I decided to scrap the original idea for my short film for the festival and start a new one. Today was spent on writing, thanks to Mary it's going to turn out great.
I decided (after she went home) to compose and produce some music, what I was feeling. Sort of a just puke out an audio file type thing. Although it is kind of unconcervative, it was extremely fun to make.
Please listen. I'm not telling you it won't be painful. It's sort of off..... recorded it in 5 instrument runs.
http://www.reaktor-films.com/music/Degeneration%20of%20Life.mp3
I'm listening to it over and over again, and along with some Explosions in the Sky. I suppose I am in an out there ambient instrumental experimental drum mega death doom mood, if that can communicate what it was like.
Friday, March 07, 2008
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Ways of Knowing?
I have been very psyched about Dr. Fujimura coming to speak about production of knowledge. I was hoping for some theory of knowledge acquisition type stuff, instead I received information on the danger/necessity of using race as a factor in determining things.
I brought my camera so I wandered around the Spring Creek campus and shot a bunch of weird architectural video. When I got home I captured about 40 minutes worth of footage for the past few weeks including:
- Day at the park with Mary and Adrien (friend visiting from Paris)
- Late night at Sonic with Nick
- Last night's snow... instead of history class
- Spring Creek campus
Here is a non color-corrected frame grab of Mary from the Day at the park. I'm cramped for time here between homework, reading, pleasure reading, writing and shooting my movie before next Friday, things inbetween, and writing my script. (did I write that already?)
And most importantly, as I am walking out of the Central Park CCCC campus in McKinney, I see groups for each of the main presidential candidates with their childish signs and banners. Three black women at the Obama stand, two manly (stupid jock looking) white males at the McCain stand, and three fancily dressed white women with Hilary hair at the the Clinton stand. I walk past them and think about how great demographics are.
I brought my camera so I wandered around the Spring Creek campus and shot a bunch of weird architectural video. When I got home I captured about 40 minutes worth of footage for the past few weeks including:
- Day at the park with Mary and Adrien (friend visiting from Paris)
- Late night at Sonic with Nick
- Last night's snow... instead of history class
- Spring Creek campus
Here is a non color-corrected frame grab of Mary from the Day at the park. I'm cramped for time here between homework, reading, pleasure reading, writing and shooting my movie before next Friday, things inbetween, and writing my script. (did I write that already?)
And most importantly, as I am walking out of the Central Park CCCC campus in McKinney, I see groups for each of the main presidential candidates with their childish signs and banners. Three black women at the Obama stand, two manly (stupid jock looking) white males at the McCain stand, and three fancily dressed white women with Hilary hair at the the Clinton stand. I walk past them and think about how great demographics are.
Monday, March 03, 2008
Auteur Film Series: Interesting Discussion
INTRODUCTION
Hello All,
I have decided that I will start this blogger again after a couple of literal years of new maturity and experience, but many in a figurative sense. I suppose you can look forward to a plethora of existential self-duologue as well as interesting topics and happenings in my life. I will be posting links to new media I create, whether it be music, film, or another form of art.
I have changed.
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THE MEAT
Tonight I attended the "Auteur Film Series" at the Spring Creek CCCC campus, the featured film was "The Name of the Rose" written by Umberto Eco and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. The film originates from Eco's book, originally in Italian, "Ll Nome Della Rossa," written in 1980 and then translated into English and made into a film in 1986.
The film is a tale set in the Germanic Alps, year 1327. It follows a Franciscan friar, William (Sean Connery), and his young apprentice Adso (Christian Slater) during their stay at an abbey, which is troubled with a recent murder. The murder has all of the monks suspecting work of the devil, but William uses his deductive sense of forbidden though to get to solving the mystery. This is really just the surface of what the film has to offer, as you go deeper you get a great story about censorship and The Inquisition as well as large thematic insights to life and the human condition.
There weren't many people at the showing of the film in the convention hall, probably no more than 30. The majority, everyone but Mary, (my girlfriend) two other older 40's people, and myself, were there for an extra credit assignment. I particularly enjoyed this, because it allowed discussion afterwards to be much more personal, and slightly more intelligent and evolved. Instead of having the panel of professors, a History, Music (I believe), Philosophy, and English/Humanities, sitting on the stage speaking to a vast sea of film lovers, we sat in the tables and spoke without augmentation. It turned mostly into a lecture due to the zombies who wanted their extra credit, and about 20 minutes later the zombies were permitted to leave, which left the 4 professors and the 4 students to fire beams of idealism and analysis at each other.
We all sat a large round table volleying ideas back and forth and making literary connections etc. The two other students said only a few things, which left most of the discussion between the professors and Mary and I. Great fun, much better discussion than my freaking English class, which are all stuck with the phrase "you know" and the biggest "I want to sound deep," connections to life, clichés.
I will leave thee with a link to my demo reel.,
Andrew Reyna
Hello All,
I have decided that I will start this blogger again after a couple of literal years of new maturity and experience, but many in a figurative sense. I suppose you can look forward to a plethora of existential self-duologue as well as interesting topics and happenings in my life. I will be posting links to new media I create, whether it be music, film, or another form of art.
I have changed.
--------
THE MEAT
Tonight I attended the "Auteur Film Series" at the Spring Creek CCCC campus, the featured film was "The Name of the Rose" written by Umberto Eco and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. The film originates from Eco's book, originally in Italian, "Ll Nome Della Rossa," written in 1980 and then translated into English and made into a film in 1986.
The film is a tale set in the Germanic Alps, year 1327. It follows a Franciscan friar, William (Sean Connery), and his young apprentice Adso (Christian Slater) during their stay at an abbey, which is troubled with a recent murder. The murder has all of the monks suspecting work of the devil, but William uses his deductive sense of forbidden though to get to solving the mystery. This is really just the surface of what the film has to offer, as you go deeper you get a great story about censorship and The Inquisition as well as large thematic insights to life and the human condition.
There weren't many people at the showing of the film in the convention hall, probably no more than 30. The majority, everyone but Mary, (my girlfriend) two other older 40's people, and myself, were there for an extra credit assignment. I particularly enjoyed this, because it allowed discussion afterwards to be much more personal, and slightly more intelligent and evolved. Instead of having the panel of professors, a History, Music (I believe), Philosophy, and English/Humanities, sitting on the stage speaking to a vast sea of film lovers, we sat in the tables and spoke without augmentation. It turned mostly into a lecture due to the zombies who wanted their extra credit, and about 20 minutes later the zombies were permitted to leave, which left the 4 professors and the 4 students to fire beams of idealism and analysis at each other.
We all sat a large round table volleying ideas back and forth and making literary connections etc. The two other students said only a few things, which left most of the discussion between the professors and Mary and I. Great fun, much better discussion than my freaking English class, which are all stuck with the phrase "you know" and the biggest "I want to sound deep," connections to life, clichés.
I will leave thee with a link to my demo reel.,
Andrew Reyna
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Well... well... the time has come for me to start up my blogger up again. I've been wanting to do this, but now that I have had a little push from an old friend... I have decided to start this machine up again. Don't get me wrong... this isn't going to be one of those sissy, "I like candy and ponies" blogs. This blog is going to be harder, better, faster, and stronger. THIS BLOG IS GOING TO BE KING.
Since my last post stuff has happened:
- Got Numark turntables.
- Still doing parkour.
- I do flips now.
- CPL.
- Movies.
I finally bought myself some turntables which I had been delaying for some time. They are really cool. I hook them up to my computer and use them with a program so I can spin MP3 files instead of having to go and buy those expensive imported 12inchers. I do have one vinyl record called "Super Duck Breaks." I have to say ... it's pretty phat.
I have been doing parkour for over a year now. I am pretty good at it. I have had offers from some independant film studios to be in a film of thiers. I'm loving it more than ever, most likely becuase its nice and cold... and I have been going downtown with my buddies to hit some hardcore stuff downthere. Urban... I love you.
As a part of my FSPK, I have persued learning how to do acrobatic flips of certian type. I can do a frontflip, wallflip, backflip, and wallspin (on the ground, because the gym and trampoline just don't count.) Shane might be able to whip my ass, but I'm crazy. Plus they are really really fun to do.... it just isn't too fun when I do a flip and then about a million people are like, "HOLY SHIT DO IT AGAIN ZOMG OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!" When that happens I wind up having to do it about 89ish times.
Somewhere between then and now I have grown into a liking of making short films and stuff. Turns out I'm really good at it. And I plan to use this skill to my advantage in winning some competitions for the school in this state wide computer technology competition. My current works can be found at www.hosted.filefront.com/molgera.
The CPL or Cyberathlete Professional League tournements were being held all this past week at the Hyatt Regency Dallas hotel. The CPL is the world championships for all FPS or First Person Shooter video games. The most popular game, Counter-Strike 1.6, was won by sK gaming.... which was a bummer. I got alot of free shit there too...... amen FSIGS!
The whole week can be summed up by this cheap commercial ripoff:
- One Steelpad H5 gaming headset : $50 (Half-Price)
- 6 (free) $20 Steelpad T-shirts : $120
- 30 (free) Red Bull energy drinks : $60
- 1 Hyatt Regency Dallas hotel chair : $67
- Getting your best friend a pair of headsets for half off and a small womens hoddie for doing a backflip off a wall, then deciding to put the hoodie on and try a frontflip off a chair... breaking the chair in half... getting security called on you just becuase you were trying to impress some chicks..... PRICELESS.
Andrew.
Well... well... the time has come for me to start up my blogger up again. I've been wanting to do this, but now that I have had a little push from an old friend... I have decided to start this machine up again. Don't get me wrong... this isn't going to be one of those sissy, "I like candy and ponies" blogs. This blog is going to be harder, better, faster, and stronger. THIS BLOG IS GOING TO BE KING.
Since my last post stuff has happened:
- Got Numark turntables.
- Still doing parkour.
- I do flips now.
- CPL.
- Movies.
I finally bought myself some turntables which I had been delaying for some time. They are really cool. I hook them up to my computer and use them with a program so I can spin MP3 files instead of having to go and buy those expensive imported 12inchers. I do have one vinyl record called "Super Duck Breaks." I have to say ... it's pretty phat.
I have been doing parkour for over a year now. I am pretty good at it. I have had offers from some independant film studios to be in a film of thiers. I'm loving it more than ever, most likely becuase its nice and cold... and I have been going downtown with my buddies to hit some hardcore stuff downthere. Urban... I love you.
As a part of my FSPK, I have persued learning how to do acrobatic flips of certian type. I can do a frontflip, wallflip, backflip, and wallspin (on the ground, because the gym and trampoline just don't count.) Shane might be able to whip my ass, but I'm crazy. Plus they are really really fun to do.... it just isn't too fun when I do a flip and then about a million people are like, "HOLY SHIT DO IT AGAIN ZOMG OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!" When that happens I wind up having to do it about 89ish times.
Somewhere between then and now I have grown into a liking of making short films and stuff. Turns out I'm really good at it. And I plan to use this skill to my advantage in winning some competitions for the school in this state wide computer technology competition. My current works can be found at www.hosted.filefront.com/molgera.
The CPL or Cyberathlete Professional League tournements were being held all this past week at the Hyatt Regency Dallas hotel. The CPL is the world championships for all FPS or First Person Shooter video games. The most popular game, Counter-Strike 1.6, was won by sK gaming.... which was a bummer. I got alot of free shit there too...... amen FSIGS!
The whole week can be summed up by this cheap commercial ripoff:
- One Steelpad H5 gaming headset : $50 (Half-Price)
- 6 (free) $20 Steelpad T-shirts : $120
- 30 (free) Red Bull energy drinks : $60
- 1 Hyatt Regency Dallas hotel chair : $67
- Getting your best friend a pair of headsets for half off and a small womens hoddie for doing a backflip off a wall, then deciding to put the hoodie on and try a frontflip off a chair... breaking the chair in half... getting security called on you just becuase you were trying to impress some chicks..... PRICELESS.
Andrew.
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Parkour (Freerunning)
Alright my friends, I am going to try and explain to you what Parkour (Freerunning) really is. I am doing this because the people who I have tried to explain it to just don't understand it, they think it is just "jumping off shit like a crazy person," when it is actually a very deep rich activity. Parkour is the art of movement, true parkour is about moving from point a to point b and not seeing things in the way as obstacles.
FSPK, or freestyle parkour is parkour, but with complete freedom. You aren't just about getting from 1 place to another as efficiently as possible, your doing it with added flair and style. Me myself practice FSPK. FSPK is not about jumping off a high thing, or impressing people, or beating out your friends. FSPK is about becoming free from everything, and moving thoughout a landscape with flow. Flow is when a series of moves in a run string to gether like water, almost making you feel as if you are one with the enviroment you are moving though.
In FSPK there are 4 basic moves, the tic-tac, the roll, the vault, and the jump. With these, you can do almost anything. For videos and more information go to www.urbanfreeflow.com
Alright my friends, I am going to try and explain to you what Parkour (Freerunning) really is. I am doing this because the people who I have tried to explain it to just don't understand it, they think it is just "jumping off shit like a crazy person," when it is actually a very deep rich activity. Parkour is the art of movement, true parkour is about moving from point a to point b and not seeing things in the way as obstacles.
FSPK, or freestyle parkour is parkour, but with complete freedom. You aren't just about getting from 1 place to another as efficiently as possible, your doing it with added flair and style. Me myself practice FSPK. FSPK is not about jumping off a high thing, or impressing people, or beating out your friends. FSPK is about becoming free from everything, and moving thoughout a landscape with flow. Flow is when a series of moves in a run string to gether like water, almost making you feel as if you are one with the enviroment you are moving though.
In FSPK there are 4 basic moves, the tic-tac, the roll, the vault, and the jump. With these, you can do almost anything. For videos and more information go to www.urbanfreeflow.com
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Your RESPONSABLITY as a reader on my blog…
When you sit down at your computer and think to yourself, “I know! I want to do something entertaining and exitining,” then you think for a while and there it is the perfect idea:
“I know what I should do, I should go to House of Reaktor Blog and read sometimes intellectual or even humorous posts, then I should kindly leave a comment telling the hardworking individual who put so much time into the post what I thought of the post, and not some extremely gay Xanga-style comment!”
What you have just read is an actual conversation that a reader had with him/herself, this is not a joke. Apon finishing reading a post on a blog you automatically take the responsibility to leave a thoughtful comment explaining your synopsis of what you previously read, and in most cases under a court of law, nothing else.
When people comment on Xangas, with multiple one word comments that when linked together create a poorly constructed sentence, it makes me want to rip out they’re eyes so they can never see the great glare of a computer moniter. This image also helps show how I feel.
Image courtesy of the Ant-Man
When you sit down at your computer and think to yourself, “I know! I want to do something entertaining and exitining,” then you think for a while and there it is the perfect idea:
“I know what I should do, I should go to House of Reaktor Blog and read sometimes intellectual or even humorous posts, then I should kindly leave a comment telling the hardworking individual who put so much time into the post what I thought of the post, and not some extremely gay Xanga-style comment!”
What you have just read is an actual conversation that a reader had with him/herself, this is not a joke. Apon finishing reading a post on a blog you automatically take the responsibility to leave a thoughtful comment explaining your synopsis of what you previously read, and in most cases under a court of law, nothing else.
When people comment on Xangas, with multiple one word comments that when linked together create a poorly constructed sentence, it makes me want to rip out they’re eyes so they can never see the great glare of a computer moniter. This image also helps show how I feel.
Image courtesy of the Ant-Man
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
ZOMG!!!! WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!
Calling all allies for reinforcements, the roflwaffles from planet "BBQ" have invaded Collin County. They hit a main water vain in space in Allen. Today at 2000 hours (8pm) marks the end of civilization as we know it. The BBQians made a precision strike with the quad laser on Collin County's main water vain, causing all of the water in the area to be gone for the peoplezzz of Allen, thus making the whole world into a desert, thus making everything just like Mad Max Beyond Thunder Dome. :o OH NOES!!11111
Well after looking at many pictures of Christian Bale, I have concluded that we will all look like him and be cool yeah............. ZOMG!!1111 I have decided to start a street gang called something.... we will patrol around places with clothing like in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and have machine guns and be badass and stuff and we will freerun alot.
General bob and his army have already responded to our call! Join them now and save Collin County.
We found 8OOO+ papers containing the following!!!!!11 ZOMG!111Monday, June 27, 2005
Ripping off the Golden Corral.
Saturday night me and Ty went to the celebration thing with my parents, well afterwards at 11 my parents and some friends of thiers, we all went to whataburger in mckinney. Well when me and Ty finished our food, my parents and friends were still carrying on convos etc. well Ty and I decided to hit up some PK on a little run I spotted as we pulled up, well we wound up doing it and getting on top of the roof of the neigboring building, golden corral. Well we wound up jumping off, then we were walking back into the whataburger when a county sherrif pulls up around the corner, about 30 seconds after we got down..... so he is about to pull up by us *nosirenes or lights* for curfue most likely, by now Ty was freaking out, I told him I would do all the talking, well luckily my mom was getting some air so went over by her to dodge the curfue problem, and the guy asked us if we saw anyone trying to break into the golden corral, we said no, and he continued to circle around and check the place. Somone called the cops saying that we were breaking into the golden corral.
Andrew.
Saturday night me and Ty went to the celebration thing with my parents, well afterwards at 11 my parents and some friends of thiers, we all went to whataburger in mckinney. Well when me and Ty finished our food, my parents and friends were still carrying on convos etc. well Ty and I decided to hit up some PK on a little run I spotted as we pulled up, well we wound up doing it and getting on top of the roof of the neigboring building, golden corral. Well we wound up jumping off, then we were walking back into the whataburger when a county sherrif pulls up around the corner, about 30 seconds after we got down..... so he is about to pull up by us *nosirenes or lights* for curfue most likely, by now Ty was freaking out, I told him I would do all the talking, well luckily my mom was getting some air so went over by her to dodge the curfue problem, and the guy asked us if we saw anyone trying to break into the golden corral, we said no, and he continued to circle around and check the place. Somone called the cops saying that we were breaking into the golden corral.
Andrew.
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Xanga = A Sorry Excuse
Well my friends, as you probably know if you have some sort of brain, you know that I have made the well deserved switch to BlogSpot from Xanga. If you didn't know.... I never really liked Xanga. Not that I had anything against Xanga itself, (I was actually well put-together) but the community which commited to Xanga. The way that I saw it was that most all of the people who used Xanga was to make pointless documentations of there "life" for other people to read and leave comments on. Apparently alot of people rate themselves on how many comments they get? It also turns out that these are the people who have friends that post comments to them everyday that include (everytime) the same phrase such as "OMG UUu R LIk s000 PRetty1!1," or "OMGSHSS!! I <333>
Shit like that makes me want to scoop out my eyes and replace them with Cadbury Eggs. (The compulsive crap that todays youth is puppeted into thinking by the bigshots.)
How is that for my first blogger post?
Andrew
Well my friends, as you probably know if you have some sort of brain, you know that I have made the well deserved switch to BlogSpot from Xanga. If you didn't know.... I never really liked Xanga. Not that I had anything against Xanga itself, (I was actually well put-together) but the community which commited to Xanga. The way that I saw it was that most all of the people who used Xanga was to make pointless documentations of there "life" for other people to read and leave comments on. Apparently alot of people rate themselves on how many comments they get? It also turns out that these are the people who have friends that post comments to them everyday that include (everytime) the same phrase such as "OMG UUu R LIk s000 PRetty1!1," or "OMGSHSS!! I <333>
Shit like that makes me want to scoop out my eyes and replace them with Cadbury Eggs. (The compulsive crap that todays youth is puppeted into thinking by the bigshots.)
How is that for my first blogger post?
Andrew
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