Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie: Live Action/Animated/Stop Motion Video

There are things like this video that inspires me ! Wonderful mix of stop motion live action , poetic, well done and very stylized !
The concept of stop motion live action has been done before, but the place, the execution and the conceptual idea of the video-story makes this simply wonderful

Beautiful underwater dancing

I always loved the underwater filming sequences
They are such an awesome way of creating surreal dream like sequences
without the aid of cg ...and always beautiful

The Dancer in 300 (in the sequence with The Oracles(?) drugging
a beautiful young girl in to dance (?)



Zena Holloway dancing in water



Portishead music video "Only you"

"Tiger Counter" Nancy Drew vol 15 Review

I usually don't post ND reviews , after 17 volumes and the 8th re-printing of ND vol 1 , I thought I should start posting some of them :) like this one from COMICSBULLETIN.COM
Reviewers have always treated Nancy pretty well and Ray TATE (reviewer) has always been on top of the Nancy News ;) Thank you Ray , awesome as always ;)


"Tiger Counter"

While volunteering at the zoo, Nancy Drew and her friends, the cousins George and Bess, encounter criminal dealings both major and minor. Petrucha and Kinney slowly tease out a puzzle for Nancy to put together, and as the safari unfolds, they keep the reader's attention rapt through the strong characterization, the unusual situations and the prominently humorous interactive ease between the girls.

One of the more interesting things about this Nancy Drew puzzle is its variation on the typical mystery formula, which is usually quite linear. A murder is committed. A detective comes onto the scene. Clues are given. Suspects are presented. The detective interprets what's given and from that solves the mystery.

In Nancy Drew, Kinney and Petrucha do not seem to present a mystery at all. Instead, they craft a cast of likeable guests. They combine the stars with that cast and seem to have them hap upon a problem, not an enigma in the classic sense.

The accident appears to be readily cut and dried, and the official detective, Sheriff McGiness, who makes an appearance earlier than expected proves more than capable of handling the problem. Nancy, in short, doesn't at first appear to be needed.

Complications arise in numbers, and it's through these multiple entities that Petrucha and Kinney inveigle Nancy, George and Bess. This isn't the typical mystery Nancy solves. Rather, she has to first recognize that a crime has occurred before actually imagining what has happened based upon mere shreds of evidence. It's in fact her curiosity that first identifies a clue, that has yet to be identified as a clue.

The narrative isn't straightforward. The art is crystal clear. Nancy, George and Bess simply have never looked better, even in past Sho Murase works. Perhaps it's because Nancy, Bess and George have been removed from their natural old dark house environment and transplanted in a wilder setting. The environs allow for better lighting, and Guzman's brighter colors, ranging from Nancy's titian tresses and bright blue eyes to George's earthy browns.

You can better see the way Murase distinguishes her cast through a simplicity of manga design, and at the same time she pays attention to the basics, which often escape her peers. George is taller than Nancy. Bess exhibits warmer body language. The story allows for numerous looks of surprise, and Murase makes each character express the same emotion differently. When turning to the non-human cast, Murase displays a juicy flair. Her attention to detail combined with feral motion heightens the dangers involved in this case.

This outstanding Nancy Drew volume twists and turns the formula of standard mysteries while highlighting the relationship of the principals. The art, though manga, is never the less beautiful. It's delicate when displaying the subtleties of visual characterization and ferocious when unleashing action.

Nancy Drew Vol 17 (in cute pajamas)