Category Archives: cinema

kumiko

see kumiko the treasure hunter

based on a real life office worker that traveled to n.d. in search of the treasure from the coen brother’s movie, fargo, which was based on a “true story” (check if this office worker really existed or is this another “true story”…). 

3.14

woke up to π/einstein/white day celebrations.
watched the imitation game.

bought at the used book store:
the sun also rises
how warren beatty seduced america by peter biskin
a textbook
달에게 들려주고 싶은 이야기
my third copy of getting to yes

celebrated white day by buying chocolate and spending the afternoon with elly.
won a doraemon from a vending machine at 230am with one coin. 아싸!

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film grant, whiplash short and tension in the koreas begins again

American envoy gets slashed in Seoul. Tensions with North Korea rise as the US and the ROK play war games.

via wikipedia

Saw the full moon bonfire in Haeundae beach. Threw a bamboo stake into the fire. Danced with the ganggangsullae ajumas for a lap around the fire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganggangsullae

http://filmmakermagazine.com/93323-watch-whiplash-the-short/#.VPUnAHyUeUl11 (linkrot)
https://filmmakermagazine.com/93208-davey-foundation-offers-grants-for-short-films-deadline-march-15/

an octopus, a crab, trailers and it’s my party


octopus doing what octopus does best

lesley gore. It’s My Party
http://www.npr.org/2015/02/20/387769267/fresh-air-remembers-lesley-gore-who-sang-hits-including-you-dont-own-me

Mark Woollen edits trailers for many major art house films including the coen brothers. Bad interview.
http://www.npr.org/2015/02/23/388481464/how-the-man-behind-the-trailers-sparks-an-urge-to-see-a-movie
some of his work:

caves

Caves
bbc planet earth
*deer cave in borneo. Largest.
*glow worms capturing prey with silk and mucus.
*Use of colored lights to cheat cave illumination/ambiance
*manta rays in sea caves
*snake catching bats
*cave salamanders with external gills. Use of shadow on the wall.
*Bats getting snatched by birds of pray in mid air.
*Birds using echolocation clicks
*camera circling calcite stalacts
*mayans and cenotes
*sulfuric acid flowing out of via luz cave in mexico.
*la truquilla? bacteria using sulfuric acid. xtremophiles?