I am hugely influenced and inspired by movies, photos and illustration. I love the lighting and colours in a movie particularly old movies, i love the way a photo can convey so many things, that it can make you feel like you were really there, it can make you feel that you knew the person in the picture and you can can practically breathe in the entire atmosphere. If that's not magic I don't know what is.
I try to recreate the same feeling in my songs, because songs and music, like any art form is all about communicating or evoking an emotion. Every time you respond or react to something you're evoking some kind of emotion, even if you think that you're not.
This last one's my favourite and it's a still from In the Mood for Love which is a movie directed by Wong Kar Wai, whose genius lighting and film set is captured here by Wing Shya.
(Bizarre fact - he got the title from listening to a Bryan Ferry song called I'm in the mood for love. I like that title. I'm always in the mood for love.)
To me a great picture tells a story, and it has a past present and a future, so when I look at it I like to think about what the character was doing just before the picture was taken and what he's about to do right afterwards.
I absolutely love love love this picture and all of Wing Shya's work with Wong Kar Wai (Wong Kar Wai deserves his own posting so I'll talk more about him later, but I just want to say here that his style of shooting is beautiful)
The photo's full of anguish and unsaid things and you can sense the undercurrent between the pair of them. It's sad and beautiful at the same time and the colour and lighting is so evocative
I could drown in these photos. Wonderful.
And one more thing before I forget,
love and peace to you and your loved ones in 2009
Tuan x
