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When you were born, you cried
and the world rejoiced.
Live your life
so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.

White Elk

Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.

Ancient Indian Proverb

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Reiki at the Elf Fantasy Fair

Friday, May 1, 2009 5:43AM / Standard Entry

So... Last Saturday, I followed part of our wonderful Reiki crew and cast to the Netherlands to the Elf Fantasy Fair, which, as you might guess, is very aptly described by its name.

Pedro, the director of Reiki, met with Cela, Annelien and me at the entrance showed us the stand and the absolutely super-cool posters our dear friend Reni made for the film (I'm going to nag and nag and nag 'til I have a copy of every poster at my place! Pedro; consider yourself warned! lol)

Anyways, as Pedro arrived a day before us he gave us the grand tour of the parc around the castle where it all took place, after which we were joined by another lovely actor from the movie; Vincent (who isn't on AnD but should be ;)

Of course, I was armed and dangerous; willing to defy Elves, zombies and creatures of the night to get you all some nice pics.

So, as not to annoy my friends too much I left my camera tucked away in the beginning, but after we'd gotten back to the stand (or maybe just a bit sooner) I couldn't control the urge that took me.
Here we go!
ELVES! lol

or at least someone who could pass for one...

And this was a girl who had all the boys worked up going 'ohh' and 'ahh' and 'have you seen the SteamPunk Girl??' each and every time they met... I'd have been scared if I had been her lol but I have to say, she had the most awesome of outfits!

Ohh, not only elves and anime are gathered there, there was also the very best clone of ...
Lady's and gentlemen... Captain Jack Sparrow.
Really, he had it all. From the details in the costume to the way he walked. Awesome.
(although he wobbled too much to get a sharp shot... *cries*)

Nice Goth

Cute Evil Twins

Happy Elves...

Lonely strangers...

Very proud directors!! Everyone, meet Pedro! (if you haven't already) lol

And of course, we have Cela. The Only Man the Godfather answers to and who came to the fair as the Celafication of the Batman meets Phantom of the Oprah. Awesomeness ensued.

Find the contradiction. (Even if you don't know the characters you should be able to find it)

(is it a trap?)

Vincent!! and Cela ;)

Looking too cool for their own good.

And more general Strangeness...

There will be more to come, much more, but now *yawns* I'm off. Hope you enjoyed and I will see you for the next installment of 'Elf Fair'

Sweet dreams...

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Life is an Art - the official movie teaser

Thursday, Mar 19, 2009 5:12PM / Standard Entry

Official site:
www.lifeisanartmovie.com

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlR7A2xQwNA

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life in film

Wednesday, Mar 4, 2009 8:22PM / Standard Entry

or I should say lack of life outside of the set when you're filming. this is going to be a very short post, the longer one with our adventures and the whole shabang will be on as soon as I get home, at this point I merely wanted to let you all know that I am indeed still alive and in holland working on life is an art, the feature film we'll soon be wrapping.

and I must say I think it's going to be AWESOME!!! keep an eye out, people ;)

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Life is an Art

Thursday, Jan 8, 2009 7:10AM / Standard Entry

A promising story of which we recently shot the teaser in the hope of gathering the funds to make this feature and give this gem of a story all the attention it deserves.

The cast is great, there's some of the Reiki-gang teaming back up in this one as well as some other established faces!

For more information, please check out the site:
http://www.lifeisanartmovie.com/

And enjoy the teaser!
Video: http://www.youtube.com/v/k7Gho--dDpE&hl=en&fs=1

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loss

Monday, Dec 29, 2008 6:38AM / Standard Entry

Dedicated to my dear friend and long time companion, Manouche,
who died today after a hard struggle.

Dylan Thomas - And Death Shall Have No Dominion

And death shall have no dominion.

Dead men naked they shall be one

With the man in the wind and the west moon;

When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,

They shall have stars at elbow and foot;

Though they go mad they shall be sane,

Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;

Though lovers be lost love shall not;

And death shall have no dominion.

Under the windings of the sea

They lying long shall not die windily;

Twisting on racks when sinews give way,

Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;

Faith in their hands shall snap in two,

And the unicorn evils run them through;

Split all ends up they shan't crack;

And death shall have no dominion.

No more may gulls cry at their ears

Or waves break loud on the seashores;

Where blew a flower may a flower no more

Lift its head to the blows of the rain;

Through they be mad and dead as nails,

Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;

Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,

And death shall have no dominion.

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,

Because their words had forked no lightning they

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright

Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,

And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight

Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,

Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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Marie Olaerts

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I always feel strange having to introduce myself, as I would presume I’m a bit biased, but for you I’ll make an honest attempt at objectivity…...
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I always feel strange having to introduce myself, as I would presume I’m a bit biased, but for you I’ll make an honest attempt at objectivity…

Marie Olaerts (being ‘me’ in the third person) grew up in a small village in a small country with a great liking for action movies, SF and thriller/ suspense, dreaming of how it would be like to be on a set, not visiting, but actually doing something useful. And so, that dream in the back of her mind she ended up at the Rits, a Belgian school for film making, where she graduated in 2007 as a professional bachelor (option camera/ cinematography) with the short film ‘the blessing of Henry Mullin’ as cinematographer.

Ever since then she is working on different sets in different functions, but her true passion lies with cinematography. There is still so much to learn and try, enough to fill a lifetime she is happy to discover, and her vision altered by a film-focussed life and the things she saw; she loves the light that seems just a bit off to add to the scene.

Meeting new people and education opened her horizon to a much greater rage of films, especially the Asian cinema, of which ‘Hero’ is her favourite. Though she hasn’t had the chance to see as much films as she’d like, she’s striving to correct that in the near future.

Movies she holds in high regard are: Hero, Alien, The Crow, Darkness (for the mood of the film), Musa, The game, The usual suspects, Bin Jip, Old Boy …
The documentaries ‘Long Gone’ (http://www.longgonefilm.com/) and ‘Peuple Migrateur’ opened her eyes to the fact that this genre too can be beautiful to make and film-like to watch and Monty Python was like rediscovering the comedy genre all over again.
Nothing beats ‘The Holy Grail’.

Always having lived in the middle of nowhere; contact with nature is a necessity more then anything else and when she’s not on set she likes to roam forests, meet with friends and go to class (she’s been following Aikido since November 2007 and this has become a bit of a passion). Other then that, she likes to make photographs, read, draw and write.

… There’s not much more to say really. Hello world, this is me ;)

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Light is only meaningful in relation to darkness and it is the infinite play of these two opposites, where and how they meet and their relation to a certain moment in time that I seek, not to perfect, but to rediscover...
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