"Hey baby, do you need a paper towel to wipe that." Oh wait that would be the old Brawny man, the new one is sensitive and kind, not like the old guy who was a porn star (it's all in the mustache). So, anyways I thought this was the most novel way that once could carry a big ole thing of paper towels home from the market since it doesn't fit in a grocery bag. Genius!
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Cheese Steaks Calling
So, this week has been quite nice, a lot more laid back than last week which is nice. Audrey is visiting, she's attending the C.A.A. conference here in New York. We've had some great food this week, BBQ, delivery sushi, sit down sushi, good burgers at a clandestine burger joint hidden behind a curtain in a big swanky hotel in midtown even. Been to two gallery openings this week was fun. Met a group of her friends, that were all pretty awesome, especially Wayne and Emily. Also, Jessica, a former NYU alumni who let me in on some of the things in the know, like the library has plastic bags to carry your books home in if you ask. I was like why the f would anyone not bring their backpack. Logic defies me sometimes.
It defies in other ways. Today, I got an email from this curator at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Apparently he saw Cal Arts' Experimental Animation Showcase from this past year, which I was in. So, he saw it and saw my piece and emailed me to ask me to be part of the Philadelphia Film Festival and that I would be screened along with Bill Plympton and Don Hertzfeldt which is like GAGh??? I still have to email him back since I got the email really late tonight. He also was like basically I'd like to see your other work and facilitate you as much as possible in the city of Philadelphia. So, bloody bizarre. I didn't even know our school sent out our reel to prospective people organizing film festivals. Anyhow, whatever the case, I will be emailing him back and finding out the details and if everything goes through "Death, Destruction, & The Weather Coming Up Next" will be heading to the land of cheese steaks and brotherly love.
It defies in other ways. Today, I got an email from this curator at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Apparently he saw Cal Arts' Experimental Animation Showcase from this past year, which I was in. So, he saw it and saw my piece and emailed me to ask me to be part of the Philadelphia Film Festival and that I would be screened along with Bill Plympton and Don Hertzfeldt which is like GAGh??? I still have to email him back since I got the email really late tonight. He also was like basically I'd like to see your other work and facilitate you as much as possible in the city of Philadelphia. So, bloody bizarre. I didn't even know our school sent out our reel to prospective people organizing film festivals. Anyhow, whatever the case, I will be emailing him back and finding out the details and if everything goes through "Death, Destruction, & The Weather Coming Up Next" will be heading to the land of cheese steaks and brotherly love.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Black & Green: Revisited
So, I finally got around to signing my java applet for my final project for one of my classes this semester, it's the one with the names of IED victims. Here's the link to Black & Green. Just a refresh of what it is and how it works. Basically it's using the iCasualties.org database on information all Coalition forces who have been killed during the Iraq War by I.E.D.'s. It then parses through the file that I have created from their database (this one currently isn't a live updating one, due to their change in formatting I hope to make it to be able to be live again). It then displays information about those who have died in text form and changes through the names on a semi-random timing each with their own accompanying explosion. This piece I'm going to end up sending to a show at Bethel University that is looking at how to memorialize the Iraq War. So, yeah I just figure I'd put it up so you all can see it and hear it, you do have to turn your volume up a bit though to really hear it, it's a tad quiet at low volume levels, but don't crank it.
The State of the Lt.
It's been awhile since I've actually had something substantial to write about or so it seems I think. This week had been rather busy with kind of culminating in the middle with two of my classes with big projects due. The first was for my experimental documentary class, where I had two short documentaries due on the same topic but done in two different fashions, direct/observational and reflexive/participatory. I decided to do this assignment around my friend Matt's character, Healbotmachl in World of Warcraft. Work flow was a bit of a pain but I succeeded in making them I may post them up later this weekend or sometime in the near future they're not that great as they were done in a weekend, but It's like segway to another project I want to pursue within World of Warcraft which can only be described really as, John Baldessari meets World of Warcraft meets LEEEEEEEEROOOOY JENKKKKKKINNNS!
The other class assignment was a presentation I had to give for another class that's all about massively multi-user games. I of course did my presentation on WoW however I had trouble coming up with a topic and didn't come up with one until the night before the presentation. I decided to do it on naming policies, trends and conventions in WoW. It was a very funny presentation and most of the class was dying laughing including the teachers (one of whom looks like Ron Jeremy). I included real life names int the presentation, such highlights as Stabbymcstabs, Petmypussa (one of matt's characters), Trouserchilli, and Nuck Chorris (I did have a whole section devoted to Chuck Norris). It went over very well, so I was glad. I also was very burnt out having had only about 4hrs of sleep for like two or three days I forget. However, what is good, the bulk of presentation and junk for the whole semester are out of the way since I ended up doing them earlier rather later.
Classes have been very good thus far and engaging for the most part. However going back to my assignment for my documentary class I was about to go off on some of the classmates. The first one was these two students who I really can't stand actually. They used f'n iMovie lightning in their piece and a push wipe and a clock count down wipe. I'm sorry those sins are too grave to be forgiven for. They tried to pass off their bullsh!ttery as their intent to show that they indeed had a perspective and it was their point of view and they wanted it to be "over the top." To that I had to say something and could hold my contempt no longer. I was like I don't believe it worked then because it seems like it was rather haphazardly placed at the end and does not actually convey what you're saying. Had you had been consistent with it maybe, but this was definitely not the case. One person also had a question about one of their shots and was it on purpose that they composed that shot that way, with which it was obvious they hadn't. However, the teacher had a very knee jerk reaction to that and was like every shot has meaning. I feel this is ultimately flawed in it's reasoning and a lil too idealistic and utopian if not naive. Onto the second group of people who I have no bone to pick with however, they decided to do their piece about homeless people. What did they do? They made everything black and white. I had issues with this. I asked them why did they choose to use black and white when it seems that it may over-sentimentalize, marginalize, and aestheticize the subject matter, rather than use color to show the harsh reality. The teacher was like yeah, why did you use black and white? They had no good response to that.
In another class we have begun learning how to snoop on networks and crack them and map them. Very very fun homework I must say.
I'm preparing to send out my IED name piece out to a show about memorializing the Iraq War at Bethel University. I still have to write my proposal, I hope it gets in, I think it's got a good chance I think it's a strong piece.
The NYC recruiter for Apple called me up today to offer me a job actually as a full time Mac Genius, at my pick of stores, however I had to turn down this offer, since it was full time and I have no time to commit 40 hours to a job right now being in school. On another note, I potentially might have an internship with Laurie Anderson however, it's very tentative and I won't know until monday whether or not I got it.
It's cold, it's been bloody cold out here. Early this week I walked to school and it was 9. 9 bloody degrees. It was a lil warmer today which was nice. I'm just glad I'm not in upstate where it's snowing like mad. Unrelated I saw Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Awesome movie and probably one of the best performances I've ever seen by Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro. Great movie, I felt like I was tripping. But ya, I'm tired and it's late. G'nite all.
The other class assignment was a presentation I had to give for another class that's all about massively multi-user games. I of course did my presentation on WoW however I had trouble coming up with a topic and didn't come up with one until the night before the presentation. I decided to do it on naming policies, trends and conventions in WoW. It was a very funny presentation and most of the class was dying laughing including the teachers (one of whom looks like Ron Jeremy). I included real life names int the presentation, such highlights as Stabbymcstabs, Petmypussa (one of matt's characters), Trouserchilli, and Nuck Chorris (I did have a whole section devoted to Chuck Norris). It went over very well, so I was glad. I also was very burnt out having had only about 4hrs of sleep for like two or three days I forget. However, what is good, the bulk of presentation and junk for the whole semester are out of the way since I ended up doing them earlier rather later.
Classes have been very good thus far and engaging for the most part. However going back to my assignment for my documentary class I was about to go off on some of the classmates. The first one was these two students who I really can't stand actually. They used f'n iMovie lightning in their piece and a push wipe and a clock count down wipe. I'm sorry those sins are too grave to be forgiven for. They tried to pass off their bullsh!ttery as their intent to show that they indeed had a perspective and it was their point of view and they wanted it to be "over the top." To that I had to say something and could hold my contempt no longer. I was like I don't believe it worked then because it seems like it was rather haphazardly placed at the end and does not actually convey what you're saying. Had you had been consistent with it maybe, but this was definitely not the case. One person also had a question about one of their shots and was it on purpose that they composed that shot that way, with which it was obvious they hadn't. However, the teacher had a very knee jerk reaction to that and was like every shot has meaning. I feel this is ultimately flawed in it's reasoning and a lil too idealistic and utopian if not naive. Onto the second group of people who I have no bone to pick with however, they decided to do their piece about homeless people. What did they do? They made everything black and white. I had issues with this. I asked them why did they choose to use black and white when it seems that it may over-sentimentalize, marginalize, and aestheticize the subject matter, rather than use color to show the harsh reality. The teacher was like yeah, why did you use black and white? They had no good response to that.
In another class we have begun learning how to snoop on networks and crack them and map them. Very very fun homework I must say.
I'm preparing to send out my IED name piece out to a show about memorializing the Iraq War at Bethel University. I still have to write my proposal, I hope it gets in, I think it's got a good chance I think it's a strong piece.
The NYC recruiter for Apple called me up today to offer me a job actually as a full time Mac Genius, at my pick of stores, however I had to turn down this offer, since it was full time and I have no time to commit 40 hours to a job right now being in school. On another note, I potentially might have an internship with Laurie Anderson however, it's very tentative and I won't know until monday whether or not I got it.
It's cold, it's been bloody cold out here. Early this week I walked to school and it was 9. 9 bloody degrees. It was a lil warmer today which was nice. I'm just glad I'm not in upstate where it's snowing like mad. Unrelated I saw Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Awesome movie and probably one of the best performances I've ever seen by Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro. Great movie, I felt like I was tripping. But ya, I'm tired and it's late. G'nite all.
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Issues of Authenticity
So, funny that issues of "Authenticity" come up even with the Transformers, haha. To think one class I'm in right now doesn't want to even deal with the term authenticity. Also, concern with Aesthetic, haha, yes bloody great.
Busta a Serpent? "Whoo-Hah"
Ya, pretty awesome. Something I wanna do sometime have fun editing like this. I love the "Han Solo" part with Shipwreck and the weed part. So, funny.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
P-Meds, Uncut, the Bomb
So, you know pseudoephedrine, the thing that actually decongests you? The thing that was in NyQuil and the thing that allowed you make piles of meth in your home made chemistry lab with the directions your AP Chem teacher gave you in your class lecture? Well, not very readily available (My wallet is still wincing, damn, j/kin'). Anyhow, ABC has an article about is this withdrawl of pseudoephedrine to behind the counter and out of certain cold remedies really counterproductive? I say yes! I want the bloody cough medicine that knocks me out, that gets me so wasted that I actually feel better in a hurry ("I wanna be Sedated?"). But in all seriousness, I want my pseudoephedrine back, and it's not just cause I have a cold right now, which I do however it's not a congestion based cold so this doesn't really pertain right now. In the words of the wise intergalactic funk brothers known as the O'Jays.
"You've got to give the People. Give the People what they want. You've got to give the People what they want. Well I done been all over the world. And everybody feels the same. It's a unanimous decision. I say we're ready for a change. You've got to give the people pseudoephedrine! Give the people what they want... We want the truth, the truth and no more lies. We want freedom justice and equality. Meth for You and NyQuil for Me."
So, make my funky medicine. I want my medicine uncut. Who wants to get funked up? I want the bomb. I want the cold-meds. I want my meds uncut. Make my funky medicine. Who wants to get funked up?
Oh on a side note, my AP Chem teacher didn't teach us how to make Meth, we talked about it theory, however we went into gracious details about how to make coke and freebase =).
"You've got to give the People. Give the People what they want. You've got to give the People what they want. Well I done been all over the world. And everybody feels the same. It's a unanimous decision. I say we're ready for a change. You've got to give the people pseudoephedrine! Give the people what they want... We want the truth, the truth and no more lies. We want freedom justice and equality. Meth for You and NyQuil for Me."
So, make my funky medicine. I want my medicine uncut. Who wants to get funked up? I want the bomb. I want the cold-meds. I want my meds uncut. Make my funky medicine. Who wants to get funked up?
Oh on a side note, my AP Chem teacher didn't teach us how to make Meth, we talked about it theory, however we went into gracious details about how to make coke and freebase =).
Thursday, January 25, 2007
HOFF-TASTIC
That's right it's the Hoff in his latest music video with an atrociously bad song. But hey it's the Hoff. Kit's in there but he don't talk so that's lame. But hey it's the Hoff.
The Adventures of Lil' Bush
So I was online last night doing stuff and my friend Matt sends me this link. I was like gagh! It's funny, it's disturbing and what's up with Cheney, he's like Frankenstein attack dog or something? Oh yeah and Condi and the tambo, classic. But the Abu-Garib stuff, gosh. But yeah, worth the watch but totally disturbing.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
SNOW!
Jup, it snowed on Saturday morning like at 4 in the am. Of course I went out for novelty factor to enjoy it since I havne't seen snow in a very long time. It was fun. I of courses was the only one out and about wandering around in the snow. Figures.
Me and the snow.
Me writing my initials and my various pseudonyms in the snow.
Thus far classes have seemed like they will be rather good. Still haven't had my monday class yet, I'll have that really bloody early tomorrow, bloody 9am. ARGH! Went to the film library for the first time today, the monitors suck. Or maybe it was a combination 7-11 special, with the monitor and an old VHS tape. I hate VHS. But yeah, watched, Chronicles of Summer, french documentary from the 1960's. I'm not sure if it really is a documentary, however it frames itself very interesting. It starts off by basically saying we're making a documentary and all the people involved in it are well aware of it. They talk about the issue of having the camera watching them. At the end they have all the people in the film see the film about themselves and then get their responses. The directors end up talking about this discussion at the very end of the film. It was kind of odd how much the directors themselves were part of the film because they were very overtly within it. Interesting though. Oi, next weeks screening assignment is super long for my Experimental Documentary class.
Oh and one last thing, I swear one of the teacher's for Massively Multi-User (class looking at MMO games) looks like Ron Jeremy. Just add the mustache and you got Ron.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
19 DEGREES!!!
So, I'm back in New York. I have my first class a morning class, argh. Now of course like an idiot I flip the times for my two mornring classes and think today is my 9am class not my 9:30 class, so I ended up there a half hour early. However, this morning taking a shower was like Groundhog Day, the water was sooo cold and it wasn't warming up. It sucked so bad. That's not the worse though, the temp outside was 19. That is the coldest weather by far I've ever been in. It was bloody cold I could feel it on my nose and face.
The class though I had this morning is like an experimental documentary class. Seems like it will be a rather good class. She showed exerpts of Nanook (hate that film), Man with a Movie Camera (love that film), and Rain (never seen before). When we were discussing we saw at the end of class one person in class was singing praises for Nanook (he'd never seen it before). He thought it was so great, and realisitc, and felt like it could have been made like 10 years ago that it was so contemporary and ahead of it's time. Now me, I've always viewed Nanook as this non-doc doc, because the blasted thing for the most part was totally staged and from a Euro-centric viewpoint. So, I responded to his comment and said that it was constructed and that he clearly says that's what he's doing in the intertitles at the begining, basically I was just shy of saying that Nanook is not a documentary at all. Towards the end of class it was confirmed that, that was in fact the case. I was kinda surprised no one had seen Man with a Movie Camera. So, this week we're posed to go to a screening at MOMA. However, what is being screened I have already seen and well, wasn't very much impressed, Pine Flats by Sarah Lockhart. 150 minutes of 15 10 minutes shots that are mostly static, slightly racial, sexual, and pedophillic. So yeah, that's how things go from New York as of yet. Got class later tonite. Gotta start making dinner so off I go. Lates.
The class though I had this morning is like an experimental documentary class. Seems like it will be a rather good class. She showed exerpts of Nanook (hate that film), Man with a Movie Camera (love that film), and Rain (never seen before). When we were discussing we saw at the end of class one person in class was singing praises for Nanook (he'd never seen it before). He thought it was so great, and realisitc, and felt like it could have been made like 10 years ago that it was so contemporary and ahead of it's time. Now me, I've always viewed Nanook as this non-doc doc, because the blasted thing for the most part was totally staged and from a Euro-centric viewpoint. So, I responded to his comment and said that it was constructed and that he clearly says that's what he's doing in the intertitles at the begining, basically I was just shy of saying that Nanook is not a documentary at all. Towards the end of class it was confirmed that, that was in fact the case. I was kinda surprised no one had seen Man with a Movie Camera. So, this week we're posed to go to a screening at MOMA. However, what is being screened I have already seen and well, wasn't very much impressed, Pine Flats by Sarah Lockhart. 150 minutes of 15 10 minutes shots that are mostly static, slightly racial, sexual, and pedophillic. So yeah, that's how things go from New York as of yet. Got class later tonite. Gotta start making dinner so off I go. Lates.
Chévron Con Techron
Getting some Chévron con Techron in Salt Lake City (It's revolutionary jet fuel you know?). Then of course getting stuck on the ground, argh!
Enroute To Have A Chat With a Morman Child...
I'm not sure what of the country this is but it's getting towards Salt Lake City.
Pac Man Crop Circle
So, on monday I flew back to New York. I was supposed to arrive at 9:30 PM. That didn't happen. So, first the plane is delayed by an hour or so. Then over the intercom this worker tells us in a rather defensive and downwardly looking speaking voice to us, that we are going to have to make a "technical" stop in Salt Lake City, aka have a chat with a Morman child liken to Dr. Tran "a man of action." She, went on to explain in unreasonable detail that there was high winds and short runways at Burbank therefore we could not take off with the full load. She went on to explain that we couldn't leave passengers behind (um, ya?), that we couldn't leave luggage behind due to security issues, lastly we would therefore have to leave fuel behind to get off the ground and then we would have to fuel up in Salt Lake so we'd have enough fuel in the advent that we get stuck in bad weather.
So, we depart. This picture was taken somewhere along the way to Salt Lake, I'm glad I looked out the window to see it. Salt Lake City was completely covered in snow, completely white. We landed on the far end of the airport, I could see some Air Force cargo planes, maybe C130's? So, we taxi for like 20 minutes all the while I gotta use the restroom. We finally stop and I stand in line for the can. We got fueled by a Chevron Tanker.
We're about to take off the engines are up to speed and then they start shutting down. I'm like agh, this can't be good. So, then the pilot is like sorry for more bad news JFK has initiated a ground freeze due to rain so we can't take off until it ends which could be up to an hour and a half. So, we sit in the plane for a good half hour or more and then are cleared to take off. Mind you I'm like bloody starving and need foodage. We take off and head to JFK ending our chat with the Morman child.
Oh mind you they decided to give us free movies on the flight due to the fact we were getting totally shafted along with supposedly 25 dollars back, we'll see. However, the movies were crap, I mean come on Bandidas? What the heck is that? They had The Last King of Scotland which I had wanted to see but come on totally not the movie for a plane ride, to heavy for that sorta thing. The last one I have no clue what it was nor do I remember the name. I swear if they had had Gigli on it I would have incited a riot. Cesar had a very interesting question about would it be a riot or considered "Terrorism." (refer to Robot Chicken)
We land at JFK at about 12:30 am, a full 3 hours late. Get my baggage by 1:25 or so, and i'm starved, down some O.J. and some cheese, non of the food places were open. The terminal seemed like a ghost town. Was standing in line for a cab. The limo guys were trying to hustle some fares. They asked me where I was headed and they were like we'll take you I'm like naw I'll wait for a yellow. A few minutes later they come back and are like we'll give it to you for a flat rate which was like the yellow cab flat rate sans-tip. I was like ok, I had to share but who cares. It woulda cost me like 5 bucks or so more with the tip in the yellow. The people I shared with though apparently had a meeting the next morning at 8 AM and one of their luggage didn't end up on the plane so he was gonna have to reuse clothes and had no deodorant nor toothbrush and he was like argh. They were total out of towners, not like i'm a resident or something but they were constantly chattering about oh I think I know where we are, it's right on the tip of my tongue, bs, trying to impress the other. They also kept talking about bloody reality TV so annoying. Anyhow I got home at about 2:30 AM and crashed promptly good thing I had no class the next day.
No Dumb Jacks
Of course all play and no work makes Jack a dumb boy. Me and Audrey getting some work done at her apartment during the break and me showing off my 5 speed wrist support. Gosh I miss driving stick shift. =(
The Death of MacAddict
A sad month for MacAddicts. MacAddict magazine has ceased to exist and has become MacLife. WTF IS THAT? Man, I got my issue in the mail and thumbed through it, total crapola. I'm so saddened. It's like pandering to the idiot consumer. I saw this copy at Fry's that has like a peel away sticker to reveal the new name. What happened to the good ole' days when it was real hard core, when you had an ex-con as editor in chief. Max if you can here me, let's take back the magazine! Viva La Revolucion!
Gender Confused Snowman?
I saw this snowman/woman/question mark right outside the post office. I'm not sure if it's man or woman or a man, either which way it's missing something or rather something was added.
Rewind to New Years Eve
So, rewinding a lil to show you one pic and video clip from New Years Eve. Balloons so much fun.
Friday, January 05, 2007
DS LITE!
I finally got it! Finally found it at a a store a black DS Lite. So, my Mom got me this for Christmas totally unexpected out of the blue. But yeah she wan't able to find it, but it finally came back in stock. It's so awesome. The screens are mad bright. Mario Kart has been fun so far and just got the New Super Mario, that game looks so damn awesome. I love the animation in it. An odd thing to mention, but the game play is awesome so far haven't gotten very far yet. Totally loving it can't wait to get Advanced Wars: Dual Strike.
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