Saturday, May 24, 2003
in penitence for my slack posting, i'm going to start doing friday fives again. this week's is particularly banal, so what better time to get back into it? 1. what brand of toothpaste do you use? crest whitening something-something, at the moment. i had to get up and go look. toothpaste is not one of those things i've got a lot of brand-loyalty about. my choice is usually highly influenced by packaging design. 2. what brand of toilet paper do you prefer? cottonelle. (obviously a subject of much greater brand-loyalty.) 3. what brand(s) of shoes do you wear? right now i'm wearing sketchers. 4. what brand of soda do you drink? diet coke, like a fiend. vanilla diet coke, especially. 5. what brand of gum do you chew? eclipse or trident... whatever the little blister-wrapped kind are called. Sunday, May 18, 2003
this movie is a very powerful piece of flash work... a bit too politically charged for my taste, but it makes a good point about the power of visual communication. watched the matrix reloaded friday night (didn't everyone?) and liked it, though i could have done without the gratuitous rave/sex scene. didn't anyone in hollywood learn their lesson from mulder and scully? it's all about the sexual innuendo, tension, subtlety... less is more kinda thing. also, it was interesting how some parts of the movie so obviously pandered to the lowest-common-denominator blockbuster audience, and how some parts were aimed completely over that demographic's heads. eh. i watched my sister graduate from college last week. jeez. this brought home to me the fact that i graduated from college six years ago; that i graduated from law school three years ago. it's taken me so long to get to this place in my life, i'm finally doing what i enjoy doing most in the world - graphic design - for a living, and learning more every day, and that i still have so much i want to learn... and i don't know if i'll ever get academia out of my blood; i miss the challenge of thinking beyond the day to day, of stretching my mind to grasp some idea that's totally new to me, but that might just change the way i think of that subject forever... so, i'm toying around with the idea - long term, mind you, we're talking ten, fifteen years - of setting myself a goal, of... more school. maybe a phD. new media theory, visual communications. why not? it's only life, after all. Friday, May 09, 2003
i already own the dvd of "i am trying to break your heart", the wilco documentary. now i've got to get the one about they might be giants. that being said, i also need a 30 gig ipod, a new sofa, a water heater insulation blanket, and fourtet's new album, "rounds" - though not necessarily in that order. oh, and a bright, shiny, white ceramic toilet tank to replace the broken one in my guest bathroom. Thursday, May 08, 2003
so i did get to see x2 this week, eventually, along with probably 85% of america. i thought it was better than the first - pretty impressive considering the crap history of comic-to-movie sequels. and what was that shape under the water at the end? hmmm... off to atlanta tomorrow afternoon to go to my sister's graduation from emory - i plan on spending most of the weekend concepting some websites for work and reading/studying to improve my flash skills. graduation weekends are bo-ring. speaking of flash sites and comics, i don't know about you, but daringplanet looks like it'll be right up my alley. and of course everyone should already know about ninjai. Saturday, May 03, 2003
of course, it was sold out. Friday, May 02, 2003
wow. this week has come and gone in a blink - and it's back to jazzfest for the weekend. last sunday I caught keb mo and dr. john and ornette coleman. ornette, jazz legend that he is, seemed kind of fussy in his old age, but still blew a mean saxophone, in that academic, precisely measured chaos sort of way. one thing that i thought was interesting about that performance was that the "sound" of the music - a little latin/world music vibe to it - was completely created by the backing musicians, standup bass and drum kit. they could have been playing bachelor-pad space music or trip-hop or fuzzed out brit-pop arena rock behind him, and he'd have kept playing his formula, and it would have worked in front of anything.
i got the dvd of miyazaki's "spirited away" last week, too, and watched that. it's definitely as good as i'd heard, and deserved the award for best animated feature. off to see x2 tonight, if it's not sold out. more on that soon. |