These are for you Shan!
Since I know you love this type of stuff. Thanks to Noelle and friends.
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Monday, August 23, 2004
Origami Anyone?
There's an origami convention going on in Tokyo this weekend. Click here, here, or here to see some examples of what a real pro can do. Here's some instructions, if you like to try your hand at it.
Sunday, August 22, 2004
Garden State
Chris, Jen and I went out last night to see Garden State. It was written, directed and stars Zach Braff whom you may recognize from Scrubs, and Natalie Portman, whom you will recognize from the latest Star Was flicks. Jen, Chris and I all really enjoyed the movie. I think if you enjoy "Eternal Sunshine of the Endless Mind", "Being John Malkovitch", or "O Brother, where art thou?", you will probably enjoy Garden State. If your tastes tend to run more to Alien vs. Predator, wait for the DVD.
The plot is pretty simple. A guy from LA whose been on some form of drug all his life to control his "psychotic" tendancies goes home to New Jersey for his Mom's funeral. While he's there he catches up with old friends, his family, and meets a girl. It doesn't sound like much, but it's quite a funny film in a funny way. I found often you weren't sure if you should be laughing or not. I often heard Chris laughing out loud, and then the rest of the audience laughing after him, like they were using him as a judge as to whether or not it was appropriate to be laughing at a given scene. Either way, it's a funny deep movie without being too full of itself, and I found it extremely easy to relate with even the quirkiest of characters. Also after years of spewing out George Lucas' brutal scripts, Natalie Portman actually gets a chance to show us what a phenominal actress she really is. All in all, I'd say that Garden State was one of the better movies I've seen this year.
Zach Braff has posted a blog here which is a pretty good read.
As a side note, Jen used to ski with Sarah Chalke from Scrubs up at Whistler...I guess that gives me 3 degrees of separation from Zach. Lucky him :)
The plot is pretty simple. A guy from LA whose been on some form of drug all his life to control his "psychotic" tendancies goes home to New Jersey for his Mom's funeral. While he's there he catches up with old friends, his family, and meets a girl. It doesn't sound like much, but it's quite a funny film in a funny way. I found often you weren't sure if you should be laughing or not. I often heard Chris laughing out loud, and then the rest of the audience laughing after him, like they were using him as a judge as to whether or not it was appropriate to be laughing at a given scene. Either way, it's a funny deep movie without being too full of itself, and I found it extremely easy to relate with even the quirkiest of characters. Also after years of spewing out George Lucas' brutal scripts, Natalie Portman actually gets a chance to show us what a phenominal actress she really is. All in all, I'd say that Garden State was one of the better movies I've seen this year.
Zach Braff has posted a blog here which is a pretty good read.
As a side note, Jen used to ski with Sarah Chalke from Scrubs up at Whistler...I guess that gives me 3 degrees of separation from Zach. Lucky him :)
Monday, August 16, 2004
Chris Rock Quote
Chris Rock's "Quote of the Day!"
"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon'. Need I say more?"
"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon'. Need I say more?"
Sunday, August 15, 2004
Movie
If any of you are interested, you can check out the movie that I am volunteering with as photographer/sound editor here:
http://thehamstercage.irreverentmedia.com
(Check out the first video in the "Making of" section... it's pretty funny.)
http://thehamstercage.irreverentmedia.com
(Check out the first video in the "Making of" section... it's pretty funny.)
Sunday, August 8, 2004
An interesting commentary on the division of church and state
Not exactly safe for work
If for some reason you can't play "mp4" files, here's a link to a whole bunch of other different versions,
If for some reason you can't play "mp4" files, here's a link to a whole bunch of other different versions,
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