But it's been fairly impressionistic ("all emotions and abstractions," as she sings in "Song for Sharon") until this point: "I'm traveling in some vehicle/I'm sitting in some cafe." It's an anonymous landscape, dotted with specific observations: ". It's a song about traveling, about getting away, about returning to oneself after the "possessive coupling" of a recent love affair. You're watching them from the window of your hotel room. These images aren't just objectively out there. ![]() The music slips higher and you pull back even further. The tone drops a bit and you realize what you're seeing is a reflection off a bank building. You see the snow-topped chimneys and the moon and you feel the mood. Then there's this amazing zoom out from "Hejira" (song and album - my personal favorite): There are lots of ways to shoot it, but Mitchell tells you what the shot needs to convey so you can come up with the specific compositions yourself. Or, if she's seated, perhaps she crosses or uncrosses her stems briefly, allowing us a glimpse of the telltale hosiery. Maybe we just see her in a full shot, with her back to us, standing in a cluster of other people who can't see the runs that are turned toward the camera. Or maybe somebody seated in the foreground spots the flawed stockings from across the room and there's a bit of rack focus to the lady's gams. Maybe a tilt down as the lady drops an hors d'oeuvre, just so you have a chance to notice. I see this as a horizontal dolly shot more than a "pan." And not too much zeroing in on the legs. How about the camerawork in this shot from "The Boho Dance" (from "The Hissing of Summer Lawns"): A few of my favorite examples, music and lyrics, analysis and critique (hers), composition and montage: I've been thinking about this for a long time, and then a thread on girish's blog a while back made me want to write about it. (People always talk about her lyrics, but its her performances that make those words sing.) She's also a terrific director and cinematographer and all-around filmmaker and critic - and I'm taking exclusively about her recorded music. Joni Mitchell is a gifted musician, a great songwriter, and a damn fine actress. View image Hejira: The refuge of the road, a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway. "And don't call me Shirley" - Roger Ebert Remembering Leslie Nielsen.and what's that strange noise? - Montreal GazetteLeslie Nielsen: a career in clips, Guardian UKLeslie Nielsen, RIP. Nielsen has stars on both Hollywood's and Canada's Walk of Fame and was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2002. ![]() And it's for that laughter he is now best remembered.The much-beloved actor died in his sleep with his wife Barbaree at his side, this past Sunday at the age of 84 in a Florida hospital due to complications from pneumonia. ![]() For with each perfectly timed "pfft" he invited everyone to laugh with him and see the humour in life. and the pair of fart machines he always used to carry around one built by himself using plans sent by a friend and another called the "Farter" - a commercial device complete with remote control. ![]() Marie writes: If ever an actor embodied what it means to "be" Canadian, it was Leslie Nielsen. Photo: James Morgan, UK (Portfolio Encounters: Winner 2010) Here's a few random photos to wet your appetite - then you can scroll through the amazing winners gallery!Įnal is around 6 years old and knows this shark well - it lives in a penned off area of ocean beneath his stilted house in Wangi, Indonesia. The competition is judged by a panel of photographic experts, including renowned photographers, picture buyers, editor and technical experts.And the 2010 winners have now been announced. The youngest entrant to date was aged just five, the oldest 88. There's a special competition to encourage young photographers aged 18 and under Young Travel Photographer of the Year. Entrants are judged solely on the quality of their photographs. Marie writes: allow me to introduce you to Travel Photographer, founded by Chris and Karen Coe in 2003 and their annual contest "Travel Photographer of the Year".After years spent working in the travel industry as a professional photographer and finding it was mostly conventional images making it into print, Chris decided to create a way to showcase great travel photography and broaden people's perception of what it can encompass - namely, that it can be much, much more than a pretty postcard image.The contest is open to one and all amateur and professional photographers compete alongside each other.
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