Friday, November 28, 2008

Winter is coming

It appears there is nothing that puts me more off a film than having it begin with Keira Knightley, looking even more anorexic than usually, trying to sing erotically, followed by a close-up of Scarlett Johannson's mouth trying to exhale cigarette smoke erotically.
British films are really at their best when they do not try to imitate Hollywood and instead use their typical wit and charm, with actors that look like real people (with wrinkles and all).
(see Plots with a View for a great example of such films)

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Some more stuff from the recent live-drawing sessions. We finally had a male model, and I quickly realised that drawing him isn't any different from drawing her. In the end, they're all objects consisting of light and shadow and are mostly, sadly, objecitfied by me.





We also did some movement studies, which I hate, hate, hate with a passion. How are you supposed to find an accurate line if the line changes all the time? (And the light and shadow changes, too.)

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Angst!

http://science.orf.at/science/news/153566

Manuela said...

Uah. The knife! The knife!

The heading sounds more sensational than the article is. Still, must feel extremely weird to interact with yourself in that way.

But I contest that you can't tickle yourself ;)

Anonymous said...

Well, I can ;) (for real) and I'm sure I can show you how...

But you're right, the headline promised more then the article delivered...

Heres the link to a nice Reality Check (down in the podcast-thing you'll find the radioshow)

Anonymous said...

yeah, I'm tired right now, so here's the link ;)

http://fm4.orf.at/connected/224884/main

Manuela said...

Wow. At first I thought that podcast was a joke. That is really scary how advanced we already seem to be with robotics and cybernetics.

As if doping discussions in sports weren't bad enough; now we have to add cyborg morality, too. Say hello to a new stage of complexity in the world.

Anonymous said...

Todays reality-check:

http://fm4.orf.at/connected/225310/main