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Sorana Gatej

Multimedia Studio

About Me

Animator, filmmaker, photographer, illustrator, designer...sometimes singer, listener, student, teacher?... I don't quite know what to say about myself other than I like to laugh, laughter heals most, if not all... I believe in balance. May devils sleep on angels' wings."Nothing is so hard to understand as that there are human beings in this world besides one's self and one's own set."William Dean Howells"The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. ""Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
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My Interests

Film, photography, animation...and most anything related to art. Above all, creating and evoking emotion.

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people, they don't even have to be people, just some THING interesting.

Music:

Goldfrapp, Gorillaz, Nightwish, Sinergy, Rob Zombie, Clan of Xymox, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Depeche Mode, Project Pitchfork, VNV Nation, Dimmu Borgir, Blondie, Moby, Air, Portishead, Garbage, Bjork, Dead Can Dance, Eurythmics, Juno Reactor, Therion, Midnattsol, Frontline Assembly, Concrete Blonde, Gary Numan, Zircon (of Worcester), Billy Idol, Die Form, Wumpscutt, Within Temptation, Theater of Tragedy, Mortiis, Funker Vogt, Evil's Toy, Rain Fell Within, Christian Death, The Ventures, The Dresden Dolls, Rasputina, Elis, Beseech, Anything produced by Vemplore Studios (Dorian Gatej), X-Marks the Pedwalk, The Dreamside, Bella Morte, Love is Colder Than Death, Flesh Field, Ministry, Diva Destruction, The Mission UK, The Cure, Type O Negative, Verdi's La Traviata, Danny Elfman, Wojiech Kilar, Hans Zimmer, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, David Bowie, The Cruxshadows, Sisters of mercy, Europe's one hit wonder The Final Count Down, Arise From Thorns, Doris Day, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf, Maurice Chevalier, Razed In Black, Hearts of Black Science, etc.....

Movies:

V for Vendetta, Blade Runner, Interview With the Vampire, Dracula, Edward Scissorhands, Lost In Translation, The Virgin Suicides, Dark City, Cowboy Bebop, Vampire Hunter D, The Brothers Quay, Nightmare Before Christmas, Lord of the Rings, Sin City, Spirited Away, My Man Godfrey, Onegin, The Libertine, Batman 1,2, and the latest (everything inbetween was a prank), Momento, Fight Club, Corpse Bride, The Incredibles, Family Guy, Futurama, Ed Wood, Shadow of a Vampire, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Hellraiser, Constantine, Hellboy, Sleepy Hollow, Halloween, Event Horizon, Willow, Lady Hawke, Conan the Barbarian and Destroyer, Beastmaster, Big Trouble In Little China, Dragon Slayer, Moonstruck, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Where the Heart Is, Mary Reilly, Robot Chicken, Toons on thefrown.com, The Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Pretty In Pink, Better Off Dead, Weird Science, Heathers, Record of Lodos War, Berzerk, Hellsing, Legend, Ever After, Goodbye Mr. Chips w/ Peter O'Toole, Vertigo, Psycho, More Than A Miracle, The Time Machine (1960), Omega Man because Charlton Heston has never played a more ridiculous role, Superman, this could go on forever...

Books:

The Elephant Man (Christine Sparks), Dragonlance (Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman), Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte), Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky), A Gentle Spirit (short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky), Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien), Pandora (Anne Rice), Interview With the Vampire (Anne Rice), House of the Seven Gable (Hawthorne), Rapaccini's daughter (Hawthorne), The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield), The Vanishing Tower (Michael Moorcock), 1602, Hellboy...

Heroes:

Tim Burton, The Brothers Quay, Ray Harryhausen, Brom, Yoshitaka Amano, Frazetta, Beardsley, Gorey, Fuseli, Sargent, John WIlliam Waterhouse, Sir Edward Burne Jones, Hieronymous Bosh, Lichtenstein, Hiroshige, Dali, Klimt, Albrecht Durer, Mike Mignola, Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman, Sophia Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, Ridley Scott, Dostoevsky, Leonid Andreyev, Pushkin, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, James Redfield.


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My Blog

Tips on what an artist should NOT do

This was a scenario my brother came up with... So all credit goes to him.Ok, so you have a photo shoot, and it's for a mega important client. You've already told this client that you have several yea...
Posted by Sorana Gatej on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:15:00 PST

Links to videos and art soon...

Hello everyone,It's been a crazy past two months, but things are shapin' up. After the holidays I will be posting some artwork up, and links to films and animations I have done. I will keep you post...
Posted by Sorana Gatej on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:14:00 PST

She walks the night

Writhing in madness, black satin whirling wildly, weaving in and out... Movement like water, like wind, like the dancing of a dandelion seed on the breath of a kiss... Down she lands on padded feet,...
Posted by Sorana Gatej on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:16:00 PST

The silence of the horde

In the chill her silence slept, and in the dew it drowned and choked. Within thine eyes I froze and shed a million tongues. Yet, in the end, none were found.
Posted by Sorana Gatej on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:57:00 PST

FRIDAY MARCH 23!! ROCK THE SHIP ROOM AT THE VERNON!

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Posted by Sorana Gatej on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:50:00 PST

Can Money Pay for All the Days I Lived Awake But Half Asleep?

Artist: Primitive Radio Gods LyricsSong: Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand LyricsJan lays down and wrestles in her sleepMoonlight spills on comic booksAnd superstars in magaz...
Posted by Sorana Gatej on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:10:00 PST

HA! This quiz was a load of awful, but just for laughs...

What Type Of Vampire Are You? You are a woman. You suck all of the money off of hard-working men, painting your toenails to Josh Groban as a loving and caring husband slaves for hours just t...
Posted by Sorana Gatej on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:34:00 PST

On the end of a pointed steel-toed shoe

It's funny... It's funny how one minute you go from, "Damn, I really need to call my best friend" to "Damn, I'll call her now!" without thinking twice because of so called "legitimate reasons." It...
Posted by Sorana Gatej on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:42:00 PST

My Day at Work :D


Posted by Sorana Gatej on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:10:00 PST