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chrryblssmninjaThe California stereotype lives on: the San Jose Mercury News' front page big feature is the current shortage in foam cores for surfboards. Hmm.
Anyways, over the past three weeks, many things have happened.
-went on a field trip to the Federal Reserve in San Francisco. It was interesting, and the amount of money seen killed many of my classmates. We ate at the Rincon Center food court, which was built out of an old post office. That place has the COOLEST WATERFALL EVER. Really, water spills out of the ceiling 85 feet high and falls straight to the ground onto a circle thing and it's just awesome. Good restaurants around, too.
- I foolishly trusted humanity and left my little bag slightly outside the stall while I went to the bathroom. Someone stole my pencil bag, took out the pens and the pens I got from NASA and scissors (with my name on it!) and tiny pink post-its. They left the pencils and ruler stuff, at least. I went crazy searching for it when Phillip T. told me he saw a marshmallow bunny blue bag thing while walking in the quad. There, on a bench, was my bag, thrown like trash and zipper open. I realized that the pens were gone. GRR.
-I finished Neverwhere and Good Omens. Good stuff.
-I joined the staff of Youth Today, Fremont's teen newspaper. I'm writing a brief about Mission Valley Film Fest '06, the film festival my video class is putting together after Ohlone College stopped theirs.
My new class schedule for Second Semester:
1st period: Art 1
2nd period: Creative Writing
3rd period: Office TA
4th period: Video Magazine
As Liliana said, "This schedule is so you." Office TA isn't even as hard as last year.
Yesterday was a crazy day. I'm making a video about my hobby of getting specialty drinks, specifically pearl tea and hot chocolate. So I called four of my favorite shops on Thursday, with various responses. I had set up a shooting date at Fantasia Santana Row at 4PM. Then my dad comes to pick me up after school and says that he also set up a shooting thing at 5 PM at Caffe del Doge in Palo Alto. Oh boy.
It was all okay. People were giving us strange looks, but I got some good footage and even got a free hot chocolate out of it. Hopefully the final video will turn out well.
You see, the new sequel reportedly (good sources here! good sources) portrays the Carib Indians as cannibals in a particularly graphic scene. Now, by all accounts, the Carib people were NOT cannibals, though I have heard that they were pretty violent. I liked the first POTC, but this...I don't know what to make of this. I'm part Puerto Rican, and that includes Arawak Indian blood. The Arawaks were more peaceful than the Caribs, but still...they were both Caribbean Indian tribes. But even if I wasn't close to them in blood I still have this big thing about historical interpretation through movies.
(Side note: One of my planned future projects is based on this. I know that my generation generally gets it's historical info through movies. Sad but true. So I decided to make a TV series of various lesser-known historical events so people could get interested in them.)
It's okay to bend a few things here and there for artistic merit. Back in Hollywood's olden days they didn't know any better. But now, in this age...negative inaccurate portrayals don't have that excuse.
Am I getting too worked up about this?
Anyways, over the past three weeks, many things have happened.
-went on a field trip to the Federal Reserve in San Francisco. It was interesting, and the amount of money seen killed many of my classmates. We ate at the Rincon Center food court, which was built out of an old post office. That place has the COOLEST WATERFALL EVER. Really, water spills out of the ceiling 85 feet high and falls straight to the ground onto a circle thing and it's just awesome. Good restaurants around, too.
- I foolishly trusted humanity and left my little bag slightly outside the stall while I went to the bathroom. Someone stole my pencil bag, took out the pens and the pens I got from NASA and scissors (with my name on it!) and tiny pink post-its. They left the pencils and ruler stuff, at least. I went crazy searching for it when Phillip T. told me he saw a marshmallow bunny blue bag thing while walking in the quad. There, on a bench, was my bag, thrown like trash and zipper open. I realized that the pens were gone. GRR.
-I finished Neverwhere and Good Omens. Good stuff.
-I joined the staff of Youth Today, Fremont's teen newspaper. I'm writing a brief about Mission Valley Film Fest '06, the film festival my video class is putting together after Ohlone College stopped theirs.
My new class schedule for Second Semester:
1st period: Art 1
2nd period: Creative Writing
3rd period: Office TA
4th period: Video Magazine
As Liliana said, "This schedule is so you." Office TA isn't even as hard as last year.
Yesterday was a crazy day. I'm making a video about my hobby of getting specialty drinks, specifically pearl tea and hot chocolate. So I called four of my favorite shops on Thursday, with various responses. I had set up a shooting date at Fantasia Santana Row at 4PM. Then my dad comes to pick me up after school and says that he also set up a shooting thing at 5 PM at Caffe del Doge in Palo Alto. Oh boy.
It was all okay. People were giving us strange looks, but I got some good footage and even got a free hot chocolate out of it. Hopefully the final video will turn out well.
You see, the new sequel reportedly (good sources here! good sources) portrays the Carib Indians as cannibals in a particularly graphic scene. Now, by all accounts, the Carib people were NOT cannibals, though I have heard that they were pretty violent. I liked the first POTC, but this...I don't know what to make of this. I'm part Puerto Rican, and that includes Arawak Indian blood. The Arawaks were more peaceful than the Caribs, but still...they were both Caribbean Indian tribes. But even if I wasn't close to them in blood I still have this big thing about historical interpretation through movies.
(Side note: One of my planned future projects is based on this. I know that my generation generally gets it's historical info through movies. Sad but true. So I decided to make a TV series of various lesser-known historical events so people could get interested in them.)
It's okay to bend a few things here and there for artistic merit. Back in Hollywood's olden days they didn't know any better. But now, in this age...negative inaccurate portrayals don't have that excuse.
Am I getting too worked up about this?
