Showing posts with label Moebius. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moebius. Show all posts

Sunday, March 11, 2012

[248] Beautiful Day Without You

I really had no idea on where to direct this article.  I have 20+ pages of backlinks waiting to be included in many subjects.  But they are just that...raw backlinks.  Worthless without an analysis.  So instead of dumping links on you I will build up on the previous article, where I basically indicate that I used to live in a sick system that I could not break out of...all in the name of love.


And then switch it to the death of Moebius, a sad news I received Saturday morning on my Android...
Moebius has died

Won't add much with the exception that he is my idol and mentor, as is the case of most science fiction artists and conceptual developers.  May he lie in Heaven with other greats such as Frank Franzetta or Jack Kirby...Let others give him reverence:

http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/rip-moebius.html
http://www.metafilter.com/113713/Moebius-est-mort
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/illustration/jean-%e2%80%9cmoebius%e2%80%9d-giraud-rip-1938-2012.html
http://quehaydenuevoviejo2011.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/moebius-ha-fallecido-1938-2012/
http://martinklasch.blogspot.com/2012/03/arzach.html
http://pdsoasis.thewilloftheancients.com/artwork2.html
http://philosophyofscienceportal.blogspot.com/2012/03/deceased-jean-giraud.html
http://www.f3comics.com/?p=1769

In case I had not post it before, a tumblr with some of his artwork:
He was in charge of some of the visual effects on the original Tron.  This includes the stunning Solar Glider, one of the best scenes of the original movie.
his webpage:

I'm just imagining how greath would that Dune production had been if the combined work of Moebius, Jodorowsky and HR Giger would have reached the theaters:


or if that Willow production had gotten his way...
Anecdotes...


Then, wishing they actually made that TV series based upon his work on L'Incal:


Pascal Blais- THE INCAL from Pascal Blais Animation Studio on Vimeo.

Previous references to Moebius:
http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2011/09/201-moebius-sur-letoile.html
http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2010/04/escapismo-con-luc-besson-y-adele-blanc.html
http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2009/11/moebius-arzach.html
The title references this video by Royksopp:

Friday, February 24, 2012

[243] Curioser and Curioser Rant

Ante las aventuras mas recientes del candidato a la alcaldía de San Juan, Hector Ferrer se comienza a cumplir mi negativa y nefasta opinion de que la campa/na que viene no sera para elegir el major candidato sino que se circunscribira a quien quede en la papeleta.


Comenzaron desacreditando a Garcia Padilla con los viajes, los mismos hipocritas que aceptan kick backs todos los dias y tienen grandes deudas a grandes intereses.
Ahora usan la excusa de la separacion de la familia Ferrer para sacarlo de carrera.
Estos son los mismos de no metan la pata en san juan o que investigan caprichosamente a una figura de intachable moral como el juez Denton.  I mean, everybody fibs, everyone has a kickback every now and then.

Moral en calzonzillos, si preguntan mi opinion.  Se podra declarar una candidatura desierta si no hay un candidato u obra digno de ser electo?  Si no, deberia haberla.

Bueno, en temas relacionados he tenido que estar discutiendo de varios temas con la ex esta semana.  Ironicamente todavia recibo sus llamadas y textos, la tengo en mi lista de friends de FB, etc.  La relacion tiene que mantener ciertos detalles en beneficio del menor (que ya tiene la estatura de la madre y come como llaga).

Ella sigue todo este ambito de politica y discutiamos sobre los 5000 gatos que protestaron por el gasoducto (de nuevo).  Ella entiende que todo esta peachy porque asi lo dicta Luis Fortu/no Burset.  Curiosamente compara a los buscones como la UTIER, Casa Pueblo y Luis Gutierrez con este video de Spin Doctor’s – Cleopatra’s Cat.


Cleopatra's favorite cat
Got his hands on Caesar's spats
The heat was on as you could see
So he front 'em to Mark Antony.
Said, "My girlfriend's cat is smarter than me."

Caesar had an eye for clothes
He saw them spats and said, "I like those."
Caesar had no thing to say, except,
"Jesu Christi Domine,
Et tu, Brute,
Jesu Christi Domine,
Et tu, Brute."

The senate tried to sympathize
It was the cat they should despise
Informant told his whereabouts
Centurions to seek him out

Centurions! There go the centurions.

Brutus had to turn his head
When THIS cat done went and said,
"If he's got this thing for shoes,
He just might be ambitious, too.
They got holidays all in his name,
And all a tyrant needs is fame.
Those fascists don't play pretty games
Egypt is the place to be...
But Rome is a democracy.
Rome!"

Caesar never got them back
'Cause they killed his ass in the second act.
Brutus spoke, then Antony:
Said, "My girlfriend's cat is smarter than me.
Friends, Romans, can't you see
My girlfriend's cat is smarter than me
Egypt's biggest rivalry:
Cleopatra's cat and me."

Entiendo que lo que quiso fue comparer a los buscones con Cleopatra y sus maquinaciones. 


Aun asi, quede impresionado de su comentario tan rebuscado.  Pero de nuevo, synchronicity…relacionemos esa cancion a la pelicula de Cleopatra, donde Elizabeth Taylor estaba a todo lujo y fue por a/nos una de las peliculas mas caras en la historia del cine:


sobre todo, cierta entrada a roma que Madonna copio en el halftime 2012



En cuanto a la exactitude historica aquella pelicula se basaba en las historias de los triumviratos, la quema de la biblioteca de Alejandria o los ides of march de la obra de Antonio y Cleopatra.

Por si no lan hecho chequeense a Kate Beaton y su blog Hark! A Vagrant.  Muchos chistes de contexto literario e historico.  Como la muerte del Cesar:

O Wuthering Heights:

Les dejo detalles adicionales del emperador Augusto y de Antonio y Cleopatra por W. Shakespeare


En otro giro la version de Asterix estaba sumamente entretenida cuando ni/no…
The book begins with an argument between Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, and Julius Caesar, in which Caesar belittles the accomplishments of the Egyptian people. Infuriated, Cleopatra makes a wager with Caesar promising to build a new palace in Alexandria within three months. Cleopatra summons Edifis, who claims to be the best architect in Egypt. She promises Edifis that if he builds the palace on time he will be covered with gold; if he fails, he will be a meal for the sacred crocodiles.
A worried Edifis thinks he needs magic to help him, enlists the help of the Gauls, Asterix, Obelix, Getafix, and Dogmatix. Thanks to Getafix and his magic potion, the work goes forward on schedule, despite multiple attempts by Edifis's arch rival, Artifis, to sabotage the construction after Edifis says he doesn't want to get help of them. Artifis tells the workers to demand less whipping, which would slow construction. However Getafix gives the workers magic potion. Artifis bribes the stone-delivery man to throw his quarry away, before Obelix beats him up, causing him to reveal the truth, a henchman tries to lock the Gauls inside a pyramid but Dogmatix helps him find his way out, he tries to frame the Gauls by sending a poisoned cake to Cleopatra, but Getafix makes an antidote enabling the Gauls to eat it, then cures the taster and claims eating too much rich food was giving him a bad stomach. Edifis is kidnapped and hidden in a sarcophagus in the house of Artifis, but Obelix frees him. Artfis and his henchman are forced to work on the palace, but without magic potion.
Just before the palace is due to be completed, Caesar intervenes by sending legions to try to arrest the Gauls, after he realises the three Gauls are in Egypt when a spy disguises himself as a worker, and sees the effects of the magic potion. The Gauls fight off the Roman soldiers, but the commanding officer proceeds to shell the building with his catapults. In desperation, Asterix and Dogmatix deliver the news to Cleopatra. A furious Cleopatra then hurries to the construction site to berate Caesar. Caesar's legions are required to fix the damage they caused (without any magic potion to help them) and the palace is successfully completed on time. Cleopatra wins her bet and covers Edifis with gold. Edifis and Artifis reconcile and agree to build pyramids together, and Cleopatra gives Getafix some papyrus manuscripts from the Library of Alexandria as a gift.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_Doctors
A la misma vez que puso ese video de analogia ella cambia su logo de FB por un angel dentro de dos piramides formando una estrella de David.  Mi reaccion inmediata al simbolo es la presentacion de Moebius sobre el Incal y aquella pelicula del quinto elemento…

Previamente:

Por si acaso, aqui algo mas de L’Incal y dos preproducciones para una pelicula basada en la serie.  De vez incluyo una foto que presenta las dos piramides…De moebius, ese flikr set da una idea de su arte.

Cierro demostrando mi curiosidad y obsesion con tonterias solo para decirles que estas maquinaciones no son nuevas.  Y que nos preparemos que la campa/na 2012 va a ser mejor que rolaccion…
http://www.pulsorock.com/foro/archive/index.php/t-129881.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Angel_Alita

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollerball_(1975_film)

Saturday, September 17, 2011

[201] Moebius - Sur l'etoile

Comente recientemente que he comenzado a releer textos viejos que tenia en el olvido. Tropece entre ellos con la serie de L'Incal dibujado por Moebius y escrito por Alejandro Jodorowsky. Asi que buscando clips de una version animada en preproduccion que nunca se hizo para llevar al cine la historia tropece con esta otra historia de Moebius titulada Sur L'etoile (Sobre la Estrella). No es animada, pero se basa en las imagenes de su historia. Definitivamente Moebius hace grandes composiciones futuristas...



L'Incal fue una serie francesa de 1980 - 1988 dividida en 6 libros. La version que lei recientemente fue una adaptacion que hizo DC para Estados Unidos combinada en tres tomos. Excelente historia, gran arte, excelente guion. Lo unico, es profundamente esoterico, asi que ya han sido advertidos...

Aqui el corto de preproduccion de l'Incal:


La pagina de Moebius:
http://www.moebius.fr/Site-officiel-de-Jean-Giraud-Moebius---Official-website
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Giraud

De Alejandro Jodorowsky...todo un metafisico. Sus historias y analisis del mundo son bastante particulares...sus peliculas Santa Sangre, El Topo y La Monta/na Sagrada son extra/nos. Algun dia las vere...

http://proyectoespartaco.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/a-jodorowsky-la-saga-del-poeta-metafisico/
http://mundocine.com/cine/alejandro-jodorowsky-y-su-spaghetti-western-metafisico-65441


de la serie de El Incal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incal
http://luisefroizpresenta.blogspot.com/2011/04/el-incal.html

Mi interes por la serie resurgio cuando vi de nuevo la pelicula de Luc Besson, The Fifth Element.  Milla Jovovich hace de LeeLoo, el quinto elemento...Muchos elementos de la pelicula se basan en el concepto de Moebius...por lo que demando a Luc Besson.  Lo extra/no del caso es que el estaba envuelto en la preproduccion...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incal
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=376571
http://www.shootfortheedit.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-7706.html

Anyway, Luc Besson tambien desarrolla grandes peliculas, sobre todo en su version original en frances...Articulos previos:
http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2009/11/moebius-arzach.html
http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2010/04/escapismo-con-luc-besson-y-adele-blanc.html

Monday, November 22, 2010

Winsor McKay El Visionario


Esta nota se inspira en una nota surgida en una discusion con Antigonum Cajan relacionado a los periodicos y como cada dia estan peores.  Antigonum me recordaba a columnistas de El Imparcial y El Mundo.  Tambien de sus mordaces caricaturistas y las tirillas comicas.
Personalmente me gustaban mucho las del San Juan Star.  Las de El Nuevo Dia y las del Vocero fueron desapareciendo hasta ser la nada que son ahora.
A mi fenecido suegro siempre le gustaba Prince Valiant y los Jumble.  Mi abuelo Julio siempre tuvo los pies en la tierra, pero no se perdia los serials de Buck Rogers y Flash Gordon que daban los sabados al mediodia.  Asi, en blanco y negro, llenos de guayazos.  Y nosotros muchachos al fin de placemes.
Si han leido articulos previos de este blog sabran que me fascina el arte vintage, sobre todo en las publicaciones.  Incluso en algun momento habran visto que me gustan las tirillas clasicas, como en el caso de hoy que describo a Little Nemo in Slumberland, ilustrados por el magnifico Winsor McKay.
Sus tirillas se publicaban a todo color, de pagina completa en el New York Times, entre los a/nos 1905 y 1910.  Es increible el talento y la imaginacion de este ilustrador que a pocas palabras fue uno de los fundadores del comic moderno.  La caricatura de la izquierda presenta a Nemo so/nando que visita al Padre Tiempo y comienza a jugar con los calendarios.  Su pesadilla agarra de verdad cuando toca el a/no 1999 y envejece, sin poder encontrar al PadreTiempo rompe a llorar y la mama lo consuela.  Muchos mas de esos estan aqui (http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/browse/results?title=2).  Esta pagina tiene otras historietas mas (http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/).
Sobre la tira como tal, para que contarles, mejor lean el articulo de wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo

Although a comic strip, it was far from a simple children's fantasy; it was often dark, surreal, threatening, and even violent. The strip related the dreams of a little boy: Nemo (meaning "nobody" in Latin), the hero. The last panel in each strip was always one of Nemo waking up, usually in or near his bed, and often being scolded (or comforted) by one of the grownups of the household after crying out in his sleep and waking them. In the earliest strips, the dream event that woke him up would always be some mishap or disaster that seemed about to lead to serious injury or death, such as being crushed by giant mushrooms, being turned into a monkey, falling from a bridge being held up by "slaves", or gaining 90 years in age. The adventures leading to these disasters all had a common purpose: to get to Slumberland, where he had been summoned by King Morpheus, to be the "playmate" of his daughter, the Princess.

Winsor McKay era realmente un visionario.  Miren este corto que hizo en 1910, donde pinto a color cada celda.  Son personajes de la tirilla:
http://www.oneparticularwave.com/2007/11/14/youtube-video-of-the-day-little-nemo-by-winsor-mccay/


Este blog tiene mucha informacion sobre Winsor McCay (http://springlakemccay.blogspot.com/)

Una razon adicional para escribir este articulo fue un hallazgo raro, de todos los sitios, de un Sears.  Consegui en la seccion de gangas del video una copia nueva de la version de 1989 de una pelicula de Little Nemo in Slumberland.  La pelicula nunca llego a Puerto Rico, no fue un exito de taquilla, y tuvo muchas manos trabajando en ella, incluyendo a Moebius, Ray Bradbury, Brad Bird y Tokyo Movie Shinsha.  Para muchos, fue de las primeras peliculas animadas japonesas a ser distribuido en America.  Algo del tema en el ariculo de wikipedia.  De vez tiene el trama de la pelicula:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo:_Adventures_in_Slumberland
Production
Nemo was the brainchild of producer Yutaka Fujioka. His dream for years had been to make a full-animated film that would utilize the resources of his Tokyo Movie Shinsha studio. As the first step towards realizing this project, in 1977 he personally flew to Monterrey, CA to convince McCay's descendents to allow him to obtain the film rights to the comic strip. He originally approached George Lucas in a year later to help produce the film, but Lucas found problems with the storyline. Fujioka also approached Chuck Jones but also declined. The film was officially announced as a project in 1982. In February of that year, the company TMS/Kinetographics was formed in America to produce Nemo, and the best staff from around the world were gathered together to begin production. Gary Kurtz was appointed producer of the American production side and hired Ray Bradbury and later Edward Summer to write screenplays. Kurtz would eventually step down in the Fall of 1984. [1]
In the early 1980s, both Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata were involved with the film, but they both left due to creative differences, essentially, Miyazaki was not interested in creating an animated film where everything was a dream, and Takahata was more interested in creating a story depicting Nemo's growth as a boy. [1] Miyazaki later described his involvement on the film as "the worst experience of his professional career."[2] The directors who succeeded the duo were Andy Gaskill and Yoshifumi Kondo whom both exited production in March of 1985 after completing a 70mm pilot film.[3] Osamu Dezaki was also brought into direct at a brief point and too completed a pilot film[4], but left as well. A third pilot film was made by Sadao Tsukioka but has yet to become publicly available.[1]
Brad Bird and Jerry Rees also worked on the film through the American department as animators for a month, while at the time were also working on an un-produced adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit with Gary Kurtz.[5] During production, the two would regularly ask animators what they were doing, the response they were commonly given was "we're just illustrating what Bradbury is writing," upon meeting Bradbury in person and asking him about the story he was writing for the film, he replied "I'm just putting in writing what these wonderful artists are drawing." After their meeting with Bradbury, Bird and Rees looked at each other and both said "uh-ohhh."[6]
When all of these people had left, Fujioka had drafts done by Chris Columbus, Moebius, John Canemaker and many others. He then re-hired Summer to do yet another screenplay. Subsequently, Richard Outten was hired to work from Chris Columbus' screenplay while Columbus was busy with his directorial debut, Adventures in Babysitting. Many Disney Studio animators including Ken Anderson and Leo Salkin worked on individual sequences, and Corny Cole, Brian Froud, and John Canemaker provided visual development. Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston (credited as Oliver Johnston), and Paul Julian consulted to the production. The world famous Sherman Brothers (Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman) were hired to write the songs for Nemo. This was their first Anime film, though not their first animated film; the pair had previously worked on several projects for Disney, including The Jungle Book, and Hanna-Barbera's Charlotte's Web.
Little production progress was made until January 1988, when the many ideas pasted on the walls of the Los Angeles studio were whittled down in order to create the storyboard from which the film would be made. It was at this point that Masami Hata (a former Sanrio film director) was the appointed director at the TMS studio and Frank and Ollie recommended William T. Hurtz as the director of the American production side. Actual animation for the completed film was commenced in June 1988, as TMS was just completing another ambitious project: Akira.[1] Even though it derived from an American comic strip, Little Nemo was animated by the Japanese company Tokyo Movie Shinsha and thus was considered anime. Because of this, it was also the first anime to receive a national release in the United States.


Ahi les deje la introduccion, que fue bien similar a las tirillas originales.  Cierro el tema aqui.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Escapismo con Luc Besson y Adele Blanc Sec

He decidido irme light. No quiero pensar. Radique mi planilla durante el dia de hoy y no es una sensacion agradable. Lo hago porque es una obligacion y un deber civico (y porque si no lo hago me arrestan y meten preso). El titulo de este articulo evoca mis sentimientos en este momento. Decido ignorar todo lo demas y lo hago con un tema de cine.

Luc Besson es un director de cine cuyas peliculas siempre me han agradado. Entre sus peliculas destaca The Fifth Element(con Bruce Willis y Milla Jovovich), The Professional (Leon en su version original, Natalie Portman como la ni/na asesina) y La Femme Nikita (la version original, no la mala copia deHollywood ni la serie). Sus peliculas de ciencia ficcion siempre tienen grandes visuales.
Que bien se ve esa tela dise/nada por JeanPaul Gaultier... Por otro lado esta la adaptacion de una serie de comics belgas. El comic europeo es un ente aparte y se toma como una literatura como cualquier otra. Esto no es un simple comic para consumo de menores. Se discuten muchos temas y hay grandes artistas que son famosos mundialmente tales como Moebius o Manara (NSFW). Series como Asterix, los Pitufos y Blueberry han sido llevadas al cine (esas no llegan aqui, si no son espa/noles maldiciendo o sexo no pega). Aqui mi referencia original al tema:

http://roberthood.net/blog/index.php/2009/10/28/mummies-pteradactyls-and-luc-besson/
citando:

There is something extraordinarily appealing about retro scifi and fantasy tales set in an historical context, introducing monsters and steampunk technology into what is an otherwise familiar past. The Indiana Jones films drew on that appeal — as did The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which was superb as a graphic novel and then became a dismal movie that completely failed to capitalise on its own inherent conceptual qualities. Upcoming historical “re-creations” such as War of the Worlds: Goliath and more significantly the Asylum’s take on Sherlock Holmes, which is set to include a slew of “enormous monsters” attacking good ol’ nineteenth century London, are all part of an appealing trend — as would be WW2-based War Eagles if only Willis O’Brien’s long-unrealised but constantly re-mooted project would actually manage to become a reality. Perhaps the highly anticipated Tintin films to be directed by Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are part of this sub-genre.

adele

Now it looks as though the French are up for some of the same sort of action. Luc Besson of The Fifth Element, The Professional and La Femme Nikita fame is currently in post-production of the first film in a planned trilogy, based on the adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec, a female journalist in the 1920s (and beyond). The lovely and vivacious Adèle is the creation of comic artist Jacques Tardi and in the course of her extraordinary adventures she isn’t averse to dealing with reanimated mummies, rampant dinosaurs, demons from hell and other super-normal conspiracies.

Les Aventures Extraordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec [aka The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Dry-White] (France-2010; dir. Luc Besson)


Una biografia del escritor de la serie Jacques Tardi
http://lambiek.net/artists/t/tardi.htm

Y fanboys diciendo que esta pelicula finalmente pega el concepto de Steampunk. Esta serie fue escrita desde el 1979...sto era steampunk antes que el steampunk se llamase asi.

http://io9.com/5498194/steampunk-dinosaur-madness-in-luc-bessons-adventures-of-adele-blanc+sec
http://io9.com/5514569/indiana-jones-wishes-he-was-as-tough-as-steampunky-adele-blanc+sec
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Aventures_extraordinaires_d%27Ad%C3%A8le_Blanc-Sec

el corto...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6djPGS3RCA

y por supuesto... mas cortos:
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/04/09/four-clips-from-luc-bessons-adele-blanc-sec/

Yo esperare a ver si llega al cine, o por lo menos a algun pulguero por ahi antes que finalmente salga en video. ...y acabe por hoy.

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Friday, November 20, 2009

Moebius - Arzach

Decidi ir cinematografico hoy con el artista grafico Moebius, conocido principalmente por su participacion en peliculas como Alien y Fifth Element. Su influencia ha definido a mas de una generacion de ilustradores y productores de Hollywood. Aqui incluyo una version animada de su personaje Arzach (links debajo, en espanol)

Aqui esta su pagina web (frances)
http://www.jeangiraudmoebius.fr/

Biografia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Giraud

Ilustraciones y Galerias
http://www.contours-art.de/de/artists/moebius/
http://lambiek.net/artists/g/giraud.htm
http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/giraud.htm



Parte 1


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRjRBs52igI





Parte 2


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zeaovfnWhA





Parte 3


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1DPwzn7OiU





Parte 4


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2ci3TOJ-EA





Parte 5


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuoXBAfYsTA





Parte 6


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6LE--J5gAw





Parte 7


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSlYk0cMAhM





Parte 8


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVYPRqWXDY





Parte 9


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_EkmaPsO84





Parte 10


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTHTc28u1ZA





Parte 11


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fz77sRUtd0





Parte 12


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRen1_xcciQ





Parte 13


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDlTn3H_YDE





Parte 14


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d40Icy-X56Y

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