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You have never before in your life been feeling sorry for a slice of bread.
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Boston Dynamics Weird rRobot
This is one of the possibly first instances in my life where I feel weird and surprised about wheels.
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This is where all your nightmares meet reality. There’s also the licking robots video which was definitely something to hold my attention for some time but you gotta google that one. It is not a big deal, we attribute too much to it but I gotta say these tongues were pretty large for robots, never mind the lips.
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Speaking of Prequels – The Incredible Miniatures Used to Create the Star Wars Prequels
http://www.slashfilm.com/star-wars-prequels-miniatures/
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I could spend a whole day looking at these online.
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there are sooo many of them – I am surprised as well – I thought all this was CG:
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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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Wanted to be clear on one issue – I love the prequels, and everything in it
Why would anyone be upset at fiction is strange to me – I for example do not like violence and for some reason also do not like Stephen King. Love action movies but anything Tarantino and up, blood gore and dismemberment horror movies are out of my comfort zone. I just won’t be able to function for days that’s all. But this is very personal and will remain just one sentence – i don’t want to ruin anyone’s appreciation of whatever they may be into.
To me the prequels are magic, I am completely color blind to their faults although I intellectually understand where the problems are. I have seen them many times – my mind functions very strangely in that very often I quickly forget details so every time I re-watch a movie it is like almost brand new experience.
I grew up on sci-fi, hard sci-fi and pretty weird sci-fi. It is the story, the whole package that is magic for me. Like someone waved a wand and am transported, can’t see any rotten trees in the magic forest. It is like watching Sesame street – do you worry about acting or the costumes? I am not gonna pick apart the acting in a thing with lightsabers. For the same reason I like to eat falafel – I like the way it makes me feel. I do not know if it is the process of chewing it, the crushing of the fried bits, the sauce, the pita – at the end of the day we like the experiences that make us feel good a bit of a mystery too.
Can you make me eat steak? – hardly – I am not gonna try to make you give up your meat. We are going to exist together in this universe where some of us like our pizza with the crust crisp, and our toast burned. Also, I like my universe with certain amount of innocence in it, where it is a bit stupid, and a little bit bad. Like when my dad says you know I am a realist and then I say well dad the reality is we are hanging upside down in space right now.
https://lasvegasweekly.com/ae/film/2015/dec/10/star-wars-defense-of-the-prequels/
Hi, How are you doing?
Saturn popping out from behind the moon to ask if we’re all okay.
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I am good, thanks.
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What’s the focal length this was shot at? Would a 300mm suffice?
From The New York Times:
An Expensive View (but Hardly Expansive) of New York City
They say using the 1,200-millimeter lens is like looking at the world through a straw, so a reporter and photographer decided to find out.
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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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