Wednesday, December 23, 2009
12/23/09
Today, I'm airing grievances and competing in feats of strength. Come, gather 'round the pole.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Movie Quote of the Week
"What was that? Did the primary buffer panel just fly off my gorram ship?"
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Movie Quote of the Week
"The game is Cutthroat. The idea is to keep your balls on the table and knock everyone else's off."
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
12/9/09
- Project: Demo Reel
- Study: lighting
- Project: Veteran's Day Parade
- Take more photographs
- Read more books
- Study: camera movement
- Project: Senior Thesis script
- Study: lenses
- Study: more lighting
- Go lots of places. Especially at night.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Movie Quote of the Week
"It seems like only yesterday I was strafing so many of your homes. Here I am today, begging you to not make such good cars."
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's Murderous Mess>
via IGN.
This game disgusts me. Everything about it. It's disturbing.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Movie Quote of the Week
"Well, I suppose it was because Peter was just such a sweet little boy, you know? And you...you were more like me. And I didn't want you to be."
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Movie Quote of the Week
"Beneath this mask in an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof."
Remember, remember.
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Movie Quote of the Week
"I'm not questioning your powers of observation, I'm merely remarking on the paradox of asking a masked man who he is."
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Movie Quote of the Week
"I put no stock in religion. By the word of religion, I've seen the lunacy of every denomination be called the Will of God. I've seen too much 'religion' in the eyes of too many murderers."
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
Get 'em started early!
I found this at the Salvation Army.
(apparently, it doesn't want to get smaller/center like I told it to...yay blogger UI!)
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
8/31/09
You know you're in the future when you read something that says "WARNING: This document contains sensitive electronics."
Movie Quote of the Week
"Everything was there and around us. We knew exactly who we were and where we were going. It was grand."
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
6/19/09
I was bored today>
Enjoy, if you can.
It's better when you're making things rather than just doing things.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Movie Quote of the Week
"I am in a world of shit, yes. But I am alive. And I am not afraid."
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
5/29/89
Red: "Twenty years. Jesus, when you say it like that--"
Andy: "You wonder where it all went."
And here I am.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Movie Quote of the Week
"Whatca got ain't nothin new. This country's hard on people, you can't stop what's coming, it ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity."
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No guesses.
Trailer for The Road
Directed by John Hillcoat (The Proposition) and starring Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, and Robert Duvall.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Movie Quote of the Week
"Fresh? Fresh as monkey breath, brother."
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Matt Lax was the first (and only) to guess it right.
Now You're a Hero
The best ending song to any video game, by far.
Listen to the song here:
Play the game here:
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Movie Quote of the Week
"It happened in the summer of 1959 - a long time ago, but only if you measure in terms of years. I was living in a small town in Oregon called Castle Rock. There were only twelve hundred and eighty-one people. But to me, it was the whole world."
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No guesses.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Annie Leibowitz: Directors and Their Stars; via Quixotando
Annie Leibowitz does a series of images with directors some of 2008's biggest movies and their stars.
April 14, 1912: Coming Full-Circle
Ninety-seven years ago, First Officer Murdoch shouted "Hard a-starboard!" over the Atlantic.
Monday, April 13, 2009
The Iron Giant
The Iron Giant>
Probably the last great animated feature before Pixar took over mainstream animations.
Movie Quote of the Week
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Went to quarry, found leg.
Came across this deer leg in the quarry on one of the burned out cars. The leg was on the roof of the car; I'm still trying not to think of how it got up there.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Violence and Video Games
"Me, I'd rather be in the world where I know all violent crime is not OK, so I do it online where it doesn't count."
-Owen Good, in an article on Kotaku about the new Judge Mathis game.
P.S. Can anyone tell me why Blogger doesn't like Copy and Paste?
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Gleaning potential controversy from Konami's 'Six Days in Fallujah'
Making a game about the Iraq war? While it's still going on? Not to mention one of the most controversial and violent battles of the war? Probably not the most intelligent or sensitive decision.
Besides being the bloodiest battle of the Iraq War, the battle is controversial mostly for the Americans' use of White Phosphorus as an offensive weapon. While not considered a chemical weapon by the Chemical Weapons Commission, many other groups consider it to be so. At first, the Department of Defense denied the use of the chemical as a weapon, then later admitted to using it during the battle.
The point of a video game is to tell a specific story through the audience interacting with the world itself; they are, in effect, living a specific fantasy designed by the developer of the game. The publisher of the game (Konami) state in the article that they want to make a "piece of entertainment", and that's how it's going to read: The on-going war as entertainment.
Tilt/Shift Movie Stills
My friend Victoria and I did a project where we took stills from films and applied the Tilt/Shift effect to them to make them look like dioramas or models.
Our aim was to point out the fallacy and fantasy of film. It is important to note, however, it is not a criticism of film, but merely addressing a basic nature of the medium.
Here are a few of them:
Monday, April 6, 2009
Robert Ballard
Robert Ballard: Exploring the ocean’s hidden worlds
This is a condensed version of the talk I saw him give a few weeks ago (see post). He leaves out a few things here, most notably the life on Mars segment and an extension of the Black Sea segment.
The life on Mars segment is an extension of the part about chemosynthesis (photosynthesis in the dark). He says that the bacteria that utilizes chemosynthesis is the most probable origin of life on this planet; he also says that if there’s water, this bacteria will be there. NASA has already discovered traces of water on Mars. Ballard believes that if they just drill down, they will find life—in the form of this bacteria—on Mars.
In the extension of the Black Sea segment, he adds that if the wood of a sunken ship and honey seals are perfectly preserved, so will human bodies. Imagine finding a perfectly preserved corpse—from the time of Caesar, or even before.
Movie Quote of the Week
"What I'm looking for is someone who can contribute to what England has given to the world: culture, sophistication, genius. A little bit more than an 'ot dog, know what I mean?"
Guess it.
(next Monday I'll post a new quote with the answer to this one)
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Here's the Deal
I had to compromise, so I'm doing this a little differently. I started a blog on Blogger because that's where everyone is, but my blog is really on tumblr, because I like it better. However, Blogger, being really awesome, won't let me automatically import posts from my tumblr blog (like tumblr lets me do); so, I've added a "gadget" (below) that imports the links from the posts my tumblr blog.
So now I can follow all of my friends and (hopefully) they can follow me.
My tumblr blog is here. It automatically posts my Vimeo uploads, too (which Blogger won't do).
I'll post updates when I make a new post on my tumblr.
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