The first comic that I have chose is the Hellboy comics by Mike Mignola. His style of his work is Mignola is particularly noted for its highly distinctive style, which was once called "German expressionism meets Jack Kirby" in an introduction to a collection of his Hellboy works. Mignola's imagery stood in stark contrast to the style of his contemporaries. Where others would draw muscular men and slim, well-endowed women, Mignola's characters were usually bulky and rough looking, and more often than not defined by large shadowed areas rather than fine details. Mignola often takes the same approach to architecture, particularly in Hellboy. Hellboy is a creature summoned in the final months of World War II on Tarmagant Island off the coast of Scotland. Having been commissioned by the Nazis to change the tide of war. He appears in a fireball in a ruined church in East Bromwich, England, on December 23, 1944. Proving not to be a devil, in the traditional sense, but a devil-like creature with red skin, horns, a tail, and a disproportionately large right hand made of red stone, he is dubbed "Hellboy" by Professor Trevor. Hellboy is taken by the United States armed forces to an Air Force base in New Mexico and is raised by the United States Army and by the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. As an adult, He becomes the primary agent alongside other human agents that include Kate Corrigan, a professor of folklore at New York University. Wednesday 26 January 2011
The first comic that I have chose is the Hellboy comics by Mike Mignola. His style of his work is Mignola is particularly noted for its highly distinctive style, which was once called "German expressionism meets Jack Kirby" in an introduction to a collection of his Hellboy works. Mignola's imagery stood in stark contrast to the style of his contemporaries. Where others would draw muscular men and slim, well-endowed women, Mignola's characters were usually bulky and rough looking, and more often than not defined by large shadowed areas rather than fine details. Mignola often takes the same approach to architecture, particularly in Hellboy. Hellboy is a creature summoned in the final months of World War II on Tarmagant Island off the coast of Scotland. Having been commissioned by the Nazis to change the tide of war. He appears in a fireball in a ruined church in East Bromwich, England, on December 23, 1944. Proving not to be a devil, in the traditional sense, but a devil-like creature with red skin, horns, a tail, and a disproportionately large right hand made of red stone, he is dubbed "Hellboy" by Professor Trevor. Hellboy is taken by the United States armed forces to an Air Force base in New Mexico and is raised by the United States Army and by the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. As an adult, He becomes the primary agent alongside other human agents that include Kate Corrigan, a professor of folklore at New York University. 
Wednesday 19 January 2011
maxime ducamp robert capa
Robert Capa
- Born in Budapest in 1913
- His most famous work occurred on D-day, June 6 1944 when he swam ashore with the second assault wave on Omaha Beach. He was armed with two Contax II cameras attached with 50 mm lenses and several rolls of spare film.
- On D-Day he apparently took 106 pictures in the first couple of hours of the invasion.
- A staff member at Life in London made the mistake in the darkroom of setting the dryer too high and melting the emulsion in the negatives in three complete rolls and over half of a fourth roll of the images taken ion D-Day. Only eight frames in total were recovered.
- In 1936, he became known across the globe for a photo known as the "Falling Soldier" which long falsely presumed to have been taken in Cerro Muriano on the Cordoba Front of a Workers' Party of Marxist Unification Militiaman who had just been shot and was in the act of falling to his death.
- In 2009 a Spanish professor published a book titled Shadows of Photography, in which he showed that the photograph of the "Falling Soldier" could not have been taken where, when, or how Capa and his backers have alleged.
- Many of Capa's photographs of the Spanish Civil War were for many decades was presumed lost but surfaced in Mexico City in the late 1990s.
- While fleeing Europe in 1939, Robert Capa had lost the collection, which over time came to be dubbed the "Mexican suitcase".
- In 1995, thousands of negatives to photographs that Capa took during the Spanish Civil War were found in three suitcases bequeathed to a Mexico City filmmaker from his aunt
- In 1947, Capa co-founded Magnum Photos with, among others, the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. The organization was the first cooperative agency for worldwide freelance photographers.
Maxime Ducamp
- Born in Paris in 1822.
- After finishing college, Maxime Ducamp indulged in his strong desire for travel, thanks to his father's assets
- He travelled in Europe and the East between 1844 and 1845, and again between 1849 and 1851 in company with Gustave Flaubert
- In 1851 he became a founder of the Revue de Paris which suppressed in 1858.
- Maxime Ducamp was also a frequent contributor to the Revue des deux mondes.
- As well as travelling and photography, Maxim Ducamp was also a writer
- He wrote Chants modernes in 1855 and aslo wrote Convictions in 1858.
- He aslo wrote Souvenirs et paysages d'orient which he wrote in 1848 as well as the book gypte, Nubie, Palestine, Syrie which he wrote in 1852. He wrote these books upon his travelling experiences.
- In 1853, he became an officer of the Legion of Honour. Serving as a volunteer with Garibaldi in his 1860 conquest of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Maxime Ducamp recounted his experiences in Expédition des deux Siciles, a book he wrote.
- In 1870 he was nominated for the senate, but his election was frustrated by the downfall of the Empire
- Born in Budapest in 1913
- His most famous work occurred on D-day, June 6 1944 when he swam ashore with the second assault wave on Omaha Beach. He was armed with two Contax II cameras attached with 50 mm lenses and several rolls of spare film.
- On D-Day he apparently took 106 pictures in the first couple of hours of the invasion.
- A staff member at Life in London made the mistake in the darkroom of setting the dryer too high and melting the emulsion in the negatives in three complete rolls and over half of a fourth roll of the images taken ion D-Day. Only eight frames in total were recovered.
- In 1936, he became known across the globe for a photo known as the "Falling Soldier" which long falsely presumed to have been taken in Cerro Muriano on the Cordoba Front of a Workers' Party of Marxist Unification Militiaman who had just been shot and was in the act of falling to his death.
- In 2009 a Spanish professor published a book titled Shadows of Photography, in which he showed that the photograph of the "Falling Soldier" could not have been taken where, when, or how Capa and his backers have alleged.
- Many of Capa's photographs of the Spanish Civil War were for many decades was presumed lost but surfaced in Mexico City in the late 1990s.- While fleeing Europe in 1939, Robert Capa had lost the collection, which over time came to be dubbed the "Mexican suitcase".
- In 1995, thousands of negatives to photographs that Capa took during the Spanish Civil War were found in three suitcases bequeathed to a Mexico City filmmaker from his aunt
- In 1947, Capa co-founded Magnum Photos with, among others, the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. The organization was the first cooperative agency for worldwide freelance photographers.
Maxime Ducamp
- Born in Paris in 1822.
- After finishing college, Maxime Ducamp indulged in his strong desire for travel, thanks to his father's assets
- He travelled in Europe and the East between 1844 and 1845, and again between 1849 and 1851 in company with Gustave Flaubert- In 1851 he became a founder of the Revue de Paris which suppressed in 1858.
- Maxime Ducamp was also a frequent contributor to the Revue des deux mondes.
- As well as travelling and photography, Maxim Ducamp was also a writer
- He wrote Chants modernes in 1855 and aslo wrote Convictions in 1858.
- He aslo wrote Souvenirs et paysages d'orient which he wrote in 1848 as well as the book gypte, Nubie, Palestine, Syrie which he wrote in 1852. He wrote these books upon his travelling experiences.
- In 1853, he became an officer of the Legion of Honour. Serving as a volunteer with Garibaldi in his 1860 conquest of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Maxime Ducamp recounted his experiences in Expédition des deux Siciles, a book he wrote.
- In 1870 he was nominated for the senate, but his election was frustrated by the downfall of the Empire
Wednesday 12 January 2011
Adulthood Short Review
The film Adulthood is a British film set in London written by and starring Noel Clarke. It is a sequel to the film Kidulthood which also is written by and start Noel Clarke. In Kidulthood you learn that you dislike the character played by Noel Clarke whereas in Adulthood you see yourself as on his side as he moves on and tries to leave the past behind. Doing this he fails as he is confronted by the past, which is seen in Kidulthood, and has to face it in a adult maturer way as he is trying to move on and realises that he cant keep acting the same old ways. Noel Clarke cant move on until he has faced 2 enemy's who are friends of a man in which Noel has killed who are trying to get revenge on him. 
Adulthood has a tighter focus on the real world and what's going on than Kidulthood. This is a film with a target audience of teenage boys and the youngest of men firmly in mind and its a film which is never far from a loud tune or a fight.
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