Here's a 3-minute look at my school, New Jersey City University.
Made as a project for my independent study class in only three months, and with tea bag dollars, ounces upon ounces of coffee, and no filmmaking background whatsoever. Let me know what you guys think. :)
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Freeman Dyson, a physicist and author of books including Disturbing the Universe (1979), Weapons and Hope (1984), Infinite in All Directions (1988), talks about real estate appraisals outside the Earth- in preparation for the "big freeze." Which planet is it going to be? More of these on my next post.
Announcing Barack Obama’s running mate by text message has little to do with proclaiming the selection and everything to do with getting out the vote on Election Day.
One thing I do is I try to keep up with the latest trends in politics.
Trend #1: Besides the ongoing march of gladiators since it's first runway show in 2001, flip-flops are still a classic staple during the hot summer months of the election campaign. And who best parades this obsession du jour of democrats but Senator Barack Obama.
Trend #2: The Dark Knight. The best movie of the summer? The greatest superhero movie of all time? Either way, nobody beats Heath Ledger's spectacular performance except, of course, the joker of all jokers, Senator John McCain.
Now, who wouldn't look forward to November 4th? It's going to be just as stupfying as American Idol and Tila Tequila's reality show. Next thing we know, we'll be texting "Obama" or "McCain" to some 6-digit number.
PS- Be on the lookout for the biography of Barack Obama and John McCain on DVD. It streets August 5th!
From over 200 entries to 30 semi-finalists to the top ten, JT's one-page screenplay is up for votes, and the winning screenplay gets made into a film! So vote for Shop Victoriously as many times as you can using as many e-mails as you have access to. Voting ends August 31st.
Understanding a grave situation like the conflict in Darfur is one thing; actually doing something about it is another. Sara Cartwright, Cooper, and Drima are three of the many bloggers I found while working on a project at work, and I salute them and their teams for their commitment to creating awareness about the crisis in Darfur and taking a step towards stopping the genocide and securing peace.
If you'd like to get a wider understanding about this issue, two documentaries called Darfur Diariesand The Devil Came on Horseback are now available on iTunes for download.
Through the voices of refugees, displaced persons, and in particular women and children, who are always among the most vulnerable in any conflict situation, Darfur Diaries seeks to provide space for the marginalized victims of atrocities to speak and to engage with the world.
An up-close, honest, and uncompromising look at the crisis in Darfur, The Devil Came on Horseback exposes this on-goig tragedy as seen through the eyes of one American witness.
Check out this documentary called TED: The Future We Will Create, and hear from different people around the globe as they talk about stimulating, inspiring, and sometimes funny topics ranging from arts and technnology, business innovations, and even human emotion.
My favorite speaker right now is Ken Robinson. Here, Robinson talks about how the education system anywhere in the world is putting so much time and energy training only the left side of students' brains while the right side is downplayed. Very profound and witty at the same time.
The TEDsters have much to do with my own personal growth, so go ahead and get a copy of the DVD, or visit TED.com to watch many "inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers."
The Tune is Bill Plympton's first feature-length extravaganza was nominated for a Sundance Grand Jury Prize. It tells the story of Del, a struggling songwriter who must come up with the perfect ditty for slimeball media mogul Mr. Mega, or run the risk of losing his job and his girlfriend Didi.
(Hey, JT, if you're reading this, this one by Plympton is for you.)
And while I was researching about toons and animation for work, I stumbled upon this 1985 Betty Boop and Felix comic strip: Makes sense to me, but the bare fact is that as long as there's oil, there's going to be war.
And where there's oil, there's fried chicken (well, that was an exceptionally bad segue).
I had Popeye's fried chicken last night and had to ponder over whether Popeye the Sailor Man is Greek or not (because he likes spinach and has a sweetheart named Olive Oyl). Thanks to my (Greek) boyfriend who insists this idea.
We also tried to watch Charlie Chaplin's Limelight but didn't get the chance to, which means you have to keep coming back here until I finally see it and can talk about it. Until then, watch Chaplin's Modern Times, the truth in jest film about the proletariats' plight as working class marionettes or, as JT puts it more appropriately, "cogs in the corporate wheel."
Oh, and that picture above is The Tramp's portrait I sketched a while ago.
This movie was something different from M. Night Shyamalan's other blockbuster films like The Sixth Sense and Signs; I didn't read the synopsis of the movie before actually seeing it, so, I was expecting to see the same contents and elements of his previous films (e.g. a kid, usually a boy, who has the ability to see or communicate with supernatural things or the dead), but it didn't contain such, at all. It was a pretty strange movie with quite a strange concept:
Lady In The Water is a bedtime story come to life, or, to the life of an apartment building superintendent, Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti). Apparently, Cleveland possesses the "power" to be the "Guardian" of the lady in the water, who was a Narf. Cleveland, then claimed the responsibility to help the lady in the water to go back to where she's from, which was underneath the bottom of the swimming pool Cleveland maintains. With the help of his tenants, who apparently, also acted as the characters from the bedtime story, Cleveland was able to send the Narf back to the water.
Pretty interesting, right? So, I'm giving it 2 and a half stars (out of 5). A couple of things that took the other half of my rating are the following:
How does Cleveland convince these people to help him? What does he tell them? Why are these people so cool about it, and didn't show any skepticism? I just hope M. Night Shyamalan showed the process, 'cuz some people (like me) NEEDS to see and know that. There was a scene where the Narf was instructing Cleveland what to do with the "dog" through a radio walkie-talkie... I just thought it was so silly and funny. Boo. The underwater scene of Paul Giamatti; if I was that, I would be dead in no more than 60 seconds. Other than that, I give a thumbs up to Shyamalan for writing a different (in a good way) and creative piece (using mythology, and all that). And of course a round of applause to Paul Giamatti, for, as always, an exceptional performance.
Okay, I give it 3 stars (out of 5). Very creative film by M. Night Shyamalan.
Oh, and my favorite parts of the movie are the scenes with Mrs. Choi and the young Choi. Funny as hell! :)
Savvy! It was more than 2 hours, yes, but it was funny and entertaining as the Curse of the Black Pearl was. The only thing that's so "Oh bugger" about it is that it was too, too packed with CGI's and special effects (although they were great, and looked authentic and real) that it swept the story aside to almost making no sense of the whole action fighting scenes. Nonetheless, Depp was lip-biting sexy (with or without the eyeliner)! Four and a half stars!
"It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late."
Typical love story, but the concept was far from typical. I didn't know that this was a sequel to Wong Kar Wai's previous film "In The Mood for Love", and wouldn't think that it was, because it could definitely stand alone by itself. The android idea was cool, and the anatomy of the movie I thought was cool, too, and the actors were great. It's an okay movie; I just thought the progress was a little bit slow, but all in all, three stars.
With the horrible, horrible humidity that this weather brings, people are most likely to go check out the theatres to see a movie with a man in turqoise tights, a red cape, with a stupid mexican title (pardon my french), or a completely cliche movie about a break-up, or a movie with talking cars and cats, and/ or a movie who escapes from reality with just a click of a button; these movies are good ways to stay away from the prespiration while sitting inside the theatre and laughing out loud, but complaining about how hot it is outside will go on when these movies are over. BUT YOU CAN GIVE AN END TO YOUR WHININGS BY SEEING THIS MOVIE AND LEARNING THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH. Everybody should see this movie and do something about it. It may not be the best movie of the year, but if you care enough about our planet, this good piece of educational documentary is for you! See the truth... the inconvenient truth. Help raise public awareness. You might even like Al Gore more than before after you see this. Five stars.
X-men is usually worth seeing more than twice, but one is enough for X3. They could've put more action (since the action scenes were awesome, with the Golden Gate Bridge and all) than dialogues; it made the story too predictable, at least for me. The first two X-men's were off the hook, so Superman Returns with Bryan Singer directing it is something to look forward to. 5 stars, solely for Hugh Jackman's hot ass.
