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Published: 2007-04-29 03:17:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 8800; Favourites: 309; Downloads: 109
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This is a portrait of someone I used to love very much,still very much a friend. She was pretty much the first Japanese person I had ever known. Her ancient culture and its orientation towards art and decoration opened my eyes to new realms of expression and artistic freedom.life size-welded steel
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Well aren't we all... Anyway it's beautiful. It would also be nice in a rich bronze. Just my preference.
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I agree,
Bronze is totally appropriate...
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Love it!
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Come, show us what is hidden, the stick gilded under the bark!
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This really embodies your passionate nature that is felt through the screen. I can't imagine seeing this in person! Hard to believe that they were able to choose just one for a daily deviation! All of your works are so amazing!
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I admire you. Because, after all this time.. you still seem to love her, and even though many might think it's wrong, you still went ahead and manifested it this way... contrary to me... that I cannot hold a pen for long without feeling incredible pain... that I cannot conduct my keyboard to the rhythm of my hands...
Anyways, excellent work!!
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Thank you Kronos,you honor me,
You must walk before you can run,
and run before you can soar...
I also play keyboard and guitar.
These are excellent ways to express what's inside ,but you have to have some proficiency with the instrument FIRST before clear expression can manifest...I have spent my whole life doing this metalwork,and have also developed some compassion for myself in the process and what I've been through. I used to be quite hard on myself as I intuit you are. Sooner or later (hopefully) you get to a place where you realize ,you're an alright kinda guy,maybe a bit awkward here and there, but overall a positive soul. When that day comes things start to relax a little ,and it gets easier to use you life experiences as resource material for your art...
For me all of my art is like MENTAL FLOSS.
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Blast! I don't know what to say... nay. I have no idea how to express myself. Because if you knew what I wrote... perhaps by simple aesthetic, you may find my letters quite beautiful. But, alone they mean nothing.. because whatever I intended to make them worth, is never what the recipient wanted.
I do hope, as you say, to be capable of accepting my limits. Not only in the artistic sense, but also... what I may consider my life.
Anyways, I thank your kind words.
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Wow this is a beautifull work my friend,very impresive.
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Thank you alekitty86f...
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what do you mean ? for that picture?
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I'm confused sammoy,
Come again ?What was the context ?
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mmm... what an amazing image you spun into life... or what an amazing life you captured in steel? either way, it's beautiful.
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Thank you Elora Danen,
Say hi to Frenchie for me...
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it truly gives off a sense of serenity. amazing work
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Thank you tsuiko,
your heritage ?
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Ah,I see,
I have a new friend from L.A. that is Vietnamese.
Your's is such an interesting and ancient culture as well.
My older brother was there in the war and fell in love with the people,especially the Mong(sp) Tribesmen in the hill country...
He told wonderful tales of their honor ,courage, and ancient traditions...
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Thank you Stephen,
Hey,that's my name...
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That is one of the coolest sculptures I've ever seen, EVAR.
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Thank you little one,
Very kind of you...
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Oh, my...
It's breath-taking.
Simply breath-taking.
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Thank you Twytch...
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itΒ΄s about time you get your well-deserved attention
grat work, I donΒ΄t need to tell you that
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Kind words ,
thank you friend.
Just watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy again. Man,weren't there some fantastic costumes in that movie ?
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to be honest?
NO
of course they are visually impressive and oh so beautiful, but theyΒ΄re rather decoration instead of having their own life; they do not add content, itΒ΄s just an illustrative reproduction.
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I hear you,
but a movie is a movie after all.
There was some pretty amazing armor and much of it from what I've read was not just illustrative reproduction.
Viggo Mortensen carried that sword with him everywhere he went for a full year before shooting ,so that it became part of him. And it was a usable blade. The cost of making these items as reproductions compared to the "real" thing was so close,Peter Jackson just said, fuck it ,and had the real deal made. They were several years making all those items before shooting...
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well, I donΒ΄t deny their importance for the movie nor the effort put in them.
Just that the costumes themselves do not have their "own" life, they could not stand outside the context of the movie.
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well, you know I think about such things
I mean, I work with clothing and appearance
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I've been thinking all weekend on what you said and need to ask you,since I know you've gone into this WAY farther than I ,and probably can teach me something here...
Why is it important that the costume have a life of it's own outside the context of the movie ?I mean, is this what you are defining as an art work ?And just as an addendum question,did you see "The Return of the King"?because there are a couple of items in that that I believe COULD stand on their own outside the context of the movie...Just seeking clarification here and totally defer to your experience/knowledge on this...
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well, itΒ΄s like if I asked you if you find the sculptures in a baroque stage design great.
youΒ΄d propably say: yes, theyΒ΄re nice, but theyΒ΄re just decoration for the whole thing.
not nearly the level of your own work.
itΒ΄s like that.
itΒ΄s not important for a costume to have a life on itΒ΄s own, if it is just meant to serve itΒ΄s purpose. But if you ask me if I find it great, then I will mess it on the demand I have on my own things.
the costumes in the movie, just like the movie itself do not go beyond the illustrative visualsation of the book.
It doesnΒ΄t re-invent the story.
If I had make the design, I wouldΒ΄ve tried to convince Peter Jackson to put Gandalf in a scottish kilt or let Frodo being played by a 8- year old kid or make the dark lord a woman ... ... ... ... or something like this.
In the end, costuming is character-design.
What does the clothing in the moive has a role except being a represant for elven (or whatever) culture ? ItΒ΄s kind of impersonal.
If you want to talk about a particular costume, ask directly, please.
to give you a good hint, what costuming in movies I really appreciate, check out MIRRORMASK, an unknown british moive by Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman.
Not just that the costumes and masks have a great expression, and a lot to say, there is actually a part, where they talk about the philosophy of it, when the "normal" girl says to the masked guy:
"Does everybody here have a mask?"
" yes, of course. How could you know if youΒ΄re happy or sad without a mask?"
" I have a FACE"
later he says:
" all people look alike to me. Without a proper face you could be anybody"
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I loved Mirror Mask...
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I *knew* it......
it has been such a great inspiration to me
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And your words are an inspiration to me in addition as well friend,
I never actually considered the merits of a costume "standing on its own"before,but it does shed some light on my own forms of dress actually...
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I know,
and of course you go deeper into this than most...
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It seems she really meant a lot... great work
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Uh yeah,
For a time I loved her more than life itself.
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I thought this was a cool abstract painting at first.
Well done.
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Thank you subtronik,
It Is a painting,what were you thinking ?
sorry,couldn't resist that...
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Almost had me for a second there
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I am an evil rat bastard...LOL
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Wow, this is so beautiful and special. I'd die if someone did something like this for me! Nice job.
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Be careful what you ask for friend,
the Universe has ears and thought is action...
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