Howl's Moving Castle

Howl's Moving Castle

Benjamin Tollady Design helped Madman Entertainment promote the hugely successful theatrical release of Howl’s Moving Castle across Australia.

Madman is one of Australia’s leading independent entertainment distribution and rights management companies. They specialise in the wholesale distribution of video and DVD movies into retail and rental stores throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Working directly for Madman Entertainment, I developed several ‘mini sites’ to promote the launch of various titles, helping build anticipation amongst their customers for the impending release.

The Howl’s Moving Castle website was subtly different to most other Madman ‘mini sites’ in that it was to provide information regarding upcoming cinema times, recent reviews and movie details rather than promoting an impending DVD release. As such, (X)HTML was chosen over Flash as the development language to ensure the site was be accessible to all and easy to update.

Interface design that reflects the animation style

Using artwork from the film, the site design reflects the drawing style used in the animation. Key elements were used to give visitors to the site a feel for the film prior to watching it.

Flash elements were implemented across the site to add dynamism and further support the animated nature of the show. In particular, the ‘Wheel of time’, which plays a major part in the film, was mimicked across the site to denote page sections.

Accessible flash implementation

Flash was also used for the site navigation and implemented as the media player within the site to deliver movie trailers. Careful consideration was applied around the implementation of a flash navigation, resulting in the site maintaining accessibility through the use of graceful degradation techniques, otherwise known as progressive enhancement. You can find out more about this technique by reading this Wikipedia article about progressive enhancement, or better still why not contact me directly?

 

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tnx pala xa mga kaibigan ko namely JODEN DESOLA(tUdEEn)-cya ung tipo ng kaibigan pag  may prob wag mo kukulitin xe lalong magagalit pero pagbiruan na grabe yan hehe peace.! CATHERINE DUMLAO(dUmZkIe)-ito naman ung tipo ng kaibigan maaasahan mo sa quiz exam seatwork at kahit anu pa hehe sobrang talino nya di ko alam panu pumapasok ung lesson sa isip nya binansagan na nga lang cyang isip ipis ee hahah pero dabest.! NADIA PANLILIO(nhadz)- Ito naman sya ung tipo ng kaibigan na maganda magaling  mabiro alam mo na un heheh basta mabait kung tatawagin..at higit sa lahat CATHERINE ANDAYA(aNdAyErkz)- grabi tong kaibigan kong ito alam mo un pag tumawa grabi tapos biglang magagalit haha in short parang may sayad peace.. pero cool cyang kasama maunawain sobra..

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good morning, good afternoon, good evening i want to tell you something on the word love me or hate me you let your partner choose between the two kasi kung para sken i better choose to love her diba? keo ba what is more important nagmahal ka nga pero parang wala lang sau ang relasyon nyo so dapat you know how to handle a relationship wag ung nag ka boyfriend and girlfriend ka nga pero binabalewala mo un sa madaling salita dinedeny mo cla sa harapan ng iba.. dapat your proud to say that mahal mo sila... so you better prove it to the girl na mahal mo.kasi kung kailan wala na cya tska mo cya hahabulin.. ("base on expirience yan.") pero kasi ang love me or hate me ay balewala na sa iba basta magkarelasyon ayos na basta may matawag na nobya.. so sa mga taong tinamaan magpakatotoo na kau hangat d pa huli ang lahat..

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Meet the Mystery Meat Dress: Lady Gaga Explains Rare VMAs Outfit

Posted Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:15am PDT by Caryn Ganz in Stop The Presses!

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"I never thought I'd be asking Cher to hold my meat purse."

That was Lady Gaga's unusual opening statement when she stepped onstage at MTV's Video Music Awards Sunday to receive her Video of the Year award from pop legend Cher.

After arriving at the ceremony in a dress from the late designer Alexander McQueen's final collection and then changing into a weighty, architectural gown and spiky crown by Giorgio Armani, Gaga turned heads (and we'd have to imagine noses) in her final outfit, a Franc Fernandez dress (plus boots, hat, and purse) cut together from what appeared to be slabs of raw meat. The outfit echoed the controversial meat bikini she recently wore for the cover of Vogue Hommes Japan.

[VMA Photos: Lady Gaga, Snooki make red carpet splash]

After the show, in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, Gaga tried to explain that the dress was a political statement. Discussing how she'd been escorted to the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles by members of the U.S. military who had been discharged from the service due to the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, Lady Gaga said: "It is a devastation to me that I know my fans who are gay ... feel like they have governmental oppression on them. That's actually why I wore the meat tonight."

DeGeneres, a famous vegan who often speaks out on behalf of animal rights, pounced on the topic while keeping her distance from the dress. "It's certainly no disrespect to anyone that's vegan or vegetarian," Gaga responded. "As you know, I am the most judgment-free human being on the earth. It has many interpretations, but for me this evening, it's 'If we don't stand up for what we believe in, we don't fight for our rights, pretty soon we're gonna have as much rights as the meat on our bones.'"

Gesturing to the Japanese Vogue cover, she snarled and added, "And I am not a piece of meat."

[Photos: More moments with Lady Gaga]

DeGeneres didn't seem to buy that fairly speciously reasoned explanation, and instead offered Lady Gaga an outfit that didn't need to be butchered: a vegetable bikini and skirt made of corn husks. "It's fabulous! Oh it's kale!" Gaga said. "Well, it's the best of both worlds, you and me, Ellen."

The meat dress's designer, Franc Fernandez, has yet to issue any statements about his unusual gown -- or confirm whether it was truly made of actual meat -- but he retweeted Cher's compliment: "The way it was cut & fitted to her body was AMAZING ! Meat purse was genius ! As Art piece it was astonishing! No moral Judgement!" Fernandez, who has also dressed Beyoncé and Christina Aguilera, made the diamond headpiece Gaga wore in the video for "Bad Romance," which picked up seven of the singer's eight VMA wins last night.

[Photos: Leotards and bandages among wildest onstage outfits]

PETA, unsurprisingly, was less of a fan. The animal-rights advocacy organization quickly issued a statement condemning Gaga for her offbeat sartorial choice. "Meat is the decomposing flesh of a tormented animal who didn't want to die, and after a few hours under the TV lights, it would smell like the rotting flesh it is and likely be crawling in maggots -- not too attractive, really."

Gaga is just lucky no dogs -- or Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, for that matter -- were in the house that night.

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What Causes Global Warming?

What Causes Global Warming?
Scientists have spent decades figuring out what is causing global warming. They've looked at the natural cycles and events that are known to influence climate. But the amount and pattern of warming that's been measured can't be explained by these factors alone. The only way to explain the pattern is to include the effect of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted by humans.
To bring all this information together, the United Nations formed a group of scientists called the International Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC. The IPCC meets every few years to review the latest scientific findings and write a report summarizing all that is known about global warming. Each report represents a consensus, or agreement, among hundreds of leading scientists.

One of the first things scientists learned is that there are several greenhouse gases responsible for warming, and humans emit them in a variety of ways. Most come from the combustion of fossil fuels in cars, factories and electricity production. The gas responsible for the most warming is carbon dioxide, also called CO2. Other contributors include methane released from landfills and agriculture (especially from the digestive systems of grazing animals), nitrous oxide from fertilizers, gases used for refrigeration and industrial processes, and the loss of forests that would otherwise store CO2.

Different greenhouse gases have very different heat-trapping abilities. Some of them can even trap more heat than CO2. A molecule of methane produces more than 20 times the warming of a molecule of CO2. Nitrous oxide is 300 times more powerful than CO2. Other gases, such as chlorofluorocarbons (which have been banned in much of the world because they also degrade the ozone layer), have heat-trapping potential thousands of times greater than CO2. But because their concentrations are much lower than CO2, none of these gases adds as much warmth to the atmosphere as CO2 does.
In order to understand the effects of all the gases together, scientists tend to talk about all greenhouse gases in terms of the equivalent amount of CO2. Since 1990, yearly emissions have gone up by about 6 billion metric tons of "carbon dioxide equivalent" worldwide, more than a 20% increase.

"Suzanna is spending too much time on Facebook". Yes, it's the latest community site's craze that I am sucked into. Recently, I was invited by a friend (more likely as an auto inclusion evite through Facebook) to join the latest community site Facebook.

To me, what started as just submitting my particulars to be a member and in order for me just login and accept my friend's invite had me hooked. Yes. I am hooked on Facebook.

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