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Less Than 30 Days!!

My Sex!!!

May 30th...I'm officially excited!  Sorry guys, but we gals love our Sex and the City!  Have you all seen the trailer?  It nearly made me cry.  :P  Definitely gave me goosebumps.  I can't wait for the movie to come out!!!  And check out the snipette below.  

All About Creativity

Los posted a creative challenge on his blog and so I'm taking him up on it.  This is an art project I did about 9 months ago, my last quarter at UCR.  It was my final project that I did with 3 other students.  It was a film class, but studied choreography and body framing in film and dissected the intricacies of how movement and dance is done, stylistically, in a film.  So, there were a lot of dancers in the class, and my partners all turned out to be dancers.  So, we took a theory known as "The Democratic Body" which basically is about how in film, the body is broken into pieces so that it looks "better" than what a live performance could look like, emphasizing a dancers particular strengths and showcasing each dancer during their best moments.  The piece will look like one cohesive dance, but rather than a viewer having the opportunity to focus on only one dancer in their strengths and their weaknesses, they are only shown the highlights, in a sense, so the show is stronger overall.  We took that theory, tried to blur gender and ethnicity, and were also inspired by the way "Flashdance" sort of compartmentalized and boxed the body in sections.  The dancers were filmed grooving to drum and bass music, but just for the sake of motion.  The editing was in no way cohesive to a particular song or choreography.  They simply improvised their movements, which were edited together, and the music was dropped in after some of the editing was already completed.  Anyway, I know it's a lot, but see if you can see it in the project and overall, I hope you enjoy.

1950's Beauty

I was channel surfing a couple nights ago and came across "The Notorious Bettie Page" and while it wasn't the most amazing movie I've ever seen, it was quite intriguing and I have a real appreciation for the first pin-up queen!  Look how cute and sexy she was!  It's funny how body styles change.  She has such a gorgeous body, I wouldn't mind it if I looked something like when I'm done.  What a tiny waist!

If you aren't familiar with her, here's a little story about her, in her own words.

Officially Rejected...

Don't know if you all remember this from back in November, but I applied to NYU and I was officially notified today of my rejection.  :( 

I know, I'm sad, but as one note of consolation Mr. Dan Sanford, Director of Graduate Admissions for the Tisch School of the Arts did include in his letter the following statement:

"You should know, however, that the review committee felt strongly enough about your application to pass you to the second round.  This distinction was earned by only a third of the several hundred applications received."

It's true, the website said, before I even began applying that over 800 people apply and only 30 get in.  So,  I should be flattered.  It seems like they did put serious consideration into my application, but in the end decided to pass.  I'm definitely disappointed.  I suppose if I hadn't thrown it together at the last minute, I might have had more success, but who the heck really knows.  Maybe it was my D in gender studies, or the 2 B's I got in Dunks Intro to Whatever classes--he never really liked me.  Maybe my Christian script scared them.  (I wrote a liberal Christian politico short as part of my submission, and discussed at length how my faith would play an integral role in my productions.)  Or maybe (thanks Mel) it's just not the right time for me.  I do have a lot going on at the moment and God has other plans for me right now.  Maybe I'll try to apply next year.

Bye-Bye Camera

so, the video camera i do my video blogs with is actually my sister's and yesterday she asked me to ship it to her so that she could shoot some stuff for our next documentary.  it made me very sad.  i'm gonna have to figure out a new way to do videos.  my still camera takes video, i just don't really like using it cuz the format doesn't read in Final Cut, only in iMovie, which I'm not a big fan of...

Thirty and Flirty and Thriving!

possibly the cutest movie ever!

me and my work

here's a pic of me video taping the 7pm worship service--carlos' last day.  you can't see me, but i'm holding the awesome, new AG-HVX200P camera.  :D

thanks daniel!