Moving to Tumblr

So now that it seems everyone is moving to Tumblr nowadays, I will be joining them. Blogger is an awesome site and I'm going to miss it, but fact is that more people read Tumblr and I would like my articles to be read by a bigger, more accessible audience. So hope you keep on reading my blog, it will continue for now on Tumblr and no longer here in Blogger.

Here is the website address:
http://zenofblogging.tumblr.com/

In Love

I made a new playlist for that amazing feeling, the euphoria, the happiness, and the rush of passion we all get when we are in love, Even though I have never been in love so far, I imagine this would be the playlist to express that very feeling when that moment comes.



"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly." -Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

"Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place." -Ice T

A Single Man

The official trailer for A Single Man has finally come out! This is a film directed by fashion designer Tom Ford, and for his debut, this film is looking to be quite a good one. I'm so excited to see this film, it's one of the best trailers I have seen in a while. The cinematography is simply beautiful; I love the intense close-ups, the vibrant colors, and the heavy contrast; everything which adds an intense dramatic vibe. And not to mention the music, which is intense and draws intrigue to the visuals. Overall this film looks like its going to be a great one, can't wait to see this once it comes out.

Urban Dreams #2

Here is my another mix made by me, this one is the second Urban Dreams playlist (Urban Dreams #2). Been listening to a lot Hip-Hop recently, there is something about Hip-Hop and it's ability to capture the soul of a city, the soul of the urban landscape, which makes Hip-Hop, and it's unique lyrical quality, an interesting listening experience. These are the songs that help me relax and lay back especially among such a hectic city.

Bittersweet Sampling

Recently I've been getting into old-school hip-hop and modern electronic music that is composed mainly of samples from other pieces of music, movies, and etc... So since my interest was ignited by this entire style of making music, I decide to read up on the history and origins of this whole culture of sampling. While reading, I found out that an entire slew of music I've heard in the past is actually sampled from other pieces music. For example the video I posted above, sound familiar? This song, The Last Time, by The Andrew Oldham Orchestra is a cover version of the Rolling Stone's The Last Time, but many from my generation wouldn't have probably associated it with that song. This song might sound extremely familiar because part of this song is actually sampled in The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony. Now the fact that The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony is not a completely original song does not lessen the value I held and still hold with this song. Bittersweet Symphony is still one the best songs I've heard. This brings to view this whole "culture of remix" we currently live in. Almost everything we listen to, watch, or read borrows from something else. We live in a time where nothing is really authentic, nothing is really 100% original. But does that mean that art nowadays has less artist value? Does that mean we should consider everything that borrows from some other work as a rip-off? On the contrary, since we live in an age with so many forms of art, so many different styles; remixing, borrowing, sampling, and rearranging, makes something we love and hold dear into something new and fresh.

Love by Angels and Airwaves

The popular rock band Angel and Airwaves are making a feature film. Love (the film, not the actual thing) seems like it is a visual and audible experience rather than depending on dialogue and a tightly knit plot in order to get the message across. A two-hour music video containing breath-taking images and powerful music.

James Cameron Is Back!

James Cameron's finally makes a new film after a long and arduous wait of almost 12 years since he made Titanic in 1997. Cameron's return to cinema is a gigantic one, Avatar is apparently one of the most expensive films ever made, and it's seems that it's a massive sci-fi epic, which has been absent from cinema for a while. Can't wait to see this film on IMAX 3D!