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1/29/07 Traveller

American Gothic * Traveller

One of many from today...as I cut my way through, we'll see what's best. But now, back to my paying job...lol

(I will add as a technical note that I had wiffs of smoke and a bare blue patch of sky when I started processing this...but with lots of water in the air, I had to add contrast to bring out the detail. In the process I lost the sky and smoke...a necessary sacrifice I think)

I've also had some definitional problems...I have wondered if this wasn't more "Rococo," in style, but having done some searching...

"From a Renaissance perspective (originally Italian, gotico, with connotations of "rough, barbarous"), it conveyed the opposite of 'classical' or 'Roman'." Therefore Gothic does seem to fit for titling.


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alexeig04-Feb-2007 16:26
The first thought: American fortress or spaceship
Great capture
photokhan03-Feb-2007 14:22
I see it more as pure techno-industrial layout.
No need to evoke any other styles/schools. The American flag is a perfect add-on as, let’s face it, what is more the epitome of the perfect organized chaos of industrial societies, than the American one?

Chaos in an orderly fashion, leading to productive outcomes is a great notion to toy around for creative purposes.

For true creative minds the concept comes (or is evoked) not by chance but to serve a definite purpose, as I think it is the case here (…even if may have happened in haphazard way).

While seeing the initial battle scene in Ridley’s Scott’s “Gladiator” I was impressed how aptly the music score served the scene but I could not quite put my finger on why it was so.

Later, on the DVD extras, Hans Zimmer (one of my preferred composers and one, I am pretty sure, will be dully noted in music History) described how he approached the creation of that particular piece of music.

Roman armies were extremely well organized structures that would travel for thousand of miles across the empire lugging around an impressive logistic structure and kept their operational and hierarchic structure at all times.

They would create military settlements with perfectly geometric barracks grids laid out, which were fortified in a truly impressive structured and orderly fashion.

That from those bases they would then carry out atrocious (although also perfectly organized) battles, as the ones depicted in the movie scene, was a mere call of the times much factored by their barbarian opponents.

How did Hans Zimmer evoke this "Organization/Chaos" dichotomy through music?

Using a "Valse" tempo for an otherwise "butch" and epic musical arrangement.

Nothing short of genial, huh…?

I really get the same kind of “vibe” from this shot.

PK