AGAN HARAHAP

Agan Harahap has some surreal and fun images in his portfolio.



Links:
Agan Harahap (JPG Magazine)
Agan Harahap (Flickr)

SOURCE: Asian Photography Blog

JENNY SAVILLE

Supermarkets here in the UK have essentially banned the image below on the cover of the Manic Street Preachers new album. Now being shipped in plain slipcases, Jonathan Jones at the Guardian ponders whether this is evidence that painting's power is in tact.

I really love some of her paintings though she does feel to be in transition. Her work is gaining confidence and I'm eager to follow her career.

Jenny Saville was born in Cambridge, England 1970. She currently lives and works in London.


Links:
Jenny Saville - Paintings (The Saatchi Gallery)
Jenny Saville interview (Guardian)
Jenny Saville bio (Gagosian Gallery)
Banned Manics sleeve... (Guardian)
Supermarkets cover up Manics CV (BBC)
Jenny Saville Wiki

DON QUIXOTE Ressurection

Bringing much warmth and inspiration to my heart, Terry Gilliam's project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote looks to have risen from the ashes of its ill-fated start which was documented so well with Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's Lost in La Mancha.

Here is the official press release...

GILLIAM BACK IN THE SADDLE WITH “DON QUIXOTE”

Director Terry Gilliam is set to bring his long-held dream of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote to the screen, producer Jeremy Thomas announced today.

Gilliam, former Monty Python star and maverick director of Brazil, Twelve Monkeys and The Fisher King, has teamed with Thomas to bring his iconoclastic vision of Don Quixote to life. Screenwriter Tony Grisoni (Red Riding Trilogy, In This World, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) has worked with Gilliam to re-imagine the legendary adventures of the idealistic Spanish knight. The new film will revolve around a filmmaker who is charmed into Don Quixote’s eternal quest for his ladylove, becoming an unwitting Sancho Panza.

This is the latest twist in one of the most remarkable stories in cinema history. The filming has been a saga as epic as Cervantes’ 17th-Century classic on which it is based. Nine years ago, the original shoot suffered a series of setbacks captured in the documentary Lost In La Mancha, which became a hit in its own right.

Terry Gilliam averred: “DON QUIXOTE RIDES AGAIN.”

Jeremy Thomas said: “I’m delighted to be working with friends again on this irresistible project.”

Tony Grisoni added: “There's no escaping some pacts. Nearly ten years on I find myself lending a hand to get that crazed, giggling bedlamite back in the saddle. I'm talking about Don Quixote. In spite of God and the Devil, he shall ride again!”

RPC’s CEO Peter Watson was in charge of the complicated task of reassembling the rights. “I’m thrilled we now have the ability to put this film into production.’

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has been re-developed by Thomas’ Recorded Picture Company, and is scheduled for a Spring 2010 shoot.

Gilliam’s latest film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus premieres in Cannes on Friday 22nd.

Recorded Picture Company’s previous films include nine-time Academy Award winner The Last Emperor, Sexy Beast, Crash, Young Adam and The Dreamers. Recent films include the upcoming Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly-starrer Creation, written by John Collee and directed by Jon Amiel.
HanWay Films is handling international sales. Upcoming titles include Scott Hicks’ The Boys Are Back starring Clive Owen, Gurinder Chadha’s comedy It’s A Wonderful Afterlife, Sam Taylor Wood’s Nowhere Boy about John Lennon’s teenage years, feelgood comedy We Want Sex starring Sally Hawkins, and thriller Harry Brown starring Michael Caine.

Links:
Terry Gilliam to Take Another Tilt at 'Don Quixote (NY Times)
Terry Gilliam Restarts 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Aintitcool)
Terry Gilliam Moves forward with Don Quixote, Take Two (FirstShowing.net)
Dreams: Terry Gilliam Fanzine

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

Remember, remember the fifth of November...

The Guardian has a gallery with some great photography from last night as well as thorough coverage of events. Worth a look.

Links:
Barack Obama Wiki
Alex Ross

More of DAMON ALBARN & JAMIE HEWLETT's MONKEY: Journey to the West

Since posting back in May 2007, Monkey: Journey to the West has continued the opera and released the accompanying album as well as the videos embedded below. It's about as close as a person can get to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory in real life.

"After a phenomenally successful run wowing audiences and critics in Manchester, Paris, Charleston and the Royal Opera House Monkey now finds a new home in London as the production roars its way to the 02 for its’ next incredible outing.

Take a trip down the Thames and immerse yourself in Monkey’s World, a brand new event space situated in the Meridian Gardens next to the O2 centre where a bespoke theatre has been created especially by the Monkey team to host this kaleidoscope of incredible animation, spectacular visual effects, acrobatics and martial arts."

Links:
Monkey: Journey to the West
Monkey: Journey to the West (SiouxWIRE)
Monkey: Journey to the West (Wiki)
BBC Imagine features