Persist
Pixar’s inspiring letter to all the world’s creative
by Austin Madison, Pixar animator
(via pushthemovement)
Source: javiercarrete
North Carolina Comic Shop To Boycott Action Comics | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors
Um. Wow. Really? I almost have to love it even if this is some stupid public stunt.
One of the tasks faced by serious filmgoers is to distinguish good films in disreputable genres. It is insufferable to claim you “never” see horror movies (or Westerns, musicals, war movies, teenage romances or slasher pictures). You’re presenting ignorance as taste. The trick is to find the good ones.
…If a film holds my attention, it is in one way or another a good one. If it moves or delights me, if may be great. If I am distracted by its conventions, obligatory scenes and carelessness or lack of ambition, it deserves to be tossed back into the genre.
Beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful.
Glen Hansard and Eddie Vedder sing “Falling Slowly” on PJ20, Day 2 (by AvalonSkyPhotog)
Source: youtube.com
Source: feministryangosling
The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
Source: www-tc.pbs.org
Haiti, Occupied Country (an article of Eduardo Galeano)
So good.
SO good.
Thank you, and thank god for you, Eduardo Galeano.
Of all the music videos Heath Ledger directed, this one may be my favorite. Everything of him is here, and it’s the most beautifully directed music video I’ve ever seen.
Heath Ledger’s first music video was “Cause An Effect” in 2005 with his friend N’fa, an Australian rapper. It involved just a couple of lights, a talented makeup artist, and his garage. He directed a follow-up, “Seduction Is Evil (She’s Hot)” also by N’fa, and then this video with Ben Harper in 2006. His last video was “King Rat” by Modest Mouse in 2009, completed and released after his death, and an incredibly affecting animated short reflecting his feelings about the whaling outside his hometown Perth. (There’s also unreleased footage he did for “Black Dog” by Nick Drake, one of his favorite musicians.)
I feel from these videos that Heath Ledger had a wonderful grasp of the human body, shapes, and especially of light and dark, and what light does to the human body and face. A great visual language, and just another reason why I ache that his creativity was just beginning to rocket when his accident occured.
