List of Monumental sculpture projects 2015

  • 1 http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2015/02/sunday-robot-play.html
  • 2 http://shuengitswannjie.blogspot.fr/2015/02/interactive-reading-room-tea-house-2015.html
  • 3 http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2014/06/neo-ming-bed-luxembourg.html
  • 4 http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2013/02/yuzi-paradise-tell-moon.html
  • 5 http://swannbb.blogspot.com/2011/09/12th-changchun-international-sculpture.html
  • 6 http://www.saatchionline.com/Shuen-git

Friday 29 September 2017

Nos années folles - dir André Téchiné - **

Nos années folles - film 2017

dir André Téchiné, between 1.5 to 2**

I was dragged into the cinema yesterday, and just sat down when the first line of the screen came up, saying that this is a true story etc.  I had not known which film that I was seeing.

Then, turned out that its a period piece, set in post war, and warring period in France.  War time, women sewing, embroidery for the rich, fancy dresses in this superb atelier - this style of atelier construction is still common in Paris in certain neighbourhoods.  With a very nice green court yard, where the women ate picnic lunches, drinks tea, coffee, a small glass 1/4 filled glasses at time.  The ambiance of the atelier is very friendly, no jealousy, cat scheming complications.  

The story:

We see two young people passionately in love, all naked, breast, butts, implied  moving penis on top of the woman.  As much flesh as possible.  This passionate love making is repeated several times during the film to show that they are truly in love.

Then the man who is soldier, deserted the army escaped from hospital - he lost a section of his index finger and used this as a reason to refused to go on the front line, dragging it out.

He hid in his mother in laws basement - one with a beautiful light well where he could actually see passerbys!
Dangerous times, people from the army came to look for him - they looked under the bed, searched a bit here and there.  But with such severity, they did not search in the basement where he hid.  Full fledged installed basement.  So he made up as a woman after his wife suggested the idea - so his transformation from man to woman was a measure of expediency to go outside.  He found bois de boulogne and became a special sex worker - and made lots of money.  etc.  and met counts, different men.

The male actor has a similar face to the very successful film on "Danish man changed sex into a woman" (will check the exact name of this film).  But his acting is rough.  No feminity at all.  But he wasnt supposed to, he was only dressed as a woman using this as a cover and making easy money and enjoying physical sex.
The female actor, has big lovely eyes, and beautiiful elegant body - however, she is always a bit wooden and sad.  

I did not feel any firework, love from all these maxed out sex scenes.  Not from the woman not from the man.  The count who seduced her, is also not quite adequate.  He looked like a well fed school boy uttering his lines.  No mean/decadent/kind/perversion/silly or any personal traits, no "count" presence.

Anyway, so the story goes that when his cover (being deserter ) is no longer needed, he trid to go back to his normal life.  But could not play the Q and A part of the theatre roles that he played (telling his life story as travestie) at the cabaret show.  So no more job.  The public wanted to know, how why how you feel, who you are.  He was drained.  But even at this critical turning point, no convincing acting from the actor - is that the directors responsibility or the actors?

More scenes, fighting, slapping wife because his manhood is no longer so convincing even to himself.  He also lost his touch in playing seductive woman, the only life he knew outside of being soldier - so he tried to harm his own baby and locked his wife inside the house.  And the wife shot him.  

End of story.

This movie is a bit like a comic book, but without the advantages of a comic book. They tell you the main story lines, and the viewer must fill in the rest themselves.  However a comic book is not the same as a movie.  In a comic book, the reader could take time, go over the drawings, think about the dialogue at their own pace, go back etc.  Here, its a story line that has been sketched out roughly, pushed through a time line, and the audience captures whats given on screen, roughly.  And then, its over.  

Then, from the credits, I realised this is a film by Andre Techine!  
Why was this movie made? 

My guess is, maybe wrong...
Well if somebody wants to make a film as a business venture, a film will be made with whatever conditions you have at hand.

  

Wednesday 27 September 2017

Shanghai 1976 - to be reviewed; aquatic whistles

胡雪楊導演。youtube. Shanghai 1976. Xueyang Hu. director. ****
Recommended. https://youtu.be/FwBKDaCVD0g
開塲的幾分鍾已看出是精品。比如。那个媽媽知道女兒出事了。很急。但还要坐公车才能到警察局。那一般电影可能就拍媽媽很焦急。等车又累等等表情等等。但这个塲景很簡潔。有節奏。舞蹈性的美感。我们看到的是特寫。是靈活漂亮的兩腳。交义一跳。上了公车。普通人眼是不會在这庅低的角度看到这个細節的。小説文字也不會寫出耒。只有連環图或电影才會有这样的動態的画面。而这样的电影芸術性的画面在我看到的幾段都有出現。
Very intimiste film, you could feel the heart and soul of this generation of people, the hardship, the love, the difficulties. stories from this period is not very often made into film. Or not seen in public cinemas. Its warmth and story from the inside is special. A v pure period of contemporary history. Something I felt from watching Jiang Wen's "Yang Guang Tsang Lan de ReZi" Will find link to show. Recently, I saw also on youtube yesterday, a film w Feng XiaoGang, called "Lao Pow". The youth decadent youth portrait is like an image from a computer game. This part is eye candy but are we sure they look like this?
Anyway... so many movies to catch up. This is the golden age for Chinese cinema. Lets, "wipe our eyes and watch" !
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1991年,胡雪楊執導了第一部影片《留守女士》,以獨特的眼光關注一個獨特的群體。影片採用了紀實的手法,帶有生活流的特點。夜景較多,場面多為暗色調,影片人物、場景較少,場面調度比較精巧,避免人物動作上的重複。展示了都市和都市人的面貌。在較慢的節奏中揭示人物內心。該片獲第12屆中國電影金雞獎最佳導演處女作獎以及第十六屆開羅國際電影節最佳影片--金字塔大獎、首屆美國聖克格里塔國際電影節獲優秀導演製作獎。
Cairo Film Festival, Golden Pyramide Prize (best film)





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Shanghai 1976 .Xueyang Hu dir ****

Shanghai 1976.****
胡雪楊導演。Xueyang Hu. director

Recommended. 

開塲的幾分鍾已看出是精品。比如。那个媽媽知道女兒出事了。很急。但还要坐公车才能到警察局。那一般电影可能就拍媽媽很焦急。等车又累等等表情等等。但这个塲景很簡潔。有節奏。舞蹈性的美感。我们看到的是特寫。是靈活漂亮的兩腳。交义一跳。上了公车。普通人眼是不會在这庅低的角度看到这个細節的。小説文字也不會寫出耒。只有連環图或电影才會有这样的動態的画面。而这样的电影芸術性的画面在我看到的幾段都有出現。

Very intimiste film, you could feel the heart and soul of this generation of people, the hardship, the love, the difficulties. stories from this period is not very often made into film. Or not seen in public cinemas. Its warmth and story from the inside is special. A v pure period of contemporary history. Something I felt from watching Jiang Wen's "Yang Guang Tsang Lan de ReZi" Will find link to show. Recently, I saw also on youtube yesterday, a film w Feng XiaoGang, called "Lao Pow". The youth decadent youth portrait is like an image from a computer game. This part is eye candy but are we sure they look like this?
Anyway... so many movies to catch up. This is the golden age for Chinese cinema. Lets, "wipe our eyes and watch" !





Saturday 23 September 2017

Rafael Araujo: architect illustrator, by hand, construction lines, beautiful!

http://www.archdaily.com/802427/this-architect-fuses-art-and-science-by-hand-illustrating-the-golden-ratio
Rafael Araujo is a Venezuelan architect and illustrator who at the age of fifteen began to observe intelligent patterns in nature, giving rise to his interest in the golden ratio located in our natural environment.



Friday 8 September 2017

Giant Bubble ; acrylic domes, stainglass giant flame by Tom Fruin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV6Wh-KX3bY 





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdCiybJeP2w








http://www.omegon.eu/instruments/omegon-observatory-dome-3m-diameter/p,19959
6mm thick, w structure, 2.4height, 2.4 diameter; cost 4165eur / not available now

https://www.designboom.com/art/tom-fruin-statue-liberty-flame-broken-factory-windows-10-26-2014/



















transparent house



The Woodland House By Carlo Santambrogio

This is the most interesting house on the list—mainly because it looks like a giant ice cube with all that snow in the background and its blue coating.
http://news.mit.edu/2015/3-d-printing-transparent-glass-0914

The high-temperature system developed by the MIT team retains those properties, producing printed glass objects that are both strong and fully transparent to light. Like other 3-D printers now on the market, the device can print designs created in a computer-assisted design program, producing a finished product with little human intervention.

Apple store in glasgow - glass staircase







Sunday 3 September 2017

diy 3d ceramic printer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFdH6RtvGyo
3d ceramic printer  Andenne, France

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v-fNXnAaPw
extruder w clay (Italian company)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v-fNXnAaPw
w ram extruder delta bot

Saturday 2 September 2017