Entries for April 2007
OK GO at Case Springfest 2007
I saw one of my favorite bands (OK GO) yesterday at springfest!
They were really great. The concert took place in the middle of the day in one of the campus gymnasiums, and a surprising number of people showed up.
OK Go at Case Springfest | Get Over It
What surprised me the most was the "rowdy" nature of the crowd. First of all, you have to realize that when I put something in quotes, I mean it. "Rowdy" for Case means that people were clapping and jumping and singing along; all things I have never really seen at any campus concerts. That being said, the establishment (Case) did everything in its power to quash whatever fun was being had. Some people actually had the nerve to hoist each other up and crowd surf on the thin (for crowd surfing, not for Case) mass of hands and shoulders. These brave souls were immediately apprehended by security guards and other such agents of lameness.
OK GO did domething I've never seen before at a concert of any type, they took the show literally into the crowd. In the middle of the show they jumped off stage and made their way over to a small platform that had been waiting for them in the midst of the pocket-protected throng to perform several songs. I was lucky enough to be this close to them:
OK GO at Case Springfest | Crowded
Damian Kulash, the band's lead singer was in high spirits despite the lack of crowd energy. I think he actually appreciated that the bunch of nerds at his show were at least swaying and singing. He even went so far as to discuss the band's nerdiness, including how keyboardist Andy Ross was a "card carrying nerd", and encouraged all of us to raise our gadgets like the lighters of old in rock concerts of yore. Someone raised their laptop.
Typical.
I Won the CellFilm Festival
So yesterday I won $1,000. About a week prior I randomly asked someone what the deal was about the CellFilm Festival, and what they told me was quite intriguing. They told me that it was a film festival exclusively for films made on only cell phones; no editing, or splicing aloud, just straight footage, and the best one wins a thousand dollars. He had me at the grand, only catch being that I had just one day to create and submit my film.
The next day was filled with experiments, Beevo and I shot an entire short film that I did not end up submitting before I thought up "the Life of a Snowball", but after that it was a breeze.
The film is broken up into three vignettes, to be watched in order, back to back. I was trying to capture shots that could not easily be captured with a conventional camera, which is what lead me to create the interesting shots that are present in the video.
"the Life of"
Yeah, that did it. I took home the grand prize, a giant $1,000 check.
How Men And Women Shower
I just watched this and thought it was pretty funny.
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