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Greatest movies ever made? Greatest Books ever written? Greatest albums that you've heard? And if you're feeling unusually cultured, who is your favorite painter and... why the hell not, culture?
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Off the top of my head...
Films:
Performance
Apocalypse Now
To Kill a Mockingbird
Taxi Driver
Books:
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy)
Our Mutual Friend (Charles Dickens)
High Life (Matthew Stokoe)
A Simple Plan (Scott Smith)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Painter:
Hockney
Van Gogh
Monet
Photographer:
Robert Mapplethorpe
Ansel Adams
Annie Liebowitz
Henry Cartier-Bresson
Man Ray
Albums - see my top 10 albums in another thread.
Culture - Gawd - where do I start?
That'll do for a quick list.
Films:
Performance
Apocalypse Now
To Kill a Mockingbird
Taxi Driver
Books:
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy)
Our Mutual Friend (Charles Dickens)
High Life (Matthew Stokoe)
A Simple Plan (Scott Smith)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Painter:
Hockney
Van Gogh
Monet
Photographer:
Robert Mapplethorpe
Ansel Adams
Annie Liebowitz
Henry Cartier-Bresson
Man Ray
Albums - see my top 10 albums in another thread.
Culture - Gawd - where do I start?
That'll do for a quick list.
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PG Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Will Self, Kurt Vonnegut, 2 Lane Blacktop, A Matter of Life and Death, Gilbert & Sullivan, Le Corbusier, Erno Goldfinger, Piranesi, Andrea Palladio, Edward Weston, Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko, Ugo Zagato, Eric Morecambe, Matthew Le Tissier...
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Movies--not really a "movie" person
Books--in no particular order
William Faulkner-Sanctuary
Jean-Paul Sartre-The Age of Reason (one of the only philisophical novels I've ever read that still manages to be a decent novel)
Vladimir Nabakov-Ada (better than Lolita, in my opinion)
Albums--off the top of my head, I don't have all morning
the Beatles-Abbey Road (would have been better if a couple of songs had been relegated to the mess that was the White album, or I would nominate an edited White album)
the Verve-Urban Hymns (not their best songs, no, but the album was so cohesive-sounding, like it was all of one piece)
Spiritualized-Let it Come Down (what board are we on?)
Painter--
Francisco DeGoya
My Husband
Books--in no particular order
William Faulkner-Sanctuary
Jean-Paul Sartre-The Age of Reason (one of the only philisophical novels I've ever read that still manages to be a decent novel)
Vladimir Nabakov-Ada (better than Lolita, in my opinion)
Albums--off the top of my head, I don't have all morning
the Beatles-Abbey Road (would have been better if a couple of songs had been relegated to the mess that was the White album, or I would nominate an edited White album)
the Verve-Urban Hymns (not their best songs, no, but the album was so cohesive-sounding, like it was all of one piece)
Spiritualized-Let it Come Down (what board are we on?)
Painter--
Francisco DeGoya
My Husband
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FILMS
One Flew over the cuckoo's nest
Apocalypse now
High planes drifter
To kill a mockingbird
Star wars
man bites dog
trainspotting
Bullitt
BOOKS
life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Brave new world (aldous huxley)
Trainspotting & Glue (Irvine Welsh)
To kill a mockingbird (Harper Lee)
The bible
ARTISTS
Wasily Kandinsky
Claude Monet
Paul Gaugin
Laslo moholy-Nagy
Paul Klee
Tony Hart
MUSIC
Abbey road - Beatles
Exile on Main Street - Stones
laser guided melodies - SPZ
Harvest - Neil Young
Radiator - SFA
Bowie - Low
Charlatans - wonderland
Underworld - Technodubmanin......
Daft Punk - Homework
Leftfield - leftism
Happy Mondays - Pills and thrills
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
I also meant to include any of Roald Dahl's books...OOps
One Flew over the cuckoo's nest
Apocalypse now
High planes drifter
To kill a mockingbird
Star wars
man bites dog
trainspotting
Bullitt
BOOKS
life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Brave new world (aldous huxley)
Trainspotting & Glue (Irvine Welsh)
To kill a mockingbird (Harper Lee)
The bible
ARTISTS
Wasily Kandinsky
Claude Monet
Paul Gaugin
Laslo moholy-Nagy
Paul Klee
Tony Hart
MUSIC
Abbey road - Beatles
Exile on Main Street - Stones
laser guided melodies - SPZ
Harvest - Neil Young
Radiator - SFA
Bowie - Low
Charlatans - wonderland
Underworld - Technodubmanin......
Daft Punk - Homework
Leftfield - leftism
Happy Mondays - Pills and thrills
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
I also meant to include any of Roald Dahl's books...OOps
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Liebowitz's photos in the mid 80s (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Meryl Streep, Blues Brothers, Sylvester Stallone, Bette Midler) are among the best examples of portrait photography I can think of.twentysixdollars wrote:I love the fact that this thread somehow includes Robert Mapplethorpe and Two-Lane Blacktop.
But Annie Liebovitz?
Somehow I managed to miss out Richard Avedon - he was the greatest portrait photgrapher ever. Possibly the greatest photographer too.
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True, true, but I think Annie pissed her perfect eye a little in the nineties and certainly recently with her tedious goth-glam cover shoots. Ironic that so many misogynistic tropes could turn up in the work of someone who was ostensibly one of Susan Sontag's lovers. But then again I approach photography as a dilletante and exegete, with no particular technical knowledge.
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Till I read on, I thought you were referring to Annie Sprinkle, but that's a whole other kind of artist.twentysixdollars wrote:True, true, but I think Annie pissed her perfect eye a little in the nineties and certainly recently with her tedious goth-glam cover shoots...
Is Cindy Sherman a 'photographer'? She's good I think.
books:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Hitchhikers Guide (any and all),
Brave New World, Pride and Prejudice
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey..........has anyone else read this?
this is the only book I've ever read that I'd describe as inspirational
If you haven't, seek it out!
Painters:
Leonardo Da Vinci - not for the mona lisa though
Monet
Picasso
Films:
True Romance - the scene where Dennis Hopper gets shot is nigh on perfect!
The Godfather
Carlito's Way
The life of Brian
People:
Bill Hicks, Bob Geldof, Andrew Marr (BBC political journalist for all non-brits)
Music
The choral symphony,
Lakme - an opera by Delibes (dodgy spelling there, can't be arsed to go look at the cd),
I. Adagio Sostenuto from Piano Sonata No. 14 (Quasi Una Fantasia) In C, Beethoven again
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Hitchhikers Guide (any and all),
Brave New World, Pride and Prejudice
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey..........has anyone else read this?
this is the only book I've ever read that I'd describe as inspirational
If you haven't, seek it out!
Painters:
Leonardo Da Vinci - not for the mona lisa though
Monet
Picasso
Films:
True Romance - the scene where Dennis Hopper gets shot is nigh on perfect!
The Godfather
Carlito's Way
The life of Brian
People:
Bill Hicks, Bob Geldof, Andrew Marr (BBC political journalist for all non-brits)
Music
The choral symphony,
Lakme - an opera by Delibes (dodgy spelling there, can't be arsed to go look at the cd),
I. Adagio Sostenuto from Piano Sonata No. 14 (Quasi Una Fantasia) In C, Beethoven again
DROP ACID NOT BOMBS!
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i fucking love andrew marr. i haven't got a telly any more but it's him alone that would convince me to buy a license. his cheeky asides, the ambiguous switches between red and blue ties ... he's wonderful.Andrew Marr
an interesting guardian piece.
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HOCKNEY!! Well done.anorthernsoul wrote:i fucking love andrew marr. i haven't got a telly any more but it's him alone that would convince me to buy a license. his cheeky asides, the ambiguous switches between red and blue ties ... he's wonderful.Andrew Marr
an interesting guardian piece.
Of course Andrew Marr does a lot of good work on the wireless, although I never hear Start the Week (why do the schedulers presume that people with jobs are ONLY interested in 'politics' and 'news'?).
Books: 'The secret history'/Donna Tartt, 'The remains of the day'/Kazuo Ishiguro, 'Letters'/Vincent van Gogh, 'Pride and Prejudice'/Jane Austen, 'Yevgeny Onegin'/Alexander Pushkin.
Films: 'House of flying daggers', 'Le diner des cons', 'Happiness', 'Onegin', 'Karakter', 'Together'.
CDs/Albums: 'Ladies and gentlemen...'/Spiritualized, 'Rubber soul'/The Beatles, 'B.R.M.C.'/Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, 'Ainsi soit je'/Mylene Famer, '...And this is our music'/The Brian Jonestown Massacre, 'Songs to learn and sing'/Echo and the Bunnymen, 'Seance'/The Church, 'The dreaming'/Kate Bush.
Painters: Rembrandt van Rijn, Vincent van Gogh, Leonid Pasternak.
Photographers: Robert Freeman, Lee Miller.
Films: 'House of flying daggers', 'Le diner des cons', 'Happiness', 'Onegin', 'Karakter', 'Together'.
CDs/Albums: 'Ladies and gentlemen...'/Spiritualized, 'Rubber soul'/The Beatles, 'B.R.M.C.'/Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, 'Ainsi soit je'/Mylene Famer, '...And this is our music'/The Brian Jonestown Massacre, 'Songs to learn and sing'/Echo and the Bunnymen, 'Seance'/The Church, 'The dreaming'/Kate Bush.
Painters: Rembrandt van Rijn, Vincent van Gogh, Leonid Pasternak.
Photographers: Robert Freeman, Lee Miller.
BOOKS
The Ginger Man: J.P. Donleavy
The Exorcist: William P Blatty
To Kill a mockingbird: Harper Lee
The Hobbit: Tolkien
FILMS
The Exorcist (scared the shite out of me & still does)
Manhunter
Jaws
Willie Wonka and the chocolate Factory
Once upon a time in America
Withnail & I
ARTISTS
Carravagio
Van Gogh
Francis Bacon
Rolf Harris
MUSIC
Marvin Gaye Whats goin on
Underworld Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Spiritualized LGM and Complete Works 1
Kruder & Dorfmeister: K&D Sessions
Primal Scream Screamadelica
Stone Roses : Both Albums
Chameleons: Strange Times
too many to mention, I would be here all jayysussin day
The Ginger Man: J.P. Donleavy
The Exorcist: William P Blatty
To Kill a mockingbird: Harper Lee
The Hobbit: Tolkien
FILMS
The Exorcist (scared the shite out of me & still does)
Manhunter
Jaws
Willie Wonka and the chocolate Factory
Once upon a time in America
Withnail & I
ARTISTS
Carravagio
Van Gogh
Francis Bacon
Rolf Harris
MUSIC
Marvin Gaye Whats goin on
Underworld Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Spiritualized LGM and Complete Works 1
Kruder & Dorfmeister: K&D Sessions
Primal Scream Screamadelica
Stone Roses : Both Albums
Chameleons: Strange Times
too many to mention, I would be here all jayysussin day
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I reckon the new version will either total shit or absolutely brilliant. Johnny Depp should be ideal in the lead.
I hope they dont go all computer graphics on us and waste it. I liked the way the cinematic restrictions of the day added to the weird factor in places.
I hope they dont go all computer graphics on us and waste it. I liked the way the cinematic restrictions of the day added to the weird factor in places.
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FILMS
Once upon a time in America
Naked
Performance
Apocalypse Now
Midnight Cowboy
Head
Books
Aldous Huxley-Island
Hunter S Thompson-Fear and Loathing
Tom Wolfe-Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Jack Keroac-Dharma Bums
John Savage-Englands Dreaming
Irvine Welsh-Filth
Shane McGowan-A Drink With
William Burroughs-Open any book,anypage and read
Records
Stone Roses-Stone Roses
Primal Scream-Exterminator & Screamadelica
Rolling Stones-Sticky Fingers
Bob Dylan-Blood on the Tracks
Spriritualized-Ladies and Gentlemen
Spacemen 3-Perfect Perscription
Dinasoaur Jnr-Out There
Sex Pistols-Nevermind the Bollocks
The Clash-The Clash & London Calling
Brian Wilson-Smile
Beatles-Revolver
SYd Barret-Madcap Laughs
Patti Smith-Horses
Deat in Vegas-Contino Sessions
ALSO
Peter Cooke, Bill Hicks, Allan Ginsbreg, Neal Cassady, Karl Marx, William Blake, Elvis Presley, Che Guevara, Johnny Cash, Noam Chomsky and Mr.Benn
Once upon a time in America
Naked
Performance
Apocalypse Now
Midnight Cowboy
Head
Books
Aldous Huxley-Island
Hunter S Thompson-Fear and Loathing
Tom Wolfe-Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Jack Keroac-Dharma Bums
John Savage-Englands Dreaming
Irvine Welsh-Filth
Shane McGowan-A Drink With
William Burroughs-Open any book,anypage and read
Records
Stone Roses-Stone Roses
Primal Scream-Exterminator & Screamadelica
Rolling Stones-Sticky Fingers
Bob Dylan-Blood on the Tracks
Spriritualized-Ladies and Gentlemen
Spacemen 3-Perfect Perscription
Dinasoaur Jnr-Out There
Sex Pistols-Nevermind the Bollocks
The Clash-The Clash & London Calling
Brian Wilson-Smile
Beatles-Revolver
SYd Barret-Madcap Laughs
Patti Smith-Horses
Deat in Vegas-Contino Sessions
ALSO
Peter Cooke, Bill Hicks, Allan Ginsbreg, Neal Cassady, Karl Marx, William Blake, Elvis Presley, Che Guevara, Johnny Cash, Noam Chomsky and Mr.Benn
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yeah sounds like ewan is getting a bit too big for his britches. the last decent movie he did was trainspotting.
thats brilliant to hear that robert carlyle is willing to return as begbie. he is one of my favourite actors. luckily he hasn't followed the same route as ewan.
american idol, ewan mcgregor. what a waste.
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thats brilliant to hear that robert carlyle is willing to return as begbie. he is one of my favourite actors. luckily he hasn't followed the same route as ewan.
american idol, ewan mcgregor. what a waste.
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Movies: The Godfather (part 2)
The Wicker Man
Man Bites Dog
The Big Blue
Donnie Darko
Books: Picture of Dorian Grey
The Great Gatsby
Hells Angels
One Flew Over a Cuckoos Nest
To Kill A Mockingbird
Winnie the Pooh
Albums: Jane's Addiction-Jane's addiction
Nick Cave- And No More Shall We Part
The Cramps- Bad Music for bad People
Anything by The ramones
Massive attack- blue Lines
The Jam- All Mod Cons
Beastie Boys- ill communication
Jeff Buckley-Grace
The smiths- Meat Is Murder
Just the humble opinion of a mixed up 30 something!
The Wicker Man
Man Bites Dog
The Big Blue
Donnie Darko
Books: Picture of Dorian Grey
The Great Gatsby
Hells Angels
One Flew Over a Cuckoos Nest
To Kill A Mockingbird
Winnie the Pooh
Albums: Jane's Addiction-Jane's addiction
Nick Cave- And No More Shall We Part
The Cramps- Bad Music for bad People
Anything by The ramones
Massive attack- blue Lines
The Jam- All Mod Cons
Beastie Boys- ill communication
Jeff Buckley-Grace
The smiths- Meat Is Murder
Just the humble opinion of a mixed up 30 something!
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sorry sorry sorry, Big Fish was excellent. absolutely correct.
i think EVERYBODY is gonna be blown away with the new Wonka. we got to see a rather lengthy trailer for it. it looks spectacular.
an orbie, i think burtons combination of cg fx and his natural ability for weirdness should prove to be most entertaining.
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i think EVERYBODY is gonna be blown away with the new Wonka. we got to see a rather lengthy trailer for it. it looks spectacular.
an orbie, i think burtons combination of cg fx and his natural ability for weirdness should prove to be most entertaining.
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A lot of excellent choices so I'll stick my picks to those not already listed.
Books -
Hunter Thompson - Fear & Loathing On The Campaign Trail
Patrick Suskind - Perfume
Ken Kesey - Sometimes A Great Notion
Bukowski - Ham On Rye
Henry Miller - Tropic Of Capricorn
Films -
The Amateur
Amelie
Drugstore Cowboy
Secrets And Lies
Jesus' Son
Albums -
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Nick Cave - Lyre Of Orpheus/Abbatoir Blues
REM - Fabels Of The Reconstruction
The Verve - A Nothern Soul
As I visited a Dali gallery in Paris the other day, I'll have to give him a mention. His biblical orientated work really got me going.
Books -
Hunter Thompson - Fear & Loathing On The Campaign Trail
Patrick Suskind - Perfume
Ken Kesey - Sometimes A Great Notion
Bukowski - Ham On Rye
Henry Miller - Tropic Of Capricorn
Films -
The Amateur
Amelie
Drugstore Cowboy
Secrets And Lies
Jesus' Son
Albums -
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Nick Cave - Lyre Of Orpheus/Abbatoir Blues
REM - Fabels Of The Reconstruction
The Verve - A Nothern Soul
As I visited a Dali gallery in Paris the other day, I'll have to give him a mention. His biblical orientated work really got me going.
Also, RE. Trainspotting/Porno film. I read a Danny Boyle interview about a year ago where he said that they'd started filming it but all the main cast looked too tanned and healthy. The easy living of success had softened them up and that they didn't seem keen on losing weight etc.
Wasn't there also supposed to be a film about 'On The Road' with Brad Pitt coming out? Could be a real mess but I thought it was all finished.
Wasn't there also supposed to be a film about 'On The Road' with Brad Pitt coming out? Could be a real mess but I thought it was all finished.
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I didn't know that Danny Boyle is going to make the 'Porno' adaptation ? He has a current movie out in the states, " Millions " that has glowing reviews. Bit of a children's movie, but still want to see it, the movie trailer looks good. Big fan of his body of work, thought 'Shallow Grave' was brilliant and that 'The Beach' was under-rated. He had a falling out w/ Ian McGregor, because McGregor wanted the part in 'The Beach' , but gave it to DiCaprio, did they mend their differences ?
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i don't think so, or not unless it's happened recently. as far as i understand, ewan had been given the part, or was naturally expected to play it, but danny boyle went for leonard and a bigger budget. i like leonardo dicaprio, but you can watch the beach and hear the lines being said in ewan's voice, it was meant for him.He had a falling out w/ Ian McGregor, because McGregor wanted the part in 'The Beach' , but gave it to DiCaprio, did they mend their differences ?
film;
LOTR (sorry)
Monty python and the holy grail/life of brian
Three colours
Atanerguat -the fast runner
The wild bunch
dr strangelove
the incredibles
TV;
father ted
Play;
rebecca
sgt musgraves dance
king lear
Ballet;
giselle
anyold thing by stravinsky
composer;
boulez
varese
glass
Books;
cryptonomicon -neal stephenson
bound for glory -woody guthrie
grapes of wrath -steinbeck
lotr (sorry again)
'art'
picasso (guernica really-i can take or leave the rest to be honest)
johns
bacon
lee
...actually this doesn't seem like a very complete list. it'll do
LOTR (sorry)
Monty python and the holy grail/life of brian
Three colours
Atanerguat -the fast runner
The wild bunch
dr strangelove
the incredibles
TV;
father ted
Play;
rebecca
sgt musgraves dance
king lear
Ballet;
giselle
anyold thing by stravinsky
composer;
boulez
varese
glass
Books;
cryptonomicon -neal stephenson
bound for glory -woody guthrie
grapes of wrath -steinbeck
lotr (sorry again)
'art'
picasso (guernica really-i can take or leave the rest to be honest)
johns
bacon
lee
...actually this doesn't seem like a very complete list. it'll do
When the hand points to the moon only the fool looks at the finger
Filmic ("Is that a word? It is now!")
Un bande à part (Godard)
Der Amerikanische Soldat (Fassbinder)
Mean Streets (Scorsese)
M (Fritz Lang)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
Dancer In The Dark (Von Trier)
The Five Obstructions (Von Trier & Leth)
Manhattan (Allen)
Le Cercle Rouge (Melville)
Hearts & Minds (Peter Davis)
Dekalog (Kieslowski)
Peeping Tom (Powell)
Psycho (Hitchcock)
and many of the Powell & Pressburger films.
Literary
Incidences - Daniil Kharms
Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
Filth - Irvine Welsh
Hegemony or survival - Noam Chomsky
Woody Allen on Woody Allen / Trier on Von Trier - Stig Björkman
plus a couple of books from finnish and swedish authors, will not list them here.
Music
Too many to mention.
Current Top 10 (in no particular order)
NWA - Gangsta Gangsta
Ulh Lohmann - On Frozen Roads 12"
MC 5 - High Time (180g vinyl edition, just fucking fantastic)
Deathprod - Deathprod
Supersilent 1-3
Stax/Volt Singles (9 CD boxset)
Nieminen & Litmanen
Tuomari Nurmio & Alamaailman Vasarat
David Bowie - Stage
Labradford - Prazision LP
Un bande à part (Godard)
Der Amerikanische Soldat (Fassbinder)
Mean Streets (Scorsese)
M (Fritz Lang)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
Dancer In The Dark (Von Trier)
The Five Obstructions (Von Trier & Leth)
Manhattan (Allen)
Le Cercle Rouge (Melville)
Hearts & Minds (Peter Davis)
Dekalog (Kieslowski)
Peeping Tom (Powell)
Psycho (Hitchcock)
and many of the Powell & Pressburger films.
Literary
Incidences - Daniil Kharms
Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
Filth - Irvine Welsh
Hegemony or survival - Noam Chomsky
Woody Allen on Woody Allen / Trier on Von Trier - Stig Björkman
plus a couple of books from finnish and swedish authors, will not list them here.
Music
Too many to mention.
Current Top 10 (in no particular order)
NWA - Gangsta Gangsta
Ulh Lohmann - On Frozen Roads 12"
MC 5 - High Time (180g vinyl edition, just fucking fantastic)
Deathprod - Deathprod
Supersilent 1-3
Stax/Volt Singles (9 CD boxset)
Nieminen & Litmanen
Tuomari Nurmio & Alamaailman Vasarat
David Bowie - Stage
Labradford - Prazision LP