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Went to the slum, Klong Toey yesterday and been thinking about it quite a bit. The photographer I was with was quite rightly nervous and not keen on staying. Another photographer i know was chased through it's narrow streets by a gang of youths with knives. It holds some 70,000 people, many of which...
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky "....Chomsky and Herman demonstrate that while we pride ourselves on a "free press," in truth we have a press that is actually quite self-censoring, and thus hardly free at all. Most of the media, they...
As the (geeky) kids say, The San Francisco Frozen Film Fest was full of win. Translation. It was neato. I didn't get an exact number of how many people came to the screening but the audience was huge and I heard that at the very least, we had the biggest turnout of the day. The audience was probably...
Well holy crap. The San Francisco Frozen Film Fest turned out to be the best fest experience we've had so far. It was tons of fun and the movie and after party went over really, really well. I'll blog about the weekend after I get the photos uploaded. In the mean time I wanted to do a quick post...
Yesterday I went over to my friends place, as per usual on weekends. This week we had planned on going to see Wall-E, having dinner at their place and then generally hanging out for the rest of the evening. Which we did. Wall-E was incredible. I can't say much without totally spoiling the story for...
At this year's AnimeExpo 2008, running through July 6 in Los Angeles, Anime Expo® has teamed with Bang Zoom!® Entertainment to offer free voice acting workshops that will give participants a taste of voice acting with insiders’ tips, general discussions and chances to dub with a professional...
It's that time of the year again... July means cold weather, lots of rain and heaps of awesome films @ the International Film Festival in Auckland. So here are some of the flicks that caught my attention and that I'm definitely going to see (except for the first one as I already saw that one several...
I had the best 4th of July of my life yesterday. It wasn't anything exciting, but it was just one of those very nice days with Alan where we can enjoy each other's company and not worry about everything else going on around us. We went to Crossroads Village and rode the train and the boat, watched...
Growing up, I remember that I used to visit arcades, roller skating rinks, even places like Dairy Queen that used to have the classic arcade games just to waste my quarters. I wish that I could provide an accurate number in dollars as to how much I reallly used up on those arcade games, but I just...
Another film fest?? How does this keep happening? Oh right...I spent a billion dollars this spring entering every cool festival I could find. I entered a bunch because I thought "well, if we're lucky we'll get accepted to one festival every few months." That was actually kind of a pretty optimistic...
Polaroid film faces the final shutter By Justin Baer in New York Published: February 8 2008 23:48 | Last updated: February 8 2008 23:48 Polaroid, the US company that introduced instant photography 60 years ago, is to stop making film. The group, which stopped making instant cameras a year ago, will...
“When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.” ~ Lama Zopa Rinpoche June 24, 2008 This reminds me one of the recommendations in “The 37 Practices of the Bodhisattva” which states, “If outer...
I have recently viewed a couple of movies that could not have been more different! First up was the documentary Helvetica on the Netflix Roku box and yes, it's all about the font. Actually, it was about the ubiquitous typeface and a whole lot more, including design, marketing and the psychology f...
The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival is this weekend and they posted a pdf of their fest guide on-line. The genres listed for the documentary pretty much sum up the film perfectly. Nerdcore For Life- Alternative, Underground, independent, Post-Modern Science. I am gonna steal that shit and...
It was Januray 2007 the last (and only) time I had shirts made up to promote the documentary but I noticed at the Wisconsin Film fest that a lot of people in the audience were watching the film bare-chested. So I thought I would try and cash in on this phenomenon at the next festival I went to. I...
i watched a hilarious new documentary that came out on netflix this week titled super high me. it stars comedian doug benson and it's kind of a spoof of the documentary super size me but instead of eating fast food for 30 days, mr. benson abstains from smoking pot for 30 days and then proceeds to...
For those of you traveling in Europe, Brazil and/or the Middle East, it's old news that "Eating Levi" can be found on television (usually playing somewhere between the Ronco apple peel-o-matic and Juiceman's "Juicebox Hero" video). For those of us stateside, it might surprise and delight you that,...
just caught an interview with the very brave parvez sharma talking about his documentary (a jihad for love) exploring islam and homosexuality on CNN (triggered by california finally overturning the gay-marriage ban).excellent to see such sensitive subjects being tackled, although its doubtful there...
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