My Final Blog

I feel like I should write a final blog as a few of my classmates have done recently.
I have enjoyed this class so much that it's kinda sad that this will be the last day. Not that it isn't a relief that finals week is coming to a close and Christmas is around the corner, but I will be missing the times I spend in the back row with Abi and Kelsey, giggling at whatever was happening around us.
Whether its a day of Abi and I trying to put tinsel in Kyle's hair, or us waiting for Grant to burst into his hysterical laughter. Or actually trying not to laugh at the evil glares Abi is giving David for drumming his fingers on the table. All these moments in the back row, observing everyone, I will miss and more that I can't think of at the moment.

I love the times when Leeper would read to us in class as if we were little kids by doing all the voices. Even though he doesn't share the same love for Disney/Pixar as I do, I have still loved sitting in this class.

I am really looking forward to the next 4 years I will be spending with a majority of you, especially my fellow animators! I'm positive it's going to be a great future for all of us :)

I can't help thinking that we could've at times driven our poor teacher close to insanity with our energy and our want to not actually shut up sometimes. God bless you Leeper for putting up with us :)

And that concludes my first semester as an animation major...Good luck to you all!

I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!!!

#1 Under Appreciated Disney Film

#1 Newsies
One of my favorite movies of all time! This almost beats Wizard of Oz for me. I was surprised when I found out theres only one person out of 30 on my floor who have actually heard of this awesome movie.
It's also a musical! So that can be taken both ways, it's a musical in the movie but it's finally starting to get the recognition it deserves because it's currently on its way to broadway!

The movie is based on the Newsboys strike of 1899 in New York City. The story revolves around a group of newsies who live day to day selling papers just to go back to the orphanage at the end of their route. The head of the newsies, Jack Kelly (Christian Bale) dreams of skipping town first chance he gets and going to Santa Fe. Did anyone know Christian Bale could sing?....

SURPRISE!

The movie starts with the newsies living the average day when David and his little brother Les show up to work as newsies to earn more money for their family. Jack takes them under his experienced wing and shows them the ropes of being a part of the newsies. Jack is introduced to the brother's family and starts to realize what he's missing.

Elsewhere, Joseph Pulitzer (Robert Duvall) decides to mercilessly raise the price of papers. BOOM strike starts!....

They try recruiting all the newsies in New York to defeat Pulitzer. But I wont give anymore away...with the exception of my favorite musical number...OH! and the musical was composed by Alan Menken...I believe thats reason enough to hunt down this movie right now and watch it!

(I actually danced to this when I took lessons so that's how I actually heard of this movie)

Please tell me someone has seen this awesome movie! Thoughts? 

#2 Under Appreciated Disney Film

#2 Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Another movie that is an older Disney film that, like Pete's Dragon, combined live action with animation to create a musical! Are we starting to see a theme here in my countdown? wait till you see #1 :) it just might have something to do with music....

This film is the story of three kids who are taken in during the evacuation of the 1940 London Blitz by an apprenticed witch, played by my favorite actress of all time, Angela Lansbury. If this name doesn't ring a bell for some of you, maybe this will help...

She's a broadway and Disney legend so it'd be hard not to love her! She was also the voice of the grandmother in Anastasia but anyway, back to this movie. Ironically, theres another Disney veteran in this film as well...

Mr Banks from Mary Poppins.

A majority of this movie is complicated to explain based on it's obscurity but in a nut shell, Miss Eglantine Price (the witch) has a magic bed that when you turn the knob it transports you to another world. The kids, the witch and her friend Mr Brown (Mr Banks) are whisked away to the island of Naboombu which is based off of one of the kid's books. This movie probably sounds like the dumbest thing in the world at this moment, but I promise, it's worth watching! This movie actually won an academy award for visual effects, which are pretty amazing considering this movie came out in 1971.

Here's a taste of the music...

i just love Angela Lansbury... 

Has anyone else seen this and love it as much as I do??? :)

#3 Under Appreciated Disney Films

#3 Pete's Dragon (1977)
I prefer this movie versus Mary Poppins, which also had the live action/animation added to it. I used to have a strong dislike for this movie mainly because of the 4 hillbillies, but i've learned to love it.

It's a very quirky and fun loving film about Pete and his invisible dragon, Elliot. Pete escapes his adoptive family, the Gogans, and finds himself in Passamaquoddy.

Pete ends up meeting Lampie, a drunken lighthouse keeper, and his daughter Nora, who take him in. Strange things start happening around town, which leads people to believe it is due to the arrival of Pete when it's really Elliot's fault since no one can see him, except when he shows himself to Pete on special occasions. Meanwhile, Nora pines for her lost love who is somewhere out at sea...so what do you do when you're lonely, depressed or suffering in a Disney movie? You sing a song! Like this one...



This movie did pretty well considering it was somewhat hoping for the same reception that Mary Poppins got but let's face it, that was NEVER going to happen! But I do love this movie and really want to watch it right now...


Anyone a fan?

Top 4 Under Appreciated Disney Films

SO! due to the recent realization that I need at least 4 more blogs, and it seems that a few have decided to do some sort of countdown, I came up with one :)

These will be the top 4 Disney movies i believe are awesome, but either under appreciated or just plain forgotten.

#4 Fun and Fancy Free

Don't recognize the title? thats sad. This Disney film came out in 1947, back when Disney was losing their magic touch. Probably the reason this film may not ring a bell.

The movie features two animated shorts, "Bongo" and "Mickey and the Beanstalk." It starts with Jiminy Cricket exploring when he comes across a doll and a stuffed bear with lonely faces. He decides to cheer them up with some music, and discovers Bongo, the story of a circus bear who escapes to the forest to live his own life. Bongo experiences the ups and downs of being on his own, while down the road he finds the bear of his dreams. After chasing her down and winning her over, the biggest bear in the forest threatens to tear them apart after Bongo discovers that the way a bear says 'I love you' is a slap on the face. All is resolve and happily ever after they live.

Than I assume everyone basically knows the story of Mickey and the Beanstalk so not much explaining needs to go into that one.

I'm not entirely sure why this movie isn't as recognizable as others. Just in the time i took to watch it this afternoon, I came across 5 people who had never even heard of it. Being the Disney geek I am, I was pretty surprised. I encourage you to look it up on youtube and watch it! It's a really cute story :)

Aladdin!

I have never been a fan of this movie for some odd reason but this weekend, I decided to give it another try and I ended up loving it! And it has nothing to do with this picture...

.....WELL...maybe a little I mean, look at that face! Only a mother could love...

It's actually Jafar when he's pretending to be an old man, trying to talk Aladdin into going through the cave of wonders. My roommate decided to inform me that her friend always pauses at this face...I talked her into doing it again and taking a picture. I knew the second chance I was giving this movie was going to a great experience!

And it was! I have yet to figure out how I have half the movie memorized and almost all the songs when I used to hate it. Speaking of songs...*sigh* I love them all. I really want to watch the sequels now even though thats against everything I believe in ;)

I spent most of the time watching it trying to figure out what other Disney characters Aladdin looked like. I came up with Prince Eric's hair and body while he had Hercules' face....I had waaaaaay too much time on my hands. What do you think?

This movie came out in the middle of what I believe was Disney's greatest time for movies. It premiered after Oliver and Company, Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast and was followed by Lion King [just for you Bridget ;-) ] Pocahontas, Hunchback, Hercules, Mulan and Tarzan.

I'm glad I gave this movie another chance

A Simple Reflection

I was thrilled this morning when I decided not to sleep through church since our very own Prof Leeper was talking at 509! His testimony got me thinking in the way that makes my brain hurt just like in class sometimes. I think we've all had stupid days professor.

It seems like the best time to blog for me is after church on sundays so here we go again!

Has anyone ever had a religion confusion type feeling? Not the type where you question your faith exactly but more of a what is the truth kind of thing? No? ok, i'm alone.

Anyway, I was feeling something similar in the last week when I went home and went to two different churches. I grew up Catholic but also went to my Mom's church, which is protestant. Some of you are probably thinking, oh wow two churches every sunday, how boring. I've thought it was too, believe me. It was two completely different atmosphere's. On top of that, my old church that closed about 6-7 years ago still got together in the time between the other two I already went too. My sunday's were long, lets just say.

Both my mom and dad's church was traditional in there own way...yippee for tradition! Just kidding with the sarcasm...

I'm not complaining in any way about my upbringing but i'll confess, I was a very confused little kid when it came to what religion made more sense when neither one of them actually made any sense to me. If you've ever been to a Catholic church, you probably understand, it's confusing.

After 17 years of the two every sunday, i came to Huntington and went to 509...it was an experience at first. I've been to the kinds of places where it's not the religion, its the relationship with God sort of thing, but I never expected to actually like it! It actually gives me a good feeling after leaving and a sense that I've actually learned something versus the confusion i'm used too. I've been told that coming here would actually help you understand your home religion...believe it or not, theres truth behind that statement.

I guess this blog is basically a reflection of the different faiths in my life. It also somewhat prepares me for my testimony or the story of how I got here that I'm telling my floor at floor chapel this week.

And now we've come full circle, thanks Professor for making me realize that it's good to share your story.

Here's a song I listen to every sunday after church. It just makes me happy :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozWY1tVHDbk&feature=related

(the darn internet still wont let me post videos on the blog! sorry...)

Fall Apart

I heard this song coming from the Hardy bathroom today and thought, "wow, theres only 4 weeks left." Where did this semester go?! It seems like it's been four years already but seriously...wow. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that we've all spent half our time in either the art studio or digital tools lab.

One of the topics of this song is how we tend to look for God when we're having a bad day or just life in general and not when things are really good. With finals approaching, I thought this song related pretty well to how some of us could be feeling, especially the whole falling apart thing...remember those art class I mentioned? enough said.

God wants us to turn to Him, good and bad, even when we feel like throwing a rock at the computer when it wants to take 3 hours to export...gotta love computers.

He wants us to reach out to Him so He can assure us that everything's going to work out for the better even if it doesn't seem that way sometimes. He puts challenges in our lives for reason. Maybe it's to test the amount of faith we actually have in Him or to push us further. Let's face it, if we weren't pushed into the difficult things, we wouldn't go anywhere and grow.

We all have to grow up eventually, as sad as that is, but its a fact that we all have to face.

Similar to our discussion in class on monday. We're all going to hear and see things we wish we could block out of our minds and avoid *cough The Stain cough* but sometimes it's the only way we can grow.

I just realized this blog went in two completely different directions....oh well :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKISYTwnn0A

So apparently, I can't get videos to show up on the blog anymore... yea, I love computers...so go to this link to hear the song! It's really cool! :) It's called Fall Apart by Josh Wilson.

"Why in the world did I think I could
Only get to know you when my life was good
When everything just falls in place
The easiest thing is to give You praise

Now it all seems upside down"

Les Miserables

I fell in love with this musical even more than I already had before seeing it friday. Oh. My. Goodness! My family has been going to see broadway shows back home since I was little and I used to hate the idea of seeing Les Mis because I was determined to hate it since it was violent.

I was a stupid child. About a year ago, Les Mis went on tour for the 25th anniversary tour and it was on tv. I was somewhat intrigued since I knew we had season tickets and Les Mis was one of the feature shows. Then I found out Nick Jonas was in it and I sat down to watch it. (Please refrain from teasing or ridiculous comments of why this made me sit down and watch it, I'm a teenage girl who grew up with the brothers, you figure it out lol). I was definatly impressed with all the voices and the music was phenominal! I've since been itching to see it. I even got the book to try to read it...that lasted about a week, I mean, have you seen the size of that thing?! And people think Harry Potter books are long...tsk tsk.

If you don't know the story, here's a little sneak peek/spoiler alert.

-Good guy steals a piece of bread, goes to jail for 19 years.

-Good guy released from jail eventually and goes against probation and becomes a successful mayor while the police physcho is trying to catch him.

-Good guy runs into prostitute who basically sells herself so she can provide for her daughter who is staying with 2 crazy people.

-protitute dies, good guy takes care of girl.

-10 or so years later, girl falls in love with boy while poor girl is already in love with boy. yikes.

-police guy finds good guy while good guy still on the run. French Revolution.

-ending: war kills people. good guy dies, boy and girl get married after other boys die and poor girl gets shot. the last words that good guy sings that sums up the whole musical "To love another person, is to see the face of God" BIBLICAL MEANING! Brownie points :)

So, if that was as confusing as I'm assuming it was, go on wikipedia if you're interested. The musical, not the book, unless you would like to be even more confused! well, thats what happened to me.

Besides the music being freaking amazing, the set....words cannot describe how awesome it was! Everything was set on an angle which added to the depth of the stage. All the sets came together and separated throughout the whole production, creating different scenes from the ones they started with. I wish I had a picture to show you but I couldn't find one. It's was incredible for showing in Toledo Ohio and not New York.

*sigh* what a great evening.

Any fans??? Anyone seen it? :)

A Place Of Wonder, Excitement and Discovery!

Welcome to Adventures in Odyssey!

Amazingly enough, there was room in my heart growing up for something other than Disney. *gasp!*

I'm currently sitting in the Digital Tools lab, racking my brain about what I should blog about. Abi suggested I blog about her...as much as I was close to doing that, I decided it was appropriate to write about Adventures in Odyssey since Katie Leigh was here!

And to continue my inspiration for this post, I'm listening to the very first episode, "Whit's Flop."

This Christian radio show started in 1987 by Focus on the Family. Not to get too distracted but has anyone every been to the headquarters in Colorado Springs? They actually have Whit's End and a Wod-Fam-Choc-Sod! (World Famous Chocolate Soda if your lame and haven't listened to the show)

The show takes place in a fictional city that revolves around the life of John Avery Whittaker (Whit) who runs a place called Whit's End, filled with his inventions and an ice cream shop. With a Bible lesson

dished on the side, free of charge.

Katie Leigh is the voice of Odyssey's Connie Kendall, a girl who starts working for Whit as just

a way to make money and get out of the small town, but ends up loving the place and becoming a favorite on the show.

There isn't really one main plot line (until awhile back when they created the Novacom Saga) and just featured different characters like the Barclays (one of my favorite families) and Tom Riley living their lives to please God.

One of the things I love about this show is God's message isn't just thrown into each episode but it's carefully thought through and still makes it interesting no matter how old you are. It's sad to think that the episodes aren't nearly as good as the older ones, but I still try to keep up with them.

There's even a few episodes where main characters, like Connie and Eugene, become Christians. I haven't had the pleasure of listening to these episodes yet, but I've heard that they're pretty great.

Whose a fan? :)

Once Upon A Mattress review: by Amanda and Abi

Abi and I went to see the Saturday afternoon show of Once Upon A Mattress and came up with the idea of reviewing the show for a blog! Especially since a few of our very own classmates had roles in the musical.

Here's Abi's thoughts....

The King was my favorite part, though Sir Harry was up there too. And Kyle getting slapped. I also liked how the flowers on the background changed from roses to those one flowers that have lostsa petals, and are pink, that aren't roses. 
Though sometimes I was just sitting there smiling, and then Amanda would look at me and start laughing :(
I liked how the costumes for the main characters changed sometimes. So it wasn't just the same costume over and over again. And I really liked the queen's first costume, the peacock-y one. 


I would have to agree with Abi on most of the above. We were both huge fans of watching Sir Harry and Sir Studley either flashing that smile or getting slapped....sorry Kyle but, we both laughed. We can't forget about the Jester though! I can honestly say i've never heard the song he sang but i liked it! And the communication with the King was hilarious!
We figured the show would be more entertaining versus other shows since we knew a few in the cast, and we weren't disappointed! It's was very good!

I think the smiling and laughing started when the first scene started. The show was funnier than the movie, which is what i'm used too, and still makes us laugh when we think about it.
You guys did great! Wish we could see it again and we look forward to future musical now that we know you can deliver a great show!

Sincerely,
Amanda and Abi (aka, the girls who sit behind you)

Wizard of Oz

I think I mentioned in my first blog that Lion King and Wizard of Oz are my all time favorite movies. Believe it or not, I think Wizard of Oz has a slight lead. Especially now when I'm learning all that goes into movies and that it's not as easy as I thought, can you imagine what it was like back in 1939 when the movie came out? WOW! Although it's not the best movie quality as some are now based on how old the film is, but for what it is, it's not too bad!

The fact that it goes from black and white to color still makes me happy! Also, who doesn't love the songs that play throughout the movie...Weeeeeeeeeee'rrrrrrrrreeeeeeeee OFF to see the Wizard!
But this song is by far the best....

Of course, it's also considered a classic.

An interesting fact I found out about this movie not too long ago was that the actors mouthed all their lines, not just the songs like they do today, and later put them together with the recordings they made in the studio! This now bugs me since their words don't match their lips some of the time.

I have decided for my Digitals Tools class to make this movie the one I'll create a trailer of. Fingers crossed that I don't stray some of those from the movie who have never seen it (*cough* my roommate *cough*)

Anyone else a lover of the yellow brick road?

Wallace and Gromit

Some of you that I've talked to recently about "The Stain" have heard me say it was basically a horror version of Wallace and Gromit. So, let's blog about Wallace and Gromit! I love these movies!

When I first found out how it was made and what all claymation involved, I was amazed, and than shocked that somebody would take so much time on a film. This excites me for the future when I get to take that class offered here at Huntington.

CHEESE! I couldn't resist. I couldn't find anymore videos on youtube of this adorable movie sadly. 

One reason I love Wallace and Gromit is how smart the dog is versus the human. Wallace isn't the brightest cookie but he seems to depend on Gromit for things, like making breakfast ;)

Another claymation film that I love is Chicken Run. 

 

Anybody else like these films? :)

and they lived HAPPILY EVER AFTER!

While exploring Stumble Upon, I came across this video. Being the Disney geek I am, I couldn't resist letting this blog opportunity pass me by. 

and they lived Happily Ever AFTER! That was either annoying as heck for you, or hysterical like it was for me. Thought i'd share this with you all...funny stuff :)

"The Stain"

Just like the gravy stain gave the dysfunctional family a gory feeling, this short film did the same to me.  "The Stain" deeply disturbed me.  Why may you ask?  Was it the horror film version of Wallace and Grommet characters? The flipping back at forth, giving a chill with the animation and stop motion?  The music? or the fact that a baby was pushed down the stairs?  All of the above and than some, especially the fact that its based on a true story.  

The film gave me the worse feeling i've had since watching "The Fridge" and that doesn't even hold a candle to "The Stain."  It's a stupid gravy stain, so lets kill each other.  Films like that can't help but make me think, what possessed someone to make a film about this? 

 Just this picture makes me feel strange...it's really hard to explain in detail why this film bugged me so much.  I guess its mostly the fact that everything in the film, from the "games" to the visual effects, it was all just plain wrong.  

I grew up home schooled so it's not like I was sheltered to this kind of behavior because I was aware of these kinds of things going on in the world, possibly even in my crappy home town, but it just rubs me the wrong way when it's put on the screen. 

That's just my thoughts...anyone else feel the same?

[Leeper practically begged us animation girls to basically create something that isn't what we witnessed with "The Stain"...no worries Prof. Leeper, I wont]

My thoughts on a beautiful Sunday

I went to the 509 this morning and heard a really great message.  It was about how we should be willing to give up all that means something to us in this world and let God be the only thing that fills up our time.  That we should at any time be for following God and being all for Him besides being selfish and only thinking of ourselves and what we want out of life.  It's ironic that in my last post I wrote about how I wish to work for Disney someday and how that's all I've ever wanted and I go 509 and hear that, it was like a voice in my head was poking fun at the fact that I was doing the opposite just a few days ago.  But hey, nobody's perfect.  We all have something we have planned for our life, and we know it's not going to be easy especially since we're DMA students, but because of that we tend to put God in the back seat.  We're all guilty of it I'm sure, I know I am, which is why we have places like the 509 to bring us down from that cloud we dream on.  
Places like 509 give me peace in this hectic college life (and it's only our first semester!!!!) and put a stop on everything else and praise God for all He's done already for us. 


AND.....HAPPY BIRTHDAY PROFESSOR LEEPER!!! :)

Child v.s. Adult

'What would the child you once were think of the adult you have become?'

I discovered this anonymous quote right after I came here to school.  I found this interesting and put some deep thought into it. Part of my thought process included the fact that when I was 5, I wanted to be an artist and work for Disney. Ironically, after all the changes i've had in the last year, i've done a complete circle and ended up with the same idea and goal for my life. But I believe theres more behind this quote.

For example, think about all the life choices you've made when preparing for college or even further back, high school. I think about all the stupid things that made up my 4 years of high school, and realized my childhood self would probably be surprised. Being home-schooled, you get the reputation of being a goody girl that only goes to church and thats basically who I was as a child.
Everyone has there good and bad memories that they chose to either let go, or hold onto, but when thinking about what mindset I had when I was little changes my way of contemplating what i'm doing with my life.

I also dreamed about growing up and becoming the next Walt Disney. 12 years later, Huntington popped out of nowhere and became the first door that God opened for me.
We all have our own stories about how we got here and why, but stop yourself sometime and ask, would my 5 year old self be happy with what i've become today?

The importance of homework

While preparing for the midterm papers for Leeper this week, my roommate (Leah) and I decided it was a very wise decision that we stay up until our papers were finished. This plan worked, but before it took place, there was one other thing we had decided to do....

 

In order for Leah to write her paper on How To Train Your Dragon, we just HAD to watch the movie! It makes perfect sense considering I did the same thing two weeks ago with 500 Days of Summer. I reached a slight disappointment when I realized my paper was on Wicked and there wasn't a movie to waste time...*cough* I mean, watch on it. 

Any Wicked fans out in the world? Anyone ever seen the musical? Because it truly is phenomenal. 

 Its a story of how the Wicked witch of the west wasn't really wicked at all. It takes place before Dorothy's house landed in OZ and travels back to when Elphaba (witch of the west) meet Glinda at college and they are put together as roommates. 

The music is just as incredible as the story itself and i'm really excited because...drum roll...they're making a movie! you don't have to love or even like broadway to enjoy this musical, trust me. 

Here's the show stopper song of the show when Elphaba takes flight to try and stop the Wizard from doing evil. If there's any Glee fans out there, the two singing were on the show a few times (Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel).

Let me know what you think!

Where was Leeper????

Once Upon A Time…

Back and forth he paced…”Where is Mr. Fluffykins?” Leeper asked himself “I can’t show my face without them after what happened last year.”

His mind flashed back to the President’s party from the previous year.

(Flashback) “You forgot your slippers? Oh Leeper…” said the man in the Packers snuggie.

Leeper hung his head in embarrassment at the horrid memory. He had to find his slippers!

“Here fluffy fluffy fluffy…come out come out wherever you are.” His cat stared at him with a look that said ‘my servant is losing it.’

“I’m not crazy Sir Drinks Milk, I just need my darn slippers.”

Sir Drinks Milks purred in disgust. He was humiliated at the reason his servant was turning the house into a litter box.

……………………….

Meanwhile, Mr Packers Snuggie grinned at what he’d just accomplished. “Leeper won’t be showing up tonight, not after what happened last year.”

………………..

(Dowden’s house)

“I wonder if Leeper will be here” I mentioned to Abi, the blogging queen. She smiled at the idea and shrugged.

We continued through the food line when I nudged her and pointed to the Professor with the Packers snuggie’s feet. We both grinned for the Professor had white, fluffy bunny slippers.

“That’s awesome” I said.

………………………….

“Where are those boogered bunnies?!” Leeper said.

…………….

(Dowden’s)

“I’m very disappointed Leeper is not here” I said.

“Me too” Abi replied “ We should confront him in class on Monday” she demanded.

Light bulb

“Or…” I said, “we should go around to all the DMA people here and have them give us one reason why Leeper wasn’t here and put it on your blog.”

Abi’s smile reassured me of my plan. “Or everybody could post the reason on their blog.”

Another light bulb

“No…everybody can write a crazy story!” I said.

I recall some squealing at that point…and the rest is history.

…………

“I can’t go Sir Drinks Milk…I can’t do it.”

Sir Drinks Milk purred in agreement.

“Oh well…nobody will even notice” Leeper decided.

Guess what Professor…we noticed ;)

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

You get a gold star if you just sang along with the title :)

So I recently decided I should post a few pictures of artwork i've done. 

I learned to draw Mickey Mouse awhile back, maybe 7-8 years ago by getting all the How To Draw Disney character books I could get my hands on. Technically this isn't MY work, since all credit belongs to Walt Disney, but it's one of my favorite things to draw. As of a few years ago, I can draw Mickey's face by memory...you'll often find me doodling in class or on a random napkin. 

I love cartoons, especially Disney's, but Mickey has become my all time favorite. 

This is a flower i did with Prismas.

 (I didn't mean to include the ribbon and I promise i'm not bragging...this was a show with mostly 12 and under kids so it's not very impressive anyway lol)

Well, that's all I have pictures of...let me know what you think :)