Long Post Running

Soo, its been a long time, yeah very long time. What can I saw November was insanely hectic as was the beginning of December. School was clamping down, the projects were piling up, the papers where down to the wire. So, I guess the big thing for this semester was the winter show for the NNW, it went very well but I'll post more about that later once the video is edited and I've sorted through all the photo documentation, I've been lagging, aka been on vacation finally!

Well vacation is almost over now and I have spent about 2 and a half or almost 3 weeks sick, it sucked. Being home was a lot of fun, and I needed it. Got to hang with all my friends and stuff and wander around the neighborhood. Saw the Murakami show, I have experienced the "superflat" that is Murakami and his Corporation of art. Ran into this while at the mall while shopping in the heat of the Christmas 11th hour madness that seemed oddly non-existent.



This is from the newly remodeled formerly Max Foods now an Albertson's.



It's weird a lot of things changed when I was back home, a local news reporter died, another news reporter split from the only station I ever knew him on to of all places Fox. Stores were erected and houses as well. Things remodeled and updated. Things appearing out of nowhere.

My mom got some new rubber on her car, so I had a little bit of fun while driving her car when I was back home. I realized one of the biggest differences between NY and LA driving. Throttle. You never put it anywhere near the floor in NY. Gosh I miss mashing that pedal to the floor. Especially during the delivery dash of Christmas cards.

Speaking of driving though, Colin McRae Rally for Mac finally came out, may he rest in peace. Awesome game, totally addicted and one of the reasons why I haven't posted during this vacation besides WoW. It's made me contemplate getting a racing wheel and pedals, they got this nice one from Logitech with paddle shifting, MOMO. Here's some mayhem from the game.


Flying through the air in a Lancia Delta.


Heavily damaged Ford Cosworth.


Flying Subie sans hood.


And Rolling the Subie.


One last jump.


and of course a Rick Roll siting.

It's actually funny Rick Rolling or rather the concept behind rick rolling ended up coming towards the end of the semester which was awesome. Speaking of awesome, a couple of things, first seeing the Lawerence Weiner exhibit at the Whitney during Thanksgiving which was really good and tasty I have to dig up a picture of the Turkey, it came out so damn tender, juicy. The continuing series of Nikkatsu Action Cinema, also super awesome. As well as this new cuban place me and Audrey tried out, the meat was soo good. Oh and danish.



and mariachis



And with that I will end this post for today, more to come hopefully soon.

Nikkatsu, Barricade, and Mas School

So, today after class Audrey and I went up into the East side of Midtown to Japan Society. It was the opening of a film series, "No Borders, No Limits: 1960's Nikkatsu Action Cinema," that's looking at the old Nikkatsu action films from the 1960's (tad redundant taint we?). This being during the Japanese New Wave period in cinema. I personally love the films from this period, with films such as "Branded to Kill" and "The Pornographers" (a must see if you haven't seen it go watch it now, now I say, you can finish reading about what's going on in my daily possibly not so interesting life later. Don't forget to come back and comment mind ye).

So, the first in this series was "A Colt is My Passport." It was awesome, it had the lead actor from "Branded to Kill" as well as it is directed by the same director, Seijun Suzuki. There is a lot of reflexivity in the film upon its own events. Like there is one scene that has the main character trying to figure out what weapon to use in a confrontation, then we see the opposition pondering what weapon he might use, that is then being watched by the main character by some binoculars. Oh, and don't forget awesome timing with music cues that are trumpet heavy, so heavy and melo-dramatic at times that you half expect a trumpet player to come marching in the room. Also, the end awesome, some McGuyver stuff goes down and the main character essentially sticks a time bomb on the bottom of a car as it is attempting to run him down, which then explodes.

They had a reception after the film, the food was so good, we didn't have to get any dinner. Two words, beef rolls. They were so good. Oh and guess what, they got student rates as well, oh yah!

In other news I got books in the mail and my so-called gift to myself for my b-day, the Deluxe Transformers Barricade. That thing was nigh on impossible to find. I never saw it in a store, Amazon is trying to sell this 10 dollar toy for 60 bucks. Insane hey? Ya, I was able to get it much cheaper which was good, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten it. It's really nice and looks wicked as you can see.



School has been marching on and with it so has my life and my time, oi. I've been forced to cut back my hours at Tekserve, two days a week now, we'll see how that works out. The globalization/hybridization class continues to get better and more interesting along with fun digressions like the movie Red Dawn, GO WOLVERINES SAVE OUR MCDONALDS FROM THE COMMIES! Last week in Media Change I presented on a chapter from Flusser about looking at the camera as an apparatus, made me think about Web 2.0 and issues of power, who really has it, (hint it's not the users). That assertion heated up the discussion, and lately I've become the real Web 2.0 basher. It's become my deal almost that and issues of power, the real and post-modernity all of which came up within the mapping class. I feel with that class, it could be a lot more interesting or could become it if people wanted to engage more thoroughly the issue of power in relation to the practice of mapping or its inherent presence. Oh well, I get my presentation in two weeks on the manipulative aspects of mapping, exactly what I'm interested and doing. That brings me to the NNW, I have now integrated the FBI's to wanted terrorists and domestic terrorists into the word list. There's so many aliases for everyone, it's insane, not to mention what people are wanted for.

Anyways I need to get up tomorrow to go to work, oi. So, laters.