The Industries New(ish) Obsession with Penguins

It's not that hard to believe that over 86% of the planet's population find penguins to be absolutely adorable. They are some of the silliest and cutest birds on the planet!

It was only a matter of time before Hollywood would realize this and capitalize on it for a pretty penny. Big producers have monetized these furry little critters and made a huge profit off of them. What is worse is that these penguins did not get to share in the wealth at all. In fact, few penguins are even aware they their species is a Hollywood hit.

Some might say that this isn't a big dear or that there are bigger issues going on right now, but when you look at how much Hollywood has profited off penguins, the numbers are jaw dropping. Let me try and put this in perspective for you:

8 Ball Bunny (1950)

Mr. Forbush and the Penguins (1971)

A.K.A

Cry of the Penguins

The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin (1988)

Shocked yet? If not, let me keep going cause I'm not even close to being done

March of the Penguins (2005)

Farce of the Penguins (2007)

Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)

Oddball (2015)

Adventures of the Penguin King (2013)

This doesn't even begin to complete the list of penguin movies out there. All films combined probably raised over one billion dollars, and again, not one penguin saw a single cent of that money.

Dear Photograph

     Right now I want to share a website with anyone who reads this post. The website is http://dearphotograph.com and what they do is creative and meaningful. What they do is have a picture in the foreground and take a picture of it. They take the picture in the same place and have the same orientation so they are lined up. One of the things this does is show how things change due to the passage of time. The way I stumbled across this is through this 9-11 picture a year ago.

     A lot of the pictures tend to be of family members, old houses, things along that line and as stated before it shows the passage of time. There is then a caption added to each picture, addressed like a letter often giving a back-story that you would not be able to tell just by looking at the picture. This project could be a cool concept if transposed to film. This is similar to the one shot project we are doing though. The point of the photographs is to tell a powerful story in a very brief amount of time and use generic or relatable moments, but with a slight twist.

     I find this project pretty amazing because it shows the meaning in objects or places where you wouldn’t see it at first by telling a story. While some people say that not everything needs a story, I am a firm believer that everything has a story.