So what is The Cornetto or Blood and Ice Cream trilogy about?
To embark on the answer, I waded through all three movies and make my head in comparison.
The three movie are not connected by plot, but by actor and 'themes'. But what themes?
Well, there's the Cornetto and the wall jump. There's the sense of the two buddies played by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost with mirage of returning players like Martin Freeman and Bill Nighy.
But I see much more in that quick-pace cut of Edgar Wright style montage. First of all, this is about a man in a 'fantastical' situation. First one, the man is thrust upon it; Second one, the man actively avoids it till it's (almost) too late; Third one, the actively seeks it, although he gets more than he can ask for.
But there's the sense of us vs. masses conflict as well: Zombies in 'Shaun of the Dead', The Villagers in 'Hot Fuzz', and The Blanks in 'The World's End.' With the intention, except for the zombies although you could make an argument there, of greater peace and unity. All three antagonist asks us to be part of them and embrace their ideals. But as the end of the third movie suggest, humanity is too stubborn and angry for that. Even if there's zombies all around, the elders shooting people blank or fantastic tempting robots, the problem still remains for the group, one with their ideals and selfishness in check.
Some say, the movies give a pessimistic view of the world, where anarchy reign supreme and one would better begging in the street than mindlessly joining a society. But the fact is that the 'problem' isn't removed. They are still zombies in end of "The Shaun of the Dead", the village and its village are mostly intact in the end of "Hot Fuzz" and the The Blanks still live out their lives in the apocalyptic end of "The World's End". All three posit that the inherent idea of zombies or the village or The Blanks is not bad, it's the force of joining that is the evil there.
If the fear of being a zombie, or mandate of being the perfect village, or the desire to create a perfect robotic utopia is gone, the things antagonized don't need to be anymore. In the end, zombie are engulfed and ignored, the village seemingly forgets its past and continue on nonchalantly and The Blanks are even celebrated! Most people would be ribbed by the notion of quick heel-face turn... but the message of the trilogy is this. 'To err is human, to forgive divine." And that's what every critic, such as I, will strive for.
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Kevin's year...
I'm trying to bring YouTube content back to my main blog, so bear with me if you're not interested.
Kevin was wading in the waters of YouTube when he decided to do a cover of that Tumblr avbytes thingy.
Well, that exploded, so what does he do? Try to make a video 3 times a week for a year. That was recently finished ,so let us recap one by one.
10/17/12 - The Pilot. Look at the sweater! He was quite experienced as he did Kevin and Kyle show. Look at his enthusiasm! He's a natural. Dying joke is actually funny.
10/19/12 - The Terrified. New set and New York Federal Reserve bombing scare. More morbid jokes. What's with Kevin and death? (Must be October)
10/22/12 - The Mondayne. Life expectancy and weird maths... debates! Football! Interesting humor.
10/24/12 - The Byter. Music and wave physics. Fun. Kevin trying to be Hank... and succeeding! Clones are nice, too.
10/26/12 - The Beloved. Hah, Nazi. Also, confusing slashes.... Damn math and its bad notation!
10/29/12 - The Stormy. Oh, Sandy... Kevin is more comedic here with the umbrella...
10/31/12 - The Ad-Hoc. Even with Sandy, Kevin is still making those videos.
11/2/12 - The Dehydrated. Still no power and water but keeping singing those tunes...
11/5/12 - Probably my favorite of the early Kevin videos... song is just beautiful.
11/7/12 - The Alive. Parent's House... This is a slow ascent of Kevin being a speaker, well as a comedian. Good research.
11/9/12 - The Regressing. This is so cute and nicely done.
11/12/12 - The Spirited. The books and cassettes and the definitive change to his current style that I adore.
11/14/12 - The Stately. So, Kevin works at Mashable... And that AvBytes video... ah, yeah. They are good, just again I think it was tad a bit late.
11/16/12 - The Literate. Oh, education... Why? is sacred gem like oil. Tangential Learning! This is where the joke and the soapbox meld quit nicely and this is why I like Kevin...
11/19/12 - The Scared. 64 Subscribers... Charlie is a great conversation starter and hah... video responses.
11/21/12 - The International. Change the editing style and Google's scare! Well researched, again.
11/23/12 - Nice Parody... There's a lot of Black Friday parody ,but one could suffice.
11/26/12 - The Evangelical. (out of intro) Nice essay? It's quite inspiring... Kevin has that talent which is slowly being released here.
11/28/12 - The Copyrighted. Still What's Up Wednesday... The video is great! Facebook is... a company. It's, it's...
11/30/12 - The Mythological. A failed series about holiday... Good research video like Hank.
12/3/12 - The Newly Famous. Hey, why is he rhyming? Oh, nice transition.
12/5/12 - The Restless. Nice behind-the-scenes and I like his style of anecdotes.
12/7/12 - The Nouveau. First real YouTube video... redesign from an expert.
12/10/12 - The Resweatered. Creativity? Fault? moving, isn't it? Reading fiction!
12/12/12 - The Delightful. Get started... Name? Does all upstart YouTuber have to a giveaway?
12/14/12 - The Plucky. The Sweaters...? Comments... Arm off by a bear... mad libs?
12/17/12 - The Sagacious. The Derelict. The Bootylicious. The Insane. The Outrageous. Nice use of meta- editing. Perqs... It's the MAD LIB! Perks is a duds.
12/19/12 - The Apocalyptic. Don't panic. Again. YOU ARE THE PRODUCT! Streisand effect. Nice reminder to the future.
12/21/12 - The Un-mic'd. Prettyideal is nice but don't the expect the videos to flow. As for... ah let's skip it.
12/24/12 - Carol is nice... just great.
12/26/12 - The Carol. New November set... Tool check. Beginning of the Blue Sweater.
12/28/12 - The Well-Traveled. Social Anxiety...
12/31/12 - The Feverish. Small Changes... and so resolution for YouTube (hopely 720p)
1/2/13 - The Romanticized. Dating a Fever...
1/4/13 - The Benevolent. I, for one, welcome our new overlord.
1/7/13 - (Flat intro starts) The Incomp... Good skit and let's try it out...
1/9/13 - Show? Hair story? Whatever...
1/11/13 - YouTube goes 4k? Check out the new videos.
1/14/13 - Yes, it's a Wednesday but I'll call it a Monday. Wheezy is sweet dancer. Good joke.
1/16/13 - Great opera style break-up. I applaud.
1/18/13 - The Wheezy. Pure evil, secret poject, it's a good stuff.
1/21/13 - The Adventurous. Get Lost? Superpower realized! Endscreen!
1/23/13 - The Fiftieth. Nice wheezy-style video.
1/25/13 - The Hasty. Bad rap about this... No mixed fandoms...PoPS!
1/28/13 - The Single. Boundless entertainment!
1/30/13 - The Free-to-Play. Ads... so many ads. Paid Subs? (Beginning of fancy thumbnails.)
2/1/13 - The Subcultured. Label and its meaning?
2/4/13 - The Long-Distance. Great... great... uses of guests.
2/6/13 - The Real. I really how he can just do some much different types of videos with ease.
2/8/13 - The Farewell. Let's not mention... um... yeah.
2/11/13 - Nice history of the... world? The future?
2/13/13 - nice slow valentine's song.
2/15/13 - The Quotable. I remember a person who used Taylor swift picture and put Hitler quote to look like T. Swft had said it in a cheesy fashion... it was very funny.
2/18/13 - The Hysterical. Comedy is an art and a science.
2/20/13 - The Basic. Being adamant! What's up? That's what happens.
2/22/13 - The Sleepless. Typical insomniac videos...
2/25/13 - And so the simple but effective viral video. Stage 2 begins.
2/27/13 - The Viral. Sick and On fire.
3/1/13 - Great song! Just great chemistry.
3/4/13 - Typical.
3/6/13 - Women, Women, Women. A bit weak on my tea, but it's okay.
3/8/13 - Be Yourself? Great editing skills! Lovely...
3/11/13 - Another slow montage and narration... more comical this time.
3/13/13 - Business, Business, Business!
3/15/13 - The Superior. Oh, when in doubt just use another YouTuber.
3/18/13 - The Troubled. His struggle is what makes me watch this.
3/20/13 - The Zombiefied. What to worry?
3/22/13 - The Paradoxical. Get your stuff. Plane and superpowers are common causes of heartburn.
3/25/13 - Playlist Live 'the celebrity convention' And the talks about lesser YouTubers? Weird.
3/27/13 - Hmmm... Marriage? Governmental obstruction...
3/29/13 - The Ill-Defined. Elevator pitch... Vaudeville!
4/1/13 - The Blurry (End joke) April Fools is weak... for some people.
4/3/13 - The Offensive. Aristocrats... wisdom. (But not the Aristocats... they just...)
4/5/13 - Now, Kevin forays into to great silent videos! Kevin, your talents are boundless.
4/8/13 - The Factual. Don't watch IT.
4/10/13 - The Televised. TV Shows... Three's Company? Seriously? Louie... great. Family Guy, the original. SNL, bad year...30 Rock, why! HIMYM... okay. (It's not the point) Star Trek... hm. Don't cry. Fraiser. Better Off Ted, no it was on ABC. But oh god was it so good. AD, we all know it's good, next. Cheers... can't disagree... I mean only show which 11 seasons which all were decent.
4/12/13 - The Professional. Software Developer... Mashable have finally called you!
4/15/13 - The Sexy. Turn On and Turn Offs... Emma Blackery... that's a diverse watch.
4/17/13 - The Ugly. More Vanity! Body conscious.
4/19/13 - The Pensive. Chop wood and carry water. All them shout-out.
4/22/13 - The Diplomatic. Another take of Kim Jong Un.
4/24/13 - The Collaborative. Vash and Justin!
4/26/13 - The Toilet Tag. Hank isn't a revered drag? Have you seen Hankroll? Best song, I believe.
4/29/13 - The Narrative. Kevin is a pretty good storyteller...
5/1/13 - The Shattered. One thing does lead to another...
5/3/13 - The Questionable. Interesting... What's up Friday?
5/6/13 - The Hipstery. Sure, being a hipster has its perks... I mean perqs. Except with, you know...
5/8/13 - Mother's day is heartfelt day. Call your mother. Precursor to the 'last' outro.
5/10/13 - The Uncloned. The Hermione cloning effect... I see, I see.
5/13/13 - The Hasty. 4000 Subscriber... Travel back in time... unapproved.
5/15/13 - The Haphazard. Video about not making videos? Quite meta, I see.
5/17/13 - The A Bridged. Little reevaluation after a milestone doesn't hurt.
5/20/13 - The Acquired. Oh, Tumblr... Oh, Yahoo.
5/22/13 - The Self-helpful. Mistake is okay once, or twice if unknowable.
5/24/13 - The Futuristic. I concur, let's move on.
5/27/13 - The Arresting. Little good, little bad... certainly different.
5/29/13 - The Abstract. One of best out of the year. Certainly relatable and very funny.
5/31/13 - The Creative. Original? Value?
6/3/13 - The Morlockian. Three of you?
6/5/13 - The Nomenclative. Thank you, Bishop and what's going to happen?
6/7/13 - The Revealing. More shout-out. That's Zuccotti... Bob and George?
6/10/13 - The Social. Ah, Vloggerfair... The serendipitous... Networking on the internet...
6/12/13 - The Questionable. More question! Interesting.
6/14/13 - The Vloggable. Kate... also this kind of video should be #22.
6/17/13 - The Georgian. Love how the different personality are well-thought out. Get out. What?
6/19/13 - The Bob. Logical Bob. I like him as well.
6/21/13 - The Kevin. Oh no...
6/24/13 - First real focus on YouTube... really heartfelt...
6/26/13 - The Seated. Nice talk, Kevin.
6/28/13 - The Lazy. It's nice talking with you, again.
7/1/13 - The Gamified. CyborgBirdie! Bob and George!!! Great video. One of my favorite.
7/3/13 - The Independent. It wasn't the best, but it's fine.
7/5/13 - The Crabby or Nitpicky. Ah. Color correction.
7/8/13 - The Epileptic. Epilepsy is said to a sign of a sage. That's what I know.
7/10/13 - The Deterministic. Losing identity... Holy, that's scary.
7/12/13 - The Time-Sensitive. Hour? What. UTC is okay right?
7/15/13 - Pleasing everyone by saying 'ass' (The donkey, I mean!)
7/17/13 - The Discussiony. Knowing thought. YouTube talky stuff.
7/19/13 - The Newsworthy. Look at Kevin doing stuff!
7/22/13 - The Hedonistic. Post-scarcity society! That's the future!
7/24/13 -The Reconciliatory. Great success rate! Now get off! That's evolution!
7/26/13 - Pressure is off every last Friday. Interesting story to be in NY.
7/29/13 - The Meaningful. That was a great episode ,best of later Becoming YouTube. As for the argument... again, this is Ben being a troll... I suggest Episode 7, the female episode, is the first of series which he'll finish in Episode 12. Ben has a strong argument, so much so to enrage people to do something.
7/31/13 - The Flighty. Don't be too excited!
8/2/13 - Love the banter between the two... it's nice seeing the balance... there's a word...
8/5/13 - The Vidcon. The community convention... you can see I'm posting the flavor of the convention.
8/7/13 - The Connected. You don't want to know me...
8/9/13 - The Totally Sick. Be well and pass out.
8/12/13 - Intuitive happiness.
8/14/13 - Play for sympathy and good taste. Manifesto week? Singing Outro!
8/16/13 - Clean corners... makes a clean house.
8/19/13 - Fallbacks are important, you know?
8/21/13 - You've seen it first! Niall is great!
8/23/13 - Little improv and London. Once you seen it, you want to go back again... least for YouTubers.
8/26/13 - Anamorphic!!! Also, barrier... Simple (current) outro.
8/28/13 - Buggy Video Response.... Oh, great. Better YouTube?
8/30/13 - So, let's build better YouTube. What to do?
9/2/13 - The OZ argument. You all have what you need.
9/4/13 - Out of body experience... Stuck with human frailty.
9/6/13 - Depression... hmmm... getting on the horse.
9/9/13 - Thumbprints... Everybody's thumbprint... privacy for convenience.
9/11/13 - Right way...? Wrong way. Roomba!
9/13/13 - Fear? Balloons. Sa... skip. Best idea...? Embarrasing parents... we saw your junk... Leaving empty space... okay. Ice cream!
9/16/13 - Getting meta... wait, what, huh?
9/18/13 - That quarter... screens? Looking straight on.... he'll look at you. Two disjointed thoughts.
9/20/13 - Comforting food. Environment is not alone. Out of hand... insecurity has no half-life. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
9/23/13 - Countdown starting... Think about it... (no tags.)
9/25/13 - So, where the community go? Alex is great...
9/27/13 - So much topics and so fast talking! End with some jazz!
9/30/13 - Great tag. Now the review.
Jackie - Great if a slow turnout of videos, lovely gal and lovely videos
Morgan - I appreciate the style. I just feel too awkward to watch Morgan's videos, but her style is very typical of the Seattle style... I guess that's the word. Kind of no flash, no trucks style of vlogging... she's very good at that.
Niall - What a great YouTuber. Just his video have so personal style to them that it pops without any effects, it's gritty it's working class Britain. It's nice.
Mr. Collins - Interesting person, didn't realize he was dutch, so that's new. He is a more edgy Mickeleh. If you like Mickeleh's ponting, you'll like Collins.
Lamarr - One of the great person in YouTube, almost in Buck standards of happiness and hopefulness. He's always trying new stuff and he does good job of it. Watch it, if you like variety and personality.
Sharkee - He might be interesting... it's more comedic VSauce, so I don't mind but you might not be the core audience, just take a look and see.
Michael - Just a well-eloquent cool old guy. There's humor and wit, but when it's needed.
Mike - Not a self-helper but probably the greatest self-helper that is. Also makes great music.
Mari - I'm not her style but there's something punk aunt-looking lady's way of life that will interest some people.
DK - I don't know, but I like him.
10/2/13 - Take your resource and do the best... no shame in quality low or high. Nice breakdown! Just great thought of the process and the message. (Also low-fi week is why I think YouTube will survive without video response...)
10/4/13 - (order) Great videos... waiting... no comment. Forgot the person who said it, but there's a quote "If you believe 80% of what I said, vote for me. If you believe in 100% of what I said, go see a doctor." Order is good, but chaos reign. (definition ending)
10/7/13 - (design) Number in physical relationship... use your multiplication. Make connection in disparate things. That's human.
10/9/13 - (tension) This will be good video. Arrogance! Personal Significance... stress about dumb stuff.
10/11/13 - (composition) Look back on my life... Obsess a series of stuff... list of news... No closing line.
10/14/13 - (balance) No number. No weakness. Have you stop watching? Google backfired!? Huh?
10/16/13 - (light) Shirt is the thing now. New stuff... hmm.
10/18/13 - (white) So, we are done. Or not. So they are killed... off? Again, a great ending!
So, how he fare? Well, I think he did a great job. He had so much up and down and change in video style over the year that I think he has such a future. I like Kevin and his show.
(That's a horrible ending.)
Kevin was wading in the waters of YouTube when he decided to do a cover of that Tumblr avbytes thingy.
Well, that exploded, so what does he do? Try to make a video 3 times a week for a year. That was recently finished ,so let us recap one by one.
10/17/12 - The Pilot. Look at the sweater! He was quite experienced as he did Kevin and Kyle show. Look at his enthusiasm! He's a natural. Dying joke is actually funny.
10/19/12 - The Terrified. New set and New York Federal Reserve bombing scare. More morbid jokes. What's with Kevin and death? (Must be October)
10/22/12 - The Mondayne. Life expectancy and weird maths... debates! Football! Interesting humor.
10/24/12 - The Byter. Music and wave physics. Fun. Kevin trying to be Hank... and succeeding! Clones are nice, too.
10/26/12 - The Beloved. Hah, Nazi. Also, confusing slashes.... Damn math and its bad notation!
10/29/12 - The Stormy. Oh, Sandy... Kevin is more comedic here with the umbrella...
10/31/12 - The Ad-Hoc. Even with Sandy, Kevin is still making those videos.
11/2/12 - The Dehydrated. Still no power and water but keeping singing those tunes...
11/5/12 - Probably my favorite of the early Kevin videos... song is just beautiful.
11/7/12 - The Alive. Parent's House... This is a slow ascent of Kevin being a speaker, well as a comedian. Good research.
11/9/12 - The Regressing. This is so cute and nicely done.
11/12/12 - The Spirited. The books and cassettes and the definitive change to his current style that I adore.
11/14/12 - The Stately. So, Kevin works at Mashable... And that AvBytes video... ah, yeah. They are good, just again I think it was tad a bit late.
11/16/12 - The Literate. Oh, education... Why? is sacred gem like oil. Tangential Learning! This is where the joke and the soapbox meld quit nicely and this is why I like Kevin...
11/19/12 - The Scared. 64 Subscribers... Charlie is a great conversation starter and hah... video responses.
11/21/12 - The International. Change the editing style and Google's scare! Well researched, again.
11/23/12 - Nice Parody... There's a lot of Black Friday parody ,but one could suffice.
11/26/12 - The Evangelical. (out of intro) Nice essay? It's quite inspiring... Kevin has that talent which is slowly being released here.
11/28/12 - The Copyrighted. Still What's Up Wednesday... The video is great! Facebook is... a company. It's, it's...
11/30/12 - The Mythological. A failed series about holiday... Good research video like Hank.
12/3/12 - The Newly Famous. Hey, why is he rhyming? Oh, nice transition.
12/5/12 - The Restless. Nice behind-the-scenes and I like his style of anecdotes.
12/7/12 - The Nouveau. First real YouTube video... redesign from an expert.
12/10/12 - The Resweatered. Creativity? Fault? moving, isn't it? Reading fiction!
12/12/12 - The Delightful. Get started... Name? Does all upstart YouTuber have to a giveaway?
12/14/12 - The Plucky. The Sweaters...? Comments... Arm off by a bear... mad libs?
12/17/12 - The Sagacious. The Derelict. The Bootylicious. The Insane. The Outrageous. Nice use of meta- editing. Perqs... It's the MAD LIB! Perks is a duds.
12/19/12 - The Apocalyptic. Don't panic. Again. YOU ARE THE PRODUCT! Streisand effect. Nice reminder to the future.
12/21/12 - The Un-mic'd. Prettyideal is nice but don't the expect the videos to flow. As for... ah let's skip it.
12/24/12 - Carol is nice... just great.
12/26/12 - The Carol. New November set... Tool check. Beginning of the Blue Sweater.
12/28/12 - The Well-Traveled. Social Anxiety...
12/31/12 - The Feverish. Small Changes... and so resolution for YouTube (hopely 720p)
1/2/13 - The Romanticized. Dating a Fever...
1/4/13 - The Benevolent. I, for one, welcome our new overlord.
1/7/13 - (Flat intro starts) The Incomp... Good skit and let's try it out...
1/9/13 - Show? Hair story? Whatever...
1/11/13 - YouTube goes 4k? Check out the new videos.
1/14/13 - Yes, it's a Wednesday but I'll call it a Monday. Wheezy is sweet dancer. Good joke.
1/16/13 - Great opera style break-up. I applaud.
1/18/13 - The Wheezy. Pure evil, secret poject, it's a good stuff.
1/21/13 - The Adventurous. Get Lost? Superpower realized! Endscreen!
1/23/13 - The Fiftieth. Nice wheezy-style video.
1/25/13 - The Hasty. Bad rap about this... No mixed fandoms...PoPS!
1/28/13 - The Single. Boundless entertainment!
1/30/13 - The Free-to-Play. Ads... so many ads. Paid Subs? (Beginning of fancy thumbnails.)
2/1/13 - The Subcultured. Label and its meaning?
2/4/13 - The Long-Distance. Great... great... uses of guests.
2/6/13 - The Real. I really how he can just do some much different types of videos with ease.
2/8/13 - The Farewell. Let's not mention... um... yeah.
2/11/13 - Nice history of the... world? The future?
2/13/13 - nice slow valentine's song.
2/15/13 - The Quotable. I remember a person who used Taylor swift picture and put Hitler quote to look like T. Swft had said it in a cheesy fashion... it was very funny.
2/18/13 - The Hysterical. Comedy is an art and a science.
2/20/13 - The Basic. Being adamant! What's up? That's what happens.
2/22/13 - The Sleepless. Typical insomniac videos...
2/25/13 - And so the simple but effective viral video. Stage 2 begins.
2/27/13 - The Viral. Sick and On fire.
3/1/13 - Great song! Just great chemistry.
3/4/13 - Typical.
3/6/13 - Women, Women, Women. A bit weak on my tea, but it's okay.
3/8/13 - Be Yourself? Great editing skills! Lovely...
3/11/13 - Another slow montage and narration... more comical this time.
3/13/13 - Business, Business, Business!
3/15/13 - The Superior. Oh, when in doubt just use another YouTuber.
3/18/13 - The Troubled. His struggle is what makes me watch this.
3/20/13 - The Zombiefied. What to worry?
3/22/13 - The Paradoxical. Get your stuff. Plane and superpowers are common causes of heartburn.
3/25/13 - Playlist Live 'the celebrity convention' And the talks about lesser YouTubers? Weird.
3/27/13 - Hmmm... Marriage? Governmental obstruction...
3/29/13 - The Ill-Defined. Elevator pitch... Vaudeville!
4/1/13 - The Blurry (End joke) April Fools is weak... for some people.
4/3/13 - The Offensive. Aristocrats... wisdom. (But not the Aristocats... they just...)
4/5/13 - Now, Kevin forays into to great silent videos! Kevin, your talents are boundless.
4/8/13 - The Factual. Don't watch IT.
4/10/13 - The Televised. TV Shows... Three's Company? Seriously? Louie... great. Family Guy, the original. SNL, bad year...30 Rock, why! HIMYM... okay. (It's not the point) Star Trek... hm. Don't cry. Fraiser. Better Off Ted, no it was on ABC. But oh god was it so good. AD, we all know it's good, next. Cheers... can't disagree... I mean only show which 11 seasons which all were decent.
4/12/13 - The Professional. Software Developer... Mashable have finally called you!
4/15/13 - The Sexy. Turn On and Turn Offs... Emma Blackery... that's a diverse watch.
4/17/13 - The Ugly. More Vanity! Body conscious.
4/19/13 - The Pensive. Chop wood and carry water. All them shout-out.
4/22/13 - The Diplomatic. Another take of Kim Jong Un.
4/24/13 - The Collaborative. Vash and Justin!
4/26/13 - The Toilet Tag. Hank isn't a revered drag? Have you seen Hankroll? Best song, I believe.
4/29/13 - The Narrative. Kevin is a pretty good storyteller...
5/1/13 - The Shattered. One thing does lead to another...
5/3/13 - The Questionable. Interesting... What's up Friday?
5/6/13 - The Hipstery. Sure, being a hipster has its perks... I mean perqs. Except with, you know...
5/8/13 - Mother's day is heartfelt day. Call your mother. Precursor to the 'last' outro.
5/10/13 - The Uncloned. The Hermione cloning effect... I see, I see.
5/13/13 - The Hasty. 4000 Subscriber... Travel back in time... unapproved.
5/15/13 - The Haphazard. Video about not making videos? Quite meta, I see.
5/17/13 - The A Bridged. Little reevaluation after a milestone doesn't hurt.
5/20/13 - The Acquired. Oh, Tumblr... Oh, Yahoo.
5/22/13 - The Self-helpful. Mistake is okay once, or twice if unknowable.
5/24/13 - The Futuristic. I concur, let's move on.
5/27/13 - The Arresting. Little good, little bad... certainly different.
5/29/13 - The Abstract. One of best out of the year. Certainly relatable and very funny.
5/31/13 - The Creative. Original? Value?
6/3/13 - The Morlockian. Three of you?
6/5/13 - The Nomenclative. Thank you, Bishop and what's going to happen?
6/7/13 - The Revealing. More shout-out. That's Zuccotti... Bob and George?
6/10/13 - The Social. Ah, Vloggerfair... The serendipitous... Networking on the internet...
6/12/13 - The Questionable. More question! Interesting.
6/14/13 - The Vloggable. Kate... also this kind of video should be #22.
6/17/13 - The Georgian. Love how the different personality are well-thought out. Get out. What?
6/19/13 - The Bob. Logical Bob. I like him as well.
6/21/13 - The Kevin. Oh no...
6/24/13 - First real focus on YouTube... really heartfelt...
6/26/13 - The Seated. Nice talk, Kevin.
6/28/13 - The Lazy. It's nice talking with you, again.
7/1/13 - The Gamified. CyborgBirdie! Bob and George!!! Great video. One of my favorite.
7/3/13 - The Independent. It wasn't the best, but it's fine.
7/5/13 - The Crabby or Nitpicky. Ah. Color correction.
7/8/13 - The Epileptic. Epilepsy is said to a sign of a sage. That's what I know.
7/10/13 - The Deterministic. Losing identity... Holy, that's scary.
7/12/13 - The Time-Sensitive. Hour? What. UTC is okay right?
7/15/13 - Pleasing everyone by saying 'ass' (The donkey, I mean!)
7/17/13 - The Discussiony. Knowing thought. YouTube talky stuff.
7/19/13 - The Newsworthy. Look at Kevin doing stuff!
7/22/13 - The Hedonistic. Post-scarcity society! That's the future!
7/24/13 -The Reconciliatory. Great success rate! Now get off! That's evolution!
7/26/13 - Pressure is off every last Friday. Interesting story to be in NY.
7/29/13 - The Meaningful. That was a great episode ,best of later Becoming YouTube. As for the argument... again, this is Ben being a troll... I suggest Episode 7, the female episode, is the first of series which he'll finish in Episode 12. Ben has a strong argument, so much so to enrage people to do something.
7/31/13 - The Flighty. Don't be too excited!
8/2/13 - Love the banter between the two... it's nice seeing the balance... there's a word...
8/5/13 - The Vidcon. The community convention... you can see I'm posting the flavor of the convention.
8/7/13 - The Connected. You don't want to know me...
8/9/13 - The Totally Sick. Be well and pass out.
8/12/13 - Intuitive happiness.
8/14/13 - Play for sympathy and good taste. Manifesto week? Singing Outro!
8/16/13 - Clean corners... makes a clean house.
8/19/13 - Fallbacks are important, you know?
8/21/13 - You've seen it first! Niall is great!
8/23/13 - Little improv and London. Once you seen it, you want to go back again... least for YouTubers.
8/26/13 - Anamorphic!!! Also, barrier... Simple (current) outro.
8/28/13 - Buggy Video Response.... Oh, great. Better YouTube?
8/30/13 - So, let's build better YouTube. What to do?
9/2/13 - The OZ argument. You all have what you need.
9/4/13 - Out of body experience... Stuck with human frailty.
9/6/13 - Depression... hmmm... getting on the horse.
9/9/13 - Thumbprints... Everybody's thumbprint... privacy for convenience.
9/11/13 - Right way...? Wrong way. Roomba!
9/13/13 - Fear? Balloons. Sa... skip. Best idea...? Embarrasing parents... we saw your junk... Leaving empty space... okay. Ice cream!
9/16/13 - Getting meta... wait, what, huh?
9/18/13 - That quarter... screens? Looking straight on.... he'll look at you. Two disjointed thoughts.
9/20/13 - Comforting food. Environment is not alone. Out of hand... insecurity has no half-life. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
9/23/13 - Countdown starting... Think about it... (no tags.)
9/25/13 - So, where the community go? Alex is great...
9/27/13 - So much topics and so fast talking! End with some jazz!
9/30/13 - Great tag. Now the review.
Jackie - Great if a slow turnout of videos, lovely gal and lovely videos
Morgan - I appreciate the style. I just feel too awkward to watch Morgan's videos, but her style is very typical of the Seattle style... I guess that's the word. Kind of no flash, no trucks style of vlogging... she's very good at that.
Niall - What a great YouTuber. Just his video have so personal style to them that it pops without any effects, it's gritty it's working class Britain. It's nice.
Mr. Collins - Interesting person, didn't realize he was dutch, so that's new. He is a more edgy Mickeleh. If you like Mickeleh's ponting, you'll like Collins.
Lamarr - One of the great person in YouTube, almost in Buck standards of happiness and hopefulness. He's always trying new stuff and he does good job of it. Watch it, if you like variety and personality.
Sharkee - He might be interesting... it's more comedic VSauce, so I don't mind but you might not be the core audience, just take a look and see.
Michael - Just a well-eloquent cool old guy. There's humor and wit, but when it's needed.
Mike - Not a self-helper but probably the greatest self-helper that is. Also makes great music.
Mari - I'm not her style but there's something punk aunt-looking lady's way of life that will interest some people.
DK - I don't know, but I like him.
10/2/13 - Take your resource and do the best... no shame in quality low or high. Nice breakdown! Just great thought of the process and the message. (Also low-fi week is why I think YouTube will survive without video response...)
10/4/13 - (order) Great videos... waiting... no comment. Forgot the person who said it, but there's a quote "If you believe 80% of what I said, vote for me. If you believe in 100% of what I said, go see a doctor." Order is good, but chaos reign. (definition ending)
10/7/13 - (design) Number in physical relationship... use your multiplication. Make connection in disparate things. That's human.
10/9/13 - (tension) This will be good video. Arrogance! Personal Significance... stress about dumb stuff.
10/11/13 - (composition) Look back on my life... Obsess a series of stuff... list of news... No closing line.
10/14/13 - (balance) No number. No weakness. Have you stop watching? Google backfired!? Huh?
10/16/13 - (light) Shirt is the thing now. New stuff... hmm.
10/18/13 - (white) So, we are done. Or not. So they are killed... off? Again, a great ending!
So, how he fare? Well, I think he did a great job. He had so much up and down and change in video style over the year that I think he has such a future. I like Kevin and his show.
(That's a horrible ending.)
Friday, October 18, 2013
Poem #2 '-ender'
(It's slightly off, but you might enjoy it)
To engender.
To smell the lavender,
Go to the bartender and hear the blender
Running and to see who’s tender.
An attender by the ascender comes to me.
I render you’re a spender,
a moneylender to make me surrender
Think I’m a contender, a goaltender
Trying to be a mender
but you’re a offender, pretender
Using me for a weekender
Ready with a descender
Thinking you’re on fire like a hellbender.
You see gender through a cullender
You must wait for a calender or a supercalender
Glossing the centerfold to sell to the vender
The page is a slender girl taking off a suspender...
But all love by you is a fender bender.
Only way I’ll touch you is through an extender,
Because I’m the defender, not a lender.
Because I don’t need a provender.
I’ll return the drink to the sender.
Besides, you don’t know I’m a transgender.
To engender.
To smell the lavender,
Go to the bartender and hear the blender
Running and to see who’s tender.
An attender by the ascender comes to me.
I render you’re a spender,
a moneylender to make me surrender
Think I’m a contender, a goaltender
Trying to be a mender
but you’re a offender, pretender
Using me for a weekender
Ready with a descender
Thinking you’re on fire like a hellbender.
You see gender through a cullender
You must wait for a calender or a supercalender
Glossing the centerfold to sell to the vender
The page is a slender girl taking off a suspender...
But all love by you is a fender bender.
Only way I’ll touch you is through an extender,
Because I’m the defender, not a lender.
Because I don’t need a provender.
I’ll return the drink to the sender.
Besides, you don’t know I’m a transgender.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Onelook rhyming challenge: *sent and *ception
(Onelook rhyme challenge is where I go on to onelook.com and search for "common words" that have the same ending and use them all in a poem-like structure. Today's ending: -sent and -ception.)
You know what I resent
Is those who misrepresent
What we have sent or unsent
Represent assent that's absent
That dissent is only for the present
And that they are omnipresent
That they can charge like a wisent
But that's not the meaning of consent.
Your conception of preconception matching your reception
Is mostly misconception, leading to my perception
That you'll use deception to change my apperception
Your interception to ignite inception,
Soon losing my proprioception
Only feeling the interoception,
That intussusception of your force into my body,
Then you realize you didn't even put contraception
Turns out I'm not the exception.
You know what I resent
Is those who misrepresent
What we have sent or unsent
Represent assent that's absent
That dissent is only for the present
And that they are omnipresent
That they can charge like a wisent
But that's not the meaning of consent.
Your conception of preconception matching your reception
Is mostly misconception, leading to my perception
That you'll use deception to change my apperception
Your interception to ignite inception,
Soon losing my proprioception
Only feeling the interoception,
That intussusception of your force into my body,
Then you realize you didn't even put contraception
Turns out I'm not the exception.
Monday, July 1, 2013
Unfinished Titles: Possibility Series
This is a story of untold stories, stuff I had in my mind since 5th grade that I never seem to muster.
Well, least this one is.
It's been 7 years ,but I'm knew where to start with. The dialogue, the words...
This is a story about two astronauts named John and Mary who goes out to the center of the galaxy to find precious minerals. The story begin as they are sucked into the black hole and 'miraculously' come out. This make it more fantasy than science-fiction. Yes, there's science and fiction ,but it's just exploring different world strung together like an anthology more going more technical into specs and details. Maybe that's where I got it wrong.
John and Mary ,after escaping, comes into a meadow, where the first world is introduced and this is basically a rip-off of the main 'block' in HG Wells's The Time Machine. There's Elois and Morokais and they are different and yet same and Eloi is so happy and Morokai is sad and machine-like and whatever. There's also that museum that my fan-fiction latched on to, as John and Mary is introduced to a picnic with a elderly teacher and a bunch of school Elois.
They talk about the future and how did the world of 'today' turn into world of here and the gist of 'bait' is here. John and Mary skip forward in time, like that phenomenal episode of Futurama, and discover weird worlds. So basically Star Trek with Futurama spiced on there. Anyway, they realize they are skipping through the future and realize that they will be gone soon. The elderly pleads with them to go on the adventure and inexplicably he does.
This is really setting of the concept, also World 2, and introducing the Elder as a wise but bumbly type ,as commonly seen as like Polonius from Hamlet. He is also the buttmonkey in this one and serve pratfall with Mary.
World 2 is a post-apocalyptic landscape with John and Mary with Elder heading separate ways to find human life. Mary and Elder bumble their way through the destruction and eventually find a Eloi boy. While John finds clues about this world and after finding a Morokai girl. They meet-up together and Eloi boy and the Morokai girl is tasked with continuing the human race, akin to Adam and Eve.
Now when people read this hypothetical book, they will ask two things. Why is Mary The Scrappy and is John, a Mary Sue. Answer is Yes and Not Sure. I think having a female character that is independent and yet still get into humiliating situations is very refreshing to the types we see today. The brashness is not thought as revolutionary or the humiliation degrading. It's just how Mary works and that's that. Now John however, I am not sure. You might consider him a Marty Stu consider he never gets into 'trouble', least not much as other characters and he gets a romantic interest at the end. In the fourth world, I placed in better context, for reasons you'll see later.
After the Adam and Eve ceremony ,the three is transported to a tropical island where Models play around and enjoy the luxury they have in us. This is the Utopia scene. There's emphasis on the beauty because I was fascinated with beauty and still do... not as much, though. Anyway, after cordial invite, they are inadvertently taken to a the 'bad side' where disfigured workers work to get raw materials and energy while having bootleg surgeon to make them pretty. This is just overwrought, I think, but it gives to a uprising (that is doomed to fail) spearheaded by John and Mary. After John goes all emotional, there are transported 'just at the right time'.
There's so many enforced cliche in this story. People leaving at the perfect moment, miraculous escape in the beginning... that are lampooned in the Mary and the Elder sections. It's much of a counterpoint to a dramatic slop of John's story and I give more due to them. I like Mary and Elder, even more than John or Sarah. They are the interesting part, part that don't like this cliche so much and wants to escape. John is very happy to be here. It's like a self-referential fan fiction. Which is good, if not overdone.
World 4 is anthology within an anthology. Three worlds, all widely different (actually five but the last two is not important) and the two couples, John and Sarah, Mary and Elder, in completely different situation. John and Sarah talks about their relationship and how Sarah was fascinated by being militant and stuff. I have not explained the story very much, didn't I? Well, too bad. This is more like a director's note than a summary.
Sarah is a interesting character herself. (In fact, John is least understood character even he's the 'hero' we understand less about him than any other in the story. He's a young brash man in his 20's who likes to party and other manly stuff. But he's not a full-fledged character. He's not supposed to be. he's more of a reflection. Perhaps, it's wish fulfillment, but you see why you don't want to be John, not necessarily.) Sorry, about Sarah, yes, she's also a independent character, in fact she leads John more than John leads her, and she has a nice backstory of 'deformed' girl who excelled during military training. Feeling of oneness is what they talk about in the scene of lunch in animal grazing house.
Also did I tell you that World 4-1 is world run by intelligent animals? Well, Sarah applies for a job run by horses. She gets to be the janitor with consequences and Elder gets to stay home with the pigs and deal with weird animal stuff. This is the separation we are talking about as John and Sarah gets vaguely dramatic, Sarah and Elder is just more fun!
World 4-2 takes a whole different level. Sarah and Elder are poor peasants and John and Sarah are nobles, enjoying the glitter and vapidity. The description flourish but the plot and dialogue is vague... on purpose! Sarah and Elder resents the position and spend all day complaining to the others, if they have the chance.
World 4-3 takes a spin at the structure. Sarah looks for abnormalities while others act normal. Sarah takes the front seat but while the other are trying to be the center focus. It's a submarine world, by the way.
The rest is the crew finding the switch while climbing the Himalayas and the big giant hot woman coming to tell her story and preparing to destroy them but they disappears! (How coincidental)
It's basically to tie up World 4 to World 3. Anyway, up to World 5 where there's alien and how it relates to World 4 and how they get out of loop in the first place. It's to clean up the plot, really.
Now when they come back, the ship has collected enough minerals, weirdly enough, and there's the rescue option... Sarah and Elder are fine with the cover-up but Eil (I'll call him) the alien looking, is the biggest trouble... They tried to whisk him off... of which they do but the aftermath is botched so Eil gets a new story and there's the epilogue.
Sarah becomes a professor with Elder as the assistant. Sarah wins pageants then marries John and have happy life. Eil goes on the lecture circuit and becomes enamored by the community. The epilogue is there to look back and wise-crack again about the story and it's not there for plot reason. Also Eil needs more plot!
Sorry, for rambling but I guess you're used to that. So Thank you and good-bye.
Well, least this one is.
It's been 7 years ,but I'm knew where to start with. The dialogue, the words...
This is a story about two astronauts named John and Mary who goes out to the center of the galaxy to find precious minerals. The story begin as they are sucked into the black hole and 'miraculously' come out. This make it more fantasy than science-fiction. Yes, there's science and fiction ,but it's just exploring different world strung together like an anthology more going more technical into specs and details. Maybe that's where I got it wrong.
John and Mary ,after escaping, comes into a meadow, where the first world is introduced and this is basically a rip-off of the main 'block' in HG Wells's The Time Machine. There's Elois and Morokais and they are different and yet same and Eloi is so happy and Morokai is sad and machine-like and whatever. There's also that museum that my fan-fiction latched on to, as John and Mary is introduced to a picnic with a elderly teacher and a bunch of school Elois.
They talk about the future and how did the world of 'today' turn into world of here and the gist of 'bait' is here. John and Mary skip forward in time, like that phenomenal episode of Futurama, and discover weird worlds. So basically Star Trek with Futurama spiced on there. Anyway, they realize they are skipping through the future and realize that they will be gone soon. The elderly pleads with them to go on the adventure and inexplicably he does.
This is really setting of the concept, also World 2, and introducing the Elder as a wise but bumbly type ,as commonly seen as like Polonius from Hamlet. He is also the buttmonkey in this one and serve pratfall with Mary.
World 2 is a post-apocalyptic landscape with John and Mary with Elder heading separate ways to find human life. Mary and Elder bumble their way through the destruction and eventually find a Eloi boy. While John finds clues about this world and after finding a Morokai girl. They meet-up together and Eloi boy and the Morokai girl is tasked with continuing the human race, akin to Adam and Eve.
Now when people read this hypothetical book, they will ask two things. Why is Mary The Scrappy and is John, a Mary Sue. Answer is Yes and Not Sure. I think having a female character that is independent and yet still get into humiliating situations is very refreshing to the types we see today. The brashness is not thought as revolutionary or the humiliation degrading. It's just how Mary works and that's that. Now John however, I am not sure. You might consider him a Marty Stu consider he never gets into 'trouble', least not much as other characters and he gets a romantic interest at the end. In the fourth world, I placed in better context, for reasons you'll see later.
After the Adam and Eve ceremony ,the three is transported to a tropical island where Models play around and enjoy the luxury they have in us. This is the Utopia scene. There's emphasis on the beauty because I was fascinated with beauty and still do... not as much, though. Anyway, after cordial invite, they are inadvertently taken to a the 'bad side' where disfigured workers work to get raw materials and energy while having bootleg surgeon to make them pretty. This is just overwrought, I think, but it gives to a uprising (that is doomed to fail) spearheaded by John and Mary. After John goes all emotional, there are transported 'just at the right time'.
There's so many enforced cliche in this story. People leaving at the perfect moment, miraculous escape in the beginning... that are lampooned in the Mary and the Elder sections. It's much of a counterpoint to a dramatic slop of John's story and I give more due to them. I like Mary and Elder, even more than John or Sarah. They are the interesting part, part that don't like this cliche so much and wants to escape. John is very happy to be here. It's like a self-referential fan fiction. Which is good, if not overdone.
World 4 is anthology within an anthology. Three worlds, all widely different (actually five but the last two is not important) and the two couples, John and Sarah, Mary and Elder, in completely different situation. John and Sarah talks about their relationship and how Sarah was fascinated by being militant and stuff. I have not explained the story very much, didn't I? Well, too bad. This is more like a director's note than a summary.
Sarah is a interesting character herself. (In fact, John is least understood character even he's the 'hero' we understand less about him than any other in the story. He's a young brash man in his 20's who likes to party and other manly stuff. But he's not a full-fledged character. He's not supposed to be. he's more of a reflection. Perhaps, it's wish fulfillment, but you see why you don't want to be John, not necessarily.) Sorry, about Sarah, yes, she's also a independent character, in fact she leads John more than John leads her, and she has a nice backstory of 'deformed' girl who excelled during military training. Feeling of oneness is what they talk about in the scene of lunch in animal grazing house.
Also did I tell you that World 4-1 is world run by intelligent animals? Well, Sarah applies for a job run by horses. She gets to be the janitor with consequences and Elder gets to stay home with the pigs and deal with weird animal stuff. This is the separation we are talking about as John and Sarah gets vaguely dramatic, Sarah and Elder is just more fun!
World 4-2 takes a whole different level. Sarah and Elder are poor peasants and John and Sarah are nobles, enjoying the glitter and vapidity. The description flourish but the plot and dialogue is vague... on purpose! Sarah and Elder resents the position and spend all day complaining to the others, if they have the chance.
World 4-3 takes a spin at the structure. Sarah looks for abnormalities while others act normal. Sarah takes the front seat but while the other are trying to be the center focus. It's a submarine world, by the way.
The rest is the crew finding the switch while climbing the Himalayas and the big giant hot woman coming to tell her story and preparing to destroy them but they disappears! (How coincidental)
It's basically to tie up World 4 to World 3. Anyway, up to World 5 where there's alien and how it relates to World 4 and how they get out of loop in the first place. It's to clean up the plot, really.
Now when they come back, the ship has collected enough minerals, weirdly enough, and there's the rescue option... Sarah and Elder are fine with the cover-up but Eil (I'll call him) the alien looking, is the biggest trouble... They tried to whisk him off... of which they do but the aftermath is botched so Eil gets a new story and there's the epilogue.
Sarah becomes a professor with Elder as the assistant. Sarah wins pageants then marries John and have happy life. Eil goes on the lecture circuit and becomes enamored by the community. The epilogue is there to look back and wise-crack again about the story and it's not there for plot reason. Also Eil needs more plot!
Sorry, for rambling but I guess you're used to that. So Thank you and good-bye.
Update for July
Hello, I'm doing a 'review' for every day in July this year at dftbaideas.blogspot.com
Also, the next post is the hundredth post and to celebrate, here's a short plot summary of a novel I wanted to write. Thank you for reading my rambles.
David Kim.
Also, the next post is the hundredth post and to celebrate, here's a short plot summary of a novel I wanted to write. Thank you for reading my rambles.
David Kim.
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Good Stuff...
(No, I'm not talking about the new Wheezy thing... although it is a awesome idea... kind of like leanback.)
I spent a lot of time thinking about what makes (insert media here) good.
Then I watch people rip off bad movies like it had no sense (which it didn't.)
Then I realized something.
There's a sense of balance, almost to the point of weirded out in some cases.
Good movies have something sweet, something sad, and everything is nicely blended.
Then I realized that's what I wanted in my stories. And how I stopped writing.
I always feel about having rest well as action, because mindless is good but mindful is fulfilling.
I guess I don't anymore to talk about. Sorry for rambling. Idea didn't peter out so well.
I spent a lot of time thinking about what makes (insert media here) good.
Then I watch people rip off bad movies like it had no sense (which it didn't.)
Then I realized something.
There's a sense of balance, almost to the point of weirded out in some cases.
Good movies have something sweet, something sad, and everything is nicely blended.
Then I realized that's what I wanted in my stories. And how I stopped writing.
I always feel about having rest well as action, because mindless is good but mindful is fulfilling.
I guess I don't anymore to talk about. Sorry for rambling. Idea didn't peter out so well.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
New Project: Read the Article
Okay, not really a new project. Just a way to start off this blog again... reviews in the summer? Maybe?
Article- These two article is about YouTube told by the same magazine in two different countries and with similar content but in different years.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/ff_youtube/all/
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/02/features/talent-tube?page=all
So... What? There's a similarity in basic content but with slightly different flavor. I like that...
Also, I want to make an archive without making a star or something.
Article- These two article is about YouTube told by the same magazine in two different countries and with similar content but in different years.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/ff_youtube/all/
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/02/features/talent-tube?page=all
So... What? There's a similarity in basic content but with slightly different flavor. I like that...
Also, I want to make an archive without making a star or something.
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