Film Major

Pre-Production Blog #2

2008-08-02T05:49:40Z

Stuck in the Box -- Has it really been nearly a month since my last entry regarding filmmaking? Geez, time sure blows by when you're working full-time and too damned tired to do much else but watch a movie or spend an hour or two playing video...

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On Japanese Animation, Part 2

2008-07-26T18:06:48Z

Note: The title is fairly inappropriate considering the content is focused around an American cartoon using the anime aesthetic, but the more I think about it, the more I feel like this really does apply to a lot of other anime series, and it ...

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You Too Can YouTube

2008-07-21T18:47:10Z

YouTube fascinates me. It really does. It is quite possibly one of the most innovative websites to come along in the last few years, and it's completely revolutionized personal and viral videos on the Internet. It's not unusual these days to s...

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Pre-Production Blog #1

2008-07-07T19:23:11Z

A Repetition of Procrastination -- We seem to do this every year now without fail. Our output seems to consist of doing one real project a year with one or two other shorts (moreso if you include the Team Internet stuff Derek does with his o...

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly #1

2008-07-01T18:55:03Z

One thing that's been missing from this film blog has been reviews of the films I've been watching lately. I mean, if my resolution is to watch 120 new movies during the course of the year, I'm bound to come across a lot of good, bad, and horr...

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Philosophy of the Camera, Part II

2008-06-19T17:16:17Z

Telling Stories When I started writing stories in second grade they were never very good despite being better written than my classmates' stories, which usually had to be dictated and modified by my teacher in order to make sense. While most ...

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Now with More Filler

2008-06-11T16:53:17Z

In a (vain) attempt to start blogging more - now that I actually have time to do so, what with college being just about over with - I'm going to attempt to regularly update all of my multimedia blogs. Perhaps I'll start updating my personal bl...

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On Japanese Animation, Part 1

2008-05-25T09:04:14Z

Lately, my roommate's been watching a Japanese anime called Lucky Star. A few minutes ago he and another friend were watching an episode of it on our living room TV, and I sat here at the computer listening to it and cringing. And that cringing...

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Because the Cup Changes Everything

2008-04-17T07:07:32Z

Every hockey fan knows that April means the start of the Stanley Cup playoffs. I sure as hell have been keeping up with them since game one of the post-season, especially since my team - the San Jose Sharks - finished up second in the entire l...

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Embracing Television

2008-03-23T21:40:01Z

The other day my friend and his parents gave me a ride back to San Francisco, and along the way we stopped by Costco so they could get some food for Easter Sunday. As my friend and I browsed through the crappy selection of video games and mostl...

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