Steven Klein’s Step into the future in 2006 is 2010 today!

‘Step Into the Future’ is a visually striking editorial by Steven Klein inspired by the effects of global warming and sci-fi becoming reality. It was published in L’Uomo Vogue back in 2006. . . . and look at how it matters today. . .

Are we near it? About there i suppose. . .  keep it up for this to come.

sigh. . . .

source: Homotography.blogspot.com

lets hope this doesn’t really come true.

Think Green, YOU ALSO SHOULD PRACTICE GREEN!

2010
03/07
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small people, small minds

I know i am small, i am Asian, i am Chinese, i am born HERE and RAISED HERE, therefore i am small, midget and a fraction of my dream size. I cannot wear some brands and i cannot wear some cloths because  i am small, because i am Asian.

But nevertheless i believe its not an issue, because i think big. . . . that’s what i would want my self to believe.

It came across me today that while i was in the meeting room convincing my client on some sanitary wares and also helping my non-architectural background boss with some design; as usual my receptionist would come in and serve some tea in the middle of the meeting, she gave two to my clients (husband & wife) and she left only to come back with one cup for my boss. [what about me?] i was left abrupt like that and until now. Tell me Whats wrong with this picture!?

and the basics- what’s wrong with her! So they didn’t have enough cups? -yea right there are 100 cups in the office, don’t tell me everyone used it all up (we only have 6 staffs)

owh, its all being washed- yea right they office woman isn’t in, so no one would wash it (we only have 6 staffs)

owh there isn’t enough tea left in the cup-yea right the whole jag could fill up 5 people full cup ( she could just have given me a cup of water!)

owh her hands were full- nope, just 2 hands and one cup. . . .

owh she thinks i need to take my own drink my self because i am only 22 and she is 35, and everyone else is 40+

this is just pure discrimination if i could say the least!

And beside if that’s the case! Mind you although i am young, and although i am a fresh grad, and though i am younger than her and anyone else in the office, i play a part in this office as a Designer! I seriously feel there needs to be a time where we as people start to look at things other than traditions, she is Chinese and she is the one that is about it, young must follow adults what-not. She cares so much about her son and his well being it reminds me of my mom and me. ( I dont talk to her, and i am not close to her either) I see her son being me: pity her, but owh well she didn’t see it coming and maybe she deserves it. (she was like, my son wont be like you want, he will be good, he will listen to me, and he will be a GOOD boy)

From what i could see, i have been patient with this woman. She has been trying to sort of change me- she thinks i am lost, and i need help to come back to the light, or to the virtues. I couldn’t count the numerous times she would come and nose about my life and my family asking why didn’t i talk to my family nor bother them in any way, and would use herself as an example to talk me into -talk to my family. [excuse me, do you know the situation with me, or my family or my life, and besides its my life. Whats the fuck is wrong with you!, i do what i want, i be what i want because its my life, my family is screwed up; we are this way for generations, and we are happy that way, WHO ARE you to mind my business, mind yours before you do others, and its not courteous being such nosy]

The tea issue that happened today is just a plain sight that its so obvious that she treat me less of what i am worth. I am offended by this and i furious. I am not emotional, its just plain wrong to be serving everyone but that one last one, like the 13th fairy.

Treat others the way you would want to be treated. If this is the case, i am not going to treat you as you would want me to treat you. I am not going to be nice like an ignorant fool that passes and goes to work just for a work. I have a dignity and i believe i have kept it quite well. If so you believe that your dignity is about so high as mine or better, therefore that is not high, because you compare.

I may have felt the way i do now because i was agitated, but its something you could feel. I may not have grasp this entirely but i feel its just wrong to treat people this way. Because i am young, i need to take my own tea in the middle of the meeting?

I simple feel that its shallow of her to think of it that way, and to resent me.

Traditional people can be the devil in disguise, they are now the people i would kill first in the time of end to come. They disturb the living and they disturb people. You would be shunned that at this time and age, we still have little people like this, and these little minds that makes our world turn a little slower because we have to bother them. . . .

simple pathetic, just pathetic.

Word of advice:

Dear readers of ages that is of teens or of early adults

I hope i wouldn’t be to rude to say this, but as youths i believe it is our rights to take charge of our own life, it should be decided by our own and only our own, simply because it’s your life and you are to live in it, not your mom, not your dad, not your grandma, grandpa, your aunt, your uncle; NO its YOU.

Listening to them is fine, but please do not let them take charge. Yes its true that they are our sole financier, and they pay for everything. Bare this in mind: from the moment we are conceived, and brought into this world, we are DIRECTLY their responsibility. It is their responsibility to raised us and to bring us up to adults. It is their job. But with that responsibility, it does not mean that by raising us, it would mean we are responsible for theirs. Its entirely a wrong concept to think that you are responsible for them later in life, when they are responsible for you. Remember its their responsibility to raise you, but its your choice to take your responsibility. Its just a choice. A choice they have to be relevant when your young to be able to attract you to take responsibility for them. They cannot demand as how you demanded, because your their responsibility, you are their job. When its done, its done.

I have felt that its also naive of us youngsters to listen to them entirely. I question and i ask everything they say. It cannot be: what i say is right and you must listen. With today’s knowledge and the accessibility that is available, there is no reason why we could not question, always demand an explanation. If they couldn’t answer it is therefore nul. If it doesn’t make sense why pursue it. At this time and age, i believe we should not be quite, we need to question and reason the many happenings around us. We have come so far as humanity but it still seems we are just a mile away from where we started. We have a long way to go, and by listening to parents who think and live the lives decades ago isn’t going to help us move into the future.

They have the right to enforce, but with a proper reason. Remember to practice your rights, as humans we have our human rights even as a baby. An explanation and a reason to any doings is necessary. Its not about authority. Control is agreement. If things are not met, or agreed there could not be a veto, it needs to be met in the middle somehow.

Youngsters and especially Asian youths must move out of this trap that makes us Asians. There is no reason why we cannot be more than who we are. The excuse that we are Asians and we have virtues and traditions to uphold is just crap. Its an excuse because your afraid. Traditions are pass on, but the change to suit to the relevance. whatever we practice today may not be the same thing our ancestor’s practice centuries ago. We need to move out of this cocoon that traps us, and we start with our parents. They are the ones responsible for bring us up, but if you don’t take the chance to be more than they are, than your just a clone.

You don’t move anywhere. We need to empower ourselves. Do it by being bold, and being brave.

Parents will be hurt, so? everyone does

They will deal with it, as how they have dealt with a lot of people

soon they will realize that, that’s their job, it’s their job. Your living.

Love and respect is earn, the Asian values of strict enforcement is nor love, its torture and to me its against human rights on any level.

Remember, it’s your life, your living it, your dealing with it, and your going to be at it for the rest of your life.

It’s either you like it or you don’t, if your parents wants you to do and you don’t like it, just remember this. Your gonna be living it for the rest of your life and you would be a monster like them to your children because your a product of their failure.

People: its time to break out of this cocoon, the knives are in our hands: all we need to do is just cut that layer of silk and break free, spreading our winds and fly in the infinite sky. . .

Take charge now. This is not the time to pessimistic, this is not the time to be scared. We are falling off a Cliff right now, it doesn’t make any difference if you stab your self with a knife. . . .

~Derick Doors~

2010
03/02
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The nightmare is back!

A Nightmare on Elm Street -2010

A Nightmare on Elm Street is an upcoming 2010 American horror film written by Eric Heisserer and Wesley Strick, directed by Samuel Bayer, and produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller. It is a remake of Wes Craven’s 1984 slasher film of the same name and designed to reboot the franchise. The film stars Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger, a role made famous by Robert Englund, while Rooney Mara takes over the role of Nancy Thompson, originally portrayed by Heather Langenkamp. The remake is set to be released on April 30, 2010
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On January 29, 2008, Variety reported that Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes production company would be rebooting the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise with a remake of the original 1984 film. In an interview, producer Brad Fuller initially explained that they are following the same line they did with their Friday the 13th remake, by abandoning the things that made the character less scary—the film’s antagonist, Freddy Krueger, will not be “cracking jokes” as had become a staple of his character in later films—and focusing more on trying to craft a “horrifying movie”. Fuller expresses how everyone at the studio loved the concept of being killed if you fell asleep. The producer stated that the film would be a remake of the 1984 film, but clarified that they would be borrowing certain character deaths and dream sequences from the entire Nightmare series.
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In February 2009, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Samuel Bayer was hired to direct the film. According to New Line production chief Toby Emmerich, Michael Bay advocated heavily for Bayer’s hiring, as Bay, Bayer, and director David Fincher came up as commercial directors together. It is Bay’s opinion that Bayer has the “the ability to capture the kind of seductive and unsettling imagery that would make Nightmare feel like a fresh, visually arresting moviegoing experience”.
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In a June 9, 2009 interview, Craven expressed his displeasure in the remaking of his 1984 film, primarily because the filmmakers chose not to have him as a consultant to the film, unlike with the 2009 remake The Last House on the Left where he “shepherded it towards production”. In contrast, Robert Englund, who portrayed Freddy throughout the film series, feels it is time for A Nightmare on Elm Street to be remade; Englund likes the idea of being able to “exploit the dreamscape” with CGI and other technologies that did not exist when Craven was making the original Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984.
Fuller and Form likened the new Nightmare film to their 2003 remake of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and retracted an earlier statement when they said they did not plan to “cherry pick” the best elements of the franchise, like they did with the reboot of the Friday the 13th franchise they released in 2009. Instead, the 2010 film will be more of a reimagining. The pair also explained that A Nightmare on Elm Street would have a different tone than the Friday the 13th remake. Form states, “I think a Friday the 13th movie like we made was really fun. You know, sex, drugs and rock and roll, and I think a Nightmare movie is not that.” When asked why New Line was rebooting the Nightmare on Elm Street film series, Emmerich explained, “The Nightmare films are profoundly disturbing on a deep, human level because they’re about our dreams. It’s why we thought that we could reach an especially broad audience with a new film, since the feeling of having your dreams being invaded was something that would translate to any country and any culture
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With a budget of $27 million, principal photography began on May 5, 2009 and officially wrapped on July 10, 2009.  New Line contracted with two high schools in Illinois, Elk Grove High School and John Hersey High School, to use their location for scenes in the remake. According to Principal Nancy Holman, of Elk Grove High, the studio contacted schools across the nation looking for one that had a swimming pool. Although filming will take place at both schools, neither will be identified by name. The studio also cast 200 extras for various school scenes, including one in the pool, but required that all auditioning students be at least 16-years old. School board President Lenore Gonzales Bragaw was initially apprehensive about the deal, as she disliked the idea of the studio filming “scenes of violence” at the schools; Bragaw agreed to the filming after being assured that no one would be killed during the swimming scenes.  On May 22, 2009, the Nightmare on Elm Street film crew went on location to the city of Gary, Indiana to film scenes at a Methodist church. The studio negotiated with the city for months before finally settling on a deal. According to Ben Clement, the executive director of the Gary Office of Film and Television, the studio was looking for “an architectural style that would fit the story line of the film”. The film crew returned to Gary in June to film a dream sequence that takes place on Elm Street in one of the local streets, and in December some new scenes were shot in a diner, with new characters

he is back. . . .

hehe

2010
02/28
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Yogyakarta

Jogja- a land that is as amazing as time can be

From Jogja!

Arrival from Jakarta! – to Jogja =culture shock!

From Jogja!

being historical and cultural- wayang kulit and the water castle

From Jogja!

living as a King in the past and NOW = Kraton (palace in Indonesia)

From Jogja!

Borobudur- An amazing Buddhist Stupa, UNESCO World Heitage!

From Jogja!

like Buddha, peaceful and enlighten

From Jogja!

Brahman Stupa, Hindu- similar to Angkor Wat. . .  concept of the universe and the woman’s womb

From Jogja!

another past that is well preserved, and well cultured

From Jogja!

Hinduism and the religion that was native to this land, and at times seems so even today. Ancient but true.

From Jogja!

Sewa Stupa, another gothical Hindu temple

From Jogja!

kraton Ratu Boko- Queen Boko Palace- whats left of it

From Jogja!

on a peak overlooking Mt. Merati

From Jogja!

with a view fit for a King- Queen ( I had coffee while i overlooked this view as the sun sets beyond the rainy horizon)

From Jogja!

simple living, that challenged nature, as how the volcano challenges the people here.

From Jogja!

Indonesia and its cultures, Neighbors and a definate smile for the next visit.

A Place Like No Other

Being in a place that has so little to do with change, perhaps something more about the going and the progress that the world has come to today, yet this place seemed to be different for history as it is able to retain its true identity which is just about living.

Simple life, and closeness is what i believe Yogyakarta is. Indonesia is indeed a  poor nation, but being poor doesn’t mean its poor. The rich and the wealthy with the poor are clear in this country, but honestly this is the beauty of this country, its a status and its a living. Its red and green. It opens your eyes.

The lives of its people that poured into the streets are to such an extend an amazing display of rich a culture of understanding and also a colorful lifestyle that is just about living: making ends meet and living at all odds, to me this took my breath away just by looking and walking pass these people.

Fragile and vibrant like the volcano that is in the vicinity. Dormant but dangerous, the people being modest but cultured to such depths that its frightening to immersed into the culture itself. They are a few groups of whom having little but alot to offer, they may not know it but its a sight that will make everyone think more about themselves and others.

They live in a land craved by the volcano, they are people of nature and they are people of a rule, as this district is a royal district, ruled by a monarchy. Few left, few too in the world with such honest cultures and respect for one another, even more to their past.

I am amazed by this land, may it be a past of Buddhist nor Hinduism, it is still a land of a history that tells of a glorious past, and it still does exist now, by the living breathing descendants of its people and us being the mere visitors to a land foreign but exciting to be awed at. How our ancestors may have traded and was awed by it, we are still today.

To a past well kept, for a future well reserve. . . . for the future to be awed at and wonder at how humanity was once and may had evolved.

2010
02/23
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Derick Doors
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The Mother

Mother
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~A touching and a powerful film as portrayed by Duncan Mitchel~
Bong Joon-ho’s new film Mother begins with a tease: Do-joon’s Mother (Kim Hye-ja, Palace), in an embroidered violet jacket, walks toward the camera through a field of tall grass. Soft jazz-funk begins to play on the soundtrack. Gazing offscreen, she stops walking, then hesitantly starts dancing to the music. We’ll see her in the same field later in the movie, but not dancing.
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Do-joon’s Mother lives with her son Do-joon (Won Bin, Taegugk, Guns and Talks) behind the murky shop where she sells medicinal plants and roots, and practices acupuncture without a license on the side. Do-joon is very good looking (he’s played by Won Bin, after all), but he’s not quite right in the head, rather like Song Gang-ho’s character Gang-du in The Host, and like Gang-du, there is a hint that his impairment is his mother’s fault. He’s not retarded, but his dullness is difficult to define: he has no attention span to speak of and a poor memory; at twenty-seven he still sleeps with his mom, with a hand on her breast. He hangs around with Jin-tae (Jin Ku, A Dirty Carnival), who’s also good-looking in a bad-boy way, and is a bad boy – a tough, cynical hustler who feels constrained by his small-town life and dreams of adventure. Still, Jin-tae seems to have nothing better to do than hang out with Do-joon. He taunts Do-joon for being a virgin at his age. Jin-tae doesn’t seem to have any family, and lives alone at the edge of town. There’s a lot of this in Mother: one high school character lives with her half-senile, boozing grandmother, intact families are not much in evidence. (For a “traditional” society like Korea, its films and TV dramas feature a surprising number of one-parent families and broken homes.)
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Do-joon and Jin-tae are already in trouble with the police for vandalizing a Mercedes-Benz that knocked Do-joon down in the street. Then a high-school girl is murdered, and a clue connected to Do-joon is found near her body. Relieved that their first murder case in living memory is so cut-and dried, the police pack Do-joon away. He insists that he didn’t kill the girl, though he saw her the night she died. Frantic, his mother sets out to prove Do-joon’s innocence. Her blundering efforts draw Jin-tae into helping her to play detective, and they poke around the seamy underside of the town. Jin-tae enjoys himself: “This is in my blood!” he exults after beating up a couple of “suspects,” “I should have been a cop.” In jail, Do-joon tries to dredge up details from the sieve of his memory, often coming up with details that make matters worse, while his mother closes in on the girl’s real killer … or maybe not … before returning to that grassy field.
Kim Hye-ja is famous for playing mothers on Korean TV, and it must have been interesting for her to play such a double-edged role. Taking the melodramatic archetype of the Mother to extremes, Kim plays a mother whose symbiosis with her son is nearly complete, yet Bong and Kim manage to keep the character from being monstrous. (The archetype isn’t just Korean: the mother who sacrifices everything to save her accused son is a mainstay of American country music, for example.) She does a great job, and one of the main pleasures of the movie is watching her. Won Bin’s Do-joon seems like a change from his usual pretty-boy roles, but since the people around Do-joon comment ruefully on his good looks (another of Bong’s jokes, I suspect), it’s not that big a leap. Jin Ku plays Jin-tae energetically, full of frustrated vitality, and by the end turns out to be a bit more sympathetic than you’d expect.
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If you’ve seen Bong Joon-ho’s earlier movies, you’ll have some idea what to expect from Mother. Bong says that he chose the English word mother as his title to avoid the associations of the Korean word omoni, but it’s probably no coincidence that the Korean pronunciation of mother also sounds like the Korean pronunciation of murder. He likes to build his stories around ordinary people; the characters of his first feature Barking Dogs Never Bite — a college professor and his salarywoman wife — were as upscale as he gets. Since then his protagonists have been small-town cops (Memories of Murder), a family that runs a food stand by the Han River (The Host), and now a small-town widow. His manner is operatic: reactions, facial expressions, sound design, even the weather (see the use of rain in Mother) tend to be over the top. Even Won Bin’s stupefied look is rapturous in its dullness. Typically for Bong, there are plenty of small jokes at the expense of movie clich?s – misrecognitions, comically inappropriate reactions – jokes that make you wince as you laugh.
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In this and in his operatic excesses, Bong is reminiscent of Pedro Almodovar – think of All About My Mother – and if you like Almodovar you may like Bong. (Come to think of it, Lee Byeong-woo’s music reminds me of the music in Almodovar’s films.) Hong Gyeong-pyo’s photography captures the grittiness of decrepit small towns and the working poor; there’s a lot of grey and murk, and even the blood looks dark and muddy. Mother is a retreat in scale after the CGI-heavy science-fiction blockbuster The Host, but an advance in confidence and style. It even contains his first sex scene! It’s been obvious since Memories of Murder that Bong is a director worth watching, and Mother confirms it.
(Duncan Mitchel)-koreanfilm.org
I am amazed at the trailer – now lets see how this film will favor during Cannes:)

oh he got out of national service ? WOW!

:)

hehe

Here is something to think about:

It was then kids are portrayed as ghosts or evil things

~get this~

NOW MOTHERS!

i mean its a step into it ^ ^

2010
02/07
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Derick Doors
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so will it last?

sometimes i really feel its just up to a personal point of discretion not a point of decency

I don’t quite get why sometimes people are the way they are, its something that i call human nature: yes but un-doubly i feel this major point of disgust. Do i need to feel any more or less challenged? of course i do. Its also sometimes entirely different in some little or minor mores that make up this so called life.

I must admit i struggle with love at most of times because i cant come together to put things up for sale and i also understand that i am entirely moved by  the smallest of things. Love at first sight is always there – but unfortunately its not so for the other party. I can be desperate like many would say and i know so my self, yet i believe its something i am striving for not for the sake of satisfaction but of a life partner that is eternal and lust.

Being experimentive doesn’t necessarily mean i am naive, its more naive so if you judge people based on the understanding that that at some point people are connected in an affair or in a monogamy relationship. Being involve in such a way doesn’t not mean that i am just being played, never did i say i was ever involved to begin. Why do i need to be indulging in such non common sense that just darken a person’s mind!

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So i presume it is just an honor to be involve. . .  as i find and as i neglect.

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The joy of this neglect and the joy of sight and the joy of loneliness

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Could this be any more. . . .

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life as it is- happy or not, judged or be judge- it is just a personal discretion, not decency.

2010
02/06
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Derick Doors
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