Student Originated Studies: Media

so I think at the end of my cartoon at the screening, I will have a bit with my picture telling people to talk to me after the screening if theyd like a copy of the cartoon on dvd. this is if i have enough time to burn dvds. i think this is a good idea.

not much to say on the cartoon. its getting done. on tuesday i will show it missing a scene. but there will be credits and everything, it will be in the form it will be screened minus one big scene. basically, the tree is broken open and everything goes crazy. you wont see that but its important to know about it because of what you will see after it.

i saw this movie "i am cuba". banned in the us for some time because of it being considered communist propaganda but it's really amazing. a lot of amazing handheld camera work, supposedly boogie nights ripped off one of the standout shots but I havent watched that movie in a while. but seriously, get "i am cuba" somehow because its great.

i still havent made a loop of the kidwheel but whatever i will eventually.

oh and I think there should be a site for people to exchange dvd's to be dispersed in random places all around the world. i have a complicated idea for how packages can be compiled with 10 dvds, at each stop one dvd is removed and one is added, and people copy the other dvds and take photos of them placed in random places and get points (point systems keep a lot of internet communities going), and stuff. but I don't feel like writing it all out. but yeah it was all kind of inspired by something john said. does this rough explaination sound at all like a good idea? does anyone know of anything that exists that remotely resembles this?

also I've noticed a bit of a downer element to some recent posts, so if anyone needs cheering up, you might do well to listen to this new caribou track, the leadoff cut from his upcoming album andorra. it is contagiously joyful.

OH. and if youre not doing anything tommorow at 8pm, in sem2 b1105, my roommate brian nicholson is performing something he's been working on all quarter that I've mentioned in here. I'll be helping out on that, it should be a fun time.

edit: here's some more fun joy thats on the other end of the tech spectrum. dan deacon live on a local news program just before 6am. this works best if you imagine yourself being 11 years old and catching this before school.  http://youtube.com/watch?v=AvoXgTEaLT8