Jakob Montrasio

Jakob Montrasio

Jakob Montrasio is a screenwriter, photographer, and digital storyteller with a passion for vivid imagery and strong narratives. Drawing from years of international experience in film, design, and web development, he crafts stories that connect emotion, culture, and technology.

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Cinema

Men: The Door – Ein psychologischer Abstieg in die Dunkelheit der Seele

Regisseurin Shaohong Li inszeniert mit The Door einen intensiven, atmosphärisch dichten Thriller, der die Abwärtsspirale eines Mannes inmitten der gewaltigen, sich ständig wandelnden Kulisse von Chongqing – einer Stadt mit 32 Millionen Menschen – nachzeichnet. In bester Cronenberg-Manier verschwimmen hier Realität und Fantasie, während der…

Life

2raumwohnung in Nanjing

Yesterday was the first official day of the german festival here in Nanjing. The first act on the big stage, where I got an job as a camera man, was a chinese orchestra which performed german classic songs. Was nice. But then came the main…

Vacation

Empty Beach.

<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yakobusan/1523072406/" title="Photo Sharing"><img loading="lazy" src="https://montras.io/media/posts/254/1523072406_54b50c5b00.jpg" alt="Sanya: Empty Beach" width="500" height="332"></a><br><br>Yeah, it was good to wait until the golden week in China was over. Sanya rocks!<br><br>We're in a nice hotel with a nice beach at Yalong bay at the moment. Gotta go eat some fresh fish now. More pictures later - maybe!</p>

Photography

Golden week, so far: Ningbo, a lake, tea mountain and faked cities.

<figure class="post__image"><img loading="lazy" src="https://montras.io/media/posts/253/hengdian_fake_beijing_palace_by_yakobusan_d13l0as-fullview.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="600"></figure><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/66485188/">Hengdian Fake Beijing Palace</a> by =<a class="u" href="http://yakobusan.deviantart.com/">yakobusan</a> on <a href="http://www.deviantart.com">deviant</a><a href="http://www.deviantart.com">ART</a><br><br>This pictures was <strong>not</strong> taken in Beijing.<br><br>Confusing headline? You should have seen me when I was standing in the fake forbidden palace! <em>Hengdian World Studios</em> is the name of the crazy movie studio that 'rebuild' the forbidden city for cinematic purposes. And not only Beijing, but they also copied some buildings from Xi'An, Hongkong, Guangzhou and other cities. I didn't know this, but quite a few big movie titles were completely or partly shot here: Gong Li's THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN, Zhen Kaige's horrible THE PROMISE and last but not least Zhang Yimou's latest drama THE CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER. And countless chinese TV series, as it seems.</p>

China

My first driving lesson in China!

Last sunday was the 'premiere': I had my very first driving lesson in Shanghai's Xuhui district, near Caobao road line one subway station. The license costs me about 4000 kuai and it will take 'at least' 3 months to get it, as the teacher said.

Cinema

Zhu and Gou: Almost done.

This is a graphical view on the contents of the ZHU AND GOU DVD that I am currently producing. Regular users of the software will immediately recognize that I am using Apple's DVD Studio Pro to create my wedding movie DVD. Anyway, all the content&hellip;

Technology

osCommerce? I'll wait for StoreSuite.

I've been searching a lot around the net lately for a decent shopping system that is PHP/MySQL driven, and the best thing I found was osCommerce - so far. I noticed today that there is a new shopping CMS being developed at Intersprire which is&hellip;

Technology

SEO list: Where to add your Google Sitemaps.

You've created the Google Sitemaps file with one of the many available Wordpress plugins? You added it to your Google Webmaster Tools account? You added it to your robots.txt file? Good. I did that, too. But all that work, just for Google? Of course, Google&hellip;

Gaming

WARNING! Do not buy The Sims 2: Pets (if you have a wife)!

After buying the Nintendo Wii the weekend before last, we headed back to the store on friday evening where we bought it, near line 2 station Dongchang road. We wanted a second Wii controller all week badly to play Wii Sports: Tennis and other games&hellip;

China

Buying a Nintendo Wii in Shanghai.

I wanted a Xbox 360. But then I saw that the prices for HDTV's didn't drop that much and that we probably weren't going to buy one anytime soon. No HDTV, no Xbox 360 necessary. I don't wanna play Halo 3 on a 21 inch&hellip;