A complete review of 2008 can be read here:
http://www.sydmead.com/v/08/news/sydmead-news-112408.php
¡Boletín de Syd Mead como felicitación navideña!
Puedes leer (en inglés) un completo repaso del año 2008 aquí:
http://www.sydmead.com/v/08/news/sydmead-news-112408.php
If unavailabe, you can read it here.
Si no está disponible, puedes leerlo aquí.
Vid-Phon report
From Masakazu Takeda, just today I’ve received this unique Vid-Phon report “book”. In fact, a 20 pages booklet with complete information about Vid-Phon booth prop, with CD included. It depicts the real prop (one of them) used in the movie. The author has been so lucky to meet with the owner and take all kind of pictures from it. A nice report to (try to) do an accurate replica of this awesome prop! Thank you Masakazu! This report worths its value!
In Japanese and English.
Informe Vid-Phon
Directo de Masazku Takeda, justo hoy acabo de recibir este único informe en forma de libro sobre el Vid-Phon. De hecho, un libreto de 20 páginas con información completa sobre la cabina de teléfonos (o Vid-Phon), con un CD incluído. Contiene imágenes del prop real utilizado en la película (uno de ellos). El autor ha tenido la suerte de encontrarse con el propietario del mismo y tomar toda clase de fotografías. ¡Un informe genial para intentar reproducir este prop excepcional! ¡Gracias Masakazu! ¡Este informe vale mucho la pena!
This book features architects, from the firmly established to the up-and-coming, with the focus on how they contributed to the architecture in Japan. This work includes contact information and short biographies in addition to illustrated descriptions of the architects or firms most significants projects. I think is a very interesting way to know some more about the real Japanese architecture, compared with landscapes created to Blade Runner by Ridley Scott. Perhaps those ones was inspiration for him.
Architecture in Japan – Philip Jodidio – TASCHEN
Este libro presenta arquitectos, desde los más establecidos hasta los noveles que empiezan a despuntar, con un enfoque en cómo han contribuído a la arquitectura de Japón. Este trabajo incluye información de contacto y biografías breves además de las descripciones ilustradas de los proyectos más importantes tanto de los arquitectos como de las firmas. Creo que es una interesante forma de conocer algo más sobre la arquitectura japonesa real, comparada con los escenarios creados para Blade Runner por Ridley Scott. Quizás éstos fueron de inspiración para él.
Architecture in Japan - Philip Jodidio - Taschen
ISBN 3822839884
Let’s talk about the different approaches my Fan Book Project could have (for now). My first idea was to publish a selected collection of pictures, some unpublished, some from prop makers, some from private collectors, and so on. All of these pìcs must be related with the proper location of props in the movie. Snapshots tailored to show the exact place, etc. Well, this was the FIRST idea as I said… But…
But, things goes and take form in a way never could thing in the first insight… and this book will be not exception. A second sight about contents showed me that prop topic is vaste and almost impossible to limit… then, a simple categorization appears in my mind:
1. Props used in the screen. Real props.
2. Replicas from real objects in the real world. Objects of normal use that appears in the movie.
3. Replicas made by hobbists, prop makers, casters, artists and so on. Replicas accurate to screen ones.
4. How to identify and find the real props and replicas from real objects.
Well, this 4 points are very extensible… as time goes on and show me.
(versión española en la amplicación del artículo…)
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