Lynn Hirschberg's Screen Tests

I have been pouring through these screen tests for the past hour and a half or so... they are stunning. It's interesting to see the people behind the characters...

I particularly love this one, anyone who has seen a movie with me can tell you what a big movie crier I am. Anything that is remotely touching and I'm brought to tears...
Lynn Hirschberg's Screen Test: What movie made you cry?

I also have a complete and utter obsession with Helena Bonham Carter.
Lynn Hirschberg's Screen Tests: Helena Bonham Carter
Something about her is just so captivating to me... so I found myself pausing and looking at her still frames from the screen test (after watching it in entirety multiple times). She has such an honest and expressive face. You can read an array of different feelings in the 2 minutes and 30 or so seconds she's on screen.

Centrale Montemartini

I went to the Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini with my architecture class today. It's an amazing and stunning old power plant that has been converted into a museum. The museum showcases classical Roman and Greek sculpture alongside the original power plant machinery. The collision of the industrial world and the ancient sculptures is a beautiful and mesmerizing juxtaposition. These are some of the photos I took there.

  

  

http://www.centralemontemartini.org/

Beauty

"In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted [...] To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business--not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything else is flaking away into . . . rhetoric and plot"
— Elizabeth Gilbert

Office Fancy: Local Natives

The CD 'Gorilla Manor' by the Local Natives has become one of our favorite CDs at the architecture office. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do. 

"Gorilla Manor feels easy. Pristine and mature, it clouts the listener with a thudding barrage of vital guitar hooks and layered percussion; a dynamic product of accomplished creation, which sounds both radiant and wretched as it traces around themes of love and loss. Lyrics open windows on brief moments in a person’s life, often with a sweet perceptiveness that makes you smile. Polished and considered, this does not feel like a young band’s debut." -http://drownedinsound.com/releases/14829/reviews/4138337

 

http://www.thelocalnatives.com/home.html 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnTacC1qUmE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn8xjONVOUg

All India Radio

"They’re one Sophia Coppola film soundtrack away from being the next big thing on the softer side of electronica. The music is beautiful and organic with enough depth to keep coming back for multiple listening sessions...delicate and intriguing” - Wonka Vision












Conceived in 2000 as an experimental music outlet for Martin Kennedy, All India Radio has steadily evolved by combining genres such as ambient, lo-fi, world music, post-rock and electronic without being a slave to any one. Often described as cinematic, All India Radio play gentle downtempo pop songs that utilise piano, strings and samples and sits somewhere between Portishead, Massive Attack & Brian Eno.
http://www.allindiaradio.com.au/

Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke VA

 

 

 

Wedding

So it's been a bit since my last post, but I've been crazy busy and getting ready for my brother's wedding. Here are some photos of the beautiful venue; Braeloch in Roanoke, VA