Sick

Again?! I thought I was just getting over being sick, but apparently that was just a precursor to this new sickness. I figured out how I got sick, too. I drank my friend's redbull on Ninja Night, and she was sick, apparently. God damn it. I feel like I can't do ANYTHING. I've been skimming through my SAT books, but my headache is very distracting. Sigh.

I did have the chance to check out two short films, though. The first one is called 'Super Powers' and deals with a couple getting over their sexual frustration... with super hero costumes. Definitely worth checking out, if you've got six minutes. The second film, 'The Soldier', is a 28 Days Later sort of film, about Nazi created zombies. Very cool. Very suspenseful. Go check it out, even if you don't have ten minutes.

Alright, I'm gonna attempt to do more work so I have stuff to tell my girlfriend and I feel like didn't waste my day (Cause I totally just wasted my day).

Peace out,
dk

ps: go me for figuring out links. how snazzy does that look? mighty snazzy.

Okay, fine. I'll jinx myself.

I'm reading through my big ol' College Board SAT practice book, and so far I'm thinkin' that this stuff isn't THAT hard. Or, not the English stuff, anyway. I'm also in the first fifty pages or so, so I'm expecting to get my literary ass handed to me very soon. Fingers crossed the difficulty doesn't spike.

And great thanks to Mike Allen for helping me with my college resume! We went over it last night and added some things I forgot about or changed some things to make me seem more awesome (by which I mean nothing, colleges who may be reading this). Ali's also been giving me pointers, albeit it in an adorable 'mine is better than yours' sort of way <3.

Also, you'd think writing about social networking would be easier. I'm supposed to write a paper on MySpace and Facebook and this new generation of social networking and how it's changed social interaction. Maybe I'm coming at it the wrong way. I wish I could just submit my MySpace and my blog and call it a day.

-dk

ps: this entire post was an excuse to post that picture. there. I said it.

pss: the SAT book ended up beating me. it took advantage of my inability to pay attention. douche.

Damn you, Xbox Live.

You just haaaad to be down, didn't you?

grumblemumbleinternetgamingfrumble.

-dk

Shaolinternet?

This morning, I discovered that I had an email from a man asking about one of my old DeviantArt submissions, called 'Shaolin' (not pictured). It was a picture I took in Thailand of me in front of a window doing the traditional Kung Fu bow that I then tweaked in Photoshop. He told me he was a martial artist with a school in Qufu, south of Beijing in Shandong Province, and he was building their website. He asked if he could use my image on their site, and we've started talking about Kung Fu and his master, Shi Yan Jia. Shi Yan Jia grew up as a monk in the Shaolin Temple in the Henan Province. He also invited me to come to the school, if I ever made it out to China.

Honestly, this wasn't the way I always dreamed of helping out Shaolin Monks, but hey... it's still pretty bad ass. Go check them out! It's a beautiful school, truly.

Qufu Shaolin Martial Arts School

-dk

Sleep vs. Me

I'm working on my resume for my NYU Tisch application and I feel like I'm gonna die. I woke up at 4:30 pm, so my sleep schedule is clearly still fucked. I also woke up with a monster headache. I don't know why my body's been so fucked up lately... unable to sleep, headaches, no voice... my mom suggested that it may be the stress of school. It could be. Totally possible.

This resume certainly isn't helping any... I've got it formatted pretty well, and everything I actually have on there looks pretty good, but unfortunately I've only got one internation TV credit, and my extensive work on The Rough Cut. I'm considering adding all of our YouTube shorts to the list... I mean, we've got nearly 400 subscribers and upwards of 200,000 views. That's a lot, right? Totally worth mentioning to the all mighty NYU Tisch. I hope.

I threw in that I can rock Final Cut and Photoshop with the best of 'em (don't judge me by my blog banner) and that I picked up Japanese in Tokyo, art classes in Florence, and Muay Thai in Thailand. I'm not entirely sure how much the Muay Thai will help me, but it was in Bangkok, so that's gotta count for something? My experience as a karate insctructor also made it onto there.

Hope I wake up soon.

Srsly.

Assemble!!

So, it's 8:18 pm, and I've been awake for about an hour or so. Yesterday, at around 8 om, I went to my dojo and we began what is known as Ninja Night. Ninja Night is a 12 hour event at our school where we watch the kids for around 12 hours. We teach them Karate, do drills, games, obstacle courses, lightsaber fights, dodgeball, all kinds of fun stuff for the kids... the down side? It lasts 12 hours. Right now, I am dead. Dead. Like, dinner dead.

My sleep schedule has already been massively fucked up due to my habit of going to bed at 5 am these days (I blame Mike Allen and Halo 3), but I just woke up at 7 pm and I'm completely awake. How am I going to sleep tonight? I can barely type right now.

It was fun, though. I was in charge of 13 kids and we were known as 'The Avengers, sponsored by Taco Bell'. They all had super hero nicknames (I was Colonel Nick Fury, obviously) and they all rallied together every time I yelled 'Avengers, Assemble!'. Yeah, it was bad ass. I took a lot of pictures to show my girlfriend (I love my girlfriend) and have just realized I am too tired to keep typing about this. More later.

I hope.

Duuuude. Colleeeege.

I've been trying to get into college, these last few months, and it's becoming increasingly stressful. I'm taking the SAT's on the first of November (which is also the reason I couldn't go up to NY to visit her on Halloween in my sweet-ass Deadpool costume) and I've got a month left to study for it. What the hell am I DOING? I SUCK at tests and I have a MONTH. I can always take it again in December if I bomb too badly, but I would really love to do decently the first time around so I don't have to stress over this whole thing again.

In case I DO fail out beyond all reason, my back up school is New York Film Academy, which isn't my backup school because it's bad, but because anyone can get in with a diploma and the money to pay for it. It seems like a hxc trade school (cause, well, it is) and they have really good guest speakers from the industry and a notable alumni or two, but I'm worried about getting a good job if I go to a school like that. I mean, I know there's very little chance that I'll get into NYU Tisch or something like that, but if I DID, I think it'd be time to renounce my atheism and high five GOD over that miracle. 

Another school I've been looking at is SVA, the School of Visual Arts. My girlfriend turned me on to this one, and my best friend's friend goes there, and apparently he loves it. He also had a legit feature job very early on, so I'm gonna trust his judgement based solely on that incredible small bit of information. The reviews of SVA are pretty good, and it seems ridiculously easy to get into (jinx?). There's an open house on the 8th of November, too, and I'd love to go visit the NY schools around then and take my girl out on the town since I had to flake on Halloween. 

The reviews I've read so far for NYFA are less good. I've heard that it's really focused and really intense, but there's also not enough time to finish up your project and the editing rooms are really crowded. I'm set up with Final Cut Pro and Motion and all that already, so I'm hoping I can escape the cramped, sweaty editing rooms. I'm also kind of concerned that everyone there is gonna be all business. Really professional, but all business. Last time I was up in NY, I took a tour, and that's the impression that I got (and not just because the tour took five minutes and the dude never stopped talking). It's better than them being stuck up and douchey, which was my concern with Tisch, but it's sort of a lesser of two evils situation. 

Fingers crossed I'm not the only guy up there that feels this way, huh? 

Speaking of film making and my sweet-ass Deadpool costume, I just talked to my best buddy

Mike about making an HD Deadpool teaser trailer. I'd play DP in the costume, and he'd shave his head and apply his incredibly good zombie makeup (pictured right) for when the mask comes off. Shaving your head for a weekend project... now that, good sir, is dedication. 

Yikes. Karate in 10. Gotta peace out. Later, blog!

-dk

Event Title, Huh?

So apparently 'events' are the new names for blog posts. Huh. Whatever, I'm doing this from my fucking phone (omgsocool), I don't care what they call it. I kinda wish I could do that sideways thing that my iPhone loves to do, though... Can my right thumb alone update the Internet on my entire life?
In all likelyhood, yes. I really don't blog that much. I really really want to START, though. One inspiration I had to blog is this YouTuber named tokyocooney. He's lived in Tokyo for over six years, and now he's video blogging about it to educate YouTube. Bad ass. I almost starting doing that when I went to Thailand, buuut I got distracted getting punched in the face at the Bangkok Fight Club. Good times.
The most recent episode I saw of this showed him meeting with a man named Ken Tanaka, who was a white baby adopted by Japanese and raised in Japan. Tall, skinny, red haired dude, who barely speaks English and has an amazing Japanese accent. Random combinations like this definitely make me love people.

(Non-iPhone Edit!)

My blog post with the iPhone app seemed kinda not-too wordy. Hrm. I like the wordy thing. Also, I probably would have included links and pictures and stuff like that if I had just done it on the desktop, like I'm doing now. Gotta work on that... by practicing right NOW!

http://www.youtube.com/user/tokyocooney

Go check that guy out. He's a bad ass.

hope this goes better next time,
-dk

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So, I'm Testing Out This iPhone App...

Test, test, test!

Test!

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