CURRENTLY IN MY HEAD
(2/27) The Art of Production Design
American Cinematheque, Art Directors Guild & Set Decorators Society of America presents “Observation, Passion and Imagination : The Art of Production Design” Panel Discussion
: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg (Art Direction) and Kim Sinclair (Set Direction) for AVATAR
: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masara (Art Direction) and Caroline Smith (Set Direction) for THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
: John Myhre (Art Direction) and Gordon Sim (Set Direction) for NINE Sarah Greenwood (Art Direction) and Katie Spencer (Set Direction) for SHERLOCK HOLMES
: Patrice Vermette (Art Direction) and Maggie Gray (Set Direction) for THE YOUNG VICTORIA.
Art Directors Guild President Thomas A. Walsh will moderate the event. *All nominees will appear in person subject to availability. Admission is free, first come, first served.
Saturday March 6, 2010 2- 4:30 pm
Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90028
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(2/22) For All Mankind (1989)
Space will always hold a fascination with me. As a child I remember watching the Space Shuttle Columbia climbed into the night skies on television in 1981. Any young boy at that time wanted to be an astronaut. Recently I found out about a documentary by Al Reinhert.
The film is a collage of many different Apollo missions with narration by the astronauts done in the late 70s. I must say, watching this on my small TV at home does it no justice – watching it reminds me of the 2007 documentary called ” In the Shadow of the Moon” by two UK directors – David Sington and Christopher Riley. I watched this at the Beverly Center in a theater. Just beautiful. I can say this is definitely on top of my theater experience along with watching the remaster Blade Runner.
If you happen to have an opportunity to catch either of these on the big screen, do so. It is well worth your time.
For All Mankind (1989) Part 1
In the Shadow of the Moon (2007) trailer![](<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6593712045527733862-3878544030067200994?l=ejenchuang.blogspot.com">https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6593712045527733862-3878544030067200994?l=ejenchuang.blogspot.com</a>)
(2/6) Nick Knight & Massive Attack’s “100th Window”
“This is the most expensive sleeve we and, I’m told, EMI ever made. If I’d painted that cover [after G left], it would have looked like it was my project so I went back to Nick Knight to work on something more abstract. I was thinking about crystals, refracted light and prisms, and Nick was talking about blowing things up. In the end, we found a glassblower in Brixton willing to make eight human-sized figures. We blew them up on a controlled site and shot them shattering with multiple cameras. It was crazy expensive, having this warehouse full of glass humans exploding.” – Robert ‘3D’ Del Naja
Nick Knight was the photographer behind the album art of Massive Attack’s 2003 release “100th Window”. I’ve been a fan of both Nick and Massive Attack since the mid-90s. Happily I stumbled up on this blog giving some behind the scenes of that album. It’s been a long time coming and their newest album Heligoland releasing on Feb 10., 2010.
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(2/27) The Art of Production Design
American Cinematheque, Art Directors Guild & Set Decorators Society of America presents “Observation, Passion and Imagination : The Art of Production Design” Panel Discussion
: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg (Art Direction) and Kim Sinclair (Set Direction) for AVATAR
: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masara (Art Direction) and Caroline Smith (Set Direction) for THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
: John Myhre (Art Direction) and Gordon Sim (Set Direction) for NINE Sarah Greenwood (Art Direction) and Katie Spencer (Set Direction) for SHERLOCK HOLMES
: Patrice Vermette (Art Direction) and Maggie Gray (Set Direction) for THE YOUNG VICTORIA.
Art Directors Guild President Thomas A. Walsh will moderate the event. *All nominees will appear in person subject to availability. Admission is free, first come, first served.
Saturday March 6, 2010 2- 4:30 pm
Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90028
LINK
(2/22) For All Mankind (1989)
Space will always hold a fascination with me. As a child I remember watching the Space Shuttle Columbia climbed into the night skies on television in 1981. Any young boy at that time wanted to be an astronaut. Recently I found out about a documentary by Al Reinhert.
Reinert first got interested in doing a film about the Apollo missions after researching a story about all of the astronauts for the Texas Monthly in 1979. In an interview with Anne S. Lewis of The Austin Chronicle, the director said, ‘I was amazed that no one had made a movie out of this stuff. Television was the worst way to see the moon; the more you shrink what was the biggest location shoot in cinema history, the more it looked phoney. It just had to be seen on the big screen.’
Initially, Reinert thought For All Mankind would be easy to assemble due to the extensive available footage but it ended up taking ten years to complete. Part of the long production process involved the enlargement of the 16mm footage he selected for his documentary. Since the material had originally been shot on a special type of film that could not be removed from the Johnson Space Center premises, Reinert had to get approval to bring in an optical printer and enlarge the film on site, frame by frame. According to the director, it took him a year and a half just to print 80 minutes of film. http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article.jsp?cid=241247&mainArticleId=241098">VIA
The film is a collage of many different Apollo missions with narration by the astronauts done in the late 70s. I must say, watching this on my small TV at home does it no justice – watching it reminds me of the 2007 documentary called ” In the Shadow of the Moon” by two UK directors – David Sington and Christopher Riley. I watched this at the Beverly Center in a theater. Just beautiful. I can say this is definitely on top of my theater experience along with watching the remaster Blade Runner.
If you happen to have an opportunity to catch either of these on the big screen, do so. It is well worth your time.
For All Mankind (1989) Part 1
In the Shadow of the Moon (2007) trailer
(2/6) Nick Knight & Massive Attack’s “100th Window”
“This is the most expensive sleeve we and, I’m told, EMI ever made. If I’d painted that cover [after G left], it would have looked like it was my project so I went back to Nick Knight to work on something more abstract. I was thinking about crystals, refracted light and prisms, and Nick was talking about blowing things up. In the end, we found a glassblower in Brixton willing to make eight human-sized figures. We blew them up on a controlled site and shot them shattering with multiple cameras. It was crazy expensive, having this warehouse full of glass humans exploding.” – Robert ‘3D’ Del Naja
Nick Knight was the photographer behind the album art of Massive Attack’s 2003 release “100th Window”. I’ve been a fan of both Nick and Massive Attack since the mid-90s. Happily I stumbled up on this blog giving some behind the scenes of that album. It’s been a long time coming and their newest album Heligoland releasing on Feb 10., 2010.