SPRITE JAM (RESULTS IN!!!): PORTALS (Door Jam)

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STRAY ANGER IN THE "RAIN" A wounded storm's song Like a troglodyte tear in its vertiginous flight on the globe What ripped the dark sky in this exposed cut that now i see this "rain"? Far away the sea... Not so far the pain... The drunk boat drowning in silence While the poet sleep away in his season in hell ... A hashish's taste in my mind... And I no longer know if still am on what the cat see Or just your lonely eyes absorving the "cat's feel" Poor faded bird... "rain"... Drooping your oneiric lament In the exit of your eyes... "tears" ... Findo.

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- you heard until the end? Spoiler                                         CHAPADA DIAMANTINA - BAHIA - BR BACHIANAS BRASILEIRAS Nº 5 - BRAZILIAN's BACHIANAS Nº 5 (ària - Cantinella) Author's lyric: Ruth Valadares Corrêa Composition: Heitor Villa-Lobos Tarde uma nuvem rósea lenta e transparente. Sobre o espaço... Sonhadora e bela, Surge no infinito a lua docemente. Enfeitando a tarde, Qual meiga donzela que se apressa sonhadoramente, em anseios d'alma para ficar bela Grita ao céu e a terra toda a Natureza! Cala a passarada aos seus tristes queixumes.... E reflete o mar toda a Sua riqueza... Suave a luz da lua desperta agora a cruel saudade que ri e chora! Evening, a rosea , slowly and transparent cloud. Over the air ... dreamy and beautiful, appears at infinity the moon softly, Gracing the afternoon like a sweet maiden, who rushes, dreamily, in yearnings of the soul to become beautiful. All the Nature screams to heaven and land ! Birds become silent to his sad moaning And the sea reflects all his wealth Softly the moonlight now arouses a cruel missing that laughs and cries. The Bachianas Brasileiras  are a series of nine suites by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, an exaltation to the nature and brazilian's popular culture in a beatiful ode to Johann Sebastian Bach. Scene from the movie about Villa-Lobos's life: [embed=440,320] <iframe width="440" height="320 src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SXFSWbUy63s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen> </iframe>[/embed] /!\ You must enable subtitles on youtube' settings after trigger PLAY /!\ and select PORTUGUESE to show in ENGLISH The Villa-Lobos's compositions are recognized and respected by worldwide critics. He has a controversial, "mystical" and exciting biography. At one point of his life Villa-Lobos was participated of the "SEMANA de 22" (Week of 22), a brazilian modern art event that occurred in the city of São Paulo in 1922, from 11 to 18 February at the Municipal Theatre city and was conducted by a group of artists (poets, writers, musicians and painters) who sought to revolutionize the arts in Brazil, "breaking" the European avant-garde to a brazilian language. It was a real "civil-war" against static and elitist thinking of society of that times  didn't accpet the contemporary art  and this in a Brazilian language was even worse (unfortunately still perpetuated in some Brazilians a "mutt-feelings", which despises everything that is done here in favor of all that is done abroad). There is a very funny episode occurred with Villas-Lobo and his slipper on the day of his presentation in "SEMANA de 22" that generated several boos and verbal abuse of the parterre. Also Exist a "fictional" movie called "Villa-Lobos a Life of Passion" that show some moments about Villa-Lobos's life. This movie was done  based on reports from friends and Villas itself and also historical documents recorded on audio and video. The full movie is on youtube but only with french's subtitled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIEu61qH2BQ But you can download with english subtitled by torrent at here: FULL - Villa-Lobos - a Life of Passion - srt ENG - TORRENT The trailer movie... [embed=240,220]<iframe width="240" height="220" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iCWsysde8TM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>[/embed] ABOUT THE MOVIE Spoiler VILLA-LOBOS - a Life of Passion I caught up with Zelito Viana's film "Villa-Lobos - uma vida de paixão" this July in a small 'art-house' cinema in Ipanema.  If you get the chance to see the film - even in its Portuguese language version - don't miss it.  Anyone who admires the genius of Villa-Lobos (and you are unlikely to be visiting this website if you don't!) will find it absorbing, moving and inspiring,  It's a relatively lengthy film - about 160 minutes - and it packs a lot of incident into this time-span: Viana does well to sustain pace, momentum and balance throughout. Though knowing about the composer's life and music helps appreciably in following the flow of the film, it is a mark of Viana's courage that he intends the film not for the culturally informed few, but for the broader cinema audience, which he wants to take with him on a "journey through the mind of a creator", to quote his own words.  It is in no sense a musicological film, nor is it meant as a biographical survey; and its professionalism in conveying an understanding of the passions that motivated Villa-Lobos is a million miles away both from the crude, romanticized style of conventional Hollywood biopics, and from the grey approach of film documentaries. That phrase in the title - "a life of passion" - doesn't just reflect the emotional force of his music, its intensity and exuberance.  It serves to weld together the main strands in the film: namely, his music, his love for Brazil and its people, his commitment to the potential of music as a social and cultural force, and the key personal relationships in his life - particularly, of course, his troubled marriage to Lucília and the happier relationship that he enjoyed with Arminda.  We also witness the passion of VL's dislikes and animosities - for example, his contempt for the 'elites' and their narrow, colonialised ideas of what music should sound like! The film is structured as a series of interlocking flashbacks and recollections - VL reflecting on his life as he attends a concert in his honour at the Teatro Municipal in Rio.  Memories of events, personalities and melodies evoke scenes and perspectives that move back and forth in time, from his childhood and the rigorous upbringing he received from his father, and his early contacts with street musicians, to his travels in the interior of Brazil, his first successes and failures as a composer, his years in Paris . and so forth, until his final years of illness, which coincided with a surge of international acclaim.  This structural device is used with great perception and works remarkably well - at least for someone who recognizes the connections and allusions.  Everything in the film seems to be founded on solid research (which, according to the director, included hundreds of interviews and meetings with people who knew VL, including Arminda herself).  In one of the more colorful sequences, portraying VL's travels in the sertão of the north-east and in Amazônia, we met a rough, bibulous country fiddler, just as irreverent toward authority as VL, who becomes his companion on an expedition into the rain forest, where VL searches for and hears the fabulous uirapurú bird, inventing a kind of musical shorthand to transcribe its song and the sounds of the forest.  When I saw the film, I couldn't at first place this character; but there he is - Donizetti, the fiddler from the state of Ceará -  identified in Maria Augusta Machado da Silva's excellent mini-biography of Villa-Lobos (Revista do Brasil, no. 1/88, pp. 45-65 - an article that really ought to be published in an English translation). Viana also gives a good impression of VL during his Paris years, reconstructing the ambiance of Paris - without actually having to incur the expense of filming there! - and reminding us of VL's impatience with European notions of Brazil as an exotic place where people were savage and life was crude.  Of course, Viana is too intelligent to fall into the trap of biopic clichés on the lines of "Hello Villa-Lobos, have you met my friends Varèse and Prokofiev?" (both of whom, by the way, knew VL in Paris and admired him).  Among the many moments of humour in the film, the one that brought the most appreciative response from the cinema audience was a scene where VL, eager to impress his Parisian friends, cooks up a feijoada for them.  The pot lid is lifted to reveal the bubbling, glutinous stew. "Mais, c'est de la merde", cries a horrified Frenchman.  A furious VL leaps at him, yelling "La merde, c'est vous, salop!" Viana has not flinched from showing the rough edges to VL's personality, the moments of asperity as well as geniality.  It's an honest but unsensationalised 'warts-and-all' portrait, which one feels is exactly what VL would have expected and wanted.  Its impact is reinforced immensely by an outstanding contribution from Antonio Fagundes as the older VL.  Fagundes is one of the best-known faces in Brazilian cinema and TV: his experience and maturity result in an amazing identification with the role, particularly in those painful scenes depicting the difficulties of VL's failed first marriage and the embittered reaction of Lucília to their separation.  But he's also excellent as the lovably gruff composer: for example, talking to American reporters, "Why do you always call me 'Villa-Lobos, the Brazilian composer'? Do you talk about 'Mozart, the Austrian composer' or 'Schumann, the German composer'?" Marcos Palmeira as the younger VL is almost as good, while Ana Beatriz Nogueira makes Lucília credible and understandable, and Letícia Spiller (another familiar face from the casts of TV novelas) is a model of sympathy, charm and elegance (almost too beautiful) as Arminda. Viana chooses to use a relatively narrow cross-section of compositions, even allowing for the oceanic proportions of VL's output.  It would have been good to hear more of the songs, as well as extracts from the orchestral Choros. I was delighted that he included part of the wonderful Nonetto - the current absence of this work from the recorded catalogue is scandalous, as is the lack of a good modern recording of the cantata Mandu-Çarará! My few reservations have to do with the treatment of VL as a professional musician, and with what I thought was a certain lack of insight into both the task of composition and the physical impact of his music.  I didn't feel the film gave a sufficient sense of the sheer hard work that VL invested in his music, nor of the seriousness of his approach to getting things right when it came to performing his own music and that of the composers he admired.  For example, the Paris sequences presented effectively the image of a self-confident, almost brashly gifted personality, but I couldn't really see that person conceiving and putting down on paper the marvellous sequence of major works which VL wrote in that period.  Then again, one of the startling and breath-taking qualities of VL's music is his ability to evoke an entire landscape in a single phrase - when, for example, a melody on the horns seems to define a distant horizon and the strings float over a vast expanse of terrain in the foreground: Choros Nos. 11 and 12 are full of such instances.  One film director who captured that feeling unerringly was the great Glauber Rocha, notably in the opening sequence of his film "Deus e Diabo na Terra do Sol" (God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun), when the immense sertão landscape of Bahia is revealed against the Aria (O canto da nossa terra) from the Bachianas Brasileiras no.2. Viana's film offers nothing comparable with that! But I would not wish to put a disproportionate emphasis on these few points of criticism.  I enjoyed the film as much as I had hoped, and I would have regretted it bitterly if the short time I spent in Rio de Janeiro had not allowed me to see it.  The film left me with the illusion that I had achieved something which had been denied me in life - namely, that I had met and known Villa-Lobos.  I can't think of any praise higher than that. - Harold Lewis, August 2000 [close] [close]

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Author's lyric: Caetano Veloso Composition: Doces Bárbaros https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-IwkP5AOi4 Solto está o pássaro proibido Perigo, cuidado, sinal nas ruas Plumagem clara, brilhante Ao sol e à  lua transparente Ao corisco e à  maré Ao corisco e à  maré Eu canto o sonho na cama Do jeito doce e moreno Eu canto Pássaro proibido de sonhar O canto macio, olhos molhados Sem medo do erro maldito De ser um pássaro proibido Mas com o poder de voar Mas com poder de voar Eu canto o sonho na cama Do jeito doce e moreno Eu canto Voar até a mais alta árvore Sem medo, brilhante, iluminado Cantando o que quer dizer Perguntando o que quer dizer Que quer dizer meu cantar Que quer dizer meu cantar Eu canto o sonho na cama Do jeito doce e moreno Eu canto... Lá lá lá lá lá.... The forbidden bird is loose... Danger, caution, "sinal" on the streets - [Double sense: traffic light / sign / signals / omens] Plumage clear, bright The sun and the transparent moon For the "corisco" and the tide... For "corisco" and the tide... [Folk language, means: Lightning] I sing a dream in the bed In the sweet and dark sknin way... I sing Bird forbidden to dream The soft song, wet eyes No fear of the damn error From being a forbidden bird But with the power of flight But with power to fly I sing the dream in a bed In the sweet and dark sknin way... I sing Fly to the highest tree No fear, bright, illuminated Singing what means Asking what wants to say What means my singing What wants say my singing I sing on dream on bed In the sweet and dark sknin way... I sing... La, La, La, La...

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Music: Roy Robson
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[Mandle]

Sorry guys, I got a bit too busy with real life work today to be able to open the voting as I had planned to...

I will get to it tomorrow, so until I do please consider the contest still open for entries...

Sorry again...

[Mandle]

VOTING OPEN

So yeah, I'll probably have more time to make this voting stage of the contest a bit more presentable over the weekend, including tallying all the bonus points for each entry and so forth, but for now here are the entries:
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JWALT:
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MATTI:
With background:
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Portal sprite:
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MISJ':
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CASSIEBSG:

With background:
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Animated Portal sprite:
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I<3PINDORAMA:

I wasn't quite sure how to present this entry as it is an entire multimedia exhibition in itself...Please check the original entry a few posts back for the full experience.

So I chose what I thought was the best example of with background and without:

With animated background:
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Portal sprite:
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When voting please post your 1st place, 2nd place, and 3rd place choices...Some personal notes on your choice of each entry are always appreciated but not mandatory...

[Cassiebsg]

1st: JWALT I really love the idea of using a tablet to "teleport" elsewhere. And nicely done!

2nd: MISJ' This lovely Disney style genie is just awesome! Very well done and imagined breaking with the "conventional" idea of what a portal is.

3rd: I<3PINDORAMA My mind still hasn't quite figured out how this portal works... But sure is original!

[Tabata]

1st    MISJ'
2nd   CASSIEBSG
3rd    JWALT

     

[I<3Pindorama!]

1ª - CASSIE

Because Cassie found in the proposed challenges and  emerged  difficulties a new Portal in herself to transport all her creativity, Cassie wanting or not, has once again proposed an unusual work that offers to our minds not only a possibility of laughing at something funny, and weird but also reflect on more serious themes without however discard a good humor.

Even Cassie using a ready model in my opinion this fact in nothing reduces the essence of her work , on contrary, actually makes it even more evident and therein lies her art and that's what I focus.... on the conceptual.

Like the most emblematic Duchamp's artwork, the Cassie's Portal opens up our "eyes" to a place far beyond the concept of a simple toilet.

Congratulations, Cassie your side "impulsive" has an atomic force and a radioactive wealth! 

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Composition: Los Hermanos Hey look, the weird person who came Doesn't seem to find a place In the body in which God incarnated hers/him Stumbling in every block And Doesn't measure the force that already has Shown ahead a heart That doesn't shared with anyone Ever Has everything in his/her hands But carries the cross just beyond Carving like a artisan The image of a good person Look there, who's asking approval Who Don't even know where to go If someone doesn't indicate the direction Venturing never meet yourself Will ever understand? That (s)he always fleeing of a place Hiding the hatred Maybe if he never try To Live the TV-GUY That wins the fight without sweating And receive applause without wanting It's part of this game Say to everyone That only know the own bad portion It's simple like this... When wither the own chest To pretend that not exist competition It's the solution for those that don't want Lose what already have And closes the hand for what is to come... There...

I<3PINDORAMA My mind still hasn't quite figured out how this portal works... But sure is original!

The access is involuntary, because for me the true portal are your eyes ...
as well as are "portals" the eyes of everyone in "here".

Unfortunately i will not be able to see your victory (I cheer for it) because after this vote
I will be away from this community an indefinite period... so ... I created "portals (here and
in other threads) to be "absorbed" and not to "absorb" ... I want my "portals" registered in
the "mind" of each hungry "eyes"... in the memory (water salt... tears or sea)... "close" to
your  joys, sorrows, loves, angers ... everything that is important (bright or explosive)
everything is indifferent (misty or translucent) on you... but there are ... raining in the
same place where your emotions, feelings fall asleep or wake up.

Irmã, forte abraço e obrigado pela experiência de conhecê-la.
Penso que nosso encontro "aqui" não foi casual...
Saúde e alegrias pra você e a família.

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2ª - JWALT

I think that was Amy that reminded the Hopper's artworks when she saw your Gas Station ... interesting and I had not noticed this point despite having absorbed the feeling of loneliness and emptiness that your work takes us.

Now in this contest you overcomes the loneliness of a gas station ... is a whole creative universe and art making...
the construction (or deconstruction?) of an idea ...a "transubstantiation" to another "unreal universe" and the funny thing is
that this "place" it "swallowed" to another immaterial space: the human mind. And "here I am" ...commenting your work that
in my opinion are like memories from/to the infinite ... and exiting from the Hopper's artwork you take us  to Möbius, Carroll
and Escher. 

Jwalt... where you send me with YOUR art
I believe not have more return ... will always be ahead!
THANKS A LOT, MAN!

Please when you have a time watch this ...

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3º - MISJ'

With a technical talent that certainly would employ at Disney ...
Misj ' embrace the challenges and reveals how the fantasy of our
childhood is able to give (without fear) a beautiful dive into the
depths of the rules.

Congratulations!

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Matti

Very cool you remind this, man! Surely every game is a "warp tub"!
Congratulations!

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Mandle

Man, congratulations for this fantastic SpriteJam!
The theme and its proposal turned this contest in the womb of ideas and possibilities for everyone who came here (R'lyeh?) !

Thanks for your generosity ... meet you in this community for me it was like entering a portal to many reflections ... all without losing sobriety and the good humor! You are a really wonderful person my friend!

Forte abraço!

Inté

[Mandle]

Well, I'm going to leave voting only until Sunday, March 1st and then wrap it up and announce winners.

[AprilSkies]

1) Matti
2) MISJ'
3) Cassiebsg

[Mandle]

    RESULTS   

   (Door Jam)   

I have tallied all the scores and so here we go:

JWALT:
RESOLUTION: +5
ANIMATION: +30
DEMONSTRATION: +10

1ST PLACE VOTES: 1 x 15 = 15
2ND PLACE VOTES: 1 x 10 = 10
3RD PLACE VOTES: 1 x 5 = 5

TOTAL: 75

MATTI:
RESOLUTION: +5
ANIMATION: NA
DEMONSTRATION: +5

1ST PLACE VOTES: 1 x 15 = 15
2ND PLACE VOTES: NA
3RD PLACE VOTES: NA

TOTAL: 25

MISJ':
RESOLUTION: +5
ANIMATION: +35
DEMONSTRATION: NA

1ST PLACE VOTES: 1 x 15 = 15
2ND PLACE VOTES: 2 x 10 = 20
3RD PLACE VOTES: 1 x 5 = 5

TOTAL: 80

CASSIEBSG:
RESOLUTION: +5
ANIMATION: +35
DEMONSTRATION: +10 (I'm counting the two open/closed frames as acceptable animation)

1ST PLACE VOTES: 1 x 15 = 15
2ND PLACE VOTES: 1 x 10 = 10
3RD PLACE VOTES: 1 x 5 = 5

TOTAL: 80

I<3PINDORAMA:
RESOLUTION: NA
ANIMATION: NA
DEMONSTRATION: +5

1ST PLACE VOTES: NA
2ND PLACE VOTES: NA
3RD PLACE VOTES: 1 x 5 = 5

TOTAL: 10

So for points total we have a tie between Misj' and Cassiebsg...

In this case I think it's fairest to judge the winner as the entrant with the most points in the voting section:

So:

FIRST PLACE: MISJ'

SECOND PLACE: CASSIEBSG

THIRD PLACE: JWALT

I am sending trophies and souvenirs out to all winners and entrants

The Sprite Jam torch now passes to MISJ'!!!

Thanks for the fun contest all...

[Cassiebsg]

Congrats Misj' and jwalt!!!!
And to all participants!

And thanks all who voted for me!