Electric Wasteland

Change

jadedwings — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:01:41 +0000

Time for a change. I’m working on some epic changes. Why? And why now? You’ll have to see, but you won’t see it here. Check out my new blog at

http://the25thman.wordpress.com/

State of the Festivals

jadedwings — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:11:40 +0000

GreenCine Daily has an interesting article on the state of film festivals. Since I’ve been working on a film festival for a while now, several of the ideas are ones that I’ve been thinking about for a while. It’s fairly apparent that distribution models have to change. The current system is becoming less viable because of several factors, including the advent of home theaters, and creative solutions must be attempted.

http://daily.greencine.com/archives/006104.html#more

Yao Ming PSA

jadedwings — Tue, 20 May 2008 05:07:31 +0000

Caught this during the NBA playoffs this weekend.

New Red Dawn

jadedwings — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:58:06 +0000

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=45130

Probably with Muslims instead of Russians or possibly China in a violent corporate takeover. I don’t know if that would work. It might be more interesting if Canadians invaded since their dollar is stronger than the American dollar which now gives them confidence that they can overthrow us…

Wolverines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eww…I think I threw up a little in my mouth

jadedwings — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:50:11 +0000

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04182008/gossip/pagesix/bretts_latest_107092.htm

Zock on

jadedwings — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:19:47 +0000

Random Musings…

jadedwings — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:13:03 +0000

Cold weather makes me very sluggish. Have a bunch of half written blogs I’m compiling together here…

After watching the first four seasons of The Wire last year, I must say that it’s some of the best television I’ve seen. Things get tied together in an unbelievably way. Going to wait for season five on DVD because I just would just go through withdrawal symptoms waiting a week for each episode for my fix.

The Wire prequel scenes

Interview with Jet Li

Before youtube, I videotaped a Q&A with Simon Yam when he came to Baltimore, MD. Hear a small piece of that session from 2000.

Has the theory been postulated that the downturn of the market might not be attributed to an imminent recession but due to the lack quality writing… as the writers strike is still going on…

I won’t say I’m a fan of everything JJ Abrams has created but I do appreciate what he’s trying to accomplish with what he produces. Here’s a little insight into his thought processes.

The mystery box

Speaking of Abrams, if you’re a Lost fan, check out the mobile episodes if you havn’t seen them yet.

Lost Mobisodes

Sundance 2008

jadedwings — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:43:55 +0000

Brief Sundance recap. Apparently it was especially difficult to get tix to see films this year and I was helping with the APA reception so when I was able to wait in line for tickets, I was usually denied. I was able to get into more parties/receptions than films but not any of the A-list parties. And if you’re watching a film at Sundance, make sure you have something on your iPhone (media device) in case the power goes out like it did for much of the main strip for 30 minutes on Friday night. Felt pretty sore after my 2nd time snowboarding and I ran into several people who I haven’t seen in a while. All in all, it seems like a very commercialized festival now and really not what I expected, but the people I met were generally really nice and I may do it again someday.

At least I was able to meet one of the more creative directors working today.

Me & Michel Gondry

Check out how he takes the concept of his latest film and applies it to the trailer. Amazing…

Don’t Mess with Andy’s Fans

jadedwings — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:42:41 +0000

Andy Lau has always been one of the hardest working entertainers in Hong Kong and if you’re one of his fans, he’s got your back. Here’s the article and accompanying youtube video. Mad props to him. When have you seen a celebrity do that?

The incident happened at Andy Lau’s Mainland China concert tour, its
last stop at Chengdu.
Since the start of the concert the fans were already very
enthusiastic, until the encore segment where it’s was going to be the
last song and dance, everybody stood up and rushed towards the stage.

One particular male fan got through and managed to get onto the front
of the stage to shake hand and give flowers to Andy
When the security and ploice noticed that somebody managed to get onto
the stage and grab hold onto Andy, they immediately went to get him.
Clip from Youtube shows security not only tried to drag him away, they
punched him and kicked him.

Andy, seeing this from the stage, asked them not to take force against
the fan. On the Youtube, you can hear that Andy stopped singing and
says “Stop!” When he saw that they did not respond, he jumped off the
stage to protect that fan. It resulted a chaos as some of the crew
member, security guards and Andy’s personal security guards got into a
fight. In result, Andy could not carry on singing as he personally had
to bring that fan to the back to prevent the security guards from
getting to him.

Sundancing

jadedwings — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:15:00 +0000

Going to be at Park City on Thursday for several days of Sundancing. If you’re around Utah this weekend, drop by and say hi.

http://asianpacificfilmexperience.blogspot.com/

http://www.sundance.org/festival/