EXCLUSIVE Q&A WITH HALLMARK’S “LOVE ON THE MENU” COSTUME DESIGNER VLADIMIR MARKOVIC
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PURE LAND: INSIDE THE MOGAO GROTTOES AT DUNHUANG (Gobo desert) /
Pure Land immerses visitors in the quintessential heritage of hundreds of Buddhist grotto temples, an art treasury abounding with murals, statues and architectural monuments. This UNESCO World Heritage site, also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas is located at Dunhuang, a small town in northwestern China that is an oasis in the Gobi desert. It was a gateway to and from China on the ancient Silk Road, which carried trade between China, western Asia and India from the 2nd century BC until the 14th century AD for over 1000 years.
Using pioneering virtual reality technology, artists and scientists at CityU have developed an extraordinary new animated 3D experience. Visitors are immersed in a large 360-degree panoramic projection theatre that gives a true-to-life experience of being inside a cave temple and seeing its magnificent Buddhist wall paintings at one-to-one scale. Figures and objects in these paintings are dramatized by means of spectacular interactive 3D animations and digital effects that reveal their painterly beauty and underlying narrative meanings.
Pure Land Brochure
Pure Land brings to life the story painted as a single composition on the north wall of Cave 220, known as Bhaisajyaguru’s Eastern Paradise. The detailed mural depicts the paradise Eastern Pure Land of the Medicine Buddha, Bhaisajyaguru. It shows the seven forms or emanations that Bhaisajyaguru can assume as a healer. They stand in a row on lotus platforms with a pool below alongside numerous musicians that are accompanying four performing dancers. The Bhaisajyaguru sutra tells of the twelve great vows of the Buddha, relating to the provision of food, drink, clothing, medicine, and spiritual aids. Devotees were encouraged to light lamps in worship and this is depicted in this painting to either side of the musicians and in the altar with lamps between the dancers.
Earth 2045 /
Interactive Film Campaign screencast
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3D Animation From SCRIPT TO SCREEN /
Animation has come a long way since the days of putting pen to paper... in this detailed and funny documentary leader of an elite penguin spy squad takes you through the Dreamworks pipeline ....the preplanning and post production workflow of animation movies.
enjoy this lovely piece of information...
Problem with The Secret /
"The Secret" is a silly book ... let me correct myself, its not silly as there is no silly books .... Problem is that it is not finished... One law (The law of attraction) explained in a very poor manner ... It's like giving person a drill in the desert hoping it will help him. lame - right ! Or bringing awareness of empathy but not explaining altruism. There is also Laws of process, choice, discipline, balance, responsibilities, expectation, action, harmony etc ....most pple are not aware and not paying attention of those and how they work.
Our life is combination of state of mind , attention flow and cycles.
If humans are like machines ( just as an analogy ) then; the brain is a processor; thoughts are data; heart is motor; and emotions are fuel.
The mind cannot be idle; it needs to work.
Fundamentally our attention - space wise - flows in 2 different directions: outward ( observing world ) and inward ( observing ourself inside - thoughts ).
Time wise the source of thoughts comes from past ( memory ) , future ( imagination ) and there is present ( this moment ) - as you read this, that moment already passed
All of that helps us create our "state of mind" ( its spectrum from positive to negative) under which our thoughts are going to be processed. If we divide this spectrum on 5 stages, with 1st stage "life is all negative " to 5th " life is awesome", it's good to know that it's very hard to influence a person from stage 1 to move to higher stages with ideology of stage 5.
Emotions are hard to control, so it's better to accept them and acknowledge them knowing what we want to achieve and do what needs to be done
Life is a play of polarities. It's like constant battle between souls and egos ... Wanting and needing. Do we feed our soul or our ego or both in the same time?
We start free of meaning, but we are a meaning-making species so awareness is beginning of the growth, ( that's why we are growing our awareness ) as we grow awareness, the Law of Pattern starts to shape and judgment only holds patterns in its place ( there is a paradox as humans "resistant to change" ) , problem is that stress happens when the mind resists.
Obstructions are
1. Limited self concept
2. Fear of failure
3. Destructive criticism
4. Lack of concentrated attention
Its almost like we must to be curator of our thoughts.
Our decisions have 3 dimensional qualities , it is balance between
- rationality
- intuition ( what we train )
- gut instincts ( what we feel )
We are all ignorant, only on different subjects; however every task can be broken in a series of small steps; that's why focus is always on behaviour, with clear focus and strong will as foundation.
Evolution is shaped by collaboration and competition as nothing in this world is created by one person. That is the first principle of innovation ( exchanging ideas; when two brains come together - with same definite goal, intention or purpose - a third will appear ). So we use motivation, inspiration and will power to get us in flow with focus on behaviour through action.
Growth or improvement is not destroying (part of yourself - that part is usually referred to your ego), at least not without understanding what did not work and why ( is lesson learned from this roadblock, learning from negative to reach positive) Pain is inevitable but we can choose how we suffer. ...Growth and improvement is recalibrating wants and needs and placing ego in its place - not killing it.
Ok nuff said ...
Love, all ways, always
Gwen is Back - Baby Don't Lie /
"Baby Don't Lie" talks about insecurities in a relationshipIt and serves as Stefani's musical comeback as a solo artist, her last solo single, "Early Winter", was released in January 2008.
The video for Gwen's song “Baby don’t Lie” is inspired 1939 Film and story of Wizard of OZ it stars a wildly polygonal yellow brick road. ( The 1939 film, a red brick road can be seen starting at the same point as the Yellow Brick Road but going in a different direction, this was inspiration for set design behind Ricardo Tisci’s GIVENCHY MENSWEAR FALL/WINTER 2015-2016 Collection)
Back to Gwen, as Dorothy meets new friends on her journey, each with a need of his own so does Gwen. They are traveling down the road with an army of dancers and mountains of reoccurring Stefani patterns like bold black-and-white stripes, houndstooth and plenty of pink ,the video has Gwen tiptoeing down a morphing yellow road and showing off the first in her array of polka-dotted outfits, other dance troupe eventually arriving to jazz up the clip a little.
The end of the music video finds the Gwen back into the gray world of old hollywood glam , transitioning from black and white to full color.
“I’ve been most influenced by Old Hollywood glamour. I’ve always been fascinated with the style and fashion in classic films. Basically I love anything glamorous that came from the 1930s, ’40s, ’50s, ’60s and even ’70s movies.”
The music video for the song was directed by awesome Sophie Muller and Weirdcore. I worked with Sophie on other projects with Shakira, Sophie as well directed second single Lets Spark the fire witch was colab between Pharell and Gwen.
Here is short behind the scene of the video and atmosphere from the studio. Hope you like it.
Love Somebody /
"Love Somebody" is directed by Rich Lee . The band find themselves enveloped in blue (grey) paint as they play their dancefloor-lite jam.
Emily Ratajkowski is playing Levine's love interest and object of the affection. They are half visible as more and more of his body is revealed, Eventually she slides back into the whiteness, and Levine seemingly erases his true love... and himself.
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Special effects are done by Jeff Dotson , where blue colour is the only visible in final video, making everything else blank canvas .
Made of Black /
"Made of Black" takes a multimedia approach that includes lots of video, social outreach by Fuse OGD and other stars sharing their personal stories, along with hand-painted print ads by Dan Funderburgh and Steve Caldwell.
The centrepiece, SEE HERE directed by Sam Brown fuses elements from different time periods, combining tribal beats and imagery with jazz-age choreography and more modern trappings like a wall of video screens and cutting-edge visual effects. The approach suggests a dynamic cultural heritage powering a self-assured drive toward the future.
Maps & Animals | Maroon 5 /
In support of the new album "V" Maroon5 first two singles MAPS and ANIMALS were released as video lyrics . Inspiration was taken from wilderness and dynamics of amazon forest.
MAPS
You can watch full video here.
ANIMALS
You can watch full video here
....In the meantime official video is in postproduction Adam Levine is staring with Behati Prinsloo where both are getting naked and and the scenes are quite bloody making music video pretty Animalistic and X-rated.
Dior Man /
Here is story in which the black-and-white images segue into each other in a shimmering, powdery, grain-filtered gray, where the camera captures the headlong rush of two soul mates living out a modern love in the throes of youth. Directed by Romain Gavras
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Attracting and electrifying each other, they write their carefree, tumultuous love story, living for the moment, seeking out sensations, diving fully-dressed into a swimming pool, shocking the public at a straight-laced ball. Their tale is unique but nonetheless universal and timeless. Whether on a deserted beach or the rooftops of New York, whatever the destination, the Dior man relishes the pleasures of whichever life he's chosen for himself - a life of a thousand possibilities.
He's in perpetual motion, running towards freedom, navigating the tightrope of an ever-changing life. The Dior man is fearless, embracing the unknown, playing with his own destiny. He has no regrets, his life is unapologetically his own, and he fits a thousand lives into his single one. Magnetic, sensual and provocative
The Look Of Grand Budapest Hotel /
Wes Anderson's THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. Starring Ralph Fiennes, F.
Any film that reaches a wide audience is the end result of countless choices by a broad range of players. Check in with Adam Stockhausen, production designer on The Grand Budapest Hotel who also worked with director Wes Anderson on Moonrise Kingdom and The Darjeeling Limited.
Here are the critical creative decisions made during the making of a film, and how they helped shape the eventual end product.
