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Right, so now the holiday has ended. It is the first week of school as we speak.
It has been a rather hard to describe winter break. There’s, of course, the events that made it more interesting such as the A-W-E-S-O-M-E trip to the Grampians with the Labsome kids and staff members (Brrrr, the pinnacle & [...]
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OUT!
Will be at the Grampians from thursday (21st) onwards. Won’t be back till sunday.
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At long last!
After weeks and weeks of slogging over the design of the Transient Spaces documentary website, I declare it OPEN!
Click here to see it.
It has been a tedious task for me: emailing and calling potential interviewees, working on the design and layout of the website, trying to understand the notion of community and the actual [...]
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Haven’t you ever wondered about how tough it is to churn out 1,000 words sometimes?
That’s the case with the monster that I’m dealing with now. There is a certain struggle hitting the 3,000 wordcount although I am only writing the last 1,000 word. Theoretically speaking, it shouldn’t be this hard. I wrote the last 2 [...]
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hmmm, film critics.
putting in a late entry just before the 2,000 worder is supposed to surface.
I have spent some time pondering the role of a film critic. I think it goes far beyond just putting up words on a public media (newspapers, magazines, websites, whatever) about a particular film. By watching a film first hand (and I [...]
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the DEPARTED one – Remake: Infernal Affairs and The Departed
something to do with my thesis, I find it particularly useful as most I have spoken to has either not watched both films, or are relatively familiar with the HK cinema (like myself)
I find myself disagreeing, mainly because of the fact that I didn’t like The [...]
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Update: 27042007
Stuffs to get done this week:
the 1,000 word on top of past week’s 1,000.
Comm Rev readings.
Refine abstract again.
Define research direction.
Set up fourpointfive mailing list.
Comm Rev final essay – figuring out of my topic, and think hard about it. possibly come up with a skeleton.
Shoot the Transient spaces documentary.
- with tasks getting gradually more defined and [...]
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The cultures portrayed in Asian films faces the possibility of losing certain cultural narratives when the big Hollywood studios buy the rights to and do actually remake these movies.
The filmmakers content with the use cross-cultural representation of similar messages via the replacement of cultural symbols rooted in the original culture with replacement symbols that are [...]
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A summary. 180407
spurred on by everybody’s suddenly flurry of entries. Just realised I haven’t yet put anything up in the past 9-10 days. So here it goes.
I have:
Updated my abstract once.
Finished my comm rev essay, which is excellent (not the quality of work, but the idea of it being over and done with)
gone to the Great Ocean [...]
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The ranking/rating thingie.
I think Adrian’s tasks each week is helping us, me in particular, with planning the monster of a project we’re all supposed to be working on. There is this certain assurance after we go through that planning that the workload wouldn’t seem so daunting. This is the latest installment, a breaking down of tasks into [...]
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