by Brock on July 28, 2009
Taking place in cities around the world, the 48 Hour Film Project is a weekend-long project in which teams compete to make a film in just 48 hours. All the work – writing, shooting, editing, scoring, etc. – must be done by the team during the forty-eight hours. It’s only a 4 to 7 minutes short film, but that’s a lot of work to do in a short period of time.
This leads to long days with little to no sleep, and lots of nail biting as you try to turn it in on time and not a second late! But that’s all part of the fun.
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by Brock on June 21, 2009
It’s been a busy summer so far, so let me update you on a few things:
I moved. For the past year Emily and I were living in a townhouse. It was quite lovely. The whole townhouse complex was populated by other grad students and young professionals – a nice change from undergrads peeing off the balcony above your front door. [read more…]
I recently read somewhere that the near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes rating (96% as of this posting) received by the new Star Trek movie might have something to do with the “Oh! This doesn’t actually suck” factor. That is probably a fair assessment. Prequels can be risky, for sure, especially for a franchise with such an iconic place in our culture and as devoted a following as the Trekkies, and many people are highly skeptical that they will not be disappointed.
But with so many positive reviews, you can rest assured that Star Trek succeeds on more than just not sucking. [read more…]
by Brock on April 16, 2009
We took Little Man, one of our two cats, to the vet today to be put to sleep. He had Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP). Read the link if you want to know what that is, but basically it’s kind of mysterious and fatal, and you never really know for sure if they have it, and it’s rare. But it’s also the second time one of the cats we’ve gotten from the Charlottesville SPCA got the disease, so apparently it’s not all that rare. [read more…]
by Brock on April 6, 2009
If you blog, post photos to Flickr, make web videos, or upload any other kind of self-made media to the web, you could be sued for copyright infringement – though maybe not in the way you would think.
You probably realize you can be sued for violating the terms of someone else’s intellectual property (for example, if you use a photo that you don’t have the rights to in your blog post), but what I found interesting about this post from The Blog Herald is that someone could sue you for infringement even though you are the original creator of the work. [read more…]
Been listening to this one a lot, pretty much the whole way through.
This novel was published after the Chilean-Mexican author's death, and I'm not even sure if it was entirely finished or not. It is broken up into five parts which, while connected, stand pretty much on there own. I have not yet made it to the grim part about the murders of hundreds of women in Mexico, so I have so far found it enjoyable and even funny despite some dark underpinnings. It's had a ton of critical praise, and I like it much more than my last foray into the violent novel genre: Blood Meridian.
