My sister showed me this this summer when I went home and I got a kick out of it. I really enjoyed the subtle humor of it

and I liked how it was filmed. Simple, but different. It played at the AIFF speaking of which a few years ago

and I discovered that when I was going through the archives.

See? It doesn't have to be extraordinarily visually stimulating to be good. Sometimes the best things are

simple and have a good story or the content is just interesting.

My thoughts on the "Twightlight" Saga

I was watching the beginning of Twilight the other day when I was doing some babysitting. I had seen the movie in the theaters when it first came out, but I haven't seen it since then. I'm not going to lie. I enjoyed it. :) But I left it at that.

So my roommate is obsessed a little with the new movie that came out, so I got excited too. The new movie is out as of NOW and I think we'll go see it this weekend.

However, after analytically watching short films for the AIFF, I decided after re-seeing the first 15 minutes of Twilight that it was really bad... Pretty, but bad...

The acting was mediocre, and everything was way..."Overprocessed" so to speak. It was fluff... and people are watching stuff like this and thinking that this is what cinema really is...

I guess as long as I don't expect anything but something visually interesting it'll be ok. But I'm glad that I'm involved in the film festival and have an opportunity to see a variety of films all along this span...

Here's Me.

And Here's what I see....

Alphabet Soup Project

Some scratches I did... :)

Ze French Dinner is over!

Finally! With a sigh of relief I am done! The dinner was a success by my standards, I was able to fully enjoy my meal and not have to worry about serving, cleaning, or plating the food. Woo-hoo! Now that I'm done I can get back to everything else in life, like making Thanksgiving day sweaters.

On one last thought for the dinner, yea I'm gonna bring it back up again...
An interesting thing happened to me today...
So on Wednesday I took ALL of the food we had bought for the dinner from my house, as well as my friend's houses to the school and carried practically all of it from my car into the SU's kitchen. Four or five trips later and late for class I was getting really pissed off that no one was even attempting to help me by opening the door. I'd get funny looks from people as I carried 10- half gallon containers of heavy whipping cream down the hill from where I parked and into the SU. One old lady looked as me and commented "that sure looks heavy" and that was it. I couldn't believe people's apathy.

So today I was walking downtown and this guy was trying to get into Tease while carrying a large amp all by himself. So I opened the door for him. He was so happy I got a personal invitation to his gig this evening.

How's that for Karma?

So along those lines this reminds me of something:
Albert and David Maysles. I'll get to them in a minute. I just wanted to reflect on this photo real quick by saying that I enjoy how it documents them documenting people. These two guys did some really powerful film that depicted the ordinary lives of interesting people (like Gray Gardens). Or the interesting projects of eccentric people (like The Gates, an instalation project in New York a few years ago). I'm always interested in well done documentaries, because it's the perfect medium for telling true stories. There is such beauty in the honesty that unfolds in pieces such as these that it makes me realize that some people in the world aren't apathetic to others. It's very inspiring.

Here's my Mime! He was inspired by my French theme. Can you tell?

Finally! I was able to find my "other" project photos. :)

This is my boyfriend Austin.

This is my best friend Kaylyn.
YUM!

So I met this guy in Lithia park one nice afternoon. He had the most interesting name that I unfortunately can't remember. We only talked briefly, but I don't like interrupting people too much when they're playing music. However when someone is playing the Sitar it's worth saying something. It's one of the coolest conversation piece ever. :)

Ok, might as well blog about the new movie coming out directed by the guy that did Napoleon Dynamite and

that stupid amish drag racing commercial I blogged about earlier.

With all the independent short films I've been watching lately, I'm actually kind of excited to see this. I won't be

surprised if I'm disappointed, but the story looks really different, the character look really quirky and I love the lady

that plays the kids mom, and the guy from the Flight of the Concords is amazing. I'm excited to see him actually act

in something.

One thing I do like about indy films is how awkward they aren't afraid to be. And Napoleon Dynamite was definitely

along those lines. I didn't particularly like that one because of its apparent lack of story, but this has some meat to it (I hope).

We'll see. :)

A restful Saturday

So I woke up this morning not feeling so good. I thought I might be coming down with the infamous flu. So I slept in. Then I went and bought a ton of oranges that were on sale and juiced them.

I've been avoiding getting the flu shot just because I'd like to think that my immune system is strong enough, and that I've already gotten it this summer. However I think the change of weather and stress from school and everything is starting to wear me down just a bit.

So then I read about "Denialism" which is the term this guy coined to describe the way in which the organic yuppy crowd wants to "naturalize" their way of life and as such deny the benefits that vaccinations or genetically altered food could present to themselves or their kids. The book is Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives, by Michael Specter.

Here's the link to the NPR news article: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120139776

I can relate in a sense to not wanting to get vaccinated just because I don't like the idea of it. However I don't think it's a bad thing... Maybe I will now. In the mean time I'm knocking on wood. I would hate to get sick at this point in the term.

Web site designs

http://promotions.bankofamerica.com/mbc/?cm_mmc=DEP-StudentBanking-_-vanity-_-DP01VN000Y_oncampus-_-NA#/intro_alt


I've taken a couple of advertising classes. This is a good campaign and it's perfect for the internet. There's so much information to get out there that to advertise for Bank of America, doing a print ad or billboard, or even a commercial is pointless. In this way it's being educational, interesting, and readily available without being in your face about it.

I was glad to see that the ad agency Organic, Inc. won first place at www.webaward.org. I don't really know anything about them, but I'll definitely keep my eyes open for them. Apparently they've won an impressive amount of awards this year, and you never know what may happen in the future.

Ok, so checkout this website:

www.sanctuarybay.com

It's a website for a real estate company in Belize and it's won a couple of awards for its web design. It's user friendly and visually interesting.

It makes me want to buy property there.

So this is what my friend showed me the other day, and it's definitely something that I want to learn more about. That is how to do web design first of all, and then how to utilize flash...

I don't particularly see myself becoming a web designer or anything, but I'm definitely curious about the process of it...

Voila mes amies!

This looks kind of funny small...
But anyway, as you can see it's a poster design I did from scratch materials (other than the text maybe, the accent marks were my own doing however) for the French Club's annual dinner. It's coming up really soon, and I'm working on trying to figure out donations and advertising. I'll up load the leaflets I made as well... You'll hopefully be seeing them around on campus if they get approved by the French department.
I'm only doubting that they will because they're kind of silly.
oh well. :)

The Infamous "F"

Alphabet soup #1