My Heroes

While browsing through my blog I realised I hadn't posted my heroes from earlier on in the school period. So here they are:

Dave McKean - Kent
Dave McKean is an illustrator of all sorts of things. He has worked on Graphic Novels (written and illustrated), CD Covers, Posters, Book Covers, Animations and written, directed and designed characters for film and probably a view other things as well. I love his style as it remains very broad and I think his use of mixed media is brilliant. I also find it very inspirational that he does so many different kind of projects as I am also interested in a lot of different things (mainly the same one as he has worked for).

Linked to him personally I can only find a twitter account:
twitter.com/#!/DaveMcKean - Dave McKean - @DaveMcKean Kent, UK
I did manage to find an email for his agent:
http://www.allenspiegelfinearts.com/information.html - orders@allenspiegelfinearts.com



Shakespeare's Globe Theatre - London

Shakespeare's Globe theatre is a theatre rebuilt to match the one which stood in actual Shakespearean times. They put on an array of Shakespearean plays in full traditional costume. I love the real preservation of culture in this Theatre and think it would be amazing to do something for them.

http://twitter.com/#!/The_Globe - @The_Globe Bankside, London
http://www.facebook.com/ShakespearesGlobe
General InquiriesTelephone: +44 (0)20 7902 1400 - Email: info@shakespearesglobe.com
Globe Shop - Telephone: +44 (0)20 7902 1588 - Email: shop@shakespearesglobe.com



Weta Workshops - NZ

Weta Workshops is a Film Studio which has many specialities including creatures workshops and film weapon workshops (now also digital animation and effects in the Weta Digital facilities). They have done amazing work for the fantasy genre! They are the great pioneers who dared to bring the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and the Chronicles of Narnia to life and did so brilliantly. Although I could never work for them as it is purely based in New Zealand and I do not wish to return there, they remain of of my great heroes of the film world.

http://twitter.com/#!/wetaworkshop @wetaworkshop Wellington, New Zealand - http://www.facebook.com/WetaWorkshop
General and Client Enquiries - Telephone: +64 4 909 4000
Sales Marketing Promotion of Merchandise: Tim Launder - General Manager - Email : tim.launder@wetanz.co.nz - Telephone : +64 4 909 4105



The Doctor - ?
Although completely fantastical and uncontactable due to being, well, fictional one of my heroes is The Doctor. Doctor Who? Just The Doctor :D. He's a Time Lord (an alien from the planet Gallifrey) and he travels through time and space in his spaceship TARDIS (Time and relative dimension in space) which looks like those old blue police boxes.

Doctor Who is a programme broadcast by the BBC. As Doctor Who is an old cult programme started in the 60s it needed a reboost when relaunched in the early millenium. The creation team has made a great balance of the quirkiness of early film effects and modern technologies. I am very impressed with the character design in this programme, creature creations such as these are rarely seen in television and are more a thing for the big screen. Many people who work for the current Doctor Who programme dreamed of being envolved in it when they watched the earlier series. It must be a bit of a bug because it would be amazing to work for the Doctor Who behind the scene team.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/faq/form.shtml