Hero in KL part 03.

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Here in direct of south asia, Kulala Lumpur in Malaysia.
Posting here is quiet hard.
Connection is very very slow...
Sooo...
here a mix of all the recent picture i made as you can show and imagine the feeling in KL.
The weather is quiet hot, and everybody seems boring by the heal;
The all say "only one season here...SUMMERrr...".
It's funny as to one side to another of this earth everybody is looking for what he didn't have.
I spend most of the time with chinese people, and i meet also japanese designer,
here you have 3 different cultures, as Muslim, chinese, and Indien... a bit like in belgium no ?
;)
The opening is in few hours, everything is ready, i try to came back soo as possible with new pictures !
Hero+

Hero in IDPure (Switzerland).

Nov 18, 2009 6:42pm

Here is Olivier Dressen, alias «Hero». Independent artist, he works for the film industry, TV, music groups, comics, and advertising, or storyboarding. Hero’s head is always full of images, ideas and new creative concepts.
Please check his space: http://www.myspace.com/herographics

Hero Interview in Brussel is burning.

mercredi 3 mars 2010

HOT BELGIAN BOY *** Olivier Dressen aka HERO

I can be your hero, baby.
I can kiss away the pain.
I will stand by you forever.
You can take my breath away.


pics by Laetitia Bica.

T'es qui toi ?
Hero ou Olivier pour les intimes.
Réalisateur, directeur artistique, faiseur d'images fixes et/ou en mouvement.


HERO VS LISA CARLETTA.

Tu viens d'où ?
De Liège.

T'aimes quoi ?
Faire des images, vogager autour du monde, l'Asie, l'imprévu, le monde de la nuit.

Tu vis de quoi ?
Filmer, dessiner, illustrer, diriger, créer, exposer et voyager.




Ton film belge ?
C'est arrivé près de chez vous, et le dernier de Jaco, qui apparemment est bien décrié, mais que j'adore.
Vive Jaco !

Ton livre / ta BD belge ?
Avec regrets, une certaine mort de l'âge d'or Belge de la bande dessinée, et le rachat de ses maisons d'éditions phares. Tout cet esprit naif et optimiste qui découlait des bandes dessinées de cette époque; 50', 60' etc.
La Belgique pays de la BD, pour moi c'est mort.
Bien que je salue des gars comme "l'employé du moi" qui essaye de faire bouger les choses :
http://www.employe-du-moi.org/

Ton politicien belge ?
Michel Dardenne.
Pour moi le plus grand artiste surréaliste.
J'aime beaucoup sa dernière série photo dans Paris Match.

Ton expo belge ?
Versus au Libertine supersport.
héhé.



Ton expression belge ?
Viva Versus (une fois).

Un/une artiste belge ?
Laetitia Bica, Jean Paul Lespagard, Denis Meyers, Lisa Carletta, Les "Hellos Monsters", la film fabrique et Julien Henry, Bouli Lanners, No new enemies, An Pierlé, Jelly Fish, Los Hermanos, Elzo etc.

Vous aviez dit un seul artiste ?

T'aimes bien être belge ?
Je suis fier d'être belge, mais triste du manque d'unicité, et du séparatisme "de villageois" qui habite "les régions" en Belgique.
A l'heure où tout le monde est à l'Europe, où la crise règne et de nouveaux gros marchés internationaux émergent,
parler de flamand et wallon, c'est comme allumer un feu dans une station de pompier.
C'est complètement con et inutile.
L'union fait la force.

Ta ville belge ?
Bruxelles-Anvers

Tu bouffes des frites ?
Celles de Flagey et du Péron à Liège.
Les meilleures pour moi.
Sans oublier la sauce lapin et mayo poivre du concordia. Delicious.

Et les gaufres t'aimes ça ?
Pas autant qu'un Japonais en Belgique, mais j'adore.

La moule belge, t'en penses quoi ?
Très bonne, mais ca ne vaut pas un plat de moule dans un beau petit village portuaire de Normandie selon moi.
La Normandie du Cap Gris (FR) m'à réconcilié avec mon gris "Belge" à moi.

Tu comptes rester en Belgique plus tard ?
J'adore voyager;
le monde, la foule, l'agitation, et le soleil me manquent énormément.
Je me sens fort proche des grosses "mégapoles" asiatiques pour ca.
Adviendra que pourra.

C'est quoi la vision de ton avenir... est-ce que tu as un projet en tête ?
J'ai des milliers de projets en tête...
Il suffit que je fasse une grasse matinée pour avoir un planning remplis sur deux décennies.
Je suis maudis car mon cerveau ne cesse de me parasiter d'images, de rêves et de projet.
Donc mon avenir, ca serait le même avec plus de libertés encore, de plus gros projets, un superbe appart, une grosse bibliothèque et du soleil. hehe.

http://vimeo.com/9448084


http://www.designhero.tv
http://www.designhero.tv/blog
http://vimeo.com/herographics
http://www.myspace.com/herographics
http://www.youtube.com/herographics

Hero in Bangart (Italy).

BANGART (ITALY) :

OLIVIER DRESSEN – THE NEW «HERO»

L’illustrazione belga ha un nuovo HERO, si chiama Olivier Dressen e lasciamo a lui le lunghe presentazioni:


Olivier Dressen, alias « Hero » is a freelance artist in motion design. He works within different audio-visual and graphic sectors : film industry, television, musical bands, comic books and advertisement. He shows the extent of his talent either as a film maker, art director, animator, or storyboarder… Hero has the gift to express his inspiration through creative and orginal concepts. A great part of his inventive work leans on his own inflected childhood memory, that leads him to expose his personal point of view on childhood, death, love and souvenirs. Olivier spends most of his life drawing. At eleven years old, a watercolor painter teaches him the art of paintings. Then, he discovers the fascinating work of Belgian Surrealism, along with the encyclopedias and the comic books that also attract his full attention. He follows different training courses to the Beaux-Arts Academy of Liège in Belgium, to “Caméra Enfant Admis (Motion-Picture Children Admission)” on short films made by children. At this young age, he wins the drawing inter-schools contest by envisioning the forthcoming car of the year 2000. His prize was a real bike for the first time ! Also, he spends his time reading and watching documentaries. His favourites are about nuclear energy, natural disasters, american propaganda, communism/ cold war and maccarthysm. After his studies at the Beaux-Arts Academy of Liège, he registers at La Cambre University and begins in film animation. Being inspired at an early age by the American Pop culture, and the comic books, he draws a big share of his creativeness from the acid world of super heros wearing flashy pantyhose. After La Cambre University, Olivier starts as a film maker and animator in the advertising industry. That allows him to also work on the side for and with different artists. The world of Hero is a world of naivety and cruelty at once. Under the cover of colorful shades and often inspired from childhood; Hero’s pictures bring us back to scenes of violence and irony. « Vive les vacances ( Long Live the Holidays)» for example, is a short film describing a small and peaceful family without visible problems, who is suddenly run over by a school bus. This dramatic event is shown in a childish manner, displaying joy and good spirits. The story results in a traditional happy ending. In « RRJ », Hero redefines a cartoon for children, aiming for an apocalyptic film. In « 5 minutes », a more realistic and intimist short movie, Hero talks about the life and the memory of a high-ranking american official during a Wall Street crisis. Because of his inability to recall some events during his childhood, Hero mixes genres and trends, creating a kaleidoscope of various and strange images. All kinds of feelings gather together, from melancholy to laughter, from innocent games to wars ; he won’t stop at one paradox, neither just one defined graphic style. In the new « Madame S (Mrs. S) », Hero tells a story about her sentimental deflections and disappointments, day after day, with her haunting need to write and not forget her feelings. He uses the comic books, sometimes in a naive or realistic way to bring out the theme with humor and levity. The work of Hero discloses a constant struggle against the loss of memory. It expresses a profound desire to make the wandering souvenirs come to life again by rebuilding them. Like a butterfly collector, Hero pins images of memories found by chance here and there, at every turn of his creation ; to quickly hunt for the next catch…
Recently, he create the Versus Project, who had already made some several exhibitions.





E a proposito di (h)eroi ecco il fumetto di Olivier: Super Pan, una sorta di Spongebob in acido!More about on :



http://www.bangart.it/olivier-dressen/

Hero at Kuala Lumpur>>> Day One.

Here i am in Kuala Lumpur !


Here a view a Shanghai at the airport of Kuala Lumpur, i was there few month ago... Nostalgie...

A "portative" exhibition, i made all my canvas and photography in small size just like my suitcase.
You can also saw the giant print i made into the big tube.

In Kl the weather is pretty hot.
And the people look very friendly and smily.
For my first day, my first mission was to bought a malaysian phone card and i already make some funny discover...
:)


Soo I was walking around my hotel for looking for a phone card.
And i get to the "mall", it's a kind of supermarket into a building.

I finally found after ask to few person the place for buy a phone card.

Here most of the people are muslim and you can find alot of indian people, or mixed indian/malaysian.
People was very friendly and we had a cool and funny talk,
Finally i get the elevator and i had a big suprise...


A roller coster into the "mall"...
As a little reporter i took some pictures of it.
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G !
It's intersting to notice than you have for each floor of this big building, a speciality;
Video games, clothes, fast food, restaurant, in the same spirit as you can also see in japan and chinese big town.


The fashion here is not clear as i saw before in japan but this is a first shoot of style you can found in the streets of KL.


taxi in KL.
Yeah !
People driving on the left as in Hong Kong, and the taxi are praticly the same.

Taxi in Hong Kong, picture took from the video clip i shooted there...

...Another picture from this video clip...

This is the end of this day for the moment,
I also meet the organisator of the design's fair, and we eat some malaisian food...
I'll try to talk about food and specialities as soon as i can.

Hero,

Hero's T-shirts on ELLE magazine's Blog

I am arrived in Malaisia just right Know.
I'll be on a malaisian talk show soon.

New pictures will arrive on my blog soon !!

Hope In <3

I recently create a visual for a Charity night.

For Hope & in and The Refugiee next door.

I manage all the process of this picture:

From the concept, base line, photography*, graphic design and of course Art Direction.

Help Ouganda's Children !!!

Heroxxx

Aidez les enfants d'Ouganda.Help Children in Ouganda.

Fucking cloud...

Hero @ KL design's week 2010

I am actually invited to KL design's week 2010 with 20 others international designer's.

I am soo glad to be there, and will post few image as soon as possible !

I'll exhibit with some people like ;

the japanese group designer's Devil Robot.

David Oreilly (Berlin)

Please Say Something - Full Length from David OReilly on Vimeo.

Mr. Tomioka of KANABAN GRAPHICS (Japan)

And many top designer from all over the world !!!!

I send few pictures as soon as possible !!!

Hero's exhibition at Kuala Lumpur design's week.