What I'm Up To
I saw War of the Worlds. Definitely worth seeing on the big screen. But if you're at all squeamish, avoid it. The imagery, I think, purposely evokes the attacks of 9/11 and the film is actually kind of one big punch in the gut. . .
You know something different about LA, at least where I am?
There aren't really any multiplexes, like back home. Here, they have a HUGE movie house with one HUGE screen and one movie playing at a time. The crowd lines up around the block an hour before the film start time.
And the crowd is so much more respectful of the film. You don't get cell phones and talking. People are studying the film, watching the film, enjoying the film. And there is actually a curtain that rises and falls between previews and the main feature. Certainly different. And better. Except now I've seen the one movie they're showing and there is nothing else to see for me.
I'm making friends, which is always good. I spent awhile today with an Italian named Giacamo. It came up in the conversation that I was in a band, and he asked which kind of music I played. I told him Rock, and he said, "Oh like Bruce Springstein and Bob Dylan." I told him just kind of but not really, and I couldn't come up with a band that he's heard of that we vaguely sound like. I promised him a CD.
I turned in the first part of my script to my screenwriter instructor and he set up a meeting with me to discuss it. But then he called me later and cancelled and said, "I actually read your pages and they are pretty outstanding, so I have no reason to meet with you because I wouldn't change a thing. It's really actually pretty stellar." Nice, huh?
I'm also taking a Cinematography class and I'm LOVING it because I'm learning all the ins and outs of movie cameras and film stocks and lenses and techniques. It might sound boring but actually these are exactly the kinds of things I need to learn so I can make the films I want to make and achieve the looks I'm going for. YES.
So yes when the Look Machine starts rocking out again. . . we will be multimedia hopefully.
9 Comments:
That sounds like superb awexomeness!! :-D
Oh my.... Cali is too chic
New York is waaaaay better though
New York sucks
anonymity sucks
hehe lolz NY does suck its goodness
Now PA...I wish i lived there...PA is flippin beautiful and nice. And yesh yesh The look machiners hail from there.
Im tired goodnight and Collin...are ya coming to camp later? I'm gonna be volunteering there now whooooooot! ^_^
no No NO! NYC is an amazing place, nowhere like it in the whole world. People who hate it don't know it. I want to live there at some point. Not my whole life, but maybe a summer.
Do you know that 13% of Manhattan is set apart as open parkland?
Guess how much of LA is? 4%. And you can tell. In LA there are NO parks. You have to go to the outskirts (and then there is actually quite alot.) And also, sadly, the Los Angeles River (which was once a proper river), is now just a concrete aqueduct.
cities are overrated.
hehe thanks....but i don't live exactly in NYC...I live like an hour from the city in upstate NY. But the city is amazing.
The diversity of it all is what gets me and the amount of people from all over the world. I guess LA is like that too but I love NYC.
But its not fun to live in the city...unless you live in like a
penthouse or something. lolz
HEY Jason! Come to the camp the Palks go to next summer....you can go to the city and then see upstate NY! You can even be a counselor next year if you want. I go there too so believe me...its fun
The city is full of pompous liberals that think they know better than everyone else because they are "cultured" Talk about ironic. The city is a great place to visit. It is also a great place to get away from!
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