So I went jealous. Everyone is adding pretty image headers to their blogs and I wanted something cool too. Something pretty, something funny and maybe also meaningful. The problem is that my artistic skills are worst than my sense of humor and these two qualities together killed the idea before I started to consider it concretely.

Instead while thinking to something completely unrelated I imagined that some screencap from “Tetsuo” would fit perfectly the idea of the site. It’s not something funny but I gave up long ago at trying and at least it offers a meaningful idea: Scrap metal.

“Tetsuo” is a japanese movie, directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. It’s a masterpiece, if you’ve never seen it you have to absolutely track it down and watch it at least once (before becoming an admirer of this director and find all the other movies he made). All the elements of the movie fit here, the underground mood, black and white flavor, cyberpunk, deliriums, obsessions, disconnected history and an obvious “amateur” style still extremely personal and visionary.

Underground, experimental cinema that made the history (Tsukamoto was un the jury at the Venice Film Festival when Takeshi Kitano won the Gold Lion for “Hana-Bi”). A special flavor that you cannot find anywhere else.

Here as a personal myth, model and Muse.

(There are four different image headers, cycling randomly thanks to my leet skills with javascript. I’m sure they all fit.)