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• 8Dec 07

  Winter Holidays

  Finaly Winter Holidays are near. I'll be flying to Croatia; first to Split then Zagreb. It was 12 years ago the last time I was in Zagreb. So I figured it's time. I'm returning 4th of January. I guess the imagesection will be flooded again.

  C ya - don't wanna be ya!

  

  • Posted Dec 8, 2007 5:14 pm GMT
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• 30Oct 07

  Nightmare on My Street

  

  It has been a century I woke from a nightmare finding myself in soaked sheets. A week ago I did and how! If I remember correctly, when I used to dream or have a nightmare it contained the following points;
  1. it's in color and sound
  2. the speed of the dream is normal play
  3. the actual dream is big in story and involves often many locations
  This time it was totally the opposite. The only line that was unchanged was nr. 1. Yeah, it was in color and sound. But the dream was in slow motion and the so called POV was from the same angle as in anticipation from what was to come. This is the part I hated about it. It stayed for days in my head, keeping my mind busy and wondering every now and then. So let's describe it...

  When I logged in in my dream I was in our family's old house where we used to live when I was a kid. The location was the living room and as it seemed I looked outside from where I was sitting through the half open curtains. The room had a dim light and I couldn't see anything outside because of the dark. Strangely enough, as I was watching outside, a great tension was building up as if I knew something very very odd, strange or rather evil is approaching. It seemed time changed into glue and seconds seemed minutes. My breath grew heavier and heavier and my heart was pounding crazy in my chest. I figured it was gonna jump out of my chest any second now. It was indisputable something was approaching. I remembered how I asked myself during the dream how the heck I knew that, hating and cursing the fact I had to live through that moment. Until suddenly something appeared between the curtains. First it was a blurr, so there was no chance I could make something out of it. Then a blurry face of something best described as a whitch with long black hair that reached to the floor floated through the air, through the window towards me. It was just a whitches head (face white as snow) with long hair and no body and dark holes where eyes were! God this totally freaked me out. So that floating towards me took for ages in my opinion, giving me almost an heart attack. I woke, jumped up, leaning om my hands, breathing heavy. I can laugh about it now, but it was no joke when I woke up. Believe me.

  Geez. It really has been a long time I dreamt something weird like that. Being a fan of the horror genre a lot passes my iris, but very rarely something scares me to that extent as it did in this nightmare. When was your last nightmare you can remember that freaked you out?

  • Posted Oct 30, 2007 8:46 am GMT
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• 19Oct 07

  Digital Disgust

  I hope that this digital era, that didn't show that much at all, just bits and pieces with scarce movies like Vidoq and some few fantasy movies (I don't even wanna go there to mention Toy Story and such), goes a lil' further with that motion capture thing. I remember rubbing my hands years ago when Vidoq was announced when they said all that stuff about digital technology and how far they have gone with it. Being a big fan of the horror and fantasy genre I eagerly awaited what was to come. So when eventually Vidoq came out I saw it in the cinema twice and bought the 2 disc DVD special edition. Then I waited again. I reassured myself with: "Nah, Toy Story is not going to be the only thing coming out". It proved I was wrong because the only digital masterpiece I had to enjoy for quite some time was Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. At least a good step in the right direction for my tastes.

  I'm not referring to digital technology used in a movie as such, no, I'm talking about movies that are made digitally in its entirety. Somehow I imagined a comic I used to read when I was a kid; Storm (pics included), come to life in this digital era. Remember that one? Not movies based on comics that would rape the hero status of your favorite comic idol of all time. A good example of this is Spiderman. Man that one had hit me hard. Spiderman was one my biggest heroes when I was a kid. Read since the first issue there ever was. And what did Sam Raimi (another disappointment, because he too was my herowho has made Evil Dead) managed to do? He casts a totally wrong Peter Parker and Mary Jane. God I think she's ugly. No matter, the Spiderman movies are lame. Humph, almost 40 years of stories and artwork and that's what they came up with. Disgusting.

  

  We will see how long it will take 'till this so called digital evolution really evolves. You may have seen the trailers of Beowulf, where they motion captured those actors. Angelina Jolie looked hot. But why is it that projects like that are so many years apart from one another. We don't have just 3 or 4 movie companies in the world spending big money, so where are these epic 3D stories and saga's. I'm wondering. Take the science fiction series that are showing around the world right now. Don't get me wrong here, I like a lot of 'em. But they are too cheaply made (again not all of 'em) and dramatized Santa Barbara wise Geez. Was Gene Roddenberry the last respected guy that could manage to bring something like Earth: The Final Conflict and having the cojones to risk something, no matter how remote the subject is. Ok ok, Eureka and a scarce few of em is trying and so on, really making an effort to be totally different.

  The point I wanna make is, if you are telling me that we live in an digital era, then I wanna see that result. Not only in how cool my cell phone or mp4 player can be. Where is that capability and capacity that shows not only in hardware or software, but also in many forms of art too? Remember, many 3D art is not considered art.

  Don't you find it interesting that the only thing that they are doing now in the movie business (last 10 years or so) is remaking old stuff and making movies out of comics, reaching out to the past, to stories or movies that influenced a lot of people? This way they have a so called insurance that that project would make money. Commercial, commercial, commercial. In this we loose soul in everything. Don't you find it striking that there are no more "iconic" creations, like Pinhead, Freddy Krueger, Clint Eastwood in his spaghetti westerns to go a lil' back in time. Don't tell me the story that we don't have enough material or books. We have more than enough to create what wasn't possible to create before.

  

  ICONIC HEROES ONLY IN COMICS AND GAMES

  I know it's the game and comics industry's work to create heroes, villains and what not, but they managed to stay so strong and even get a cult status rivaling all the other industries. I know we live in a different era and almost every household has a PC, DVD, TV, (widescreen, almost to be HDTV everywhere and surround sound), stereo and at least 1 of the game consoles, while some 30/40 years ago not every household had a TV. I know we have something called pop culture and everything that goes with it. I know we have internet, touch screen technology and satellite TV. But it seems we lack imagination. Still, how is it that the game and comics industry slowly surpassed with their "iconic" presentation of characters?

  Well, as a big fan of movies, I like to see the quality coming back instead of quantity. In between, I'll stick with the movies made by; David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Pedro Almodóvar, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alex Projas, Lasse Hallström, Alex de la Iglesia, Quentin Tarrantino, Robert Rodriguez, Danny Boyle, Takeshi Kitano, Alejandro Amenábar, Mathieu Kassovitz, Christopher Nolan, Guy Ritchie, Mikael Håfström, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, David Fincher. Just to name a few. I know these guys will deliver every single time. Just had to say this.

  • Posted Oct 19, 2007 5:11 am GMT
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