Getting Entangled with Tangled The Movie
Disney Princess movies, they've been around since the 1937
release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and have been a prominent franchise
in Disney's arsenal ever since, bringing movies such as Cinderella, Aladdin,
Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, Frozen and the best Disney Princess
movie of all time, the Emperors New Groove. I'm kidding that wasn't a Disney
princess movie, or was it? Disney Emperor movie? One of a kind.
Anyway these movies for the most part are based on fairy tales by
authors such as Brothers Grimm. One famous Fairy Tale written by Brothers Grimm
is none other then Rapunzel. Rapunzel was the "loose" base for
Disney's 50th animated featured film and very first CGI animated princess
movie, Tangled.
Remember when I discussed Frozen (Made by the same production
team.) back during Christmas time last year? I praised Tangled quite a bit and
rightfully so. I revisited this movie last night with my family and it's still
holding up as one of my favorite Disney animated movies. a lot of development
went into this movie and it was in the pre-production and production phase for
14 straight years with an original 2007 release date under the name Rapunzel
Unbraided. After tons of delays the movie finally released in 2014 as Tangled,
Disney's first CGI animated Princess movie. with a mixture of CGI animation,
traditional animation and rendered using non-photorealistic settings to give it
the impression of being painted.
© 2010 - WALT DISNEY PICTURES
CGI animation (or 3D animation as younger me always called it.)
has become dominant over hand drawn animation over the past 20 years and while
I love hand drawn animation and have always been on the edge regarding this
transition, Pixar and Disney have proven they can do CGI right. Despite doubts
this movie is absolutely gorgeous and takes place in the Kingdom of Corona.
Like mentioned earlier this movie is LOOSELY based on the original Rapunzel
Fairy Tail, very loosely. It's basically Rapunzel with a twist and a tangle.
Rapunzel (Voiced by Mandy Moore) is an 18 year old lady, (With super long
golden hair that can magically heal and de-age people, take that Olay.)
becoming independent over the years of being practically trapped in a secluded
tower by her "mother" she has a desire to see the outside world and
discover the truth about the lanterns she sees fly through the sky on her
Birthday every year. This movie also features Flynn Rider (Voiced by Zachary
Levi), a self absorbed thief on the run from the Kingdom (Because, you know, he
stole something pretty precious from them.) on his fugitive escape he winds up
finding the Tower that Rapunzel resides in. Sneaking his way in an attempt to
hide from the kingdom Flynn and Rapunzel have a Face to Frying Pan talk. The
young blonde convinces Flynn to take her to see the flying lanterns in exchange
for the sachet (Which she cleverly hid after another frying pan whack.) and
they sneak out, against her Mother's wishes.
© 2010 - WALT DISNEY PICTURES
This movie will satisfy you
knitters out there as this flick has quite a few subtle but cool knitting
references. It's also a fantastic movie to knit to, which obviously I was
doing, I'll go more into detail on that later in the blog. Maximus the Horse (Yes, horse.) also plays a big part in this movie as one of the main characters, joining the ranks of coolest movie horses of all time. Ever seen a horse sword fight before? I thought not!
© 2010 - WALT DISNEY PICTURES
Tangled is one of Disney's best animations if not their best
Princess (Rapunzel being a pretty kick butt Princess herself, long hair and
Frying Pans are the best options for your arsenal) movie of all time with some
good songs, awesome fleshed out characters, gorgeous art and animation, a
thrilling tale and lots of Frying Pans. This'll make a great family movie and
while kids will love it I find myself (I'm a 21 year old kid, forgive me.)
loving it just as much. It's not just one of those distract your kids kind of
movies it's got a lot packed into it that can be appreciated by many
demographics, especially knitters. One day Disney will make a movie specifically
based on knitting, maybe.
Tangled is making a big return in the form of a brand new
animated series on Disney Channel premiering on March 24th this year. It takes
place after the movie and before the Tangled Ever After short film. Unlike the
movie though it's going to be 2D animation but no worries they're keeping the
art style from the movie and it seems to transition well. To give you a taste
check out this sneak peek! Though this will hold spoilers for the original movie,
you've probably already seen the movie, right?
As much as I love the movie Tangled I really do not like
untangling knitting yarn, which seems to be a reoccurring event when it comes
to me. I've been knitting for almost 5 months now and with tons of finished
objects already under my belt I've been doing pretty good. I'm still a beginner
but with the help of Mum and people online I'm getting there. Books have become
a big source of help for me as well, with Mum having quite a collection of
knitting books and magazines. This one book I'm about to discuss might just be
the perfect book for beginners like myself.
The Vogue Knitting Ultimate Knitting Book; A Knitting Almanac
Vogue Knitting, as all of us knitters know, is a Knitting
magazine that's been around since 1932 and has grown quite substantially since.
From the editors of the Vogue Knitting magazine comes The Ultimate Knitting
Book.
Mum has had this book for a while now and it's been a big help to
me as a beginner. The editors of this book worked on it for 3 years,
researching hundreds of knitting books (Some long out of print), during this
journey they learned that no one had actually managed to fit everything into
one book, that a knitter had to jump from book to book to learn everything. The
Ultimate Knitting Book solves that issue as it has EVERYTHING you need to know
about knitting, from Basic Techniques, correcting errors, yarn and tools,
blocking and finishing to more advance stuff like designing. The Ultimate
Knitting Book even has 9 pages on the history of knitting. If knitting was a
religion (Is it?) this would be its bible.
It doesn't just have written words this book's tutorials also
have picture graphs demonstrating the hand movements. Want to learn every cast
on imaginable? This has just that. This book has also been a god send in
correcting errors. No more bugging Mum with helping me correct errors I just
dive into this knitting knowledge bank and it shows me step by step on how to
pick up a stitch, Knit wise and purl wise. When it comes to the time when I'm
working on my future sweater this book should help with assembling and
grafting. It'll help when it comes to blocking my in progress shawl. (Though
I'll probably bug mum on that one.) Similar to the edging book I talked about a
while ago this encyclopedia actually has a stitch dictionary with stitch types
and stitches in here (With graphs along with.) for adding into your own
patterns.
Speaking of patterns, as a cherry on top in the back there are a
few full patterns for you to knit. All of them are tops but they're really nice
patterns that I'm going to try myself in the future. So yeah that's the Vogue
Knitting Ultimate Knitting Book. While this book did come out in 2002 it's
still viable in this day and age, because in the knitting world you don't fix
what's not broken. I've barely scratched the surface of this book. Of course I
wouldn't talk about this book without giving you a way of checking it out for
yourself. You can buy it at Amazon for $28.60.
Also check out Vogue Knitting themselves at http://www.vogueknitting.com/. They have online
learning, a shop, their digital magazine and free patterns!
A ZAK Afterthought Heel Sock Update
February 22, 2017
Enough about Vogue Knitting let's talk about ZAK Knitting. I
can't wrap without giving you all an update on my afterthought self striping
socks.
Yes, I'm still on the first sock but I'm just about to start the
toe. I was knitting this throughout Tangled and The Flash, which is getting
REALLY good lately, Gorilla Grodd is back boys. Anyway this sock is coming to a
close and I got to pick out a solid color to go into my toe and heel sooner
rather then later. I'll figure that out.
Remember that knitting pattern I was working on? I'm still
working on it! Yes I haven't given up, I'm just a little nervous when working
on this, it's my first pattern. I will get it finished and up for you guys as
soon as I can.
Before we wrap I want to do a little teasing. This upcoming
Monday is officially Pokemon day! Yes The Pokemon Company is celebrating the
21st birthday (20th birthday of the Show) all over the world at different
events. They're also celebrating online with the hashtag #PokemonDay on social
media such as Instagram and Twitter. You can post photos of your Pokemon
memories/merchandise and you could possibly get featured on their website http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-day/. So
yeah the Pokemon celebrating spirit is in the air and it's filling ZAK
Entertainment. Check out my Instagram because I'll be posting photos of my
Pokemon gear in anticipation for Monday. Monday's blog post is going to be
pretty big. I'll be posting a blog discussing my Pokemon life, the history of
Pokemon and everything Generation 1. This will be the first entry in a year
spanning series going through all 7 generations of Pokemon and I'm really
excited to write and publish these for you all to read.
#PokemonDay
That's a wrap folks! Don't forget to check out my newest video I've uploaded to my youtube! It's a short film featuring some American Coots and a beautiful lake with some awesome cinematic shots I took on our recent trip out there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXvy27Gz8zs
Keep your lifes entertaining!
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