‘The Revenant’ : the nature magnified…

I went to see the movie ‘The Revenant‘ from Alejandro González Iñárritu and it was a long time I haven’t been so astonished in front of the screen…

The last time was in front of Mad Max in 2015 for its energy, bad-ass characters, and how it succeed to drown you in a parallel world, violent and arid. Here, the world is also violent, but slow paced, and even if the battles are superbly done, the most astonishing was the nature: sublime, vast, dangerous but strangely peaceful in the same time.

The filming took place in both Argentina and Canada. I am not familiar with these two countries, but the Canadian friend who was with me, confirmed that most filming was in British Columbia. For more details regarding the location, please have a look here (and were all the pictures below are from), and don’t hesitate to see this movie on a big screen!!! It is beautiful but careful, you may wish afterwards to purchase a plane tickets to Calgary or Vancouver…!

Stunning places, right?

#movie #revenant #canada #travel #argentina

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Stadium Drive-In, Orange, 1993

Because… I cannot wait to go to the cinema tonight, I wanted the share this stunning series from Hiroshi Sugimoto.

As some may have noticed already, I love blank images, black and white photography but also early photography and other daguerreotype pictures, therefore his photographs combine perfectly all these little obsessions of mine.

This Japanese artist uses a 19th-century-style thanks to an 8×10 large-format camera with a very long exposure and the results are always flawless and highly stylized.

For him, photography has also a philosophical function, quasi metaphysic. He investigates with this medium the notion of time, temporal existence, history, which can also be seen in his other series of seascapes, Buddhist sculptures, waxworks and architecture.

“I imagine my vision then try to make it happen, just like painting,” He says. “The reality is there, but how to make it like my reality.”

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Stadium Drive-In, Orange, 1993

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cabot Street Cinema, 1978

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cinema Odeon, Firenze, 2013

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Salle 37, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2013

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cinema Teatro Nuovo, San Gimignano, 2014

House dreaming…

Like many Londoners, I dream to own my place here, but with the housing market going crazier and crazier every day, the only affordable home I can have is apparently a barge… could be fun, original, but… heu.. nope!

I still look at properties websites and find sometimes my sort of ideal home (not sure the link will work for a while, but anything from Urban space website would do!) but hey dreaming doesn’t cost much.

So when I found here this Victorian town-house here redesigned by APA, oh gosh, I want it! A little bit tiny (remember, I grow up in forest so like big space) but it is so cute! I like the light given by the big window, it has a garden, good neighbourhood, lovely bathroom and so much potential!!! It is easy to imagine what to do with this, putting plants there, woody furniture but keeping at the minimum…

I don’t know the price but this is surely much more than I can afford, but hey, as I said, dreaming is free…

#Architecture #dream #London #home #house