chemical brothers

The Salmon Dance... the song is ok, but the video really impressed me! I love the 3D animation. It took 10 weeks and 20 people's work to do it. Here you can read an interview from the writers of Creative Review with Ben Cronin, VFX supervisor of Framestore CFC:

making-the-chemical-brothers-fish-dance

And they have the video there as well.

nuovomondo/golden gate 2006

I saw this movie the other day. It's a French/Italian production, a film by Emanuele Crialese. It's the story of a very poor family from Sicily that decides to go to America, land of all possibilities, where huge fruits are growing and people are swimming in milk rivers. Crialese is combining scenes in the real world (their home, the boat on which they are traveling, the examinations they must pass in order to be accepted in the New World) with surrealistic images of America (huge apples kids are carrying, a carrot more than 2 meters long, coins falling from the trees). The characters have strong personalities: Salvatore, a widower and father of two boys, very confident and optimistic about the new life expecting them; Fortunata (= the fortunate one), mother of Salvatore, an old lady very fiery and proud, who was against this voyage; Lucy (or Luce, in Italian, meaning Light), a mysterious British woman they met on the boat, who will be like a mentor for Mancuso family in this passing towards the new life. The music sometimes reminds you of Kusturica's movies, even some of the images. And the story has some elements in common with John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940).

Nuovomondo won many awards at Venice Film Festival and was presented at other film festivals like TIFF, Tribeca (presented by Martin Scorsese). Was also nominated for a European Film Award, for the Film of the Year.

junior boys

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1999.

I like their music very much. I only discovered them a few months ago, some friends told me about them. I listened their two albums Last Exit (2004) and So This Is Goodbye (2006). The songs I like most are Double Shadow, In The Morning, So This is Goodbye. Their style is minimal techno, synth electro-pop... and maybe some more. Check out their video and my favourite song here:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BiI-3uRfaSc

Quoting them on their last album:

"

So This Is Goodbye is a very travel sick record. It expresses what we might call nomadalgia. Nomadalgia, the sickness of travel, would be a complement to, not the opposite of, the sickness for home, nostalgia. The album invokes a globalized world in which we are all tourists - at home everywhere and nowhere, constantly connected but always alone.

"

communication re:

I wonder if Daft Punk wanted to underline also the communication issue in their movie. ELECTROMA. Semi-experimental movie following the two main characters (robots) on their journey on becoming humans. Maybe. Maybe now we should find our way back to being more humans than robots.

1 2 3 take it from me ....

communication

In the society nowadays, there are so many possibilities ... because humans evolved so much, society together with them, now everything seems to be ... feasible. Communication ways developed so much (internet, mobile phone, tv, press) that sometimes you almost feel like it's easier to send a short but concise sms than to talk to that person. I'll get back on this subject soon.

hello and welcome

Hello. Looking forward to blog on.