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Sunday, July 31, 2005
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Hey guys, sorta been a while since I've posted. I've been super busy with my research, and I will continue to be so. I've got 2 weeks left of research, and then it's over. I've got a lot of work to do,but when it's done I'm going on vacation with my folks. Yay. I really want to go to the beach. I've just been yearning to see the ocean lately. I went home on Wed. this week. Only for Wed night and I left the next day. It was really nice though, cause I got to relax a lot at home and watch some movies with my folks. Other than that, there's nothing new in my life. Oh, I bought some super hott shoes at Target. Here's a Pic I took in Weston last week: ![]() I'm bored, so I stole this from Mark: 1. Pick a band and answer only using the band's song titles: Third Eye Blind 2. Are you male or female: Anything 3. Describe how you feel about yourself: God of Wine 4. Your best peice of advice: Graduate 5. Describe your last relationship: Misfits 6. Describe your current crush: Good Man 7. Say something to someone you have a crush on: I Want You 8. Say something to an ex: Good for You 9. Say something to someone you hurt severly: Can't Get Away 10. How do you feel right now: The Red Summer Sun |
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Monday, July 25, 2005
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Ok, so recently one of my goals has become to watch all of IMDB's Top 250 movies of All Time. So far, I've seen 86, so I've got a ways to go. But that's good, cause it means I've been watching a lot of really good movies lately. I promise you I won't review every single one, but I just feel like I've got to talk about Easy Rider for a second. ![]() I just got done watching it, and wow. At first I didn't think I would like it. I guess being a child of the 90's I'm predjuiced against 'Hollywood' movies made before 1980. I know that's stupid, but I just am. And although this film is definantly dated, it has a timeless value to it. I think it's weird how much reviewers talk about how it's a 'counterculture' film. I mean, I guess it is with the hippie commune and stuff, but that's not what it's about. As you watch it, you don't think 'what crazy hippies'. You just see two guys, two normal human beings, on a journey. That's the beauty of the film. It's not like 'Hey! Look at me! I'm nonconformist!'. It's a beautiful understatement. It's more about freedom, real freedom than anything. These guys are no threat to anyone, but just because of other's preconcieved notions, they are made out to be bad guys. The plot is kind of slow moving, but for me that's ok. This movie isn't so much about events as it is about ideas. There are some very serious and important ideas addressed in this film. It's great because it's subversive in a wonderfully American way. Watch it and you'll get what I mean. This movie is definantly worth seeing, and I think will seriously go on my favorites list. This movie also proves that chicks do dig outlaw bikers. Peter Fonda isn't hot at all, but in this movie...there's just something about an outlaw biker. George Hanson: They'll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em. |
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Sunday, July 24, 2005
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well it's been a pretty good end to a pretty stressful week. All week I was busting my ass to get some work done for the art show on friday. Thankfully, it all pulled together, and the show went rather well. Also, I volunteered to run lights for the children's theater group. So Wed. I went to rehersal and got a crash course in how to run the light board. We had one rehersal Thursday night, and then the show went up Friday! It was all pretty rushed and not very in depth, but the show went off without a hitch! We also had 2 shows on saturday. I actaully enjoyed it, because I got to learn something I didn't know about before. And now I feel somewhat competent in it and would like to do it again. Here are a few pics from my portion of the gallery at the show: ![]() ![]() ![]() Friday night was fun. All week I'd been craving good vodka (as in NOT Popov). So Jenna and I got some Smirnoff, East of Chicago Pizza, and blizzards from Dairy Queen. We then proceded to get drunk while watching 'Homeward Bound:The Incrediable Journy'. It was big fun. After the movie, I decided to go on an incrediable journy of my own, and Jenna and I wandered around campus basically making asses of ourselvs. (me more so than her). It was enjoyable. Saturday, after the show we had a cast party. Everyone got pretty drunk, and I was very plesantly fucked up. Not like retarded like I was the night before. I was more like messed up to the point that time and spacial relations were confused, but I was able to appriciate just how drunk and hilarious those around me were. It was fun, cause I got to hang with people that I usually never hang out with. I like that. Like, durring the school year I usually end up partying with the most random people, like people I normally don't hang out with. But this summer I haven't really gotten to do that, so last night was quite a treat. There have been 1 or 2 potential prospects brought to my attention in the last week. Could it be that my life is going to take a turn for the interesting again? Or will these prospects turn out to be nothing? Who knows? Stay tuned to find out more! |
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Thursday, July 21, 2005
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005
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Here's a self-portrait: ![]() ok, this seems to be my 'review films' blog lately, but what the hell, not like there's anything that interesting going on in my life right now. I just got done watching David Lynch's "The Elephant Man". It's one of those movies I've always intended to watch, but never actually got around to seeing until now. It's amazing, seriously wonderful. I can't possiably begin to explain how good it is. It's so moving. Anthony Hopkins is such a great actor. Anyway, I'm pretty sure David Lynch is my third fav. director ever. So, my list goes: Tim Burton Stanly Kubrick David Lynch Joel & Ethan Coen Martin Scorsese I was talking to my Dad on the phone the other day, and something he said really struck me. See, my Uncle Ed is an ice sculptor. He's been through a lot of crap working for people who don't pay him right, take his work as their own ect ect. Now he's going through a lot of trouble trying to get his own business off the ground. Anyway, dad's been talking to him a lot, and Dad told me that he thinks I should take a business class, so that I know how to deal with the business end of art. He said I've got to know how to work with people, run a gallery, turn a profit ect. Which I definantly think is a great idea. See, my parents have always been very supportive of me, no matter what I do. I know a lot of people whose parents disapprove of their persuit of the arts. And my parents have never discouraged me from doing what I want. But for some reason, I've always thought that my dad wasn't exactly happy about me majoring in the arts. I guess I thought it was kind of like my facial piercings: He'd rather I'd be doing something else, but since he knows I'm gonna do it anyway, he doesn't make it an issue. Anyway, I guess I was wrong. Cause what my dad said shows me that he sees my art as something continuing after school, he sees my art as a career. Without even saying it, he's told me that he supports me, and genuinly is pleased with my interests. I guess I never even realized it. Actually, I'm so scared of the future (or at least at a complete loss for what's going to happen) that I never considered art as a career! It took my dad pointing it out to me for me to think of things in those terms! So regardless of what I do with my art, be it printmaking, digital printing, or filmmaking, my parents support me. That's really an awsome feeling, something I've taken for granted. |
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Saturday, July 16, 2005
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![]() Holy crap, Charlie and the Choclate Factory is freekin AWSOME!! Serious, I think I was smiling the entire movie!! I LOVE Tim Burton...like seriously, I want to have his babies. I LOVE Johnny Depp. He is such an amazing actor, I just, I can't even begin to put into words my love for him. He makes the most amazing and unique characters. I LOVE Helena Bonham Carter. She is such a great actress, even though she's not very prodominate in this movie. I LOVE Danny Elfman, the music totally makes the movie. I LOVE the screenwriter, John August, who also did Big Fish (probly. my fav Tim Burton movie). The costumes, the set, everything was so good. I don't care what your opinions on this film are, unless you see it, you cannot criticize it. Go see it, you are making your life that much less happy by not seeing it. Seriously, I think I'm going to go back to the matinee to watch it again at least once this week. My favorite part was the Televison room and Tim Burton's homage to Stanly Kubrick. It was like my two favorite directors had sex and their love child was this scene. God, I want to make movies...I want it so much it hurts sometimes. on a different note, I've found a new website to be addicted to. It's GroupHug.us . It's anonymous confessions, kind of like post-secrete. It's not artistic, it's just a bunch of confessions. Some of them are stupid, some of them are obviously fake, a lot of them are angsty, a lot are about sex, some are really disturbing...all of it is facinating. I'll add it to my Blogroll, so you can be addicted to it too!! |
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Thursday, July 14, 2005
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Photography, for me, is the best evidence of God. When a photographer is good, they can take a picture of anything, the simplest thing like a blade of grass, and suddenly it's art. Suddenly it's amazing, and even though you may see it in life everyday you suddenly see all sorts of details and things you never saw before. But really, all a photographer is doing is capturing what already exists. They're simply documenting the beauty that surrounds us constantly. Artists are really just people who really appriciate the beauty of the world, and art is simply an attempt to recreate, interprete, understand, and share that beauty with others. To me, the world itself is a work of art. In all honesty, I am constantly amazed at the beauty that surrounds me. The world is art, and life is a performance peice, or maybe a film. This is all just too beautiful and masterful to not have been created by someone. God, in essence, is really an amazing artist. Of course, there are people who say that all this was simply created by a series of random events. But think about it: The best artists are the ones who make something amazing and beautiful, but they make it look easy, like anyone could do it. It's the same with the world. At first glance, you might think, yeh it's nice. But if you really take the time to look at it and really appriciate it, you'll be amazed at the complex beauty of it all. I for one can recognize beauty and art when I see it. And that's why I want to be an artist. I feel so inspired and amazed at what I see, but there are so many people who don't see all this beauty. I just want to somehow capture just a little of it, and hold it up for others to see. Art is my failing attmet at holding up the beauty that exists in the world. I want to create, I want to recreate. It's something instinctual. I don't know much about philosophy. But I know there's a lot of arguments about the nature of reality, weather it's subjective or objective. I don't claim to know anything about it, or have any explainations. But I've always though that reality is pretty much objective: Objects exist weather or not someone is there to percieve them. But I wonder, do certain people actually percieve reality differently. I'm not talking about people with mental illnesses, I mean, just people...Any great artist, for example, do they actually see reality differently, or do they just interpret it differently? I guess maybe I would say they interpret it differnetly. I would never say I'm a Great artist, but I get the feeling sometimes that I'm one of the few people who can see the beauty around me. Maybe that sounds selfcentered, but I mean it. It just seems like so many people rush around with their eyes closed, and they never even see the beauty of a shadow or a leaf or an insect or a stranger. I'm reminded of the closing scene to Our Town (a play that I actually am not that fond of). But Emily's dead and looking at the world and the beauty in it, and she says: "Does anyone realize what life is while they're living it?" and the Stage Manager replies: "No. Saints and poets, maybe. They do some." There is so so so much beauty in the world, and so few people actually see even a little bit. And I just think, that to really wittness all that beauty and say there is no God is like looking at the Sistine Chaple and denying the existance of Michelango. Beauty is everywhere, just open your eyes. ![]() |
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So...I am so high right now. At some point tonight I captured the part of me that's still a kid. I think we're all really kids inside, and growing up is just learning how to hide it. hmmm...too high, i've lost interest in writing... |
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005
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This weekend was very nice. I got to chill with my good friends, it was very fun and relaxing. Sunday was really nice, I just hung out at home and floated around in the pool. Also got to watch The Machienist, which is an AMAZING movie. It thourghly blew my mind. Watch it. Now. Here are some pics. I took last week that turned out really nice. They're mostly from walking around Granville at night. ![]() This is a cool public garden behind one of the Inns in Granville. ![]() Creepy statue in the garden. ![]() A tree with very cool lighting. ![]() I call this one 'Temptation'. Know what? I'm happy. Really, honestly happy. I mean, I know I'm not perfect. Hell, I'm FAR from perfect. I know that my life is far from perfect. There are a lot of things I would love to have and do, but in all honesty...I am very happy. I am young, and I am really taking advantage of that. I'm allowed to be stupid and irresponisable and reckless and make mistakes. And I'm loving it. I've spent way too much time being timid and afraid of life and risks and breaking rules. I've lived way too much of my life in a protective little shell. But for once in my life, I feel like I'm really living it. I am happy in my imperfections, they give me something to learn, and something to strive for. For once I am comfortable and happy with who I am. I've always tried to change, to make other people happy, but I think that I am honestly happy with myself now, and that's something that's been a long time comming. Sure life isn't perfect, but it's one hell of a ride, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. Now go on...enjoy it while you can. |
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Thursday, July 07, 2005
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Warning: There may be some spoilers to the film 28 Days Later. So if you haven't seen it, crawl out from under your rock, go rent it, and then read this. Just got done watching 28 Days Later. I've seen it before, but I feel like I've had a lot of new insights to the film. I think the first time you watch it you focus on plot, but since I've seen it before, I was able to think about it cinematically and in terms of theory. I really do believe it is the best zombie film out there. Granted, I'm not a huge fan of zombie movies, which is why I probably like this film so much. It's much more of a psychological movie than anything. I find it really facinating that really the scarriest part is the people, the men in the mannor, rather than the infected. I think it actually has a lot of ties to the themes of Full Metal Jacket. 28 Days Later seems to be examining the nature of humanity, the evil and the good. It shows examples of both, and doesn't hit you over the head with a moral. However, unlike FMJ, I think it does show that the good of humanity ultimatly triumphs. Because, reguardless of the ending (and I recomend you watch all the alt. endings) there is still a sense of hope, that someone will survive and does so with those who mean something important to them. But I think a large part of the film, mainly the part that takes place in the mannor, focuses on the evil of humanity. My favorite part is the sequence where Jim is trying to get back into the Mannor and save the women. Not only is it shot fantastically with great use of light, sound, and camera angles, but it really makes a statement. See, for most of the film, Jim is this somewhat pacifist scared guy while Selina is the strong kick ass one of the group. But, there is a turning point for Jim. When he jumps over the fence (miracously losing his shirt), you see a new determination in his face. He becomes cold, hard, calculated. He kills without a moments hesitation. And although his motives are good (saving Selina and Hannah), for a while his becomes infected. Not with the Rage virus, but with the rage of humanity...something evil. This is illustrated perfectly when he drops into the room to save Selina. He beats the shit out of the army guy before he kills him by gouging his eyes out. There was a gun there the whole time, but he chose the grusume, dominearing, 'masculine' way. There is a shot of him, screaming, dripping with sweat and blood relishing his act of violence. It is the climax of the film, and the best symbol of the themes of the movie. Like I said, I love this movie. I think it's a lot more than just another zombie flick. The entire film is just wonderfully shot, I do believe it is shot in digital. If you haven't seen it, I hope you do watch it even though I may have given some parts of it away. |
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Wednesday, July 06, 2005
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I have found what I want for Christmas. I don't even care what it's about, I just want THIS MOVIE because it has the best title EVAR!
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Monday, July 04, 2005
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This weekend has been really great. Jenna and I hung out friday night and invented the best/most retarded drinking game ever. It basically involves singing the Robot Chicken song and drinking lots of alcohol. We also played kings with Timmay, it was fun. Saturday afternoon my folks came to visit and we went into Columbus for the gallery hop. It was so great. We saw Noah at his mom's opening and Ron was there too, which was cool cause I really wanted my parents to meet him. We walked up and down High St. going into all the galleries and eating all sorts of food. There were street venders and performers, it was awsome! I loved it so much, cause my parents really seemed to get into it, which was good. I was kind of worried that Dad might not be into doing the art scene, cause he can be a little...um, blue collar? But it was cool, cause he actually had a lot of fun. It was a great evening. Sunday I hung out with my parents some more, we did a picknick and stuff, it was great. Ususally they kinda start to annoy me when they come to visit, but this weekend was really great. Today, the 4th, Jenna and I went to the Doo Dah Parade in Columbus. It was sooooo awsome. It's this parade where anyone can join, and there's all sorts of crazy people doing crazy things. We wore our Mardi Gras masks and our wings. Towards the end of the parade, a guy in a truck invited us to ride with him. There were a few other people in the truck, including a guy playing a tuba and a guy playing bongos. So we got to be in the last half of the parade, it was so fun! Here's a few pics from the parade, there are more in my photobucket album. ![]() Naked Guy at Doo Dah ![]() Jenna in her mask ![]() Uncle Sam Well, after an awsome weekend, I've got a lot of work to do! Oh, I'll be home this weekend, so come on let's play! |
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This weekend has been really great. Jenna and I hung out friday night and invented the best/most retarded drinking game ever. It basically involves singing the Robot Chicken song and drinking lots of alcohol. We also played kings with Timmay, it was fun. Saturday afternoon my folks came to visit and we went into Columbus for the gallery hop. It was so great. We saw Noah at his mom's opening and Ron was there too, which was cool cause I really wanted my parents to meet him. We walked up and down High St. going into all the galleries and eating all sorts of food. There were street venders and performers, it was awsome! I loved it so much, cause my parents really seemed to get into it, which was good. I was kind of worried that Dad might not be into doing the art scene, cause he can be a little...um, blue collar? But it was cool, cause he actually had a lot of fun. It was a great evening. Sunday I hung out with my parents some more, we did a picknick and stuff, it was great. Ususally they kinda start to annoy me when they come to visit, but this weekend was really great. Today, the 4th, Jenna and I went to the Doo Dah Parade in Columbus. It was sooooo awsome. It's this parade where anyone can join, and there's all sorts of crazy people doing crazy things. We wore our Mardi Gras masks and our wings. Towards the end of the parade, a guy in a truck invited us to ride with him. There were a few other people in the truck, including a guy playing a tuba and a guy playing bongos. So we got to be in the last half of the parade, it was so fun! Here's a few pics from the parade, there are more in my photobucket album. |
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