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I’m having this competition with Nicole on who is writing the last formal post first.
The one who loses have to treat the other one on a lollipop.

Here it goes.

My second and last formal post is about a great musician with the name Adam Young, known to most people as Owl City. Owl City is mostly synthpop but with influence of alternative rock and electronica.

Because he uses the name Owl City many people think it’s a group and not a single person as it actually is.

He was unknown to most of Sweden’s population until late 2009, when his song “Fireflies” started playing on the radio. I've heard him for the first time, in one of Mitchell Davis youtube videos in 2008.

Adam Young started his career on his own and released his first EP, Of June, in 2007. The year after he released another album on his own, Maybe I’m Dreaming, and in 2009 he signed with the major record label called Universal Republic. With their help he released his third album, Ocean Eyes.

Owl City is not the only musical project Adam Young has, but it’s the most popular one.

His other projects are Port Blue, Windsor Airlift, Insect Airport and Seagull Orchestra.

The majority of his song with these side-projects is entirely constructed from the sounds of a synthesizer and no accompanying lyrics.

He has created extremely great song with all his projects, but the song “Apple” with Insect Airport is my favourite right now. “Fireflies” with Owl City is my least favourite because I here it everywhere and most people just listening to that song. They miss out on greater songs of him. “Fuzzy blue lights” and “The Saltwater Room” for instance.

My subject for my first formal post is Independent film, or you could call it Indie film.

That is a film that is produced outside the major film business in Hollywood.

They usually don’t get the economic contribution the big studios get.

For some reason they appeal more to me than all the big Hollywood movies. I don’t know why, but those movies seem to have more “feeling” and depth than the big movies.

Maybe that’s because they don’t get the economic contribution and that they’re not able to film in the big studios. Because of that they might work harder for a movie and they often have actors/actresses you never seen or heard of before which makes it more "real”.

I do like the Hollywood movies too; they just don’t speak to me in the same way like the indie films.

Almost no indie film have the chance to be shown in the movie theatres; instead they’re shown in Film Festivals. Nowadays there is a lot of different Film Festivals all over the world.

One of them is Sundance Film Festival which is the largest cinema festival in the United States. Movies such as Saw, Napoleon Dynamite and the Blair Witch Project have been shown at the Sundance Festival.

One of the first independent films I saw was Keith, and it has become one of my favourite movies.

Keith was first shown at the Palm Beach International Film Festival in April 11, 2008.