kiwiburn photos

I just got the cd with the pictures from my single-use camera from the photoshop. The order is a bit chaotic, but roughly reversed:

 The Burning Man. He broke in half and is lying on his back. Head on the left, his arm pointing at us. His heart is ascending to the sky from his chest.

 Not visible on the photo: The full moon above the fire and the overland powerlines in the background, all of which added to the picture (the one I saw ;-)

 Fire trucks and ambulance. The camera had a really cheap flash.

 Gandalf on a Gyroboard, a skateboard mounted on a spring.

 Valhalla feast with demons.

 The overview plan. Hehe, overview. Wahaha, plan!

 The Greeting area, where I did a few shifts removing people from the 'default world' and providing them with the information and attitude they needed for this.

 The 'recreational vehicle' with sofa space and the most extraordinary things to watch on the tv frame.

 Before the heart surgery. There is an interesting story about the man-crew and the guy who got the idea to build him a heart.

 His heart.

 The trampoline is suspended to the metal frame like a swing.

 Obviously a case of ghost photography.

 In the center of the pallet labyrinth, looking at the original man burning site, which was changed due to the fire regulations. The weather was the hottest in 20 years and there was a total fire ban to protect the million-dollar-timber plantations (=forests). btw the ones in which 'yogi bear' was filmed.

 The pallabyrinth, looking towards the fire spinning area.

 My tent on top of the hill. It got crowded up there once the festival started officially.

 This was before the crowds came.

 The other side. The tarpaulin turned out to be unnecessary, because it didn't rain for the entire week.

 A Were-Vampire, obviously.

The beach at the lake. We even had a pirate ship that cruised along. One night, we were half a dozen people on the tv-trailer, and decided to stop at the lake and take a full-moon-midnight cruise.

It is a collective, but it works if everyone wants to be a part of it for a week. It was only on the last day that someone involved me in a political discussion. Not a good idea, it took me some time of running around and hugging random people to cure my mood.

must cherish english cinematography whilst I can

movies recently watched by me:

Paranorman: Good story, can relate to it, etc.pp. They just really overemphasize the fact that Norman gets bullied by the thick ones. I kinda took their side here, I thought 'They might not know better, but that doesn't mean they're genuinly stupid.' At some point, it feels like the movie makes fun of them for being thick.
But otherwise, a really enjoyable movie, with zombies, a witch and an aesop. I just can't not enjoy an animated kids movie. And the ending to the jock-and-blonde pairing is surprising yet refreshingly satisfying.

Django Unchained: Tarantino nailed it again. His trademark blood amounts are omnipresent, and he gives his own cameo a death that made me laugh out loud in the cinema. I also enjoyed the bilingual bonus by Waltz, who again plays a german fellow. And you constantly have the silent question in the back of your head: just how accurate is this depiction of slavery?

Mr Nobody: a beligian-canadian-french-german coproduction which is scifi-fantasy-mindtwist. It reminded me of 'Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind' and 'The Butterfly Effect'. It is 'Inception' for people who prefer their own theories and thoughts over exposition. As I said before, I don't have THE favourite movie, but this one, while completely different, is competing with 'The Genetic Opera' for the nonexistent throne. It's appealing to me because it has a beautiful science fiction frame, and its themes are choice and consequence, and a personal weakness of mine (which whould be a spoiler).

Jackie Brown: a Tarantino that has escaped me until now. And Tarantino delivers. A stewardess who couriers for a gun trader deceives an ingenious plot to aquire an illegal half million dollar gun payment from Mexico while distracting both the cops and the gun trader. Tarantino takes his time to let the emotions sink in, he uses silence as well as loud segments. And the ending is one of the most intense i've ever seen, though that could be because I am currently returning from an adventure in New Zealand back to University and regular life.

While walking through the city, I saw the cinema at the art gallery screening 'Seven Psychopaths'. The trailer looked good (director of 'In Bruges' and Christopher Walken? I'm in!) and when I saw that the next screening was in ten minutes, I took the opportunity to see it. It's about a writer who is working on a movie script entitled 'Seven Psychopaths' and he is trying to think of psychopathic characters. His friend has a 'dog borrowing' business, i.e. kidnapping and getting the reward. When he snatches the dog of a deranged mafioso, the plot unfolds. There is also a killer running around who only kills high and middle ranking members of the organised crime and the yakuza. Great fun, and personally I liked the many meta-jokes about the movie script in the making.

It amazes me time and time again how many great movies are out there. There is literally no time to waste with the mediocre garbage that is out there. Then again, I always have to keep in mind that it's those movies that finance the studios. Just yesterday I learned that Robert Rodriguez directed 'Spy Kids'. Go figure.