Dec/093
Communications Design 1 Final Project
Today we debuted our final video project in our communications design class, thus bringing a close to a BEAUTIFUL chapter in my early advertising educational career.
Please enjoy this film, meant to communicate the benefits of mobile phones, responsibly.
Nov/090
Blue Man
The Artist's "Blue Period."
This is a behind the scenes look at my first video spot as an advertising design student at art center. I painted myself blue. Off to a great start.
Stay tuned…
Oct/090
Movie Backlog: INGLORIOUS BASTERDS
Inglorious Basterds
I can’t believe I forgot to blog about this. It only took posting about Zombieland to drudge this up from my memory… Unforgivable, simply because this film for me is thus far, hands down, movie of the year.
Wow. First of all it should be noted that I’m a major Quentin Tarantino fan, and he can basically do no wrong… That aside, I’m no apologist, and I was fully ready to have lot’s of negative things to say about this film….
I went with Gabe, as usual… Going to movies is one of our pastimes, and he loved it so much that this was his second viewing in less than a week. Whoa.
I have to say it definitely lined up with my high expectations of any QT flick, namely that it would be a visual feast, and have some hilarious over the top comedic moments. There was a certain grittiness about the film that I really enjoyed, and as usual there was a far-fetched element to the plot that had me smiling, despite being a World War II history buff.
The other major plus side is that we have a new nickname for Clifford: “The Bear Jew.”
See this movie. It rules.
Fellini Scale: 8.0 out of 8.5
Oct/090
ZOMBIELAND
Zombieland Poster
This movie was actually pretty great. I took Gabe and two of his buddies to see this, and honestly it is one of the better films I’ve seen this year.
I’m not sure if I prefer it to Shaun of the Dead, but it is in the same comedic zombie vein. Woody Harrelson is really funny, and this could be my favorite role of his, and the best since No Country, despite the obvious gap in face-time between the two roles.
Don’t go into it expecting an art-house, oscar worthy epic. It’s meant to be some cheap laughs, and it delivers.
Bill Murray has an epic Cameo.
Fellini Scale: 6.0 out of 8.5
Aug/090
District 9 Impressions
Rest assured: The film is better than the poster.
Went with Gabe to see this with admittedly low-to-no expectations, which is always a safe bet.
I’m not a person who finds myself scouring the web (or any media for that matter) for movie recommendations, and so most of the movie buzz I get is from Gabe who usually instigates these movie outings.
He was psyched to see this movie, which was good enough for me, so we headed out to catch the 8:00PM show. So bromantic!
I found it to be entertaining, and I was pleasantly surprised. Sure there are loose ends and unanswered questions, but I felt like it was a pretty generic alien flick told in a novel way, and it made some very interesting “artistic statements” that clearly reference Apartheid. Speaking of, I felt that it was very brave of Peter Jackson to stage it in South Africa, a place I really love, instead of a stereotypical film setting such as New York… Simply because Johannesburg is a place that probably doesn’t resonate much with the 18-24 year old, American male target demo… That and because it makes the Apartheid connections WAY less subtle. Risky. Provocative. Political? Finally Hollywood gets the Alien-Apartheid allegory off of its chest! I know we’ve all been waiting for it!!
All in all, not my favorite flick of the year so far, but it was kinda fun, which is why I see movies. They tend to be fun. How’s that for insight?
Rating: 6.5 out of 8.5 on my “Sliding Fellini Scale of Cinematic Quality” ©. This is going to be my proprietary film rating method from here on out.