 ACID is here again! This year's theme is Phantasia, and let our imagination run wild with many all too familiar characters from a myriad of animated series!
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Dance Video
Thursday, 17 May 2012 @
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comment(s) / add a comment. Hmmm what is a camp without a dance? And a dance video is meant to allow EVERY participant and I mean YOU out there to watch and try to learn the dance steps, so that YOU ALL can dance well during this year's ACID2012!! Here goes: Dance Video CHEERS!!! =) Preview Trailer
Sunday, 13 May 2012 @
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comment(s) / add a comment. With ACID coming soon, you can satisfy yourselves with a preview trailer of things to happen in this year's ACID! *Press the below link to have a good surprise!!* What to expect in this year's ACID? Phantasia Double Trivia Chapter 7 & 8
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Greetings to all!
Hope everyone is having a
wonderful weekend! It’s 30+ days to ACID 2012!
Guess everyone is as excited as
we do!
This week we will be bringing you 2 characters in our Phantasia Trivia~!
Now, let’s sail on in our sailor uniform
with...
Popeye the sailorman~!
Do you know??
Popeye the Sailor is a cartoon
fictional character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, who has appeared in comic
strips and animated cartoons in the cinema as well as on television. He first
appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17,
1929. Popeye also became the strip's title in later years.
Although Segar's Thimble Theatre
strip was in its tenth year when Popeye made his debut in 1929, the sailor
quickly became the main focus of the strip and Thimble Theatre became one of
King Features' most popular properties during the 1930s. Thimble Theatre was
continued after Segar's death in 1938 by several writers and artists, most
notably Segar's assistant Bud Sagendorf. The strip, now titled Popeye, continues
to appear in first-run installments in its Sunday edition, written and drawn by
Hy Eisman. The daily strips are reprints of old Sagendorf stories.
Popeye’s theme song, titled
"I'm Popeye The Sailor Man", composed by Sammy Lerner in 1933 for
Fleischer’s first Popeye the Sailor cartoon, has become forever associated with
the sailor. As one cartoon historian has observed, Popeye's theme song itself
was inspired by two lines of the tune "Oh, Better Far to Live and
Die", sung by the Pirate King and chorus in Act I of Gilbert and
Sullivan's operetta The Pirates of Penzance: "For I am a Pirate King! (You
are! Hoorah for the Pirate King!)". The tune behind those two lines is similar to
the "Popeye" song, except for the high note on the first
"King". The Sailor's Hornpipe has often been used as an introduction
to Popeye's theme song.
The
popularity of Popeye helped boost spinach sales. Consumption of the leafy
vegetable increased 33 percent in the United States between 1931 and 1936 as
Popeye gained popularity. Using Popeye
as a role model for healthier eating may work; a 2010 study revealed that
children increased their vegetable consumption after watching Popeye cartoons. The
spinach-growing community of Crystal City, Texas, erected a statue of the
character in recognition of Popeye's positive effects on the spinach industry.
There is another Popeye statue in Segar's hometown, Chester, Illinois, and
statues in Springdale, Arkansas and Alma, Arkansas (which claims to be
"The Spinach Capital of the World,") at canning plants of Allen
Canning, which markets Popeye-branded canned spinach. In addition to Allen
Canning's Popeye spinach, Popeye Fresh Foods markets bagged, fresh spinach with
Popeye characters on the package. In 2006, when spinach contaminated with E.
coli was accidentally sold to the public, many editorial cartoonists lampooned
the affair by featuring Popeye in their cartoons.
A frequently circulated story claims that
Fleischer's choice of spinach to give Popeye strength was based on faulty
calculations of its iron content. In the story, a scientist misplaced a decimal
point in an 1870 measurement of spinach's iron content, leading to an iron
value ten times higher than it should have been. This faulty measurement was
not noticed until the 1930s. While this story has gone through longstanding
circulation, recent study has shown that this is a myth, and it was chosen for
its vitamin A content alone.
Now that we have meet Popeye the
sailorman, let us join in the adventure with the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman,
Cowardly Lion, Toto and…
Dorothy!
Do you know??
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a
children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow.
Originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900,
it has since been reprinted numerous times, most often under the name The
Wizard of Oz, which is the name of both the 1902 stage play and the 1939 film
version.
The story chronicles the
adventures of a young girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz, after being
swept away from her Kansas farm home in a storm.
Dorothy is a young orphaned girl
raised by her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in the bleak landscape of a Kansas farm.
She has a little black dog Toto, who is her sole source of happiness on the
dry, gray prairies. One day the farmhouse, with Dorothy and Toto inside, is
caught up in a cyclone and deposited in a field in Munchkin Country, the
eastern quadrant of the Land of Oz. The falling house kills the evil ruler of
the Munchkins, the Wicked Witch of the East.
The Good
Witch of the North comes with the Munchkins to greet Dorothy and gives Dorothy
the silver shoes (believed to have magical properties) that the Wicked Witch
had been wearing when she was killed. In order to return to Kansas, the Good
Witch of the North tells Dorothy that she will have to go to the "Emerald
City" or "City of Emeralds" and ask the Wizard of Oz to help
her. Before she leaves, the Good Witch of the North kisses her on the forehead,
giving her magical protection from trouble.
On her way down the road of yellow bricks,
Dorothy frees the Scarecrow from the pole he is hanging on, restores the
movements of the rusted Tin Woodman with an oil can, and encourages them and
the Cowardly Lion to journey with her and Toto to the Emerald City. The
Scarecrow wants to get a brain, the Tin Woodman a heart, and the Cowardly Lion,
courage
Sources of Storyline and Characters
Many of the
characters, props, and ideas in the novel were drawn from Baum's experiences.
As a child, Baum frequently had nightmares of a scarecrow pursuing him across a
field. Moments before the scarecrow's "ragged hay fingers" nearly
gripped his neck, it would fall apart before his eyes. Decades later as an adult,
Baum integrated his tormentor into the novel as the Scarecrow.
According to his son Harry, the Tin Woodman
was born from Baum's attraction to window displays. Because he wished to make
something captivating for the window displays, he used an eclectic assortment
of scraps to craft a striking figure. From a washboiler he made a body, from
bolted stovepipes he made arms and legs, and from the bottom of a saucepan he
made a face. Baum then placed a funnel hat on the figure, which ultimately
became the Tin Woodman.
Baum's wife, Maud Gage frequently
visited her niece, Dorothy Louise Gage. The infant became gravely sick and died
on November 11, 1898, of "congestion of the brain" at exactly five
months. When the baby, whom Maud adored as the daughter she never had died, she
was devastated and needed to consume medicine. To assuage her distress, Frank
made his protagonist of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz a female named Dorothy.
Uncle Henry was modeled
after Henry Gage, his wife Maud's father. Bossed around by his wife Matilda,
Henry rarely dissented with her. He flourished in business, though, and his
neighbors looked up to him. Likewise, Uncle Henry was a "passive but
hard-working man" who "looked stern and solemn, and rarely
spoke".
Source from Wikipedia & YouTube
Hope you enjoy it and have a
great day everyone! PHANTASIA Double TRIVIA CHAPTER 5 & 6
Tuesday, 1 May 2012 @
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comment(s) / add a comment. Greetings to all! It's Labour day today! Happy holidays everyone! It's time for Phantasia Trivia again! Since it's Labour day, we will be sharing with you TWO trivias in a row. First stop, let us look into the magical mirror to find... Snow White!  Do you know?? "Snow White" is a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best known version being the German one collected by the Brothers Grimm in 1812 (German: Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"). As we all know, the story evolves around a beautiful princess, Snow White who has the skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as ebony. After her mother, the Queen's death, the king had remarried a new wife who possess a magical mirror, which answer to any question. Often she would ask the mirror, “ Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?” and the mirror would reply, “ You, my queen are the fairest of all”. But when Snow White reaches the age of seven, she becomes as beautiful as the day, and when the queen asks her mirror, it responds: "Queen, you are full fair, 'tis true, but Snow White is fairer than you." The queen becomes jealous and therefore find ways to kill Snow White, in which she killed her with a poisoned apple. However there are many variations to the story that many of us may not have read about : 1. The Queen had tried 3 times to kill Snow White while the seven dwarfs are away a) First, disguised as apeddler, the Queen offers colorful stay-laces and laces Snow White up so tight that she faints, causing the Queen to leave her dead on the floor. However, Snow White is revived by the dwarfs when they loosen the laces. b) Next, the Queen dresses as a different old woman and brushes Snow White's hair with a poisoned comb. Snow White again collapses, but again is saved by the dwarfs. c) Finally, the Queen makes a poisoned apple, and in the disguise of a farmer's wife, offers it to Snow White. When she is hesitant to accept it, the Queen cuts the apple in half, eats the white part and gives the poisoned red part to Snow White. She eats the apple eagerly and immediately falls into a deep stupor. When the dwarfs find her, they cannot revive her, and they place her in a glasscoffin, assuming that she is dead. 2. How Snow White is revive? Time passes, and a prince traveling through the land sees Snow White. He strides to her coffin. The prince is enchanted by her beauty and instantly falls in love with her. He begs the dwarfs to let him have the coffin. The prince's servants carry the coffin away. While doing so, they stumble on some roots and the movement causes the piece of poisoned apple to dislodge from Snow White's throat, awakening her However in later adaptions of the tale, the prince kisses Snow White, which brings her back to life. Next stop, we will be flying to the island of Neverland with Peter Pan's fairy friend, Tinkle Bell!  Do you know?? Tinkle Bell sometimes spelled as Tinkerbell, also referred to as Tink for short,is a fictional character from J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelization Peter and Wendy. She has appeared in multiple film and television adaptations of the Peter Pan stories, in particular the 1953 animated Walt Disney picture ' Peter Pan '. In her animated form she leaves a trail of twinkling pixie dust. Tinker Bell was described by Barrie as a fairy who mended pots and kettles, like an actual tinker. Her speech consists of the sounds of a tinkling bell, which is understandable only to those familiar with the language of the fairies. In the original stage productions, she was represented on stage by a darting light "created by a small mirror held in the hand off-stage and reflecting a little circle of light from a powerful lamp" and her voice was a "a collar of bells and two special ones that Barrie brought from Switzerland". However, a Miss 'Jane Wren' was listed among the cast on the programmes as playing Tinker Bell: this was a joke which also helped with the mystique of the fairy character, as well as fooled HM Inspector of Taxes who sent Jane Wren a tax demand. Though sometimes ill-tempered, spoiled, and very jealous and vindictive, at other times she is helpful and kind to Peter. The extremes in her personality are explained in-story by the fact that a fairy's size prevents her from holding more than one feeling at a time, so when she is angry she has no counterbalancing compassion. Fairies cannot fly in the rain but can enable others to fly by sprinkling them with fairy dust (sometimes called "pixie dust" by Disney, and presented as "starstuff" in Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's novel series). At the end of the novel the suggestion is that Tinker Bell has died the year after Wendy and the Darlings leave Neverland, and Peter has no memory of her at all. Disney Version In her most widely known appearance in the 1953 animated Peter Pan film, the character was animated and had no dialogue. Tinker Bell has been one of Disney's most important branding icons for over half a century, and is generally known as "a symbol of 'the magic of Disney'." She has been featured in television commercials and program opening credits sprinkling pixie dust with a wand in order to shower a magical feeling over various other Disney personalities, though the 1953 animated version of Tinker Bell never actually used a wand. In the picture and the official Disney Character Archives, she is referred to as a pixie. She is also featured in the opening of all Disney films flying over the Magic Castle (in a counter-clockwise direction, right to left). Source from Wikipedia & YouTube Hope you enjoy it and have a great day everyone!
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