Category Archives: Film und TV

Before and after photoshop

Working in advertising means that photoshopping is every day business. And nobody thinks about before and after photoshop any more, when it has to do with products, composings and so on. Well, the Hollywood industry is quite similar to that. Difference is, that people are the products. Actors and actresses, singers, artists. Due to the advertising industry, that is driven by superficial thinking, those "products" have to be presented in the best way possible. Enter photoshop. Some 30 years ago, I bought a lexicon on comic books. It was a German book by Wolfgang J. Fuchs and Reinhold Reitberger. In that "Comic Handbuch" there was a very interesting foreword. There were three pictures. A John Buscema drawing of Conan (Savage Sword of Conan) the Barbarian and a drawing by John Byrne of Red Sonja. In the middle was some space for a passport photo. Those guys wanted you to paste a photograph of yourself in that space. To demonstrate the difference of...

Orphan Black – BBC America

Ever heard of Tatiana Maslany? Me neither. But when I downloaded the pilot of the SCIFI series "Orphan Black" from iTunes Germany I was stuck. First, the plot is really ... weird and gripping, and second, Tatiana Maslany is helluvan actess. Just imagine you would be cloned and you just found out - 25 years after that. Yeah, and every clone of you is different. Because it was raised in different cultures and societies. Well at this point, we're definately in "Orphan Black". I won’t give any more spoilers, go ahead, download the first episode and be stunned in awe. OK, the science-fiction series Orphan Black - BBC America is not HBO, and BBC America isn’t AMC, but the series has a potential that is unfolding very powerful through the first season. What a pity that there are only 10 episodes, and you’ll have to wait for the second installment until 2014. Anyway. Going back to Maslany. She plays gorgeous and brilliant, and she manages her...
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