So I should be writing an essay right now, but the inspiration well is
currently dry so I'm on "break" and updating you guys, (yay!). Sorry,
this email is going to be random, please bear with me, I haven't slept
or eaten much this past week/weeks. BIG NEWS! I'm moving into a new
flat with 2 friends from school 2 weeks from now. We're moving out of
student housing into our own flat. This will be cheaper and generally
better in the long run. It's in Ladbroke Grove
(http://maps.yell.com/client/yell/?qs=ladbroke+grove&panel=business&sem=g&cam=sem_maps),
just west of Notting Hill and 2 blocks away from the Portobello Road
Market (which is awesome). I'm really excited about the move. What I'm
even more excited about is being done with the flat searching process
(aka the level of hell that's right above the british home office
which will always be in the lowest level). Let's just say that I know
where all the burrows of London are and roughly how long it should
take me to get to them from school, most letting offices hate students
and foreigners and most affordable flats in London are off the market
within seconds of going on. Anyways, that's done, and I'll have
pictures soon enough of my new place. Other than that my life has been
spent at school, spread between 2 computer labs and the studio. My
group filmed this past weekend (next email I'll include my final film,
I promise). It's sad that it takes several hours of filming for a 2
min. film, but everyone's footage looks great so I guess it's all
worth it. I also know how to build bedrooms and corridors in a small
studio and make them look convincing and we put together an awesome
riding dolly. I did however manage to drop a chunk of stage on my foot
and have a lovely bruise/knot on it now, luckily I didn't break
anything and could continue working. Um, I can't think of any other
really exciting news and the essay is calling my name (ugh). So take
care everyone!
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Greetings to my friends and family. This week's email is a much happier one and filled with pictures (and there was much rejoicing). The best news is that Brena came down from st. andrews and spent several days with me and of course we had an awesome time. She had a conference at the British museum last wednesday and needed to get education stuff from other museums in london for her project. Thursday we went to camden market and spent way too much time shopping, but it was fun and I bought an awesome hat. (see 1st pic)
Friday we spent ALL day in museums. We got to the British museum around 9am to stand in line to get tickets to see the terracotta army exhibit. It's a hugely popular exhibit since this is the first time the terracotta army has ever been outside of china. Pre-purchased tickets have been sold out since last march, but 500 tickets are available each day for that day purchase, normally they are sold out by 11am. The museum has also extended the exhibits hours so it stays open till midnight. We got tickets for 10pm. We wandered around the British museum, found some things that we loved and needed pictures with (pictures 2&3) then we had lunch and went to Tate Modern. We spent several hours there and were feeling a bit silly so we took a bunch of pictures with the large art instillation there now (it's a giant crack running the full length of the entrance hall). I have to admit that I was not a fan of the crack at first, but by the time we left it had grown on me, not for the artist's original purpose of course (which was something to do with political and social rifts), but as inspirations for our own artwork in photography. (pics 4-9 is only a small sample of the fun we had) It was some crackin' good times! After that we went back to the british museum to see the terracotta army (which was very awesome) and got home very late.
Saturday we got a late start on the musuem going so did not spend a lot of time at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Natural History museum but still had a great deal of fun (pics 10-13)
Sunday I had to spend the whole day filming in the studio with my Video Tech 3 group so Brena and Jessica went off and had fun without me. Filming went ok. I do like the group I'm in, but it took us forever to get properly started and we each had to get a project done with setting up lights and props etc and the project HAD to be edited IN CAMERA which was SO FRUSTRATING so the end result was everyone being kinda grumpy and a so-so finished project for me. We watched everyone's films today in class though and mine was definitely not the worst project so that's comforting. I'll add it into my next email and you guys can judge for yourselves. The last picture is of Michael and his caterpillar cake that I told you about in the previous email.
That's my news for now, now I get to go work on my screenplay that's due wednesday!
Friday we spent ALL day in museums. We got to the British museum around 9am to stand in line to get tickets to see the terracotta army exhibit. It's a hugely popular exhibit since this is the first time the terracotta army has ever been outside of china. Pre-purchased tickets have been sold out since last march, but 500 tickets are available each day for that day purchase, normally they are sold out by 11am. The museum has also extended the exhibits hours so it stays open till midnight. We got tickets for 10pm. We wandered around the British museum, found some things that we loved and needed pictures with (pictures 2&3) then we had lunch and went to Tate Modern. We spent several hours there and were feeling a bit silly so we took a bunch of pictures with the large art instillation there now (it's a giant crack running the full length of the entrance hall). I have to admit that I was not a fan of the crack at first, but by the time we left it had grown on me, not for the artist's original purpose of course (which was something to do with political and social rifts), but as inspirations for our own artwork in photography. (pics 4-9 is only a small sample of the fun we had) It was some crackin' good times! After that we went back to the british museum to see the terracotta army (which was very awesome) and got home very late.
Saturday we got a late start on the musuem going so did not spend a lot of time at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Natural History museum but still had a great deal of fun (pics 10-13)
Sunday I had to spend the whole day filming in the studio with my Video Tech 3 group so Brena and Jessica went off and had fun without me. Filming went ok. I do like the group I'm in, but it took us forever to get properly started and we each had to get a project done with setting up lights and props etc and the project HAD to be edited IN CAMERA which was SO FRUSTRATING so the end result was everyone being kinda grumpy and a so-so finished project for me. We watched everyone's films today in class though and mine was definitely not the worst project so that's comforting. I'll add it into my next email and you guys can judge for yourselves. The last picture is of Michael and his caterpillar cake that I told you about in the previous email.
That's my news for now, now I get to go work on my screenplay that's due wednesday!
Monday, January 28, 2008
a slightly surrealistic update
jan. 22, 2008
Hello to all. So it has been brought to my attention that I haven't emailed in awhile. My apologies. I really haven't done anything terribly exciting lately. Mostly a lot of going to class, doing a ton of homework and running through the many circles of bureaucratic hell. (yes, for those of you who were unaware, Hell is not fiery but an elaborate labyrinth of bureaucracy). Anyways, if anyone is curious about the fine details of these adventures, you have but to ask and i can send you a long ranting email about them. It is a subject I enjoy ranting on. For the rest of you I will spare you and sum up. American Embassy = a fortress of security, queuing, playing "guess that form", a little bit of white lying and wide-eyed innocence ("What? my appointment's next week? but I need to get in today cause I might be flying to europe soon and can't wait a whole month!). Plus the building is really really ugly. America, where is our pride? But far worse is the British Home Office. Ok, I have to rant about this one. Honestly, Dorthy had an easier time seeing the Wizard than I'm having just getting an APPOINTMENT to get into the home office. The number is always busy, the website is confusing and misdirecting, the London office says "can't help you, call or go to Croydon office" (20 min. by train outside of London), Croydon number, no answer, long trip to Croydon office, standing outside Croydon office in the cold for half hour, Croydon office says "you can't even enter the building without a pre-registered appointment which you can only get over the phone", I say "I've tried the number, no one ever answers" Croydon "oh, you're calling too late in the day (11am-2pm is very late) try calling at 8:30am when they first get there (actually no one's there till 9)". SOMEONE ANSWERS THE PHONE! phone person "have you filled out your NTOT forms?" "No, but I have a I.S. 116 form the airport gave me" "No idea what that form is, but I can mail you the NTOT forms you need then if you still feel you need an appointment then you can call us back and schedule it". It has now been 5 to 10 business days later. I received the forms today (after 2pm so no chance of a phone call working) so tomorrow I might, maybe, possibly, be worthy of an appointment with the Croydon home office. The moral of this story is "Never loose your passport". Good news though! I do have a passport again! As of yesterday. In other news, everyone here is/was/has been getting sick. I only got a little sick earlier last week, cause I decided to sleep a whole lot, invest in Night Nurse (the god of cold medicines) and lots of oranges. Others have not been so fortunate, which made for a very boring week/weekend and low class attendance (by both teachers and students alike). Ok, happy news, to end this email on a lighter note. I got a really cool christmas present from my friend Tim, which is a board game called Cinematique. It is the Lord of movie board games and no one can defeat me at it! (or not yet at least). Oh and Jessica and I had a visit from our friend the traveling australian friend, Mike, 2 weekends ago so he wouldn't have to celebrate his birthday alone. There was an awesome chocolate caterpillar cake included there. (The cake was not made of caterpillars, but in the shape of one). There is an awesome picture of it somewhere, I will try to find it for next time. Sorry, once again this is a really long email. Congratulations if you've made it to the end without a break or scanning over everything, if you've done the latter, don't worry, my feelings aren't hurt, I like to ramble. Farewell for now!
jan. 5, 2008
hope everyone had lovely holidays. I was glad to see those I could while I was home for the break. Some of you are on Aubree's email list too so you have already heard about the um "exciting" trip to London. For those of you who don't know I'll give a short synopsis. Aubree flew back with me cause she's studying abroad at the University of Edinburgh this semester. We set out from Dallas airport at 6:00am Jan. 31st or we should have, the flight left late which meant we had to speed walk through O'Hare to make our connecting flight to Heathrow. The flight was uneventful except the last hour where I discovered that I couldn't find my passport. Somewhere between the plane out of Dallas and the plane to Heathrow my passport disappeared. Fortuantly I still made it through customs, though it took an extra hour to convince them not to send me back. Now I have to go to the American Embassy to get a new passport and the British Home office to let them know I'm in the country legally or something like that. So we celebrated the coming of the new year on the tube platform. Then there was a bunch of crazy tube business with some stations being closed and a bunch of people getting on in central London and we couldn't push our way off the train before the doors closed again and then I left my brand new coat which I love in the taxi which dropped us off at my flat. I made a desperate run after the taxi, but alas I was not fast enough. So our New Year's Eve sucked, but we still made it into the country and slept in the next day so the world was ok again. Since then Aubree and I have been doing some touristy stuff thrown in with errarnd type stuff like getting student rail cards, getting tickets to Edinburgh tomorrow (I'm helping her move up, she has a lot of heavy luggage) and stuff I had to do at school for next week and calling the american embassy and the taxi lost and found dept. (there will be more stories on that next week no doubt). We saw the Tower of London, the National Gallery, Camden Market, Oxford Street, Picadilly Circus etc. Also we went to see Stomp
last night which is a very awesome percussive show. They do music and dance stuff with brooms and trash cans and plungers etc. I highly recommend it to anyone. Ok, I think that's all my news for now
Hello to all. So it has been brought to my attention that I haven't emailed in awhile. My apologies. I really haven't done anything terribly exciting lately. Mostly a lot of going to class, doing a ton of homework and running through the many circles of bureaucratic hell. (yes, for those of you who were unaware, Hell is not fiery but an elaborate labyrinth of bureaucracy). Anyways, if anyone is curious about the fine details of these adventures, you have but to ask and i can send you a long ranting email about them. It is a subject I enjoy ranting on. For the rest of you I will spare you and sum up. American Embassy = a fortress of security, queuing, playing "guess that form", a little bit of white lying and wide-eyed innocence ("What? my appointment's next week? but I need to get in today cause I might be flying to europe soon and can't wait a whole month!). Plus the building is really really ugly. America, where is our pride? But far worse is the British Home Office. Ok, I have to rant about this one. Honestly, Dorthy had an easier time seeing the Wizard than I'm having just getting an APPOINTMENT to get into the home office. The number is always busy, the website is confusing and misdirecting, the London office says "can't help you, call or go to Croydon office" (20 min. by train outside of London), Croydon number, no answer, long trip to Croydon office, standing outside Croydon office in the cold for half hour, Croydon office says "you can't even enter the building without a pre-registered appointment which you can only get over the phone", I say "I've tried the number, no one ever answers" Croydon "oh, you're calling too late in the day (11am-2pm is very late) try calling at 8:30am when they first get there (actually no one's there till 9)". SOMEONE ANSWERS THE PHONE! phone person "have you filled out your NTOT forms?" "No, but I have a I.S. 116 form the airport gave me" "No idea what that form is, but I can mail you the NTOT forms you need then if you still feel you need an appointment then you can call us back and schedule it". It has now been 5 to 10 business days later. I received the forms today (after 2pm so no chance of a phone call working) so tomorrow I might, maybe, possibly, be worthy of an appointment with the Croydon home office. The moral of this story is "Never loose your passport". Good news though! I do have a passport again! As of yesterday. In other news, everyone here is/was/has been getting sick. I only got a little sick earlier last week, cause I decided to sleep a whole lot, invest in Night Nurse (the god of cold medicines) and lots of oranges. Others have not been so fortunate, which made for a very boring week/weekend and low class attendance (by both teachers and students alike). Ok, happy news, to end this email on a lighter note. I got a really cool christmas present from my friend Tim, which is a board game called Cinematique. It is the Lord of movie board games and no one can defeat me at it! (or not yet at least). Oh and Jessica and I had a visit from our friend the traveling australian friend, Mike, 2 weekends ago so he wouldn't have to celebrate his birthday alone. There was an awesome chocolate caterpillar cake included there. (The cake was not made of caterpillars, but in the shape of one). There is an awesome picture of it somewhere, I will try to find it for next time. Sorry, once again this is a really long email. Congratulations if you've made it to the end without a break or scanning over everything, if you've done the latter, don't worry, my feelings aren't hurt, I like to ramble. Farewell for now!
jan. 5, 2008
hope everyone had lovely holidays. I was glad to see those I could while I was home for the break. Some of you are on Aubree's email list too so you have already heard about the um "exciting" trip to London. For those of you who don't know I'll give a short synopsis. Aubree flew back with me cause she's studying abroad at the University of Edinburgh this semester. We set out from Dallas airport at 6:00am Jan. 31st or we should have, the flight left late which meant we had to speed walk through O'Hare to make our connecting flight to Heathrow. The flight was uneventful except the last hour where I discovered that I couldn't find my passport. Somewhere between the plane out of Dallas and the plane to Heathrow my passport disappeared. Fortuantly I still made it through customs, though it took an extra hour to convince them not to send me back. Now I have to go to the American Embassy to get a new passport and the British Home office to let them know I'm in the country legally or something like that. So we celebrated the coming of the new year on the tube platform. Then there was a bunch of crazy tube business with some stations being closed and a bunch of people getting on in central London and we couldn't push our way off the train before the doors closed again and then I left my brand new coat which I love in the taxi which dropped us off at my flat. I made a desperate run after the taxi, but alas I was not fast enough. So our New Year's Eve sucked, but we still made it into the country and slept in the next day so the world was ok again. Since then Aubree and I have been doing some touristy stuff thrown in with errarnd type stuff like getting student rail cards, getting tickets to Edinburgh tomorrow (I'm helping her move up, she has a lot of heavy luggage) and stuff I had to do at school for next week and calling the american embassy and the taxi lost and found dept. (there will be more stories on that next week no doubt). We saw the Tower of London, the National Gallery, Camden Market, Oxford Street, Picadilly Circus etc. Also we went to see Stomp
last night which is a very awesome percussive show. They do music and dance stuff with brooms and trash cans and plungers etc. I highly recommend it to anyone. Ok, I think that's all my news for now
Sunday, December 23, 2007
it's been awhile
Hello everyone! I've realized that it's been a few weeks since I've sent out an email. I got pretty busy with traveling and the end of term stuff. Now classes are all over and everyone is heading back home for christmas (including me next week, yay!) I keep forgetting to take my camera with me places so I don't have any fun pictures. That and it's dark by 4pm everyday. We went to Oxford Street (the main shopping street in London) for their official opening of the christmas season on Dec. 1. It was crazy. They closed the street off so it was completely pedestrain for the day and a lot of the shops had promotionals. There were marching bands (my fav was the indian bagpipe group, it was the most unusal thing to see), street performers, salvation army brass bands, lost of santas and elves, a high school musical pep rally, crazed looking shoppers. It was an interesting day, and I was helping my friend Jane shoot a documentary on it so I got to interview a few random people. I saw it the other day, it looks good. London really does alot for christmas time. All the major streets are decorated with christmas lights, the department stores put up fun displays in their windows. The big toy store, Hamleys is very scary though all month long. We went in there one day wandering around and the lines at the checkout area were crazy. The rest of the store was fun though. I've spent a lot of time lately wandering around the streets, window shopping. Its a fun way to kill time between classes, when I didn't have to run to the library or anything. We've also found many "secret streets" or narrow streets with little shops the pop in and out of the major streets. They are often the best decorated places too. Also there are carnival rides set up at random places all over London. I've been to 2. The one in Hyde Park was rather lame and everything was overpriced and the ice skating rink was sold out for the night, but the one we happened on in Leicester Square was a lot of fun even if I got in trouble later for taking some people on too many spiny rides. Oh, and if anyone comes to London as a tourist, avoid the Science Museum, I went today and was totally unimpressed. The Natural History museum right next to it is better, go there instead. Oh, and I saw the Golden Compass last week and was also unimpressed with that as well. I believe that is all my news. If I don't see you, Merry Christmas!
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Hello to all. I'm still keeping myself pretty busy over here and still
having a blast. The coolest thing that happened this past week was
that Brena came down from St. Andrews for a visit. We had an awesome
weekend which included shopping in Camden Market, visiting Tate
Britian, going to some cool pubs and seeing Avenue Q (which is a
hysterical musical and not appropriate for young children). We also
had to help Isabella out with her filming project, but that turned out
to be pretty amusing too.
And speaking of all the random student films I've helped out with
lately, here is a link if anyone wants to see the most, um, peculiar
film I've starred in so far.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0hfTnGHKdQ
And also 4 of us will be starting a youtube soap opera soon which
should also be very amusing and crazy.
I have also spent some time in the past 2 weeks part-time job hunting,
which I'm sure everyone knows is more fun than a barrel of monkeys,
but I need some money to support my rock and roll life-style and I'm
trying for jobs that are more in a media related area so my cv will
look even better for the future (and they are cvs over here not
resumes and they're formated a little different and I've forgotten
what cv actually stands for).
Oh, and since England doesn't have to wait till after thanksgiving to
start on christmas stuff all the major streets around london are
having christmas lighting ceremonies in the next few weeks. Last night
Marylebone High Street (the street my school is on) had their big
lighting ceremony. I missed the first bit since I was studying in the
library, but I got to see most of it as I came out. It was really cool
and now the street looks so festive.
Oh, and last week it rained really hard one day (my shower doesn't get
that kind of water pressure) and it even started hailing for a bit, I
had pieces of ice on my sleeve, and I was walking home and stuck
between bus stops so I just got soaked. It was really awful. I've
included a picture.
Tomorrow I'm taking the train up to Leicester to visit some of my
friends from back when I studied abroad. It should be loads of fun.
Ok, well, that's all my news for now!
having a blast. The coolest thing that happened this past week was
that Brena came down from St. Andrews for a visit. We had an awesome
weekend which included shopping in Camden Market, visiting Tate
Britian, going to some cool pubs and seeing Avenue Q (which is a
hysterical musical and not appropriate for young children). We also
had to help Isabella out with her filming project, but that turned out
to be pretty amusing too.
And speaking of all the random student films I've helped out with
lately, here is a link if anyone wants to see the most, um, peculiar
film I've starred in so far.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0hfTnGHKdQ
And also 4 of us will be starting a youtube soap opera soon which
should also be very amusing and crazy.
I have also spent some time in the past 2 weeks part-time job hunting,
which I'm sure everyone knows is more fun than a barrel of monkeys,
but I need some money to support my rock and roll life-style and I'm
trying for jobs that are more in a media related area so my cv will
look even better for the future (and they are cvs over here not
resumes and they're formated a little different and I've forgotten
what cv actually stands for).
Oh, and since England doesn't have to wait till after thanksgiving to
start on christmas stuff all the major streets around london are
having christmas lighting ceremonies in the next few weeks. Last night
Marylebone High Street (the street my school is on) had their big
lighting ceremony. I missed the first bit since I was studying in the
library, but I got to see most of it as I came out. It was really cool
and now the street looks so festive.
Oh, and last week it rained really hard one day (my shower doesn't get
that kind of water pressure) and it even started hailing for a bit, I
had pieces of ice on my sleeve, and I was walking home and stuck
between bus stops so I just got soaked. It was really awful. I've
included a picture.
Tomorrow I'm taking the train up to Leicester to visit some of my
friends from back when I studied abroad. It should be loads of fun.
Ok, well, that's all my news for now!
Thursday, November 8, 2007
halloween, fireworks, filming & the flu
Ok, it's been about 2 weeks since I last emailed mostly because I got
a nasty cold and spent most of last week sleeping a lot. But now I'm
much better and I'm going to try to sum up what I've been doing.
Classes are still going well, though they keep me pretty busy.
I had a good birthday party with my flatmates and friends.
Halloween was fun even though I had to drug myself up on cold meds to
go out. A bunch of us dressed up and went on a London Ghost tour which
turned out to be lame so we went bowling in Piccadilly Circus instead.
The British do celebrate halloween, in fact they stretch the
celebrations out for about a week to combine with Bonfire Night (aka
Guy Fawkes Night, aka Tonight). So basically there's been a lot of
firework shows and bonfires all weekend with a bunch of people walking
around in costumes. We went out saturday night to the Thames to watch
fireworks, but the other nights we just kept seeing them from our
windows.
I also want to mention that any story I tell will probably include a
written or unwritten "and then we walked for awhile" because
everything is a "short" walk away or we all get bored or indecisive so
we start walking somewhere else. And here is a London definition of
distances Jessica and I compiled:
"it's not far" means probably less than a mile
"it's not that far" means somewhere between 1-2 miles
"it's a bit of a walk" means 3-4 miles (this is the distance between
my flat and the school)
"it's quite a walk" means 5-6 miles
"it's rather far" means 5-10 miles
there is some variation with these definitions depending on who you
are talking to, but generally this is how I gage distance when people
are describing where we are walking to.
I also spent quite a lot of time this past weekend helping my friends
film stuff for their video tech class. And by "help" I mostly mean
"acted in" because that is always what film students need the most. I
never really knew this before, but I'm pretty decent at acting and
don't really mind doing it. I'm not planning on a career in it or
anything, I much prefer being behind the camera or running the lights
(which I've been doing a lot too), but it's quite funny when I'm being
fought over for who's film I'm going to be in, and as a rule I'm fed
for my services.
Anyways, so I think that's all the new news I have for now.
a nasty cold and spent most of last week sleeping a lot. But now I'm
much better and I'm going to try to sum up what I've been doing.
Classes are still going well, though they keep me pretty busy.
I had a good birthday party with my flatmates and friends.
Halloween was fun even though I had to drug myself up on cold meds to
go out. A bunch of us dressed up and went on a London Ghost tour which
turned out to be lame so we went bowling in Piccadilly Circus instead.
The British do celebrate halloween, in fact they stretch the
celebrations out for about a week to combine with Bonfire Night (aka
Guy Fawkes Night, aka Tonight). So basically there's been a lot of
firework shows and bonfires all weekend with a bunch of people walking
around in costumes. We went out saturday night to the Thames to watch
fireworks, but the other nights we just kept seeing them from our
windows.
I also want to mention that any story I tell will probably include a
written or unwritten "and then we walked for awhile" because
everything is a "short" walk away or we all get bored or indecisive so
we start walking somewhere else. And here is a London definition of
distances Jessica and I compiled:
"it's not far" means probably less than a mile
"it's not that far" means somewhere between 1-2 miles
"it's a bit of a walk" means 3-4 miles (this is the distance between
my flat and the school)
"it's quite a walk" means 5-6 miles
"it's rather far" means 5-10 miles
there is some variation with these definitions depending on who you
are talking to, but generally this is how I gage distance when people
are describing where we are walking to.
I also spent quite a lot of time this past weekend helping my friends
film stuff for their video tech class. And by "help" I mostly mean
"acted in" because that is always what film students need the most. I
never really knew this before, but I'm pretty decent at acting and
don't really mind doing it. I'm not planning on a career in it or
anything, I much prefer being behind the camera or running the lights
(which I've been doing a lot too), but it's quite funny when I'm being
fought over for who's film I'm going to be in, and as a rule I'm fed
for my services.
Anyways, so I think that's all the new news I have for now.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Now that everything has settled down from the start of term and
moving, I have begun to do more fun stuff. 2 of my flatmates, Jessica,
Jiao and I went out last weekend and did some free touristy things
like walking along the Thames (where the first 2 pictures of me were
taken)
visiting Covent Gardens and a few other random things.
This week was the beginning of the London Film Festival, which lasts
until the first week of november. Lots of cool things go on with the
film festival and I have participated in some of them.
The 2 night pictures are from Trafalger square where they put up a big screen and
showed a collection of old films shot around London. I went there with
a bunch of friends this thurs & fri night. I have also been to 2 film
premiers. The 1st one was called Flight of the Red Balloon which my
Acting for the Camera class went to. It was really boring, I wouldn't
recommend it to anyone. But the 2nd premier I saw today was Disney's
Enchanted which was really cute. We got free gifts like an Enchanted
magic 8 ball and poster. Several of the stars from the film were there
too. There was a little Q & A before the movie and we were really
close to everyone going by. This included Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey
(known from Grey's Atatomy), James Marsden (X-Men, Superman Returns &
Hairspray), the director Kevin Lima and composer Alan Menken.
Unfortunatly my camera batteries died after just one picture, but the
friend I went with took pictures with his phone and I plan to steal
them from him later. Also while leaving the theater we saw Ang Lee who
was premiering Lust, Caution. It was a very cool experience, I'm
hoping to go to a few more, depending on budget, classes etc. Oh, we
also saw the director of The Assination of Jesse James while it was
premiering. Some people stoled the movie posters and chased the
director down to have him sign them. It was very amusing to watch. We
waited around a bit to see if Brad Pitt would come by, but he didn't.
Um, I think that's all my news for now.
Oh, the last picture is a nice view of London from atop a hill in Regent's Park. I've put up more
pictures on facebook and http://www.flickr.com/photos/14959590@N02/.
If you wish to see more photographic evidence of my goings on.
moving, I have begun to do more fun stuff. 2 of my flatmates, Jessica,
Jiao and I went out last weekend and did some free touristy things
like walking along the Thames (where the first 2 pictures of me were
taken)
visiting Covent Gardens and a few other random things.This week was the beginning of the London Film Festival, which lasts
until the first week of november. Lots of cool things go on with the
film festival and I have participated in some of them.
The 2 night pictures are from Trafalger square where they put up a big screen and
showed a collection of old films shot around London. I went there with
a bunch of friends this thurs & fri night. I have also been to 2 film
premiers. The 1st one was called Flight of the Red Balloon which my
Acting for the Camera class went to. It was really boring, I wouldn't
recommend it to anyone. But the 2nd premier I saw today was Disney's
Enchanted which was really cute. We got free gifts like an Enchanted
magic 8 ball and poster. Several of the stars from the film were there
too. There was a little Q & A before the movie and we were really
close to everyone going by. This included Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey
(known from Grey's Atatomy), James Marsden (X-Men, Superman Returns &
Hairspray), the director Kevin Lima and composer Alan Menken.
Unfortunatly my camera batteries died after just one picture, but the
friend I went with took pictures with his phone and I plan to steal
them from him later. Also while leaving the theater we saw Ang Lee who
was premiering Lust, Caution. It was a very cool experience, I'm
hoping to go to a few more, depending on budget, classes etc. Oh, we
also saw the director of The Assination of Jesse James while it was
premiering. Some people stoled the movie posters and chased the
director down to have him sign them. It was very amusing to watch. We
waited around a bit to see if Brad Pitt would come by, but he didn't.
Um, I think that's all my news for now.
Oh, the last picture is a nice view of London from atop a hill in Regent's Park. I've put up more
pictures on facebook and http://www.flickr.com/photos/14959590@N02/.
If you wish to see more photographic evidence of my goings on.
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