can’t get no sleep…i miss the colors in my dreams | i stare at my bed….| and all i see is just an abandoned dream…| and i miss…| the simple things| can’t get no rest…| i miss you hiding at my chest| i miss the little hand…| drawing silent circles on my faith…| can’t get no joy…| i miss the touch…the smile| and the nights when i said “hello i’m alive…”

listen urma – the simple things

by drew aka tooth paste for dinner

for those about to “boo hoo hoo”, we salut you!

p.s.: alina, felix si toti cei preocupati de disparitia mea din peisaj, mi-am tinut promisiunea si am “bagat si io ceva pe blogul ala”!  pentru inceput un film, acarui morala este desprinsa din filosofia sun tzu de extractie basesciana, si una mica, inocenta de sezon. da, sunt superficiala! asta asa ca regula generala. cat despre bau-bau, spaime, temeri, frica ori fobie ce sa va spun? sunt parte din viata noastra, insa nu stau sub pat, dimpotriva; sunt invocate si afisate cu nesimtire pe toate gardurile si in toate gangurile, ca bulendrele cortorarilor! ma duc sa bag spaima-n bostani, dovleci si alte curcubitacee! boo

hiraki sawa was born in ishikawa, japan, in 1977. currently, he lives and works in london.  the artist creates poetic, ephemeral dreamscapes that focus on making visible the realm of imagination. using toys, books and other household objects as props and backdrops,  hiraki produces environments that, when projected onto large screens, take on a dreamlike quality. hiraki uses video and animation as mediums for language; he combines everyday images with dramatic ones to create a hyper, but still tangible dissociation.
in  dwelling, sawa creates a dreamlike universe inside a nondescript apartment. dwelling follows the dramatic slow and solemn flight patterns of roaring miniaturized boeings, airbuses, concordes, jet planes, and commuter aircrafts as if documenting chaotic airport traffic. we become involved in the video unconsciously, and experience a world where you are not you, objects are not objects…

the black&white video begins with a single shot of the top-floor windows in a nondescript london apartment building, which could be just about anywhere in the world. the video takes place entirely in sawa’s london apartment. he took still shots of different areas of his apartment and superimposed upon them animated images of various toy airplanes taking off; cruising about the rooms; and landing on a table, floor, bathtub, refrigerator, and bed…

he mixes reality with dreams, creating a modern day alice in wonderland. he dissociates time and space and melts existence with destruction…

sawa also uses metaphors such as carpets to plants or the snow. reality and dreams are inextricably woven together…

works: eight minutes(2005) |bluefloor(2005)| passer-by (2004) |going places sitting down (2004)| between (2004)| inhere (2004) |airliner (2003) | elsewhere (2003) | migration (2003) | spotter (2002) | dwelling (2002).

the forrest is his final work of david scharf created at at augsburg – university of applied sciences, bavaria, germany in 2009.

antonia is a 12 year old girl.  she often has daydreams, in which she wanders of in to a magical far away forest, were she hides from the problems of the real world. one day, her father takes drastic measures and she has to face a decision.
is your inner peace an utopian state until you have finally escaped the grip of the society and its rules? or is affirmation a faster way to your personal luck? and what are you supposed to do, if you have to answer this question at the age of 12?

written, directed and animated by david scharf – a young film-maker from augsburg, who has specialised in animated film. with his award-winning first short “the big brother state” he reached a wide audience throughout the world and won the emergenandsee festival berlin 2007 amongst others. his training as multimedia-designer enables him to take part in many other creative projects as an animator and also code developer.

his works can be found at
www.huesforalice.com
and www.bunchofmonkeys.de

sound and music| javi otero &  cesar meler, 48 billion atoms
speakers voice gir| neath champion-weeks
character design| andre ljosaj

the american film institute (AFI) just launched a new video portal on afi.com featuring hundreds of videos from its vast archives. the collection will be regularly augmented with videos selected from the AFI archive, which contains 10.000 hours of material produced during AFI’s 42 year history, much of which has never been seen by the general public. not to miss great clips such as “alfred hitchcock on mastering cinematic tension” or “steven spielberg: admires animators”

steven spielberg came to AFI in 1978 for a seminar with AFI fellows. in this clip he talks about how he admires the previsualization skills of animators.

“i think all directors should be animators first, because you really can take the imagination to become something tangible, something you can hold in your hand, and say:
“can you see this?
no?!
well, i can…
and then you make that, make that happen…“

keep in touch:  http://twitter.com/americanfilm

dumbo’s bath”, brilliantly animated by vladimir peter tytla (bill tytla) this sequence is one of the greatest ever animated.

happy b-day, anton! we love you!  we can truly say, together we’re invincible! i dedicate the below song to you for your b-day…

download 720p hd version here (right click| save target as)

this video was shot at the okinawa churaumi aquarium in japan, using a canon 5DMKII with a 28-135mm lens. the main tank called the ‘kuroshio sea’ holds 7,500 cubic meters  of water and features the world’s second largest acrylic glass panel, measuring 8.2 meters by 22.5 meters with a thickness of 60 centimeters

music: “please don’t go” by barcelona.  download: mp3

all those arrows you threw, you threw them away| you kept falling in love, then one day| when you fell, you fell towards me| when you crashed in the clouds, you found me| oh, please don’t go| i want you so| i can’t let go| for i lose control| get these left handed lovers out of your way| they look hopeful but you, you should not stay| if you want me to break down and give you the keys| i can do that but i can’t let you leave…

barcelona is a band from seattle, washington, formed in 2006. on december 18, 2008, the band announced that they had been signed to the major label universal records. the band’s songs are harmonious and piano-based with elements of rock. barcelona released a debut album, absolutes, in september 2007.

band members:
brian fennell | vocals, keys
chris bristol | guitar, vocals
rhett stonelake | drums

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*i miss the whisper of a summer breeze. i miss the sea…

for more info see harold’s planet.
harold’s planet was created by lisa swerling & ralph lazar, and is the winner of the “grand prix – international project competition” at the annecy animation festival in france (1998), it has since grown to become one of the uk’s most commercially successful cartoon properties, selling as greetings cards in the millions. harold’s planet appears weekly in the financial times.

music: the sad song by fredo viola

concept, design and high-tech by multitouch-barcelona.com
music: wake up, wake up by lullatone.com
filmed at hangar.org
hi-res pics here

revelation is the story of a guy living in a box, until one day the box open free. and here’s the revelation! revelation is an awesome photography project initiated by jay van dam.

“woke up this morning, closed in on all sides, nothing doing, i feel resistance as i open my eyes someone’s foolin’. i’ve found a way to break through this cellophane line. cos i know what’s going on, in my own mind. am living in a box, am  living in a  cardboard box?” – living in a box 1987

living in a box were a british pop trio from the ‘80s. the members were richard darbyshire (vocals and guitar), marcus vere (synths) and anthony critchlow (drums).

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*a box of chocolate. hi, hi

play more, is a notebook that enacourage people to play at their work. every single paper page has his own ball print. designed by trapped in suburbia – a multi-disciplinary agency from hague (netherlands) that works in the field of identity design, publication design, event design, exhibition design, campaign design.

they create conceptually and strategically strong projects with clear, clever designs and solutions. they like to work on total concepts, for example to create not only the logo but also the name of the ‘product’, the image, the message, the strategy. this results in a strong graphic design.

you can find more info here

goooooooood morning, whoever you are, wherever you are!

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take a look at this great short film animation by korean independent animation team (moohyun jang| jungwoo choo| woosuk jang)  mesai.  some concept sketches can be found at mesai’s website.

i empathize with this guy, tremendously.

fight club is more than a movie and more than a book – it’s a cult, a philosophy that (maybe) will open your eyes and make you (almost) smart,  capable, and, most importantly, free…

remenber: “we are defined by the choices we make”
to do list:  “we have to stop living a boring, robotic life where everything is a copy of a copy of a copy… we have to wake the fuck up and understand that life is not what they’re telling us.  society is feeding us a lie – and that lie has to stop, today… now. there’s no more time for bullshit, no more time and no more tolerance for mind washing. we want the truth, we want freedom – not slavery…”

so, if:

1. you’re not your job.
2. you’re not how much money you have in the bank.
3. you’re not the car you drive.
4. you’re not the contents of your wallet.
5. you’re not your fucking khakis.
6. you are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.

welcome to fight club!

“everything is a copy, of a copy of a copy”

music: kataklysm
photo gallery
format: youtube
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*”how much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?

“stii de ce e dezordine in lume? pentru ca nu e ordine in dumneata. (…) nimeni nu e in ordine. ma uit la toti in jurul meu si vad ca pierd si ordinea in care au fost. si totusi: fiecare poarta asupra sa ordinea lumii; daca tu faci ce trebuie, pui in ordine si restul…” marturisiri ale lui constantin noica.
click here to watch the movie.
“home” a  film by yann arthus bertrand,  official website

” i think i could turn and live with animals, they’re so placid and self contain’d| i stand and look at them long and long.| they do not sweat and whine about their condition,| they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,| they do not make me sick discussing their duty to god,| not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,| not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago| not one is respectable or unhappy over the earth.”—walt whitman| leaves of grass

photo by yann arthus bertrand

11:00 am| operation tahiti| omaha bitch| the slow

porn+champagne+chaos+french ironie+glam metal outifts parody+hard rock’n roll=omaha bitch. i just love it.

band members
matthieu “matrastablancdabassdriver systembaby” gibson
benjamin “rouflaquettesqueeralternativescreammagnolia” marchal
faustin “vibroimpalerwarriorofdeath” claverie
antoine “masterbloodwarhammermetalslugtonio” audagiori
alban “evilglamgrooverofhellandheaven” penicaut

omaha bitch influences

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*do you remember the last time you dance a slow?

the turn is a new interactive website by the multi-media artist & singer fred viola. hexagon and circle shaped videos are turnable. for example, if you want to watch something that’s in an upper panel, click on that panel and it will be turned so you can watch it right side up. this site was developed in collaboration with the  aer studios.
the turn.tv, has won a prestigious laus award in the category of interactive. aside from winning the grand laus, which is the highest award of the whole “interactive” category, the site also won silver in “corporate websites” and gold in “interactive innovation.”

the imagery was inspired by the arrival of summer. “ there’s a smell of heated wood from the forest and all the trees are in bloom” . (…)  i enjoy working with professional and mass-market equipment. most important is to keep things always very simple, says viola

mia: don’t you hate that?

vincent: what?

mia: uncomfortable silences. why do we feel it’s necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?

vincent: i don’t know.

mia: that’s when you know you found somebody special. when you can just shit the fuck up for a minute, and comfortably share silence.

from pulp fiction by tarantino

mia: nu urasti chestia asta?

vincent: ce?

mia: tacerile inconfortabile. de ce simtim nevoia sa vorbim despre tot felul de cacaturi, doar ca sa ne simtim noi bine?

vincent: nu stiu.

mia: asa stii ca ai gasit pe cineva special. atunci cand taci dracului din gura pentru un minut si te bucuri confortabil de tacere.

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* literally kill with silence