my words, my art, my life.
the indie crime drama/feature film i wrote, produced and shot in two weeks in LA, on a shoe-string budget, robert rodriguez style, no professional crew, and unknown cast. this is not the official trailer, was cut mostly for friends and the cast to see all the work we did.
november 25th. this should be awesome, i’ve always loved ninjas. i mean who doesn’t think ninjas are cool? COMEON!
i have so many movies i need to catch up on, i feel like if i don’t hurry up, i’m going to miss them in the theaters. star wars and wolverine have been out for weeks, terminator just came out and now UP from pixar. i haven’t seen a single one! now it’s there’s going to be one to two new movies out every week. oh well. i’ll just have to do some movie marathons. poor me. :P
words can be so powerful, beautiful and meaningful.
they can give you faith. lift you up. inspire. give strength. let you know you are loved.
but when the time arrives, when they are actually tested, without truth, without meaning, without action to back them up. words lose their value.
they fail. they are lies. they are meaningless.
words are weak.
graffiti art books in the art section of barnes and noble
i was in the art section of barnes and noble. and they have a section for graffiti art. of course banksy’s book is there among others.
what makes this more absurd is:
i couldn’t have set this picture up any better.
graffiti art + b&n + yuppie + stroller = death of anti-establishment
don’t get me wrong, i don’t give a crap about graffiti art. except for people like banksy i don’t consider most of them artists. just cause you can write your name on a wall does not mean you have any talent. but i certainly thought this was amusing.
so friday, on a train ride to work, i had the lovely experience of sitting across from a guy with no bags or luggage, who magically produced a nail clipper from his jacket pocket.
he then proceeded to lean over his fingernails, quickly clipping them.
um whyyyy?! who actually carries around a nail clipper? i admit i was kind of disgusted.
but i was truly horrified when a few fingernail bits flew across the train at my direction. one even landed on the seat next to me! i think one even hit a woman sitting one seat over from me cause she got up and move to the other side of the train.
soon after his stop came, he folded up his nail clipper, put it back in his pocket and he got off.
who does that?!
so i was left alone for the remainder of the train ride, staring at a lone fingernail sitting on his seat.
mmm, sometimes i really miss having my own car.
i mean, i knew the world was changing at a rapid pace but even this video in itself is an example of how new information is now distributed across the world to the masses. great video. watch it.
tv is dead, all hail the internet.
keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
-friedrich von schiller
as i get older and older, it just gets harder and harder, but i do because it’s what fuels my passion.
a wonderful start to the new year is the continuing war of the movie studios over the watchmen film distribution rights. not cool. even though alan moore is not supporting the film, i still want to see it! zack snyder seems like he is making a fairly loyal adaptation of it, with more breath taking visuals. but then again, after sin city, i believe there is such a thing as being too close to the original material that it doesn’t have a life of it’s own. don’t get me wrong, i enjoyed sin city, the visuals were stunning. but frank miller’s wonderful words on the page didn’t seem to work for me in film, being spoken out loud.
as for watchmen, i still remember trying to read this monster of a graphic novel created for mature readers when i was only 11. i must admit i didn’t really comprehend all the layers of the story at that age, but it left an undeniable imprint. birth of the anti-heroes like rorschach and has influenced so many people in comics. even when i used to play world of warcraft, i named my rogue character rorschach. :P
fox winning the first ruling over distribution is awful for the scheduled release. i waited 20 years for this film, i sure hope i get to finally see it sometime this year!
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