Extras- Extras

This post is mainly a compilation of my interests that at the same time follow some of the paths set out in the University syllabus:

''Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.''

Interesting Link:

Some very intriguing words spoken by Mr. Lee and I recommend, that who ever reads this blog watches this!

• The Lost Interview with Bruce Lee

I would also like to include some info on two animation films I watched recently; ''Waking Life'' and ''Animatrix''. These to films raise several modern day questions and philosophies, using a very expressfull and powerfull media.

''Waking Life'' is a digitally enhanced live action rotoscoped film, directed by Richard Linklater and made in 2001. The entire film was shot using digital video and then a team of artists using computers drew stylized lines and colors over each frame. This technique is similar in some respects to the rotoscope style of 1970s filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, which was invented in the 1920s.

The title is a reference to George Santayana's maxim that "[s]anity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled."


Interesting links:

• Waking up in Waking Life - Discussion of the philosophical and political ideas presented in the movie
• Buddhist interpretation of Waking Life
• Clip from film
• Clip #2 from film
  

The ''Animatrix'' is a collection of nine animated short films released in 2003 and set in the fictional universe of The Matrix series.
Development of the Animatrix project began when the film series' writers and directors, the Wachowski brothers, were in Japan promoting the first Matrix film. While in the country, they visited some of the creators of the anime films that had been a strong influence on their work, and decided to collaborate with them.[1]
The Animatrix was conceived and overseen by the Wachowski brothers but they only wrote four of the segments themselves and did not direct any of them; most of the project was created by notable figures from the world of Japanese animation.

Interesting links:

• Official Animatrix Website
• The Animatrix - Kid's Story

P.S.
Last but surely not least, I would also like to mention the music I have posted. It is the soundtrack to the film ''Dead Man'', by Jim Jarmusch The movie is something of a Modern Western, which includes twisted elements of the Western Genre. The film is shot entirely in black-and-white.