Brighton Murmations.

  Four years ago a close friend moved to Brighton and it is a fascinating city with not only man made productions but some of the most fascinating natural spectacles. Every time I visit I walk down the beach to get to my friends flat and each time I aim to be able to see the murmuration of starlings over the west pier. I think its really fascinating but adds a humble aspect to the very highly populated city that Brighton is and means a lot to both me and my best friend because we always associate it with each other and the love we share for the City she moved to. 

The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

The book itself.

  The Perks of Being a Wallflower is an epistolary novel written by Stephen Chbosky; based upon a series of events in an alias called Charlie's life who writes to an anonymous person of whom he does not know. The story explores topics such as introversion and the awkward times of adolescence. The book also touches briefly on drug use and Charlie's experiences with it. As the book progresses, various works of literature and film are referenced and their meanings discussed.

 I read this book in 2004 and since then it has laid heavily upon my mind because of the truthful descriptions of his real life. I adore this book and despite it not being a traditional book I find the references to my own life at the time beyond comprehension and recently The Perks of Being a Wallflower has resumed itself into my life. The novel is being made into a film with Emma Watson starring as one of the main roles; surrounded by gossip I cannot wait to see the film itself!

The film is set to be released in September 2012, I am very excited and cant wait to see what adaptation director Stephen Chbosky has done with the written documents into cinematic movement and acting.

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1659337/

Ron Ulicny

Antler, Ron Ulicny

Ron Ulicny is the creator of viscurrealistic fabrications, he makes contemporary sculptures amd earns his living with an inherent tendency to make "stuff" his 'viscurrelatistic' version of art is in fact from a group of words combined;

- visceral, a relation to deep inward feelings rather than intellect

- surrealism a 20th century movement in literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, e.g. irrational juxtaposition of images
- fabricate to invent or concoct. 


Ulicny has a really farfetched version of objects which I really adore. 


Here is some of his sculptures: 

no...ahhh...no!, Ron Ulicny

skateno.2 Ron Ulicny

http://www.ronulicny.com/

Bestival Website

Website homepage, 2012

Info page, 201

  Since attending festivals in 2008 I am really interested in one particular website which has been going since 2004, Bestival's wesbite is an arrangement of illustrations, vivid colours and clever animation its a visually exciting site and has made me buy tickets for the last two years in a row. I wanted to link this to my blog just because I am attending this year and a lot of my friends are and I would like to put this down to the way Bestival is pitched visually as well as physically.

http://www.bestival.net/

The Tree of Life.

  In February me and my housemates began to start to have movie nights, this week we watched The Tree of Life a film directed by Terrence Malick; The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

  When watching the film first time its very confusing and the plot is made up of many visual and sound clips, i.e. volcanoes exploding, the universe, dinosaurs and vast surroundings. One of the scenes used is a sequence of the universe and the feeling evoked from watching such scenes is a feeling of insignificance of the young boy in the film and gradually how his childhood naivety becomes disillusioned; surrounded by overwhelming scenes throughout the film it helps you understand his emotions without having to be narrated through his life experience (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WvuJwMFPz4). Its a really clever film and the way you look at each segment is a form of re-igniting all these long lost first moments/feelings/discoveries/guilt's of your childhood and every experience is very personal as apposed to being told how you felt about a film, its more your film.

  One particular part that really made me think is a clip of dinosaurs: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDum3gehFg0&feature=related) played into the film and for the life of me I couldn't understand why but after researching this further I was enlightened to the fact that the clip was used to show; the dinosaur’s urge to commit violence is animalistic, but is it also the same bestial urge which influences Jack to commit acts of vandalism, to break in a house and most disturbingly, to tell his brother to place his hand in front of a BB gun and then pull the trigger. This type of exploration really helps to understand Jack's life and the film itself so you feel involved.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478304/ 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXRYA1dxP_0 - Tree of Life Trailer

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WvuJwMFPz4 - Universe Clip

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDum3gehFg0&feature=related - Dinosaur Clip

Iain Macarthur

                                                                                                                                                                
Iain Macarthur was an Artist that intrigued me around the time I wanted to get my first tattoo. His drawings were the main point of interest as the precise fine art is fascinating to look at from a far and then also when zoomed in provides clever lines and shapes. Macarthur says: 'My work can be described as surreal and unique in its own way. Using mostly pencil, watercolors and pigment pens, I create portraits of ordinary people but create them in a unusual way by, embellishing patterns and watercolor effects into the portrait to give a vivid explosion effect—transforming their faces from something plain to something entirely bizarre and wonderful at the same time.'

He specializes; in shirt designs, tattoo designs, print designs, posters, album art, logos, branding, editorial illustration and private commissions.

Surreal, Iain Macarthur

http://iainmacarthur.carbonmade.com/

Hilda Randulv

Matias & Louise All Rights Reserved to Hilda Randuluv

  Flickr famous, seventeen year old photographer Hilda Randulv from Sweden who believes that photography is a way in which we show people emotion and after looking at her fantastic photographs she really doesn't give herself enough justice she has amazing talent and her photography is really exciting and delicate.

Elsa Holmgren, All right reserved to Hilda Randuluv

Flickr Feed, Hilda Randuluv

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hildarandulv/