Showing posts with label Inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inspiration. Show all posts
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Inspirace : by Karel Zeman
Karel Zemans amazing short "Inspiration" (Inspirace), made in 1948, is a love-story set inside a single drop of water, which Zeman animated by heating and bending fragile blown-glass figurines.
The films of master Czech animator and director Karel Zeman (1910 - 1989) are a glittering jewelbox filled with wonders spun from ancient myth and modern science: moon men and underwater pirates, pedal-powered airships and diabolical engines of destruction.
In films like THE FABULOUS WORLD OF JULES VERNE and BARON MUNCHAUSEN, Zeman combined cartoon and stop-motion animation, puppetry, matte paintings and live action, creating a fantastic mechanical clockwork that anticipated the work of later animator/directors such as Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. Born in 1910 in Ostromer, Czechoslovakia, Zeman began his career as a window dresser and poster artist, graduating to filmmaking in the mid-1940's with a series of shorts featuring his animated alter-ego, Mr. Prokouk. Inspired by the pioneering films of magician/director Georges Melies and the fiction of Jules Verne, Zeman began animating, art directing and often writing his own features in the early 1950's, overcoming miniscule budgets and rudimentary equipment to create his elaborate adventures. The joy of Zeman's work is often in the details: stop-motion owls against a crescent moon sky, a gold pocketwatch trapped in a bottle, a crew of sailors who literally paint their ship into existence.
The films of master Czech animator and director Karel Zeman (1910 - 1989) are a glittering jewelbox filled with wonders spun from ancient myth and modern science: moon men and underwater pirates, pedal-powered airships and diabolical engines of destruction.
In films like THE FABULOUS WORLD OF JULES VERNE and BARON MUNCHAUSEN, Zeman combined cartoon and stop-motion animation, puppetry, matte paintings and live action, creating a fantastic mechanical clockwork that anticipated the work of later animator/directors such as Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. Born in 1910 in Ostromer, Czechoslovakia, Zeman began his career as a window dresser and poster artist, graduating to filmmaking in the mid-1940's with a series of shorts featuring his animated alter-ego, Mr. Prokouk. Inspired by the pioneering films of magician/director Georges Melies and the fiction of Jules Verne, Zeman began animating, art directing and often writing his own features in the early 1950's, overcoming miniscule budgets and rudimentary equipment to create his elaborate adventures. The joy of Zeman's work is often in the details: stop-motion owls against a crescent moon sky, a gold pocketwatch trapped in a bottle, a crew of sailors who literally paint their ship into existence.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Louise L. Hay - Loving Yourself
Learning to love and accept yourself is the first step in bringing an abundance of Love, Peace and Joy into your life. Only by loving and accepting yourself first can you begine to love and accept others.
Louise Hay - The Law of Thinking
Mind is a powerful tool. There is a universal law of thinking; when you learn how it works, miracles happen. What you think, and what you believe, is what will come true for you. Your thoughts create your life. Every thought we think, and every word we speak, is creating our own future. Our thoughts go out into the universe, and accepted, and brought back to use as experience.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Find Your True Self, Lift the Veils
How to transform your life by understanding who you really are. Are you your ego? Are you your personality? Knowing yourself is the key! Eliminate the repetitive patterns that aren't serving you. You can transform yourself.
The Enneagram is a key to understanding the different personality structures, each with its own gifts, focus, purpose and internal beliefs. Which personality structure are you? Knowing this is the beginning of awareness. If you are seeking to attain consciousness, the Enneagram will help you in understanding the ego and eliminating it.
If you are a counselor, coach, therapist or a growth oriented professional, you can use this knowledge to help your clients reach a higher consciousness and eliminate the repetitive patterns damaging to them. Read Deep Coaching: using the Enneagram as a catalyst for change. The first book of its kind to help you and help your clients gain inner freedom.
The Enneagram is a key to understanding the different personality structures, each with its own gifts, focus, purpose and internal beliefs. Which personality structure are you? Knowing this is the beginning of awareness. If you are seeking to attain consciousness, the Enneagram will help you in understanding the ego and eliminating it.
If you are a counselor, coach, therapist or a growth oriented professional, you can use this knowledge to help your clients reach a higher consciousness and eliminate the repetitive patterns damaging to them. Read Deep Coaching: using the Enneagram as a catalyst for change. The first book of its kind to help you and help your clients gain inner freedom.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
The British Empire In Colour, 2002
Produced by the innovative team behind the BAFTA Award-winning 'Britain At War In Colour' and the Peabody Award-winning 'Second World War In Colour' and narrated by Art Malik, this unmissable production uses original colour film - much of it previously unseen - to chart Britain's imperial path, from the zenith of the Indian Raj to the eventual disintegration of the Empire.
The series does not purport to tell the whole story of the British Empire in the 20th century. Instead, the footage is accompanied by personal diary extracts, letters and contemporary speeches to give a true flavour of what it was like to live under the British Empire, either as one of the rulers or as one of the ruled.
Programme 1: A Tryst With Dynasty
100 years ago, Britain was the most powerful nation in the world and the British Empire ruled over half the people on earth. All the pomp and pageantry of imperial rule is encapsulated in this first episode. Remarkable and rare film captures as never before such glorious occasions as the 1906 Trooping the Colour in London; the 1911 Delhi Durbar in India and a World War One victory parade in Paris in 1919. But as the century gets into its stride, the cameras are also there to record less magnificent events, among them the General Strike of 1926, which highlighted the social divide in post-war Britain. Even in India, the power of British rule is fading, as nationalism gains strength under Gandhi and Nehru. Although the Second World War temporarily unites the colonies and dominions in battle, victory ironically spells the beginning of the end for the Empire. In a new world order of American and Soviet power, India finally achieves her independence and Britain is left exhausted and fearful of the future.
Programme 2: The Wind Of Change
British fears are realised as they abandon a turbulent Palestine, become embroiled in a Communist insurgency in Malaya and are humbled in the Suez Crisis. The dismantling of the Empire continues as the winds of change start to blow across colonial Africa, from the peaceful rise of Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana in 1957, to the bloodshed of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. By the 1960s, much of the Empire has been handed back to its people.
Programme 3: Legacy
The coronation of Elizabeth II herald a new era, as the old Empire becomes the new multi-cultural Commonwealth. As emigrants flee the hardship of post-war Britain, tempted by the promise of Australian and Canadian riches, West Indian immigrants flood into Britain. The 1960s herald a time of changing racial attitudes and while Britain adjusts to its growing multicultural society, her dominions - Australia and Canada - strive for a new understanding with their own unhappy indigenous populations. In Rhodesia, the last painful pangs of the Empire are felt, as white and black nationalisms clash. In a rapidly changing world, the peoples of the former British Empire begin to realise the legacy of their imperial heritage.
The series does not purport to tell the whole story of the British Empire in the 20th century. Instead, the footage is accompanied by personal diary extracts, letters and contemporary speeches to give a true flavour of what it was like to live under the British Empire, either as one of the rulers or as one of the ruled.
Programme 1: A Tryst With Dynasty
100 years ago, Britain was the most powerful nation in the world and the British Empire ruled over half the people on earth. All the pomp and pageantry of imperial rule is encapsulated in this first episode. Remarkable and rare film captures as never before such glorious occasions as the 1906 Trooping the Colour in London; the 1911 Delhi Durbar in India and a World War One victory parade in Paris in 1919. But as the century gets into its stride, the cameras are also there to record less magnificent events, among them the General Strike of 1926, which highlighted the social divide in post-war Britain. Even in India, the power of British rule is fading, as nationalism gains strength under Gandhi and Nehru. Although the Second World War temporarily unites the colonies and dominions in battle, victory ironically spells the beginning of the end for the Empire. In a new world order of American and Soviet power, India finally achieves her independence and Britain is left exhausted and fearful of the future.
Programme 2: The Wind Of Change
British fears are realised as they abandon a turbulent Palestine, become embroiled in a Communist insurgency in Malaya and are humbled in the Suez Crisis. The dismantling of the Empire continues as the winds of change start to blow across colonial Africa, from the peaceful rise of Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana in 1957, to the bloodshed of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. By the 1960s, much of the Empire has been handed back to its people.
Programme 3: Legacy
The coronation of Elizabeth II herald a new era, as the old Empire becomes the new multi-cultural Commonwealth. As emigrants flee the hardship of post-war Britain, tempted by the promise of Australian and Canadian riches, West Indian immigrants flood into Britain. The 1960s herald a time of changing racial attitudes and while Britain adjusts to its growing multicultural society, her dominions - Australia and Canada - strive for a new understanding with their own unhappy indigenous populations. In Rhodesia, the last painful pangs of the Empire are felt, as white and black nationalisms clash. In a rapidly changing world, the peoples of the former British Empire begin to realise the legacy of their imperial heritage.
Nova - Secrets Of The Mind 1/6
"Secrets of the Mind" is really an exposition of Dr. Vilayanur (no, he's not a villain!) Ramachandrans research in behavioural neurology, explaining phantom limbs, blind sight and other visual perception related issues, the Capgras delusion and the hyperreligiosity tendencies related to temporal lobe epilepsy. But the real secret Ramachandran reveals, is that the mind whose normal working seems so commonplace and simple that we take it for granted, has a profoundly intricate and complicated root in our brains, that only reveals itself in the unfortunate cases of people suffering from perceptional and emotional issues.
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