Annie Hall & Oji Girls?

Remember Oji Girls we saw in the magazine?

The trend is being called ojikawa, a combination of “uncle” or “old man” and “cute” The women who wear it have predictably been dubbed “ojigaaru (old-man girls)”

Check out the few key elements for Oji-Girls stated by the EastTouch Magazine here.
Those elements are just for reference though, I personally think, that the most important thing for this look is PERSONALITY.
Just like Annie Hall!

'Annie Hall look':layering oversized, mannish blazers over vests, billowy trousers or long skirts, and boots.
That reminds me of Oji Girls - 'uncle','old man'.

According to Wiki, Annie Hall look is actually Diane Keaton's own style. As Woody Allen recalled, the costume lady once disagree with her look by saying: "Tell her not to wear that. She can't wear that. It's so crazy."
Luckily, he did the right choice by letting Diane Keaton to have her own way: "Leave her. She's a genius. Let's just leave her alone, let her wear what she wants."

Really like her style.
Carefree and comfy. Most importantly, she has a character!
Classic.

Thanks for sharing the movie though :)

Peter Funch: Babel Tales

"Peter Funch spends weeks at a time making just one photograph. That is, if you call these images photographs. They're of people in a specific place, but not necessarily a specific time." - Juxtapoz reads.

His series of Babel Tales is mainly about manipulation.

There is this interview by Alexander Tarrant with Peter Funch, where Alexander Tarrant expressed:
"... His images explore the truth in photographs, or lack thereof, and the modern tale of people being so close in proximity yet so disengaged. Always interacting with someone or some thing that isn't the person standing next the them."



Suspecting Suspects

Notable Notice


Observers Observing

Enforcing Enforces

Communicating Community


Memory Lane

Peter Funch: "Photography has come to a point where it can be pure fiction, like painting."

His images give me the feeling of surrealism.

Annie Leibovitz

I guess, if you love photography, music and movies, you have to know Annie Leibovitz. Here are some masterpieces by her, i labeled a couple cos they are not really easily recognizable or maybe not familiar to us.

You can read more about her on Wiki.

Some of her most recent works are more polished, editorial, and heavily digitally edited. Well, maybe its her equipments and lighting props have upgraded. But i love her raw, up close and personal portraits more.

Nicole Kidman

Susan Sontag, writer.

Ellen DeGeneres

Iggy Pop, musician.

Grey Gardens.

This was the film I mentioned to you before, don't laugh and don't discriminate it! I know it is a 'HBO movie'.. haha!
But there is really something about it!
And as I said, only the mid-to-the-last-part already caught my attention to finish the movie, and even want to find the full movie and the original documentary from 1975 to watch.


Grey Gardens (2009)
The one I watched in HBO. And I love the tagline: "True glamour never fades."


Grey Gardens (1975)

Truly eccentric people in their eccentric life, as described in the plot.

讓子彈飛

讓子彈飛
大膽；
創新；
幽默；
一流！
大膽說句，這幾年如果有其他好看的中文電影，那麼這一定是他媽的非常好看！
我實在找不到足夠文字表達我對這部電影的感覺。太好了！
導演自導自演，給足畫面，給足戲！
他媽的姜文你真是一流！！！
忍不住一直拍手叫好！

(I don't put the trailer because I don't hope it kills the mood for watching the movie. The movie is too good that I think the trailer could hardly present.)

It'll be one of the best chinese movie I've ever watched. For such a long time that I haven't seen a chinese movie as good as this. I'm really proud of it.
Also, I realised that, normally, such an unbelievable unconstrained plots are based on a novel.

Must watch it!

街舞狂潮 (Hip-Hop Storm)

We have watched Step Up 1-3, and we do admire their passions very much.
Now, there is this Asian's version (I don't mean to compare between Asian and foreign's movies, but I just feel proud that there is something as good as Step Up even we have the very different cultures) : 街舞狂潮



This was awarded the best documentary (最佳紀錄片) for Golden Hourse Awards (金馬獎).

I came to know this and the director (蘇哲賢) when reading an interview in a magazine - The Big Issue (10th issue).
I was so impressed by this young director, I didn't know anything about him and I didn't even know who he is when I am reading the interview, until I saw the words in the end of the interview stated: "第一部紀錄片長片作品《街舞狂潮》榮獲第四十七屆金馬獎最佳紀錄片，並為金馬獎史上最年輕的長片導演."

Mind me quoted some words of him from the interview in the magazine (which I desperately want to share with you):
“一開始就是把零用錢丟出來，我用一萬塊開拍《街舞狂潮》。... 錢不夠就開始去接一些商業拍攝，當時念碩二，就狂接一些MV和廣告，想湊拍片的經費。可是MV就是超商業，我正在拍的又是紀錄片，那種狀況其實還蠻奇怪的，但也是很好的練習機會，因為這樣你才會了解一般人的想法，看到一些窗戶外的東西，而不是閉門造車。”

He met many obstacles during the whole process.
He needed some financial assistance to travel to Paris for some takes, he tried many ways but unsuccesful due to some rules and regulations, but he didn't give up and finally the universe did listen to his needs -
“有一天我在誠品翻書，發現有一個叫蔣顯斌的人想拍記錄片，他說每年都會征案，十年要拍一百部...”
He didn't really believe but still tried and at the end he got it! According to him, it's just a small amount of money but at least that could be enough for him to afford a trip to Paris, he expressed gratitude that at least he did not need to just shoot the departure hall and arrival hall in Taiwan's airport for the 'Paris scene'.
After Paris, the obstacle still does not want to leave him alone; the leading character of the movie informed him that he doesn't feel like dancing anymore-
“本來阿倫（《街舞狂潮》的主角）也想說不要跳舞了, ...我以為這一切真的要結束了。就在那天，他接到了一通電話，上海舉辦了一個很大的比賽， 想邀請他當評審, ...你知道嗎？人在最低潮的時候，只要有個小小的理由讓你持續下去，你就不會逃走。”

At last, he said:
“我覺得大部分的人都可以追求夢想，做自己想做的事情，但這事情是不是你要的，你絕對要想清楚，還是別人在做你也跟著做。這是我每天都會思考的，我每天都會問自己，我為什麼要拍，為什麼要做。除了要有勇氣出來做自己喜歡的事情之外，還要有耐力。你要忍耐，撐下去，到達極限的極限。日后你會發現堅持是對的，因為如果當時放棄了，現在就變成另一段故事了。”

I am really inspired by this.
I just wanna spread this.
I know I am no one to encourage people to have dreams and to hold on to it;
I just hope that this would be helpful if there is someone who is struggling between dreams and the reality.

Most importantly, I think, is to find out what we really want; then only we could ask 'why'.

Wish everyone lives their own life :)
Forgive me for the long-winded 'speech'.

Cocorosie

Check the blog below, another nice pieces.
I think I am hunger for good music.

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Life is so good with sharings.