Thursday, November 20, 2008

On a lighter note

Ear of corn shorts kicked ass. And im not saying that to kiss your ass andre because you were the vana white of the program but it did. I did really know what i was getting into i knew they were more experimental shorts, and i recognized Provost from class with gravity but over all i just wanted to go to a good block with alot of variety and thats exactly what i got, plus a Q and A is a very small intimate venue to boot. fucking perfect. bear with me because im bad with names and titles but ill try to go in order. The first film i thought was really interesting. One because i have been messing around with this exact sort of thing... sine rob stole Andre's drawing pad for me to work on taints mouth. Thanks by the way.. anyway i thought it was awesome. a simple parred down idea. Very specific but interesting at the same time. It was just overhead shot from a plane or like google maps and animations of line cutting up the land into what i assumed were developing communities or building or parking lots of whatever the fuck our country feels like putting up. It gave me and very specific feel that i get when im in a plane flying back to new jersey of back here to north carolina. I always get a window seat since i was a child. I traveled a lot with my family when we were all together. Fiji New zealand mexico bahamas puerto rico yearly and all over the states. i was fucking spoiled i know it, but anyway i was always the kid with my face glued to the window ...while my brother was this kid with his head in the vomit bag... but as i got older i would do the same but think about it alot more. New Jersey is one of the most densely populated states in the US. It was interesting to see the progression Ive flown out of Newark or Philly or atlantic city airports sooooo many times and usually go west or south into the rural areas. It was really interesting how the filmmakers sort of simulatd the way corporations of housing developers just cut up land like a puzzle with little regard to what is already there. I really liked the sound scape and the progression of the images with the beats of the song. It was a cool approach.
So the next one that caught my eye was the japanese animated short.. mi mi mi or ayi ayi ayi or yo yo yo shannon just told me it and now i forget. It cover such a huge amount of material in like a minute or two. Im soo impressed with that kind of rapid fire approach. They used the idea of a cartoon child like sing along to address fairly serious issues. and it was fucking a hilarious satirical short. Im a sucker for dancing dicks. I really want to watch it again soo i can quote some of the lines but i think i was laughing to hard to remember any of them..... to be continued

fucking dead chicks

Soooo Cucalorus huh.. this year lived up to all my expectations. some great films some not so great ones some terrible ones and lots of drinking. soo i guess this post will be about the film is did not like so much. Dead Girl... soo background story I was really excited to see this film i love horror films even campy ones. It seemed like this would fit my mold. it was a pretty independent production as well soo i was pumped. I took a little break from downtown so i didnt get worn out my midnight so i could see Dead Girl.i had prior engagements to stop by a friend's birthday party. So i headed downtown at about 11 30 got a seat right up front and sat down to enjoy my film. By that point most of the people at the theater were quite intoxicated. I thought this would make for an interesting viewing experience. So by about 45 minutes through the film i started to become angry and this anger just contined to grow and grow with every use of the word "dude". I anyone says there was no arch to this film they are wrong there is an arch in the quality of acting. It progressively got worse and worse. i heard people argue that the dialogue was modern but i refuse to believe we all talk like dumbasses no a days. It was like if Highschool Musical fucked every bad horror film that came out in the last 2 years and had a "retarded" "dude" child. I hear a total of 45 people walked out of this film. As for myself i made it through the whole film and walked out of the theater at 2 to realize it was every too late to drink that shit out of head because all the bars had closed by that time. Okay soo maybe my review is a little harsh and exaggerated. but it was a learning experience. I know im not gunna like every film i got to at a film festival and this year i saw a few i was not fond of. Good dick was not so good dick maybe mediocre dick as a i put it in shannons paper. but its all for the better knowledge of my interest in film. Im just narrowing down the shit i will never ever put in my films. I will most likely stay away from teenie highschool films now.. I do like horror films but i dont think ive seen a good one in theaters in years. Im not into shock value. I mean two hours of fucking a dead chick. Dicks getting bitten in half... shitting out your intestines.. not me and i know that now. I mean just seeing this film didnt show me that but it sure as hell reassured it. I think ill stick to my classic horror films in private and makes film of another content. Another good asspect of seeing this is ... I feel way better about any idea that i have come up with when movies like these are getting produced out of the taint of the film industry. now i sound pompous again im exaggerating but i still say fuck Dead Girl. oh and ive learned i should ever do movie reviews either.. i learned that just now.. yeh

Monday, November 10, 2008

Thursday, November 6, 2008

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I got vomit on my sweata already moms pascetti

that was a 8 mile reference in no one got it... freestyle.. i duno fuck it. What i would like to talk about in this post actually has to do with an experimental film projects which was inspire mostly my this class and with the help of andre in the final cut field. im sure shannon will read this soo im sorry for no posting this on your blogg maybe ill link it or copy and paste or something. soo i recently completed my self portrait and after screaming my brains out and throwing my tripod at the wall and slicing open my finger i is finally outputted and ready for viewing .. a day after it was due. im very happy i didnt smash my computer but i should have know a couple of hundred still photos would give my mac a computer STD urethra blockage when i was outputting. So my self portrait was kinda bout me having stress problem as you can see in the sentences above.. very ironic that a work about me being stressed brought out the hate in my heart for inanimate objects. but anyway i basically made a skateboarding part with still photos in a flip book type format.. so the background information.. i am a skateboarder.. i have been skating since maybe 4th or 5th grade i used to skate competitions when i was younger. and the concept was that i am prescribed to anxiety drugs but i dont take them often and skateboarding really has been my escape. i could take my anger out on my board and it seemed that all my other problems went away soo i wanted to describe this visually. So i got on the phone with all the older filmers i knew and my friends from home and asked them to upload all the old videos they had to youtube. I had hours of vhs footage from when i was younger that i would editing along with a friend Bill Spice. So i rounded up clips that i liked visually not for necessarily the best trick i had done but ones that had some sort of visual appeal and often alot of those were of me falling on my face which i liked. i didnt want to to be perfect i wanted it to kind show my whole experience of skateboarding. and i focused on alot of riding shots because to me thats one of the most relaxing parts of skating. soo i took all the clips sped them up and exported them as image sequences. i then printed the image sequences on index sheets.. which didnt fucking print in numerically order soo i had to though them and re oder them. i bought sticker paper previously soo some were on sticker paper and some werent but i basically made flip books with the little picture and took and digital camera and re "filmed" them in a sense. it took a long fucking time to say the least. id experiment with backgrounds as well i tryed to find reflective surfaces.. i guess creating a motif in a sense.. glass beer bottles and cans i shot through a bowl of water and other semi symbolic images. often you cant tell what they are or what the trick is that im doing but.. i guess that the point..I tried to parallel that with a very blurry shot of myself to open the whole piece . this whole idea was taken from our 2 plabe stop animation sheet i thought the idea of making stills move was soo interesting. i almost felt like i was recreating the moving picture.. ha because that about how slow it was going .. but i really liked the result and ill give u a link to my other blogg where its posted.. but thank you again for cutting my work in half.these alot more to talk about with my sound design but that doesnt concert this class as much anddddddd... im freestyled out.. you just got served

im soo confused about blog topics soo im going write a short one about 3d because im not sure if we had to but i want to anyway ... the end

The 3d exercise was one of the hardest things i think we've done in this class which is weird to say because i thought it would be easy. its sooo hard to think of an idea on the spot. its a really cool exercise though. trying to come up with an idea a location and actors and crew. its chaos and that my favorite was to work. it challenged everyone. But most of alli liked making my 3d glasses which i forgot and im sorry for that. But it was eally cool to doing all these different aspects.. shooting.. planning.. acting... editing .. and the last dimension or 3rd dimension.. making the glasses by hand. I think this was one of the coolest things we have done soo far. It was also cool to see after effects im such a noob to editing with good systems like final cut and after effects and i look learning new stuff. ive been editing on imovie for a year before this and i think i should have attempted suicide at least once a week but im strong. Im not learning all the ins and outs of final cut and i cant wait to get more into after effects.... maybe in modes of animation???? its very strange though the week before u told us about the 3d assignment i was on the pot doing my business and i picked up the 3d issue of surfer magazine which came with 3d glasses at the time i just thought how fun it would be for someone to walk in on me on the toilet with my pants at my ankles wearing 3d glasses but it was really cool to add this weird effect to all the photos that you see every month of surfers and waves. little did i know( in the bam margera marbles in my mouth east Pennsylvania accent).. i would be shooting and editing in 3d in the soon future. Neato.