Archives For 2007

Marit in Stylus picture=D

Link here: Stylus Magazine

Here’s an excerpt:

What’s your impression of American pop music?[…]

[…]But often when I’ve turned on the radio here, I find it very beat-driven and repetitive, somewhat hypnotic, and that’s not up my alley.

She’s a good musician and performer. She’s got what to brag about, haha. Can’t wait for new material. :D

April 29 – saw The Lost Tomb of Jesus. Pretty boring and general stuff, but good to know I guess… just for general knowledge. The Church just makes such a big deal about it, it just attracts more attention. Worth a watch if you catch it zapping your TV, not worth a wait… Actually, it would make sense to have Jesus ascending to Heaven, and leaving his body <- metaphoric for dying and moving on. But, bleh. No flamers, please.

Next on the list. Spiderman 3- it came out May 3rd! I gloat because *official release date* is May 4th. Anyway, nothing really AWESOME, like some people say. Effects were good, fight scenes were entertaining, and I even got a bit dizzy on one, but 70% of the film was bleh. First, I don’t like Mary Jane much… movie 1 ok, movie 2 not so ok… now, just plain annoying. Gwen was just a bit of a bimbo, and I liked her more than I did MJ. *PLUS* – Bryce Dallas Howard looks weird as a blond blond. She’s too white, lol.

And what is up with Emo Spiderman? He gets Venom infected and he suddenly changes his hairstyle? Lol. Reminds me of the EVIL GOTH MUTANTS from X3. Not all people that dress in black and have messy hair style are EVIL. Oh, Venom~ Venom is cool, when you DON’T consider that Eddie Brock was a wimpy photographer… didn’t like the character. Sandman didn’t look as GREAT as Venom, but I guess his character was ok. And Harry… oh, Harry~ he was okay, I guess.

Biggest turn-off: Peter “John Travolta” Parker.

Best part: Jameson lines, and last final battle… when we finally see Venom.

School AdHoy vi un aviso de el FX & Animation School que tiene un convenio con Alpamayo Entertainment, aquí en Lima. Y lo único que puedo decir es que me ofende como promocionan el estudio del arte de efectos especiales y animación.

Como podrán ver en mi foto rápida y editada para resaltar lo que me molesta.

. ¿Te aburren las carreras tradicionales?

. ¿No quieres esperar demasiado para ganar tu propio dinero?

YO NO ESCOGÍ MI PROFESIÓN POR EL DINERO, o por el tiempo. No escogí ser lo que soy porque me aburrían las otras profesiones. Escogí lo que soy, una diseñadora digital, porque me apasiona lo que hago. Amo el cine, amo las buenas historias, amo el arte y la comunicación. Adoro la tecnología, adoro mi computadora. Vi en mi profesión la oportunidad de trabajar en proyectos que me hacen feliz.

Verdaderamente,¿qué es lo que representa esta publicidad? Lo veo cómo una búsqueda de gente que no tiene pasión, y que solo busca una respuesta fácil que le proporcionará dinero.¿Por qué no llamar a la gente que ya tiene una pasión? Ya sea por el cine, por los dibujos animados, la computación o el arte en general.

Si queremos mejorar la calidad de la animación peruana, no podemos apoyarnos en la parte económica de este arte, sino por la pasión. ¿Creen ustedes que Martin Scorsese dirige películas porque le aburría su carrera, o porque quería ganar dinero? ¿Acaso George Lucas revolucionó la ciencia ficción con Star Wars porque sabía que era buen negocio?

El caso de Lucas fue documentado en un pequeño especial de Star Wars, donde habla de como entró en la industria. Su pasión por la filosofía y los estudios de Joseph Campbell saltan a la vista en la historia y el universo de los Skywalkers. El padre de Lucas le dijo que moriría de hambre como cineasta, y que volvería a vender artículos de oficina en un tiempo, pero a George no le importó. Tenía pasión. Ahora se pudre en plata.

Los peruanos debemos de dejar de llamar al arte de la animación y efectos especiales – al igual que carreras como diseño gráfico o cineasta – “una salida fácil” para los que no “quieren ser abogados o doctores,” porque para esto se necesita talento y pasión. De otra manera, solo llegaremos a la meta de mediocridad.

. ¿Te gusta el dibujo y la pintura?

. ¿Te pasas las horas de clases creando personajes únicos?

. ¿Te fascina el arte del cine?

. ¿Te pasas en la computadora leyendo lo último en software y hardware?

Tal vez estés loco por una carrera en Animación y Efectos Especiales…

Así es como un aviso promocionando carreras debería ser. Y en caso de que Alpamayo Entertainment lea esto, les sugiero también implementar cursos de “creative thinking” para que sus alumnos no sean solo “técnicos,” sino que también puedan pensar y dar ideas al crear historias y tramas innovadoras.

The other day on Plus TV, they were showing a discussion on the “boom of blogs” in Peru. The show, 3 G (triple G??). It was sort of interesting to watch this, as I’ve been blogging for about three years already, so this has been around for me for a while.

They discussed things as to “how to make your blog really popular”, and some of the tips were really great, and some other quite obvious. However, in the end Continue Reading…

My Dæmon

April 25, 2007 — Leave a comment

My Dæmon is an Ocelot that looks like a domestic cat. His name is Gabriel. Golden Compass looks like such an awesome film. Can’t wait for Mrs. Coulter and Serafina Pekkala x’D

Just began hearing Kobukuro. Effing awesome. Specially their ALL SINGLES BEST released. A double-disc with 20 tracks. I am having trouble finding all the lyrics for the songs in this release. Will post the ones I found, thanks to Corichan.com and jpopasia.com

  1. Kimi toiu na no Tsubasa
  2. Anata e to Tsuduku Michi
  3. Koko ni Shika Sakanai Hana
  4. Maiasa, Boku no Yoko ni Ite – revised May 10
  5. Million Films
  6. Eien ni Tomo ni
  7. blue blue
  8. Takarajima
  9. Yuki no Furanaimachi
  10. Negai no Uta
  1. Kaze
  2. YOU
  3. miss you
  4. YELL
  5. Bell
  6. Wadachi
  7. DOOR ~ The knock again ~
  8. Taiyou
  9. Sakura
  10. Mirai e no Kaerimichi

Continue Reading…

Ok, this is just a short rant. Some people will get it, some other might not.

Now, if you ask me to do RED… I will do RED or at least….. LIKE RED. But then, if I show you RED and you don’t like RED, don’t blame ME for doing RED because now you FEEL like doing BLUE. OK?

GAWD.

Okay, I’m sleepy. It’s 5 a.m. but I won’t be able to sleep if I think of forgetting about this when I wake up. Tuesdays mark “new CDs and DVDs” day, I should know, I was the one going on a shopping trip every Tuesday to get my favorite music and movies in Canada. Don’t do it here in Peru, mainly because there is not “new merchandise” day that I know of, and things just don’t get here in time.

Anyway, for anyone – I am the ideal consumer. If I like your product, I will likely buy it. However, products have been sucking lately… also because I hate thinking Blu-ray discs and HD are on the market now, so studios are not releasing two-discs DVDs anymore.

But let’s talk about music as a more general example. Continue Reading…

Kahlen Curiosity

April 15, 2007 — 1 Comment

It’s 4 a.m, and I have decided to blog. Why? Well, I did my website statistics, and finally remember what program I was using to read my logs. I ran the logs, and found something I thought was funny.

For those of you who don’t know, I run the Kahlen Rondot Approved Fanlisting – Kahlen was the America’s Next Top Model runner-up for cycle 4 – and, oh well… I’ll show you the picture.

Kahlen Curiosity Search

Over 30% of the searches are for Kahlen. So sad… people need to start searching for me! LOL

Anyway, I think that’s about it. I’ll see if there’s anything else I’m forgetting. I wonder how everyone is doing…

Brazilian electro-pop-funk group, CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy), is holding a music video contest with Italian QOOB.

Please, click on this link and register so you can vote for my video!! Well, the site is in Italian, and I know some people will be discourage to register, but you can still watch it through there.

If you still feel like letting me know your comment, and you have a YouTube account, click here.I also got myself a new CPU, from what I have seen so far – it’s at least 3 times faster than my laptop. LOL… I think almost anything can be faster than my laptop nowadays.

It’s been a busy week. I have been working on three different computers… and one of them was quite annoying because formatting sucks, especially if you’re an HP user. Windows sucks too, by the way. And the stupid Support Center, it’s pure rubbish.

Nothing else here, I think. That’s pretty much all. Working on music video, some printing and loads of formatting and installing and complaining.