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Io Capitano | dir. Matteo Garrone, 2023.

Seydou, a teenage boy, together with his cousin Moussa, decides to leave Dakar in Senegal and make his way to Europe. A contemporary Odyssey through the dangers of the desert, the horrors of the detention centers in Libya and the perils of the sea.

I was deeply moved by the immense courage and humanity, the cinematography and costumes. Outstanding.

"Over the last 15 years, 27,000 people have died trying to make the journey that I show in the movie," explains the filmmaker. "We wanted to give a visual form to a part of the journey we don't see."

“...I was honestly very worried about this movie, and it took eight years to decide to make it," Garrone says. "I was worried about the risk of speculating too much and exploiting these poor migrants by making their journey about, and from, my point of view."

- Garrone.

"The first thing apparent to anyone who meets Matteo Garrone is his intrinsic kindness.

When asked if the story is inspired by real events, Garrone answers, “yes of course, have you met Mamadou?” referring to Mamadou Kouassi Pli Adama, who is listed as one of the “collaborating writers” on Io Capitano, and has joined Garrone, actors Sarr and Moustapha Fall in Marrakech. “He’s one of the three guys who inspired the movie with his life and his experience,” Garrone explains, continuing “every frame of the movie is connected with some real story, of someone who really lived that experience.”

“Behind these numbers are human beings,” Garrone continues on the thought above, “human beings who are exactly like us, with the same desires — to move, to look for a better life, to discover the world.” Like looking in a mirror really. Only that mirror holds up the similarity of the power of humanity, not the reflection of our different skin tones. And what that entails, as far as privilege.

- E Nina Rothe

Io Capitano premiered at the 80th Venice Film Festival, where Garrone was awarded the Silver Lion for Best Director and Sarr won the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor. Now, the film is nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Oscars, which Garrone tells A.frame has made him "incredibly proud." | AFrame Article

Images:

The New Yorker

E NINA ROTHE

Kang diego | kang_junior64

EdisonFilmHub

#Io Capitano #Film #Matteo Garrone #Now Showing #kang diego

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op e n

“True self-confidence is the courage to be open… it is reflected in your mindset: your readiness to grow. “ - Carol S Dweck

#op e n #curiosity #growth

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“…Most of us really want to offer the world something of quality, something that the world will consider good or important. And that’s really the enemy, because it’s not up to us whether what we do is any good. And if history has taught us anything, it’s that the world is a very unreliable critic, right? So you have to ask yourself, do you think that human creativity matters?  Well, hmm, most people don’t spend a lot of time reading poetry right, they have a life to live and they’re not really concerned with Alan Ginsberg’s poems or anybody’s poems… until their father dies, they go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart, they don’t love you anymore. And all of a sudden you’re desperate for making sense out of this life. And has anybody ever felt this bad before? How did they come out of this cloud? Or the inverse, something great; you meet somebody and your heart explodes.  You love them so much you can’t even see straight.  You know, you’re dizzy, did anybody ever feel this before, what is happening to me?  And that’s when Art’s not luxury, it’s actually sustenance.  We need it."

Ethan Hawke on the innate need to provide value | TED, June 2020.

#ethanhawke #creativitymatters

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slow factory | Join us in supporting @nolcollective to getting the last weavers in Gaza: Husam, his brother, and their families to safety 🥀Please go to their Go Fund Me link to help preserve ancestral cultural knowledge and the protection of the people who steward it.

🥀 It is heartbreaking to have to displace ancestral craftsmen from their Native Land. Ceasefire. End the occupation. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

ID: via @sf_access

S1: An orange background with half of the graphic an image of colorful, dyed threads in orange, red, and burgundy. In black text reads “Connecting the Dots/ Fashion and Palestine: The Last Weavers in Gaza. At the top in black reads “Slow Factory”; at the bottom, our boilerplate in white “Systemic change for collective liberation.”

S2: An image of a Palestinian man holding up red woven textiles with a cigarette in his mouth. In black text reads, “The last weavers in Gaza — who work with Nöl Collective have lost family members as well as their work spaces amidst the genocide in Gaza. At the top in black reads “Slow Factory”; at the bottom, our boilerplate in white “Systemic change for collective liberation.”

S3: An image of a Palestinian man on a cart with a pile of red woven threads that is being pushed by a gray donkey. In the center a chat bubble reads “Everything in the house is gone. Money is obsolete against the bombs. The situation is unclear. We have lost everything.” At the top in black reads “Slow Factory”; at the bottom, our boilerplate in white “Systemic change for collective liberation.”

S4: A grid of images from Gaza showing bombed homes, living rooms, and bedrooms. In the center in white text reads, “Nöl Collective is fundraising to get the last weavers of Gaza: Husam, his brother, and their families to safety.” At the top in white text reads “Slow Factory”; at the bottom, our boilerplate “Systemic change for collective liberation.”

#ceasefire #end the occupation #free palestine

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words by @drkiranrahim

#freepalestine #🕊️ #drkiranrahim

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POOR THINGS, 2023 | Costume: Holly Waddington

“I was looking at very light fabrics that were beautiful and luxurious but not too grown-up,” she says. “To me, it was important there was a sense of organic in every detail. Victorian dresses are heavily textured and involve a lot of bits of dead animals, such as feathers, so I found embossed silks and a beautifully woven mix of silks and linens to get these unruly textures.” 

The color palette keys into the sexual overtones of the film. “I was exploring everything that had a connection to the body,” says Waddington. “I used a soft palette of pinks that look like human skin."

Waddington described her work in “Poor Things” as her dream job. “One of the great things about working with Yorgos [Lanthimos, director] is that he isn’t somebody who comes to you with a finished sense of what things should be. He very much encourages a rich, creative process for each of his collaborators,” she said.

Holly Waddington won the award for Best Costume Design at the 2024 Oscars.

#poor things #holly waddington #costume design

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What would a woman be, if she were able to start from scratch?

POOR THINGS | 2023

Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos

#poorthings

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Words from @natty.a.khan

What we are witnessing is the absolute worst of humanity. You can’t just sit back and close your eyes. 

#free palestine #ceasefire now #natty.a.khan

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Ceasefire now.

Slow Factory | Witnessing 59 days of genocide in Palestine, part one in collaboration with Mazen Kerbaj | @mazenkerbaj

#slowfactory #mazenkerbaj #freepalestine #ceasefire now

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PAST LIVES | 2023. Film, Dir: Celine Song

#past lives #film #inyun

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THE PIANO | 1993, film. Dir: Jane Campion

Ada speaks through her piano, a vital form of self-expression.

#film #thepiano

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!!! My digital portrait, ‘sadhu’ is a Rookies Awards 2023 Finalist for Career Opportunities - Wētā FX!

It is a huge honour and inspiration to have been selected.  Check out the finalists here: https://www.therookies.co/contests/groups/rookie-awards-2023/results. The talent and calibre is astonishing. 

My entry: https://www.therookies.co/entries/24488

#rookies #finalist #rookieawards2023 #3d #3dart #3dartist

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PLANAR EXPLORATION | Johannes Boivin, Organic Modeller @ Rodeo FX

"Series of pictures exploring the use of motion blur and depth of field to create different spaces. The background for each image is made using animated planes. With motion blur, the planes reveal and hide certain parts of the model and change the definition of each edge of the planes."

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notes from his Sculpting tips & tricks: "Creating digital forms that feel alive is extremely complex and hard to learn." Consider:

FLOW, AMPLITUDE, IDENTITY

FORM, GESTURE, CONNECTIVITY

FORM AMPLITUDE: primary, secondary, tertiary: blockout > anatomical landmarks > "felt forms"

"It is important to understand that a tertiary form, is tertiary: it has less importance than its predecessors..."

MANAGING SUBDIVISION LEVELS: "I spend most of my time analysing the form at the lowest subdivision level.."

FORM IDENTITY: "...are you able to make that form feel like skin?"

"...This is a subject that demands a lot of observation to understand how human forms behave in different conditions: skin being tensed, tendons protruding, bony landmarks, fat deposits..."

+ subdividing + using subdiv levels correctly in zbrush

#johannes boivin #organic modelling #anatomy #3D sculpture

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Repopulating the Earth: Character Production on Horizon Zero Dawn

VIDEO | 2018 GDC talk - Guerrilla Games' Daniel Calvert discusses how the company approached the challenges of making characters for Horizon Zero Dawn, with honest reflection on the team's successes and mistakes.

- a good idea stays with you

- make a morally dubious genius badass

- everyone has their blind spots + preconceptions

- design work is judged holistically

- descriptive details make costume feel real

- you want to be the mad scientist artist - the one who thinks bigger, tries things out, communicates, has emotional intelligence, has an interest in teaching and leadership as well as a strong eye for design and technical skills. 

#horizon zero dawn #character production

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FLYING LOTUS | The zeitgeist changed when Flying Lotus fried jazz, soul, IDM and hip hop with his gamma gun.

This grandnephew of Alice Coltrane is a rapper, DJ and modern pioneer of Afrofuturist production. FlyLo started out interning at seminal hip hop label Stones Throw Records. In 2006 he released his debut album of instrumental hip-hop, 1983 and it wasn’t long before he was running his own groundbreaking label, Brainfeeder. By then, he’d figured out how to stitch up his vibrant patchwork of influences—everything from distorted game sounds and Japanese synthpop to Afro-Cuban rhythms and experimental jazz—then blast them to another universe.

He’s a prolific collaborator with another fellow jazz innovator, and RISING guest Thundercat. He’s scored his own anime series. He’s produced on some of Radiohead and Kendrick Lamar’s best work. He’s one of the greats. And he’s coming to RISING.

#flying lotus #melbourne #forum

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The Lady from Nagaland | 3D Portrait by Kris Costa

2020

“Alternative version. The intention here was to add more life to her eyes, which was missing in the past version and also incorporate more dramatic lighting and environment to help with the focus, which is her face and expression. I also addressed some anatomy issues. This model was started during my online class last January. As usual, I found the references and had a vague idea about the whole thing, but the work evolved on the fly and at the end it's always nice to see the character materializing itself as an alive entity. That's the best part of the process in fact, when you can say "hi! Pleasure to meet you!". This was strongly inspired by an online picture of this sweet, kind looking old lady from Nagaland. As usual, I added my own spin, but that picture inspired this work a lot. All detail hand sculpted using ZBrush's HD mode, using default brushes or my own custom sculpted alphas. Skin tones hand painted in ZBrush using HD geometry as well. No commercial alphas, textures or blue prints used. I hope you like this one.”

Software used | ZBrush, Maya, Photoshop

#Kris Costa #3DPortrait #3d realism #antropus

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VOGUE Korea | featured some grandmas aged 100 years old wearing and holding flowers + plants in hanbok!! honestly the sweetest and softest photos i have seen in a while.  @daphniedi 

#vogue #vogue korea