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DWIFF Challenge…
May 14, 2008 4:44 pm
Over the past 4 years I have competed in a national competition, known as the National Film Challenge. It has been one of the best experiences of my budding film career. In one weekend, all excuses go to the wayside, and you just make a movie… its a short… but its a finished short. I am very proud to be able to bring this experience to the local Detroit indie film community through the Detroit Windsor International Film Festival.
This is our chance to put everything we have come to love in the national competition into our own and bake in some home grown Detroit flavor and community.
- DWIFF Challenge Website www.dwiff.org/challenge
- DWIFF Website www.dwiff.org
Visual Futurist…
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I had the good fortune of watching two great movies this past week at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor. Visual Futurist and Blade Runner the directors cut.
Anyone who has seen Blade Runner knows it sets the standard for futuristic sci-fi noir. I didn’t realize that the genius behind the look of most every sci-fi movie I appreciate (Blade Runner, Tron, Aliens…) was the son of a preacher man from Detroit, Syd Mead.
He likes to draw… he’s good at it… and he knows it…
I was struck by his humility in light of his accomplishments, he still just draws… because he likes to. He likes a challenge. He wants his art to be approachable by people. It’s certainly creative, but it never intends to escape humanity.
Syd Mead’s work reminds you of something you have never seen before.
What an amazing gift to be able to give to people.
Read more to see a youtube preview of the documentary about his life.
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First Things First…
January 21, 2008 5:15 pm
My favorite magazine doesn’t have any pictures, I must be grown up now.
…to advance a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society.
FIRST…
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I love this organization. FIRST is everything I was looking for in an extracuricular activity when I was in highschool… but never really found it. The good news is that I can be involved now.
Here’s how it works… teams (usually by highschool) sign up for the yearly competition. The goal is to create a robot that will compete in the annual competitions in a variety of challenges. Its kind of like battle bots, but all nice and focusing on team work instead of destruction.
Anyone can join because there is room for just about every area of interest and talent on a team. For example, I am a mentor of the animation team… thats right… every team gets to create an animation along with their robot… and it is its own competition right along side the yearly robot challenges. Autodesk donates the software… and all the teams need are a few computers, some willing students, a little bit of direction, and a lot of rendering hours to churn out a fresh animation. I have been involved for the past 4 years…
Every team needs a bunch of mentors, if you think you would like to mentor an animation team… I started this website to try to organize our efforts in the Detroit area…
Here’s an original animation from my team, TNT280
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Macross…
December 31, 2007 12:45 am| > | > | ||
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I really don’t like anime, sometimes its a guilty pleasure to watch a gratuitously technology ridden Japanese concoction of adolescent violence. And then there is Robotech, my beloved child hood space opera cartoon. Launched in 82′, it was ground breaking… a cartoon with a serial narrative and the capacity to explore complex interpersonal relationships… not to mention really cool transforming space ships and robots… Its amazingly well done and I truly believe it rivals most of episodic TV narratives, especially anything on the Sci-Fi channel. I still watch it… looks like they are going to be doing a movie based on the Macross series… Transformers was cool… but this could be really worthwhile.
Favorite Movies…
May 3, 2006 9:00 amRent…
March 26, 2006 5:42 pm
How is it that a musical about a group of inner city bohemian homosexual aids victums communicates so well with my life expereince? I will try to figure it out as I listen to the soundtrack over the next few weeks.
Don’t breathe too deep.
Don’t think all day
Dive into work,
Drive the other way
That drip of hurt.
That pint of shame
Goes away. Just play the game
You’re living in America
At the end of the millenium
You’re living in America
Leave your conscience at the tone
And when you’re living in America
At the end of the millenium
You’re what you own
About Rent
Official Site
Lets get the band back together…
March 12, 2006 12:55 am
Nighthawks
January 29, 2006 4:05 pm
Nighthawks, Edward Hopper
I love this painting.
I have always been drawn to its raw aesthetics, but only recently have I discovered the suggestions of life experience that make it so captivating and comfortable. This image seems to capture everything it is about the nightlife that I enjoy. What can I say, I’m a night person, (a Nighthawk if you will)… or at least I like being a night person. For maybe two years of my life I was able to get up early every morning and go to bed at a decent time and it seemed to be appropriate. The rest of my life, including my current life, I long for the night and all the possibilities that come with it.
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