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Photo: Inari Kiuru
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I've been following Inari Kiuru's blog (ORDiNARI OBSERVATIONS) for some
time now. She is a Finnish artist living in Melbourne, Australia, and recently
she's been having a series of posts about their vacation during last southern
hemisphere summer, starting in Switzerland, and ending in Los Angeles, U.S.A.
The posts have featured very subtle, moody and beautiful impressions of their
travel.
She describes her blog as 'my attempt to remember: do document, preserve
and reflect on the ordinary and the breathtaking in each day'.
Her latest post (April 27, 2011) does exactly that. It certainly starts that way,
you don't necessarily know what's featured in her photos of shades, shoes,
colours, etc. until you realise that the trousers are black tie, the colour is the
red carpet, the blurred photo of a crowd is the paparazzi - and Inari and her
husband are in the middle of it all: It's their red carpet entrance to the Kodak
Theatre February 27, to witness the granting of an Oscar to Inari's husband,
Shaun Tan!
For the rest of the images see Inari's original post here.
Aussie short wins surprise Oscar
Updated Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:42pm AEDT
Australian Shaun Tan has won his first Oscar for best animated short at the Academy Awards in Hollywood.
The Perth-born Melbourne artist won for The Lost Thing, which was praised by critics but considered a long shot for the Academy Award.
The 15-minute computer generated and hand painted movie was only supposed to be a picture book.
"Wow, this is quite surreal," he said on stage.
"Our film is about a creature that doesn't get any attention so this is quite ironic."
Tan's surprise win mirrors another Australian animator, Adam Elliot, whose claymation short Harvie Krumpet ended up picking up an Oscar in 2004 after being given little hope against much-hyped entries from Pixar and Disney.
More than a decade ago, Tan was an unemployed illustrator and not sure where his life was headed.
Fast forward to the present and life has worked out nicely for the 37-year-old born in Fremantle but now a resident of Melbourne.
"I started off as an illustrator with no formal training other than high school," Tan said, stunned as he stood backstage at the Kodak Theatre with his gold statuette.
"I originally wrote this story in 1998," he explained.
"I was an unemployed illustrator. I wrote it on the kitchen table of my share house, worked on it for a year, developed it as a picture book, which was then published in Melbourne around 2000.
"Shortly thereafter it was exhibited at an international book fair in Italy, which is where [producer] Andrew [Ruhemann] came across the story."
The story is set in Melbourne and is about a boy who, while collecting bottle caps near a beach, discovers a strange creature that seems to be a combination of an industrial boiler, a crab and an octopus.
Ruhemann loved the idea of turning the story into an animated film, but Tan was not so sure.
"When Andrew and our producer Sophie [Byrne] first approached me and suggested we adapt this for animation, my first reaction was 'I'm not a filmmaker' and secondly 'Well I've never been anything'," Tan said.
Mr Tan graduated from the University of WA in 1995 with joint honours in Fine Arts and English Literature.
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