Sacramento painter, David Garibaldi is premiering his documentary “Walking Dreams” and performing live at the Sacramento Film and Music Festival on July 29th at 7:30pm at the Crest Theater. I met David in 2003 when he used to paint on Wednesday nights at the Fox and Goose. Even then, before his success, his story was pretty inspirational.
His paintings from the night will be auctioned off with the proceeds to benefit the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commision and their Advance Commuinty Through Arts and Culture program. See the trailer for Waking Dreams below and go to his blog to purchase tickets and get the rest of the story.
“Walking Dreams” is a documentary by director Chad Ross as he followed David Garibaldi through a three year journey from doing underground shows in Sacramento to London and everything in between.
I went and watched Benjamin Button this week and really liked it. I have to admit, your boy even got a little misty eyed. I’m a big David Fincher fan (Seven, Fight Club, Zodiac), and although it started out a little slow, he did not let me down.
Wired magazine has a pretty good breakdown on what went into transforming Brad Pitt into Benjamin Button.
the director had to find a way for Button (Brad Pitt) to “reverse-age” convincingly. CG was the answer: Make a 3-D model of Pitt’s visage, fast-forward it five decades, and stick it on the torso of a diminutive actor. Problem is, current-gen performance-capture techniques — sticking a bunch of dots onto the actor’s face, recording their movement, then applying the data to a 3-D model — miss subtle nuances; the resulting virtual visages often look stiff and creepy (see: The Polar Express).
Enter Steve Perlman from special effects company Reardon. See the Wired slide show here.
Video on Sacramento artist David Garibaldi. I remember meeting David back when he used to paint on Wednesday nights at the Fox and the Goose. Dude’s came a long way. At the time, he said he quit his job at Wells Fargo to paint. Very inspiring.
