NEWS | Introducing Laino.me

We have always loved comics in AA&NN, and we would love to read them in Euskara, the language in which we have grown. Sadly, few comics have been published to it, just some European classics such as Asterix and Obelix and The Adventures of Tintin were available in the nineties and most of them are nowadays discontinued by their publishers. We thought it would be great to create a platform to translate and publish in Euskara the comics we most enjoyed when we were kids. That is how LAINO.ME was born.

LAINO.ME comes from LAINO MEHE meaning "thin cloud" in Euskara. It seems that everything is going to be cloud based in the future, digital archives, digital music... so do the comics. The digital tools and Internet give us the opportunity to create something that in paper would be too expensive and too difficult to create and distribute. We would love to see those comics translated to Euskara printed in paper, but we believe the way to go, for now, is digital.

Our strategy over the time may change, but just to start with something, we decided to translate a couple of chapters of our all-time favorite comic works. We will work on dealing with the editors and authors and to publish as diverse works as possible. We want to transform the landscape of comics in Basque and see our thin cloud grow. If you know Basque or you are learning it, we hope you can enjoy our project as much as we do. 

The logo designed by Ian Nose makes use of our favorite cloud, Kinton, from our beloved comic series Dragon Ball by the Japanese author Akira Toriyama.

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Update: The new website of the project is: http://lainomehe.aaandnn.com

DOCUMENTARY FILM | Ihauteriak

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Basque Country | 2011 | 34 min | Color | 16:9

Organized by Oñatz Dantza Taldea

Music by Oñatiko Trikitxaranga

Photographed & edited by

Ioannes Busca

Shot in Oñati in March 2011

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The traditional ‘Ihauteriak’ or carnival dances are performed in Basque Country since time immemorial. Celebrated once a year and organized by the ‘Oñatz Dance Group’ in the Oñati village, the event reunites a great amount of villagers that perform the dances through the streets and plazas of the village from early in the morning to midnight.

Music is an essential part of this performance, in which several traditional instruments merge in harmony like the txistu, a kind of a flute that is played with a single hand while the other hand plays the danbolina a kind of drum. Pandereta or tambouine and trikitixa, a variation of the accordion, are the other instruments that set the rhythm of the dancers.

Visit the website: https://aaandnn.com/video/ihauteriak/

Motorola Defy

After a long period of disputes to change phone company, it has finally shipped my first smart phone. A Motorola Defy. It's supposed to be tough and water resistant. Let's see how long lasts. About the official Commercial by Motorola, well...thanks for showing us, the customers, ways to be cool without an iPhone. 

;-)

Check the Motorola Defy in Amazon: US / ES / JP

MPSE Awards 2011: Walter Murch

Walter Murch received the Career Achievement Award on the MPSE awards 2011, and who better that his old friend George Lucas to give him the price.

Here the note from  Soundworks Collection.

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Each year the MPSE presents the MPSE GOLDEN REEL AWARDS, in which we acknowledge the year’s best work in the various areas of sound editing: Dialogue & ADR, Effects & Foley, and Music. 

2011 MPSE Career Achievement Award Recipient: WALTER MURCH 

Walter Murch has been honored by both British and American Motion Picture Academies for his picture editing and sound mixing. In 1997, Murch received an unprecedented double Oscar for both film editing and sound mixing on The English Patient (A. Minghella), as well as that year’s British Academy Award for best editing. Seventeen years earlier, he had received an Oscar for best sound for Apocalypse Now (F. Coppola), as well as British and American Academy nominations for his picture editing. He also won a double British Academy Award in 1975 for his film editing and sound mixing on The Conversation (F.Coppola), was nominated by both academies in 1978 for best film editing for Julia ( F. Zinnemann), and in 1991 received two nominations for best film editing from the American Academy for the films Ghost (J.Zucker) and The Godfather Part III (F. Coppola). In 2004, for the film Cold Mountain (A. Minghella), he received a ninth Academy Nomination. for Film Editing, as well as British Academy nominations for Film Editing and Sound Mixing.

Murch also directed and co-wrote – with Gill Dennis – the film Return to Oz, released in 1985. Among Murch’s other credits are: picture editing for The Unbearable Lightness of Being (P. Kaufman), Romeo is Bleeding (P. Medak), The Talented Mr. Ripley (A. Minghella), K-19: The Widowmaker (K. Bigelow), Jarhead (Sam Mendes), Youth Without Youth (F.F. Coppola) and Tetro (F. F. Coppola). 

Most recently, he has directed an episode of Clone Wars for Lucasfilm Animation, and is currently editing Hemingway & Gellhorn for Phil Kaufman.

He has also been involved in film restoration, notably Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil (1998), Francis Coppola’s Apocalypse Now Redux (2001), and the Edison-Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894). 

Murch was also sound effects supervisor for The Godfather (F. Coppola), and responsible for sound montage and re-recording on THX-1138 (G. Lucas), American Graffiti (G. Lucas), and The Godfather Part II (F. Coppola) as well as being re-recording mixer on all of the films for which he has also been picture editor.

Fincher's The Social Network and Adobe

A nice clip that shows how Adobe tools have integrated in the conception of David Fincher's last movie: The Social Network.