January 25, 2005
Workaholic Rehab
So last semester I basically realized that I had become a workaholic, and that my life priorites were askew. I'm not sure exactly when it started (the realization that is). Maybe it was around the time of my birthday when I had such difficulty getting people together to help celebrate with me--in fact people seemed disinterested. But no, it started earlier than that. It started in mid-November when I was trying to figure out the protagonist of my romantic comedy. It was at that point that I realized how self-centered my focus had been--how I was only seeing people for what they could do for me, rather than just as people.
Well these realizations were like (I'd imagine) coming off a drug addiction. Around finals time last semester, I found that I had difficulty functioning, this new awareness now firmly in my head. The realization that hit hardest I think was that I lacked an accesible core group of friends--that my personal life was too intertwined with my professional one to really have an existence of its own.
This semester, I'm endeavering to live differently--to actively work on my personal life--to get to really know the people in my life better. But it's been difficult--mainly because it's a new way of thinking for me. Without one creative project or another to keep me busy at any given moment, there is a vacuum there that I need to learn to fill in different ways.
It's also difficult because I feel like the culture of the cinema school, or perhaps the city as a whole, is so rooted in achieving personal success (at all costs, one might even say). And here I am thinking I'd like to devote nearly equal time to my personal life as I do to my professional life. Finding like-minded people around here might prove difficult...but I guess I'll keep trying nonetheless.
High School Nostalgia
Was listening to Launchcast Internet Radio again today, and it started playing "Seether" by Veruca Salt. For some reason, this made me think about high school. Nostalgia's an interesting thing because you only tend to remember the good parts, rather than all the annoyances and the fact that you've come so far as a person since then.
Especially in the beginning of high school, there's this feeling of "I'm in a new place with new people. Completely unexplored territory, anything's possible." Free of the "realities" of adulthood, the mind is free to imagine the possibilities.
Someday I will write a 90s nostalgia movie! Oh yes I will!
January 18, 2005
CTIN 542 - Public Interactive Spaces
Tech City
Opening February 1, 2005 at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, Balboa Park, San Diego
Many aspects of our daily lives are designed and maintained by engineers. This exhibition highlights the engineering that makes Tech City work. Tech City features 12 highly interactive exhibit stations for museum visitors of all ages. The exhibit stations present real-world problems that can be solved using an engineering approach that includes opportunities for designing, building, testing and modifying. In this exhibition, visitors can design a bridge, regulate traffic at a busy intersection, build a dam, and design a structure that can withstand an earthquake.
Powers of Nature
Opening Feb. 4th at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, WA
Whip up a tornado in a tank, juggle Earth's crustal plates, create your own thunderstorm, or start your own earthquake or volcanic eruption as you explore the events that shape and shake our world in Pacific Science Center's newest exhibition, Powers of Nature.
January 06, 2005
Now You Too Can Create Mods for the Original Prince of Persia!
Feeling betrayed, as I do, that Ubisoft is calling Prince of Persia: Warrior Within "Prince of Persia 2", I went on a little nostalgia trip with my friend Google and found this, a level-editor for Prince of Persia 1 (the 1990-version, NOT Sands of Time)
Quick! Download it before Ubisoft shuts them down!