You’re one of the coolest guys I’ve ever met. Turn it down a notch huh.
If you love all manner of films, Dominic is the man to talk to — Visit his blog A Fistful of Culture. I don’t know how he stays always so well-informed, but he’ll keep you in the know about what films to watch or avoid, and you may even win yourself something.
Sweet b-b-bugery this is amber quality fan movie-making at its finest. I was had at the Ned Kelly Stormtroopers force-throwing lighterangs, and the Aussie colloquialisms and Strayan accents lifted this quest to restore balance to the galaxy to a higher standard of humour I’ve not come to expect of any fan film (or recent Star Wars films for that matter) This is a beaut!
Set in the Australian outback, Darth Drongo has horded all the beer, a magnificent substance that centers one’s mind and binds all manner of life — as every Jedi and Australian knows. Watch this epic 30 minute tale in all its sound effects, soundtrack quality, extras and CGI glory:
Wotta bloody rippa! My attention span was rewarded with LOZ and I can’t help but feel like a cold one too. The pressure is now on, Disney. Your move Jar Jar Abrams, I will be comparing.
The Creative Writing on Campus Club organized a small get together to wrap 2013 up and pass the torch on to next year’s organizers. Yes I am a member and yes of course I attended. I entered the room as the two current organizers, Saiya and Cris, were exchanging details with Lydia and Zire, the new CWOC organizers for 2014. I couldn’t tell if they were surprised to see me or not. It was funny because out of the 52 invited and the 10+ members who RSVP’d to attend on Facebook, I was the only non exec-member who actually bothered to show up, so all the relevant info was just being relayed to me. The low attendance percentage is understandable considering the exam period and people’s general reservation towards socializing among unfamiliar faces, but I was honestly expecting at least some members to make an appearance, say thanks and get their membership’s worth or at the very least, give criticism and demand their money back, make a huge scene and expel all their exam frustrations, or whatever. There’s always next year I suppose. Announcements were made then the wind-down followed.
Between the five of us conversing from a room in the Arts One building, through Albert Park to Mezze Bar on Durham Street East, we each had our own interesting tidbits of knowledge and inspiration to share about ourselves, creative writing and any subsequent cobwebs of thought that followed.
Mezze had a mediterranean-esq interior with a faint aroma of blue cheese and Colombian coffee beans; an acquired atmosphere. The locale was Saiya’s suggestion and just another reason why I’m happy to have been part of the club. My own preferred hang, Renkon, happens to be directly opposite the street, so next time I ever feel like a baklava I’ll know where to go. Unlikely that will happen often, but it’s nice to have an expanded awareness of the city’s hidden bars and nosheries.
All I wanted was desert (major sweet tooth), but the food definitely treated the taste buds too. Thanks Cris, Saiya, Lydia, Zire. Conversation was healthy, insightful, and an intimate finish to a blurry academic first year. Our talks, ideas and stories belong to us, but to any story/book junkies out there, if anyone of the peeps in the photo above publishes their work it is going to be a mega hit. I doubt they’d all agree with me, which is why I believe it to be true. Come 2014, why don’t you join the club?
I’m sure I heard this song play on the radio some time ago, but I actually listened to it this week on someone’s tumblr page and I have to say, I like it. I must have been in a good mood XD
Revisited ADAPTATION so I can write about it in tomorrow’s exam essay. I forgot how exceptionally good this scene is:
Truth and profound advice.
Wonderful subject matter beautifully executed — Xiangjun Shi explains why the study of physics is fascinating:
Here is another very short, experimental and quirky animation of hers I like:
Chinese artist Xiangjun Shi has been experimenting with animation for a long time now. She majored in both physics and animation at two different colleges, simultaneously, while in a foreign country! Here’s what she had to say from her website:
When I left home for college in the US, I was fortunate to be selected for the very first class of a new Dual Degree program, presented by Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design. Without predecessors, and in trusting embrace of Brown’s open curriculum, I was pretty much able to design my own education.
While it may be too early to discuss the effect of that autonomy, in the past five years in this program, I have had chance to focus on a consistant pursuit — to bridge the arts and science.
I use Facebook chat but rarely do I go onto the actual messages page. I discovered a tab on Facebook recently that I feel I probably knew about at some point in time but neglected and just plain forgot about. What a newb!
Silly me. Really though, what is the point of separating/filtering unread messages from other unread messages and how has FB arranged this separation without my explicit knowledge and consent?! Sheesh, I’m trying to justify not caring by thinking ‘Oh well, they are just FB messages and if they had any importance I would have known about what these people wanted to say to me by now.’ But no, I feel like a dorky dork because some of these are great and genuinely funny. I do want to get back to every single one of these peeps, but they probably (hopefully) forgot all about me and my unintended snobbery by now. In either case, there goes my plausible deniability. So sorry fellow messengers, this is a grievous error on my part, and… HAPPY BELATED EVERYTHING, FRIENDS!!! We are still friends, right? ｢(ﾟﾍﾟ)
Look at the world of tomorrow, today!
Premiering on Sunday @ 8pm on Fox (American network TV). I’m not going to deny the ability to stream episodes — “The net is vast and infinite” — but I’d rather be patient and wait to enthrall ALMOST HUMAN in all its HD majesty, legally. Maybe. OK, definitely.
30 years in the future, every police officer must partner with an android to counter an unprecedented increase in the crime rate. I am stoked that our Karl Urban is the leading man in this high-tech, high-stakes, futuristic buddy-cop action-drama, and I can totally see myself rooting for Michael Ealy’s character, Dorian, the last remaining example of an experimental line of emotional androids:
Executive Producer J.J. Abrams loves the idea of two characters who are damaged goods and wouldn’t exist in the same way without each other:
This series follows the week-to-week missions of JOHN KENNEX (Urban), a detective and sole survivor of a devastating police ambush, and his robot partner, DORIAN (Ealy), as this buddy-cop duo solves cases and fight to keep the lid on dangerously evolved criminals in this futuristic landscape.
Executive-produced by Emmy Award winner J.J. Abrams (“Fringe” “Lost” the “Star Trek” and “Mission: Impossible” franchises) and creator J.H. Wyman (“Fringe” “The Mexican”) and starring Karl Urban (“Star Trek”) Michael Ealy (“Sleeper Cell” “Common Law”) and Emmy Award nominee Lili Taylor (“Six Feet Under”). Boom.
Chicago hip-hop artist Vic Mensa caught my attention with his progressive lyrics and vibrant low-fi music video, uploaded yesterday for all us unsuspecting music lovers. What I do suspect is that Vic Mensa is one up and comer to keep an eye on, he’s gonna take off.
The song features British singer Eliza Doolittle on the hook, another talented young artist who is best know in NZ for her single “Big When I Was Little.” She doesn’t feature in the video. Instead, director Nem Perez casts Mensa’s friends as glitches in a digital world where life isn’t all it seems. I like it — the visuals certainly match the vibe, so turn down that throwback and get with the new shit:
Came across a cool photo of singer-songwriter, Lorde in a Tilda Swinton, David Bowie sandwich. Quite possibly the coolest photo anyone could hope to be in, like that man’s head in the background, I bet he’s even framed this picture on his bedside dresser:
The Museum Of Modern Art’s annual benefit celebrated the Oscar-winning actress, Tilda Swinton’s contribution to film. Swinton, who turned 53 on Tuesday was also presented with a birthday cake at the event.
Although I don’t connect with Lorde’s songs, I like her for the fact that she is a young artist with talent and happens to be a Kiwi, unsurprisingly — New Zealand has a great music scene. This morning I found another reason to like her; the fact Lorde’s worldwide fame wasn’t fostered from within the American music industry, her opinions about other artists’ songs are freely outspoken and downright honest — albeit subjective:
Continue reading ‘Kiwi Singer-Songwriter Lorde’s Brutal Honesty’
I withdrew the last of my course related costs as provided by Studylink last week and put it towards a made-to-order laptop. I’m happy with that decision, but why the funk didn’t I think to do this at the start of my academic year?! Anyway, it’s done. The problem I’m left with however is finding a job, if I hope to purchase any course related materials next year not to mention transport expenses. Music festivals. Summer blockbusters. Video games. Friendly dates. Ill advised purchases! FOOD! ARGH! It’s going to be good living when I’m a millionaire, I tell you! But for now, finding a job/s and revising the publication that’s going to make yours truly a household name will own me this summer period. Just another bitch to the system. As far as jobs are concerned, honestly, I’m not fussed, I have a high tolerance and actually miss having calluses on the palm of my hands. Dirty jobs are more than fine with me. All I really need is one.
I am going to put you through your paces laptop. Tap dat keypad. Work that processor. Yeeeaaahhh, I’ll put a mirror in front of you to take some risqué webcam selfies of yourself too. Skype an…wait…I crossed a line somewhere didn’t I?
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