I had a dream last night that I was in a WWII concentration camp except in this camp everyone had electic hair clippers and randomly would take chunks out of each other's hair, everyone played guitar at one time or another, and everyone only played New Order-style eighties music with those guitars. What a weird combination in my mind of Guitar ( Read more... )

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Now that the 2005-2006 TV season is wrapping up, I thought I'd take the time to review the shows that I watch. This is part one of a two-part series. Please note that those of you that have not seen the entirety of the seasons in question (I'm looking at you, Frenchy) ought to be aware that there are probaby spoilers involved.

The Amazing Race: ( Read more... )

So, the semester is pretty much over. I took my last real exam (Civil War) today in which I used the word "ostensibly." All I have left to do school-wise is to tweak and screen my final COMM 034 movie. Tomorrow I have to go to the computer place and authorize them to demolish my computer and re-build it. Apparantly something is wrong with the ( Read more... )

Had my first exam today. It was for Art 29, The Film Experience. It was rather easy and I think I wrote a pretty boss essay comparing early John Ford Westerns and the later Sergio Leone incarnations. Today's bad news was this: following my exam, I returned home to find that my computer fan decided it was a good time to start making the most ( Read more... )

So I saw United 93 tonight and I thought I'd share some of my reaction. First off, it's an amazing movie. It's intensely visceral, impeccably staged and constructed, flawlessly acted, and rather hard-hitting emotionally. I liked how it presented the events with very little filter, virtually no high-minded message, and entirely in the same ( Read more... )

Yesterday I met and hung out with David Gordon Green, writer and director of the films George Washington, All the Real Girls, and Undertow, graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, and all around nice guy and awesome dude. I also met and hung out with Brad Land, who wrote a really great book called Goat, which David is adapting into a ( Read more... )

Well, the brutal, over-the-top violent movie has been completed. It's called Bleed. Here it is, in QT7:

http://www.unc.edu/~griffinz/Bleed.movThe assignment was to shoot a scene twice with two different lighting setups. Slight differences between the two versions were allowed. Please note: you'll need to turn your speakers up rather high to ( Read more... )

Wilco > You


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