Sunday, February 21, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
pandora's box
To be frank, i did not enjoy Pandora's box. Here are the reasons why
- I am not a huge fan of scilent movies. I get extremely annoyed that i cant hear sound other then that darn piano ( alothough i do give props to the pianist for his/her improv of the score). After about thirty minutes i have this burning desire to hear something, anything, other then that piano. I also was not pleased by the fact that the movie only gave you minimal diologue. I understand why they did it- to make people not focus on what is being said but why and how it is being said- but i found it frustrating to know that people are taking but not see what they are saying. In that entrie two and a half hour movie there was probabily about 30 lines of diologue that was shown.
- Another thing that i did not like about this movie was the fact that it dragged along at some points. For example, in the act where they are on the boat, i felt that some aspects of the plot could have been cut out. For another example, i dont think that they needed to have the subplot of the man asking Lulu for the $20000. I beleve that it was both an excuse for that character to die, and an excuse to throw a reoccuring theme of the movie back into it (that money corrupts).
- All things aside however, i found Louise Brooks to be enthralling. Even though I dont find her to be the prettiest woman in the world, i think she is an amazing actress. She is the reason that i was able to keep up with what was happening in the movie and how other characters were related to the movie's plot. As we said in class, Louise only acts as herself because that is all she knows how to do. This is most likely why she is so good. In silent films it is common for characters to overexaggerate their movements and actions, so that the viewer may have a clearer understanding as to what is going on, since there is no dialogue. However, Louise did not need any of these gimmics because she portraid her emotions and actions so realistically that her audience could actually connect to what she was feeling or doing, and actually know what she was feeling/doing.
- I also enjoyed various shots in the movie, like the "down to hell" shot where they assend the stairs to the gambling parlor, or the shot where the son of the editor finds his father dying and looks up at Lulu holding the pistol next to the painting,or the scene where Lulu is on her bed and the light is shining on her face and there is a kind of divinity to her.
Im one for classics but i much rather prefer them with a soundtrack and some diologue, i guess im just not a melodramatic silent movie type of guy.
- I am not a huge fan of scilent movies. I get extremely annoyed that i cant hear sound other then that darn piano ( alothough i do give props to the pianist for his/her improv of the score). After about thirty minutes i have this burning desire to hear something, anything, other then that piano. I also was not pleased by the fact that the movie only gave you minimal diologue. I understand why they did it- to make people not focus on what is being said but why and how it is being said- but i found it frustrating to know that people are taking but not see what they are saying. In that entrie two and a half hour movie there was probabily about 30 lines of diologue that was shown.
- Another thing that i did not like about this movie was the fact that it dragged along at some points. For example, in the act where they are on the boat, i felt that some aspects of the plot could have been cut out. For another example, i dont think that they needed to have the subplot of the man asking Lulu for the $20000. I beleve that it was both an excuse for that character to die, and an excuse to throw a reoccuring theme of the movie back into it (that money corrupts).
- All things aside however, i found Louise Brooks to be enthralling. Even though I dont find her to be the prettiest woman in the world, i think she is an amazing actress. She is the reason that i was able to keep up with what was happening in the movie and how other characters were related to the movie's plot. As we said in class, Louise only acts as herself because that is all she knows how to do. This is most likely why she is so good. In silent films it is common for characters to overexaggerate their movements and actions, so that the viewer may have a clearer understanding as to what is going on, since there is no dialogue. However, Louise did not need any of these gimmics because she portraid her emotions and actions so realistically that her audience could actually connect to what she was feeling or doing, and actually know what she was feeling/doing.
- I also enjoyed various shots in the movie, like the "down to hell" shot where they assend the stairs to the gambling parlor, or the shot where the son of the editor finds his father dying and looks up at Lulu holding the pistol next to the painting,or the scene where Lulu is on her bed and the light is shining on her face and there is a kind of divinity to her.
Im one for classics but i much rather prefer them with a soundtrack and some diologue, i guess im just not a melodramatic silent movie type of guy.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
josE and the paperback hooligans
Since i have already posted my core values and ennigran test and then rethought and did them i want to just add on to what my results were:
3rd core value: Destiny and the road of your life
Im a big believer in karma and that every action has a reaction...not necessairly the butterfly effect but i guess a diluted version of it.
problems:
Time:
I'm facinated by time and thus one of my core values is destiny. What i try to figure out is wheather life is according to the "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" where everything is predetermined and you trying to stop it only makes it happen, or if like abides by the "Back to the Future" rules, that you can change your destiny.
Enigram test:
after re taking the test (as honestly as i could) i got these results:
i'm an 8 and a 3 equally with an 8 wing seven
I couldnt agree more
I have the shutoutness of an 8, but also the loyalty. I find that i have a hard outter shell and find it hard to truly trust people but if i can then im as loyal as a dog.
I also have the "get shit done" mentality of a 3 (even though that darn 8 wing 7 screws me over sometimes) once i start something it is like a freight train to get it done and once its done....im not exactly one for modesty.
8wing7: its true, when i get on stage that is. I get on the stage, or in the hot seat and i cant possibly get enough of it. I feel hyperenergetic and my mind rushes at 100000 mph. but i guess that could be the 3 in there mixing with my 8/7.
3rd core value: Destiny and the road of your life
Im a big believer in karma and that every action has a reaction...not necessairly the butterfly effect but i guess a diluted version of it.
problems:
Time:
I'm facinated by time and thus one of my core values is destiny. What i try to figure out is wheather life is according to the "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" where everything is predetermined and you trying to stop it only makes it happen, or if like abides by the "Back to the Future" rules, that you can change your destiny.
Enigram test:
after re taking the test (as honestly as i could) i got these results:
i'm an 8 and a 3 equally with an 8 wing seven
I couldnt agree more
I have the shutoutness of an 8, but also the loyalty. I find that i have a hard outter shell and find it hard to truly trust people but if i can then im as loyal as a dog.
I also have the "get shit done" mentality of a 3 (even though that darn 8 wing 7 screws me over sometimes) once i start something it is like a freight train to get it done and once its done....im not exactly one for modesty.
8wing7: its true, when i get on stage that is. I get on the stage, or in the hot seat and i cant possibly get enough of it. I feel hyperenergetic and my mind rushes at 100000 mph. but i guess that could be the 3 in there mixing with my 8/7.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
enigram test and the various other funny things
i just want to start with an actual question
I generally don't like to stay at one task for very long. I get restless and want to move onto something else.
so im clicking no as i look at the bottom of the page and see that i have 12 more pages to go and think boy...i wonder whats on facebook......
so i got my results and lo and behold its a tie between a seven and an eight
its funny becasue for a silly electronic test those results were damn right
i read both the seven and eight and hell, they were just about spot on......
I generally don't like to stay at one task for very long. I get restless and want to move onto something else.
so im clicking no as i look at the bottom of the page and see that i have 12 more pages to go and think boy...i wonder whats on facebook......
so i got my results and lo and behold its a tie between a seven and an eight
its funny becasue for a silly electronic test those results were damn right
i read both the seven and eight and hell, they were just about spot on......
i am sort of a crazy excentric quick witted seven but with the loyalty and the extreme shut out ness of a eight (contradictory i know)
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
core values/ the dreaded artist statement
ok so since my core values/ issues arent able to be scanned...(not that anyone could have figured them out due to my cryptic handwriting and various lines drawn as connectors, i've (kindly) narrowed everything down....and made it semi -coherant...
Core Values:
Acceptance: practially everything i do and try to do is usually for acceptancce.....whether it be my own or for someone else, i have a burning desire to be accepted (and therefore liked)
Connections- Ranging from wifi to actual human connections (relationships) my life seems to revolve around connections. I find that everything i do somehow is connected to something else i do...so i guess the Celestine Prophecy applies here also. Like acceptance i live for relationships (but always seem to get in my own way from actually achieving a succuessful one(see self sabitour under issues). Also i find that wifi(cyber connections) allows me to know more....and as much as i hate to qoute any monologue that doug has ever (or will ever) utter... "the more I know the more I'll be. The less I know the less I'll be." Meaning that the more i am connected the more i gain from being connected.
3?- as we are trying to constantly find out more about ourselves, sadly so am i. I leave the third value blank under the hope that i will find out that one last bit of myself as i continue (really meaning start) to so some soul searching.
Problems-(Gosh where to start...might need a road map for this one)
1.Karma
-self sabitour (bad karma given to myself......or just me doing (or much more likely saying) something stupid)
2. finding yourself
-(acceptance?)
(3?)- (i add the question mark only because im not sure if this goes under this catagory or if i am just having a self help session with my monitor and key board)
I make people hate me before they can hate me.
its like a bomb that i voluntairily cut the red wire to (even though i know it is the green wire to stop it) before it can go off on its own.
i wanna stop there because i realize that venting towards an inanimate object may be fun but it illicits wierd stares from people from the slightly disturbed look upon my face...
(4?) (again question mark because im not sure it fits)
humor
it is the bane of my existance but also the reason that i am still sane
it is the evergoing quest to find humor in any and all situations that is the trouble
it is also my defence mechanism (humor translated into sarcasm) which i often use to keep myself from either getting emotionally connected (bomb theory) or to keep myself from being (pause for the cliche about to come) all that i can be.
ill end this crazed siloquoy with a little bit of humor becasue that is what i do best
Personality type:
A-Love yourself
B-Hate your self
i see myself as an A
or would it be a B and a half seeing as it would need to go up to an A because an A going to a B is proposterous
however i dont think that a B type rubs me so well, so i will have to go with an A minus i guess
But that gives me too much credit because as easily as i can look in a mirror and say "you are the man" i can also say that " kid...you need to loose a bit of weight" so i will have to go with a B+
But again that darn B doesnt give me enough credit but the A minus may just be too generous (becasue lets get this straight a A minus is practically a B+ anyways) But that A- is better then that darn B+....oh wait....how bout i create a C + that way i can be a B type with the "C" but the plus is for the A type in me.....but again that C doesnt have the same ring as an A and ill tell you i think that i deserve an A.....but not really.....i guess.................................
wrap your head around that
Core Values:
Acceptance: practially everything i do and try to do is usually for acceptancce.....whether it be my own or for someone else, i have a burning desire to be accepted (and therefore liked)
Connections- Ranging from wifi to actual human connections (relationships) my life seems to revolve around connections. I find that everything i do somehow is connected to something else i do...so i guess the Celestine Prophecy applies here also. Like acceptance i live for relationships (but always seem to get in my own way from actually achieving a succuessful one(see self sabitour under issues). Also i find that wifi(cyber connections) allows me to know more....and as much as i hate to qoute any monologue that doug has ever (or will ever) utter... "the more I know the more I'll be. The less I know the less I'll be." Meaning that the more i am connected the more i gain from being connected.
3?- as we are trying to constantly find out more about ourselves, sadly so am i. I leave the third value blank under the hope that i will find out that one last bit of myself as i continue (really meaning start) to so some soul searching.
Problems-(Gosh where to start...might need a road map for this one)
1.Karma
-self sabitour (bad karma given to myself......or just me doing (or much more likely saying) something stupid)
2. finding yourself
-(acceptance?)
(3?)- (i add the question mark only because im not sure if this goes under this catagory or if i am just having a self help session with my monitor and key board)
I make people hate me before they can hate me.
its like a bomb that i voluntairily cut the red wire to (even though i know it is the green wire to stop it) before it can go off on its own.
i wanna stop there because i realize that venting towards an inanimate object may be fun but it illicits wierd stares from people from the slightly disturbed look upon my face...
(4?) (again question mark because im not sure it fits)
humor
it is the bane of my existance but also the reason that i am still sane
it is the evergoing quest to find humor in any and all situations that is the trouble
it is also my defence mechanism (humor translated into sarcasm) which i often use to keep myself from either getting emotionally connected (bomb theory) or to keep myself from being (pause for the cliche about to come) all that i can be.
ill end this crazed siloquoy with a little bit of humor becasue that is what i do best
Personality type:
A-Love yourself
B-Hate your self
i see myself as an A
or would it be a B and a half seeing as it would need to go up to an A because an A going to a B is proposterous
however i dont think that a B type rubs me so well, so i will have to go with an A minus i guess
But that gives me too much credit because as easily as i can look in a mirror and say "you are the man" i can also say that " kid...you need to loose a bit of weight" so i will have to go with a B+
But again that darn B doesnt give me enough credit but the A minus may just be too generous (becasue lets get this straight a A minus is practically a B+ anyways) But that A- is better then that darn B+....oh wait....how bout i create a C + that way i can be a B type with the "C" but the plus is for the A type in me.....but again that C doesnt have the same ring as an A and ill tell you i think that i deserve an A.....but not really.....i guess.................................
wrap your head around that
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Newyears resolutions (cliche i know) ( and if you must burst my bubble do so nicely)
1. Taylor Lautner Abs...for the ladies....
2. Good grades (but that's a given)
3. Job would be nice ( lifeguarding pays well....)
4. be a general better person.... even i dont know what it entails but i guess it sounds protentious enough to be on here
5. Have more fun---im the steryotypical nerd when it comes to going out and having fun....and that really needs to change
6. stop cursing--its gonna get me in trouble one day
7. Dont get in my own way
8. Taylor lautner abs (...........its for the ladies)
9. Stand out
10. make EVERYONE proud
11. take time for myself
12. get done with this list!!!!!!!
and good luck to everyone else..........
1. Taylor Lautner Abs...for the ladies....
2. Good grades (but that's a given)
3. Job would be nice ( lifeguarding pays well....)
4. be a general better person.... even i dont know what it entails but i guess it sounds protentious enough to be on here
5. Have more fun---im the steryotypical nerd when it comes to going out and having fun....and that really needs to change
6. stop cursing--its gonna get me in trouble one day
7. Dont get in my own way
8. Taylor lautner abs (...........its for the ladies)
9. Stand out
10. make EVERYONE proud
11. take time for myself
12. get done with this list!!!!!!!
and good luck to everyone else..........
Saturday, December 19, 2009
so i dont have to clean the stac room...
AVATAR- today i saw the movie Avatar. No, wait...to even call it a movie is doing it injustice...this was an epic adventure. going into the theatre, i thought that it would be another cruddy scifi movie...."yeah so some dude thinks he is an alien...big fricken woop...does it have wookies and ewoks..no!!!" Boy was i wrong. Even just in the begining of the movie the characters reveal themeslves through things that you did not see. They leave you with questions like who is he? why is he there? which is answered as the door pannels open to a breathtaking view of the alien world deamed pandora. I'm not going to spoil the whole movie for you but i will tell some of my favorite parts/things. Thing #1- no "filler" diologue- the dioogue was very poinant- it either answered questioins (and then gave you more) or it explored relationships betewwn characters. There was absolutely no cliche ohhh I love you sooooooooooooooooooo much. Instead their eyes did the talking and honestly as the movie goes on, you cant even tell that the main characters are aliens at all, they are just people learning about eachother. Thing #2- Awesome acting by the main character- this guy was just awesome. You really connected with him from the very start. If i hadnt seen pix of him standing up, you would have whole heartedly believed he was a cripple looking for some hope. Thing #3- The scenery GORGOUS! my favorite part of the scenery becides the epic views and beauty, was the fact that the poinant parts of the scenery were either extremely bland which only made them more interesting or they were lit. Not like a light from the heavens (although it was a sacred tree). It was sort of glowing in a divine way- it was what the tree of knowledge wishes it would look like)---altogether you need to see this film....in 3d none the less and pay attention to every detail of everything because credit is needed where credit is due and believe me this director deserves credit.
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