Category: Great Stories
Immortal the movie – turned out the director is a concept artist Enki Bilal who inspired the Fifth Element and Blade Runner sets
Often there is something ABOUT things that you can’t really pinpoint – is it the story, the colors, the quirks.. the quarks;) ? There is something about movie or a story that you know you like against all better judgement.. I am still mining words for this as it is still fresh in my mind. but last night i looked a bit into the guy who directed the movie, Enki Bilal – a serbian comic artist whose comic books it turned out, in the 80s, inspired Blade Runner and The Fifth Element, as opposed to the other way around. Once I found that bit of information i started to look at the sets with fresh eyes… because the sets and the architecture did remind me of the Fifth Element and my first reaction was to think that immortals borrowed ideas from it. Quite the opposite.
Remember the yellow taxi from the Fifth Element??
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Corbin? Corbin Dallas?
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Enki Bilal‘s futuristic visions were created for his Nikopol comic book series:
“.. In 1980 he began his award-winning ‘Nikopol-trilogy’, including the books ‘La Foire aux Immortels’, ‘La Femme Piège’ and ‘Froid Équateur’. Besides these comics activities, Enki Bilal started working in film, theater and opera. He created sets, costumes and posters for a theater play and worked on two feature films.”
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I love every bit of Enki Bilal’s futuristic visions. Here are some of his concepts:
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Immortal (2004 film) – Wikipedia
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Immortel (ad vitam) 2004 – Full Movie
Immortel (ad vitam) 2004 – Full Movie
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with me a movie reveals itself as watchable in the first 5 seconds. It doesn’t mean anything other than a personal preference – you either stay with a visual or you don’t. There are big budget productions that leave me cold, this one is my peoples movie – weird and vulnerable. Watch it while you can.
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I recently realized that perfection doesn’t mean anything in art. What means something is creating memorable experience, whether it is a painting or a movie that simply moves people, they stay in awe and for a moment they forget their own reality and enter the reality of the artist – say a Picasso or a Van Gogh or pick one – Lucas, Stanley Kubrick.. little bit of David Lynch. Like when Arthur c Clarke takes you places, you get to skip a billion light years in the span of a page, or within the blink of a movie. You enter the hyperspace of imagination, which is the space you, and the author of the experience inhabit together. This is the ultimate sharing – when we get to share intellectually and emotionally and enjoy in the little quirks of humanity.
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Original Star Wars bloopers
Mac Book Pro Bench – it makes for nice furniture, and a nice brick. A story with a Mac
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So there is this story where I drove with my Mac Pro on the back seat of my tiny blue Hyundai Accent from Florida to San Francisco. Somewhere in West Texas I started seeing very few cars and many animals on the road. I had stayed at a hotel in a tiny Texas town called Junction the previous night and there were groups of people there with giant SUVs gathered to hunt boar in the hills.
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So there I was trying to make it to the next town with this giant torpedo on the back seat of my car and I remember driving and thinking what would happen if I hit a deer or a boar this Mac is gonna flatten me through the window and shoot me out there towards the hills somewhere. Somewhere between San Antonio and El Paso I saw a giant pile of animal on the road.
Turned out it wasn’t a pile of animals it was a single giant torso in the middle of the highway sliced right down the middle by a passing vehicle. So here I was passing through the valley of a dead animal thinking this could be the end of me. At the next rest area i got out and moved my Mac from the back seat to the passenger seat next to me and we continued the two of us like that together. It is a pretty good companion for a brick and I highly recommend it for long journeys.
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I sold the Macey ( below ) and to be honest don’t miss it as it was at least 40 pounds with all the intestines. It was beautiful in its own way. I’d wager though no Mac Pro has ever been stolen I bet they regretted even thinking it once they grabbed the very holdable looking handles.
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Merry Christmas from Stormtroopers
A really talented guy from Ireland did a fan movie with my AT-AT – Micheal is doing a second installment and we wish him all the best in his new adventures.
Pre-Christmas note on Steve etc
What really is the overarching theme in my respects to Steve is that I don’t really know him as a person and never got a chance to interact with him personally. What I know about him in a more personal space is what I have heard from colleagues leaving Lucas and going on to work for Apple. But i do know that what he created is exceptional in many respects.
My note is more about the reality that we are carbon based beings crawling on top of a lonely rock. And we need individuals like Steve and Elon to help us overcome our limitations. We have powerful consciousness that allows us to influence our environment. We need to realize that we need to develop our capacity to think in terms of our being species capable of one day becoming a multi-planetary species.
In Steve’s interview there’s a segment where he is talking about individuals who are capable of working together to lift and improve the lives of many people. So basically the capable and the willing get together and produce in order to move forward the human race as a whole.
When I have time I’ll put together the most important segments of this interview as these are the profound realizations of a person with tangible proof he was a capable person.
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There’s Plato, there’s Aristotle and there’s Steve.
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One significant point he makes in the interview in my previous post is that he recognized the significance of Graphical User Interface early on, on his trip to Xerox. But Xerox really died and the technology lost traction at Xerox so if Steve didn’t steal it and improve on it – it would have been lost. So there’s the argument for stealing to some degree – we cannot overregulate neither molecules nor ideas. It is not necessary and it is harmful. Imagine if Xerox had sued Steve for half his empire. So here is the argument against over regulating our society as the way we deal with ideas and innovation. Imagine if the estates of all living artists in Paris had to sue Picasso for infringement.
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here’s the “tumbling Rocks” story as told by Steve:
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