Amelia Vega is a former Miss Universe winner in 2003. She was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic and began to train in pageants in Venezuela. After winning her first pageant, the judges changed the rules to no longer allow foreign citizens to compete in any future pageants. She would go on to win the Miss Universe title in 2003 and became the youngest winner to win the pageant since 1994. The win also enabled Amelia to further her modeling career as she became the newest Covergirl Spokesperson in 2003. Amelia has also appeared in various international magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Caras and Vanidades and is hoping to become a singer by working on her first music cd. Since her Miss Universe victory, Amelia has also worked on several television/film projects as she was the host of the reality show “Voces de América” that appeared on the Telemundo network and was also the host of “Suegras” – A Mexican reality program. She made her film debut in 2005 in the film “Lost City” that was directed by Andy Garcia and in 2008 she will appear in the film Homie Spumoni. She currently has her own myspace page up at http://www.myspace.com/amelive
Author ArchiveVanessa Blouin is a French Canadian fitness bikini model. She is the first Canadian women to be featured on the popular bikini website bikini.com and is also a former Miss Hawaiian Tropics Canada winner. She would later compete in the international version of the competition and finish in the final round of 15. She has also been a ring girl for Interbox and has modeled for Bodyglove, Style and Performance and Sound and was chosen Miss Castrol in 2006-2007. She most recently appeared in the Summum magazine in May 2007. You can find more information about her at her myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/vanessablouin9 Image Credit: bikini.com and purehotmodels.com  Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer. He is the creator of the Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox and Pikmin video game franchises and has also supervised many other titles including Metroid Prime and Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games. Miyamoto is often described as the “Father of Modern Videogaming” because of his games’ simplistic storylines, tight gameplay controls and the use of a gamer’s imagination to seek out new worlds and to discover things for themselves. He is currently the Senior Marketing Director of Nintendo and General Manager of Nintendo EAD.In 1998, Miyamoto became the first person to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame. During his early childhood, Miyamoto would explore the landscape surrounding his house by exploring hidden caves and lakes and his fascination with the environment would lead to many of the ingredients of his future games. Shigeru’s lovable imagination is why we have chosen him as the quote of the month and here is Shigeru describing his view of an imaginary world to us.
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 Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip written by Bill Watterson about a stuffed toy tiger that comes to life through the imagination of a young boy named Calvin. The comic strip was syndicated in newspapers from 1985-1995 and has appeared in nearly 2400 newspapers worldwide. While the strip mainly deals with Calvin’s vivid imagination, the strip also does examine broad issues like environmentalism, public education and various political issues surrounding the government and democracy. Calvin and Hobbes strips are characterized by intelligent humor, poignant observations, witty social and political commentary, and well-developed characters.Watterson often likes to throw in metaphors in his work by using Calvin’s imagination and Hobbes’ witty humor as a way of showcasing certain events that lie underneath the humor and fantasy. One of the more humorous elements of the comic strip is Calvin’s lack of an attention span when it comes to education or his need to sit in front of the television screen and watch programs rather than listen to his father’s orders. It’s this theory that has helped this website stay strong over the years and is one of Calvin’s quotes that have helped to showcase our own theory of this website to any potential new audience that wishes to visit this website.
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 Roger Ebert is an award winning American film critic and screenwriter. His reviews can be read in more than 200 newspapers worldwide. Ebert began writing reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1969 and would later go on to host a syndicated movie review show called “At The Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert” for nearly 22 years before Siskel’s death in 1999. Ebert would find a replacement in fellow Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper and the two would go on to continue reviewing films until Ebert’s recent health problems caused him to take a leave of absence from the show.Also, Ebert co-wrote the screenplay for the 1970 cult film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls alongside famous exploitation director Russ Meyer. Meyer and Ebert would go on to produce a few other films that were quietly forgotten about over time. Another signature part of Ebert that shouldn’t be forgotten when discussing about him is his use of the thumbs up/down system that helped to make Siskel and him famous when reviewing films. The two would often be included in movie previews for giving a film “2 thumbs up” as a seal of their approval for the film. Ebert has done a great job at reviewing films, and while his reviews may cause criticism from time to time; his opinions are always valid and to the point. Here we give you a great quote from Roger discussing his opinion on great films.
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