Hilton Ads Animation

Found this animation on youtube, I like it.

Waters of March

Been thinking and humming a song with line 'a stick a stone' for many weeks, but couldn't recall the title name til today. It's "Waters of March" ("Águas de Março") by Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (January 25, 1927 in Rio de Janeiro – December 8, 1994 in New York City), also known as Tom Jobim, was a Brazilian composer, arranger, singer, pianist/guitarist and one of the primary forces behind the creation of bossa nova, and its subsequent global popularity.

I was first listen to this song years ago when I was in UK. A bright beautiful sunshine lights through my bedroom window, and wind breeze blow leaf all over, birds are singing, people are smiling, me looking out to the garden, having my heart bloom.

This is one of the song that I think it's an abosolute well composed.

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[Lyric from http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/waters.html you can find both Portuguese and English lyrics there]

Waters of March

A stick, a stone,
It's the end of the road,
It's the rest of a stump,
It's a little alone

It's a sliver of glass,
It is life, it's the sun,
It is night, it is death,
It's a trap, it's a gun

The oak when it blooms,
A fox in the brush,
A knot in the wood,
The song of a thrush

The wood of the wind,
A cliff, a fall,
A scratch, a lump,
It is nothing at all

It's the wind blowing free,
It's the end of the slope,
It's a beam, it's a void,
It's a hunch, it's a hope

And the river bank talks
of the waters of March,
It's the end of the strain,
The joy in your heart

The foot, the ground,
The flesh and the bone,
The beat of the road,
A slingshot's stone

A fish, a flash,
A silvery glow,
A fight, a bet,
The range of a bow

The bed of the well,
The end of the line,
The dismay in the face,
It's a loss, it's a find

A spear, a spike,
A point, a nail,
A drip, a drop,
The end of the tale

A truckload of bricks
in the soft morning light,
The shot of a gun
in the dead of the night

A mile, a must,
A thrust, a bump,
It's a girl, it's a rhyme,
It's a cold, it's the mumps

The plan of the house,
The body in bed,
And the car that got stuck,
It's the mud, it's the mud

Afloat, adrift,
A flight, a wing,
A hawk, a quail,
The promise of spring

And the riverbank talks
of the waters of March,
It's the promise of life
It's the joy in your heart

A stick, a stone,
It's the end of the road
It's the rest of a stump,
It's a little alone

A snake, a stick,
It is John, it is Joe,
It's a thorn in your hand
and a cut in your toe

A point, a grain,
A bee, a bite,
A blink, a buzzard,
A sudden stroke of night

A pin, a needle,
A sting, a pain,
A snail, a riddle,
A wasp, a stain

A pass in the mountains,
A horse and a mule,
In the distance the shelves
rode three shadows of blue

And the riverbank talks
of the waters of March,
It's the promise of life
in your heart, in your heart

A stick, a stone,
The end of the road,
The rest of a stump,
A lonesome road

A sliver of glass,
A life, the sun,
A knife, a death,
The end of the run

And the riverbank talks
of the waters of March,
It's the end of all strain,
It's the joy in your heart.

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video of Águas de Março can be found here > http://www.dailymotion.com/
more about the song at wikipedia here > http://en.wikipedia.org/
audio can be found here > Aguas de Marco
guitar tab > http://www.theguitarguy.com/

Poznan

Been amazed by the beauty of a city called Poznan, in west-central Poland, from skyscraperpage.com. This makes me realize that how much I like historical architecture.

more of Poznan on wikipedia.

The Lake House

Just watched The Lake House, the Hollywood style of Il-Mare.





First heard about this movie from Kay, she said it's not that fun. So my expectation before the show is really low. Somehow when it's finished, it turns out that it's better than I thought. Though not really nice as original Korean version, as many hollywoods have been put into the movie. The way the movie tells. The relationship of two. and The ending. I admit that I like one of Korean better.

What I like most about this movie is the song played when they're dancing and at the end credit (I believe they're the same song) Really touchy.

Ron Mueck

Ron Mueck
[from wikipedia]

Ron Mueck (born 1958) is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor working in Great Britain.
Mueck's early career was as a model maker and puppeteer for children's television and films, notably the film Labyrinth for which he also contributed the voice of Ludo.

Mueck moved on to establish his own company in London, making photo-realistic props and animatronics for the advertising industry. Although highly detailed, these props were usually designed to be photographed from one specific angle hiding the mess of construction seen from the other side. Mueck increasingly wanted to produce realistic sculptures which looked perfect from all angles.

In 1996 Mueck transitioned to fine art collaborating with his mother-in-law, Paula Rego, to produce small figure as part of a tableau she was showing at the Hayward Gallery. Rego introduced him to Charles Saatchi who was immediately impressed and started to collect and commission work. This led to the piece which made Mueck's name, Dead Dad, being included in the Sensation show at the Royal Academy the following year. Dead Dad is a rather haunting silicone and mixed media sculpture of the corpse of Mueck's father reduced to about two thirds of its natural scale. It is the only work of Mueck's that uses his own hair for the finished product.

Mueck's sculptures faithfully reproduce the minute detail of the human body, but play with scale to produce disconcertingly jarring visual images. His five metre high sculpture Boy 1999 was a feature in the Millennium Dome and later exhibited in the Venice Biennale.

In 2002 his sculpture Pregnant Woman [1] was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia for AU$800,000

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I like his work. They're incredibly realisticly real. Could they come into life, I dare we don't see the differences (except in size!)