Saturday, May 8, 2010

May 8th 2010

We saw our Independent Film today. Matt’s still in the middle of exams, so we decided a film was more feasible than a play – especially an independent film distributed mostly online. A dreamlike indie fantasy called Ink is available to watch on Hulu, so we watched it. It’s an interesting movie. The visuals are very well done and interestingly deployed; ultimately the world could have used a little more background, but the characters were quite good. It’s set in the conflict between “Storytellers” and “Incubi,” which visit people at night to provide, respectively, good and bad dreams. Ultimately it was very psychologically-focused; there were some unexplored layers of just how the filmmakers conceptualized good and evil in this world; it’s probably worth seeing if you like that kind of thing. Here’s a poster.

 New card tomorrow!

Thursday, May 6, 2010

May 6 2010

Okay. Let’s work backwards. This week, May 2-9, we have King of Diamonds: see a play or independent film. It’s probably going to be an independent film. We’ll try to make it to a cinema.
Right. We ended up taking last week off unofficially because of Matt’s finals, so we’re going to try to squeeze two activities into one week soon. That would have been April 25-May 2. The week before that (April 18-April 25) is supposed to have been 9 of Clubs: Origami, some of which I finally did. Conveniently, Matt’s lovely parents gave me this origami set for my birthday. 

So, I tried to make some flowers: tada!

They sort of look like the pictures! But not really.
The week before that was April 11-18 and in a state of vague post-GRE haze I did not quite build a coldframe in time. I got to it eventually, though, and here it is, complete with lettuce seeds underneath!

I’ll try and get more regular and organized again … sorry.