Beautifully made, with Canon 7D

This is what good editing/cinematography is all about, a real human experience…by Andrew Clancy

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Song: ‘We don’t eat’ by James Vincent McMorrow

Special School

Great sounds

Jon Clark, Professor Elemental and Nick Maxwell have recently been wearing ill advised costumes, climbing pylons and shooting girls in the face with distress flares. They’ve made an album.

Burning Man

Once a year, tens of thousands of people gather in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert (also known as “the playa”) to create Black Rock City, a temporary metropolis dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance.The rules are different here: it’s ok to wear no clothes, and cover yourself in body paint – hedonism, beauty and creativity are encouraged. Towards the end, the mind-blowing, larger-than-life art installations and sculptures are set on fire, leaving no trace. WILD. It can only be Burning Man.

Burning Man is one of the most interesting events in the world, but also one of the most difficult to describe. It’s not quite an art festival, not quite a desert rave, and not quite a social experiment, but something of all three. What’s remarkable about it is that it’s organized around creativity and self-expression.

A good friend of mine, & now jedi yoga flex pro in South America (Jula Hoola) went there last year and said in the smallest of sentences: “I can’t explain it, everybody should experience it”

“There is no way to convey the sheer immensity of Burning Man to someone who has never been there. There is also something rather dreamlike and enchanting about the way it rises out of the open desert for a few brief days only to vanish again after the event is over. Toward the end of the week, much of the infrastructure – including the 40-foot effigy from which Burning Man takes its name – goes up in flames.”

For many participants, the appeal of the desert was that there were no rules. My interpretation of how it may feel is that we should all be living like so, a scene out of Mad Max…

Aiming to go in the year 2014, think about it

Burning Man

iSteve

Amazing tribute to apples magician, artwork by Charis Tsevis

How Steve Jobs forever altered product design

The Design Industry pays tribute to Steve

Joining (unjoining) the Wagon

Google +, just as facebook was to Myspace, but much better…

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Ruby Wax – Losing it

Ruby’s acerbic, honest humour and Judith Owen’s touching songs are both poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. This show gives you the chance to explore the ups and downs of mental illness, its stigmas and the freedom you discover when you share the darkest moments of your life.

I haven’t laughed that much in a long time, a powerfully honest display. Her wacky wobbly performance takes you the through the intial concept of ‘being a bit different growing up’ to the inexplicable grey slab of a brain she ended up with after a nervous breakdown (it happened at her childrens sports day whilst other ladies where talking about shiffon dresses and cups of tea, she fell down and explained she was just smelling the grass). Her piano playing sidekick Judith provides moving intervals between each story and Ruby often cuts her off, demostrating her need to be the favourite, Judith just sits there and takes it. 1 in 4 of us will experience this paralysing disease at some point in our lives. Each line is a hilarity and she is able to laugh at her own desperate need to be the centre of attention (frantically ripping out pages in Hello magazine). I wish I could get my hands on a copy of the script as she exlpores all the notions of fragility in human beings that we are sometimes just to proud to admit. She has always been a favourite for me & my mum, writing for Ab Fab and various other comedy performances.

She explains that instead of us being good at something and ending up well known for it, we just want to be well known and skip the skill part.

Ruby previously studied psychology at the University of Berkeley, California and is currently undertaking her Master’s at Oxford University, studying the mind.

” When people ask me how I am doing I say: Oh just like you, nurturing my ego, dealing with idea of death and trying not to feel lonely, would you like a cup of tea?” – Brilliant.

Melancholia by Lars Von Trier –

The film premiered in May 2011 at the 64th Cannes Film Festival and the wait is over to be able to see it in cinemas as of today. An Apocalyptic story by Lars Von Trier, who’s initial inspiration for the film came from a depressive episode he suffered and the insight that depressives remain calm in stressful situations. The narrative revolves around two sisters during and shortly after the wedding party of one of them, while Earth is about to collide with an approaching rogue planet. The film prominently features Richard Wagner’s overture for his opera Tristan und Isolde.

http://www.melancholiathemovie.com/

Times they are a’ changing

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2011/09 Chris Bangle of Chris Bangle Associates from Creative Mornings/London on Vimeo.

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