Thursday 22 April 2010

Green Porno

Last week we went to see a collection of shorts presented at the Kurzfilmnacht Tour 2010.
The most creepy and funny was the last collection from Isabella Rossellini's new series of Green Porno.

Here is one of my favourites: "Run!"






Since then she did a new series of Seduction in the same style as the previous Green shorts.
I like the one about the salmons the most. It is more dramatic as the others.


You can watch all parts at the Sundance Channel


But the best from the Kurzfilmnacht Tour 2010 collection:




And the funniest: "Las Pelotas" (Chris Niemeyer, CH 2009) [trailer]
"This is not about sex, it's science"


Sunday 18 April 2010

Eyjafjöll

Some very nice photos to show the contrast of something that is very powerful, terrifying and beautiful at the same time: the "consequences" of the Eyjafjöll eruption 2010.

Saturday 17 April 2010

scared of falling in love


One road to heaven, it leads to despair,

Tell me You’ll never leave me again,

Searching for Moonlight on a sunny day,

Everything’s changing on the daily trail.


Is there a point trying or not?

I’m lost in the way You seek in my eyes,

No way to stop and grasp the spot,

So I keep going on playing around...


Because I'm scared of falling in love.



Wednesday 14 April 2010

'40ies Disney health-care & propaganda

Today we had a seminar according to History of Film theory, Cinema Novo. At the end of the lecture our teacher noticed the series of health-related educational shorts produced by the Disney studios and the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs for showing in Latin America.
(it doesn't have any relation to Cinema Novo, but it relates to Latin America in the above mentioned way).
And I am posting few of these shorts, because I find it interesting to see how they tried to educate through animation more than 60 years ago. It has some kind of historical-documentary message too. Moving pictures have been existing for 120 years, and it is now long enough for this medium to become an authentic way of historical documentation. Here I am not saying, that what is shown in the shorts is 100% correct, but that one could analyse these and get a picture :-)

Cleanliness Brings Helath '44

"In this propaganda cartoon, a narrator focuses on two families: the clean family and the careless family. The narrator explains how the two families differ. The clean family washes up all the time and keeps their house clean and food covered while the careless family does not wash up before eating and they do not keep their house very clean."
The Winged Scourge '43

"The first of a series of health-related educational shorts produced by the Disney studios and the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs for showing in Latin America. It was also the only one to use established Disney characters (the Seven Dwarves).

In this propaganda short, the viewers are taught about how the mosquito can spread malaria. A young mosquito flies into a house and consumes the blood of an infected human. She then consumes the blood of a healthy human, transmitting the disease into him. It turns out that this is actually a film within a film and the Seven Dwarves are watching it. They volunteer to get rid of the mosquito by destroying her breeding grounds."

The Unseen Enemy '45
"The film is also known as El Enemigo Invisible or The Unseen"

Planning for Good Eating '45

"Defines the three types of food necessary for good health.
Sponsored by U.S. Office of Inter-American Affairs."

Stop that Tank '42

"This film, made for Canada, begins with an interesting cartoon showing Hitler (depicted as a ranting madman speaking in phony German) and an armada of tanks trying to invade a peaceful-looking village, only to be fought off by a barrage of gunfire from anti-tank guns, so much so that it sends Hitler to Hell. The rest of this short is a dry and technical explanation and description of the Boys Anti-Tank Rifle. Just like the previous short, animation is limited."

Tuesday 13 April 2010

Buzz everyone&everything

There were a lot of problems earlier with Google Buzz's privacy. They solved it with the Google-profile, thus those, who have public profiles are visible to anyone. Now, what I discovered (and probably most of you know about it already but for me it is new :-D) and it is actually quite fun to play with is that you can search in your Buzz randomly and see what others across the world are Buzzing according to your search. Just go to your Buzz window and type in a word or expression or name or anything you want to search (exactly the same way you search in your mails).
Are you interested about people's opinion on the hungarian elections? Just type in few keywords and read :-D
Do you want to know how do exams suck? -> "Know wat it feels like while giving exams? Tick tock, Tick tock, Mind block, Pen stop, Eyes up, Time shock, Jaw drop, No luck, Time’s up, Oh! I’m fuck, Exams suck…!!! ;)" (from Vidhi Dave whom I never heard of before)



Pixels in action!

Very cool idea! Pixel heroes invade New York City :-D Wonderful!

Monday 12 April 2010

Monday 5 April 2010

Tales of Mere Existence

I don't know, how many of You know about this great guy doing these animated comics, the "Tales of Mere Existence". I really love his way of story-telling about everyday stuff.
And he is -> Lev Yilmaz aka AgentXPQ.
Here is my top 5, have fun!

"How to break up"





"How I found out about Girls"





"Subtext"


"...Take Shoes Off?"



"Conversation"

Saturday 3 April 2010

Few thoughts about personal freedom

Attention! This post has been written in a kind of state of mind, where I tend to be totally inexplicable and no one ever understands what the hell am I writing or saying (just see my very first Hungarian blog before I started this one :-D :-D) So, don’t be surprised, if You take the chance to read it and say after that: What the Hell? He? Attention! Some more confusing ones might come again, I call it: spring :-D

Is it possible feeling being free and not at the same time? Is it possible at all feeling something and the opposite at the same time? Well, empirically looks like yes and it confuses me. I do demand to belong somewhere and/or to someone and still being able to do whatever I want that fits in my moral. I think for being happy everybody needs the right proportion of Attachment and Freedom. Sadly, not many people can allow it. A good example for this is their work. The majority of the population is making their living out of need, out of just what they get. I would be happy doing the same job for all of my life, if I have chosen it and if I always had the opportunity to go on and change, if I wanted to or if I still can be happy with it because I don’t care. But You have to be really lucky to be in that kind of situation or work really hard and long to get there. On the other hand it does help a lot, if someone is an optimist with good adaptation skills and low expectations. I also do believe, it doesn’t matter what you do until it makes you happy. So, go-go-go and be Yourself, believe in Yourself (!!) and don’t give up! People tend to give up too early, that’s sad, very sad! You might think I am a dreamer or too naive... Well, thats all Folks! I just don't wanna yet give up on being like that ;-)

Additionally to this short train of thoughts: I tend to reach to music, whenever I want to complement my feelings, so here is one by one of the best bands/singers ever, which fits perfectly in here now:




Friday 2 April 2010

WTF

The worst thing ever, that can happen to You, is the experience the following content offers You. Freaky, crazy sh** :-S:-S