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• Aging + a few too many drinks + close up shot = me working overtime

  Wednesday, Jun 25, 2008 12:52AM / Members only

  Yup, this is what I'm doing at the moment.
  
  From somewhere in my brain came back an old interview about some vfx guy/guru. Must be close to 10 years ago.
  
  He was asked about the future of our trade. I think his answer was that it would pretty much evolve by itself without any major leap. The only new trend he could think of was that with more and more movies being mastered digitally, eventually some actresses with big enough paychecks would have their own 'postproduction make-up artist', working outside from the regular producers or director's demand.
  
  So final cut is done, color correction and everything visual, in comes the lead actress or one of her rep and goes through every scene and marking down flaws and blemishes then in comes suckers like me to make her look perfect.
  
  We do it all the time. But haven't heard of anyone hired by an actress so far. It's only a matter of time.
  

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• Aww, f-ck!

  Friday, Jun 20, 2008 11:37PM / Members only

  Ended up in a wasp nest while trying to photograph some orang utans in  the Borneo jungle... it's been five days and the stings are still pretty f-n awful. Doesn't really hurt anymore but not very cool to look at.
  
  The good thing is the ones I got on my face are the 'least unappealing' so at least I won't look like some crystal meth addict when I show up to work this week with the new crew. Seriously, would people believe Bornean wasps attack as an excuse for a messed up face? I don't freakin' think so!
  
  And I didn't get to dive, but saw a bed frame in the water between the coral and the deep water drop-off while snorkeling though.
  
  Got bitten by some fish too. Twice. And some ants and random flies and stuff.
  
  Back to HK, the new aircon thingy wasn't installed properly (right before I left), water leaked in while I was gone and the wall filled with fungi crap. And one huge spider.
  
  Gotta pack my stuff for Istanbul, how the hell will I find time to clean up the place, I wonder.
  
  I'm dead tired now, and pissed off. Let's sleep on it and see how I feel about it tomorrow.
  
  And won't get to see the Robert Lepage play in HK either.
  

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• Double packin'

  Monday, Jun 9, 2008 11:31AM / Members only

  Not so long ago I got called for a contract, we sent emails back and forth for a while then nothing for a couple of weeks. So I thought they got someone else to do it and so made other plans. A trip. Short one, but most likely would extend it while I'm there.
  
  But obviously, since this is me we're talking about, I got called again by the same people. Hardly more than 24 hours after my bookings. Oops. Well, there's still a way to make it all work.
  
  So now on one side of the living room is a backpack for the Sabah trip I'm off to this afternoon. With hopefully the right amount of beach and hiking and diving, although the weather report seems to think otherwise.
  
  And on the other side is a suitcase with more 'urban living outfits'. Ok, it's just tshirts and jeans. And maybe a couple of shirts that I might not wear but keep in my suitcase all the time.
  
  The thing is not yet confirmed but when it is, what will most likely happen is a 24 hours gap between both flights. Hopefully not less. And hopefully sunshine in HK so I get to wash and dry those clothes too. And maybe enough time to see that Robert Lepage play.
  
  
  I also got the official air dates from our old Tokyo documentary that I mentioned before.
  
  So those in Canada with the French news channel RDI can watch it on June 19 at 8pm. And later at 2am it's showing again. It's part of the Grands Reportages show, and has been renamed by the station as Tokyo à l'étroit.
  
  
  
  Some bits of info on my site:
  http://www.whoisthomashalle.com/facb.html
  

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• Some stuff I never get tired of - part 1

  Monday, Jun 2, 2008 7:42PM / Members only

  If you ever see a guy walking downtown HK (or wherever I'll be at that point) wearing pink fluffy clothes going 'mahna-mahna' to everyone, that might be me. After watching this one too many times:
  Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YevYBsShxNs
  

  
  Something groovy and 'oh so true' like that:
  Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-MYVv4tgQc
  

  
  

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• Crowd Surfing

  Friday, May 30, 2008 1:25PM / Members only

  Man it's been a while!
  
  Last time, surprisingly enough, I got dropped right next to a friend-coworker of mine after a while out of a crowd of 25,000 or something.
  
  'Aren't you a little old for that?' she asked.
  
  'Never!' I replied.
  
  Although I might be a little too heavy compared to my old days. Speaking of which, I was trying to find some nice footage online from Lollapalooza 1994 to add on this entry but couldn't find any. Oh right, back in those days people going to a concert were actually PART OF IT, instead of standing with their mobile phone up in the air. The fact that there was no camera in mobiles at the time sort of helped too, I guess.
  
  So, since I couldn't find what I was looking for, here's a couple of clips I found inspiring enough...
  
  Now this one has an interesting twist, I'd really like to try some day:
  Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dTLkmGCgDE
  

  
  
  And for those of you with not enough brains, I'm doing you a favor here - THIS is what crowd surfing definitely NOT about:
  Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyi94HCWuxY
  

  
  
  

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  zyi8vm
  

  posted on Saturday, Jul 5, 2008 3:04PM  [Report]

  Courage．Justice．Humanity．Sacrifice
  Project "HOME" - An arts exhibition for the relief of victims of Sichuan earthquake -
  
  Background
  Hi, we are an arts organization in Hong Kong. Our name is 'Art Fete Brings Hope 藝展予希望. We are governed by the Hong Kong Laws. Every year we carried out arts exhibition in various shopping malls in Hong Kong and collected funds for the charity organizations and provided arts therapy to the sick children, and to promote arts to the citizens. The charity organizations included UNICEF, ORBIS, Children's Cancer Foundation etc. Our members are now learning in the universities, or working in various industries, for example, arts education, design, architecture, advertising, corporate communications, public bodies, property development, or running their companies or married.
  
  Having seen the Sichuan earthquake in China, we want to make contribution. We want to invite artists in various cities to join force to carry out an arts exhibition in Hong Kong to sustain the citizens' care and help to the victims in Sichuan.
  
  The Project
  The project is to call upon artists in various arts perspectives to lend out their artworks for the arts exhibition. The theme of the arts exhibition is "家". We will not carry out any sales, or auction of the artworks during the arts exhibition. However, Oxfam will call upon the citizens to donate during the arts exhibition. We will make a book/documentary for the arts exhibition with photos and meaning of the artworks, and give the books to the Sichuan government for reference, and give the books to the charity organizations as a counselling tool, and as our blessing to the victims in Sichuan.
  
  Your help will make a difference
  We appeal to you to support or take part or to call upon your friends to do so in the arts exhibition. Our members are working on the following artworks, and your support or participation would make a difference:
  
  Chinese calligraphy - the Chinese word '家' in various dynasties.
  Architectural arts – illustrations and models for anti-earthquake schools and citizens
  shelters.
  Installation arts - a human-size transparent container filled with fake steel bars, broken concrete, destroyed personal belongings, destroyed fixtures, fittings etc. It is
  to display how the victims feel compression, breathless and helpless etc under the broken concrete.
  Apparel arts - school uniforms made of scrapped clothes for the victim children.
  Manga arts - various short stories about home.
  Computer graphic design arts - showing the differences between Sichuan and Hong Kong in terms of geography, demographics, education facilities, residence, economy, major trades, standard of living etc. It is to stimulate the Hong Kong citizens to think how fortunate living in Hong Kong is.
  Sculpture arts – a dragon form sculpture made of keys. Each key means a home, and the dragon symbolizes China.
  Photography arts - the photos about feelings of home, or photos about children playing with their parents or friends etc.
  Product design arts - self life survival emergency tools for earthquake, and the photos or illustrations of such self life survival emergency tools adopted in other countries.
  Origami arts - origami of tables, chairs, beds, father, mother, brother, sister, grandparents, pet dog/cat etc. in rural home settings.
  Handicraft arts - hand-made stationeries including student name tag, knitted pencil bag, school note books, wooden ruler, wooden pencil etc for rural village children.
  Performing arts - songs with the meaning of 'HOME'. Marathon performance with the message of ‘HOME’.
  Action arts - record the voices and sounds at the earthquake spot, and teach the citizens to close their eyes and listen with earphone.
  Video arts - stories about the meaning of home and lives.
  Painting arts - meaning of home and lives.
  
  We would be very grateful if you could help and support us in this campaign.
  
  Look forward to receiving your support and participation.
  
  Thank you.
  Ivan
  Mobile: +852 9462 4987
  E-mail address: artfete@gmail.com
  Official web site under re-construction, temporary homepage：
  (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2235485123)
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  Jeszlene Zhou
  

  posted on Saturday, Jul 5, 2008 2:31AM  [Report]

  hahaaa... You are meeting way too many people on a regular basis
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  Jeszlene Zhou
  

  posted on Friday, Jul 4, 2008 6:51PM  [Report]

  Well, they believe they pay you enough to demand that last drop of blood outta you? LOL~ Maybe you are just more patient/tolerant than you give yourself credit for =)
  
  Oh, who was that? Get the international release on amazon, that's uncensored~
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  Jeszlene Zhou
  

  posted on Wednesday, Jul 2, 2008 1:41AM  [Report]

  I wasn't acting cute! Was I? Bizarre or clever? hahaha...
  
  I like simple pleasures too. Surviving clients can be a mini-accomplishment in itself, depending on how difficult they choose to be =)
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  Martin Wong
  

  posted on Sunday, Jun 29, 2008 1:14AM  [Report]

  Oh, man. I saw Venom with High on Fire last year... They're still, um, killing it.
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  Jeszlene Zhou
  

  posted on Saturday, Jun 28, 2008 5:23PM  [Report]

  I made your day by posting pictures of me crying? hahahaaa... that's a first!
  
  How about today? Has it been good so far?
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  GenerationD
  

  posted on Friday, Jun 27, 2008 10:48PM  [Report]

  you have some fantastic work in your album truely amazing how a shot can be captured superb.
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  JediJean
  

  posted on Saturday, Jun 21, 2008 2:02PM  [Report]

  I've been watching the DBS and HP ads, and admiring them visually, and all this while, it was you??
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  Alexia
  

  posted on Monday, Jun 9, 2008 11:03AM  [Report]

  hey there. thanx for the commment. music is my world. winks*
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  Dan Pak
  

  posted on Saturday, Jun 7, 2008 3:07PM  [Report]

  bolex, indeed - 16mm :)
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