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1 notebook with ringed binding and black cover and backing. Lined paper inside, filled with notes.
PLEASE HELP FIND MY BABY!
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October 26, 2004
October 18, 2004
Resfest 2004
Aaron and I checked out Film Shorts #2 at resfest this past friday.
Such great stuff - really makes you see how Hollywood special effects designers still have a long way to go before they can catch up to the indie scene.
Here we are, at the new-age photo booth (not surprisingly, sponsored by Diesel, who had an extremely intense presence at the fest).
October 17, 2004
Talk about Visionary!
Courtesy of The Onion
AMIENS, FRANCE—Literary scholars announced Monday that they have unearthed a 33-page handwritten manuscript of "The Camera-Phone," a short story believed to have been written in 1874 by French novelist Jules Verne, the man often considered to be the originator of modern science fiction.
DJ Spooky, Recasting 'Birth of a Nation'
via NPR
Weekend Edition Sunday, Oct 17, 2004.
Paul D. Miller, also known as DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, has taken his talents remixing sound and music for the club scene, and applied them to a new medium: film.
He's been touring the world presenting D.W. Griffith's 1915 film The Birth of a Nation as a video remix called "Rebirth of a Nation."
The film, based on a 1905 novel called The Clansman, was a breakthrough in the early days of cinema, but its racist subject matter and crude stereotypes earned Griffith much scorn.
"In a certain sense what I'm doing is portraying the film as he intended it," DJ Spooky says of his remix. "This is a film glorifying a horrible situation. And I think a modern sensibility is something where people will look at this and go like 'Oh, I can't believe this, I don't relate to it, I don't think this is right, what does he mean?' So it's not letting him off the hook so much as presenting the film and actually having it fall in on itself."
Find related links,interviews, and footage of the remix at NPR's report.
The Medium is the Message
This Sunday, Oct 24th, my favorite live music group, Gogol Bordello is performing at The Knitting Factory in Los Angeles.
A gypsy-rock-dance fusion, this is one of those bands that you have to experience live. You can get a feel for the music on the website, but it doesn't even come close to capturing the feeling they bring to the stage. With all the performance energies of a gypsy performance group and a rock n' roll band combined, I encourage all of you who enjoy live music to attend. But be warned - I can get seriously possessed by their music, and can't take responsibility for my actions during their show.
October 11, 2004
Themes and Concepts
For the Edwards Scissorhands Trailer.
Analog Puppetry
I saw the sneak preview of this film last Saturday, and really loved it. I will put out the disclaimer that I give a whole lot of points in my film reviews for originality. Maybe originality is the wrong word, though, since the style is based on the action series Thunderbirds. However, the use of puppets in relationship to the content is what I feel makes it so pleasing to watch. I think in the age where every third-grader is familiar with the term "puppet democracy", there is no joke lost as the film's use of puppets highlights and enhances keypoints in the narrative of the film.
Also, the film follows the classic three-act structure of a blockbuster film right down the to A, B, and C story lines. All of you who have taken a screenwriting class or have read a book on the subject should notice this. I felt like the use of these conventions helped the story because the plot points were all so easily recognizable, that it really let the strange Brechtian quality of the puppets shine. Since the audience wasn't concerned with following a plot, they could focus on the subtle and not-so-subtle jokes of the film.
October 5, 2004
Time and Responsibility
I think this is what Naimark was referring during our 532 discussion on "The Clock of the Long Now" by Stewart Brand. Scroll to the bottom to check out Brand speaking at last years Ars Electronica.