Director Howard Greenhalgh’s video for Faithless’ single, ‘Bombs’, marries disturbing war scenes with halcyon family scenarios to highlight how far removed everyday people are from the true horrors of on-going, faraway wars.
The video, which has been banned by MTV, shows scenes of everyday life composited with stock footage of war. The result is a stylish, if jarring, juxtaposition of the seemingly innocent with familiar scenes of modern warfare that hints at the degree to which such images now form part of our contemporary consciousness. Children run across the deck of an aircraft carrier, a family skip hand-in-hand through the surf on a beach as a mushroom cloud rises on the horizon and a couple share a romantic meal while troops engage in combat.
Director Howard Greenhalgh:
“I didn’t see the video as particularly political, pro war, or anti war. It’s actually a representation of where we are all at right now. War infects all our lives; recently it feels that this has increasingly become ‘our way of life’. It is rare to be given the opportunity to shoot a video that is deemed controversial. All I tried to do was make people think about the everyday life we live in our comfortable existences, and the contrast to that through war.”
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From Greg’s early modeling shoot in 2003
Greg’s done it again! As if appearing on dozen’s of magazine covers, television ads, and even TV reality shows over the past several years weren’t enough, Greg Plitt has popped-up once more in the highly-anticipated Watchmen film, this time as the ultra-ripped physique of character Dr. Manhattan, played by Billy Crudup.
[Director Zach] Snyder chose fitness model and actor Greg Plitt; the VFX crew took digitized Plitt in 3D and took high-definition video of the model against a grid with muscles relaxed, flexed and tensed. The crew then 3D-digitized Crudup’s head and “frankensteined Billy’s head onto Greg’s body,” Travers says. The animators next built muscular and skeletal layers, using Plitt’s hi-def video as a reference for how those layers would interact with each other on a real human. “It’s much easier to do a physique on a character that’s very, very lean and doesn’t have a lot of muscle mass,” Travers says. “The minute you get into how a pec moves when a shoulder lifts up or the muscles on the back or the abs or the neck, it gets pretty challenging.”
You may remember my earlier post about Greg’s successes after transitioning from his military career (an Army Ranger who graduated from West Point) into one of the industry’s most sought-after fitness models.
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A big congratulations to Ty Davin for his recent cover and feature spread in issue #102 of the Australian magazine DNA. The cover and spread were shot by David Vance on-location in Florida.
I was fortunate enough to be the first photographer to shoot Tyler back in 2007. Congrats, man!
Photo credits (Above): David Vance
And from Ty’s first-ever photoshoot with me back in 2007
From Greg’s early modeling shoot in 2003
