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gigi franchiopani

riot proof

About Me

dirdproductions is gigi franchiopani is irena dragic is living herself out inGIG & STAGE PHOTOGRAPHY,UNIT STILLS,PROMOTIONAL SHOTS,MODEL SHOTS,& is very freshly starting out inFILM & MUSICVIDEO PRODUCTION!- in cooperation with zillah aka "dirdzillah productions", with chapuzas aka "dirdy chap" & also in collaboration with other great, great friends!;)So, have a look. It's much appreciated!GILDA'S JOURNEY- NEW SHORTFILM OUT - a "slight dirdzillah production" in terms of cinematography, colour correction, sound & edit improvement. Enjoy!TEASER FOR SHORT SHORT Movie "29.7 seconds":FINISHED VERSION of SHORT SHORT MOVIE "29.7 seconds"(yet unfinished) version of MUSICVIDEO FOR BAND CONFRONTIERS:

My Interests

music & music- videos,film & film-making,photography,painting,art,script- writing,editing,enjoying a good bottle of wine (or three) with friends, while having incredibly "deep" conversations;watching the sky to serve my "himmel-fetishism" andliving out autumn as "fanaticly" as I can once a year

I'd like to meet:

lots of people, far too many to mention actually!So, come on over and join in- I'm sure, it will get quite interesting! ;)

Music:


pj harvey, tori amos, kate bush, rhcp, pearl jam, kooks, incubus, faith no more, rem, marvin gaye, police, athlete, massive attack, weekend players, blondie, no doubt, foo fighters, sinead o'connor, cranberries, massive attack, faithless, david bowie, killers, corrs, kt tunstall, led zep, the doors, shakespears sister, soundgarden, hole, manic street preachers, nelly furtado, moloko, juliette & the licks, confrontiers, the burns, king with no throne, the clash, nina simone, u2, billie holiday, curtis mayfield, bill withers, al green, b-52's, madonna, iggy pop, bjork, siouxsie, shapeshifters, elvis & abba (been raised with), motown's 60's, jimi hendrix, 90's & 80's in general

Movies:

thelma & louise;volver;eternal sunshine of the spotless mind;amelie;betty blue;paris, texas;blue velvet;breakfast at tiffany's;dogma;mr & mrs smith;gilbert grape;singles;the doors;requiem for a dream;sympathy for lady vengeance;being john malkovich;big lebowski;natural born killers;strange days;imagine me & youstar wars;spun;matrix- 1. installment;fifth element;motorcycle diaries;contact;leon;fight club;

Television:

my name is earl;scrubs;invasion;music telly;friends;ugly betty - yap, I got hooked as it is excellent screenwriting & a fabulous cast

Books:

pillars of the earth - ken follet; conversations with god - neale donald walsch; the celestine prophecy - james redfield; boudica- manda scott; sandman - neil gaiman; ghost - dh comics

Heroes:

lots of! ...aren't we all?! ;)but it's definitely God, my mom, my sister, my dad, Alexis Meade & these artists here - for inspiration

and as iconic as it can get:

and maybe the most courageous & most misunderstood- 'cause wrongly slated- public performance in music historySinead O' Connor - War

My Blog

GILDA finally

... oh, dear God... - this has been a JOURNEY! If only "slight", but we got there, done that... for the first to- meet- deadline, which was today. ... and the result is pretty see-able, watc...
Posted by gigi franchiopani on Wed, 21 May 2008 03:44:00 PST

a lovers chat- pt 1 "disclosure"

  p 1:     "You are hopefully aware of what you're doing to me at the             moment?!" p 2:    &...
Posted by gigi franchiopani on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:58:00 PST

post- production... yippieee

... after overcoming the strangest kind of technical problems with new equipment & "miscommunication" cocerning certain software types, we can finally, happily announce, that the post-pr...
Posted by gigi franchiopani on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:56:00 PST

the most politically INcorrect expression in the world

             W A R  !               - this shouldn't even exist in our way of thinking...
Posted by gigi franchiopani on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:21:00 PST

Malcolm 0745

A psychic. A 33 over 6 - like me! We couldn't talk to the end, but we know! The question is: does someone else know? - I hope we'll find this out -  in this lifetime! You can be sure, I'm wo...
Posted by gigi franchiopani on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:06:00 PST

Hail Hail

Tori, Tori, Hallelujah... Excellent, magnificent, experimental, astonishingly rocky, raunchy new sound tracks! Fabulous! Try to listen to "Teenage Hustling" & "Digital Ghost" & "Girl Disa...
Posted by gigi franchiopani on Mon, 07 May 2007 03:16:00 PST

gigi franchiopani

Hi there. To introduce myself: my name is Irena Dragic! - That is me. That is my name. That is me in its purest form. Gigi Franchiopani, my alter ego, is a construct! An image. A person in my hea...
Posted by gigi franchiopani on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:45:00 PST

maybe the most courageous & most misunderstood moment

..> in music history : Sinead O' Connor singing "War" by Bob Marley live on tv in 1992. (you can have a look further down on this site)   I do think, that was great. And the criticism on he...
Posted by gigi franchiopani on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 07:51:00 PST

gigi & jojo

... that's the way it is! ... SISTAS!!!   That's actually what The Fabulous Miss F. Sparrow brought up - so, here you go! You better watch that space.... ...
Posted by gigi franchiopani on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:00:00 PST

famous name

I don't know, what it is about my name, but it seems to get everywhere quite easily. Just remember when RHCP borrowed it for their album title "Blood, Sugar,Sex, Dragic" or No Doubt honoured it o...
Posted by gigi franchiopani on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:10:00 PST