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Monday, February 14, 2011

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Micheal Cina, for Ghostly International

So, I just watched this recently released Tamil film, by Shankar Shanmugam. Endhirnan was released in October of 2010 to become the most expensive Indian film ever made, as well as the highest grossing one. The plot circles around Dr. Vaseegaran who is a scientist responsible for creating an android robot that resembles him physically. When Chitti, the andoid, fails to pass a delegated test at a technology conference, Dr. Vaseegaran decides to create artificial hormones, so that Chitti might be ablet to synthesize emotion, and thus discern right from wrong. This, the pivot point in the film, then leads to several important misshaps, one of which leads Chitti to fall in love with Sana, Dr. Vaseegaran's girlfriend. (Sana raised my eyebrows a bit as far as a representation of a modern Indian woman, but that is perhaps for another blogpost.)
What creates the film's success is the combination of both western and eastern elements of visual storytelling, culture, and high budget computer graphics. The fight sequences are of epic stature unseen even in Hollywood's latest action films, because they recall stories of Hindi god's, as well as Indian culture. I am no expert on Indian culture in the least, but there is something to be said when a 100 robots bind together to create a flat net, that shoots and waves as a unit, and then bind again to create a lethal gunning sphere that rolls through the streets. There is also a nice scene in which Chitti magnetically pulls the weapons of two gun squads and shoots them from himself as if they are a horizontal fan of death. The film also manages, through the kitch, the spectacle and the drama, to address deeper notions in an almost surreal way through scene meditations that seem to take the viewer complete aside from the plot. There is a scene in which Chitti has prolonged conversations with a band of mosquitos, one of whom has bitten Sana, and forces him to apologize after having agreed to a deal. The scene raises questions of nature personified vs. technology personified, and one submitting to the other. Other ideas, raised in other seemingly disjointed scenes discuss issues of gender, love, emotion, humanity and evil.
All in all, impressive, interspersed in true Bollywood fashion with dance/song numbers, and a bit long, but creative, and very interesting to watch. Sample the very intense trailer at the link above.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

JAMES BLAKE

James Blake - Limit To Your Love from James Blake on Vimeo.

Friday, September 24, 2010

amazing article w jay-z and warren buffet

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/1011/rich-list-10-omaha-warren-buffett-jay-z-steve-forbes-summit-interview_2.html

an interview w two of the most successful people of our time, both w sound advice.

JZ- or me, it's that truth, finding the truth of the moment, of where I am at the time, not trying to cater to a certain demographic or being something I'm not, not driving the truck over a 10,000-pound bridge. There are so many similarities in what he was just saying. So for me, it's just having the discipline, and the confidence in who I am. If I go into a studio and find my truth of the moment, there are a number of people in the world who can relate to what I'm saying, and are going to buy into what I'm doing. Not because it's the new thing of the moment, but because it's genuine emotion. It's how I feel. This is how I articulate the world.

http://video.forbes.com/fvn/forbes400-10/jay-z-buffett-forbes-success-giving ; you can watch the entire video here. for those seeking amazing information, give yourself the full 53 minutes:)

cheers:)