After watched the Game, I came up with an idea that movie itself is a game, just like what we see in the Game. Everything in the movie is operated and controlled by director and many other people. They try to move you with their ideas. If they are fortunate enough, they may shake you the part of your world. Same thing here, Douglas, a man that owns everything in the movie, was found his childhood shadow and the biggest bug in his by the company, so people made a lot of scenes and successfully changed his life. Maybe cinema person cannot change people's lives by simply a film, even though it is good enough, but good movies change your mind.
The one who owns everything actually misses one thing, the attitude and recognition of life after rebirth. Every trick the company made up in the film is answering the question, what does he lack of. So as long as people still alive, the game is not over. Maybe someday, film can go beyond the screen, into our lives. Audience like us, will be caught our weaknesses and die after all.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
The Social Network
In The Social Network, David Fincher tells the story of the founding of Facebook. And while it might not be totally accurate, it is easily one of the best films of the year.
The Social Network is one of the best movies I have seen all year.
In 2003 Mark Zuckerberg, as portrayed by Zombieland’s Jesse Eisenberg, was a narcissistic, arrogant, and lonely sophomore at Harvard, who was looking to be accepted by the school’s elite in order to have “a better life”. He also happened to be a genius. After a particularly jarring breakup, Zuckerberg pulls off an impressive feat of computer coding, and in the span of a few hours creates Facemash, a website that asked students to choose between two girls and pick the one they thought was better looking. The website lands Zuckerberg in trouble with the school, alienates him with the female student population, but also brings him to the attention of the Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler (both played by Armie Hammer with additional shots using Josh Pence as a stand in), and their partner Divya Narendra (played by Max Minghella).
The trio hire Zuckerberg to help code their website HarvardConnection. The idea was to create a social network that thrived on the idea of exclusivity, and Zuckerberg soon agrees to help. Shortly after, he tells his friend Eduardo Saverin (played by Andrew Garfield) that he has had an idea for a social network of his own, and with Saverin’s money and a promise to make him CFO, Zuckerberg begins work on TheFacebook.
As TheFacebook take off, the movie begins to intertwine with events from the future, notably two separate lawsuits against Zuckerberg, one by the Winklevoss twins and Narendra, and another by Saverin. In the Winklevoss suit, the three claim that Zuckerberg stole their idea, while Saverin’s lawsuit is based on his eventual removal from Facebook.
TheFacebook continues to grow, and within less than a year the site has gained over 150,000 members and is available on several college campuses, including Stanford, where Sean Parker, the founder of Napster (played by Justin Timberlake), discovers the site. Parker arranges a meeting with Zuckerberg, which sets in motion a chain of events that sends Zuckerberg to California, and eventually leads to issues with Saverin.
The Social Network is one of the best movies I have seen all year.
In 2003 Mark Zuckerberg, as portrayed by Zombieland’s Jesse Eisenberg, was a narcissistic, arrogant, and lonely sophomore at Harvard, who was looking to be accepted by the school’s elite in order to have “a better life”. He also happened to be a genius. After a particularly jarring breakup, Zuckerberg pulls off an impressive feat of computer coding, and in the span of a few hours creates Facemash, a website that asked students to choose between two girls and pick the one they thought was better looking. The website lands Zuckerberg in trouble with the school, alienates him with the female student population, but also brings him to the attention of the Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler (both played by Armie Hammer with additional shots using Josh Pence as a stand in), and their partner Divya Narendra (played by Max Minghella).
The trio hire Zuckerberg to help code their website HarvardConnection. The idea was to create a social network that thrived on the idea of exclusivity, and Zuckerberg soon agrees to help. Shortly after, he tells his friend Eduardo Saverin (played by Andrew Garfield) that he has had an idea for a social network of his own, and with Saverin’s money and a promise to make him CFO, Zuckerberg begins work on TheFacebook.
As TheFacebook take off, the movie begins to intertwine with events from the future, notably two separate lawsuits against Zuckerberg, one by the Winklevoss twins and Narendra, and another by Saverin. In the Winklevoss suit, the three claim that Zuckerberg stole their idea, while Saverin’s lawsuit is based on his eventual removal from Facebook.
TheFacebook continues to grow, and within less than a year the site has gained over 150,000 members and is available on several college campuses, including Stanford, where Sean Parker, the founder of Napster (played by Justin Timberlake), discovers the site. Parker arranges a meeting with Zuckerberg, which sets in motion a chain of events that sends Zuckerberg to California, and eventually leads to issues with Saverin.
The Social Network
I planned to watch the social network when it is published, and after the class today, i got more interested in it, so I watched it immediately after class. I don't know which part is true and which part is made up a little bit for the movie effect. But it is a great movie. A person who did something so resounding is a miracle, and a film recording how he did this is attractive.
The best thing about it is that a man who is such a failure in social contact invented the best social network ever. Interesting fact!
He is so successful, that even get his ex-girlfriend who hates him so much to use facebook, but he is so unsuccessful because he is the guy who drove his girlfriend away at the beginning. That is exactly where is interesting. Without the failure in the relationship, he could not invented facebook, which was called facemash originally.
That is a wonderful life experience, but I don't want that.
The best thing about it is that a man who is such a failure in social contact invented the best social network ever. Interesting fact!
He is so successful, that even get his ex-girlfriend who hates him so much to use facebook, but he is so unsuccessful because he is the guy who drove his girlfriend away at the beginning. That is exactly where is interesting. Without the failure in the relationship, he could not invented facebook, which was called facemash originally.
That is a wonderful life experience, but I don't want that.
GarageBand
This program was very hard to conquer. I love music but i don't know how to put it together. Luckily i did put it together. i love pianos so i incorporated that into the beat. i also incorporated hip hop and r&b beats because those are my favorite music genres. i sat in the library from 3 to 6:30 making this so i hope its as good as i think it is.
Insecurity
After finding out who your ex is, your new boyfriend is jealous and insecure. Why is that? Is it not clear that you'd rather be with them rather than with your ex? I don't understand how you can have a full conversation about how much they mean to you and how much you don't want to be with your ex yet they still withdrawing from you. I'm insecure about my weight but I wouldn't be insecure about my man's ex because its clear to me that it ended for a reason. Now, unless they were chilling and hanging out alot, maybe i'd be a little insecure but if not, why stress yourself?
a.d.d.
I have to write a paper for a history class by Thursday and I still haven't finished the book it's to be about. In class, Prof. Baldwin mentioned how we all have become attention deficit. Sooo true. Every time I go to pick up this book I check facebook. I don't even care about what people have posted and know that there isn't going to be worth while, but I still check it.
We talked about the Social Network in class as well this morning. I wonder if Zuckerberg knew he was creating one massive distraction for college students. I need to see the movie because I didn't really know what everyone was talking about in class today. I wonder why Facebook took off the way it did and Myspace died out. I think I still have my myspace, but I don't even know. It's pretty much the same concept; you create a profile and add your friends and you can leave messages on each other's pages and post notes and what not. I suppose the exclusivity of it only being Harvard students and then only college students made it more appealing. Either way, I'm beginning to wonder whether or not I have ADD, or if society has just made me this way. I'm sure if I wanted to focus I could, but I have so many distractions at my fingertips that it's so hard to do what I'm supposed to. Right now even, I'm not reading my book or writing my paper and distracting myself with this blog. But at least I'm one more blog post down.
Final Project Idea
With the date of our final approaching us Professor Baldwin has stated to us that it is our responsibility to start thinking of some possible ideas. While contemplating this, I came up with something that I thought would be particularly interesting. I was thinking that we have a backdrop, while the actors are performing their segment. On this backdrop we can play several different videos that the students have performed, all at one time. It will reinstate the idea of chaos, which we see present in Hamlet. It will also reestablish the idea of "a play within a play" which is presented to us in Hamlet.
Texture video
This is mostly all of my textures in around 1:30. The textures range from the beach by my house, to our campus, to books in the library. This is the first time I used iMovie, so I'm not that great, but now that I know how to use it, I'm definitely going to be exploring all different ways. Maybe one of these textures will be in one of our projects for the rest of the year but I'm definitely going to try and play with the program that we downloaded.
Frank Gehry
I'm not really a fan of many designers of buildings, but during a lecture we were looking at all these cool buildings, and a lot of them were of Frank Ghery's. After doing some research I've learned that he is from Canada and resides in Los Angela's. He's 81, but from what I've seen of his building he's of the hippest people around. His designs and building textures are just so cool and I would never have though to design any of them.
It looks like he builds many things out of either glass or metal (titanium.) Sometimes his buildings are very round but other times, like in Walt Disney, they look almost like 100 wings coming out of a building. When I look back at my sketchups I see that I kind of took on some of Frank Ghery's designs and this is maybe why I'm so interested in him.
while making some videos....
so i had to make a few videos here and there for this class and i was watching a loooonnnngggg clip my dad shot of the kids in the house dancing and thought this particular part was hilarious and thought i should edit it and post on youtube for my family back in pakistan. i thought it was funny and made me think of how innocent children really are and how they forget things so quickly and move on i wish we adults were more like kids in that aspect.
in the clip which i slowed down purposely. my niece is spinning in circles and then all of a sudden decided to tackle my nephew who is already fallen down. he then tries to escape her grasp but is unable too. in the meantime his brother comes and smacks his cousin on the back so she gets off of his brother. i think this is tremendous because he is the oldest out of the four and all he cares about is his little brother. the three smaller ones are all two while the biggest is three(the one wearing white pajamas)
in the clip which i slowed down purposely. my niece is spinning in circles and then all of a sudden decided to tackle my nephew who is already fallen down. he then tries to escape her grasp but is unable too. in the meantime his brother comes and smacks his cousin on the back so she gets off of his brother. i think this is tremendous because he is the oldest out of the four and all he cares about is his little brother. the three smaller ones are all two while the biggest is three(the one wearing white pajamas)
playing with movie maker!
yeah so i thought we had to make a video of our time textures and so i edited this video with the textures that i have so far this video also has my own music in the back. i also think i did a good job with the effects there is only a few right now but ill be posting more!!!
Inspiration
Don Juan, a historical figure, who lives in 15's century, did many things that people may not give a applause, but it is exactly him that is prestigious in art circle, and many famous and talent authors are using him to create many great works. It is weird that such a person doing wrong should not leave behind a reputation, but why it happens? Guess because he gives artistic inspirations.
Inspiration is not like other things, actually most of things in art are created with inspiration, especially great works. Not like other field, people pursue accuracy, good-looking or rights. In art, people always want to see the truth. Don Juan is a truth. Maybe he is not good as other people, but he is real, and he is interesting. No matter the main character is good or bad, it reflcts the true scene that happening in our world, and make people think deeply about the world they are living in. I like the feeling too, that find interesting truth through plays and movies. They don't have to be perfect, but they are moving, and impressive.
Inspiration is not like other things, actually most of things in art are created with inspiration, especially great works. Not like other field, people pursue accuracy, good-looking or rights. In art, people always want to see the truth. Don Juan is a truth. Maybe he is not good as other people, but he is real, and he is interesting. No matter the main character is good or bad, it reflcts the true scene that happening in our world, and make people think deeply about the world they are living in. I like the feeling too, that find interesting truth through plays and movies. They don't have to be perfect, but they are moving, and impressive.
Millions of Don Juan
The name Don Juan is pretty famous around thousands of years. When people mention someone who is dissolute that chases every woman he saw, they say "he is such a Don Juan." The actual Don Juan was a spanish aristocrat in 15's century, and he kidnaped a girl, and then murdered the girl's father. Then, many artists put him into their works with success and high artistic value, especially Byron, Mozard and Moliere, the author of which we discussed in class.
The different works, which we have comedy, opera, and heroic, actually talk about Don Juan in interesting ways. He is debauched, but also different from others in that period of time. These authors gave him huge significance. The storys are attactive that audience couldn't stop reading it even though they don't feel good about Don Juan in person. I don't see many vivic and dramatic contents a lot comparing to Don Juan.
The different works, which we have comedy, opera, and heroic, actually talk about Don Juan in interesting ways. He is debauched, but also different from others in that period of time. These authors gave him huge significance. The storys are attactive that audience couldn't stop reading it even though they don't feel good about Don Juan in person. I don't see many vivic and dramatic contents a lot comparing to Don Juan.
Grand Theft Auto
The ideal of being able to break as many rules as possible is an amazing thing to human beings who live with society and its rules. Grand Theft Auto lets people to act on their own non restrained selves with the consequences of society and being immortal. The only reason why humans don't do the same as what the person would do in the game is that the consequences in real life are real and once your dead you don't come back. Sadly humans are in need to be govern because the world would be in chaos if everyone was allowed to roam without any penalties. The realistic-ness of the game is completely over seen once u realize that the game would just end if u just died and never came alive again because that is how life is.
Foo Man choo
It was on friday at the islanders game. I was approached by 3 of my teammates who had a "brilliant" idea. As an intimidation, they told me that for our next tournament, I should grow a foo man choo. My first thought was basically why would I do this. Then I realized how much fun I could have with it. As a man who still has some difficulty growing facial hair, I knew this would be a challenge.
Out of all the games I have played in the ECRHA, I have yet to see any players with facial hair. In the NHL, Trever Gillies of the New York Islanders has a foo man choo, and all he does is kick peoples asses. I'm not the type of person to just kick someones but, like hamlet would, im more of a peaceful guy. However, having the intimidation factor would be awesome to have. Also, it would provide my teammates with some humor.
The Role of Women
I find it amazing how even today there are people who believe that women shouldn't do certain things and only belong in the kitchen. I really realized this when one of my friends said that she was going to cook and one of the guys said "yea thats where women belong; in the kitchen." I dont think he was actually serious about it, but it made me realize that there are people that still think like this. In my opinion this is complete bull. Sure I know how to cook but it doesnt mean that in the future when I'm married that I'm going to be the only one cooking all of the time. This used to happen in my house almost everyday. My mom would come home from work exhausted and have to go straight into the kitchen to cook for the family.
This also reminds me of the play 'A Doll's House' because of the role of the woman. In the play she wasn't allowed to borrow money unless she was with her husband or another man. She was also having to work to pay off the debt and said she felt proud to "earn money as if she was a man." I find this ridiculous because a woman has every right to do anything a man can do. She doesn't have to work 'like a man' because she can work like a woman and probably do it better than how a man would do it.
I also hated how in the past they made Ibsen change the ending to the play. Instead of leaving and discovering who she was in life, he had to write that she just went to the kids and started to cry. What's up with people always making women cry for everything. They need to show women as they are which is strong and independent. In todays society most women have good jobs and can support themselves without the help of a man and thats the way it should be.
Some more NYC
I took the bottoms picture because we've been talking about different textures in class and I thought this was a good representation of that with the curved lines and the individual tiles.
The other pictures are just some more buildings in the city, each one different from the rest. You really don't see buldings anywhere like you see in the city it truly is a remarkable place I hope to go back soon!
NYC
The first picture is really cool I thought. That building had some very interesting lines and curves and I really liked how the windows reflect the clouds in the sky.
The second is a picture of the East River from the waiting room at the hosppital for special surgery.
The third picture is a snapshot of the Queensboro Bridge. The artchitecture of the bridge and beautiful with the detailed trusses.
A Glimpse of NYC
I spent the weekend on the east side of the city on the east river because my dad had double knee replacement at the Hospital for Special Surgery. On the cab ride back to Penn I thought it would be cool to just take a quick video of the buildings as we pass by. The different buildings in the city have so much character, each one so unique and interesting. The film is a little shaky because the cab driver was a maniac driver.
Water texture
Here are just some videos of textures. I really like water and the way it flows and I think that fountains are beautiful that's why I decided to film water.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Plant & Wind
This time around I have wind and plant movement. It's not an exact example of texture but I consider this one because it portrays movement through time like the video of the plant with the wind picking up and dying down. I'm amazed by how such a simple thing can show the beauty of nature in movement.
Sexuality
The sexual relationship in Hamlet with Ophelia is major part of sexuality in how women having sex before marriage is frowned upon and women who have had sex before marriage are looked as like whores. Hamlet had used Ophelia's love and desire for him as a means of getting what he wanted and making Ophelia think that she will have him after he comes back from his studies in England. Sadly the love in this play has been destroyed because the feeling of revenge over rides the honest and sweet Hamlet into ignoring Ophelia and just continue on with his revenge against his uncle. In modern times women and men who have sex frequently without marriage are the norm in most urban environments and even suburb. Only in certain areas around the world are women still seen the same way Ophelia was seen.
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