My World on the last day of 2012

Milky Way Galaxy

Solar System Planets

Earth

Map of Continents

United States

Mexico

California

State of Guanajuato

San Diego

San Miguel de Allende

San Diego loft

Manto de Luna

Why I love Tim Burton

Today is the last day of the year 2012. I wanted to write about my favorite director Tim Burton.
Hi, this is Santiago, you can call me Santi for short, I am going to talk about Tim Burton movies. Tim Burton is my favorite director, he is friends with Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp, they are both actors for his movies. His first short film called Vincent, it's about a boy who want's to be Vincent Price. But Tim Burton wanted to make more films, so his very first movie was The Nightmare Before Christmas. Tim started it as a poem narrated by Christopher Lee. The movie is directed by Henry Selick, the director of James and the Giant Peach, and producer of Coraline and ParaNorman. The Nightmare Before Christmas is about a skeleton

I made this poster because I love Tim Burton. Tim Burton was born on August 25, 1958. He is an American film director, producer, writer and artist. He likes to work with actor Johnny Depp who has acted in some of his films like Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride. Some of my favorite movies that he has done are Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, James and the Giant Peach, Charley and the Chocolate Factory, Frankenweenie and his short film Vincent. Maybe I even like Alice in Wonderland.
Tim Burton likes to make spooky movies and I like to them too because they are not boring. He makes cool characters who are not perfect, even creepy. He even made a few movies based on the books of Roald Dahl. I think they would have been good friends.

Here are links to the trailers of some great Tim Burton Movies:
Nightmare Before Christmas
Corpse Bride
James and the Giant Peach
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Frankenweenie
Alice in Wonderland
Vincent

Tales where Children are born from Nature

In school we read a Japanese story about a boy who was born in a peach. Then we read Thumbelina who was born on a flower. I decided to watch the same movie that my friends in class did here in Mexico. It was called The Odd Life of Timothy Green.

Here is what the movie is about:

It is about a man and woman named Mr. and Mrs. Green. The father works in a pencil factory. They have a nice house but they want a child. They wanted to have a good one. They wrote down how he should be. Here are a list of things:

Never give up

Have a great heart

Funny

Honest

Musical

Artistic

Score the  winning goal

So they put all of their notes of ideas in a box and buried it in the garden. Then a boy covered in dirt appears in their house. His name is Timothy. His mom gives him a bath and discovers that he has leaves growing on his ankles. They try to cut them off but they cannot. The leaves are stuck to him. The next day Timothy goes to a birthday party, he wears socks to hide his leaves. He dives in the swimming pool but he doesn't know how to swim because he was born from nature. He just stayed at the bottom of the pool and never came back up to the surface. A girl named Joli dives in the pool and tries to take off his socks. He kicks her so she can't see his leaves. After that he tries to run away from her and she shows him a big red spot on her body. Timothy finds out that he is not the only person who is different from others. Soon they become friends and play in the forest and catch the falling leaves off the trees. When they're done playing Timothy first leaf falls. His Uncle Bob was very sick but he made him feel happy and so he gave him his first leaf. Then Timothy decides to make a pencil out of leaves. One of the things I liked from the movie was when he said...

"With a pencil anything is possible". Then he did a drawing of the lady who owned the pencil factory and another leaf fell. He gave that one to her. Him and his girlfriend Joli have more adventures in the forest. They rode bikes then built a fort out of leaves. Timothy goes to a music recital to find out which instrument to play. He finds a bell and a mallet and starts playing a tune. Timothy goes to a soccer game and his number was 0. His coach told him to stay put but his father told him to watch the ball and start moving his legs. The sun comes out and he spreads his arms open and closes his eyes. Then when he opens them the ball comes, he kicks it and scored the winning goal. Everyone cheered including his friend Joli. "If you keep practicing the better you'll get"

his father told him. Then another leaf fell. He went home and put that one in an envelope then jumped into bed. In the end when his last leaf falls he leaves his parents and the only thing they found was a box with his envelope in it and a leaf inside. Finally he gave everyone that he cared for a leaf for a gift. 

Here are some lessons from the movie.

Everybody makes mistakes

it's OK to be diffrent

So far it is the last movie I've seen and is one of my most recent favorite movies. 

Building a Pirate Ship

There are lots of cool toys in Mexico. Here's a picture of me playing with my giant blue pencil.
You bounce the bottom part of it on the ground and it shoots up high. Here's what happened to my pencil. I popped it on a cactus when playing outside.
It made a hole in it and deflated out air.
pssssssssssssssss!
Speaking of cool toys I built a pirate ship.
Here are the parts I used to build the pirate ship.

Parts of the Pirate Ship

Me Putting the Parts Together

The Shell of my Boat

The Finished Ship

The Pirate Logo on the Sail

The Treasure Chest Floating out to Sea

Books I read over Christmas Vacation

The Adventures of Tintin: A Novel [Movie Tie-In]
Alexander Irvine. Little Brown and Company. 231 pages.

What the book is about:
Tintin buys a model ship in the old street market. But it is not just any ship it holds a clue to Red Rackham's treasure...a pirate treasure. He is a pirate who sunk Sir Francis's ship called The Unicorn which is based on Tintin's model. Tintin and his dog snowy go on a daring adventure from land to sea. 

My review of this book:
I think that this book is awesome! I like it! In fact I love it! I give a thumbs up to it. Actually I liked how the chapters went. The action built up into adventure and I love reading Tintin comics by Herge. In the Tintin cartoons, Herge always puts himself in them. He draws Tintin and Snowy going on new adventures. I love the movie. I think that this is one of my favorite movies.

Drawing from Memory

Allen Say. Scholastic Press. 63 pages.

What the book is about:

This is the story of a boy who wanted to be a cartoonist. He lived on the seashore of Japan. His father did not want him to be an artist or a cartoonist. He traveled to Tokyo to meet a famous cartoonist when he was just twelve years old. He studied drawing and became a great artist himself. He read all the comic books and studied the art helped by his mentor Noro Shinpei. Allen Say went on to win the Caldecott Medal and became a great artist. 

My review of this book:

I liked it and we learned some lessons from it like: 

Love your mistakes.

It's OK to waste charcoal and paper.

You can erase with fresh bread.

It's OK to go outside the lines.

I liked the way he drew the book like a cartoon strip.

A Christmas Carol. The Junior Novel. 

James Ponti. Disney Press. 144 pages.

What the book is about:

The story is based on a classic book by Charles Dickens. It is about an old grumpy, greedy man named Scrooge. He works with Bob Cratchit in a counting house. His partner Jacob Marley is dead as a doornail. He comes to tell Scrooge that he will be visited by three spirits. Scrooge knows he must change and give money away to the poor.

My review of this book:

I liked it so much. In fact I think it's my favorite Christmas story of all time. So I decided to write my own version of this famous story and you can read it here in my blog. Scrooge meets Jacob Marley, he gets shot up to the moon, he gets chased by a horse carriage driven by ghosts, he floats around in a flying building with the ghost of Christmas present. It has spooky scenes in it, it also has a few things to do with Halloween like ghosts and graveyards. In the month of Halloween I like ghosts and graveyards. I kind of miss when Thanksgiving comes but I have more fun when Christmas arrives.

Lists

During my Christmas Vacation I made lists on my i-pad and here are some of the things I decided to make a list about: Sent from my iPad

Love your mistakes from the book Drawing from Memory

Go with the flow

It is ok to waste paper

It is ok to waste charcoal or pencils

You can use fresh bread to erase

It is ok to go outside the lines

Why plastic Christmas trees are better than real ones

Rule # 1 Real trees are not easy to find.

Rule # 2 The animals of the forest will loose there homes.

Rule #  3 Do not kill trees.

Rule # 4 There might be a squirrel or chipmunk in your tree.

Rule # 5 The animals will not be able to decorate pine trees.

Rule # 6 Trees give us oxygen.

Rule # 7 When the tree falls down the animals will get hurt.

Rule # 8 The birds will not have a nest to sleep.

Rule # 9 Trees give us shelter.

Rule # 10 Trees give us Maple Syrup.

Rule # 11 Real trees are expensive.

Rule # 12 Pine cones, fruit or other things need a place to grow.

Rule # 13 Where will you build a tree house or a bird house.

Rule # 14 Trees are beautiful.

Rule # 15 Trees smell fresh.

Good things and bad things I learned in movies

Good. Say things what characters said in movies

Bad. Hurt Lilia's feelings.

Bad. Trow Julia's Bop it out the window!

Good. Play steel wallets with the twins Gracy & Marly.

Bad, but did not learn from movies. Pop everyones balloon.

Gulliver's Travels Songs

Main Song

Kiss

Rock and Roll

WAR

Willy Wonka Songs

Wonka's Welcome Song

Pure Imagination 

Augustus Gloop

Oompa Loompa Violet Berigard

Veruca Salt

Oompa Loompa Mike TV

Chapters of Willy Wonka

1. Charlie Bucket

2. Wonka's Chocolate Factory

3. The Indian Prince

4. The Secret workers

5. Golden Tickets

6. First two finders

7. Charlie's Birthday present

8. Two more finders

9. Grandpa Joe takes a gamble

10. The Miracle

11. The big day arives

12. Mr. Willy Wonka

13. The Chocolate room

14. The Oompa Loompas

15. Augustus Gloop goes up a pipe

16. Down the Chocolate river in a boat

17. Inventing room Everlasting Gob Stoppers

18. Violet turns into a blueberry

19. Down the corridor

20. Veruca in the nut room

21. The great glass Wonka Vator

22. Television room

23. Charlie wins the Chocolate Factory

Characters from Mr.  Popper's Penguins

Mr. Popper ( Mr. Popper is a house painter in StillWater. altho he is an untidy man, he dreams about exploring the Pole. )

Mrs. Popper ( Mrs. Popper has worries about money, how many beans to last for dinner? )

Bill & Jammie ( Jammie & Bill are the Popper's children, they like to call Mr. Popper "Papa". )

Captain Cook ( Captain Cook is the first penguin. )

Bitey ( Bitey is a penguin who bites stuff, he comes next to save Captain Cook's life of loneliness. )

Stinky ( Stinky is a smelly farting penguin, he is third. )

Lovey ( Lovey is fourth, she loves Mrs. Popper and hugs her legs. )

 Loudy ( Loudy is a loud screeching penguin!, he is  fifth. )

 Nimbrod ( He is sixth ).

Mrs. Callahan ( Mrs. Callahan is the Popper's next door neighbor. )

The Zoo keeper

Admiral Drake

Wallace & Gromit

A grand day out

A close shave

The wrong trousers

Cracking Contraptions

The soccamatic

The tellyscope

The autochef

The snoozatron

The turbo diner

The bully proof vest

The 525 crackervac 

A christmas cardomatic

The snowmanatron

Shopper 13

Vincent 

Vincent Maloy is seven years old

He's always polite and does what he's told

For a boy his age he's considered and nice

But he want's to be just like Vincent Price

He doesn't mind living with his sister's dog and cats

Though he'd rather share a home with spiders and bats

There he can reflect on the horrors he's invented

And wonder dark hall ways that no one had tormented

Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him

But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum

He likes to experiment on his dog Apracrombie

In hopes of creating a horrible zombie

So he and his horrible zombie dog

Can go searching for victims in the London fog.

Lastly here is a short story.

Gitano the Horse

Once upon a time, there were two friends, they were a man and a horse, there names were Teddy Rosevelt and Gitano, they were friends forever. One day Rosevelt went to town to sell his horse, he gave it to an ice cream cart. And from now on Gitano pules the cart all over San Miguel.

The End.

My photos with my new camera

Hot Chocolate Mug

Santa Candle Holder

Man with Guitar

Piñatas

Women Walking

Correo Street

Santi with Orange Lollipop on his Tongue

Santa Graphic

Bull Fighting Poster

Rincón de Don Tomas

Nativity Scene

Shepherd's Sheep

Mojigangas

Pigeons

Town Tree

Parroquia

Man with Guitar Strapped to his Back

Menorah

Bakery

Yellow Building

Stockings Hung by the Fireplace

Hand Door Knocker

Lone Piñata

Globo Toy Man

My Photoshop Experiment with Pixelation

Farm Animals