Dante Ferretti sketches for Hugo…
Cinema
December 13, 2011
What Steve Jobs does in heaven
By SinclairPROTEIGON from BURAYAN on Vimeo. via Alex Stone.
May 29, 2011
Ancient Greek Ship
By SinclairI was watching Troy the other night– don’t judge me– and I stopped to capture this fantastic set for Agamemnon’s ship covered with tents while beached on the shore of Troy. (I think that sentence was what is known as a dangling participle…) Anyway great stuff. Thank you Nigel Phelps! And while you’re surfing IMDB, [...]
May 22, 2011
Full color Depression pix
By SinclairNPR had a piece last week about gorgeous Depression Era full color photographs. And they are amazing. That early 20th cent divergence when representational media went black & white as captured by photography and painting took its color into an abstract land of blobs and streaks left a hole in the collective memory that’s hard [...]
April 11, 2011
Michael Lax in the grid?
By SinclairAs spotted in Tron Legacy, I’m pretty positive that’s one of Michael’s cast aluminum bowls for Metaal right there.
March 16, 2011
I Am Love credits
By SinclairFinally watched I Am Love the other night. Can’t say I loved it. In fact, I found it pretty tedious and self-indulgent as it moved on. I thought the aspects of the film occupied with the formal restraint of family and environment, especially with all the early 20th cent art and design influence, were [...]