Saturday, July 24, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Avatar ... ลอกจนรวย
สวัสดีครับ
เพิ่งไปดูมาเมื่อคืนก่อน ตอนแรกก็รู้สึกดีที่เห็นภาพวาดในจินตนาการสวยๆ ของศิลปินที่ชอบ (Roger Dean) ปรากฎบนแผ่นฟิล์มในหนังทำเงินเรื่องใหม่ของ James Cameron เลยพยายามหาดูข้อมูลว่าเขาเอาศิลปินคนนี้มาเป็นที่ปรึกษาหรือเป็นแรงบันดาลใจหรือเปล่า ผลปรากฎว่าทีมงานฝ่ายศิลป์ของหนังตอบได้กวนมากครับ
สรุป ไม่เคยเห็นมาก่อน (I wasn't aware of Dean's work) แล้วก็ปฏิเสธโดยสิ้นเชิง (it was not really as an influence) ยังกล่าวหาว่าศิลปะต้นตำรับมันไม่ค่อยดีจนต้องพยายามหลีกเลี่ยงอีกด้วย (we absolutely wanted to avoid.... )
ทีนี้เรามาดูกันว่าทีมงานเขาหลีกเลี่ยงได้เก่งแค่ไหน อิอิ
ฉากภูเขาลอยฟ้า (Floating Mountains) ข้างบนมาจากหนัง ข้างล่างจากภาพเขียน
ฉากกองหินโค้ง (arched rock) ข้างบนจากหนัง ข้างล่างภาพเขียนครับ
ส่วนข้างล่างนี้ในหนังเขาทำดี ไม่ได้ก็อปอะไรขนาดนั้น แค่เปลี่ยนให้เป็นแมลงบินเท่านั้น คนไปดูมาแล้วคงจำได้
แถมตัวมังกรบินอีกตัว...
ถ้าอยากดูมากกว่านี้ แวะไปดูที่ http://io9.com/5426120/did-prog-rocks-greatest-artist-inspire-avatar-all-signs-point-to-yes/gallery/
ที่เว็บของโรเจอร์ ดีนเอง (www.rogerdean.com) หน้าแรกถึงกับเชิญไปดูว่าชาวไซเบอร์เขาพูดถึงความคล้ายคลึงระดับนี้ว่าอย่างไรกันบ้าง ท่าทางจะโกรธเหมือนกัน แหม ก็ลอกเขาไปทั้งยวง พอฟันเงินได้เยอะขนาดนี้ก็ไม่มาแบ่งปันกันสักนิด จริงๆ เคยมีข่าวออกมาเมื่อประมาณห้าปีที่แล้วว่า โรเจอร์ ดีนกำลังเก็บสะตังค์ทำหนังเรื่องเกี่ยวกับภูเขาลอยฟัาและจินตนาการสุดขอบฟ้าของเขาอยู่เหมือนกัน แต่โดนอย่างนี้คงทำออกมาไม่ได้แล้วล่ะครับ
ถ้าทีมงานไม่ออกมาปฏิเสธขนาดนี้ก็คงไม่น่าโกรธอะไรหรอกครับ นอกจากนี้ ถ้าฝ่ายศิลป์ได้รางวัลอะไรอย่างน้อยก็ควรกล่าวแสดงความยอมรับถึงอิทธิพลพวกนี้สักหน่อย
นอกจากนี้ ยังมีนักเขียนรัสเซียออกมาบอกว่า หนังนี้มันคล้ายหนังสือเขามาก ตั้งแต่พล็อดเรื่อง ชื่อเผ่าของนางเอก (เผ่า Na' vi ในหนัง ส่วนในหนังสือรัสเซียชื่อเผ่า Nave) ชื่อดาว Pandora ในหนัง ส่วนในหนังสือก็ชื่อ Pandora เหมือนกัน อันนี้ไม่ได้มั่ว แต่ลงในหนังสือพิมพ์การ์เดียนของฝรั่งเขา ไม่เชื่อไปอ่านได้ที่นี่ครับ
เห็นแล้วเซ็ง ที่ฝรั่งโดยเฉพาะพี่เบิ้มอเมริกามันชอบมากดดันไทยเรื่อง กฎหมายลิขสิทธิ์ ทีสินค้าส่งออกของตัวเอง (หนังเรื่องนี้เป็นตัวอย่าง) ยังลอกคนอื่นได้หน้าตาเฉย ก็ขอภาวนาให้ทั้ง Roger Dean และตาฝรั่งรัสเซียนี่
อ้อ ... ภาพข้างบนนี่เอามาจากเว็บที่อ้างแล้วครับ ส่วนภาพจากหนังนี่ไม่ได้ขอลิขสิทธิ์เพราะได้ข่าวว่าลอกเขามาอีกที อย่าว่ากันเลยแล้วกัน เหอเหอ
Progman
เพิ่งไปดูมาเมื่อคืนก่อน ตอนแรกก็รู้สึกดีที่เห็นภาพวาดในจินตนาการสวยๆ ของศิลปินที่ชอบ (Roger Dean) ปรากฎบนแผ่นฟิล์มในหนังทำเงินเรื่องใหม่ของ James Cameron เลยพยายามหาดูข้อมูลว่าเขาเอาศิลปินคนนี้มาเป็นที่ปรึกษาหรือเป็นแรงบันดาลใจหรือเปล่า ผลปรากฎว่าทีมงานฝ่ายศิลป์ของหนังตอบได้กวนมากครับ
I wasn't aware of Dean's work until I started the project, when another artist pointed it out. We looked at his work more as a novelty because it was similar subject matter, but it was not really as an influence. Dean's work has a whimsical quality that we absolutely wanted to avoid....
สรุป ไม่เคยเห็นมาก่อน (I wasn't aware of Dean's work) แล้วก็ปฏิเสธโดยสิ้นเชิง (it was not really as an influence) ยังกล่าวหาว่าศิลปะต้นตำรับมั
ทีนี้เรามาดูกันว่าทีมงานเขาหลี
ฉากภูเขาลอยฟ้า (Floating Mountains) ข้างบนมาจากหนัง ข้างล่างจากภาพเขียน
ฉากกองหินโค้ง (arched rock) ข้างบนจากหนัง ข้างล่างภาพเขียนครับ
ส่วนข้างล่างนี้ในหนังเขาทำดี ไม่ได้ก็อปอะไรขนาดนั้น แค่เปลี่ยนให้เป็นแมลงบินเท่านั
แถมตัวมังกรบินอีกตัว...
ถ้าอยากดูมากกว่านี้ แวะไปดูที่ http://io9.com/5426120/did-
ที่เว็บของโรเจอร์ ดีนเอง (www.rogerdean.com) หน้าแรกถึงกับเชิญไปดูว่
ถ้าทีมงานไม่ออกมาปฏิเสธขนาดนี้
นอกจากนี้ ยังมีนักเขียนรัสเซียออกมาบอกว่
เห็นแล้วเซ็ง ที่ฝรั่งโดยเฉพาะพี่เบิ้มอเมริ
อ้อ ... ภาพข้างบนนี่เอามาจากเว็บที่อ้
Progman
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Free mini Concert: Sawasdee Acoustic
English language below.
มีฝากประกาศ สำหรับชาวเชียงใหม่และผู้มีภูมิลำเนาในจังหวัดใกล้เคียง
Sawasdee Acoustic by NaiNoi
เชิญชมฟรี โชว์พิเศษของ NaiNoi ศิลปินหนุ่มผู้มุ่งมั่นและจัดเจนในทางอคูสติคกีตาร์เจ้าของอัลบัมที่น่าสนใจในรอบปีนี้ของเมืองไทย "Sawasdee Acoustic"
มีฝากประกาศ สำหรับชาวเชียงใหม่และผู้มีภูมิลำเนาในจังหวัดใกล้เคียง
Sawasdee Acoustic by NaiNoi
เชิญชมฟรี โชว์พิเศษของ NaiNoi ศิลปินหนุ่มผู้มุ่งมั่นและจั
ใต้บรรยากาศร่มรื่นของมวลแมกไม้ อบอวลกลิ่นอายกาแฟ วันนี้ 19.00-20.00 น. ที่ ร้านร่ำเปิงกาแฟ (แผนที่ข้างล่าง)
อยากเยี่ยมชมผลงานของ NaiNoi คลิกลิ้งค์นี่เลยครับ
ข้อมูลเพิ่มเติม ติดต่อ ทิพย์ ที่ sarinthip.tipy@gmail.com
Sawasdee Acoustic Free mini-concert at Rampoeng Coffee
A promising Thai guitarist with one of the most interesting albums of the year Sawasdee Acoustic (edit: not my word) will be offering a suave but free performance at Rampoeng Coffee (see map below)
For a YouTube preview of the performance, click here.
for more info: email sarinthip.tipy@gmail.com
ข้อมูลเพิ่มเติม ติดต่อ ทิพย์ ที่ sarinthip.tipy@gmail
Sawasdee Acoustic Free mini-concert at Rampoeng Coffee
A promising Thai guitarist with one of the most interesting albums of the year Sawasdee Acoustic (edit: not my word) will be offering a suave but free performance at Rampoeng Coffee (see map below)
For a YouTube preview of the performance, click here.
for more info: email sarinthip.tipy@gmail
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Drop the Plastic Bag!
Hey,
A message came yesterday from Sacha Noordin, who created a Drop the Plastic Bag cause about 250,000 people adopting this brilliant idea on Facebook.
Look her up on Facebook if you have an account there.
I'm just wondering how many people of the 250K strong actually grasp the idea and start dropping the plastic bag for real.
I know I'm one of those who had minimized accepting plastic bags. This applies to stupid disposable 'straw' and 'coffee cup'. When you think about these, how can you trust that it's cleaner than the ones that have been washed manually in the seemingly dirty corner of the restaurant? I just can't believe anything coming out of a production line would be more clean.
TL
A message came yesterday from Sacha Noordin, who created a Drop the Plastic Bag cause about 250,000 people adopting this brilliant idea on Facebook.
YAY! 250k strong!
A Big Thanks to each and everyone of you for helping reach this goal. It might be a number to some, but it does show in the 2 years since this started, from just one person (me) believing in this, 250,000 people now do. And just imagine the influence this 250,000 have had. Immeasuarable!
I noticed sign-ups have slowed down lately, but I attribute this to the much larger awareness of not using plastic bags and that people are showing their allegience to a lot more similar causes, wheather on Facebook or elsewhere. Which is a good thing.
Thanks and a shout out to Alex Eaves, Chris, Lush Limited, Daniella and Rodrigo for recruiting so many.
Thanks and bye!
Sacha Noordin
Cause Creator
Look her up on Facebook if you have an account there.
I'm just wondering how many people of the 250K strong actually grasp the idea and start dropping the plastic bag for real.
I know I'm one of those who had minimized accepting plastic bags. This applies to stupid disposable 'straw' and 'coffee cup'. When you think about these, how can you trust that it's cleaner than the ones that have been washed manually in the seemingly dirty corner of the restaurant? I just can't believe anything coming out of a production line would be more clean.
TL
Pain of Salvation: Be
Here's my first review on ProgArchives.com for this magnificent album
After years of following progarchives, I feel the need to write my own review. The first one has to be really something special. I spent a couple of minutes staring at my cd stacks, and this album sort of looked back at me.
I remember how I first came to hear ! and Ashes samples from this site, and was mightily impressed with the band's intelligence and the hard metal edge, brilliant vocal and nice guitar work. These are the 'perfect elements' that attracted me to bands like Queensryche and Savatage.
Soon, this led me to my ebay hunt for this album (sorry guys. I am not that rich.) When this CD was delivered to my office, I was expecting some magic, and did not pop it into the computer CD-ROM like other cds before it. I know it's an important piece and it will need to be treated with care. Now, as I am writing this, I am giving it another spin so the details will come fresh.
Like other reviews say, this is a great work of art, albeit a tad tough to swallow. The concept is not what you might expect, but thank God Daniel spells (almost) the whole thing out in the booklet. Animae Partus opens the CD with somewhat intriguing monologue, and introducing the concept in a mysterious way. This whole thing is about a being who "will call myself GOD" and will "spend the rest of forever trying to figure out who I am". Not too much music, let alone prog metal.
Deus Nova is a prog metal piece as we know it. The lyric is very, very simple, citing statistics of the world's population. Tension increases as the population grows, superb build-up.
Imago has a folkish feel. It is still about this curious 'GOD' creating seasons and forests and beings. This track shows me one thing I love about this album, which is the role of the 9-piece 'orchestra'. Unlike some other prog-metal so-called symphonic attempt, the orchestra plays a big role here, not playing some plain chords in the background. Some of the key passages here would reprise again in later tracks. This track builds on to Pluvis Aestivus, which is one of the most beautiful piece of music led by Mr Fredrik Hermansson. With no words, I can feel the rain and virtually see the leaves and flowers growing from the tree. (Perhaps it's the picture on the booklet and the live DVD that induces these images.) Is that what you're trying to say Mr Hermansson?
Next come Lilium Cruentus. I love the woodwind instrument (not sure what it is) in the intro and the first verse. The more aggressive side of PoS explodes in second verse (A Scene in White and Grey). This track explores quite a lot of PoS potential actually, the soft, the aggressive prog metal and metal rap. Wonderful mix and great ending.
Now, if there's any weak track, it's Nauticus. Well, it's good, soft, basically an acoustic guitar, church-praying music with vocal overdubs. I just don't like about the low voice in the mix here. The lyric is a somewhat straightforward and less sublime. Luckily it's not too long.
Dea Pecunia starts with humorous dialogue between Mr Money and his chick (Cindy?/Sandra?). This is a mini 10minute epic with three parts about this character who I think representing the modern capitalism in this BE world which has grown up and its human inhabitant has reached our present level of civilisation. The story is a sub-theme that intertwine with that one about god. Read the booklet, it's there. Mr Gildenlow showing his theatrical singing prowess here, portraying a disgusting, greedy chauvinist millionaire (Here's to me... there will be nothing left for you). Guest vocalist Cecilia Ringkvist, who sings Dea Pecuniae, a female side of Mr Money, is worth mentioning here. After its bursting climax, Vocari Dei calms the pace down a bit. Interesting participative approach to songwriting here, and this provides for a very emotional track, even to a non-believer like me.
Diffidentia brings us the prog metal side of Gildenlow and co again. I just love this track as it's got everything I love in prog metal. Mr Hermansson's "paino riff" is pretty simple but effectively cool. Gildenlow once again shows he's a good rapper. Our anti-hero Mr Money decides to buy himself immortality. The track ends calmly and it could have segued right into Nihil Morari, which starts calm and build up to a pleasant reprise and the whole band and the orchestra perform darn well here with bursting energy, until it dies down and Latericius Valete transports the audience to 2060 AD, where the world of BE has failed, and its human or Imago has created Nauticus, which is a space probe in search of a way to save the earth.
Iter Impius returns us to the Mr Money character, who wakes up to find himself a sole survival of the devastated earth. This track is perfectly executed. Sorry I don't know how to describe such perfection in words.
Martius/Nauticus II describes how the man-made Nauticus gains a life of its own and becomes the new God. Then Imago reprises here again and closes the circle, which starts from God creating man in his/her image, then men creating God to save them from the final destruction brought upon by themselves. Nauticus II wraps up with interesting drum jam that sounds rather primitive, possibly symbolizing a new word beginning, and new mankind is made once again.
Most of the credit, including graphics, will go to Daniel Gildenlow for making this happen. Although this level of genius naturally calls for a superlative amount of ego, it seems like this whole BE disc is music-led, and no one instrument is overly dominant. It would be interesting if he decides to produce a solo album how it will sound like.
All in all, sorry for the very long review, but this album is an essential disc to my prog cd collection. Five stars is all I can give.
After years of following progarchives, I feel the need to write my own review. The first one has to be really something special. I spent a couple of minutes staring at my cd stacks, and this album sort of looked back at me.I remember how I first came to hear ! and Ashes samples from this site, and was mightily impressed with the band's intelligence and the hard metal edge, brilliant vocal and nice guitar work. These are the 'perfect elements' that attracted me to bands like Queensryche and Savatage.
Soon, this led me to my ebay hunt for this album (sorry guys. I am not that rich.) When this CD was delivered to my office, I was expecting some magic, and did not pop it into the computer CD-ROM like other cds before it. I know it's an important piece and it will need to be treated with care. Now, as I am writing this, I am giving it another spin so the details will come fresh.
Like other reviews say, this is a great work of art, albeit a tad tough to swallow. The concept is not what you might expect, but thank God Daniel spells (almost) the whole thing out in the booklet. Animae Partus opens the CD with somewhat intriguing monologue, and introducing the concept in a mysterious way. This whole thing is about a being who "will call myself GOD" and will "spend the rest of forever trying to figure out who I am". Not too much music, let alone prog metal.
Deus Nova is a prog metal piece as we know it. The lyric is very, very simple, citing statistics of the world's population. Tension increases as the population grows, superb build-up.
Imago has a folkish feel. It is still about this curious 'GOD' creating seasons and forests and beings. This track shows me one thing I love about this album, which is the role of the 9-piece 'orchestra'. Unlike some other prog-metal so-called symphonic attempt, the orchestra plays a big role here, not playing some plain chords in the background. Some of the key passages here would reprise again in later tracks. This track builds on to Pluvis Aestivus, which is one of the most beautiful piece of music led by Mr Fredrik Hermansson. With no words, I can feel the rain and virtually see the leaves and flowers growing from the tree. (Perhaps it's the picture on the booklet and the live DVD that induces these images.) Is that what you're trying to say Mr Hermansson?
Next come Lilium Cruentus. I love the woodwind instrument (not sure what it is) in the intro and the first verse. The more aggressive side of PoS explodes in second verse (A Scene in White and Grey). This track explores quite a lot of PoS potential actually, the soft, the aggressive prog metal and metal rap. Wonderful mix and great ending.
Now, if there's any weak track, it's Nauticus. Well, it's good, soft, basically an acoustic guitar, church-praying music with vocal overdubs. I just don't like about the low voice in the mix here. The lyric is a somewhat straightforward and less sublime. Luckily it's not too long.
Dea Pecunia starts with humorous dialogue between Mr Money and his chick (Cindy?/Sandra?). This is a mini 10minute epic with three parts about this character who I think representing the modern capitalism in this BE world which has grown up and its human inhabitant has reached our present level of civilisation. The story is a sub-theme that intertwine with that one about god. Read the booklet, it's there. Mr Gildenlow showing his theatrical singing prowess here, portraying a disgusting, greedy chauvinist millionaire (Here's to me... there will be nothing left for you). Guest vocalist Cecilia Ringkvist, who sings Dea Pecuniae, a female side of Mr Money, is worth mentioning here. After its bursting climax, Vocari Dei calms the pace down a bit. Interesting participative approach to songwriting here, and this provides for a very emotional track, even to a non-believer like me.
Diffidentia brings us the prog metal side of Gildenlow and co again. I just love this track as it's got everything I love in prog metal. Mr Hermansson's "paino riff" is pretty simple but effectively cool. Gildenlow once again shows he's a good rapper. Our anti-hero Mr Money decides to buy himself immortality. The track ends calmly and it could have segued right into Nihil Morari, which starts calm and build up to a pleasant reprise and the whole band and the orchestra perform darn well here with bursting energy, until it dies down and Latericius Valete transports the audience to 2060 AD, where the world of BE has failed, and its human or Imago has created Nauticus, which is a space probe in search of a way to save the earth.
Iter Impius returns us to the Mr Money character, who wakes up to find himself a sole survival of the devastated earth. This track is perfectly executed. Sorry I don't know how to describe such perfection in words.
Martius/Nauticus II describes how the man-made Nauticus gains a life of its own and becomes the new God. Then Imago reprises here again and closes the circle, which starts from God creating man in his/her image, then men creating God to save them from the final destruction brought upon by themselves. Nauticus II wraps up with interesting drum jam that sounds rather primitive, possibly symbolizing a new word beginning, and new mankind is made once again.
Most of the credit, including graphics, will go to Daniel Gildenlow for making this happen. Although this level of genius naturally calls for a superlative amount of ego, it seems like this whole BE disc is music-led, and no one instrument is overly dominant. It would be interesting if he decides to produce a solo album how it will sound like.
All in all, sorry for the very long review, but this album is an essential disc to my prog cd collection. Five stars is all I can give.
First post
Greetings and welcome to my [new] blog!Some of my posts here will include:
- My writings (of course)
- My music reviews, as written for a certain magazine and for some websites
- Incredible stories from forwarded message. (won't post it if I find it not credible enough)
- Things i find funny and is allowed to share.
Hope you find them enjoyable. Will try to post bilingually.
Yours truly,
TL
aka The Progman
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