6.21.2007
6.18.2007
6.16.2007
Robot Chicken!!!
6.15.2007
Cat Stevens as Yusuf Islam
Heaven / Where True Love Goes (MV)
Heaven / Where True Love Goes (Nobel Peace Price concert)
Moonshadow (Earth Tour live 1976)
I can't tell you why Cat Stevens' music always bring me into an unknown trance where I feel a almost insane excitement with his songs so beautifully and so peacefully written. I recently sink back into that nervous peace again with his late album An Other Cup (2006) as Yusuf Islam. Beside I unchecked "I Think I See The Light" from my iTunes Library. The rest of the songs sound like he has never left us. His voice grow from wild to mature and that special sorrow joy can be restored and stop where the world was still simple enough for us to understand.
6.14.2007
6.13.2007
My long lost work
Richard Clayderman - Forgetting (1995)
Not long ago. A successful musician told my husband that he has been deeply moved by this MV. Which remind me that I once directed this music video in a difficult 1995 general traffic strike condition in Paris. It was about 5 am. I walked alone into a dark snowing dawn for 45 minutes from 2nd arrondissement to an hotel particulier located in the 8th. The 5 very popular musicians' busy schedule left only 8 hours to make this world premier Taiwanese pop song's instrumental version.
I worked almost sleepless on the shooting list and still adding in 4 more shots right before the ready to shoot time. The young and ambitious producer was there yelling at me that I won't have enough time for it or he will marry me (a french way of speaking). Thanks to another young and ambitious french man. With his quick and precise cinematography skill and a great team work. I ended the shooting 20 minutes before the wrap time. Of course. The producer didn't marry me.
Something I would like to mention is that my director's cut was a much more simple and artistic version. The records company edited this very media version for whatever it's commercial reason, and my once young ego refused to put my name on this MV.
Anyhow. Thanks again to the excellent crew, and the camera girl who brought me all the good video footage. And of course all 5 musicians' delicious performence.
6.05.2007
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