300

This is a film that I find really inspiring and is one of
my favourites of all time, it is all action film
about heroism and the violent battle of thermopylae in 400bc. The film
is shot almost entirely on green screen and is really creatively filmed depicting Greece almost as a fantasy land. The effects are stunning throughout and is a fantastic adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel. 300 has slight fantasy element to
it which is natural considering it is adapted from a cartoon, this is amplified through the main character,Leonidas, who has god like fighting skills. Overall a really stunning and entertaining film that is a great adaptation of the graphic novel.

Tyson

I found this film inspiring not because of it's dialogue or cinematography but because it caught me totally by surprise in that it is completely different to what i expected in a really good way. I thought this would be an all action blowout but its appeal is subtle in Tyson's brutal honesty about the very highs and very lows of his troubled life, I always thought that Mike Tyson was a savage fighter both in and out of the ring but this documentary style film tells his real, sad and difficult life from his first person perspective which i found really intriguing and captivating. This film is about emotion and how he felt at certain times during his life and he really doesn't hold back which i thought was fantastic as you get an insight into the life of a troubled person under intense pressure. Overall this film caught me off guard and I'm really glad that the directors made it about the man not the fighting as I found it really interesting.

Crash

Last night was film night and having watched crash previously I thought I would give it another try and found it compelling and really different to a lot of films I've watched. Crash is set in LA and has a very complex plot about how how people's lives intertwine and cause each other's lives to change. The film focuses on the massive changes that come about in the two lives when they collide, it has very clever racial undertones which tend to cause the most explosive collisions in the very large casts lives. Crash is an extremely intelligently directed film as it could have easily been a sequence of unrelated events but it is so well filmed that everything connects and you feel engaged with every character even though there are so many of them. I think Paul Haggis (director) made this film fantastically well as it could have gone horribly wrong but I found really entertaining and thought provoking.

Walker Art gallery - Liverpool Museums

Situated opposite St George's hall in culturally rich area of Liverpool the Walker Art gallery is as impressive on the outside as the work is on the inside, the style is classic similar to that of St Georges hall and very impressive. The reason I went to the Walker is because of its of collection of modern British art. I have previously studied Walter Sickert and saw that his work was on display in the 20th century exhibition so thought I would go and see it. Inside the gallery the building is very grand similar to the outside and has an old fashioned classic style. The gallery is well worth visiting with arguably the largest collection of fine Art in the North as it is part of the national museums Liverpool trust with a diverse and exciting display of Art on show.

St George's hall

St George's hall in the centre of Liverpool is a historic and treasured site. In terms of scale it is of huge proportion and in style it is classic and visually imposing. It is a multi purpose building and always has been since it was built in the 1850's which i find quite interesting as it was used for trials as well as social events. Standing in front of the building the huge pillars make a big impression on the viewer added to by the fantastic statues dotted around the outskirts of the building, I have always liked the classic 19th century architectural style of this building which really is a gem.

Liquid solutions

I came across this really cool website when I was looking for work experience in my local area and found Liquid Solutions, a creative communications agency based in Liverpool. This website is really creatively designed using all sorts of different templates and themes, such as blackboards and satellite navigation, to find your way around the site. It could said that because the website has so many different features that it is slightly confusing as to what's what however I think overall it is a really fun and different site that impresses the viewer.

http://www.liquidsolution.co.uk/

http://www.liquidsolution.co.uk/

Edward Hopper

I became reacquainted with the work of Edward Hopper recently when I came across his 'Nighthawks' piece in a magazine and it reminded me how much I liked his work. He is well known for his oil paintings of which I am a big fan of, I particularly like the realism and realistic situations that he creates in his paintings you really get the feeling that the scene could have been real not something created in the artists head. Another aspect I really like about Hopper's work is the subtlety of emotion he uses which I find really interesting to see.