A few more images we have in mind for our treatment on ‘Atmospheric Skull’.
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One more batch of images from Kai that we are using as reference/mood for our next experimental short. Imaginative/surrealistic/dada feel.
Here a few of the first treatment board images from the director, Kai, on our new project, ‘Atmospheric Skull’. I recently posted the SFX track here – this is the same project.
I wonder if the ‘organic’ version (sans most SFX) is a nicer read, and thus more usable for an animation?
This sound track will be the basis for our next project, a VFX short.
Twisty
( Falcataria Moluccana )
Went to visit my old aged mom recently at Bukit Mertajam, Malaysia. At the back of her house was a large paddy field, where the farmers grew rice. As I walked with my seven years old daughter along the edge of the padi field we came across a tree with hundreds of its brown seed pods scattered on the ground. Most of them have popped open and twisted under the hot sun. The contrast between the darker outer skin and the lighter inner skin with a waxy sheen caught my attention. The darker shades in-between also adds texture to the visual. I combined 3 pods for this shot.
Francis again sees something many of us might miss.
: it’s sad how most of the college majors that are considered “useful”...
it’s sad how most of the college majors that are considered “useful” are the ones completely focused on technology, in which the user is only there to operate the machine and will be obsolete as soon as the next big thing comes along. everything else is expendable and useless and apparently anyone…
Well said. If you look at anything successful or worthwhile it’s always filled with passion… regardless of whether it’s body piercing or designing airplanes or creating marketing strategies or just the perfect piccolo latte… follow your passion first and then the money will come. At the very least, you’ll enjoy every day.
The Unassuming Tactician : Year 99
So I started on my next project, which at this point is some prose and facts about bamboo, one of the most amazing plants I’ve ever discovered.
I have some thoughts about how this idea can be pushed forward a bit more, but for now I’ll just share it in its current incarnation – some words on a page…
The Unassuming Tactician : Year 99
Geomancy describes the number ‘99’ as “inflexible, ruthless, and doubly long in time”. This little-known fact was recently brought to light as events culminated within a mature bamboo forest in a remote area of North Eastern India.
Read on to find out how the bamboo forest ensured its survival in the 99th year of its existence – but not until it had ravaged the region in a ‘take-no-prisoners’ campaign of obliteration.
The Unassuming Tactician : Year 99
1.
Virtually in unison, but not
hollow stocks clang in the wind
bending and swaying as silent soldiers
standing shoulder to shoulder
waiting for the command –
at first just a hollow rattling of sabers in the wind.
Bamboo is the plant world’s most rapidly growing and aggressive tactician.
2.
The tactically-sound call is given in the middle of Year 99
as the almost-forever-silent general rallies his warriors
who hitherto have been reserved and benign
but now unleash a shrewd campaign of
deception, gluttony, terror… and later
deliberately… suicide.
The majestic bamboo tree flowers once every 65-120 years – bringing with it a shocking wave of pestilence and destruction.
3.
Enchanting efflorescences
deceptively mask their true intentions while
decorating the ground like edible snow
doubling, doubling and re-doubling
a normally discreet and timidly meek
band of now ferociously fortified forest mice
who are soon engorged and emboldened.
Bamboo employs a gregarious flowering technique which floods foresting communities with excessive food stocks, spawning an explosion of pest populations.
4.
Keenly signed on in blood
to do the army’s bidding
on a campaign of conquest
the generally humble mice now grow obscenely
with an appetite for consumption and destruction
as expansive as the pestilence they spread
while the hollow soldiers continue to calculate.
Widespread famine ravished a small, agrarian community located near the Bay of Bengal when voracious rodents unexpectedly devoured grain stocks.
5.
Many hungry mouths
beg for life-sustaining sustenance
that does not exist nor will
as the conscious decision for death
has long since been strategised
and is now being perfectly executed
the way only the illogical historical truth
of peace through war can explain.
Bamboo creates a massive seed crop that depletes its life sustaining energy resources – causing it to die – but ensuring the survival of its seedlings.
6.
Lightning obliges as oddly discarded seed debris
makes its purpose known
when wildfires ignite and envelop indiscriminately
first consuming dying bamboo trees
and then anything in their way
not an accident nor arbitrary
but a planned, staged, conscious way of war
only the aggressor can fathom.
As the bamboo forest dies, its debris sets the ideal stage for wildfires, leaving a peaceful enclave where young, aggressive bamboo shoots can thrive.
7.
Plant, mice and human populations
sustain near apocalyptical impact
and struggle to somehow survive
as peace is finally restored
so a new bamboo army
may prosper plan and lie in wait
for at least for another 99 years.
Young bamboo shoots grow quickly and easily in many environments – especially those free from predators and competition.
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Although somewhat embellished, Alexander claims that this story and its facts are true.
1: Yu-Na in ‘Solution Scheme’ was a working girl who later posed naked as a way to get out of her previous lifestyle. Bauhaus walls reflected in glass of photo. 2: Real Bauhaus design by East Germans in collaboration with Communist China was said to be a disagreement from the beginning, but the Communists allowed it based on its pure ‘functionality.’
