Demo Reel

Spring Break is almost over. A while back my external hard drive, which I kept all of my video projects on, crapped out. I recently tried to RMA it, but the guys at Acomodata said I was out of warranty. I was shit out of luck, so I decided to take the beast apart and put it in my computer as an internal drive. EUREKA! All of my priceless videos are back.

So I cut a new, very overdue, demo reel. Look what daddy's got:

Finally a Cash Flow

I am having a random explosion in clients lately, after an immense dry spell. Some funds should be coming my way soon, and will allow me to start some production on a few of the equipment projects I've been wanting to start. Hopefully I can design something that I can make some money off of.

I think it is about time you saw a video of mine... I don't have anything good on the net right now... well hmm.




Sorry about the crappy encoding quality. I'll get a better one up once I get my HD fixed.

Scripting and Music

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.

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.

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

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.

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