mercredi 17 mars 2010

mardi 9 mars 2010

James Jean. Ilustración.




James Jean is a Taiwanese-American award winning artist and illustrator living in Los Angeles.

He was born in Taiwan but was raised in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey.[2] He was educated at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Upon graduating in 2001, he quickly became an acclaimed cover artist for DC Comics, garnering seven Eisner awards, three consecutive Harvey awards, two gold medals and a silver from the Society of Illustrators of LA, and a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators of NY. He has also contributed to many national and international publications. His clients include Time Magazine, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, ESPN, Atlantic Records, Target, Playboy, Knopf, Prada among others. He has also illustrated covers for the comic book series Fables and The Umbrella Academy, for which he has won six Eisner Awards for "Best Cover Artist".

vendredi 5 mars 2010

La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962, VOSE)

La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962) es una película francesa de ciencia ficción de 28 minutos filmada en blanco y negro. En ella, se relata la historia de un experimento de viaje en el tiempo llevado a cabo tras una guerra atómica. Si bien es una película, el director la define como una fotonovela, pues se realizó filmando una serie de fotografías que dan contexto a la narración que las acompaña y apenas cuenta con una breve secuencia de imágenes en movimiento. 12 monos (1995), de Terry Gilliam, se inspiró en La Jetée. David Bowie también se inspiró en esta película para el videoclip de la canción Jump, They Say (1993), dirigido por Mark Romanek. (Wikipedia)

Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983, VOSE)

Sans Soleil is a meditation on the nature of human memory and the inability to recall the context and nuances of memory and as a result, how the perception of personal and global histories are affected. Stretching the genre of documentary, this experimental essay-film is a rich composition of thoughts, images and scenes, mainly from Japan and Guinea-Bissau, "two extreme poles of survival". Some other scenes were filmed in Iceland, Paris, and San Francisco. A female narrator reads from letters supposedly sent to her by the (fictitious) cameraman Sandor Krasna. Sans Soleil is often labelled as a documentary or travelogue, however it contains fictional elements and moves from one location to another without regard to a location or character-based narrative. (Wikipedia)