Penguin March 13th, 2008
We improved this after Drama this past Sunday. Betsy’s friends started calling her Betchao, a mashup of her first and last name. We were joking around with it and decided to just shoot it.
Credits:
Cast: Bo Wang, Abel Zhu, Betsy Chao
Directed, edited, and camera by: Wey Wang
-Penguin
Related postsPenguin January 22nd, 2008
Make:
Un-freakin’-believable… and there was a pair of ‘em! Both sides of a mold made specifically to crank out weensy little StarGates about 9″ across. Personally, I’d always thought Richard Dean Anderson was taller than that, but whatever…
That is crazy awesome! To stumble into a junkyard and find THE Stargate!
Aside from the whole Stargate aspect, I found this really interesting:
If you embrace the philosophy of improvisational fabrication , a scrapyard is the best possible place to fritter away an afternoon looking for…whatever. ‘Whatever’ can manifest itself in unexpected ways, provided you a) pay attention, b) avoid over-focusing and c) recognize opportunities.
What if we applied this philosophy to film-making? Yesterday, I posted about how I was just too focused. If we looked around and paid attention to opportunities that arise, we could make some truly amazing films. Not just noticing shots, but also noticing characters, scenes, snippets of dialogue, or entire stories.
And sometimes, we’ll stumble on something wonderful, like a Stargate!
-Penguin
Related postsNinja December 24th, 2007
What’s in your pockets? Let others find out!
Folks are emptying the contents of their pockets onto their scanners + sending the images to Timur Akhmetov + Yulia Yakushova to upload onto their site, face your pockets project.
Like the site’s name suggests, the owners also place their faces on their scanners to complete the image.
Here are two that caught my eye:
Sergio’s submission
Indian Caba’s submission
And here’s mine. Yes, I know I have a lot of hair; it all just plopped onto the scanner as I stood over it.
Author: Ninja
Occupation: graphic designer
Description (items from my purse): micron pens (.05 and .005), sheet from my sketch book, mini matryoshka dolls, fortune cookie slip
Related link:
+ Check out the face your pockets site + see other people’s scans
Ninja December 15th, 2007
I was out helping my mum run errands at the mall today. We were about to leave, but I wanted to stop by the loo before our trip back. And who do I see? Tim Gunn signing books at Macy’s!
Tim is every bit as sweet + charming as he is on Project Runway. I took a peek as he was signing my book + started to laugh at what he wrote.
“What? You already know how to make it work!” he said with a smile.
Wow, Tim complimented me on my style! ^___^ Haha, I bet he noticed that the 3-inch heels that I happened to be wearing were designed by Michael Kors.
Related links:
+ Get Tim Gunn’s book, A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style
+ Pick up a talking Tim Gunn bobble head from the PR store
+ Learn more about Season 4’s Project Runway judges, contestants, + models
- Ninja
Related postsPenguin October 1st, 2007
I wish I could take credit for this, but I can’t. I was surfing Slashdot this morning and crossed a post about possible solution to spam. One of the comments had this form as a rebuttal, just put “X”s for the argument:
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won’t work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we’ll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don’t care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else’s career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
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