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Truckload of Leaves.Here I am again.... Yesterday, Morea helped me get past my fear of bricks, and today, its leaves.
I need to make some tiny trees... like the brick challenge, they have to be small, really small... and look somewhat realistic. However, I do not want to use jpeg's or just take pictures.
The problem is that I need a tough perspective. I have attached this "mouse" sketch to show you the size and perspective I need.
If you have any suggestions or examples I will love you forever....
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Drawing basics, and this does translate to digital if you know how.
Most graphics programs have guides that you can drag in and some have options to change the angle. If you don't have guides or know how to use them, lines work - just not as well.
In drawing you will have what is called vanishing points. These are the infinite horizon that your eye can no longer distinguish details.
For your drawing there would be one center point where your road disappears. Then 4 perspective points to converge to the center point along with your horizontal and vertical horizions. These 6 lines represent your 3D veiwing axis and is also used in the modeling "cube" in 3D programs along with the "y" axis which you won't see in a linear project on the screen.
Attached is a representation of the vanishing points to your drawing.
The vanishing origins are the little red dots. These can be placed inside the picture or far outside, depending on how your perspective feels. You can move the green lines of axis around the page as long as they still intersect the vertical and horizon vanishing point. These will act as scale for the size of the object according to the vanishing point.
So now that you have a background you want to place an object in the picture and keep the same scale. This can get a bit tricky to scale different objects but I know of simple methods that will help you out.
I placed elephants to show proper scale and perspective. Then I placed a pepsi can to approximate size in the closest elephant. I drew linear lines to keep my pepsi can in perspective on the page. I can then move it anywhere along that line to keep it in perspective.
There's another can by the furthest elephant that I did not scale. Now the pepsi can looks to be as big as that elephant, when in fact it did not change size on the screen. If i need to place the can anywhere else on the screen I can use that object as a vanishing origin and draw my lines from that to the vanishing point to keep scale.
There are litterally tons of great things that you can accomplish once you understand vanishing points. Check out a beginners drawing book that partains to vanishing points and drawing architecture.
The two examples that I gave you for this particular instance is only a small part of what you need to learn to truely become good at doing landcapes, cityscapes, etc.
Good luck, I hope this helped.
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Drazan , Thanks for the extensive advise. However.. I apparently gave you the wrong impression with me 10 second mouse sketch. I was only trying to give you an idea of the exact size of tree I need. I have been through art school, and I remember perspective and vanishing points from high school.... but seriously, if I didnt know this stuff already, I'm confident that you would make a good teacher.
here is a sample of the little tree I came up with.
Thanks again.
Anyone needs a small tree, feel free to take a copy.
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But these statistics have been widely challenged. treatment centres are reporting that steroid use has actually trebled in the last few years. this might suggest more users are seeking help to resolve health problems. even so, the amount of users must be increasing for this to be the case. Jim mcveigh, head of substance abuse at liverpool John moores university, claims that the actual numbers the statistics referred to could be three times what was reported. he also assesses the risks as being on a par with heroin abuse. former pro-wrestler 'superstar' Billy wrestling! graham is the prototype for the larger than life wrestler. graham has been suffering the after-effects of steroid abuse for the last 20 years. his most recent and severe health complication saw him wake up at night with massive internal bleeding. doctors diagnosed him with liver failure. billy graham can't have kids he has had ankle fusions and six hip replacements due to prolonged steroid abuse and has shrunk four inches due to his spinal collapse. like any other drug, steroids create a psychological dependency. when graham tried to quit he would fall into deep depressions, with massive doses of steroids providing his only relief. 12 issue four sounds melodramatic doesn't it. other long-term effects are feature water retention and unwanted tissue growth. more general health risks of excess use include an increased risk of liver damage, high cholesterol and strokes. former wrestler Bret hart, better known as 'the hitman', spent the best part of the last decade (that's 2000- 2009 now, get used to it) recovering from a stroke he suffered in 2002. he was only 45. some of the more emasculating side effects are impotence (Billy graham can't have kids) and man boobs. seriously, it's called gynaecomastia. look it up. whilst these aren't usually a problem, the hormone imbalance they are a result of can also lead to testicular cancer. and you will need to start checking for breast lumps. users even if anecdotal medical reports are clashing with official government figures, they both treat steroid use as a serious problem. Bodybuilders who use steroids do not. why is there such a perceptive difference here? a study called 'Body Builders attitudes towards steroid use' from mmus very own department of psychology and speech pathology can help answer this. this study found that steroid users among body builders were positive about the benefits of use and attributed the negative side-effects to ill-informed use. their own motivations were largely aesthetic – to get bigger, to speed up results, or for vanity. very few of the respondents claimed they used steroids to actually improve their training. the implications of this are bizarre. the steroid users were largely mistrustful of the medical evidence, relating this to the initial medical denial that steroids can increase muscle mass. there are men: you too can have a mammogram! also massively conflicting beliefs promoted in the bodybuilding circuit through 'bodybuilding bibles' that promote specific steroid regimes. one anonymous bodybuilder claims "information is passed down to beginners from the bigger people in the gyms who think they know what they are telling you is right." this mentoring process is likely to be why the medical evidence, whether anecdotal or government-statistical, is disregarded. s teroid use is not a valid part of bodybuilding, and needs to be rejected. indeed, another study 'the medical prescription of anabolic steroids', found that steroid users were not training hard enough to get the results they wanted anyway. how manly is that. statistical evidence indicates that prevalence of use was much higher in the 80s and early 90s. so were übermensch bodybuilders and wrestlers. famous names like arnold schwarzenegger and lou ferrigno were at the pinnacle of their bodybuilding powers. proportionally the numbers are down, but the proportion is up. statistics are valuable, but tell us nothing of body-image pressure on young men. issue four 13 laurence sterne sent identical love letters to his wife and his mistress. secret histories illustration by rae hicks by James harker s hakespeare, wham, radiohead – they're all guilty of plagiarism. shakespeare lifted whole chunks of plutarch's The Life of Antony for dialogue in Antony and Cleopatra and also pinched whole plots and characters from various contemporaries. for instance, both marlowe's The Jew of Malta and shakespeare's Merchant of Venice feature money-grabbing Jewish stereotypes. marlowe's pre-dated shakespeare's by a decade, but since the crime of plagiarism had yet to be invented, neither writer minded much. wham stole the melody of the carpenters' hit 'can't smile without you' for 'last christmas.' when the original publishers sued, george michael agreed out of court to donate a chunk of his profits to charity. kraftwerk didn't mind or didn't care when they pinched the rhythm from 'neon lights' for the same song though. radiohead, meanwhile, copped from the hollies' 'all i need is the air that i Breathe,' for the middle- eight of 'creep.' to this day the song's original writer, albert hammond senior (the dad of the bloke from the strokes), gets a cut of radiohead's royalties. 14 issue four secret histories n ot all what made keating really special were the deliberate based on running time, but could all twelve tracks of sham rock plagiarism is so anachronisms, what he called "clues for the experts," liszt's transcendental etudes, a piece described by straightforward. that he sprinkled across his forgeries. keating once hid the composer schumann as "unplayably difficult," be in 1985, the word "fuck" in the corner of a constable. he also performed at exactly the same tempo by two different rock singer John fogerty was sued for self-plagiarism. scrawled "this is a fake," in lead paint behind a samuel pianists? ventura put his concerns to the music critic Jed his former bosses, fantasy records, alleged that fogerty palmer reproduction – a confession designed to show distler, who in turn, asked a musicologist. re-used the melody of his old hit 'run through the through on x-rays authentication tests. consequently, the investigation found hatto guilty Jungle,' for which they owned the publishing rights, in his after getting caught, keating became a folk hero. in on more than 90 counts of plagiarism. often original new album 'centerfield.' fogerty took his guitar to court the few short years before his death he gained so much recordings had been distorted to mask hatto's to demonstrate his innocence and the judge ruled in his notoriety that the prestigious auction house christies appropriation. favour, a massive relief for artists everywhere. commissioned a special auction of his known forgeries. But since hatto was dead at the time of the discovery, if self-plagiarism were a crime, plenty would be guilty; so highly collectable are these paintings today, they even she was never officially tried for her offences. more tracy emin churns out the same appliquéd crap year have fakes of their own. recently hatto's widower and agent, william Barrington- on year. shakespeare, on top of all that marlowe stuff coupe, claimed the plagiarisms were his doing – that copied whole passages from his own work for latter plays. laurence sterne, author of the 18th century classic turnitin even universities aren't above the urge to steal. he'd substituted hatto's underwhelming recordings for superior versions without her knowledge. in 2009, the southern illinois either way, the deception became something of keating once hid university was accused of plagiarising its anti-plagiarism policy from a similar indiana university document. strange considering illinois (like mmu) had been forcing a boon for the classical record industry. sales of the plagiarised originals increased tenfold and hatto's eclectic thievery has led to a buy-and-compare sport among fans. the word "fuck" its students to use turnitin™ anti-plagiarism technology for years. twilight now, for all the robert pattinson fans in the corner of a less funny was the 2003 British government report out there, here's some bad news: 'iraq – its infrastructure of concealment deception and the author of the Twilight books, intimidation.' this document, supposedly a justification of stephanie meyer, has been accused of plagiarism. constable. Blair's iraq policy, was plagiarised virtually verbatim from a minor journal article by a californian graduate student called ibrahim al-marashi – even the spelling mistakes meyer is no stranger to controversy. an internet hoax from early last year claimed she'd stolen the book's plot from a college roommate and in mid-november she The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, even remained. got a ticking-off from vatican officials for writing "deviant, sent identical love letters to his wife and his mistress! i'm not sure what's scarier: that the Blair amoral fiction." administration would plagiarise its pro-war arguments this time, the pressure comes from Jordan s scott; adultery as sterne's letters demonstrate, adultery and plagiarism can without even proofreading, or that its chief source of intelligence turned out to be a dyslexic american who claims meyer stole elements from her own teen/vampire novel The Nocturne for Breaking Dawn. be pretty similar offences (i'm graduate student. glen rangwala, an esteemed specifically, scott claims that meyer copied her heroine's plagiarising now, from right-wing american author cambridge lecturer, spotted the government's fraud, pregnancy with an evil-spirited devil-child - an idea scott richard a posner). in both cases the victims only suffer not that his arguments did much to stop the war. herself seems to have nicked from ira levin's novel when deception is revealed; when the plagiarism Rosemary's Baby. stays secret, everybody's happy. take rembrandt, the dutch master painter, who famously signed much of his hatto thankfully, in this age of computers, almost all forms of plagiarism are getting it remains to be seen if scott will prove that plagiarism occurred and set herself up for life with Twilight franchise apprentices' work as his own. while this was common harder to pull off. royalties. i suspect, like Jk rowling before her, meyer practice among 17th century craftsmen, the knowledge when english pianist Joyce hatto died in June 2006, will end up battling spurious copycat claims till the cows of his non-authorship has caused some not-quite- she was one of classical music's most respected names. come home. rembrandt paintings to drop in value by millions. in just ten years she'd recorded and released over a Besides, even if she did pinch a few fairly generic ideas and just like adulterers, there are some plagiarists hundred acclaimed renditions of mozart, Beethoven and from another vampire writer, it was meyer who turned who seem determined to get caught. one example mendelssohn sonatas - an output most pianists would those ideas into a readable and popular novel – surely is tom keating, the legendary art forger. (i know that struggle to record in a lifetime. that counts for something. after all, we're perfectly forgery isn't the same as plagiarism, in many ways the then came Brian ventura, a new york city music willing to forgive shakespeare for his kleptomania, the two are opposites. But since both involve false attribution lover with an interesting experience. each time he tried point being that he improved on the ideas he stole. if of authorship i'm going to lump them together.) keating to copy hatto's transcendental etudes, album to his you can't take a little inspiration from the successes of the was a talented lewisham painter whose grudge against computer, itunes re-credited the tracks to lászló simon, past, then it's avant-garde jazz from here on out. the high-art establishment led him to forge over 2,000 a little-known hungarian pianist. master paintings in the early 70s. ventura was familiar with itunes confusing tracks plagiarism issue four 15 pulp culture >> 18 22 art literature animalation at dead authors manchester art gallery 24 28 music film lonelady, post-apocalyptic peter hook & cinema detachments interviewed drawings by andrew Bracey s truggling to publish? why not consider death as a career move! some of the key literary events of recent years have been unfinished works from long-dead authors. unable to comment on the modern world due to their aged and unfinished composition, these are dredged from personal notes and journals, sometimes presented as found, sometimes completed, always undermining reputations and shattering received perceptions of the artist. dead authors by Jonathan Barlow illustrations by Bethany gray dickens: Charlie's final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, became a real life mystery when death prevented him from completing it. As was the convention with Dickens' novels, it was being serialised and only six of the planned twelve parts had been published. The work has been adapted in various forms over the years and the half that was published remains in print. 18 issue four literature w hether unwanted final drafts or scraps of notes, the significance is not the original authorial intent, but the irrelevance of this intent after their death. the ethical dilemma over the question of publishing is tied in with the moral and legal status of the dead. last wills must surely be obeyed? where do dead authors stand on their new work? this dilemma isn't easy to dismiss. tracing the money trail to find who stands to gain will usually lead to the executor, but it would be far too cynical to reduce their decision to the financial benefits. dmitri nabokov sent up this notion in an interview. when asked about The Original of Laura before its publication, he wryly quipped "wouldn't it be fun, before my time does run out, to have a last spin in a remaining ferrari?" much more is at stake. their parents' last will and testament. their parents' reputation. even if some would happily forget about this for a bit of cash, someone must have a moral character. having made the decision to publish their client's work, a further decision needs to be made: to publish in the form in which the work survives, to edit into a digestible form, or to find another writer to finish the work. the former two choices have their relative merits. publishing a work in the form in which it survives allows the reader an insight into the writing process, to see the machinations of their beloved masters' mind at work. this destruction of mystique isn't wholly a good thing. whilst it is romanticist to over-mythologise authors, exposing their working style goes a bit further: it can undermine your perception of the author completely. recurring themes or ideas that seem to mean one thing in an authors' work can seem to mean another completely in note form. whilst one has to separate the individual from the work, this kind of knowledge can be hard to leave behind. issue four 19 literature some commentators of The Original of Laura note this, claiming that nabokov's theme of sexual attraction toward children is uglier and less critical in note form. of course! it isn't finished yet. But undermining opinion of the existing work can be a surprising achievement. a better example of this is the publication of philip larkin's letters. larkin requested his diaries burned on his death. his request was promptly granted. however, seven years later, his letters were published, and the apparent racism and general bigotry found within them created a massive critical backlash against larkin. praise for the Britishness of the pessimism and disappointment in his poetry turned into criticism of the political baggage this carries. critical overspill and negative reassessment remains a problem if the work is edited into shape. popular respect for tolkien began to wane promptly after his death when his son christopher edited and published The Silmarillion. whichever of these choices the executor goes for, the standing of the author will be diluted. But there is a third way. another writer can be brought in to complete a work, or even extending a work. this usually creates another work entirely, unique to the new author. eoin colfer's sixth installment in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series is a colfer book and an homage to douglas adams, not an Reviews LOOk AT THe BIRDIe their second posthumous release after 2008's Armageddon In Retrospect. kurt Vonnegut as a fan, i can't say i mind much. the chance to read kurt vonnegut's shopping lists would be Reviewed by James Harker good enough for me. and it's not like Birdie is completely without merit. 'ed luby's key club,' kurt vonnegut was famous for his short and pithy is a compelling, if humourless, page-turner; and novels. Books like Breakfast Of Champions and only an unimaginative twist ending spoils 'look at Deadeye Dick mixed scatological humour with the Birdie,' with its fast-talking psychiatrist cum righteous indignation at the profit-driven violence murderer antagonist. of 20th century politics. every hundred pages or so there's a flash of the vonnegut was also a prodigious self-editor: he old vonnegut genius: the "frrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring," distilled twenty years of writing into just 186 pages plastic flags in 'hall of mirrors,' or the duplicitous for his breakthrough novel Slaughterhouse-Five. and narrator in the title story. But these flashes are a Breakfast Of Champions, took him six more years too few-and-far between to really matter. to complete. my main concern is for new fans. it breaks my among the work vonnegut judged inadequate heart to imagine the 16-year-old me discovering are the stories in this new posthumous collection, this clunky, badly edited book and imagining Look At The Birdie. By his own admission vonnegut vonnegut as some outdated, middlebrow humorist. wasn't a great short story writer. unlike his novels, vonnegut's best novels burned with invention, vonnegut wrote stories for profit to finance his passion and anger; this collection doesn't even family in his early career. after the success of simmer. slaughterhouse-five, he abandoned the genre for vonnegut once described a hostile reviewer as good. he even described his early stories as "the a "man who wears a full suit of armour to attack a work of the gorilla i used to be." hot fudge sundae." so what's the vonnegut estate doing with i'm sorry kurt, but 'splat!' this short story collection Look At The Birdie? it's 20 issue four kafka: |n his lifetime, Kafka was massively literature hyped in Europe despite a very limited adams book. similarly, sebastian faulks' recent James output. He was known by reputation, which Bond novel parrots flemings' style, but no-one ever was built on nothing but favourable press pretended it actually was a fleming novel. these in literary publications edited by friends. books are tangentially related to this argument, but they are slightly different things. Both are examples of The collapse of the Austrian economy in a series of books, or at least a writers' work becoming the aftermath of the First World War led a franchise rather than a single work. there is not an ethical argument. the estates of the authors, in his publishers to push him for novels they collaboration with another (usually celebrated) author could actually sell. The famous instruction are overtly cashing in. this usually occurs under the "everything | leave behind… should be banner of an anniversary. however, as there is no pretence of original authorial involvement, the new burned, completely and unread" was in fact work is completely separated and the authors' image Kafka's own Kafkaesque joke, designed can remain untarnished. to manoeuvre Max Brod into taking i f we have a fixation with posthumous work, we action. A lax work-rate had held back the do not necessarily have a love for it. these books completion of the novels, and after Kafka's generally receive a critical slating on publication. at death publishers eagerly accepted the best they are dismissed shortly after, disregarded from the authors' canon, no harm done. however, manuscripts to generate revenue. sometimes they completely shatter the authors' reputation. this is not just out of disillusion or spite. what pr might grandly name 'a masters' final work', isn't often publicly regarded as such. incomplete work can share the same function as a dvd commentary: there may be a few more scraps of information that add meaning to the overall body of work, or provide more detail to our understanding of the individual creative process. AND ANOTHeR THINg... but feels forced and heavy-handed. instead of being a light tickle from flaybooz, it's a slap from the eoin Colfer ravenous Bugblatter Beast. colfer's writing isn't like douglas adams', but you're never quite sure Reviewed by Helen Pownall if it's meant to be emulating it, or taking inspiration from it. this makes you very aware that you're in theory, it sounds great. eoin colfer, the award- reading adams' book through a translator. this isn't winning author of the Artemis Fowl novels, writes just the hhgtg fan inside me; i wanted to like the sixth part of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the this book. i wanted to read it and chuckle to myself Galaxy 'trilogy'. douglas adams' widow approves. over the same ridiculous turns of phrases adam's is colfer himself states on interviews that he's a big so good at. i wanted And Another Thing... to work, fan of hhgtg. great. grab your towel and let's i really did. But it never comes together. go. But it doesn't quite work out. occasionally, colfer gets its right. there are it's not that And Another Thing... is a bad book. some wickedly funny descriptions of various the first few chapters are a glorious reunion, worlds and alien races – a personal favorite is bringing the reader up to speed with adams a lampooning of celebrity chefs, disguised as a original charges. colfer hit the nail on the head comment on dentrassis chefs who are "extremely with characterizations. foul – mouthed and launch into long tirades even from here things go downhill. it turns out that when things are going right." these are little gems, the guide mark 2 has kept arthur, trillian et al when the original hhgtg spirit shines through. in suspended animation whilst the vogons try to there are nice nudges at the source material. destroy planet earth (again). But inevitably zaphod sadly though, this isn't enough. the fact that the Beeblebrox, piloting the heart of gold, rescues book ends with the very wide possibility of another them. the dialogue seems forced, like colfer isn't doesn't fill me with joy. so long and thanks for comfortable with them, and the interaction seems nothing. awkward. the writing is trying to be playful and whimsical, issue four 21 animalation the newest exhibit to arrive at manchester art gallery is 'animalation'. flip-book techniques and a deep set fascination of animals helped andrew bracey create this playful and intriguing exhibition. fay schofield found out more: What was your main inspiration for the project? well apart from always having a strong love for animals the concept of a zoo has always fascinated me. they are a place where we can just go to stare and to look, much like an art gallery, and it occurred to me there are not many places in our culture where we can go to do just that. i wanted to use my work to make a parallel between these two types of spaces, so when you walk round you will feel as though you are in a zoo rather than an art gallery. for example, you might be staring at an empty piece of paper until an animal suddenly appears. Your exhibit is made up of six individual pieces. Can you give us an insight into what you were trying to achieve with a selection of the pieces? the oldest animation, and possibly the one i am most proud of, is a piece entitled 'humboldt' which is a breed of penguin. the piece itself is actually made up of 2,500 drawings all done in indian ink. i wanted the piece to have a liquid feeling to it – a sense of flowing freedom which is why i chose the materials to make it very carefully. i want the materials to reflect the nature and the habitat of the creature i have animated. 'hover' is the animation which i have found has received the most varied interpretations. some people see this bird in an endless flight in a happy state, as though it is quite content to hover above our heads all day long. other people view it as though it is restricted and trapped and doesn't have the freedom to make any other movements. i created 'crawl' because the animal on which i based it is photography by katy mutch, drawings by the artist fascinating. the pink velvet worm is an endangered species of worm which has legs – a contradiction in itself. i made the animation appear as though it was just continuously crawling so i 22 issue four art don't mind if some people who walk around the exhibition miss it. that just means that anyone who does see it will get more out of the piece. What do you want people to take away from the exhibition overall? i want people to see my work as serious fun. even though i am serious about what i do i still believe we can be playful with art. i was brought up with the idea that if you were an artist you could not have fun with your work at all – you had to cut your ear off instead! to me this just felt fake, so in this exhibition i wanted to show the playful side of art. As an MMU graduate of fine art have you got any advice for readers who might want to break out into the artistic world? never just wait for someone to come along to spot your art work. you have to get yourself out there and work hard at it. try and see as many exhibitions as you can because even if you don't enjoy the artwork you will take something away from it. a great way to make contacts is by working in galleries and you will also get used to being in an artistic environment. manchester is a great place for creativity, so try and use it to your advantage. Finally, have you got anymore up and coming projects you can tell us about? i've got quite a few projects coming up in 2010. i am curating an exhibition at cornerhouse which will show the link between art and cinema, another of my great loves. as well as this i am doing a project which will take place all over the country on the outside of art galleries where i will be creating coral like structures made from the paint which i scrape off my pallet after every artistic session i do. it all seems to be happening at once and it's all very exciting. Catch 'Animalation' at Manchester Art Gallery until the 28th February 2010. "you don't know if the person sitting next to you is a regular or an actor. We also have a landlord called eric, who pretty much improvises every night." issue four 23 film the end of the world as we know it by Jonny carrington illustrationissuerae hicks 24 by four film 5 things you can count on when the world ends someone W|ll have technology alWays tr|ed to Warn us, but plays a part… We Won't have pa|d if Terminator didn't teach you that attent|on. putting cameras into ipod nanos fash|on W|ll cease to ex|st will lead to the fall of man, then it's the first thing to happen after the world ends is that at least one of the 6.7 billion time to re-watch it, start living off sales of beads, piercing and tribal tattoos will rocket. inhabitants of the planet notices the grid and memorise ray mears in doomsday a deadly virus ravages scotland and our impending doom, but rarely survival techniques. that isn't to rather than the populous descending into anarchy and anyone pays attention. dennis say all robots are going to want turning on each other, the survivors of the plague use Quaid predicted the impending to crush your skull in the future, bones as nose rings. horrifying. or Mad Max Beyond ecological disaster in The Day After wall-e might come and clean Thunderdome: surely with no law, scarce fuel, and pig Tomorrow but was ignored because up the mess after the robots have shit powered refineries everyone would have hair like his evacuation plans cost too much. finished pummeling you. tina turner's. in some cases fashion goes from odd to the reliably bad nicholas cage has downright disturbing. look at sean connery in Zardoz twice played a character gifted with (above). that's far more terrifying than cities in ruin. future knowledge. first in Next, in which a vegas magician is our only hope of avoiding nuclear war, and again in Knowing, in which he discovers that random numbers but there'll alWays be a safe compiled by children tell him a haven for you to run to solar flare will end the world. no matter how devastating the preceding armageddon was, humanity always manages to re-group and build a last bastion. when the earth was ravaged by ghosts in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, we built futuristic cities surrounded by glowing bubbles, clearly a step up from high walls and guns. retreating underground is a common theme in post- apocalyptic films. 1998's Deep Impact saw humanity survive in a hollowed out mountain. sillier still is the sol|tary amer|can city of zion featured in both Matrix sequels. a futuristic men W|ll save us all hovercraft hub built near the centre of the earth. not all survival solutions are impossibly sf. 28 Days Later should a giant tsunami or sees christopher eccelston's deranged major holed up meteorite end civilisation, find in a manor-house a man. a gruff-voiced man. a using his training to man who hates company. a man survive. it should who walks in slow motion. stick be noted that by him until he begrudgingly these strongholds saves us all. men like kevin are normally costner in Waterworld, matthew impervious to mcconaughey in Reign Of Fire, location and attack or will smith in I Am Legend. until our heroes the more they don't want to get stumble upon involved, the better the chance them. they'll save the world. issue four 25 film post-apocalyptic cinema by charlie bennett i t looks like end-of-the-world and post-apocalypse movies are back. in the past few years we have seen films where civilization as we know it has been threatened by viruses (28 Days Later, I am Legend and Doomsday), zombies (Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Land of the Dead), global warming and cooling (The Day After Tomorrow); and symbolic al Qaeda stand- ins, or at least personifications of the fears they evoke (War of the Worlds, Cloverfield). By January, we'll have an adaptation of cormac mccarthy's The Road, a harrowing drama in which an unexplained cataclysm results in grey skies, black rivers, the eradication of almost all life, and cannibalism. it should be no surprise, of course, as the noughties have been a terribly doom-laden era; and so might the twenty-teens if america doesn't ratify the kyoto protocol, if Britain's 'sick man of europe' economy contracts further, or if swine flu continues to catch up and finally kill more people than the regular flu. cinema has always reflected small, contemporary fears and anxieties, and naturally it is no different when it comes to the horror of impending, large- scale doom. let's recap … Night of the Living Dead (1968) the film is terribly reactionary, it's also there was no going back to the lugosi- strangely entertaining. karloff brand of horror cinema (except, perhaps, as ironic pastiche) after writer- The Mad Max Trilogy (1979, 1981, director george a romero toned down 1983) the camp, ratcheted up the nastiness, these films evoke the pessimistic and injected some politically subversive mood of the 1970s and early 1980s, subtext into the horror genre with his back when opec's oil embargo led startling debut film. the atmosphere of to terrifying levels of stagflation, and overbearing dread during the zombie the punk subculture began to emerge. apocalypse excellently reproduces the the depopulated and energy-starved social and political turmoil experienced landscape of the Mad Max trilogy not by countercultural youths; civil rights, only taps into the fear of oil depletion, domestic racism and vietnam are but also pays homage to the wild implicitly addressed throughout. not west. the films borrow quite a bit only the first great apocalypse film, but from the clint eastwood spaghetti arguably the first modern american westerns – the dilapidated setting, the horror film as we know it today. mysterious protagonist, the community nuclear Logan's Run (1976) in which the survivors of an ecological disaster live inside an enclosed, domed of settlers he must protect, etc. – but the inclusion of fast cars, scrapheap s&m outfits and punk-rock iconography gave the Mad Max movies a harsher W|nter! city, free to indulge in whatever their edge, which reinvigorated the sci-fi and heart's desire. the only catch is, in western genres both at once. they order to prevent overpopulation, have spawned numerous imitators, but anyone who reaches the age of thirty none of them have been as critically or must be killed. it's a terrifying dystopia commercially successful. of tacky shopping centre aesthetics, disco lights, and scalextric transport; Threads (1984) a cautionary reminder of what would in this unsettling made-for-television happen if those pesky liberals and film, the effects of a hypothetical nuclear hippies ever got it their way. while holocaust in Britain are dramatised 26 issue four film unexpla|ned cataclysm! in the style of a feature-film narrative blended with the cold neutrality of BBc journalism. the city of sheffield acts a microcosm for the country as a whole. after the bomb hits, we're presented with the long-term results of nuclear fallout over the next thirteen years in unflinching detail. the title of the film refers to the interdependency of various elements that hold a society together, and how these 'threads' can be torn apart by nuclear war. it was the first film to depict a nuclear winter (a very new theory at the time of its making) and does so with distressing documentary realism. to witness this societal erosion is an agonising experience, but especially so in the context of when it was originally broadcast, at the height of cold war bellicosity and socioeconomic collapse. Prince of Darkness (1987) the second instalment of what director John carpenter has described as his 'apocalypse trilogy' (the other two being The Thing and In the Mouth of Madness), a thematically linked set of films that represent the end of the world in different ways. here, the basement of an abandoned church contains a glass tube full of green slime, so a team of student scientists are sent to investigate it. turns out the slime contains the essence of the anti-christ's evil, and demonic possession occurs when the fluid is passed from one character to the next, thus representing the mystical process as analogous to catching a contagious disease. the characters are unable to escape as the devil's minions have surrounded the church, in the form of vagrants and derelicts. the film clearly reflects the two big issues of aids and homelessness in the 1980s, as well as having a 'science vs. religion' theme running throughout, though a coherent statement is not made about any of them. But when a film is this scary, it probably doesn't matter. issue four 27 mus|c |nterviews with lonelady, peter hook & detachments "|'m being nourished by ghosts" q&a lonelady music lonelady, aka Julie campbell, is the latest in a long line of acts evoking the post industrial manchester cityscape. her second single '|ntuition' has just been released and she's been unusually promoted with a poem by paul morley. Pulp asked how that poem came Is Manchester important as a about… geographical space? we got in touch with him because i'm the whole psychogeography was just a huge fan of the way he writes. important. the place i recorded had to he really cares about music and isn't be manchester. we built a room in a ashamed to be passionate or almost mill, just a breezeblock square really. i hysterical about that. it's an absence call it the cell. it was a hellish process. of trying to be cool. i wanted to have you could look at the canal out of the something a bit abstract that might window as you laid down a guitar part. communicate the music. he sent me a manchester is important. it used to be stream of words to respond to so what an innovative place. suffragettes, the we have is a very impressionistic Q&a. computer, the industrial revolution, the battery. it inspires me, even if the reasons Are you progressing a musical tradition? it has inspired me have disappeared. nothing so organised as that really, you can only respond to things that resonate There seems to be a lot of music with you. after the punk explosion there following a similar style as yours, what was a melting pot of ideas that hasn't do you make of them? been recreated. there was a lot of naivety. a lot of contemporary music is a lot of it doesn't seem authentic. you've too knowing for its own good, it doesn't got to bring your own personality to it. if have as much magic. i feel cold or flat you're recreating something that's already when i listen to music on the radio. not gone it feels hollow. i don't know how always, i loved Beyonce's 'single ladies', you gain authenticity; there isn't a formula which was an incredible song. i'm just for it. maybe off beat hi-hat, angular guitar responding to fragments of things i like. and singing in an x factor ian curtis style works for some people. maybe young Fragmentation? Is this how you people will hear editors and go back and approach your song writing? unearth things in a new way. if you approach big ideas in your writing i object to production techniques on you soon end up sounding like a wanker. contemporary music, it's all too bright But there are ideas about time and space and shiny and eager to please. it took and existence. that topic core area runs me a little while to step away from the through all of my lyrics. passing of time, 4-track. you make better music when strangeness, the inner landscape. i like you have limitations. computer setups to imagine things more than respond to with endless choice seem horrible. i things i see in a linear way. i enjoy finding want to improve and evolve of course. a sentence, putting it next to another at first i made music with what i had sentence and finding something surprising to hand. i didn't have a drummer or reveals itself. anything, so used a drum machine, not previously having any love for drum You seem to be coming from the machines. Because i was limited i now Manchester bands of the late 70s and love them. what started out as practical early 80s. has turned into this fetish. i could have drum machines like carrie in Sex and the definitely, i love those bands from the City has shoes. every drum machine has late 70s. 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To find out more, by ghosts. manchester can still be a very listen to her music and read the Paul Morley atmospheric place if a little haunted. piece, go to lonelady.co.uk issue four 29 peter hook m anchester music legend So how'd this gig come together? saying 'what's the matter with you' and i thought 'aw bloody hell, typical.' you know the thing that peter hook recently Peter Hook: it was me copping out of having to landed on the moon, a little octagon with 8 legs, it talk. they asked me to be a patron of the trust was like that. became a patron of the and they asked me to say a few words here. salford foundation trust, an initiative which absolutely terrified me so i thought how Tell us more about the Salford Foundation the hell can i get out of this? i realised these guys Trust. to help raise funds for disadvantaged were playing, so i suggested that we play a song together. so it was me being a wuss. SM: well we got invited to do this because we young people in salford. pulp spoke did three songs for ceremony (an album of new to him along with sebastien marshal Were you already aware of each other? and oliver scott of detachments Sebastien Marshal: well peter sent us a message "peter sent us a at a celebratory event where they on myspace about seeing an alien ufo in the 70s. message on myspace performed for guests. PH: me and me mates went to Blackpool on our scooters. we parked behind this old gentlemen's association - all three of us were trying to get to about seeing a ufo" sleep in the morning. when i woke up it was a order covers, released by the trust), perfect kiss, interview by Jonathan Barlow clear blue sky and there was something going in a lonely place and mr. disco. photography by peter Bircák ˇ across quite slowly and i thought 'oh my god. it's PH: one of the great things about being a a ufo.' i got my mate and was like 'look at that, musician is charitable work is quite a pleasure to look at that' and he was like (squinting upwards) do. in Joy division and new order we did quite 'what, i can't see anything' he couldn't open his a lot of charity gigs for some pretty big causes. eyes - he were that knackered. it went behind a in the miners' strike we did a gig for the miners. cloud and the cloud shot off. he didn't see it, only 10,000 miners marched down to london and it i saw it. me other mate came around the corner culminated in a gig with us, we were like 'wow'. 30 issue four music detachments and the pits still got closed. you can't win them can't hold their tunes, so what they do is they simon cowell, what the fuck do you ask him? all. But as a musician it's nice to do what you love get a massive up from x factor. you're only as anyway but do it for a good cause. good as your songs. no matter how many times enjoying much new music, Peter? you brush up your stagecraft, your microphone Tell us about your music, Detachment! PH: yeah, that's a great thing about being a dJ. i SM: at the moment we're working with James "10,000 miners marched wouldn't listen to a tenth as much music as i do if i wasn't a dJ but you have to because you have to ford who's doing alright for himself. we've also worked with andrew weatherall and trevor down to london and keep up, it becomes your job. it was wonderful getting back into dJing because it gave me a love Jackson. we combine our knowledge of the dance genre and techno-electro and merge it it culminated in a gig for music. Being in the studio with new order, i didn't want to hear music again, it really drains with a more song-based approach. i think we do it well. with us" you of wanting to hear it. so getting back into dJing gave me a love for it again. it's the second technique, get a dresser, it doesn't matter. people best job in the world, i highly recommend it. That combination has been around for a while, don't listen to that on the radio, they listen to how are you approaching it afresh? good songs. the only advice you can give any Heard the Bad Lieutenant stuff? band is to keep writing great songs. you can have SM: a lot of groups do it clumsily. when we do great equipment, but you can still write shit songs. PH: i like some of it. Bernard's committing it, it sounds completely natural. a lot of bands just the same sin he did at the end of new order have a token keyboard part or whatever. So you're not a fan of X Factor? which is putting too much vocals on it and not Oliver Scott: the music should speak for itself. enough music. too many overdubs and too certain types of music get pigeonholed. hopefully PH: it's karaoke; i got asked by the men, 'do i much production i'd say. But some of them like the kind of music we make can't be. have a question for simon cowell?' what do you runaway i liked a lot. the single was okay. it just PH: you guys still have to get out and flog your ask him? musically he's an absolute non-entity. sounds like new order without the bass to me. arses. you can watch as much x factor or pop SM: he's just a cutthroat businessman. idol as you like but ultimately those bastards are PH: he is a pop businessman. But to ask a serious on a hiding to nothing. they can't rough it, they musician (although i hate the term) a question for Detachments debut album is expected in 2010. Check them out at myspace.com/detachments For further information about Salford Foundation Trust go to salfordfoundationtrust.org.uk finance pulp finance By Michael Yarwood this month: & Meg Vickers Budgeting f irst term stretch the overdraft? nights out tough on get thrifty the wallet? your second loan instalments give you an when most people set up a budget for the first time they ideal second chance to get on top of your finances. realise they've got more going out than they've got coming don't waste it – budget! in, so you may need to consider reducing your outgoings most students have to cope on a very tight budget, so it's and increasing your income. a good idea to set up a realistic financial plan. once you've here are some tips to think about: done that make sure you stick to it. The Complete Police Academy dvd Box set can wait until next week. 01. look for student discounts – use your nus card wherever you can. How to budget the easiest way to start is to fill 02. apply for the access out a budget sheet, which you entrepreneurial opportunities at to learning fund - this is a can pick up from the student discretionary award from mmu union advice centre or from manchester metropolitan university that you don't have to pay back the website. mmu.ac.uk/studentfinance/alf. first, look at your outgoings. Student Enterprise Society can help php. Be honest, otherwise it won't you improve your employability whilst work. include the essentials: 03. apply for financial help from food, rent, bills, course costs, as at MMU. They are easily accessible via charities through the educational well as going out. remember Facebook and other social networking grants advisory service tinyurl. that some costs will vary from sites so get involved and break down com/edgrants. week to week so put down an average figure for these. also those employment barriers. 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