How Language Can Effect Our Life

In my first post I talked about the benefits animation could serve for education. I'm going to follow the same train today, sense I recently found another video that beautifully demonstrates how it can make learning much more enjoyable of a task.

(just copy and paste the link – for some reason blogger could not find the video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US7wLCbZ84M

I thought the combination of information and animation made this an incredibly interesting video. My curiosity was sparked by this video and I found this TED Talk that covers the same theory.

I was very fascinated by the research behind how language can effect your lifestyle. Of course this is still a theory and is not fully proven, but in a globalizing world this can help us further understand the cultural differences we face between different groups and ethnicities.

Zeitgeist

Hey everyone - so I recently saw Zeitgeist: Addendum for the first time. Some of the social and economical issues are a little conspiratorial in nature, and it's clearly not for everyone's taste. Despite this, some of the animations in the film are striking and produce powerful messages without a narrative. The ending of the film, in particular, is a great example of how animation can be used to deliver a clear, important statement on our culture. It uses rotoscoping and tracking techniques to impose green screen shots against animated backgrounds and to add videos of TV static over real backgrounds.