All About Me

Hello and welcome to my blog. I am going to spend this first post talking to you about me.

This blog is created as part of an assignment for school. I am in Foundation Visual Arts class 57 at Vancouver Film School. My ultimate goal is mechanical special effects for movies, unfortunately I could not find a course for that anywhere so I am in Vancouver instead. I love my classes and most of the homework is fun, of course there are things I don't want to do but most of it is enjoyable. The little free time I have is often spent watching movies as research 'cough cough' and TV shows. I have learned so much in my classes it has changed how I think while I watch movies. I can now tell you all the reasons why I didn't like something or why it looked bad. Other things I enjoy make me think I would have been happier if I was born in say.... the 1940's.

I have a record player and my Great Grandma's old records. My favorite music is from the 30's and 40's or epic soundtracks. I remember watching Sesame Street in black and white. My first and favorite game system is the NES, I also play PC games but I prefer the simple controls of NES. I enjoy Rubik's cubes. I think that learning the algorithms to cube online is like cheating. I admit I looked a bit but at the written directions not the video tutorials. I have solved the 3x3x3 cube twice without internet assistance and will continue to work on it. I am usually pretty fast at the 2x2x2, my record is 2 minutes. I am definitely not a speed cuber but I find it enjoyable. My current record for the 3x3x3 is 2 hours. I now have a 4x4x4 cube a.k.a. Rubik's Revenge and am extremely far from solving that. I also yoyo, it has been my hobby for a few years and I am quite good at it. Yoers often share with others but I have not met anyone better than me. Most people I share with can barely get the yoyo to return to their hand. Yes, before you ask I can walk the dog and no, I cannot do the invisible man from Recess. I tried to do the invisible man but I don't think it is actually possible in real life.

Since I am in film school you probably want to know what my favorite movie is. My favorite movie is Mary Poppins because:
                    1. It's a musical
                    2. The characters (I enjoy the mix of real accents with Dick Van Dyke's fake one)
                    3. It's from my childhood ( I remember repeatedly renting it on VHS)
                    4. It mixes animation with live action better than some newer movies (Garfield live action movies are terrible for example)

I am not sure what else you would want to know so this is the end of my post.