Moi, apparently

Not that I mind, mind. The advantage of indentifying with an Ak-Tor is that you have several personae to play with. Aside from this one, I rather fancy his role in the excellent and sadly ignored 'Lantana' (see it, see it!) and, of course, his breakout role in 'Shine'. Pants or no pants, that is the question.

OK, smarty pants

You guessed the last spot quiz, so: where and what is this? Prize is a chunk of roadside ice from Route 28 laced with strawberry syrup. Yummy.

Recto and Verso

As below, but with words on it.

In Case You Missed It

Whence? Hence, and Thence.

Whither?

Thither?

And So Farewell

As we discuss the possible and probable outcomes of all dissent and disagreement with dominant world policy, be it American paranoia or British neo-colonialism... here's the one odd exception. Not a voctory, maybe, but some kind of stalemate. Today, Fidel stepped down. What happens now? A new phase, fully independent Cuba integrated into the world economies? or a return to casinos, monoculture, drug running, money laundering and prostitution? Watch this space.

Why You?

The answer would be: because you are a degenerate, lazy life-form and have no respect or fellow feeling for those in authoritah, and you as a virtual creature have dropped down (= put your head over the parapet) into the real world where punishments are harsh and it's 'erase first, aks questions later'. For all these and more....
still.... cute though.

More WiPs

A definitive 'essay' at combining all the graphic elements here, minus the text. See how it evolves over the next week...
This one is H U G E by the way... click on the picture and you can see all its tiniest detailed glory.

Waterfall In Progress

Poster image by Will Lytle. Graphics by Sal Altamirano.

Superbowl Sunday

Instead of watching men with shoulder pads running into each other, we met at Indie and put the finishing touches to the DVD. Now entitled (as revealed in this very column) 'Brittle Fire, Bitter Bones', with sundry Easter eggs. Bones were photographed, scripts scanned, voices overed and compressions filed.
I understand that I will never understand football. It's like listening to a Serbian stand-up comedian. I know it's funny, but I don't speak the language.
Watching and re-watching all the disparate elements (sic) again and again, to check for artifacts and see that all the menus work properly, a different meaning emerges from the images: something very close to our original intention to tell a story through images and moods, not through dialogue or 'plot'.
It is a very strange and beautiful fillum.

OMIGOD!! no wonder this image took so long to load! It's... er... big? But you can make out all the detail which KSC put into her sheets and WL collaged for you to read the palimpsest. In the time it took to eat three bowls of 5 star chili. Now THAT'S a superbowl.