Mobile Blogging

I'm hoping to be able to blog in the form of pictures, videos, and text sent from my phone. Judging by the post below (failed SMS post) google blogger still has some glitches, but hopefully these will be worked out by the start of sundance.

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Sundance

Currently I am working on plans to attend the Sundance Film Festival (should have flight arrangements done by tomorrow). I have been researching all about the festival from ways to network to the films that are premiering. It's all exciting.
This year, Sundance will be premiering one shorts program, one documentary and one narrative film all on the same night, Thursday, January 21. this is different from what they have done in the past and the new schedule offers more opportunities to see films.
This year, Spike Jonze and James Franco have both entered shorts into the competition. To me this seems a little unfair that unknown first time filmmakers will be competing with some seasoned veterans. I think that the shorts competition should remain only for those who have never produced a studio backed feature. This would keep things new and offer more opportunities for the first timers.
This article offers more info about the shorts, and I will keep updating the blog with Sundance related news as I get it.

QR codes

A QR code (Quick Reference Code) is a bar code that automatically directs a person to a url when he or she takes a picture of it with a cell phone (an app needs to be pre-installed). QR codes are very popular in Asia (especially Japan) and are slowly working their way into American culture. I've seen them on magazines, posters, and print ads, all of which direct the user to a site and allow them to find out more about a product. I have yet to see them used in this way, but they can also work when viewed on a TV, such as in a commercial spot or banner ad in the lower third of a program. The best part about them is that they're extremely user friendly and free to generate.
Here is the QR code for my site:

Comcast acquires NBC

This article makes note of Comcast acquiring NBC from GE for 5.8B (official deal set to go down tomorrow morning). The user comments seem to harshly criticize Comcast for it's poor service and low bandwidth support.
For me, I question what the future of hulu.com will be. Will it start to be a pay service? If so, how will it charge?

Laura Mulvey's Gaze Theory and the Internet

A common theory in film studies is the idea of the gaze: visual pleasure through scopophilia. Feminist theorist Laura Mulvey originated this idea that cinema provides visual pleasure through an identification process with the male on-screen actor. When men see a woman actor they look “at” her, and when they see a male actor they look “with” him or put themselves in his place. When women see a woman actor they also look “at” her, and hence see her through a male “gaze”. I was wondering if this same theory would apply to Internet generated content such as youtube videos. Do we look at the videos with a sense of voyeurism or do we gaze with the people in the videos?

This blog post was originally published HERE on my Digital Media Blog.

New Media Capstone Project; myRamsey

My group's assignment this semester was to come up with a device that incorporates new media and would benefit UGA's workout facility (the Ramsey Center).

We came up with a mobile app (works on iphone and desktop) that allows users to "find a work out buddy at the click of a button."

Here is our official Web Site describing our project.
The site includes a link to the official Web App (which you can view on an iphone, if you have one).

The web app is still considered just a "promotype" and it will be presented to clients on December 9 at UGA.

MyRamsey Video

HERO 5K Promo from Chris Pamm on Vimeo.

McGill Lecture

On Wednesday, UGA hosted its annual McGill Lecture. This year's speaker was Martin Kaiser, the editor for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
During his speech, Kaiser expressed his frustration at the label of "the media". He noted that it is NOT "the media", but instead a distinction exists between the reporting media and the commentating media. It is unfair for the reporting media to be blamed for the exaggerations and opinions of the commentating media.
Kaiser noted that for journalism to have a future, the reporter needs to address WHY the news is happening.

A Christmas Carol

This article from the New York Times examines the enormous marketing campaign conducted by Disney to make sure their new film "A Christmas Carol" is a blockbuster. The campaign features a train with an exhibit that delves into the original Dickens story and promotes the film. There have also been many different marketing ploys such as this past May at the Cannes Film Festival when the entire front of the Ritz Carlton hotel was covered in fake snow and Jim Carey was throwing snow balls outside of it.

"The studio is also pulling out all the new-media stops it can. There is a Scrooge iPhone application, a “naughty or nice” Facebook quiz and a themed video game on Disney.com. A Web site where people around the world can make virtual ornaments and decorate a communal online tree was unveiled last week."
-(taken from the NYTimes article)

These new types of digital and interactive marketing help propel technology. As Disney throws money at technology firms to help develop iPhone Apps, new discoveries are made, and new code from which other applications can pull is written.

Currently, when producing a film it is imperative to be use new media (at least the free kind) to promote a film. Many independently produced films make use of blogs, social networks, and applications to promote their film and spread word of mouth, and it proves to be affective. I predict that this new-media technology will become more and more important in the film industry as producers seek more ways to attract an audience keep fans.

Antichrist (last post about it...probably)

Today, the film Antichrist opens in New York. Here is the New York Times Review, and here is my review (previous blog post). The film is awful (according to both reviews), but I am somehow intrigued by it and can't stop wondering if it is ahead of its time.

New Resume, Demo Reel

I am currently in the process of making a Digital Resume and Demo Reel. On the site right now I have uploaded new versions of both, but the Demo Reel is a work in progress because I am working on 2 short videos right now.

"we have come to confuse information with understanding"

-quote taken from Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

In Gladwell's book Blink, he examines people's snap judgments and "blink of an eye" decisions. Through a series of case studies he makes the point that sometimes these impulses lead to a better decision, and one's first impression is often the best. One thing I found interesting was this conclusion:
"...what I have sensed is an enormous frustration with the unexpected costs of knowing too much, of being inundated with information."
Sometimes there is too much information! We are often bombarded with updates, articles, quotes, tweets, texts, calls, e-mails, commercials, etc, and even the information we receive that is pertinent can be overwhelming.
It takes a lot of filtering, time management, and prioritizing to make difficult decisions, but sometimes it just takes instinct. Sometimes less is more, and a quick decision without all of the info is the best decision.

Ramsey Work Out Center New Media Project

For a capstone class, three other classmates and I are developing a web application that will allow users to have an interactive experience while using UGA's workout facility (Ramsey). We hope to develop a "promotype" that will allow for a user to connect with other potential "work out buddies", keep track of the user's progress via a work out log, and produce a series of instructional videos that are linked from QR codes attached to different workout machines. One technology we are using is facebook connect, which will pull info from users and store it in the application's own database. In order to have such a database, we will need to transform our ftp server into a database, which we will do using MySQL. The most recent post on our Tumblr Account was about MySQL and how it works.

(screen shot of MySQL being used to manage a database)

Antichrist

There is an article in the New York Times today about Lars von Trier's film Antichrist.

Below is a review of the film that I wrote this summer at the Cannes Film Festival.

Antichrist Makes for Cute Date Movie

Chris Pamm

May 19, 2009

Jour 5590

Antichrist is a heartwarming flick about a couple’s trials and tribulations in their relationship. The film is full of striking visuals that seem to burn a brand in the memory of the viewer.

Antichrist’s prologue begins in black and white as a couple (Willem Dufoe and Charlette Gainsbourg) graphically make love in the shower. The scene is shown as a parallel sequence with that of their kid who is sleeping in the room next to them. As the couple proceeds to have sex, their kid climbs out of his crib, and jumps out the window of the home into the street killing himself. The scene takes place in slow motion with opera music playing in the background as the child commits suicide. The prologue is beautifully shot, but when it ends it makes you turn your head to the person sitting next to you.

The rest of the film deals with the psychotic mother’s grieving. She constantly has nightmares and hallucinations, and seems to cry about everything. Her psychiatrist husband walks her through breathing exercises and tests to help her to overcome her grief.

The majority of the film is based in a log cabin, the same one that the mother has already dreamed about. In and around the cabin, the audience is treated to a display of beautiful images in nature. These include that of a dead baby dear carcass dangling out of it’s mother, a baby bird falling to the grown and being eaten alive by ants, and a fox that is disemboweled and dampened with blood. When I watched the film, people in the audience began walking out of the theater after the first image.

One of the key lines in the film is uttered by no other than that of the fox. That’s right, the fox. In Jim Henson fashion, the fox, who is covered in blood, turns his head and says, “chaos reigns.” This is the only time any of the animals speak, and the line had about half of the audience laughing at what didn’t seem to be a punch line. At this point in the film people stood up and walked out.

The film involves a lot of scenes that include elements of nature, but is mainly focused on Charlotte Gainsbourg’s character. She evokes the qualities of a true lady when she bashes her husband’s erect penis with a two by four, and cuts of her clitoris with scissors. The film doesn’t shy away from it’s close ups and isn’t afraid to illustrate this true lady-like etiquette.

If the aforementioned images aren’t enough to make you fall in love with the film, imagine the woman screwing a metal pole into and through the man’s leg. This acts as a chain to keep him weighted down so he cannot escape. This might sound like a plot straight out of Hostel or Saw, but there is some foreplay that involves blood shooting into the air (use your imagination) that gives the scene a romantic overtone.

At one point in the film, the man comes across a book that was written by his wife. The book begins in neat handwriting and as he pages through we see that the handwriting gets sloppier until it finally is degraded into mere scribbles. This book is like the movie, pages of incomprehensive scribble. It starts out poetically and easily understandable and degrades as it progresses.

During most of the suspense filled moments of the film I was squinting my eyes so as not to see all of the images. I should have just shut completely and for the entire duration of the film.

After watching the film, one member of the audience noted that he was never going to have sex ever again. “I’m going to get so much shit done in the next two years, I’ll be so productive” he said noting that he was never going to think about touching a girl and would have so much free time on his hands.

One of the last scenes is that of a group of women climbing up a mountainside. This image either represents the fact that the women have been freed and brought back to life by the death of the female protagonist, or that the film Antichrist is showing in a theater at the bottom of the mountain and the women are appropriately running from it.

Overall the movie does make for a cute date movie, if you want to have your sexual organs beaten and chopped off, legs made into kebabs, and positive view of anything in nature destroyed. If this sounds like you, this film is right up your alley.

ANTICHRIST

Opens at Cannes Film Festival: 18 May 2009, 20 May 2009 in Denmark

Directed and written by Lars von Trier, edited by Anders Refn, produced by Meta Louise Foldager, distributed by ACME, California Filmes, Central Partnership, Estinfilm, Gutek Film, Lucky Red, Palador Pictures, Pars Film, Prorom Media-Trade, & Seven Films.

Running Time: 1 hour, 44 minutes.

WITH: Willem Dafoe (He), and Charlotte Gainsbourg (She).

Turkey Brining Video

Here is a recent cooking video I made for Fire and Flavor. The video is posted on their website.

UGA Golf Course Pics

Pics from our visit to the UGA Golf Course.

Marketing is All That Matters

Who would have thought a low budget sci-fi alien movie taking place in South Africa would do well in the box office? It turns out that District 9 did do quite well (#1) thanks to a "viral marketing campaign featuring clever billboards and other signage." This article discusses the viral marketing campaign and its success in further detail. Is this the new best way to promote films? It seems like it was able to work well enough for Sony's Tri-Star label.

Some Pics From NYC

Here are some photos I took during the summer, and then messed around with in photoshop.

Times Square in an HDR style

Black and White Times Square

The dorm in NYC

Church in Geneva, Switz.

Sunset in Cannes, France

Internet Ads Transformed

(originally written on June 2, 2009)
This article explores the idea of a web based advertising that is more similar to TV spots than Newspaper ads. It would involve pages with video ads popping up in between the navigation of web pages forcing users to wait for the commercial ad to finish. This plan seems to be better in terms of commercial monetization, but worse for the overall user experience. As I see it, the way for this plan to actually work would be for the user to have an enjoyable video experience, by not being distracted by the ads. This may require the video commercials to be entertaining or at least of a high production quality. In such a model, I don’t think user generated content would be successful.

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell - Movie

This past summer at the Cannes Film Festival, I saw the movie I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. I wrote a short blog post about my experience, but I never posted the full review.
In order to publicize the film's release, the producer and author of the book that the film is based on is going on a 30-day-tour to promote the movie. One of the stops is Athens, GA. I've already bought my ticket for the premiere, and look forward to it.


Following, is my film review in it's entirety:

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell Gives You a Good Buzz

May 19, 2009

Jour 5590

“You represented a stripper midget?” Tucker asks his law teacher. “Was she hot?” The class bursts into laughter. This quote represents the film as a whole. If you think comments about stripper midgets are funny then you will like this film. I liked it.

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell is based on the book of the same title by Tucker Max. The book is much more graphic in its descriptions of his sexual exploits, but if the movie were to equal these descriptions visually it would have the audience throwing up in their laps.

The film begins with shots of a police car responding to a call. The police bust in through the front door of a house to discover Tucker having sex with a girl who is deaf and making unusual loud noises. When she realizes the police have entered, she gets upset and angry and tells them she was just about to come.

“Raise your hand if you’ve ever fucked a deaf girl,” Tucker obnoxiously asks his friends Dan and Drew the next day. He raises his hand. This typical interaction between Tucker Drew and Dan is what a lot of the film is based around, and the friends are portrayed well and in what seems like a truthful manner. Tucker’s friends serve as the backbone to the film, and it is their motivations that seem to move the plot.

When I first entered the theater, I expected the film to chronicle Tucker’s adventures and follow him very closely, but it often strayed as it followed tangential stories with Dan and Drew. Dan is about to get married to Kristy, and Tucker knows that he has to throw an awesome bachelor party. Drew ends up going home with a stripper, and this sparks an on going relationship for this part of the film. During these two side stories, I was thinking, “Where’s Tucker?” It seemed like he was absent from his film for almost fifteen minutes! What the hell? He is the most interesting character and I wanted more of his story.

The best part of the film is the dialogue. There are tons of one liners and insults that had the whole theater laughing. Drew, who has just broken up with his girlfriend after he caught her cheating on him with a rapper, delivers many of the sarcastic remarks and punch lines in the film. For the first half of the film, he acts like a sexist curmudgeon and scares away all of the girls that try to approach him. His sarcastic remarks are intelligent and witty, but the delivery seems a bit too rehearsed. Despite the delivery, the jokes are funny enough to make the whole audience laugh. The dialogue is also not afraid to use big words that have a more personalized impact on the humor of a joke for those that are able to understand them. The jokes make the viewer feel smart, and in return the viewer likes them more.

The most memorable scene in the film was Tucker running through the hotel lobby with diarrhea shooting out of his pants and down his legs and covering the hotel lobby. This happened because he had insulted a girl at a bar who proceeded to spike his drink with a laxative. The toilet in his hotel overflows because the woman who he has brought back to the hotel has had some of his drink too, so Tucker’s only option is to run throughout the hotel leaving a trail of brown all over the place. Again, if you like this type of humor, you will like this film.

This film is cute; or as Tucker would say, cute like full blown AIDS. The overconfident protagonist often asks his friends WWTD-What Would Tucker Do? Tucker would see this film.

The hard part about transitioning from a series of hilarious short stories and anecdotes to a feature film is that a lengthy plot needs to be developed. For this film to actually succeed there needed to be a story line, and it feels like the story was just thrown together to accommodate some of Tucker’s hilarious experiences and jokes. The story itself is not that good, but the jokes are.

This film’s story is similar to diarrhea all over the floor of a hotel lobby. It’s all over the place, disgusting, and pretty funny. The story itself makes for a clogged toilet of a film.

Despite being independent, the style of the film is very Hollywood with traditional camera angles and set ups being used. The use of quick flash backs within the story gives it an extra good punch.

The film is worth seeing for the writing alone. The story is a bit underdeveloped, but overall it is hilarious.

I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL

Opens in 2009.

Directed by Bob Gosse; written by Tucker Max and Nils Parker; based on the book by Tucker Max, produced by by Tucker Max, Richard Kelly, Nils Parker, Sean McKittrick, Aaron Ray, Karen Firestone, and Max Wong, released by IM Global.

Running Time: 1 hour, 45 minutes

WITH: Matt Czuchry (Tucker Max), Jesse Bradford (Drew), Geoff Stults (Dan), Keri Lynn Pratt (Kristy), Marika Dominczyk (Lara).

Darius Goes West

Or watch full movie at the Darius Goes West Website

Official Site

Updates from the Cannes Film Festival have ended. Now, feel free to check out the official site, hopefully updates to the site will continue.

The End

The trip ended with a last-minute day trip to St. Tropez, which was amazing. Now I'm back in the US, working in NYC. Busy summer, awesome summer.

Italia Photos

My camera has broken, and my video camera's tape will not eject. Sooo, here are some pics off of facebook of the Italian adventure.


A day trip turns into a weekend trip....this was my luggage.


Chillin by the grand canal in Venice


Doing the YMCA? in Verona.


On the beach in Vintimille, Italy after swimming.


Eating at a restaurant under a red awning in Vintimille

Italian Adventures

wow......definitely a lot to catch up on...

I'll fast forward through late night beach conversations with Bulgarian and French people, soccer games, late night playgrounds, and classes...and arrive at the travel weekend.

Friday was our travel day. Lindsey, Jemma, Morgan, Jonathon, Bryce, Luke, and I decided to go to Vintemille, Italy for the day and to see what the new country had to offer. We walked around the market place and eventually wound up at a rock beach. We lied on the rocks and swam in the ocean in our underwear for a while, got some food, and headed back to the train station.

At the station, we realized we could just make it an Italian adventure weekend and head to Venice with nothing more than the clothes on our backs. We got on a train. After a layover in Milano, we found ourselves in Verona at 2am with a couple hours to spare. We wondered around the city, and went to a bar, then finally took the train to Venice. We got there at 7am.

In Venice, all of us were sleep deprived, but we still made it walking all over the city and taking boat taxis around. We went to St. Marco Square, Rialto, etc. At one point, Luke and I passes out on a dock under the Rialto and got a couple minutes of sleep.

After going with Lindsey to the airport in Venice, I made sure she got on a plane and flew back. I decided I was just going to find the trains back. I went back into the city, now alone, wondered a little, then took a train back to Milano by myself.

I arrived in Milano about 11pm, and realized the next train out wasn't until 7am....oh shit. I ended up sleeping in the train station, there were tons of other people doing it too, peer pressure. Took the train from Milano back to Juan Les Pins and arrived back home, after two full nights of little to no sleep.

Went to the beach in JLP.

What an Italian Adventure.

Lindsey covers her story and pov, which is more in depth and ends differently than mine, at her blog at lindseybrooke.tumblr.com

Absinthe Bar

Last night we went out in Antibes. One of the places we stopped was an absinthe bar. It was basically a hole in the wall/cave in which green lighting lit the bar and funny hats were required to be worn. Toni Braxton and Bon Jovi provided the soundtrack. No green fairies were spotted.

Closing Ceremonies

Last night I got to go see the official closing ceremonies at the festival and the film Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky.
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky was a love story about the two characters that was pretty good, but slow. I'm going to write a review on it today.
The closing ceremonies were similar to an Oscars-type show, but were shorter with much fewer rewards. Here are two of the main awards.

• Palme d'Or

  DAS WEISSE BAND (THE WHITE RIBBON) directed by Michael HANEKE

• Grand Prix

  UN PROPHÈTE (A PROPHET) directed by Jacques AUDIARD

For a complete list of awards click here.

Now the festival is officially over.....bummer. I will still keep updating the blog about the rest of the trip though.

Pics from facebook

Here are some random photos from the trip that I pulled of of Facebook.



Jonathan, Bryce, Luke, and I at the beach in JLP.

At the American Pavilion in the market. Scorcese was there too.


Me, George, Amy, and Mimi at the beach in Cannes


Amy, Erin, Me, and Madison in the market.


Angela Amy and I in Cannes.


Me, Amy Nahall, and Melissa on the carpet in the Palais.

Monte Carlo, Monaco Grand Prix

...been a while since a post...
Yesterday a group of us took the early morning train into Monte Carlo after another late night out in Cannes. Yesterday was the preliminary races for the Monaco Grand Prix. As soon as we pulled into the station in Monaco we could hear the engines roaring of the formula 1 races cars. We walked up by the palace and got seats on a hill overlooking the city and the race track. From the seats we could see the whole race, but still had to wear ear plugs because the cars were so loud. The cars flew around the track, which is really just closed down streets in the city that run right next to the port, which was crowded with huge yachts. It was awesome to see the race and be able to walk around Monte Carlo and explore all the streets and plazas.
We took the train back and went out in Cannes. I still need to write another film review, and after that I'm going to see the closing ceremonies for the festival and the film Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky tonight.

paparazi.....brad pitt and angelina are in this pic somewhere.

British band shooting music video on yacht
The boats. We were on one of them. Photo to come later.

Sand Castle in Cannes

Dardennes Brothers at Master Class

I'm on a Boat

(day late)
Today I saw two back to back showings of Looking For Eric and Dogtooth. Looking For Eric was about an old man whose favorite soccer player, Eric Cantona from Manchester United gives advice to the man through his delusions. The story is heartwarming and effectively told. Dogtooth was a Greek film about a family who never lets their children outside of their walled house and forces a fictional reality on their lifestyle. Incest and cat killing ensue.
Walked around the market for a little making use of the last time with the market badges. As Sarah and I walked out of the market we decided to stroll by the yachts. Dr. Kohn called to us from one of them and invited us on board. We shared a drink with the American ambassador to India on the boat, then left to change into nicer clothes.
Had dinner at L'UP in Cannes then saw I Love You Phillip Morris with Jim Carey and Ewan McGregor. The film is a comedy that has yet to be picked up by any big distributor, despite the big names, due to the fact that it is a gay prison love story/comedy. Not quite the typical. The story was very good, and it seemed like everyone liked the film a lot (writing review on it later).
We came back to Juan Les Pins partied on the beach with a group of Norwegian high schoolers, wandered around JLP, then went to sleep.

Faceboom, and the Dardennes

Today I saw an Italian film called Faceboom about the social networking site and a series of relationships that have to do with it. The movie was not good.

We had seats reserved at one of the big theaters to listen to the Dardennes brothers speak as part of the Masters Class. Clips from their movies were shown and they talked about their experiences. The Dardennes have done films such as L'Enfant, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2005.

Beach with stage set up in Cannes
Me on red carpet for Taking Woodstock

Beach in Cannes

First Day of Market Badges

(posted a day late)
Just got back from Cannes after our first day with market badges. The first film I saw today was Lars Von Trier's Antichrist. The film was full of disturbing images, was incredibly unbelievable, and was the worst film I have seen so far. Most everyone else agreed. A lot of people walked out of the theater after the first 10 minutes, and those who stayed walked out with puzzled reactions by the end. (Judging by the ad below, one may wonder why I even went to see it).
After this, I got some lunch then headed over to hear Dwayne Girge, a writer for the Hollywood Reporter speak to the class. Making good use of my market badge, I headed to the market to check out some of the films that were being shopped, and collect one sheets. I saw a short film about a family living in a rain forest and cutting down trees. After a visit to the roof top bar I saw the movie Lymelife, which boasts Scorcese as a producer and stars Alec Baldwin among others. The film was about Suburban kids growing up, a dysfunctional family, and a love story. It was similar to American Beauty and was good.
We stopped by the beach to watch a concert that was surprisingly very good. The Belgian band rocked out before they played the movie on the beach, but I ended up leaving before the film began to go see I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (Tucker Max's Movie). I thought the film was hilarious, but it seemed like none of the girls I was sitting next to liked it. It was disgusting and involved dumb humor, and is excellent for an audience that appreciates a type of witty humor-filled dialogue and visual gags.

Talked to Director Paul Cox

Today we listened to film director Paul Cox speak to us as a group at the Hotel Victoria. He read a speech he has written about film in general that was very energizing and controversial. He urged us to try and create anarchy to challenge everything to search for beauty and truth in films and to not be afraid. He spoke about injustices of the world and the terrible direction in which a lot of cinema is headed (according to him). One of his stories was about time he spent at a leper colony in Africa making a film. He told about the overwhelming experience he had, and how he refused to cut the film down when a TV station wanted to air it. He was moving and took questions for a while after he spoke.
Tomorrow is a big day, we get market badges early in the morning that give us access to the International market where producers, directors, and writers try to shop films to distributors and exhibitors. This means more access to everything, and a different perspective on the festival.

Taking Woodstock

Last night I got into the premiere for the film Taking Woodstock. An Armenian woman who was a Producer handed me a ticket outside and told me I could have it if I took a picture with her on the red carpet. I accepted. The film was good, but not great. It seemed to be flat, and even though I really was rooting for Dimitri Martin to be good as an actor I did not find him convincing. Some of the visual sequences in the film were amazing, but all around it just didn't resonate. Ang Lee is still amazing though, same goes for Emile.
(image taken from a random Chinese news site)

We ended up going back to JLP at 1am and celebrating Melanie's 21st birthday. Went out to les discotheques then to the beach. Went to sleep around 5am....again.

Bryce's Blog

This is just a post to inform everyone that there is more info about this trip from my friend Bryce at Bryce's Blog.

Just Another Day...

Just got back from Cannes after watching a movie called The Misfortunates. It was a Belgian movie that was hilarious about a group of disgusting older guys who seem to be wasting their lives away (one-sheet below)
Earlier our class met with two Swedish producers at the Hotel Victoria. They told us about the new movie they were doing and why they were in Cannes-mainly just to meet people. They had recently produced the film Let the Right One In, and are working on a re-make for a broader American audience. They answered our questions about random film-type stuff and I talked with one of them after. The plan is to head back to Cannes to go to the premiere of Taking Woodstock.
The film stars Demitri Martin (comedian) and Emile Hirsch. It is directed by Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) and the writer/producer is Ms. Smith's friend who works at Focus Features. After I plan on checking out the yachts, then going downtown in JLP.

guys after thirst

guys after thirst
Originally uploaded by cpamm

me in theater

me in theater
Originally uploaded by cpamm

incredible seat for Thirst

incredible seat for Thirst
Originally uploaded by cpamm