Six Feet Under

Much as been written about this television series.
In short words, I will say that i agree with the ones that say, it is a master piece.

But, once again, the purpose of this forum, isn’t to make pure reviews on the subject, but express what it made me feel. Why is it inspiring to me.

We live emerged in a chaotic cloud of noise. The world has become a place full of antagonic messages, that can cause severe blindness of what we are and what we want to be. It can make us feel confusing and frustrated with our most precious gift, our own life.

In six feet under we are confronted with situations, and characters that expose some of our darkest fears. Who am I ? What should I say or do ? What is wright and wrong? 
The oh so many crossroads of our lives.

Has time passes, decisions get harder and harder to take. Because you know that the time for going back and try another path, if at all possible, is shorter and shorter.

Seeing this beautifully written stories, gave me strength and understanding that it is OK to fell bad, fell sorry, do mistakes, ask forgiveness, and above all, get back on our feet and keep going no matter what.

Life is short, we ear so much.

But we only really understand the true meaning of that, when we know that each breath of ours can be the last.

Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen!

I just love this music and video clip. I'm sure it's not new for most of the people, but it's always good to remember.

I wish that it was easy to change our life's in that way...

The lyrics is written by Mary Schmich and was published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997, the music was a single by Baz Luhrmann.

Michael Muller

Michael Muller has an extensive body of work, ranging in a lot of themes and styles.
From portrait, to fashion, to movie posters. From monochromatic to a full hypnotic color range. He also has the boldness of drawing a $63K car to make a shot, and to dive with white sharks.



Bottom line, he does it because he loves it, and that show’s in is work.


I love to wander on his site and dwell over the images, so many that it feels I’m always finding something new.

There is a great small video on youtube were we can see is wonderful personality:

QBN Sessions Presents Michael Muller

To learn more about him, there is also a great podcast that interviews him, check it out.
http://www.studiolighting.net/lightsource-photography-podcast-e032-michael-muller/

Gregory Colbert - Ashes and Snow

Animal Copyright Launch Speech

Gregory Colbert dedicated ten years filming and photographing in a very poetic way the relation of humans and animals across places like India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Dominica, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tonga, Namibia, and Antarctica.
This work culminated on a film and a group of pictures with the name of Ashes and Snow, that is gathered on a nomadic museum that travels the world,
He is also engaged in a project , the animal copyright , that tries to make corporations pay a fee for using animals on their commercials, like any actor would charge.

I have bought one of the hand made books of this work, and I've seen the movie, and i can say that it is a soul engaging experience. I recommend to everyone that at least one time in life to have this experience.

David Carson - L'Enfant Terrible

Hillman Curtis Interview

The End of Print

I met David Carson work last year, on the occasion of doing an essay on it for a class at the university.
It was mind blowing. Not just the work by it self, but the concept, the ideas behind it.
Is work is very raw, full of expression and experimentalism.
It started by accident, when he was art director of the Beach Culture Magazine, he had no academic knowledge on design, so he just started experimenting. The result was something that broke almost every rule set by design academists. The magazine only lasted for tree years but it made is first impact on the world. It was a new form os designing layouts, if building and applying typography. The next big hit, was a the Ray Gun magazine. It was hard to read, it needed exploration by the reader just to find the sequence of an article, since sometimes the page numbers were all out of order.
The idea, is that the presentation by it self is a message, and not just the words or the meaning of the words that are present.
Completely the opposite of the idea that the layout must be invisible to let the message on the text's flow.
After I’ve bought one of is books, the “David Carson trek” my mind suddenly felt a lot more free and relaxed, it was that feeling that sometimes there isn’t right’s and wrongs, and we can break barriers and explore without fear of looking “bad” or “stupid”.

David Carson Website: http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/

Romeo ✝ Juliet

This is one of my old time friends, if a movie can be called a friend. I think so, because friends are the ones that give good advices, advices that makes you smile, hurt, and even cry.
Eleven years have past, and it still touches me every time I see it.

This is one of the most told story, for years and years it as echoed in books, theaters, cinemas and TV’s, and I hope, in lovers lips.

Shakespeare really was a fantastic writer, not just by this tale I know, there are others as good or even better, but this one has a lot of charisma.
This movie captures that well. The story told in a world so close to ours, so familiar in is actions, in it's love and in it’s hate.
The scenes are presented with a beautiful photography, expression, colors and camera angles, and the music... the music wraps it all up in a sweet&bitter taste on the tip of the tongue that's impossible to forget at any time soon after seeing the movie.

This story is also intense in symbols, in hidden messages that foretell the dramatic ending, that makes a joy to see, and review many times the movie to capture them all. 
To not only ear, but to feel the words, to dive in there true meaning and make use of them in our own life. To me, it's like a little bright and colorful paint that I use to color my sometimes gray world.

I think it's never to late, or to old, to live a few moments of fairy tale.


Movie Trailer


Movie Musics and Slideshow

Jan Saudek

Jan Saudek is a Czech Art Photographer, with decades of work.
Is life surpassed nightmares with the nazi and the russian invasion, he saw death and hunger like we may never (hopefully) imagine.

Is biography is by it self very inspiring to me, and even so I may never ( I hope ) see the horrors that he saw, there are some fears that we have in common.
The photographs, that start in the 50’s, are amazing. They reflect raw feelings, in a strange and surrealist world. It's not a easy work to see, but for me, one that makes me feel and makes me think, and that's the most important aspect of any art work.

He also conveys a very personal and expressive touch to is images, by painting and doing some photomontage, that are pretty amazing to see, if we think all the intense labour that must have been, and the dedication needed to do it year after year.

Is site is: http://www.saudek.com/en/jan/uvod.html

Is book:

Perfume - Book and Movie

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, is a literary master piece written in 1985 by Patrick Süskind, and latter (2006) became a movie, a very very good one.
I've always loved the story, since I've read it in my 18's ( that was 9 years ago ( gezz) ), I think the story has a very global feeling, not meaning, but feeling. And I say this, because, I think the meaning depends of the one that gets to know the story, but everyone that as some kind of sensibility will feel something strong.
I recommend everyone to read and then see the movie, and if possible the making off cause it's wonderful. The soundtrack is also amazing!

But since this is a personal blog, I will try to put in words what I feel about this story, but it won't be easy.
For me, the strongest issue, is the brutal quest of trying to grab and posses something that it's ungrabable and unpossessful, something ephemerous and at the edge of reality. And that is something that everyone does in life. For Grenouille it's the Perfume/scent, but I see it not just trying to capture a smell, but to capture the true nature of a person, that little something that makes a person unique, that is my quest.
I sometimes try to do that in photography, when I'm not in a commercial mind wave, because photography is the language I like to use the most, and that I know to use better than the others.I think I never got it, or if I did I can't steel see it.
But I feel the need, and the pain to do so. It's like when I'm with some I love, and in a particular moment, it seems that everything stops, and I really look to that person, deep in the eyes, in the skin, the tinny gestures, the smell, the sound, and fully realize that that experience is so delicate, so fragile, because, one day, I will remember that second, and that person will not be there, forever.

Another thing this story makes me wonder, is probably one of the oldest questions of mankind, what is our role in life, our meaning. Why do we, in a very personal and singular way, exist?
That's another thing that makes Grenouille suffer, he as no smell, no identity in the world he knows the best, and that also makes him invisible for everyone else, including animals has we can see in the story. And even when he gets the power to dominate everything, for him it doesn't matter, because it's not him, but something external to him, a scent that it's not his, but something he produced.
That seems to be one of the basics of our well being, to know that we have a place in the world, in someone's world at least.


  

Andreas Bitesnich

This is a one all time favorite for me. Andreas Bitesnich is a fantastic nude photographer, that is able to compose amazing human sculptures very well lit.
The bodies them self's are amazing, but the overall feeling of the images is for me very powerful.
Many of is pictures are used in commercial campaigns exactly because of that.
Another thing I like about him, is that he only started photography at the age of 25, and that didn't stop him to reach so far.


Check is site on: http://www.bitesnich.com/

   
 

Dave Hill

Dave Hill is a kick ass commercial photographer, with a wonderful style in is images. The pictures usually have a wonderful production, and a really nice focused light setup, and then they get a post production that makes them look like illustrations.
The result is really cool, and very inspiring.

I'm training that post process look my self to see if i can come up with some nice images.

Check is site: http://davehillphoto.com/