Tag: by amy wong

  • Experiment Awards’ 2006

    First, let me begin saying that I thought 2006 was a great year to watch films. Also, funny thing to point out — it was really, and I mean… REALLY tough to pick my Best Supporting Actress picks~

    Many of my favorite films have a 2006 tag in them, so this list might seem a little bias, even though I really tried hard to not be. You might noticed how hard I tried not to be bias. LOL — check the Best Actress category~

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  • Experiment Awards’ 2005

    I should be really working on these more often because there are 3 more left before I get to choose the ones from 2009~~~ This time around, I kind of feel like i didn’t get to watch many good films. It was really tough to find 3 animated films to include, and considered to just choose two instead, but I found 3 xD so I hope it’s not mostly filler~

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  • In Progress – Kata-ABC

    Since I’ve been jealous that my friends Turtle and JK are taking some really good typography classes, I have told them they can review their classes and assignments with me… that way they learn, and I also get to learn. xD

    Anyway, JK referred me to FontStruct, which I had visited once after they showed up on a Communication Arts issue. However, I was to shy to try it out — I mean, that introductory quick animation seems a bit pro. But in the end, JK told me I should check it out because it was interesting, and his teacher like it quite a bit.

    So I ended up playing with it to create a pixel-based font. I started out with my KATAKANA alphabet, which has some very nice forms and some very hard  to do~~~ This pixel font also works for typing in Spanish, French and Swedish =D

    Sorry, no Hiragana at the moment.

    Plus, Photoshop doesn’t seem to recognize the Japanese input, and just uses the default font for Japanese characters. What’s up with that? Does anyone know?


  • For Your Consideration: Mary and Max

    Late post! Internet issues! But it gave me the time to watch this awesome kick-ass animated film that apparently was released early in the year, but I have heard nothing about it. So Amy do, as Amy does.

    I am pushing for a nomination, ha! Here’s a brief write-up:

    I just saw the best animated film I’ve seen all year. A stop-motion funny, yet compelling serious drama about the unlikely friendship between one cute, albeit kinda weird, 8-year-old girl in Australia and some 40-something-year-old Jewish/Atheist man living in New York.

    You should all try to check it out, even if it’s online because if it weren’t for the internet, I wouldn’t have EVER heard about it.

    Now I’m pushing for a nomination… AT LEAST a nomination. We all know Pixar’s UP is a lock on it, and will probably win (boooooring), so I’m pushing for Mary and Max this season.

    If it gets a nod (very unlikely, since there’s no marketing or buzz), I will die of happiness~~~ xD

    Check out my FyC graphics here and here.


  • Yu Aoi for So-En Magazine

    I finally found big scans of that So-En photoshoot Yu did for this month’s issue.

    Did Yu really cut her hair? Because her hair is really tucked away otherwise~~~ I love Yu wearing glasses, and I love Yu with that hat. Love her hair on the cover, and that puffy hair is hilarious. xD

    I had to make a wallpaper of that photo with the hat. xD

    Yu Aoi - So-En Wallpaper - 1680x1050

    In case you haven’t gotten the hi-res,
    check it out over at Yurikofans.cn from Hudie.com
    Now, if only there were non-watermarked scans…


  • Experiment Awards’ 2004

    And we continue to go through the years and film~

    Some interesting observations on this one? There were a lot of GOOD male performances. I guess it’s by years, but I thought it was so tough to choose my Best Actors this time.

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  • Experiment Awards’ 2003

    As always, I think I’m a little off with the guys. O.o
    I feel the list is a bit uninspiring, LOL

    check it out yourself~~~

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  • If it were the 2002 Experiment Awards~

    Continuing with the warm-up!
    Woohoo!! Movie count is up to 41!!
    Only 7 more to go~~~ xD

    First, some observations. I noticed that I’ve only listed about 70 films (counting with some really REALLY bad ones there), and I had to cut to half of those… the results are kind of very American. You agree?

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  • More Experiment Awards’ Warm-up

    It’s 35 films this year! Woohoo! Well, not much to celebrate since some of those were really REALLY bad, but they count for the movie countdown~~~
    In the meantime, I’ve decided to put my list of Best 2001 films.

    It was really difficult to choose some, as I seem to not have seen many 2001 films, so many of my nominees are the same as the Oscar, I feel. Remembering the films made me remember about the first time I actively waited for the Oscar. I mean, the event in itself was something I did, but that year was the year I said I’m gonna watch the Oscar to see who will win. American Beauty won that year, as did Kevin Spacey and The Matrix. 1999 Films, wow~~~ I was 13 going on 14.

    Anyway~ without further ado~~~

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  • Experiment Awards’ Warm-up

    We’re almost about to finish up with June – still haven’t reached 20 films listed on 2009 @ IMDb… and I’m still way short on my quota to be legible on my own awards.

    I thought it’d be interesting to see how this works, so I grabbed the IMDb Power Search Tool and looked for all films listed on IMDb following this criteria:

    • All films must have over 50 votes on the site (you know, just to make the list shorter)
    • I must have voted it over 6.

    So I made my list of the regular categories – All acting categories, best animated feature, best director and best picture – without caring about the language they’re in. Just a reminder~~~ this year’s awards should include all categories except for Documentaries and shorts~~~

    Here are the ones of the would’ve beens of films released on 2000 – Oscar 2001 –

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