Rubber

Last night, I headed to the "After Dark" series of the Portland International Film Festival to catch Rubber -- an English-language French film about an abandoned tire who, after becoming sentient, discovers that he has telekinetic abilities: so, he (his name is Robert) travels the country side making various animals and people's heads explode. It's also structured in such away that allows it to be incredibly contained and self-referential.
It's cute, "meta-," and "artsy" but thankfully stays just this side of entertaining so as not to be too cloy.

Return

...and I'm back.

These days, my spare time is more and more infrequent. And that means things such as blog posts become more and more infrequent as well.
But, to catch up --

-- I spent some time in Alabama, celebrating Christmas with my family. I try to make it down that way once a year to visit and see my niece and nephews.

-- I returned to some *ridiculous* roommate drama, causing me to move out a few weeks earlier than planned. But things have a way of working out, and I'm now sharing a place in SE Portland with a friend of mine.

-- I'm on about halfway through my third term of school. It's currently kicking my ass, but forcing me to be creative. So it works out well.

And speaking of such things, here is my first project from mt Video Production/Editing (Final Cut Pro) class. I did not film the footage used; I simply had to edit a batch of footage together to tell a story somewhere between 45 seconds and two minutes in length.






And that's all the high points I can think of.
More to come soon, I hope.