THE LONELY ROAD

Where celluloid and nature intersect. http://vimeo.com/lawrencerickford www.lawrencerickford.com

[solennejakovsky]

[lawrencerickford]

Camping in hang en cave

[archatlas]

Filmstills, The End Hubbard / Birchler

[as-warm-as-choco]

Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.

There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves ! 

Some of the following pieces were made by other artists 2:

[xinlaag]

I also want to give a shout out to David Settino Scott, the designer of the original X-wing. A couple years ago he was a art teacher at Ohlone college in San Luis Obispo. He’s extremely kind and inspiring, and one of the only reasons I continued to draw after High School. There are so many great artists with good philosophies who were involved and are still producing work after the films.

“Sometimes the content is related to social issues. Such issues as human rights abuses, the slave trade and the Buddhist immolations have been explored in my work.”

[bubble-babble]

I NEVER KNEW THIS THIS IS AMAZING.

[fuckindiva]

“Suffering with style. That’s the pithiest description I’ve come up with to explain film noir. The men and women of this sinister cinematic world are driven by greed, lust, jealousy, and revenge—which leads inexorably to existential torment, soul-crushing despair, and a few last gasping breaths in a rain-soaked gutter. But I’ll be damned if these lost souls don’t look sensational riding the Hades Express. If you’re going straight to hell, you might as well travel with some style to burn.” - Eddie Muller

[criterioncollection]

“When the fighting gets this bad, they don’t bother with coffins.”

– Akira Kurosawa’s YOJIMBO (1961)

[movieaisle-blog]

Blade Runner, 1982

[lawrencerickford]

Dive bars in Brooklyn with this lovely lady

[in-love-with-movies]

[dappledwithshadow]

[loverofbeauty]

René Magritte:  The Art of Conversation  (1963)

[lawrencerickford]

Summertime in the sunset #vscofilm #early #morning #karlthefog #goldengatepark

[bryandaugherty]

Alberta, Canada is pure magic.

[thefilmstage]

Criterion+Art by Eisen Bernard Bernardo.

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[imakethemovies]

Ex Machina

DOP – Rob Hardy Format - Sony CineAlta F65 4K RAW, GoPro Hero 3 (Some Scenes) Lenses - Cooke Xtal Express, Kowa Prominar and Angenieux Optimo Lenses Aspect Ratio - 2.35 : 1 Anamorphic Delivery - Digital Intermediate 2K

Notable Strengths – Use of Apect Ratio, Colour, Composition, Framing, Medium Shots,  Camera Movement, Wide Shots, Use of Lenses, Integration of Effects, 

[apaethy]

Ex Machina: Parallels Beginning I Ending

[jamiesclaytons]

We are only here briefly, and in this moment I want to allow myself joy. 

[lawrencerickford]

Sasquatch day 2 #sasquatch #thegorge #day2 #VSCOcam #musicfestival #vscogood #washington