Have you visited Utah? I have never been there but after watching their adverting (see below) I am very interested and would love to go there one day. Through researching I learned that tourism is a major industry in Utha with year-round outdoor recreational activities and many other attractions. Having five national parks, Utah has the third most national parks in any states after Alaska and California. There are also seven national monuments, two national recreation areas, six national forests, and various state parks and monuments.

The attractions I would like to go and see are Mount Timponogos,  La Sal Mountains and Monument Valley. For now I can only share with you about those places with the research materials.

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To promote it’s Creative Suite 4 software package, Adobe generously funded the making of ‘The Seed’, a well crafted short stop motion animation directed by Johnny Kelly from London, England in the UK. The Seed is about the tribulations of a humble apple seed. The two minutes animated movie will take us along the journey of an apple seed through its natural life cycle. The stop motion animation was made using a mixture of stop motion papercraft and 2D drawn animation. Brilliant work!

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Metalanimation Studio Inc. located in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada is pleased to announce the public unveiling of Kevin Stone’s 85 ft long mirror polished stainless steel Chinese “Imperial Water Dragon”. Kevin has been featured in local and international media several times over the last few years. In 2006  it was with his unveiling of “Power and Authority” the 31 ft. stainless steel eagle in the attacking pose. Then in 2007 with his second eagle sculpture “Power of Flight” which is the World’s Largest stainless steel sculpture with many fine details and an amazing 40 ft wingspan.

Kevin’s next challenging project was to  sculpt the Chinese Imperial Water Dragon. For almost 2 yrs, Keven has been working hard 7 days a week and has just completed the final touches on what he feels will be one of the greatest stainless steel sculptures to ever be unveiled anywhere in the world! As quoted “Kevin has produced exquisite world class sculpture with unsurpassed details and on a scale and size of incredible proportions, weighing 6000 lbs and standing 12 ft high, 14 ft wide, 35 ft long with 2 large coils in the body. Stretched out Kevin’s sculpture would be over 85 ft long!”

The Open House and public unveiling of the “Water Dragon” is on Saturday April 25th at 2pm at Metalanimation Studio Inc. 8501 Upper Prairie Road. Map available on contacts page at metalanimation.com.

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I discovered on Twitter a link to an amazing video of a young talented artist that drew the portrait of the genius Albert Einstein using charcoals. The artist is Ryan Harvey also known as HarveyArtifex from Dallas, Texas, United States. In his early 20’s, Ryan is a self taught artist that video tape himself while performing his drawings. He is making videos as a motivator to improve his drawing skills and share his work with his audience.

Ryan’s  goal is to improve his drawing skills as he complete his videos. Most of his drawings were unpolished and incomplete before he started videoing himself.  The drawing of Albert Einstein took him about an hour to do. Very impressive!

You can see more of his work on Youtube.

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One of the creative yet effective strategies used in many advertising campaigns to stimulate the emotions of potential customers is the use of humour. Rather than presenting the product’s features and advantages the advertisers would use funny ideas to evoke positive feelings. These positive feelings can potentially lead to cognitive processes that motivate the recipient to buy the presented product.  Obviously, this is an attempt to appeal to the consumer’s psychological, social, and/or emotional needs. As a result , this needs can best be resolved by the purchase of the product or service. Of course their main objective is for us all to think and say: I want, you want, we all want this thing SO BADLY…so we need to buy it!

Nikon used this strategy to announce the COOLPIX S60 with their new improved Face-priority Auto Focus which can detect up to 12 faces anywhere and in any environment. The Nikon COOLPIX S60 is an advanced and stylish 10-megapixel compact digital camera. The S60 has the same touch screen feature as the iPhone and iPod Touch allowing users to scroll through images, zoom, and move within an image with a swipe or tap of the fingers. The camera also offers advanced features such as Scene Auto Selector, enhanced Face Recognition, Smile Timer with blink detection, time-lapse movies, in-camera retouch and HDMi output. The 10 effective megapixels offer high-resolution and high-quality images while the use of Nikon’s exclusive EXPEED image-processing system (originally designed for its award-winning professional D-SLRs) ensures the data obtained from the image sensor are processed at high speed and with the greatest precision. Mark Pekelharing, Product Manager at Nikon Europe commented: “The COOLPIX S60 is the perfect marriage between technology and style. Nikon has introduced a host of features to make this camera easy to use and packed it with superb innovations derived from our professional D-SLR line for optimal imaging. We are confident that the numerous colour options will appeal to those looking for the combination of quality and good looks in a single package.”

Nikon’s advertising campaign, managed by Euro RSCG Singapore, focused on the camera’s main feature, Face-priority Auto Focus , with three posters below showing various entertaining ways of getting the face detection point across. What a fun and creative execution in each poster! Let’s see if our two eyes can detect faces faster than the COOLPIX S60!

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