Tuesday 31 August 2010

Thomas Hooper

http://meditationsinatrament.com/

This artist is a continuous source of inspiration. A tattooist, my favourite and a painter. I prefer his tattoos to his paintings, I check his website most days for any updates on new tattoos and works in progress. His style is genuinely unique, which is something that's hard to find these days, this applies to a broader world. I don't think there is anything particularly unique or original about anything I do, so I jump at anything that I know that is. I hope you find the work interesting and inspiring also. the stand alone images, the composition of the work is outstanding, I will continue to visit his work and one day visit the man for some work.

100 Coolest things in film.

100 Pacino and De Niro finally meet in heat
99 Sharlto Copley ad libbing in District 9
98 Mickey Rourke's ram head necklace
97 The opening scene in Indiana Jones and The lost Ark
96 Epic Pulp of Shutter Island
95 Christopher Nolan
94 The Joker's magic trick
93 Music and the monster chewing scenes of Daniel Day Lewis in There Will be Blood
92 Hand held shaky camera work
91 Michael Caine in Children of Men
90 Johnny Depp's best performance in Ed Wood
89 Viral marketing
88 Method acting
87 British filmmakers being the top dogs in America
86 Movie posters
85 Hard graft of a shoot and the payoff of greatness
84 Movie Macguffins
83 Final scene of Raging Bull, "I'm the boss, I'm the boss, I'm the boss"
82 Short films
81 Movie moustaches
80 Leonard's tattoos in Memento
79 Fight Club, One of the best films of the last 20 years and one of the most important of all time, "Fuck off with your sofa units and string green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may"
78 Goldeneye, a return to bond movies of Connery and the last film that feels like the Cold War world aftermath
77 Hans Zimmer score for Inception
76 Smoking in film
75 Panic Room's long take that starts upstairs and goes through a coffee pot, beautiful
74 Zabriskie Point exploding stuff
73 Movie Shoot outs, the best......Heat
72 Ron Burgundy
71 Orson Welles reveal in The Third Man
70 Richard Gere in Internal Affairs
69 War of the World's remake (that score!)
68 Last shot in The Departed
67 Film's in New York.....Taxi Driver, Nick and Norah, Bringing out the Dead, 
66 Dune, yeah that's right
65 Van Morrison's TB Sheets in Bringing out the Dead
64 The shot where a custodian sweeps up the piss in HUNGER by Steve Mcqueen
63 "Here comes the pain!" in Carlito's Way
62 Toy Story trilogy
61 Pixar movies and their dedication to the craft of filmmaking 
60 Nathan FIllion in everything 
59 Performance
58 James Franco, as close to a James Dean we'll have. Scratch that, He's the only James Franco we will have, i predict great things for this guy.
57 Colin Firth's rebirth 
56 The look of complete confusion on Lars Thorwald's face that anyone would be interested in his life in the end of Rear Window
55 Toilet scene in Trainspotting, Renton desperate for his last hit, shits out the suppositories, dives into the worst toilet in the worst bathroom in scotland. Magic.