Coraline

My last post was fun and airy.
My latest one
may seem a bit scary.
This website promotes Coraline,
Which is coming to theaters
in a very short time.


Check out the website. I like how simple the interaction is: Drop buttons over your eyes. That's it.
Here's the latest trailer:


The movie is based on Neil Gaiman's international & New York Times best-selling children's novel of the same name (released in 2002). The film is a combination of stop-motion and 3D graphics. It's been in a painstaking production for the past three years and a lot of the sets are handmade.



The main character is voiced by Dakota Fanning and is directed by Henry Selick, who did the Nightmare Before Christmas. It makes me think of a more modern, darker version of Alice in Wonderland. So of course I want to see it when it comes out next month!

carbon footprint

i found this quiz that measures your carbon footprint through an email i got from the earth day network today.

so all you do is create an avatar and answer some questions about your lifestyle. according to the website, this is how your 'carbon footprint' is calculated:
" Ecological Footprints can be calculated for individual people, groups of people (such as a nation), and activities (such as manufacturing a product).

The Ecological Footprint of a person is calculated by considering all of the biological materials consumed, and all of the biological wastes generated, by that person in a given year. These materials and wastes each demand ecologically productive areas, such as cropland to grow potatoes, or forest to sequester fossil carbon dioxide emissions."

because you can only choose the us or australia as your place of residence, i took the quiz based on my lifestyle in miami. i think my footprint is probably at one of the lowest points it will ever be since i lived in an apartment, used public transportation, didn't have a car, am vegetarian and i tried to eat organic/local foods. i only wish my stupid building had recycling.