My favorite is "Tiny Ball of Light".Although "He Doesn't Own a Shirt" is great too....l...
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHum...
Categories: star wars
http://www.inc.com/ss/30under30/2010/top-young-entrepreneur...
Categories: business, entrepreneurship
Friday, February 25, 2011
So, Academy Awards this weekend! WOOT. Here are my final predictions (I usually get something around 90% of them right):Best Picture - The Social NetworkActor in a Leading Role - Colin Firth (The King's Speech)Actor in a Supporting Role - Christian Bale (The Fighter)Actress in a Leading Role - Natalie Portman (Black Swan)Actress in a Supporting Role - Melissa Leo (The FIghter)Animated Feature Film - Toy Story 3Art Direction - Robert Stromberg (Alice in Wonderland)Cinematography - Wally Pfister (Inception)Directing - David Fincher (The Social Network)Documentary...
Categories: Academy Awards, film
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Absolutely brilliant!As a comment on YouTube said it: Beethoven would probably be rolling over in his grave, but he would've probably done a little dance too....
Categories: music
Monday, February 21, 2011
I was (once again) surfing the MIT Media Lab's page (I really really want to go there for grad school in a few years) and was looking into the projects being explored in the Fluid Interfaces group (when applying to the Media Lab you need to list 3 groups you would like to work with and so far my top picks are Camera Culture, Fluid Interfaces, and Opera of the Future) and I was amazed with the stuff being developed there. The project that interested me the most is called Sensei and it is an application designed to aid children with language learning....
Categories: Chinese, iphone 4, language learning, MIT media lab
Sunday, February 20, 2011
The future is not fixed, but fluid.- (Qui-Gon Jinn, Jedi Apprentice: The Fight for Tru...
Categories: wisdom
Saturday, February 19, 2011
So just thought I'd share a few opinions on stuff I've been watching and re-watching recently.Here goes:The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) - (2010. Argentina. Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Film)I'm usually torn about watching Latin-American Cinema. Not because it isn't good, but because it all sort of runs in the same vein that has been going on for a long time. It is really hard to find fresh and good films coming out of this continent. I know that sounds harsh, but the stuff that is usually critically acclaimed and actually...
Categories: film, Latin-American Cinema, The Secret in Their Eyes
Friday, February 18, 2011
When people stand in line and leave too much space between them and the person in front of them (if two more people can comfortably stand in front of you in line, that is TOO MUCH SPACE) and then when you ask them to please move because there are about 10 other people behind you, they refuse to move on the basis of they don´t want to dance a bolero with the person in front of them. And to top it all off, you stand in line for 10 minutes with this guy in front of you and then when it is the guy´s turn, he realizes he´s in the WRONG LINE.Seriously....
Categories: pet peeves, Quito
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.- Joseph Campbell...
Categories: Joseph Campbell, wisdom
Monday, February 14, 2011
I got offered a 1-week gig at the Galápagos Islands in early March. I come back a few days short of leaving for the Asia trip. So the next few months I will be going to the following places:The Galápagos Islands, EcuadorMiami, FL, USALos Angeles, CA, USAFresno, CA, USAChicago, IL, USAShanghai, ChinaTokyo, JapanHong Kong, China Xian, ChinaLuoyang, ChinaKaifeng, ChinaBeijing, ChinaNew York City, NY, USAThat's one helluva trip! Looking forward to it!...
Categories: China, Ecuador, Galápagos Islands, travel
Friday, February 11, 2011
So, usually around this time (shortly before Oscar season) I make a mental note about what films are coming out this year that I should watch. Some I put on my "watch in Ecuador" list and some in "I will watch this no matter where I am". The difference is mainly that these are all films I want to watch at the movie theater but that the ones I'm willing to watch in Ecuador, I am not necessarily prepared to pay a full $12 movie ticket for anywhere else. But this year, I've just decided to consolidate the whole thing and share the general list of...
Categories: 2011 film watch list, film, Summer Blockbusters 2011
The new trailer for X-Men: First Class. Looks pretty go...
Categories: film, Summer Blockbusters, Summer Blockbusters 2011, x-men
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
As I logged onto Facebook today I was met with a comment made by an acquaintance of mine posted as her status. It reads as follows (translation): @font-face { font-family: "ＭＳ 明朝"; }@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; }.MsoChpDefault { font-family: Cambria; }div.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1; } All those who defend the bullfighting culture would never dare to do a good deed...
Categories: vegetarian
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Happy New Year! May the Year of the Rabbit be very good to all of you!The sentiment comes a little on the late side since the actual new year was on tuesday or wednesday (I forget) but I only just celebrated yesterday. I went to this event for USFQ's Confucius Institute (Kongzi Xueyuan 孔子学院) yesterday morning and found out that my jiaozi-folding skills are unfortunately sub-par, but that I'm pretty good with chopstick (kuaizi 筷子) dexterity! After that event the fam and I went up to "Gran Shanghai", which I am pleased to report, offers a good selection...
Categories: China, Chinese, chinese food, New Year's Eve
Friday, February 4, 2011
I found a Film School Thesis Generator!Here are some of the gems it came up with:(1) Through the political use of voiceover, Star Wars unpacks the fascist aesthetic.(2) Raise the Red Lantern hybridizes the major pillars of post-feminism through its use of mise-en-scene.(3) Through the juxtaposition of poverty and nature, seven samurai demystifies socioeconomic ambivalence in American society.(4) Through the juxtaposition of poverty and nature, Hero demystifies pre-Oedipal guilt.(5) Inception masks the disavowal of the female lack through its fluid...
Categories: film
Thursday, February 3, 2011
So I was looking at the MIT Media Lab website (yet again) to read up on what´s going on at the Camera Culture research group (because if I want to apply in the near future, I figure I should know and understand all the details about what is being done there) and I came across a few press releases about what is being developed at the lab and thought that I´d post the links here because they´re actually pretty cool stuff:(1) Albeit (as the article points out) somewhat useless considering the widespread accessibility to weather forecasts in a computer...
Categories: film, Graduate School, MIT media lab, star wars, tech
Love this advertisement! Quite adorable! AND AWESOME.Darth Vader is, indisputably, the best villain of all time. :)Yes. I'm a Star Wars ge...
Categories: advertisements, darth vader, star wars, volkswagen
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