April 2006

Best from the 2005 48 Hour Film Project

April 25, 2006

Saw these at CineQuest (always a solid program). I’m constantly amazed at what a small group of people can pull off in a weekend—the teams in this competition get a character name/occupation, a genre, a prop, and a line that must appear in the film on Friday night, and by Sunday evening they each have a finished film.

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Dance, Monkeys, Dance

April 23, 2006

Human nature, summed up in a filmstrip.

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Vespa goes hybrid

April 14, 2006

Pretty cool—I think hybrid capability is the only thing that would get me to switch from my beloved Bajaj. The electric-only mode is especially nice—would have been in Delhi especially. read more | digg story

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First Live Show in Forever

April 14, 2006

We Are Scientists, The Independent, 3/31/06 Originally uploaded by rakuista. I had actually forgotten how much I love live music—I’m embarassed to say I haven’t been out to one in years, to the point where I can’t even remember who it was. So to go out to a (non)smokey little club (thanks, state of CA) [...]

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Current Obsessions

April 11, 2006

Nothing much to say except that I’m currently downing about 2 pints of freeze-dried strawberries every day (curse you, Trader Joe’s!) and knee deep in this alternate-reality card game. Oh, and loving Ask A Ninja—check out #17, the Ninja Omnibus, as a good start if you haven’t seen it before.

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