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I'm excited about the commercial's we're making. I already have some ideas for the collage commercial...all I need to do now is to see which one is best for the 30 seconds the commercial has to be.

Also, daily practice has been up. I put it on the link side-bar in that -> direction, but I'll link it here, just in case.
daily practice
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While I was on holiday, I went to Washington DC. At the gift shop of one of the art museums there, I saw this:


I was amazed. It was a book for a daily practice! I was tempted to buy it, but my parents wanted to go to another museum. I planned on returning, but I couldn't get back in time...

Also in DC there was the National (or was it international?) Spy Museum. I was strongly reminded of the spying we did at the beginning of the year, so I popped in for a moment. The first thing I saw was a big screen. The text on it said something along the lines of  "A director of the m16 liked to stab a knife into his fake leg while talking to introductees to see how they would react." That would have been an interesting sight, although frightening.
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Oh, man. That episode of Ultraman was hilarious! I've heard of the show before, but I've never seen it until then. I found it amusing that the Ultraman, character the show was named after, had less than...maybe a fourth of the episode's total time.

I'm trying to find the monster dance on youtube....but no success yet. Oh, the monster's called a "Ragon". Very original name.

Also, while searching for the episode, I found this cool song:
http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/664834

-12-

6 messing around with 2's mind is was painful, yet funny, to watch in the episode of The Prisoner this week. It was ironic since 2 said that he'd find 6's breaking point while in the end 6 broke 2's breaking point.

Also, when looking for references for my daily practice (which I've been trying to send in an e-mail to all of you...but my e-mail isn't working...!) I found this site: link. If you scroll down to the black and white picture of a woman putting on make-up (there's a huge flower on the back of the mirror, so it won't be hard to pass). Guess what show she's from? The Prisoner! After reading the description, I'm looking forward to this upcoming episode.

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I just got back from seeing The Laramie Project, and I just wanted to make a short comment on that.
The style of using the same people to play different characters was interesting because I imagine it makes a person stretch themselves to switch between multiple different personalities. However, it also was confusing at times about who was who.

My favorite scene was when they dragged all of the TV's on stage and then the person was talking over all of those reporters. It was chaotic with all of the background noise, but you could clearly hear the main speaker.
I also liked how the play doesn't really put any bias. It just gives you the reactions, and lets you decide your opinion about what happened.

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The prisoner episode this week was neat. Double crossing and whatnot. A random observation is, I think that the person who was referred to as "Rook" never was seen/mentioned with a number...

--adding on---
I find talking about the book is easier than reading the book. There were good points in the book, but sometimes it was a bit difficult to read. However, talking about it offers different opinions from everyone and then you can see meanings in parts of the book that you thought were a bit dull, or confusing.

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The plot was really confusing in the prisoner episode this week. However, I really liked the way they filmed some scenes in the episode. One that really stood out to me was when 6 was kneeling on the beach and the rover was right by him. Some of the filming also reminded me of security film footage. They showed the whole room instead of other times where the camera seems to be following him on foot.

I started working on the portfolio this week. I'm working on the first three projects, and I'm thinking about what to do for the fourth. So far I have the idea of taking a sheet of paper with me wherever I go and draw something (a color, a shape) whenever my mood changes, and write down the place where my mood changed. I'd do that for either a day or for a couple days and then at the end, I'd (hopefully) have a paper with all sorts of things on it!

On another note, I'm looking forward to finishing how to make the books next week!

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I just wanted to quickly comment on the books we are making.
Making books is a really good experience. It's nice to know how to make things by yourself because you never know when the knowledge will be useful. And also, it's a fun thing to do with friends/ be able to say you've done.



---Earlier this week---
The ending of "Tell No One" was intense, even if it was in a sunny garden. There were so many plot twists in the movie that you had to watch it till the end.
Since I've been watching many mystery-type movies/shows lately, I sort-of guessed that the wife killed the horse racer. When the dad "confessed" I was thrown off thinking I was wrong, but then the real answer came later.

The movie itself was shot well and I liked all of the montages. They were all used to move along the story, and my favorite might have been the one showing the past and present/ wedding and death of the couple's relationship.
Watching the subs was a little hard though, since they were in white and the movie had some brighter-color scenes that made them hard to see.

Oh, and today in a store I was in, music started playing from the movie (I think it was that song by U2...?). I thought it was pretty cool, because I wouldn't have paid much attention to it if I was in the store before I saw the movie...