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It took us almost two hours, riding on the back of two motorbikes, to get to the Phnom Kulen of them stuck in the roads I tend to agree. At the top - it feels like that anyway - a waterfall m two pale, sweaty western tourists with ass- and back-pains afte
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Flying in over Cambodia is amazing. It takes under 50 minutes from Bangkok when the rivers and jungles appear down there it feels like you’re coming to a country no one has touched yet. Of course tourism is spreading - for bad and good - but from up here it sure looks peaceful 50 and with no drunken backpackers near.
The impressive, almost fairy tale, waterfall that met us up in the jungles of Phnom Kulen, only clouded by the poverty showing its sad face. After a dozen kids wants a dollar or two, it’s hard to not give in. Cambodia is a country that nowadays gets a lot of its economy from its 51 visitors, so be prepared. You’re needed.
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This is the tourist trap of Siam Reap, not a bad one - but I’m sure you will be more impressed by some of the other complexes in the area.
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I’m not fond of heights, but it’s hard not to climb up in the temples at Angkor Wat. Tiny steps, a simple slip will make you fall to your death - but it’s worth it. Standing up there, watching the jungle around you, the temple structure below, is powerful. Don’t forget water, because you might stay up 58 there for a while. Just inhaling the history and mystery.
I had to visit the Ta Prohm temple. For the normal tourist it’s mostly famous for being the place where they shot the first Tomb Raider movie, but for me - a fan of mysteries and odd details - it’s famous for it’s dinosaur carving. For some it’s just a buffalo with some leaves around it. For me it’s a dinosaur. Makes 59 the imagination run wild, yeah?
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I was born in Stockholm 1945. My parents are Latvian. I used to work in advertising. Now I express myself through my art. Since 2010 I live in Österlen. My art reflects the magic in life, exploring the treasure to discover just below the surface, the greatness of all the small things in life. My sculptures are small format. I use simple materials like paper, textile, glass, metal and things I find hidden away and forgotten. In my hands they are transformed to new life, recreated. Maybe you will see what I see. Or you will have your own vision. It’s magic.
Jag är född 1945 i Stockholm. Mina föräldrar kommer från Lettland. Tidigare arbetade jag med reklam, nu uttrycker jag mig genom min konst. Min konst handlar om det magiska i tillvaron, att det under ytan finns en skatt att upptäcka, det stora i det lilla. Skulpturerna är småskaliga. Jag använder material som papier-maché, textil, plast, metall och sådant jag funnit i gömmorna och glömskan och som i mina händer med lite fantasi får nytt liv, återskapas i egen form. Som – hoppas jag - trollbinder dig som betraktare.
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Don’t let the beard* fool you! Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal is a very busy man in the past as well as in the present and he’s not looking to slowdown. As a songwriter/producer he has collaborated with numerous artists, his music can be heard in TV, film and video games like Rock Band, "So You Think You Can Dance", Oprah Winfrey, ESPN, UFC, WWE, NFL, dozens of MTV/VH1 shows and more. Bumblefoot has appeared on stage with Joe Satriani, Nancy Sinatra, Chris Jericho and FOZZY, Cyndi Lauper, members of BADFINGER, Paul McCartney & WINGS, and on recordings with diverse artists such as DREAM THEATER's Jordan Rudess, ANVIL's Steve "Lips" Kudlow, Jessica Simpson, rapper Scarface, comedian Don Jamieson and toured with Lita Ford just to name a few Yet he always seems to take the time for a photo op with some fan, sign an autograph or to answer a few questions from a fanzine or a magazine. He is continuously donating songs and performances to fundraising CDs, often making appearances and donating autographed items for charities. You can frequently catch him on stage at events for medical research, disaster relief, and children’s health issues, visiting patients at children’s hospitals all over the world with guitar in hand.
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hat's a lot to sum up. The long version is at www.bumblefoot.com/ biography.php, I'll try to do a short version... started playing around age 6, had a band by age 7 writing, recording, gigging, teaching by age 13, producing by 15, and all continued – been commercially releasing music for 20 years, write music for videogames, TV themes, films, teaching music production at SUNY Purchase College, joined GNR in 2006.
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ife has a way of taking you places you don't expect. It was after playing there two years ago, Nik Uzi, singer of local Dubai band Point Of View ( www.facebook.com/pointofviewdubai ) reached out. They were working on their album, I'd give my thoughts here n' there, photo: Tony Trujillo and we stayed in touch. When they were ready to release the album, we tossed around the idea of flying out to join them on stage. It was at a time between legs of GNR touring, so why not be spontaneous and have some fun, right? So glad it worked out, Nik, his band, family & friends all gave me a great personal love for Dubai.
Considering how the whole music industry/scene has changed. What do you think that more experienced artists can teach younger aspiring artists of today? And how can the new generation of artists inspire the older generation in return?
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rtists that have lived most of their lives by old methods may have a hard time getting comfortable with today's direct connectivity with fans, and they can learn a lot by young bands raised in the 'Internet Age'. Young bands can learn from experienced artists about the realities of touring, performing, recording, business, but more-importantly about having discipline, patience, a good work ethic, respect, faith, building character that can help the young artist grow and develop themselves that can apply not just to music but to life. It's about having a good life overall. Success can be miserable without balance.
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I know that you do a lot of producing when not committed to anything GnR, both your own stuff and others. I especially remember two young female artists from the past year, POC and Alexa Vetere.
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orking with Alexa started back almost 10 years ago, she was the daughter of a friend of a friend. Her goal was to release an album, she had never sang, written a song or played guitar. It would be a challenge – and I like challenges. So we started on guitar lessons - she'd play until her fingertips were literally black. Gave her vocal lessons, songwriting techniques, started co-writing and demoing photo: Katarina Benzova, SavanasArt songs, my solo band backed her for record“So we started on guitar lessons ings and live shows in NY & - she’d play until her fingertips LA, all was going well. She got a guitar endorsement, we posted a were literally black” song at iHeartRadio and the song ended up being #1 on the Rock charts with over 3.6 million plays. Then I started with GNR, she went to College, life happened. We always stayed in touch, and always planned to put life aside and release the music we made together. This year we finally did that. ( http://itunes. apple.com/album/breathe-again/ id514980356 ) Poc is a female rock artist from Mexico. She flew up to to my studio in New Jersey and lived there for two months while we wrote, recorded, and kept a Livestream going to have fans watch, and participate – we had them Skype their backing vocals to us to include in the song “Rock N Roll Baby”, something I don't think has ever been done on an album. We'd spend hours late at night lisphoto: Tony Trujillo tening to the past 50 years of rock music, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, getting inspiration. And in the end you can hear that real singer/ guitarist team in the songs, that duo of personalities, we captured that. I've never experienced so much making an album as I have with Poc. In those two months we had a heat wave, an earthquake, a hur-
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ricane, a flood that left 3 feet of water in the studio, and lots of personal challenges to deal with from family tragedies to extortion threats, all this while I was in rehabilitation from a car accident that had left me unable to play and in constant pain. It was one challenge after another. But instead of it stopping us, it added intensity and spirit to the album. That's where the album title came from – every time an obstacle would stand in our way, so we named the album “Rise Above”. ( http://itunes. apple.com/album/rise-above/id529724762 )
I remember reading about photo: Tony Trujillo your car accident. You had to play most of the tour on painkillers, are you fully recovered now?
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t's a permanent spine injury that causes constant pain – the focus of my life is about trying to keep the pain minimized and living life around it.
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his was something different for us, I was looking forward to it. We played two acoustic shows on Oct 20th & 21st with Neil Young and Jack Black at the Annual Bridge School benefit concert ( www.bridgeschool.org/concert/index.php ) in San Jose, California. The Bridge School is a non-profit organization that helps people with severe speech and physical impairments through education and alternative means of communication technology. After that we rehearsed in LA for a week, then Vegas for a month. A week after we finish we played some shows in India, Indonesia & Japan.
photo: Dan Feeney How is getting back to normal life after a tour? From an outside view getting back to normal life looks a bit like a semi controlled crash-landing. How do you cope with that? Do you have any special way of dealing with that whole process?
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he best way to re-integrate into society, haha, is to jump right in and get busy. One time after a tour I unpacked quickly and spent the next three days doing home improvement, putting in recessed lighting in the living room, new sinks and faucets in the bathrooms. Another time I went straight to the studio and laid a bunch of guest guitar solos. But the best way is to get busy quickly. Otherwise you're lying in bed staring at the ceiling waiting for an imaginary 'day sheet' to slip under your door so you know what to do that day, haha
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What is a typical day in Ron Bumblefoots life?
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very day is filled with 'life stuff ' before hitting the road again – yesterday was a visit to my parents, today is a visit to the lawyer and to DiMarzio pickups, tomorrow with a music bizz assistant, following day to the doctor, day after is a fundraiser for Rock Asylum Foundation ( www.rockasylum.org ), using rock music to educate kids. Following day I'm playing a fundraiser in NYC for Foundation Fighting Blindness ( www.blindness.org ), the day after going to Downbeach Film Festival in Atlantic City, NJ for the screening of a horror movie I did music for and had a cameo in, The Meat Puppet ( www.facebook.com/TheMeatPuppetMovie ) Then I pack my bags. Somewhere in there I need to lay acoustic guitar tracks for Tony Harnell's upcoming acoustic album, and lay a guitar solo for a film score. Typical week.
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arliest memories start at age 5 – being at my neighbor's house and he had Paul McCartney albums lying around the room, hearing KISS “Alive!” when it was just released and knowing this is what I wanted to do with my life, making a giant drawing of our band logo on a white window shade to hang behind us while
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we played, carving the band's name into my little acoustic guitar. All I ever wanted was to be part of a band where you know everyone by their first names – John Paul George Ringo, Gene Ace Peter Paul – to have that kind of band, and write a lot of songs.
Who are your biggest inspiration in music – at the moment and back over the years?
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uitar-wise the biggest influences have been Eddie Van Halen and Jimi Hendrix. Musically, it was hearing KISS for the first time at age 5 that drove me to be a musician, and it was the Beatles that made me truly love music – the cello lines in the Beatles songs, the production, it never stops amazing me.
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What – outside of the music field – inspires you?
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ot a lot of time for anything outside music, aaahh!!! I spend time with family when I can. As a kid I would draw, paint, sculpt, I was into B&W photography & developing in my early 20's, but since then I've been doing half-a-dozen music-related full-time tasks at once, seems all my hobbies are music-related. The closest thing to a non-musical hobby would be watching obscure '70s movies and taking photos and posting them on Instagram, haha. (Instagram name: bumblefoot)
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Where do you see yourself over the coming year and further on, in say 10 years?
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n the studio more. The studio is my favorite place, the creative environment, I hope to have more time to spend there.
Inbetween all tour traveling, what’s your best ways of relaxing when being at home for shorter/longer period of time?
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taying off the computer and spending more time in the sunshine. We’ve become a Vitamin-D-deficient society, and I try to spend more time doing physical things in the ‘analog world’. Exercise, healthy food, and fresh air.
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What are your thoughts about old versus new technique live and in the studio? Do you embrace everything new or do you look back with nostalgic eyes?
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ld and new compliment each other and complete what each lacks. Analog sounds better, but has limitations in editing and processing – digital solves that problem. When we think in terms of ‘OR’ we exclude half of what we could have – think ‘AND’ and have it all. Thankare youyour for the interview, alltechnique for reading....! What thoughts aboutand oldthank versusyou new live and in the studio? Do you embrace everything new or do you look back with nostalgic eyes? ~ Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal Old and new compliment each other and complete what each lacks. Analog sounds better, but has limitahttp://www.bumblefoot.com/ tions in editing and processing – digital solves that problem. When we think in terms of 'OR' we exclude half of what we could have – think 'AND' and have it all.
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Rons’s list* We asked Ron if he could make a top 10 list of favorite albums between 1975-1985?
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hat list would be a few hundred albums long, and would need to start a dozen years earlier... Starting at ‘75 here are ten albums that bring vivid memories and take me back to where I was, and who I was, as a young kid at the beginning of a lifelong road... Every one of these bands had such a strong musical identity and vibe, fantastic songs. I love every one of these albums as much as I did the first time, if not more.
KISS “Dressed To Kill” (1975) AC/DC “High Voltage” (1976) Boston (1976) Judas Priest “Sad Wings Of Destiny” (1976) Billy Joel “The Stranger” (1977) Sex Pistols “Never Mind the Bollocks” (1977) Yes “Going For the One” (1977) Blondie “Parallel Lines” (1978) The Cars “The Cars” (1978)
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NINJA DIXON share’s it all! We dive in to his blog and find a vast vault full of knowledge in everything from crazy Asia, classic American exploitation, epics from a long time ago and some stuff in between. Here is a few (!) picks that we made. Enjoy!!
The Cat Creature (1973)
and worked up to her death in the middle of the eighties. She had a successful Hollywood-career, but after getting fucked by the American paranoia she and her directorhusband Herbert J. Biberman moved to more liberal New York and started to work in theatre instead of the shallow film industry. John Carradine shows up in a cameo and Peter Lorre Jr. in an even smaller part. And he's an oddity in the cast. Lorre Jr. wasn't really Peter Lorre's son, but he looked a bit like him and when he wanted to break into acting he changed his name to Peter Lorre Jr, which both Lorre and his people objected to. But lucky for Eugene Weingand (his real name), Peter Lorre died months after and he quickly changed his name to Lorre Jr. and claimed he was the son and therefore got a few parts here and there. What a guy!
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ere's an interesting TV-movie, originally aired december 11 on ABC, 1973. The Cat Creature was made mostly because producer Douglas S. Cramer wanted to make an old-fashioned, occult-themed thriller in the same vein as The Cat People and similar stuff from the forties and seventies. He hired Robert Bloch as a writer and Curtis Harrington as director and a very competent cast with Meredith Baxter, Stuart Whitman and David Hedison in the bigger parts and with a lot of great supporting actors - but more on them later.
Curtis Harrington is even more interesting. Considered one of the founders of Queer Cinema (he worked with Kenneth Anger, among others) and very interested in the occult, he became some kind of specialist on cheap, colourful genre movies, some of them made for TV. He also made a trio of name-themed movies, Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, What's the Matter with Helen? and How Awful About Allan. He did some jobs for Roger Corman also but later turned mostly to TV. I prefer to remember him for the insanely cheesy but awesome Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell!
After a real estate appraiser is found clawed to death in the villa of a rich collector, super-cop Stuart Whitman is on the case. He contacts Egyptologist David Hedison, because the dead dude was specializing in Egyptian artefacts and soon they're noticing how people is starting to die around them, and everything seems connected to a golden amulet stolen from the estate. ...and the presence of a black, nasty, angry cat near every victim doesn't bode well...
Anyway. It's not a perfect movie by any means, mostly because it had some troubles during production. Shortly before shooting was going to begin, Harrington told Bloch the script is twelve pages too long. Bloch carefully shorted it to fit the TV-format, but after shooting was done Harrington discovered that the movie needed twelve pages more! Now Bloch had to write new scenes, who would fit in with the now already filmed shorter script, and that resulted in a less coherent story and a bit more episodic feeling.
The Cat Creature is a by-the-numbers TV-movie, but it's also extremely cosy, perfect for a lazy morning. The wonderful cast is inspired - especially Gale Sondergaard, the talented and colourful actress who became a victim for
It's still a good production and worth seeking up for you fans of old TV-movies.
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The Psychopath (1966)
Bloch uses a couple of very interesting ideas, but feels a lot more rushed than most of his other writing from the same period. I'm the first one to admit that I love good whodunits or early slasher-style movies, but The Psychopath doesn't get really interesting - on several layers - until the last victim is killed and director Francis (and the actors) can focus on the interesting characters. The ending, which goes on for a while with several endings in one is excellent, creepy delivers a few subtle shocks without being especially violent or graphic (no, I'm not one of them who wants to be pretentious and claims that less gore will generate more tension, that's just bullshit - it's all about storytelling, no matter graphic violence or not). But it works and that's also the part of the film you will remember. The Psychopath isn't the best film from neither Francis or Bloch, but if you tend to enjoy moderately twisted sixties thrillers or just yet another production from Amicus, this might be something for you.
In the Line of Duty (1986)
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fter Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho in 1960 every producer wanted their own hit starring a dysfunctional family with incestuous atmosphere. Psycho's screenwriter Robert Bloch was himself the man behind several of these similar-themed knock-offs. Tonight's episode features the lesser known, but interesting, The Psychopath. Directed by Freddie Francis, the first half of this thriller feels more like a German Edgar Wallace movie with the same stiff police procedures and cheesy set-up with a mysterious murder leaving doll-copies of the victims beside the body.
The traces leads to the crazy old Mrs. Von Sturm (Margaret Johnston) and her son Mark (John Standing), who's living in a housed filled with creepy dolls - the only interest the old lady had since her husband committed suicide after being falsely accused for something... very serious. Anyway, the victims seems to be connected to this case and the question is: could this dysfunctional family be responsible for the murders? Here comes the biggest weakness of The Psychopath, it's no surprise at all who the killer is. The rumor says it was re-edited to become more whodunit, and that might also have caused it to be a much weaker movie than it really is. They struggle to keep the killer a secret, while it's not a secret at all (just check the official poster) which makes the whole set-up quite confusing. What do they want to do with the story? A whodunit or a normal thriller? Hell knows, but it's still worth watching and
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can honestly say that the one that opened up the Asian cinema for me was Jackie Chan. Yeah, really. It's not that surprising. He's famous, he made some truly spectacular action movies and the team around him, actors and crew, all are stars in their own rights. Through Jackie I also discovered Michelle Yeoh (or Michelle Khan as she was known as on my video tapes at the time), not only an excellent actress but also a fantastic fighter and stunt person. I don't remember which of her movies I saw first, it could have been Magnificent Warriors or maybe even Supercop (well, it's a Jackie Chan movie, but Michelle is the best in it), but sometime after
seeing the great Yes, Madam I saw In the Line of Duty and after many, many years I bought myself a DVD of it (in Germany, this weekend by the way) and watched it again... Michelle Yeoh is Michelle, a Hong Kong cop who can fight. During a flight the plane is hijacked, but she and her colleague Michael (play by Michael Wong) together with a Japanese Interpol agent, Yamamoto (the always brilliant Hiroyuki Sanada) takes care of the problem but it leaves them in grave dangers when the hijackers two blood-brothers decides to take a bloody revenge on them! Michael falls in love with Michelle and Yamamoto wants to go home and repair his troubled relationship with his wife, but life isn't easy when professional killers is getting closer and closer... To quote myself on Twitter: "Royal Warriors w. Michelle Yeoh might be the best martial arts film ever made." Yeah, I used another aka-title there, but it's still the same movie. And today, after having a good nights sleep and enjoyed Obama's speech this morning I will say the same thing. It's up there with the best of the eighties: Police Story, Tiger Cage II, Dragons Forever etc. What's even better with In the Line of Duty is that it keeps itself quite serious, compared to my other favourites up here. Sure, we have Michael Wong being mega-silly as the guy falling in love with Michelle, but even that story ends in disaster and at least Michelle keeps herself serious. But that's it. The rest is a very brutal and bloody revengethemed story with tons and tons of action, and not just fights - this has everything. One thing I adore with Hong Kong movies from the eighties is how every car chase ends up on a suspicious abandoned freeway outside Hong Kong where a dozen slightly disguised scrap cars gets tossed around like toys! The stunts are awesome and it looks better and bigger but still cheaper - than a lot of Hollywood productions from the same time. At the same time the traditionally foot chase after the car chase ends up in gritty, cinematic, Hong Kong back alleys, which makes movies like this almost become surrealistic when it comes to the visual style. In the Line of Duty also delivers a couple of fantastic fights - that hurts! - and an ultra-violent shoot-out at a night club. Squibs, stunts and exploding glass, what more can you ask for?
each other out - or die together. They do it because of passion and their own fucked-up logic. That makes even their story so much more touching and interesting and it's easier to see why they're just keep going. Because a normal terrorist often just wants money or have some kind of political statement to tell, but these guys just cares about each other. How about that, Hollywood? I have the German DVD under the title "Ultra Force Hong Kong Cop" from Eyecatcher Movies. It's a beautiful and uncut transfer, with original language track and English subs. A must in your martial arts collection!
Sidang Dara Dedemit (2000)
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ometimes I’m just too lazy to even try writing a review, especially if the movie is to crazy or strange to write down in words. It has happen before and now it’s time again. Let me introduce Sidang Dara Dedemit which seems to be one of several movies, episodes, about a beautiful woman and her bald gay spirit friend. This bald guy is played by Ozzy Syahputra, who’s a famous actor and singer in Indonesia. It’s a mix between scares and comedy – mostly comedy – and some utterly bizarre characters. It’s cheap, dirty and very silly. But even without subtitles it’s hard to be bored by it. There’s plenty of extremely cheap video effects, dwarfs and the fog machine is working hard to create atmosphere in something that could have been a daytime soap opera but with monsters and ghosts! Anyway, this is very entertaining and I will try to find other episodes so I can tell you more about the adventures of Si Manis Jembatan Ancol and Ozzy!
Oh, and that scene with the chainsaw... it looks dangerous for real. Very impressive stunt-work and like all good Hong Kong actioneers, it looks like it hurts a lot during that fight! What's even more interesting is how the baddies are portrayed. They aren't just normal, boring, terrorists they're friends that promised each other to always help
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mask on, but fails to rip off his face! On an island sits this movie’s Dr Evil, played by veteran comedian Lor Tok, with his two stupid robots – R2D2 and C3PO! Yes, the Star Wars characters! He also has a lot of henchmen, one of them the legendary Pipop Pupinyo (which is famous for his bald head and big moustache). Will Thep succeed, or will Dr Evil use his death ray against more airplanes in the sky? James Band 007 is a cheap and crude parody, but is surprisingly funny – even without subtitles! Shot in a Pattaya not destroyed by tourists, it has plenty of beautiful locations, fancy hotel rooms and chases and fights all over the place. With a budget being quite low the movie relies a lot on the presence of Thep Thienchai, whose rubber face was a popular sight in Thailand for many years. He died in 1994. With the comedy much being physical there’s also a lot of funny situations. My favourite is the lizardhead Thep wears on top of his head when he’s swimming ashore on the island. Clearly a nod to Goldfinger were Bond has a bird on his head, but this time the animal won’t stay quiet and Thep is finally forced to bury it under sand and rocks to stop it from revealing his presence!
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knew instantly I needed to own James Band 007 when I saw the awesome poster somewhere on the internet. Luckily for me, Ethaicd had a couple of copies left on VCD and I ordered it directly. And after I saw it I found an original poster for it on eBay, but that’s a whole other story. First of all, I love Bond parodies, rip-offs and homages from all over the world. Thailand had a couple of films similar to Bond since earlier, and even Jao Insee, on of Chaibancha’s Red Eagle films feels a lot like a Bond film. But James Band was obviously not just a rip-off, but a pure parody with everything a “real” Bond movie should have. Thai comedian Thep Thienchai, famous for his less than beautiful face and toothless grin, plays a lazy tourist chauffeur, driving one of those rickshaw-style bicycle vehicles in Pattaya. One day the Thai James Bond hires him to take him somewhere nearby, but it’s upwards all the way and Thep just can’t drive fast enough – which the bad guys use and kills Bond! Well, before he dies he gives Thep his briefcase with gadgets and whispers to him to continue the mission and save the world. He quickly takes over the role of super-agent and somehow fools everyone that he’s the real Bond! One girl is convinced he has a rubber-
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The robots are another very odd detail with the film. Build with more primitive materials than the original, and also very stupid and the R2D2 also seem a bit too horny! They also have a tendency to get into fights with each other, or just behaving very badly – much to the annoyance of Lor Tok! James Band 007 also takes a nasty turn when he’s so warm in the 007 clothes that he starts to kill the bad guys, with knife and gun and once – poor Pipop – with crushing a head! It’s not really bloody, but way more violent than other comedies I’ve seen that spoofs James Bond. The soundtrack is filled with stolen tracks from a lot of Bond films and also has a more pop-ish, discoesque version of the Star Wars theme! I don’t think there’s any original music in the whole movie, which only makes it even more entertaining. James Band 007 is a colourful, funny and totally mad comedy which still works great! I would love to see a DVD release someday, not that the VCD is bad – it’s very good – but I would like to see it in even better quality!
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The H-Man (1958)
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storyteller he is with a film that puts the special effects and terror in second place. The H-Man is first of all a gangster/crime movie, but with an awesome slimy twist. Godzilla’s Revenge is, as you might remember, a very cute and well-made kids movie with a few pointless inserts of the Kaiju monsters fighting on an island. Usually when fancy schmancy nobody’s with a PHD in fine arts laugh at Godzilla I always remind them of how Honda and Kurusawa were dear friends, they often worked together and how much they respected each others work - even if they worked on the total opposite of the movie scale in Japan.
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shiro Honda was, according me, one of the finest directors to ever have lived and work in Japan. He began like everyone else, but after Gojira he became the leading special effects/monster/sci-fi guy - and he did it with the same flair, style and quality as his non-genre movies. In 1958 he directed one of the most interesting films in his career, The H-Man, who completely lacks a big rubber monsters who stomps Tokyo, but still contains one of the coolest creatures in his career: slime. I’m not gonna go into the story that much, except it’s a beautiful and original mix of gangsters, night clubs, cops and slime - yeah, more or less a monster-noir packed with jazz and tough guys wearing hats. Of course everything is triggered by nuclear bombs and it lead to two scenes - directly after each other - that’s very similar to what Luigi Cozzi did in his wonderful Contamination. The same dark and gritty atmospheric search of the abandoned vessel, resulting in the spectacular death for some of the people aboard - and then back to the lab where they try out the liquid on an animal, with terrifying result. In this one it’s a frog, in the Italian film it’s a rat. Cozzi is a big fan of Japanese genre cinema and I’m pretty sure he included it into Contamination as one of many tributes. Like with Honda’s later family production Godzilla’s Revenge, The H-Man also shows us what a fantastic
But I’m sure you won’t get disappointed at the slimesequences in The H-Man. This is class, and of course superior to the same years (in my opinion very weak) The Blob. The special effects here are fantastic and produced with a lot of imaginative ideas. This piece of slime moves around and behaves like no slime up till then - sure, some effects is a bit cheesy, the dancer who gets covered by slime comes to mind, but it’s very realistic compared to the American counterparts. The melting people looks awesome also, often covered in shadows and the result is like from a horror movie. The H-Man is a masterpiece of fifties sci-fi and manages to be adult and intelligent all the way through.
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ecently I’ve been knitting on a creation (testing & redoing) that has been waiting for me to finish it. I sometimes need to take a break from my projects. When there is a decision to be taken, I take a time out and trying to find new input and inspiration. Either because I did not have the energy to get past a difficult passage, or that I just need some time to achieve a better result. When I resumed working on this vest, I realized that I wanted to make several changes, that I probably had not thought of if I had continued at once.
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n autumn and spring, I study full time knitting at Sätergläntan arts & crafts school in Dalarna. Over the next few weeks I will spend time learning more about synthetic dyeing, knitting a pair of socks inspired by Coco Chanel and learning about machine knitting.
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went to Viktor Rydberg Gymnasium Jarlaplan focusing on Art&Design. After high school I spent a lot of time knitting while I was working in a record store downtown and attended a class at the university in Music History (Spring 2011). In 2011 knitting came to take such a big part in my life that it no longer felt like just a hobby, I wanted to make something more out of it. I had over the past year made a couple of handmade knitwears for customers but now I wanted to do it for real. My godmother owns her own calligraphy business and she gave me the guidance I needed. In August 2011 I started Nordenlöw Handmade.
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“I was about 10 years and knitted one of my very first projects”
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wanted a larger knowledge base, so fall 2011/ spring 2012 I attended a short course in knitting at HV School in Stockholm, 14 training days were spread out over two semesters with some individual work at home. My teacher was Karin Kahnlund, a very talented and wonderful knitter.
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learned a lot of technics in this short time. I was doing knitting parallel to working in health care when I decided to search for an opportunity for extended education in knitwear. I had been considering the knitting education at Sätergläntan for a year or two and was very happy when my application was approved.
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hen I was about 7 years my grandmother taught me how to knit. One of my first knit-related memories was when I was about 10 years and knitted one of my very first projects - a small blue cotton scarf. I struggled a lot with it, frustrated over the fact that it took such a long time, every time I met my grandmother, I asked her to help me, ending up with her knitting most of the scarf. I think I still have it somewhere.
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knitwear designer that inspires me a lot is Britt-Marie Christoffersson, she is a veteran in the field, and shows that you can really stretch the boundaries of what is possible and develop knitting immensely. She is 75years old and work very hard to be “... a small phrase or able to accomplish line of text can provoke and complete her life vision. She is the thoughts that I immeauthor of the book diately want to transfer “Knitting - A craft to into knitting” develop.”
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also get lots of inspiration from Karin Kahnlund who was my teacher at HV School and even now at Sätergläntan. She advocates and is living proof that you actually can work and make a living out of knitting.
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sually I find my greatest inspiration for new designs and projects not in individuals within the field of knitwear, but rather by periods or a sense of style somehow. Right now I feel very inspired by older knitted models, from the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Garments that were stylish. Garments which were handy. Garments that fit a woman’s figure, (I’m getting increasingly frustrated by the clothes you buy these days does not seem to be made for our actual shapes). Garments that were advanced yet simple. Why limit yourself to knitting hats, socks, mittens, why not a maxidress or a coat?
“I am inspired by everything around me.”
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am inspired by everything around me. It may be nature, a movie, a book, people. But beyond the area of knitting I am mostly inspired by music. It gives me drive and often a feeling that anything is possible. The music can also give me more concrete ideas, a small phrase or line of text can provoke thoughts that I immediately want to transfer into knitting. Just such a small line of text inspires me a lot right now and has been the start of working with a new line of design - “It starts with base”. A text that can be
interpreted in many ways... uring the coming year I hope to get as much as possible out of my time at Sätergläntan, a broader technical base that gives me more opportunities to putting my ideas into reality. I hope to have time to develop my website and work with clothing and a full collection. I will also explore what I want to do in the fall, if I should apply to fashion design & tailoring at Sätergläntan, searching for a higher education within textile or maybe Art school or something similar. And consider all the textile, artistic areas I want to explore.
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“I see myself continue working as a designer, somewhere in the field between craft and art.”
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n the future I see myself still working as a designer, somewhere in the field between craft and art. Working activily with my own business, expanding it even more. I hope I have found a way to at least partially be able to live off creating hand-knits. So many people focus on the difficulties and obsticles on owning your own business in this area of creative work, to work fulltime with knitting professionally, but I want to show that it is actually possible. However, I do not wish to limit myself to knitwear only but also work with other materials.
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n today’s society, the quality has been forced to take an enormous step aside to make room for quantity, something I want to work against. Sure, a hat that I hand knit costs 2, 3, 4, 5 times as much as in a regular fashion chain store but it has a longer lasting lifecycle than such a hat. It may not be meant for us to own 10 hats or more each? There is a bad consumer behaviour that I want to change both in others and in myself. http://www.nordenlowhandmade.se/ http://www.facebook.com/nordenlowhandmade
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