This is Mumbai, India, at night. The film takes place here.

This is a robber; the film is about a robbery.

 

 This is an Indian government building which is where the robbery happens.

  

This is a plane like the one on which the robbers leave.

 

This is a man who looks like the Frenchman helping with the operation.

These are Indian police like those called to the scene after the robbery goes wrong.

This image is representative of the sly robber getting away.

This is "M" from a James Bond movie; the government officials who bail the robber out look like him.

This looks like the Irishman, one of the robbers.

 The Indian government man who interrogates the robbers looks like this.

favorites

i'm not really much into movies but i remember this one messed me up when i saw it, which is what i want if i'm going to take the time to see a movie, i want it to affect me. and this one did. to me it's about the pursuit of perfection, and how that can get into your head. i can relate to that. eventually she comes to find the only way to achieve perfection is through death. at least that's how i interpreted it. anyway i was captivated the whole way through. one of those films where you don't know what's real and what's not, you don't know what to believe. but isn't that the case in real life? it's dark and definitely sketchy at times, but it's still real. also, mila kunis and natalie portman certainly don't hurt the film either. but yeah, as far as favorite films go, "black swan" is it at this point in time.

so it's supposed to be a favorite song, which is really hard to do, because i've always thought songs are just pieces of the whole of the album. anyway ill try and choose one representative of the whole thing. it'll be "joshua". representative because of this: they're playing ridiculously fast (faster than any metal i've ever heard) yet its still way light and smooth. the communication between the musicians is happening. they're subtle on every song yet incredibly intense. and the way the whole package comes together, every aspect of everything is working towards the same thing. it's all just so hip. even 50, 60 years later. so yeah. i've been listening to this song and album for a good two years now and its still fresh. to pick one album/song as a favorite is impossible, it's always changing, but right now, this is where it's at for me.

pictures

 This is Elvin Jones, one of the baddest dudes to ever sit behind a set of drums. his thing was completely his own and he changed the face of drumming and jazz forever. here he is probably the early 1960s with the John Coltrane Quartet. this group changed jazz forever as well. elvin and the whole quartet are certainly a musical inspiration for me. and the black and white is automatically dope.

this is a picture of Monarch Indoor Percussion in 2011 after winning our second consecutive state title. i am very very proud of what we've accomplished.  i am also very excited about what we have yet to accomplish. unfortunately our uniforms look a bit ridiculous as we sort of look like power rangers. but that's okay as we play really well.

 

This picture is of De La Soul's album 3 Feet High and Rising. it was the first album they made and was completely fresh. it was and still is like nothing that has ever been done before in hip hop. for me this wasn't the first hip hop i got into by any means. however it is perhaps the one that i've picked up from the most musically. the lyrics are killin too.

This picture is "Dora Maar au Chat" painted in 1941 by Pablo Picasso. it means many things to me. first of all it is just an awesome painting, trippy and beautiful all the same. it also was done by Picasso. i think he's just a complete badass as he revolutionized art and for other reasons. this is also one of the world's most expensive paintings , which doesn't really matter at all but it's still interesting.

This is a picture of Miles Davis. Miles was around from the 1950s-1990s. during this time he revolutionized jazz a good four or five times. miles is certainly one of my heroes, for the fact above and because of his sense of style, both musically and as a person. he was just a complete badass who didn't give the slightest care about what anyone thought.

This is a picture of New York City. i am crazy about this place and cannot wait to get there after highschool. it is simply the American city. anything significant musically or culturally in the past century has started there, as it's the hub for these things. louisville is nice but i've gotta get to New York. what a beautiful picture too.

This is "Vétheuil" painted in 1901 by Claude Monet. i think it is an utterly beautiful painting of a beautiful place and if you see it in person it's even more amazing with all the brushstrokes and looking at it from different angles and what not. Vetheuil is a town in France. i really want to travel through Europe soon. it's been a place i've wanted to just go for a month or two or maybe six with no plans whatsoever.

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I like this picture. Three reasons. It's from the early 1900s yet in color, it's a really interesting although rather messed up image, and it could be very symbolic of anything. Being trapped in a box is the perfect symbol. The interesting thing is in reality it's a picture of capital punishment in Mongolia in early 1900s. But why settle with that? Anything really could be going on here

music et al.

Turn memory

Into emotion

Music is means of expression

But it must be on your own terms

Natural expression is 

Portrayed to people

Make them feel

Something real

Be honest

Curiosity

To be in the moment

Hunger

To be part of the energy

Being human is music

Creating something only for a moment

As music

There is no such thing as the best;

Just being alive

the brits have invaded

1964
Washington Coliseum
The Beatles' have arrived
World's out to see them

In black & white
Yet fresh to death
Class & swagger
All that's left

Ringo, Paul
John & George
Leave everyone
Desirous of more

With lines and jams
Changing the world you see
They're of a revolution
Utmost quality

life as a work of art

This is an interesting sentiment. So this dude thinks everyone's life can, and should, be a work of art. Ok, but this then begs the question as to what a work of art is...which is a really subjective question and I think you can ask 10 people and get 10 different answers. Art is certainly a creation. Creating music, sculpture, painting, etc. But the artist, I think, must also have something to go off of, something to inspire him in his creation, and what is most commonly used as inspiration, well actually what is the only thing to use as inspiration, is the life experience itself.

So its kind of circular really, I think. One's life is art, but art is one's life. Very well. So which influences the other more? Does art influence life or does life influence art? Upon first look it is easy to say life influences art (the artist looks at something then paints it.) But looking a little deeper the other is also true, I think. Looking at art, listening to music, etc we are given a vision of what life should be like, sometimes. Lyrics are influential. Television highly influential in today's day and age although is that really art? Unfortunately yes, I think. The list could go on. But essentially I think that this dude thinks art and life are synonymous and I can agree with that.