The Song Remains The Same

First, a few pictures

an awesome picture from San Francisco. (Taken by the coolest hippest chick I know in HK, miss chin)

In West Philly, born and raised, on the playground's where I spent...

My new work station. Working on a Holga Lomography feature right now. I've been neglecting this feature for the hip hop feature because the hip hop feature really fascinates me, but the holga feature is gonna be easy and light so I might as well work on that first.

now...a real work station. The place where dope beats in HK are made.

Alex and I according to Eugenia

A few things I'm reading/watching/doing at the moment

--Media-ite Just hit a month. It's a pretty interesting site offering news, info, opinion on print and online media (past and present? ha). I love their Power Grid idea, which charts how much exposure a media person (be it broadcast news journalist, online columnist, or staff writer for a big mag) have by tracking their google search count, circulation of their article/TV show/publication, and unique visits to their webpage. The big guns (Oprah, Rush, etc) are at the top obviously, and then there's Simmons roaming around the low teens, high twenties, which is impressive cause again, he writes/blogs about sports offering mostly his own opinion, no sources, and make obscure references to geek stuff.

His profile is actually the most popular on Media-ite, #1 on page views with Malcom "Six grand to see me in HK" Gladwell rounding out the top ten. Man I can't wait for Simmons' book...700 pages of him going off on the NBA with Gladwell writing the intro. As much as I've said Gladwell's overrated he's actually very, very good. So many people can't grasp the overrated/underrated concept it's mind boggling. The over/under factor has to do with how the per son/movie/item is commonly percieved. Someone can be the best in his field and still be overrated. Underrated doesn't necessarily mean great either.

--Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Chuck Klosterman's IV Currently reading both of these right now. I'm trying to go at the same pace but IV is climbing ahead. I've been doing alot of reading lately, and I noticed lately that I've had to turn up the font on webpages (CTRL plus the + key) because sometimes the fonts are too small to read. And I noticed that when I read too long I start squinting like I'm Clint Eastwood.

Shit man my eyesights are going due to age! I've had 20/20 vision forever and took it for granted. I dont want to have to go thru the hassle of contacts and glasses.

--Doubt, Into the Wild, and Lost in Translation

Doubt is a movie I shouldn't like, and to be honest if my first viewing was on a computer at home insetad of at a screening, I would have stopped halfway. A movie about religion that movies at a snail's pace and takes place nearly completely inside a church? But thanks to the acting of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep, and Viola Davis, this movie is sneaky good. Most movies are either overwhelmingly good (where you're overwhelmed by it right after it ends--think The Dark Knight) or regular good (think The Hangover) Sneaky good is you walk away not loving it at first but then little feelings creep on you. I think the performances by PSH/Streep/Davis is the three greatest acting performances in one film since, shit I dunno when. I'll use a sports analogy--greatest performances at once since Jordan/Magic/Bird at Barcelona in 92 (or for you young folks, since Kobe/Wade/Lebron in Beijing last summer).

The fourth lead, Amy Adams, isn't on the level of the other three but she more than held her own and was pretty good. Or maybe I'm overrated her acting cause I'm smittened by her eyes and smile.

Lost in Translation has a theme of loneliness, Tokyo as a backdrop, and Scarlett Johansson, that's the trifecta right there in terms of making movies that resonates with me. It's my what, 4th time watching, still loving that ending.

And then there's Into the Wild, still absorbing the movie. Kinda did me in like a poor man's version of NCFOM where I didn't know what to think afterwards.