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Well, I’ve thought of a name for the spy movie that I made with Vance and Lulu. Mission Improbable: The Evil Spy. And here’s the poster that I made for it because I was bored. Obviously, a take-off of Mission Impossible. “Improbable” because you probably don’t expect little kids to be spies and save the world. I think the poster turned out pretty well.
I’ve been an avid user of YouTube for quite a while now. But recently I’ve been using another service, called Vimeo. Here’s 5 reasons why Vimeo is better than YouTube
1. Cleaner interface
The first thing you’ll notice when you visit Vimeo.com is it’s clean interface. YouTube isn’t exactly ugly, but Vimeo has a nice, colorful interface which is easy on the eyes and not nearly as cluttered as YouTube.
We just finished the trailer for the Cello movie for my film program thing. It’s by me, Jesse Medalia-Strauss, Nikki Dodd and Kellon Innocent. The actual movie…. well, we haven’t started editing it yet. But we will… soon.
Sorry about the funk wavy stuff when the camera moves. I think it has something to do with how Vimeo compresses the video. To see a better version, watch it in HD.
Not exactly why it’s amazing movies, but just the awesome touches. Obviously there are spoilers.
1. The pencil magic trick
Everyone in the theater freaked out during this scene. It was so sudden and unexpected and just so downright evil in every sense of the word.
2. “Although I did bloody tell you so”
Even though this is probably the darkest PG-13 movie ever, it had little bits of humor that didn’t seem misplaced in any way. Alfred’s joke worked incredibly well for the scene.
3. The Batpod
Specifically the 360-wheel (it turns sideways also!) and the awesome wheelie up the building wall.
Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog actually isn’t a blog, but a 3 part online mini-series-show-thing. I’ll do my best to explain it. It’s about a guy who’s an evil genius and wants to take over the world, and the vlog that he has where he posts updates on his newest evil inventions, including the Freeze Ray which can freeze people and other things. But he’s also a normal guy who has a crush on the girl at the dry cleaner’s. And it’s also a musical.
I know, totally random. It’s by Joss Whedon (who made Firefly, Serenity, and an episode of The Office) and this apparently came out of the writer’s boredom that Whedon faced during the writer’s strike. It’s a completely independently-funded project and… it’s very interesting. Even though it has a weird and crazy plotline, it works. Here’s the trailer:
You can watch each of the 15-minute episodes for free using Hulu’s excellent player at DrHorrible.com or download each of them on iTunes for $2 each. (A bit much, considering each is only 15-minutes long) But hurry, because the free online episodes will disappear Sunday night and be replaced by a download method that can actually pay for all the people who worked on the show.
Even though the set-up is incredibly weird, for the most part the musical vlog love story works for the most part. I liked the first two acts better than the third, but that isn’t a reason to not watch this fresh and exciting show - both because of it’s content and because of it’s distribution method.
Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog | Wikipedia | iTunes link | Related web comic
Despite being the most hyped movie of the summer, The Dark Knight was AMAZING!!!!! Yes, I said AMAZING!!!!! So, even though there are already a bunch of top 10 lists out there in regard to The Dark Knight, I will add mine to the mix…
1. Heath Ledger as the Joker
In playing the Joker, Heath Ledger was able to do something very unique - he was both funny and disturbing, even at the same time. It’s hard to explain, but in some scenes you laugh at him because he’s crazy and just weird but at the same time you’re disturbed that he this one man can cause so much damage just my rallying together the criminals.
2. Amazing action sequences
It’s not uncommon for movies these days to have amazing action sequences, but somehow both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight managed to fit in exhilarating chase sequences. And the one in The Dark Knight far surpasses the original. One word: Bat-moto-bicycle-tank-pod-thingy.
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I’m seeing it tonight. 94% on Rotten Tomatoes and this amount of hype has made me way to excited.
I am now in my second week in a film program that is the result of a partnership between the NYC Department of Education and the Tribeca Film Festival. It’s a part of the “Summer Arts” program that encompasses programs focusing on all sorts of specialty arts (photography, dancing, film, etc.)
So every day for the past week and a half I’ve woken up kind of early and gone to Stuyvesant high school (where it’s being held) from 9 to 3. Kind of like school - only I want to be there and the things we’re being taught I actually want to learn about.
So far it’s been a lot of fun, and not nearly as boring as these film programs sometimes end up being. Well - the lesson about how a Mac is different from a PC and the basics of Final Cut Pro was boring but beyond that I’ve actually been learning some very interesting and exciting things.
Until now we’ve only been working on small practice films, but starting this week we’re beginning work on our major project for the summer: A 5-7 minute movie that takes place in a specific neighborhood of New York City and focuses on a certain sub-topic, assigned randomly. There are 5 groups and about 20 kids so groups of 3 and 4 are each making this movie together. My group’s sub-topic is music.
We had two “pitches” - A documentary idea and a narrative idea. The staff would choose whichever one they thought was better. Our documentary idea was about street musicians in Central Park (which the staff allowed us to consider a neighborhood) and why they do what they do and what their effect is on the park.
Our narrative idea (which we like a billion times more) is about a young man living in Brighton Beach. He never pays any notice to the violin player who plays music every day on the boardwalk, which is on the main character’s way to work. But one day the musician is gone and the main character sees Brighton Beach in a completely different way. What used to seem like an exciting and vibrant neighborhood now seems dark and ugly.
I don’t want to give away the ending because - guess what - we got the narrative idea (yay!) So I guess that you’ll just have to wait and see the movie yourself then.
Make your own! And thanks to David Pogue’s post.
I just uploaded photos to Flickr from our trip to Florida next week. There are only a few, much less than I should have taken - so few that I think I completely left out a few people from my photos. (An accident, I swear!)
Austen Squarepants is a 15-year-old high school student and geek. He lives in New York City with his parents and is interested in technology, filmmaking, and anything funny.
Netsua is his personal blog and website, where he writes about a variety of topics that interest him. The word "Netsua" is in fact Austen's name spelled backwards. It literally translates from gibberish to "Greatness on the level of Austen."
In addition to Netsua, Austen also writes for the mac application blog MacApper.