meet the MuppetsMuppets. We know who they are, but we don't know what they'll do next.<br />
<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Muppets_ver4.jpg"><img alt="File:Muppets ver4.jpg" height="446" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Muppets_ver4.jpg" width="300" /></a><br />
My favorites are Honeydew and Beaker, Waldor and Statler, Gonzo and Animal. Who are your favorite Muppets?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16252588548809795529noreply@blogger.com2