Junkie behind my building. Photo fun from
around the world. The animated obesity map.
Festival, final thoughts. Filming a car
rally.
Archive
for October 8- October 15/03
Film festival wrap up. Last reviews including:
Zatoichi, The Corporation, Morning Sun, The Snow Walker,
The Story of the Weeping Camel, To Kill a King and
The Man in the Grave Next Door. Worked on Bulent's
film "Chill". Working on a rally video for RallyTT.com.
Film watching bliss as the Film Festival
continues and I continue to pile on reviews. I also
get sick from the hundreds of people coughing and
sneezing in the theatre. Seen: Abjad, Wild Card,
A Big Girl Like You, Power Trip, Gozu, Save the Green
Planet, Resurrection of the Little Match Girl, The
Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert
S. McNamara, and Elephant.
Archive for September
25- Sept 30/03
The film festival begins, I'm volunteering
and seeing TONS of films. Seen: Bus 174, Evil, The
Last Life in the Universe, All Tomorrow's Parties, Bright
Future, Plan Colombia: Cashing in on the Drug War Failure,
A Tale of Two Sisters, Mutt Boy, and Goodbye
Dragon Inn.
Archive for September
14- Sept 25/03
My musings on "War Before Civilization"
and the Iraq conflict; writing during my layoff; giant
squid news stories; discovering Lomography Russian cameras
and community; seeing what films are selling out at the
VIFF; KGB hangover drug; rollercoaster cure for eye problem
Launching ArnisCanada.com; learning that
I will not be getting severance due to a loophole my company
is exploiting; getting into the unemployed schedule; volunteering
for the Vancouver International Film Festival; taping
in a bar
Archive for September
1- Sept 6/03
Lady X Episode 13 released. And I am laid
off in the same week.
Lots of filming Lady-X news.
Because so much happened in July it became
one big blog for the month. Lady X filming, contracts, lots
of things.
Life: casting for Lady-X, Work: I've been
imitated, Final "Hit and Run" video?, building
lego characters Media: Slap happy arcade game, "Sleepless
Town" review, "Harakiri" review, on seeing
"The Hulk", News:Ten Appalling Lies We Were Told
About Iraq, Texas Sodomy Law struck down, How two students
built an atomic bomb, Samurai attack in Irvine, CA
Life: being extremely busy, writing my Lady-X
episode', Stanley Cup Finals over, the Giant Gambian Rat,
Work: New Pyroglyphfilms.com" Media: Hellboy
screenshots, NASA Mars Rover launch video, Saul Bass.net,
Lady-X episodes coming up, watching The Wire, News:Criticism
builds over reasons for Iraq war .
Life:searching for a personal igloo like
Momus' Work: Another version of "Hit and Run" Media:
The 'Magic Negro' in film, playing
Medieval: Total War,
Washington Post feature about a road rage incident, Giger's
Batmobile design, Fidgital 2003 DJ set, Baiting.org News:Vinnell
Corp. targetted in Saudi Arabian bombings, CIA 'five years
behind in computer use'
Work: Close to final version of "Hit and Run" video
done, tweaking continues, I won a WebAward for a streaming
ad I created Media: On seeing
The Matrix: Reloaded.
A lengthy essay on
Reloaded's FX and the feeling of
unreality. News:Some use
The Matrix as an excuse for
doing crimes, the first photo of the Earth taken from the
orbit of another planet (Mars)
Work: Returning completed
Media: Japanese
horror I've seen, Saddam and Uday go to the movies, Doom III
trailer, amazing Half Life 2 footage News:IRA executioner
was UK mole, U.S. arms inspectors return home having found
nothing, Dwindling middle class fertile ground for terrorism
in Saudi Arabia
Life: Canucks blow the 2nd round Media: Indiana Jones DVD
box set announced, Half-Life 2 previews released News: that
revolting puking story
Life: Canucks and Wild series, tax time and my media buying
habits Media: The Cassells History of Warfare series, Andrew
Dabb's "Tidal" online comic, Battle Royale II trailer,
The Cremaster films News: The real story of the rescue of
Pvt. Jessical Lynch, William Bennet, big time gambling loser,
horrifying baboon veneral disease
Life: Canucks win round 1 over the Blues and meet the Wild
in round 2, my sad playoff pool; sunshine returns to Vancouver
Work: Filming "Returning" in the UBC Research Forest;
recording voiceover; encoding trailers for the Hulk and Underworld
Media: that amazing Honda Accord ad now emailable
Life: Canucks on the brink but fighting back, exploring the
UBC Research Forest, Work: Filming "Returning" in
the UBC Research Forest; News: Exploring Udai Hussein's mansion;
Review: Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later" shot on an
XL1S Media: that amazing Honda Accord ad, a great piece of
makeup from "Reign of Fire"
Life:
The Stanley Cup Finals begins and I enter a hockey pool for
the first time since high school,
Work:
Recent
"Hit and Run" screencaptures, entering the Lady-X
internet short series; a time lapse clip taken from my office
in Vancouver; News:
Paul Wolfowitz and the American hegemony, watching the fall
of Baghdad; Media: Iraqi
war photos
Life:
Working on Hit and Run video, watching the war begin,
Work:
My anti war video
News: The war begins; the beauty and
horror of the bombing;
Media: "The
Tricoleurs trilogy
"; August Strindberg and Helium
Life:
My week long 'work' vacation to finish off the Hit and Run
video, Fidgital listening party, "Hero" DVD party;
News: Coining a new word for Bush's
efforts to get a Security Council approval for his war against
Iraq: "Deploymacy";
Media:
"Cube 2: Hypercube
" review
Life:
I can't read women at all; Writing:
My "Predator 2" vs "Predator" comparison
chart;
Media: "Equilibrium
"
review, watching "Narc
", Junior Senior's
"Move Your Feet" video, Bush and Blair: "Read
My Lips", Oshii reviews "The Two Towers", U.S.
anti-Iraqi propaganda; News: Lots of people were descended
from Genghis Khan
Life:
My hockey rant about the space behind nets, The Vancouver
plebicite on the 2010 Olympic winter games, Shooting the Filipino
wedding,The Grand Guignol, Media: Vancouver New Music
performance, Chretien the tough guy, Zhang Yimou's "Hero",
the blood libel: Taiwanese foetus eating, watching
Equilibrium;
News: Right wing news beating the war drum, Mr. Rogers
dies, MIT works on nano-battle dress, Inventor of 'swarming
robots' gets prize
Life:
Second larger anti-war demonstration, Filming pickups for
Bulent's film, Media: Scary big brother image of Tom
Ridge, Homeland Security's ready.gov website; Watching the
"Bourne Identity"; News: new developments
in unmanned and robotic warfare
Life:
Playing my brother's game 'Mafia'; Anti-war rally and email
campaign; hard drive issues again; Kelvin's Xbox networking
adventures and MAME madness News: ancient bridge found
linking India with Sri Lanka; Iraq news including refutation
of al Qaeda links to Saddam; The rich and powerful at Davos
are pessimistic on the world the next year
Life:
A bum trying to sell me a motherboard; Waking up to the Columbia
shuttle disaster Writing:
My anti-Iraq war rant Writing:
helping
Bulent film Work:
Another webcast for the Winter 2010; a video banner ad
for Winter 2010.
Media: Ivan Reitman gives
Canadian filmmakers a kick in the ass; Suriyothai (DVD); cool
nudes painted over in camouflaged paints
Life:
Bought a new tripod; car accident; feeling achey and tired;
Trying to get video from DHL and Canada Post
Media: my downloading addiction; Good article
about trying to fix mistakes in filming in post.
Life:
Anti-war rally; Work: Working with Flash MX and Illustrator
10; Gun animation for Hit and Run video; Writing:
The Rumsfeld Iraq spam
Media:
Hoshi No Koe; Review: "Cidade de Deus" (City
of God); News: Man kills himself with self-timed guilloutine
Life: My sad sad New Years Eve;
Work: Winter
2010 Press Conference; 'Flash'-style animation in the "Hit
and Run" video; "Tears of the Sun" encode
Media: Takeshi Kitano's "Sonatine",
Kurosawa retrospective at the Pacific Cinematheque News:
Legendary cinematographer Conrad Hall dead
