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Acclaimed automotive photographer Sarel van Staden puts the Profoto A1 through its paces. (More of Sarel's work can be seen on www.carfineart.com.)
I'm a commercial photographer with a passion for lighting techniques and for cars. For years I photographed cars using different styles taking inspiration from other automotive photographers such as Tim Wallace. My passion slowly progressed towards creating fine art images of cars. Every car is designed by an artist in their true right and I wanted to capture their art using low-key lighting which would accentuate the curves and lines of the car.
Lighting the reflective surfaces of cars and especially black reflective cars is not easy. To create a low-key light source for such cars, is even more difficult. The light modifiers available on the market didn't give me the results I needed. The lead to me custom building modifiers.
After many months of research and a fair amount of trial and error, I eventually had the custom built light modifiers to create the low-key lighting effect I wanted. I reverted to the basics of creating soft light and fine tuned these principles to create a light source and modifier that gives focused diffused light, or as I refer to it, the FDL technique. By keeping the light source as close as possible to the car, I was able to overpower ambient light resulting in the desired matt finish on the surface of the car.
Needless to say, I was very excited to have been given the opportunity to test the Profoto A1 as the light source for the FDL technique. It was with much excitement that I opened the box delivered by the courier – as it contained the long anticipated Profoto A1. Ever since I heard of it's launch I wanted to, and looked forward to using it to create car fine art images.
This was by no means going to be a side by side comparison with other flashes, nor a technical review. I was keen to see what it could do, shooting what I shoot and the the way I shoot. I needed a light-weight, easy to handle, low-key light source, to accentuate the car's natural curves and lines. Profoto calls the A1 the "world, smallest studio light", but as 90% of my work is done using speed lights, I would treat it as such.
Opening the black box with it's all too familiar branding on, had all the other photographers in the studio gathered around me in no time at all – clearly this was going to be a show-stopper.
First impressions are meant to be lasting and in this case the first impression came as no surprise. The supurb built quality was obvious and the lay-out of the buttons, the big dials and large LCD screen made navigating the settings easy and almost intuitive (who has time to read a manual, right?) This flash is easy to use – in fact much easier than the speed lights I am used to.
The A1 is lightweight and small enough making it perfect for the FDL-lighting technique, which calls for a handheld light source held close to the car and at different angles for about 50 exposures. From these 50 images I normally select about 20 which are later layered in post processing to make the final image.
A pleasant surprise came from the battery. The Profoto A1 comes with its own rechargeable Li-Ion battery, which lasted much longer that the usual AA batteries.
Profoto is a brand synonymous with quality, precision and class. Needless to say the models I was going to testdrive this light on had to come from similar elk. I chose a black Rolls-Royce Wraith Black Badge, with high gloss black body panels and brushed steel and titanium on the hood and grill. The other models were a red Aston Martin Vanquish S and two McLarens.
As a shoot like this, yields approximately 500 images per car, I need the light source to be reliable, the white balance to be constant, recycling times to be fast and no overheating of the flash head. The A1 passed with flying colours, even after 1500 photos on a single charge of the battery.
In fact, I had no much fun, that only after I reluctantly returned the A1 I realized that I had been using it in manual mode and that I never tried TTL. I am looking forward to test that in a future shoot.
This blog was also posted by Outdoorphoto.
Interview Sarel van Staden – Automotive Photographer Part 1
During 2016 I was asked by OutdoorPhoto to conduct an interview with Sarel.
When we decided this past week that the time had come to introduce our FDL-Lighting Technique to the world, I went back to that original interview.
I was quite taken by how far we had come in just over a year, and how much the lighting had changed and evolved. I am posting that interview as a pre-amble or introduction to the many FDL-Lighting Technique posts to follow…. Photography remains a journey – techniques evolve, trends change….the only constant is our love and passion for our craft.
We asked Maryna Cotton to interview her partner and fellow commercial photographer, Sarel van Staden, about his love for cars, their automotive photography work, which they like to refer to as "car porn", as well as his innovative lighting techniques that give their work its signature look.
It is a love story….
When Sarel talks about cars, his whole demeanor changes. His childhood stories include tales of many hours spent learning about engines and cars from his dad, a motor technician, who rebuilt cars from the chassis up; as well as passionate stories of favourite car posters against bedroom walls. He is, however, quick to set my mind at ease by adding that the only love stronger than his love for cars is his love for photography. It is a well known fact, that great photography is dependent on great light, and Sarel adds: "Understanding the basic characteristics of light and how to applying it, makes photography an amazing creative journey that feeds my soul".
Most photographers will tell you that lighting a car well poses challenges such as unwanted reflections and hot spots in paintwork, but this is what makes Sarel tick. Figuring out ways to light reflections, enhancing the colour and showing shape in for instance a black car, is what he lives for. "This is my way to express and create art. A means to pay homage to and thank all the cars designers over the centuries, for spoiling me and many other passionate car lovers with their beautiful creations."
When asked about the industry and automotive photography in particular, he explains that advances in 3D rendering techniques, is limiting the need for conventional automotive photography and it's notorious lighting challenges. According to Sarel, photographers constantly need to push the boundaries to create something unique and he does that in his endeavor to come up with new and creative lighting techniques. "To be able to use light to bring out the shape and the beautiful lines in cars is almost like a drug to me. In my mind I am constantly conceptualizing new and better ways to create art of cars and this eventually lead to the car porn images".
Does he take inspiration from any one in particular? Referring to acclaimed automotive photographer Tim Wallace, he says: "the way that he combines the emotional human element into his artistic photography style of cars is just amazing".
Curves, lines and light
Huge lighting set-ups and studio builds come to mind when one thinks of conventional automotive photography. I asked Sarel to tell us more about the lighting techniques he uses for the fine art car shoots, as well as his preferred lighting tools. "I mainly shoot using instant light sources with extra diffusers or painting-with-light wands, also with extra diffusers. For instant light I use the Elincrom quadra lights or the Prophoto B2 system in combination with a 400mm beauty dish which I modified to create soft, focused light. This I double diffuse with an extra diffuser to create the matt finish, characteristic of my fine art images".
"I developed and built a custom light wand which I also double defuse, for the painting-with-light technique. With the wand I create soft light and an almost matt finish, without unwanted reflections in the paint work.
To create soft light, a conventional lighting set-up requires a 3 x 7 m scrim positioned 1-2m above the car in a commercial studio. With the wand I create the same soft light with the hand held light wand. The positioning of the conventional light scrim creates spill off light that also exposes the surroundings which in turn reflects in the paintwork of the car. By using the light wand less then 100mm away from the bodywork of the car, there is almost no spill off light, eliminating the reflections of the surroundings. By moving the 2m light wand over the car, during the exposure, we create a soft light source much bigger that traditional light scrims in automotive studios. The only limitation of this technique is that it can only be done in low light."
Asked about his future plans, he was quick to answer: "Many many beautiful cars!"
SKA (Square Kilometer Array) publishes a Coffee Table book
SKA published a beautiful Coffee Table book containing some of our work, done during 2013-2015.
See more of our work: http://www.ska.ac.za/gallery/kat-7/ Images of KAT-7 from 2013.
http://www.ska.ac.za/gallery/meerkat/ Images of MeerKAT from 2013-2015.
Vision – "Passionate stories, told passionately.."
David duChemin wrote in one of his books: "Vision is the beginning and end of photography".
I agree. Vision is that something , the je ne sais quoi, the inspiration that moves you to pick up your camera to photograph it. It will determine how you photograph and why, the settings you choose and the angle you use. For me it is not only the journey of the making of every photograph, but also my journey to discover, define and often redefine my own vision. Often I am defined by my vision.
I get stirred to photograph a particular scene, often not knowing what it is that I am "seeing" or why, only to discover the elusive vision when I look at my images later and then discover exactly what it was what I was feeling at the time. The camera becoming the tool of self-discovery.
DuChemin points out that our vision often grows to meet our skill. I believe we become better equipped to express our vision. I love looking at my older images. I can often clearly see what was going on in my life by looking at what my vision was when I made the images – what caught my eye then…what stirred me. I can clearly see how my technical skills improved with experience, but I am often amazed at how my ability to express grew. There have always been "common" elements in my images, that identify them as my work, but I am just better at expressing my creativity and myself…my vision. I am learning every day how to photograph what moves me, but also how to express what I feel. The more passionate I am about the subject, the more I have to say and to get across to the viewer. Du Chemin worded it so aptly: "Passionate stories, told passionately.."
"Knowing what you love to photograph, and what you do not, is the first step in the recognition and refinement of your vision". So what happens if I have to photograph something I am really not that excited about? Here, I believe, learning the tricks to communicate through light, colour, camera angles etc can often save the day. I often draw from my love for photography in general – the chance to spend time with my beloved camera – to draw passion back into my vision.
Freeman Patterson summed it up so beautifully: "Photography – both the craft and the art – helps me to be. It allows and enables me to live creatively, which is to honour Creation and my own existence."
This past week-end the Photowise team was privileged enough to be part of a lovely couple's special day. All was just perfect and the resulting images reminded me why I photograph in the first place…. I love people and I love telling stories!


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The Village by the Sea
Carlsbad has always been tied to water. This seaside resort community occupies a 7-mile stretch of Pacific coastline in north San Diego County. It is located 35 miles north of downtown San Diego and 87 miles south of Los Angeles. More than 110,000 people call it home. It has the distinction of being among the nation's top wealthiest communities.
Carlsbad's history was first recorded by native Americans who each had a tribe near a reliable freshwater creek. During the Spanish expedition of 1769, explorers met native villagers while camped on Buena Vista Creek. It was the first European land exploration of Alta California.
Sometime during the 1880s a former sailor named John Frazier dug a water well in the area and began offering his water at the train station. Water tests run on the whistle-stop now known as Frazier's Station showed the water to be similar to some of the most renowned spas in the world. One of those spas was in the Bohemian town of Karlsbad, which is now called Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. So several civic leaders joined together and incorporated the town, naming it Carlsbad. With an assertive marketing campaign, visitors were attracted to the area. Businesses and homes were built, and agriculture developed with the production of avocados, citrus fruits and olives. The landscape was changing quickly. While land prices were falling in the region, Carlsbad remained strong, surviving on the fertile agriculture industry. We mentioned John Frazier's well. The original well can still be found at Alt Karlsbad, located on Carlsbad Boulevard.
Moving Forward
Carlsbad incorporated in 1952, to avoid annexation by its neighbor Oceanside. The area of just more than 39 square miles has enjoyed prosperous growth through the decades.
March 1999 brought a big change to Carlsbad as Legoland California opened, becoming the first Legoland theme park outside of Europe. It is a theme park, water park, miniature park and aquarium. The resort also has several hotels on the property.
Can We Talk Weather?
You know where avocados, olives and citrus thrive, you will thrive also. We enjoy a Mediterranean climate here, with an average of 263 sunny days a year. Our winters are very mild and frost is rare along the coastline. It is a perfect environment for outdoor living and exercising year-round.
Let's Explore: What is Going on in Carlsbad?
The Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch
It is 50 glorious acres of extraordinary color. The Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch is in full bloom right now on a hillside overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It just does not get much better than this! It's a perfect place for adults to snap some pics, and kids to run.
State Street Farmers' Market
Located in Carlsbad Village, at the State Street Farmers' Market you can enjoy fresh organic produce, locally prepared foods, live entertainment and artists' crafts. We are now in the summertime hours, which means they are open every Wednesday on State Street between Carlsbad Village Drive and Grand Avenue. Hours are 3:00–7:00PM.
Petal to Plate
As we mentioned, Carlsbad is covered with colorful blooms this time of year, so be sure and visit the 10-day Petal to Plate celebration of flowers, food and drink from April 5-April 15. Guests can tour the flower fields and taste the best spring has to offer at local bars and restaurants.
We love the San Diego area, and know you will love Carlsbad as much as we do. At Richard Realty, we would love to show you around and see if you want to call Carlsbad…home!
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Rebecca and Andrew's wedding took place on a beautiful summer day earlier this year at Court Colman Manor. Before we even had the chance to photograph their wedding we knew it was going to be an amazing day! Simply because we had the pleasure of doing a casual session with them a few months before, and lets just say we were impressed!
If we had to use one word to describe what was most memorable about this day (and the session we did) it would be 'connection'. These two had so much connection with each other. Not every couple is able to show such affection like these two, especially with cameras around them! You'll see what we mean as you scroll down the page. We've feature some of our favourites from their casual session we did in spring as well as a selection of favourite images from their actual wedding day at Court Colman Manor.
The opening image is a favourite from their actual wedding day during the evening session we always try to do in the summer months. Then a few from casual session in spring, followed by our favourites from their day of celebration at Court Colman Manor!
Me and Andrew just went through our photos and we cannot be any happier right now!!! They are amazing!!!
We love all of them, they are all absolutely beautiful!! Thank you so much!!!
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Also, great to meet and work alongside the lovely and amazing Kristy of Yates Wedding Productions
A few favourites from the pre-wedding session we did in Spring…….
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Top 5 trends from IoT World 2016
By Terry Hughes / May 24, 2016
A few short weeks ago, thousands of IoT industry professionals descended upon the Santa Clara Convention Centre to discuss the state of the Internet of Things. With focused streams on the Connected Car, Wearables, Industrial Internet, Connected Home, and more, IoT World was certainly *the* place to be for anyone trying to build a business on the growing universe of connected devices. For those that were unable to attend, here's what you missed:
- Partner, partner, partner: The most common theme at the conference was the cooperative mentality. Everything from industry giants like GE hooking up with small developers to competitors working side-by-side is all on the table in IoT. Beyond just the relative infancy of IoT, rampant fragmentation in technology, business models, and use cases is opening the doors to the necessary partnerships to fulfill the needs of enterprises and consumers across the globe. Because no single organization has all the pieces, building a strong ecosystem of partners is a fundamental part of deploying solutions. IoT World exemplified that going it alone is simply not an option.
- Flexibility wins: As the pace of innovation accelerates, the desire remains strong to avoid vendor lock-ins or proprietary protocols. Following on from the focus on partnering, IoT companies must be open to change. Open APIs, built-in configurability, and business model flexibility allow organizations to rapidly build the right solutions for their niches without long, costly development cycles.
- Platform is a loaded word: More than any other word, even IoT itself, "platform" gave way to the most confusion. It seemed like every company at IoT World had an IoT Platform. The problem is that the word "platform" doesn't give enough context into capabilities and it is certainly the case that not all platforms are created equal. In a panel discussing the transition from hardware to software business models, panelists agreed: platforms are solutions that allow third parties to build on top of or plug into it, and must have the ability to scale with their own visions. Not every piece of technology needs to be a platform.
- Cloud + IoT = Win: Cloud computing is crucial for the success of IoT. With massive amount of data being collected and analyzed by the billions of new sensors coming online, the cloud is the only viable solution for the storage and processing of that data. But it doesn't stop at data. Services and applications for IoT are being orchestrated in the cloud across every large vertical. Cloud ecosystems for connected vehicles, homes, and wearables are forming to meet the specific needs of users in those industries. Each will have their own marketplaces for vendors, services, apps, and data - all with the built-in flexibility of the cloud.
- Don't forget the edge: While the cloud is king, not everything will make it to the cloud. Lower level networks, storage, and compute will coalesce in the "fog" where mission critical operations take place. Not every sensor or actuator will be connected to high speed LTE networks, although further upstream a gateway may be. Those designing solutions for IoT will need to understand the real world conditions that their products will face, including intermittent connectivity and limited power options.
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Most people are at least casually aware that Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke is now charged with murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Some people have taken the time to view the graphic video that captured the immediate events leading up to and including his death. I have no doubt that […]


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Chapter 7 Part 1
A Most Unwelcome Guest
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Amanda's backyard was a little cozier than the front, what without all of the gravestones, fog, and scary leaf monsters. The night was very clear, which made the yard bright, despite the moon only being at half strength. Paivi and Michaela walked towards the fire. There were already some partygoers seated on the outdoor couches, extending marshmallow-laden branches over the open fire. The flames crackled and licked the marshmallows, as if it wanted to eat them itself.
"Hey, where did you guys get those sticks?" Michaela asked.
"We had to go to the end of the yard, on the edge of the woods there." Pointed a guy dressed as a pirate.
"Wait, do I know you?"
He flipped up his eye patch.
Michaela took a closer look, leaning towards the fire.
"Dave? Is that you? Oh my god, I haven't seen you in forever!" She moved closer to Dave the pirate, looking eager to continue the conversation.
Paivi took a look and didn't recognize anyone around the fire. There were no open spaces to sit. Not wanting to stand around feeling out of place, she decided to go to the edge of the yard and grab some sticks. She set her witch's brew down on a nearby table and tapped Michaela on the shoulder.
"Hey, I'm going to run and get us some sticks, I'll be right back."
"Cool! Thanks, girl!" Michaela turned back to Pirate Dave.
Paivi took her time walking to the edge of the Montoya's backyard. It took her down a slight hill and ended at the edge of the woods. Off to the left was a small lake. In the distance she could see the lights of the other large houses that surrounded it. The moonlight left a glittering silver path across the water.
Paivi could see two figures walking back towards the house from a path that wound around the lake. She could make out someone dressed as the Grim Reaper, carrying a large scythe and wearing a flowing black robe with a hood. A girl walking along side the Reaper wore her hair in a ponytail, a pink poodle skirt and a letter jacket.
Interesting, she thought. Death and a bobby soxer.
She laughed silently to herself and pulled the hood of her cloak up around her head. She didn't really feel like talking to anyone. She turned back towards the trees, moving a little closer to them. In the shadows, she tried to spy some proper marshmallow-roasting sticks.
Paivi turned back towards the house, to see how Michaela was getting on and found herself face to face with the Grim Reaper. She jumped slightly at the sight of the dark cloak with no face. The bobby soxer was gone. She could see her walking across the yard, back toward the group around the fire.
"Sorry, Grimmy," she chuckled, her hand pressed to her heart. "It's not my time yet!"
"I wasn't aware you were such a comedian," retorted a voice behind the black fabric that she didn't recognize. A black gloved hand pulled off the hood.
"You!" Paivi said, shocked to see the face of Christian Nelson. "What do you want?"
She took a step back towards the trees. She could see the house and bonfire in front of her, and wanted nothing more than to take off and head back to Michaela.
"Tsk, tsk," clucked Christian. "Why so unfriendly?"
She looked into his eyes. They shined brightly in the moonlight. They weren't as scary up close. She didn't feel so much afraid as she did annoyed.
"Look, I just need to find a couple sticks and then I am going back to the fire." She turned back towards the trees. She noticed some sticks on the ground and could see her name spelled out in them.
Christian laughed.
She whipped back around.
"I knew it was you! Why? Why are you doing this? What do you want from me?" she demanded. She could feel the energy building up in her, but fought it. A scene in front of the group was something she couldn't risk.
"I have my reasons." He smirked and Paivi contemplated slapping it clean off his face.
I could get away with it here, she thought, we aren't at school.
"Anyways, I've been trying to get your attention for awhile," he added.
"If you wanted to meet to me so badly, why didn't you just come up and talk to me like a normal person. That would have worked better than staring me down with the evil eye and leaving creepy messages in my food," she retorted.
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Directorate of Textiles (DOT) is mandated to provide service to the textiles & garments sector. To give registration & other textiles & garments related service other than Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) & Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BISIC) regulated textiles & Garments industries i.e private owned textile industries are the function of this directorate.
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- Generate SMS and Email notifications at different stages throughout the system.
- Generate tracking number against each application to track progress status.
- Process the received applications electronically.
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- Role based Access Management.
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Dr. Roselind Bardisa at Bardisa LYL Center, Inc is a double board-certified medical doctor who specializes in preventative care. Dr. Bardisa offers several weight loss programs to help patients achieve their weight loss goals and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
When developing weight loss programs, Dr. Bardisa works closely with her patients to develop individualized plans designed for their specific body composition.
During the initial phases of any weight loss program, Dr. Bardisa analyzes her patients' eating habits and provides a modified diet, appetite suppressants and weight loss supplements to decrease the caloric intake.
Next, Dr. Bardisa helps her patients increase their energy expenditure by developing special exercise regimens. She couples this step with the incorporation of additional nutraceuticals and supplements that help her patients reach their weight loss goals.
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Getting Specific Parts Manufactured for Your Company
When you own a company that manufactures a wide range of products, you may reach a point where you're going to be dealing with the need to outsource some of your products. Most companies these days are going to have limited manufacturing capabilities of their own, which makes it necessary to look for outside companies that might be able to help with certain types of manufacturing. If you really want to ensure that you're finding the kind of high-quality parts that your products will need, there is no doubt that you're going to have to do some research.
There are a number of useful tools you can work with to ensure you're finding the kind of plastic parts manufacturer that your company is going to need. There are a wide range of online resources that you can turn to in order to learn about the kinds of companies that are doing this type of work in your area. When you really want to be sure that you're finding the best possible company, these online resources are going to be very helpful at getting you the sort of knowledge that you'll need.
The biggest factor that most companies will consider when they're trying to start manufacturing plastic parts will be when the products can be completed. Since most companies have strict deadlines for when they will need to deliver their products to customers, you'll find that there are a lot of different reasons to find a quick turnaround time for all of the parts you'll need for your company. If you're able to talk things over with the companies in question, you'll be able to quickly determine whether or not you're going to be able to get the products you need in the right amount of time.
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Another thing to think about will be how much you will need to spend on all of your custom parts. Since any business will be much better off when it can sell products for a much lower price, you should be able to see why you need to look for ways to save money on all of these small parts. This is why it's a good idea to seek out a quote from any type of prototype manufacturer that you choose to work with.
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I've been tagged by Jennifer from Chilling With Lucas to complete eight photos of happiness. This tag was originally started by Ariel Ward over at Ariel's Little Corner of the Internet.
Rules and explanation of this tag:
- Thank your nominator/s and link them in your post.
- Link the creator (Ariel's little corner of the internet)
- Post your 8 photos of happiness; the photos can be anything that represents a moment, object, place or feeling that makes you happy.
- Pop in a brief description of the photo, why you chose it or let the photos do the talking!
- Spread the happiness and tag up to ten other bloggers!
My photos..
1. The first photo is of me and my best friend, Jen, just before our school prom in May 2010. She sadly passed away the following year so this photo is very special to me.
2. This was Sophie's first ever photo just after I'd given birth in June 2013.
3. This was also taken in hospital (June 2013), when I'd just had Sophie and she is wearing her first outfit.
4. This was Sophie's first Christmas when she was six months old.. I love how happy we both are!
6. This photo was taken in November 2014 where we had a family photoshoot. I love how we're all smiling on this one!
7. Another one of my favourites from the photoshoot last year. This is one of the very few photos we have of all three of us together.
8. Sophie on our trip to Scotland in July this year, looking so grown up!
I tag..
Abigail at Lily Mae Adventures
Rebecca at Percy and Grace
Isabel at Isabel's Diaries
Gabby at Gabbs and Baby
Tara at Mum's Space
Anna at Matt and Anna
Lucy at Sons Brighten Up My Day
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Renovating Your Home: Should You Also Renovate Your Electrical System?
Homeowners will often need to renovate their homes for one reason or another, such as before putting the home on sale or to simply make it more comfortable. If you are in such a position, making sure that you plan for the project adequately is one of the most important methods of making sure that you get good value for money. A common mistake many make is to decide on a whim that they want to renovate the home. However, keeping tabs on which systems need to be renovated and how to go about it is quite possibly the most critical phase of the project. It will help you save a lot of money in the long term, and will make the project flow more smoothly as well.
The electrical system is usually one of the most neglected parts of home renovation. However, this is something that you need to avoid as much as possible, since it could have deleterious effects on the value and safety of the home.
Why you also need to renovate the electrical system
The electrical circuitry within a home is subject to aging just as much as the rest of the home is. For instance, if you have a home that was built in the 50s, you can be sure that the circuitry within it will not be able to withstand the demands of a modern home. This means that if you renovate the rest of it and leave the electrical circuitry in place, you are likely to end up with a number of problems including short circuits and even electrical fires. You should therefore involve a renovation electrician in Calgary every time you need to carry out such a project. Some of the dangers of using an outdated electrical system include:
• The risk of electrical fires on account of electrical overload.
• Damage to electrical appliances in the home, since modern ones might not be suited for use with aged electrical systems.
What will this involve?
The renovation of the electrical systems in a home is not a simple matter of changing the domestic wiring. Depending on the age and type of domestic installation, there are a number of things that might be done. Some of the most common include addition of devices such as a ground fault circuit interrupter, installing updated outlets and even making the entire system safer. If you intend to use high voltage appliances such as an electric cooker, you might also need to change the wiring in such a manner that it will handle the load that comes with this. Otherwise, you may end up with a number of problems including short circuits in the system.
Why you need an electrician
As you can see from the above, there are many things that are involved in the renovation of an electrical system in a home. For this reason, you should always consider involving an electrician in the process. They will help you identify some of the weak spots in the home's current domestic installation, and will also guide you on details such as how to pick the best products to ensure that the final solution actually works and is of high quality.
Of course, for this to happen, you need to work with an electrician who has specialized in electrical renovation rather than one who has done regular electrical installations only. This way, you can be guaranteed of getting the best possible results at the lowest possible cost, which is what you will ultimately be interested in when doing any type of renovation. Always consider comparing a number of contractors before settling for one.


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Okay so I downloaded the PSDK and used the register directories button in the start menu in the psdk folder.
But I remember other steps being necessary to be able to compile and run a win32 application, having to do with vc_corewin or something or other. Unfortunately the link that pointed to the steps in the sticky post at the top of this forum goes to somewhere else now. It was a bit of a complicated task, requiring fine tuning of a couple lines of codes in a couple files, any help?


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A crowdfunding campaign to fund archaeological work and restoration of a crusader castle has already reached half of its goal.
An international team of researchers are seeking 7500 euros to finance excavations sand specialized research at the Castle of Belvoir, located in northern Israel. The fortress was built by the Knights Hospitaller in the second half of the twelfth-century.
Anna Josephsson, one of the members involved in the project, explained that they launched the campaign "to extend and accelerate the work on the site (excavations, lapidary, architectural study and valorisation toward public ). We particularly want to progress in the 3D documentation and the planned full-scale reconstruction of the chapel (in collaboration with the Israel Antiquities Department and the National Parks authorities.)"
The funds will go towards paying for a wide variety of operations, including hiring specialists in medieval architecture, data acquisition to create a 3D film, and getting a better understanding of the topography of the site.
Also known as Kokhav ha-Yarden, Belvoir Castle was a strategically important fortress overlooking the Jordan Valley. "The fortification defended lands controlled by Frankish Christians though not directly at the border," Josephsson explains. "Belvoir is a major site in the Latin East, one of the most important castles built by the Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem in the second half of the 11th century and considered by some as a typical example.
"The archaeological study of the rich lapidary and remaining buildings as well as the new excavations shows the various phases of construction of the castle. In the inner courtyard we will continue the excavation of what is probably the earliest building (probably before 1160 while owned by Ivo Belos) and the mission will extend excavations to the second enclosure and the complex system of water supply (cisterns, baths pipelines…).
"A new plan of the castle is under process and new photogrammetric surveys of the elevations ensure a support to the analysis of the castle to serve for the restoration of the successive states of the fortification. Our efforts will focus on the restoration of the chapel once located on the first floor and the restitution of this first floor."
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O Gallery is pleased to present "Games," a solo exhibition by Shahla Hosseini (b. 1954 Tehran). Shahla Hosseini's work is to play with the functional regularities of objects. Therefore, they are of game-like installations that are self-explanatory. The rules and regularities of games are not necessarily the same symbolic doctrines as those in life and any combined allusions of nature are simply a symbolic gesture. To observe from the perspective of natural time, humankind's destiny and vast existence, renders any symbolic historical regulation devoid of any seriousness and authority.
An Account of the Works of Shahla Hosseini
Alireza Rezayee Aghdam
Happy, who had the skill to understand
Nature's hid causes, and beneath his feet
All terrors cast, and death's relentless doom,
And the loud roar of greedy Acheron
In the past, prior to saving our "Likes" in folders on our computers, we would safeguard our mementos and beautiful treasures in boxes: old photographs, marbles, sea-shells, polished stones, small enamel dishes, cans and basically anything that that we wished to transform beyond its ordinary self. In other words, our personal treasures had a physical identity and had not yet been integrated into an archive per se or on a large scale. We would place those objects into a box—a small, secure space in which these favorite things would reside. In this way, Shahla Hosseini's artistic world unfolds within a home, however, a home which is neither private, tribal nor national. Instead, it is a metaphorical home that represents the universe and the earth that we inhabit. The box, the installations and the events taking place within them, are all the artist's interpretation of the universe; one which possesses a more poetic, compassionate and humane understanding and has turned into a house providing housing for humankind.
In order to understand the thought process of the artist, it must be understood that we are not solely faced with just the artist's cultural interests and impressions, and that that which we see and stands out in the boxes of Shahla Hosseini, is related to her academic interests. Here, however, academia does not mean the technological functionality in a work of art, its hypothesis or assessment. Here, academia in the artist's work is used for three motives: first is the visual aesthetics of tools, graphs, diagrams and mathematical formulas—the exploration in visual and aesthetic qualities within patterns in nature and the ironic assemblage of objects and industrial structures. Second is the complicated and complex presence of such objects in memory of the father. Anyone who is intimately connected to the artist, knows of her close affinity to this figure. In contrast to the dominant tradition of the father overshadowing the lives of his children with ethical values, here the artist's father has maintained his presence by having left academic research, handwritten engineering formulas, and enthusiasm and interest in existential matter. Although such biographical facts may limit the audience's understanding here, one has to note that the art of Shahla Hosseini at its significant moments is a creative, extensive and essential interpretation of personal events, memories and traumas. This fact leads us to her third motive in using scientific symbols in her work—as symbols of proof and logic which are embedded within ambiguity, poetics, intuition and the negation of death. It is this failure of science to answer fundamental humane questions and the lack of spiritual peace fulfillment that propels Hosseini's art towards a Khayyamic notions. And not only is this true from a joyful and complacent standpoint but also from a scientific interest in understanding the limitations of human knowledge: scientific infatuation and agnosticism. Although science can explain life from its onset, however, it loses all its power in utter desperation at the moment of death.
Therefore, the artistic stage of Shahla Hosseini's work is not the place of logical relationships and marked meaningful structures. Here, there is neither certainty nor proof and we stand before it, as we stand in the middle of our accidental, fragmented, illogical, fragile, miserable, beautiful, grand and indefinite existence. The artist attains such quality for her abstract paintings are not mere conceptual and aesthetic entities. The symbols in her detailed and careful installations possess a detachment to the painting's perceptual and networked image of the painting: a thought provoking detachment that enhances their aesthetics to include semantics. Until now, we have regarded abstract painting as intuitive, conceptual and self-referential. Abstract painting has typically expressed contemplation and mysticism not through predetermined symbols but though the mere quality of painting itself. This quality is very much apparent in Shahla Hosseini's paintings as seen through the gaps, convex and concave shapes and large elliptical forms. Still, the temptation to make clear references to visual signs and symbols remains: lenses, mirrors, sexual symbols, etc. This desire for representation in abstraction becomes evident at key moments such as the gray monotone visualization of the eclipse. Thus from this cosmic stance, it limits the personal and unfounded interpretations of viewers. Visual language does not possess the palpable implications of a verbal one. Hence its vastness converts its condensed and metaphorical prepositions into a mysterious expression. This visual duality is most evident in her boxes and collages—abstract marks alongside ordinary, functional and implied elements. Representation of an episode; however vague, is still persistent and absolute though not with an unfamiliar and strange language. Letters and words are familiar but the structure and combinations have been combined in the figurative sense of the language and enigmatically rearranged. Abstract painting is likely to fall into extremist subjectivism and uncontrolled imagination: the undetermined discharge of insignificant matter. But here there is an issue that reaches beyond surface and color. The viewer is given important tools to recreate, interpret and decode his freedom. We are not abandoned in a void, instead the vitality of signs impart us with active vitality. These signs and symbols can be as cold and mechanical as scientific tools, as delicate as thin fiber fiber or a jagged piece of metal. The device of scientific notions is in charge of providing calibration, formulation and order to the universe. This device of notions is placed alongside the metaphorical painterly language and together they interact and affect one another in a double-sided construction and two-folded relationship. Tools find an aesthetical expression and images find a universal horizon. In the midst of all of this, occasionally a small sculpture of an animal, human figure, or a piece of bone is included. Consequently in the artist's assemblages, we are faced with the profound transition from scientific patterns to immense abstraction. A passage from the "existence" to the "being" of the universe. From the "existing" to the intuitive thought of "being." An oscillating motion that urges Vahid Hakim to ask, "Do the closest forms and the farthest thoughts possess the same state?" This approach is also evident in the artist's portrait drawings. Notice how facial expressions are made evident by simple and neutral lines yet possessing vulnerability and dependence in the extensive areas of white. One of the artist's most outstanding drawings is of her mother just before her passing. The face, sheltered by peace, weakness and inevitable death is drawn within the endless depth of white. In each portrait, the artist presents traces of approaching death's solitude and of her mother's face but she does not imply within them feelings of fear and desperation and instead they are as Virgil says "without fear and with respectful silence."
Hosseini's work is to play with the functional regularities of objects. Therefore, they are of game-like installations that are self-explanatory. The rules and regularities of games are not necessarily the same symbolic doctrines as those in life and any combined allusions of nature are simply a symbolic gesture. To observe from the perspective of natural time, humankind's destiny and vast existence, renders any symbolic historical regulation devoid of any seriousness and authority. Human history has been made from various periods of games, which create new rules and regulations as we go forth. When we decipher an ancient inscription, we do not expect anything definitive to be added to our knowledge. Instead we comprehend how our ancestors played their lives and with what creativity combined nature with metaphor and myth. Hence the interpretation of an inscription or scroll is not merely a question of research, it clears an aesthetic aspect in relation to everyday activities. Some of the artist's paintings are similar to inscriptions with erased lines; in fact the interpretational action is itself the subject and supposition of the work. But here, interpretation deals with that very inscription and faded scroll. Even though we are not allowed to read metaphors of an indescribable reality, the vague inscriptions are nevertheless expressed in a halo of magic and sanctity. We are transfixed in the face of visual signs that cannot become. The magic of these inscriptions however, has been replaced by aesthetics and the aesthetics of these paintings refer to a beauty beyond our imagination.


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With the birth of my first daughter, I was born into a mother. This profound journey inspired my path of teaching yoga to mothers. From there, I became a birth activist and quickly knew that one day I would be supporting women in the rite of passage of birth. I am enjoying the slow incorporation of doula work into my services, which beautifully brings my yoga work full circle. I deeply understand the incredible, sometimes challenging, yet joyful transition through childbirth and into motherhood. Therefore, I strive to provide a safe, nurturing and empowering space for mothers to connect with their body and baby in preparation for the sacred and monumental transition of motherhood.
Above all, I am a mama to my sweet, strong, spirited girls and partner to my loving husband. I have found my calling in teaching perinatal yoga and teach from my heart with respect for the intuitive wisdom within every mother and baby. I find inspiration and joy in my teachers, the mamas I have the honor to share space with and my daughters - the best teachers of the yogini way of life.
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The Governing Body of KIRSTENHOF PRIMARY SCHOOL has accordingly constituted the following as the admissions policy of the school, in the belief that its provisions are consistent with:
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (Act 108/ 1996), The National Education Policy Act and any applicable policies determined in terms of this Act (Act 27/1996), The South African Schools' Act (Act 84/1996) and subsequent amendments, The Western Cape School Provincial School Education Act (Act 12/1997) and The Promotion of Administrative Justice Act (Act 3/2000).
- The medium of instruction at the school is English.
- It is the policy of the school that:
- No pupil will be refused admission to the school on grounds of race, culture, religious belief or financial circumstance.
- Any pupil admitted to the school is admitted to the full designated school programme and will not be suspended from classes, denied access to cultural, sporting or social activities which are part of the designated school programme on the grounds of an inability by his parents to meet the required school fees.
- The school does not have facilities for education of learners with special needs.
Applications for admission must be submitted within the WCED window period.
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- Certified copies of both parents I.D. documents
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- Rates account or certified copy of Lease Agreement (in the case of renting of property)
- A most recent school report
Any false declaration on the application form will render the application null and void. Applications will not be processed if documentation is incomplete. The onus is on the parent to ensure that all documentation has been forwarded to the school, however we will endeavour to assist where we can.
For admission enquiries please contact Mrs Inga Richter at: email@example.com
Learners residing permanently with their parents/legal guardians/guardians nominated by official bodies and whose closest Primary School is Kirstenhof by road, will be considered above all others for admission. Appropriate proof of residence will be required, e.g. rates account or certified copy of lease agreement (in the case of renting of property).
Factors which can be taken into account when considering placement include:
- Parents who work permanently within a radius of one kilometre of the school.
- Written confirmation of place of employment from the employer will be required.
- Children of employees of the school.
- While siblings of learners, for whom the school is not the closest, will be considered strongly, they will not automatically be considered for admission.
- When applying for Grade 1, preference will be given to children attending the KPS Grade R.
- Learners, for whom the school is not the closest, will be considered once those who qualify in terms of the above have been accommodated.
- The SGB acknowledges the imbalances associated with the history of South Africa, as well as the need for gender balance in the school.
- These factors are taken into account when placing children at KPS.
No learner shall be admitted to the school if the learner is two years older than the age appropriate norm for the grade. Preference will be given to a learner entering Grade 1 who turns seven in the first year of school and to learners in other grades, who are age appropriate for the grade.
A learner from outside the borders of R.S.A. will be considered in terms of the above, but will be assessed for appropriate grade placement after acceptance. Documentation from Home Affairs, proving immigration status, must accompany the application. The school applies a maximum pupil/teacher ratio of 30:1 for Intersen Phase (Grades 4-7) and 30:1 for Foundation Phase (Grades 1-3) in terms of the physical classroom capacity. Pre-Primary is 25:1.
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- The availability of ablution facilities, toilets and recreational area necessary for the social, physical, medical and emotional health and well-being of the learners.
- A learner will be considered for admission in terms of the above and if it is felt that the learner will benefit from mainstream education
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How ERP Helps With New Product Development
- 5 October 2016
New product development can be a challenging and multifaceted process, but it can also be necessary to keep a business growing and meet a changing customer demand. In order to thrive, a business must be competitive. And to remain competitive, it must not only keep up with new advancements but innovate to set itself apart from the herd. An ERP system can help streamline new product development and take some of the burden off of a business working to remain competitive in the market.
In the first stage of product development, a business must collect ideas from its customers, competitors, and stakeholders. Strengths, weaknesses, market opportunities, and competitors are reviewed and help to influence design.
One very important benefit of an ERP system is its ability to collect and store product failures, as well as successes. This information can provide critical insight into past trends and help innovators conceptualize product designs that don't incorporate past mistakes.
Once the concepts have been laid out for consideration, the next step in the process is vetting them for viability and success. Opinions come in, any existing product regulations are reviewed, manufacturing costs are reconciled, technology challenges are considered, return on investment is calculated, and consumer opinions are collected.
An ERP system provides the analytical tools to help businesses produce the information necessary to check with regulatory bodies. Because product development is a fluid process, the ability to pull accurate and tailored data is essential to providing information in a variety of formats.
Once a new product is selected, the design and manufacturing must be planned out and performed. Development requires a great many decisions to be made, ranging from which vendors and materials are chosen, to whether the product should be produced in bulk.
For comparison purposes, an ERP system can store and produce a list of suppliers and costs for the same or similar materials to help a business understand how to best reduce costs. Product development often comprises multiple iterations and various prototypes before the product is ready for the market. The data provided by an integrated ERP system can help companies hone their product development process and cut down on the trial and error by using data from prior iterations and products to choose the best-fit solution earlier on in the development process, helping reduce time to market.
Advertising and Sales
Finally, the promotion begins and the product hits the market. The research completed at the beginning of the product development lifecycle helps determine when, where, and how to launch the product for the best chance at success.
ERP can provide insight into historical product launches, and reveal the most successful trends in the scale of production, product pricing, and marketing campaigns.
Globalization has brought more competitors to the table, regulations have become more stringent in recent years, and the diversity of manufacturers and suppliers has exploded. All of these changes have made product innovation and development even more difficult in recent years. The ability to bring some transparency to the process can greatly decrease the time to market and make a positive impact on product profitability. An ERP system can help support and manage the product development lifecycle by integrating all elements of the process and providing quick and easy access to historical data and future projections, helping businesses build competitive products, and thrive.


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This year filmmaker Spike Lee and fans celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Do the Right Thing– Monday new DTRT shirts go on sale at the 40 Acres and a Mule Web site. Yet there is reason enough to say that behind the great work is a sad man, as Roger Ebert noted. And more reason to say he is one of the more joyous and fascinating and moral minds cinema has offered in general. And a resilient one for doing it on his own terms, in 1989 and 2014.
In 2008 A New Yorker profile called Lee an "outside man." The phrase feels true to me today after watching two great Lee films (Do the Right Thing and The 25th Hour) and two new experiments (Red Hook Summer and Oldboy). As a black man he is a minority. As a director who insists on a subjective vision his work is hard to market. And as he gets older, the situation for young black men, as evidenced by Ferguson, is getting harder to navigate and survive. The anger that made a planet full of viewers sympathetic about this anger's outburst didn't come from the inside, but from outside of our society.
The making of an auteur film is becoming more difficult — Lee's most recent eccentric picture 'Da Sweet Blood of Jesus' was funded by a Kickstarter campaign where he let go of memorabilia from past movies. In 2012 to make Red Hook Summer, an aggressively low budget look at a spirited Baptist parish he said that he wasn't going to have a studio tell him about black people in Red Hook, Brooklyn. So he hired his own NYU film students as crew and found actors in the drama class of his old middle school. His critics call him "angry," "self righteous." He has sparked arguments with Quentin Tarantino and Clint Eastwood. He made The Miracle at St. Anna in order to offset the lack of black soldiers in Eastwood's The Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. When Tarantino took the liberty to make the slavery Spaghetti Western Django Unchained, Lee's response was "there's something wrong with him." But away from the contentious publicity, Lee keeps making interesting movies, most of them with a kind of music beating behind their breast.
As the events in Ferguson, Missouri unfolded I watched the 24 hour news with a heart that was unsure and heavy. My brain said things like "surreal" and "circular" and "police state." I heard a few black interviewees use the phrase, "do the right thing." It's a direct phrase. One we can't always live up to. No one can always do the right thing. But the ideal is always on our minds. The consensus among film buffs is that Lee's relevance was in effect around 1989 with Do the Right Thing. But that's judging from media trends, exposure and the amount of good cinema that keeps happening. What was happening in Do the Right Thing is the same thing that was happening in Ferguson, while Lee's new modestly scaled films continue to exist in a rather intense presence.
The famous moment in Lee's film is the murder of a young black man named Radio Raheem. Like Michael Brown, he was a physically imposing kid allegedly causing commotion at a store. It initially appeared from a surveillance video that Brown stole cigarillos and later disobeyed a police officer. He was unarmed. Radio Raheem disrupted the social order with his loud boombox, which gets him kicked out of Sal's Pizzeria, the hangout in predominantly black Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. After a nowhere argument Sal breaks his boombox. A fight ensues outside that attracts the police, the police put Raheem in a choke hold that kills him. They carry the body off quickly. Michael Brown's body lay on the pavement awaiting detective inspection for 4 hours, during which time a community gathered to mill and worry, including the boy's uncle. The voices of the young black men on cell phone footage of a second police murder in Ferguson notice a body disposal executed with a bad actor's twist. 'Why they puttin' the cuffs on him? He's already dead?'
Mookie, an employee of Sal's, throws a trash can through the window after Raheem is killed, an act that polarized audiences in 1989.
Twenty minutes before the riot, the pizza shop closed and Sal was sharing a tender moment with his employees. Four black people (including a young Martin Lawrence!) bang at the door wanting a slice. Sal lets them in. Their anger, however, is reaching a boiling point. They protest, yell. They want their people represented on the pizzeria walls next to Sinatra and Dimaggio. The Italian American minorities who run Sal's, say it's their pizzaria and they can do whatever they want, even if most of their customers are indeed black. Radio Raheem brings in the boom box with the Public Enemy blasting. Sal breaks the boombox. Cops arrive.
Spike Lee's films are not without love. In Do the Right Thing there are film history evoking flirtations between Ossie Davis (playing a drunk) and Ruby Dee, a woman at her window sill. Sal, played wonderfully by Danny Aiello, has a crush on Mookie's sister. Not long before the riot, he is giving her a free slice and asking about her life. Mookie, irked as a brother and by the same racial prejudices as the Italians, pulls his sister aside and tells her not to come in anymore.
The film lays out rigorously the ways in which loving feelings are stifled by economic difficulties. No one in Do the Right Thing has much money. And then there are the racial tensions that follow the financial frustrations. There's a stare-down between some old men in lawn chairs and the cops driving by. The cops call the black men "a waste" and the old men feel the words. Lee doesn't mince words on this. But he implicates his own race too. Right after they say their bit about the police the men turn their heads across the street to trash talk the Korean grocers.
The dominant colors and the bristling tone of the film are loud, an argument. It's the sound of people not letting anger fester inside them. The ruling class will always hear the anger as something other than what the serving class feels. The serving class, carries unknowable rage and frustration, while the ruling class hears loud, gangster, and "looting." In Hollywood, no one had articulated these basic frustrations inside supposedly free men the way Spike Lee did before Do the Right Thing. The movie remains fresh aesthetically (those Godard shots and jump cuts of Rosie Perez's body). It is provocative intellectually, with incisive arguments considered from the Italians, white people, black people. In terms of story it has the moral gravity and passion that inspired Lee's friend Budd Schulberg and director Elia Kazan when they made On the Waterfront, a film with a few Spike Lee moments (Karl Malden's priest, standing over a dead body, yelling at the gangsters from the bottom of a loading dock, "This is my Church!").
The working and slacking people of Bedford Stuy work the anger out by arguing fiercely, with swagger, with melody. The words come out as raps, debates or a soliloquy when Radio Raheem wears gold rings spelling out Love and Hate to the camera, a reference to Charles Laughton's "Night of the Hunter.' ( A film whose commercial and critical failure upon initial release, compounded with Laughton's closeted homosexuality, deepened a depression that wouldn't allow him to make another film).
"Let me tell you the story of right hand, left hand. It's a tale of good and evil. Hate: it was with this hand that Cain iced his brother. Love: These five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand, the hand of Love. The story of life is this. Static. One hand is always fighting the other hand. The left hand is kicking right's ass. I mean it looks like the right hand Love is finished. But hold on, stop the presses, the right hand is coming back. Yeah, he got the left hand on the ropes now, that's right. Yeah, it's a devastating right, and Hate is hurt. Down, oh oh! Left hand KO'd by Love!"
The immediacy of the material demands Lee use the bold technique of direct address. Raheem tells the story of love and hate, as did Robert Mitchum, to a character (Mookie) and also into the camera (us). It's apart from the the plot, but encompasses the entire thing, it takes our emotions to the next level where one can step away and see.
In the 25th Hour Lee seamlessly slips into a new social milieu, that of 3 friends who once attended private school together. One's a teacher, one's a stock trader, another a drug dealer. The technique is more restrained, he steps back back and lets actors do the work in long, simply set exchanges. The trademark Lee portrait/train track shot waits until a narrative climax. The characters don't argue through us, the camera, as in Lee's early ambitious films. The viewer is now a fly on the wall watching the characters talk to each other in private spaces, like the plush apartment of stock trader Frank Slaughtery (Barry Pepper) just above the dust and ash wreckage of the World Trade Center, where we see men in space suits sweeping up the wreckage still. The movie is a post 9-11 portrait of New York, and one of the few that closely reveals the spiritual frequencies of the city's people the year that followed the attacks.
The leader of the pack Monty Brogan is a clever drug dealer who originally comes from an Irish neighborhood. He is caught and has 24 hours to enjoy life with his girlfriend and friends. What goes through his mind? Who is to blame?. His friends blame everyone before the movie is over. The direct address shot from Do the Right Thing returns 36 minutes in when future convict Monty (Ed Norton) looks into a bathroom mirror where "Fuck You" has been written on it. It's the last straw and Monty goes off on every minority he can think of. A montage of faces of New York's nationalities. The Russians sipping their tea, the Korean grocers are back, the Chelsea district gay men, the Arabs of course, the black basketball players who never pass the ball and can't play D, his dad sipping club soda with his fireman buddies after drinking too much through Monty's childhood. Monty lets them all have it before finally taking the final look in the mirror at himself. "No, fuck you." It's a classic Lee riff that doesn't withhold real feelings, from people who are running on empty. People sometimes underestimate Lee's idealism. That Monty comes to hold himself responsible after his tirade provides a way forward for the anguished man, whose city and personal life have been violated and changed.
And in that way there is a lyricism in the '25th Hour' that animates the picture behind the muted gray and blue hues of the post 9/11 lens and swells into full expression in the final minutes. Flashbacks of Monty and his girlfriend Naturelle (Rosario Dawson) meeting play out with great finesse, a simple piano score floating alongside the floating tire she's swinging on and the dialogue (as the music/dialogue were competitively tracked with Rosario and Ray Allen's talks in He Got Game). The talk yields conflict, resolution, melody and new possibilities in Lee. Hardly is such stock put in the talk. At the end of the film Monty's dad (Brian Cox) is still talking, about the America he could show his son. Scenes from this America unfurl with a rousing-melancholy score by Terence Blanchard that concludes with a flourish of traditional sounding Middle Eastern singing (as if hinting at the perpetual war to come). It's a strange ending that doesn't belong to the movie almost; it stretches out to the country's farmland and ghost towns and finds hidden beauty. Places the tormented New Yorkers forgot existed.
But our man, in 25th hour, hasn't exactly been violated. Monty, the product of a private school education, has violated the law. As his friend Frank tells Naturelle, other people's addictions bought your dress. Monty was in the drug game, the same game that, sure, gave us Jay Z but will also lay claim to the life of the movie's master supporting actor (Philip Seymour Hoffman as Jacob the English teacher). Marty represents an educational opportunity that has shifted to a faster game with more gain. He tells people they don't want to know how much his apartment costs. He fakes it until he makes it in this America.
The skinny, bookish Norton acts with swagger and bravado throughout the movie. The filmmakers take Monty all the way up to the moment before prison when his constructed manhood finally falls apart. As real consequences approach, he decides to have his friends beat the shit out of him so he looks tougher on prison day. Jacob (Hoffman) is deeply troubled and Frank (who is quick to anger) does the beating, and instantly feels ashamed that Marty has exploited his weakness for anger. In this scenario, all three friends are emotionally bankrupt. This uncomfortable and bloody unraveling of Monty's hustled success story premiered in 2002. It uncannily anticipates the 2008 recession, when the bluster blew away like monopoly money.
Lee takes the 25th Hour's theme of privilege abused to a new imaginative plane with Oldboy, a remake of the 2003 film by South Korea's Chan-wook Park. Josh Brolin plays Joe Doucett, a man who would commonly be called a douchebag. As an advertising exec he closes a deal with a man and then hits on his wife right after. The deal is botched. He's missed his three year old's birthday party. She won't remember it anyway. After an all night bender, told with humorous over the shoulder woozy cam, Joe Doucett finds himself in a hotel jail cell. He's kept there for the next 20 years. Time passes in quick cinematic progression, we see footage of the World Trade Center attack, Bush's election, etc. There is a wide smiling Nation of Islam-looking bellman in a painting on his wall. He's only fed vodka and dumplings through a slot in the door. At one point he has an epiphany that he won't drink the alcohol anymore and he'll write to his daughter. He's eventually released.
The rest is a crash course revenge and Brooklyn-martial arts movie. Joe Doucett is perfectly arrogant, and Brolin plays him as a formidable neanderthal in a suit. In his new life as he finds a female partner (Elizabeth Olsen) where an intelligence awakens as the movie turns into a procedural. The fight scenes are brutal and well choreographed. People are killed with hammers. The Stranger, Adrian, who's still trying to torture him is played by District 9's genius Sharlto Copley. The cut of his suits and the rarefied feng shui of his house signals he is in the 1 percent.
The third act reveals that in addition to keeping a hotel full of random sufferers in service he is also perverted by a dark family secret that Joe Doucett has the key to. Adrian comes from an incestual family and Joe digs into his past to remember he witnessed the sister in a greenhouse with the father. Joe being Joe, also spread the label "whore" all around the school. One of Adrian's talking points still, is that his father was a great man–a sad plea for the American ruling class's moral authority in Lee's point of view. Lee hides this darkness in the heart of Western luxury. The film is never boring and Lee's pet points have to be searched for. Oldboy is rich in intimation but can also be enjoyed as an action-revenge exercise.
Oldboy, if not the 25th hour, marks the beginning of what Richard Brody calls Spike Lee's "late period." He defines the concept by Woody Allen's experience. After the traumatic media firestorm that followed his marriage to Soon Yi, Allen started making movies that were more hermetic, delved into art and literary history, that were essentially quieter. The elements that made Spike Lee's earlier movies attention grabbing have been subdued. Not as much direct address and rolling cameras. He can work with any type of actor, tell a script from any country and he can sneak in his point of view better. It's not an accident that the man whom Joe Doucett offends with his hubris is a black car salesman, perhaps self made and new to money. There's no "race hustling" in 25th Hour, but there are three curious black dudes in the background of the day trader firm who watch Frank Slaughtery's cowboy trading with curiosity and a sense of humor. You blink and you miss them, but they are there, watching us hustle and scram, as Spike Lee takes his craft to new territory.
Lee, who once directed music videos for Michael Jackson and launched Public Enemy, sees the club music scene in 25th Hour as an Aldous Huxley-ian pleasure dome. He holds it at a distance. The characters are dancing, sweaty, sensual, and robotic. They're not full of curves, life, and purpose like Rosie Perez's shadowboxing at the opening credits of Do the Right Thing. The editing is right inside the music, but apart from it, cooly noticing the dancing as an unfeeling ritual, when juxtaposed with the weighty dilemmas of the three friends. Lee is content to put his old struggles in a changing New York. As Norman Mailer said, when an artist realizes he can't change the world, he can still do the work the best way he knows how. Maybe he deepens human consciousness in some small way with it and the difference is made there.
Red Hook Summer proves that the late period mode allows the artist to be a little crazier. The soundtrack makes itself known sometimes with enthusiastically bad music, there's random cutaways to the people main character Bishop Enoch Rouse loves, Sister Sweet in her wheelchair, or Deacon Zee who gets drunk alone and begs the ceiling for the White God's money. At times this movie has the freewheeling quality of a home movie made by high schoolers. A lot of critics did not want to let Lee get away with the movie.
The movie follows summer days in the life of a Red Hook preacher man and his sour nephew who goes to a private school in Atlanta and doesn't want to be there. There's a summer love subplot for the boy, Flik Royale (Jules Brown) and Chazz Morningstar (Toni Lysaith), both untrained actors from Spike Lee's old middle school. The scenes in the hot parish are exciting to behold, with powerful sermons, electric organ, Stephen Henderson's rolly-polly dancing. Lee kicks it back to basics, neighborhood living in Brooklyn, lots of wild edits and personalities given a place to speak their minds. In moments of joyful indulgence there might be an animated rainbow.
But the last thirty minutes hit the viewers with a shock. The priest was actually kicked out of Atlanta for molesting a boy years ago. The victim, now an adult, comes to disrupt a session in Red Hook, which leads to lots of crying and a fight.
The screenwriters (Lee and National Book Award Winner James McBride) struggled with that subplot, they say. Audiences at Sundance walked out. But it's important that they put the scandal in there because it accounts for a stinging critique of the clergy in a space in Brooklyn, impoverished, forgotten, full of life, that Lee does love. But it's a space that is not without the possibility of being corrupted. Lee is saying despite how true and forceful the oratories are (most of them persuasively railing against concentrated wealth, poverty of the masses, the meek: defrauded and insulted, technology) a man who sees these ails can still be corrupted. Even as he sees all the pretty things within it.. We see the man in his shame in front of his nephew.
"I came here to hide. But there was so much beauty it didn't seem like a punishment."
The twist also saves Lee from a dogmatic polemic against the i-Pad and private school products like Flik, our future. It suggests our problems will be harder to figure out and not one institution, Black church, Black president, White money can do it alone. Even The Bloods gang fellows are not exactly villainous in this depiction, but boys in Red trying to be rappers. Lee's Red Hook is a slice of ordinary life, like any neighborhood, but one generally forgotten on the national scene. And one in fact that might warrant our witnessing of it.
"I want to stop feeling numb" Chaz tells Flik. "I want to feel pretty. Nobody says, 'We don't want you.' They just ignore you. You're invisible. You don't belong. You ever get that feeling?"
Mr. Mookie (Lee) from Do the Right Thing makes a cameo in Red Hook Summer . With all of its raggedy edges the film does return Lee to his constant concern: the aggravating difficulty of doing or seeing the right thing. An important dialogue on faith and works follows young Chaz's complaint. It finds the screenwriters traveling with real wings, and a Bruce Hornsby "Hymn in C. " The actors, Clarke Peters and Heather Simms, ease into their talk. The man has God. But the woman sees what he cannot.
Sister Sharon Morningstar: You're a good man, Enoch Rouse. You're suffering and lonely because the world has changed and passed you by.
Bishop Enoch Rouse: But God hasn't.
Sharon: We prayed for a black President to deliver us. And we got our wish. I see our young people the same as they was before, only they can say I too can be President. Naw. I'm done with that dream. Not much has changed, that's the God's truth. The rich keep getting super rich. The poor get super poor. Don't matter what color they are. Poor is on the bottom rung the world over.
Enoch: God. God is on the highest rung.
Sharon: Wake up, your grandson needs you.
Enoch: I'm giving him God. And that's everything.
Sharon: I prayed for my angel till my knees wore out. Took her to Lil Piece of Heaven every Sunday. But the Hook got her and she died. So this time I ain't just praying for my Chaz. I'm watching her school, her teachers, her friends, her Facebook, her twitter. Ain't nothin gonna slip past me. I ain't pawning off my responsibility….
Sharon: When a good man teaches, the Bible will preach itself.
Enoch: The Bible worked for my father
Sharon: The world has changed.
In Lee, the talk yields new possibilties. The listed films here, in their generosity, ask the audience what the next chapter will be. History repeats itself in ways that shake the things we want to believe, and confuse the soul. In art and culture the artist writes the argument, and spins the wheel of possibility into the air. Away from his hand stands the violence. The understanding within him yields to an output longer and ever more rich than we thought before.
Who knows what Spike's next crazy not so crazy movie has in store.