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And Mark's in love with his work...
2002-05-02 16:56:38
Ami: Probably he doesn't want me directly saying "damn this is really neat shit" (or something to that effect). The problem with this beautiful filmmaking is that it was all done for such a horrible nasty cause.
EK: I actually have not seen that film. I'd consider looking into it, but the paper is due in 11 days and I'm scrambling for resources.
I really should become a better student and get my papers done way in advance. I'd have done that three years ago, four years ago. I guess that after being the good student for so long I'm really just starting to cave in. I've ditched class more this semester than in the rest of my university career.
So I came home, got on IRC, helped someone pick colors for their DVD subs, and dozed instead of working on Norse. Guess what - I got a call from someone saying the class was cancelled today. Kickass. -
They say Mark lives for his work.....
2002-05-02 15:45:08
Amizadazi (I hope I spelled that right): The course is "generic" about nazi europe...most of the focus is on contextualizing the atrocities against the jews, soviet prisoners, polish civilians, etc. There's very little military study, to my disappointment, so when I asked about doing propaganda I was *really* surprised that he said yes, but what was funny is that he was like "Just be really careful of your wording, you don't want to sound too positive..." Then again this is coming from someone fairly famous (Christian Gerlach...I've seen him referenced in a couple of big deal books) so I should probably heed his advice.
As far as production value, I really loved how the fireworks sequence looked. I'd have to pop the DVD in again to see where exactly it was in the movie, but it was before the big parade and the SS and Wermacht bits...I want to say it was right after the labor corps. I also never realized just how much people pull from this movie until I'd actually watched the whole thing. -
Mark has got his work....
2002-05-02 14:54:57
Kyburg: I've got a dissertation from the 60's that has some good background stuff on Goebbles, a book called "popular films of the third reich" that i haven't opened yet, and triumph of the will on dvd (which also has tag der freiheit on it and a truly insipid commentary track)...I need to get on JSTOR and lookup some journal articles.
Oh, i've got kolker's film form and culture book which talks about triumph for a few days. it's scary how neat a lot of this film is, but the dude in the labor force ("Comrade, where do YOU come from?") is just freaky. Pity that the commentator didn't comment on them.
I don't think that I'll need to be interviewing people for this. I'm tempted to do most of this on primary sources and just analyze the damn film on my own, but that's not really good for a research paper. Oh, did I mention that the professor is German?
I'm not worried about style too much. The only time that it *ever* gives me problems is in classes where they demand overly formal writing. At my conference today it drove the professor nuts because most of the class is writing in an oral style which IMHO is becoming formal. We've moved into an age where we read subtitles instead of books and we write like it. He also commented that I need to write more about people and not events. I'll do the rewrites and dig a little more in the archives.
It took a little bit of concept sticking for him to realize that I'm not going to write about Sesame Street. While a lot of the issues with Contact also came up with SS and The Electric Company, I'm writing this for someone who doesn't know jack shit about the production of a TV show, and talking about things like the CTW method or format is wasted on that sort of an audience. I'm working entirely from primaries here. Fun, ne?
So I'm ditching norse now to run to the Post Office before it starts raining. Then I'll come back and read popular film...and work on tuesday's norse homework and time it exactly. I want to figure out EXACTLY how much time I'm wasting on this class.
Oyeah, I'm picking up Waldo's Love Hina DVD. Mwahahahahaahahahahaha -
and nona...and nico....and me......
2002-05-01 21:52:01
Fuck norse. Anne says I should just keep going and talk rationally with the prof and we'll see where things go. I want to throttle the man and am ditching tomorrow to cool off and do a decent job on homework for Tuesday. It's easy enough to figure out where things are going in that class so why deal with it.
I'm sending Superbit editions of my Otakon/AMA video and Daicon V to Legionair to show at AFO. I hope he likes them. I doubt anyone in the audience will, but no one likes my stuff. Those who say they do are just friends being nice. Maybe I should just sell out and do something everyone wants to see...or just stop showing things to people.
I hate it when I grab three books from the library and two prove to be useless. Where the hell are all the good sources on Nazi Film Propaganda? The commentary track on Triumph des Willens was...disappointing to say the least, but the movie itself could easily warrant 12 pages of analysis just out of me, but that's not what the project is on.
I have my converence with my writing seminar professor tomorrow. He's going to sit there for 30 min, tell me to read up on Sesame Street, that my writing style sucks, and that my topic sentences aren't good enough. I'm really ready to just go berserk or stop caring with so many of my classes right now.
I have started every paragraph so far except the first one with a self-referrence. This one is included in that. Why do I post this crap? More importantly, why do I get so damn many hits on it? Is my life really that interesting?
In other news, I've paid for my summer class and for Austria, so that's set. It's about all I'm looking forward to now really. I guess I'm looking forward to midatlantic, but there's so few people that I know who are going that, it almost makes me think it'll be a first con all over again - except this time I'll know who Steve Bennett is and won't waste all my time at industry panels.
Some good news...a new project is coming out from me for the public this weekend. Of course, my name won't be on it...I'd get my ass kicked if I did, but I will say that Maboroshi influenced one of the lines in it.
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Mmmmmm, comfort.
2002-04-29 23:01:31
The org is back up, my french revolution paper is done.
These are good things. I've started research on the nazi europe paper and made it about 40 min. through Triumph with the commentary on. While the guy had a few good things to say so far, he's really a fucking idiot. They should've had two commentaries, first from the historian to give some detail on who everyone is, and then one from someone who actually knows something about filmmaking to explain all the neat shit BEHIND the movie. Ah well, it's still three sources sitting in my room.
No writing seminar tomorrow, means I can finish this BS for norse in the morning. I don't have the time or the sanity or the patience left for this crap...
Speaking of translation stuff tho, some nice stuff happened. Someone popped into one of the IRCnet channels I hang out on and was desperate for someone who was awake and spoke english. Since it was about 3AM local time for most of the people there, I was the only person around. Turns out this guy needed a business letter done and the company translator had already headed to sleep. So I did what I could (the old fashioned way with me, MS word, and my dicitonary), put it together, showed it to him, made a minor edit, and got a shiny new email address on a foreign domain for my efforts. Does this mean I'm pro now?
Anyhow, the amount of crap piling up for me to mail out is growing to the point there I really need to get it sent out, so I think I'm hitting the PO on Wednesday. That'll give me time to do a special render for Legionair. I knew I had a 60GB drive for a reason...
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