blog: meme monday

Wouldn't be a Monday without meme monday.

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movies: Purple

This was one of my favorite projects I got to direct for my directing workshop. The assignment was to make a 2 minute non-dialogue film based on the word Purple. So here it is.

movies: Omar Will Watch Anything

Also, in addition to Hey That's On Netflix Instant Watch on Fridays, we decided to throw in some Wednesday videos. Each Wednesday is going to have something different (as chosen by the Wild Card Wednesdays cards) and the first episode was Omar Will Watch Anything where I watch the worst movies on Netflix and recap/rate them.

This video is about Troll 2.

movies: Hey That's On Netflix (Instant Watch)

I just posted all of the existing Hey That's On Netflix Instant Watch episodes in order.



The rest of the episodes are on the movies page.

movies: mise-en-scene

This was my first assignment for my Directing Workshop I class at UCLA. Our assignment was to shoot a thirty second, static shot that told a story. The focus was on mise-en-scene. I did this. Huge thanks to Mia who helped on the "shoot".

movies: Roommates vs. The Apartment

Again, for my directing class, we were assigned to do a one minute non-dialogue mood piece. I decided to take something from the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack, put it to tedious chores and make something awesome.

Everyone in this did an insanely incredible job.

movies: Out of Mind Out of Sight

This was shot as a one minute non-dialogue assignment for my directing workshop. My team (the Kubrickians) decided to split up the human senses between the five of us. Obviously, I got sight. Tomi Mendel does a great performance as someone scared to use an eye dropper.



Check out the video's movie page to see alternative endings we shot.

movies: Good News Bad News

This was an assignment to shoot a 2 minute voice over film. We had a different shoot planned but some unexpected issues came up and instead we did this on the fly. Huge props to Minna Kim and Tomi Mendel who were not going to even act in the video but volunteered on the spot.

movies: Duck Variations

Here is another scene I shot for my directing workshop. Originally a Mamet play, translated through the eyes of college stoners.

movies: God of Carnage

This was the final I shot for my directing class in the UCLA directing certificate program.



INCREDIBLE performances by Steve Suh, Emily Cipriani, Jesse Bainbridge and Georgina Tolentino.

movies: Improvability dating video

For the anti-Valentine's Day show my Senior year, we shot a dating video.

Keep in mind, when we shot this, I had JUST come back from the local microbrewery.

movies: apartment painting

When Mia and I moved into our new apartment (but not current apartment), we thought we'd document the wall painting with over 200 pictures.

So we did and here's the video.

movies: This Week WTF

Just uploaded a bunch of The This Week WTF episodes.



You can see all of the videos here.

movies: others with Georgina

Here are two other videos I got to do with Georgina.

music: Inception

So for a while I had a segment on TurnOnStudios.com called 'Music Mondays' where each Monday I wrote a song and recorded it and uploaded it. This started sometime in July and I had a bunch of songs stashed away to upload around Halloween time. So, at a loss for lyrics, I decided to just steal some from the trailer I was obsessed with at the moment.

Ta da: Inception.



You can check out the song on its music page.

music: Mr. Maydoff

This was the second song of Music Mondays about Bernard "Backstreet Boy" Maydoff.



You can check out the song on its music page.

music: Why Do All The Trees Die

So while I was still working on Music Mondays, I wrote this song while riding the 24x on my way to a modern poetry class I was taking over the summer. I thought it would be fun to write a religious song that ended on a really sad note. In my head, it was a joke. But after recording it and uploading it, no one understood it to be a joke.

So this is a really serious song about God and trees.



You can check out the song on its music page.

music: Things That Go Woah in the Night

So just at the conclusion of TurnOnStudios.com, I wrote this song as a part of the 13 Days 13 Shorts celebration (I think. I can't really remember). But nonethelessness it's a song about critters in the wild during Autumn.



You can check out the song on its music page.

music: 9 Crimes

So back when I was trying to get TurnOnStudios.blogspot.com going (where things were getting uploaded daily), I had an idea for something called Saturday Lounge where a bunch of people get together and just play music. In my head it would be like Arcade Fire's concert in that elevator in France or wherever.

But it didn't really work out. None the less, I recorded three covers on my own. The first cover was of Damien Rice's 9 Crimes.



You can check out the song on its music page.

music: When The Roses Bloom Again

Another Saturday Lounge song: a cover of Wilco/Billy Bragg's When The Roses Bloom Again.



You can check out the song on its music page.

music: Lay Lady Lay

Just uploaded a cover of Lay Lady Lay I did a while back.

It's really not good.



You can check out the song on its music page.

music: You Wouldn't Like Me

Here's the first of the Tegan and Sara covers I posted.



You can also check it out on its music page.

music: You Went Away (cover)

Here's another Tegan and Sara cover.



Or you could check out the song on its music page.

music: Call it Off

Here's the last bunch of Tegan and Sara covers.





You can check on the songs on their music page.

music: I Wish (original)

Here's a song I wrote/recorded while waiting for an episode of This Sh*t Is Raw to upload.



Or you can check out the song on its music page.

music: Dreaming of You (cover)

So I just started working on the music page. And to get started, I uploaded the worst of all the songs I plan on uploading!



Or you can go directly to the song's music page.

photos: Griffith Observatory at night

Just uploaded some pictures I took at the Griffith Observatory at night overlooking LA.

You can check them out on their photo page.

photos: PJ having fun

Just uploaded some pictures of PJ running around on a cloudy January morning.

You can check them all out on their photo page.

photos: SLO new years 2010

Just uploaded three pictures I took at Cayucos on New Years eve 2010 (the eve that lead to 2011).

You can check them all out on their photo page.