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So I woke up this morning and checked my email. One of the first mails I saw was an email from UCLA telling me to visit their webpage to find out the decision status of my application to their film school.

I logged to find out that I had been denied. I guess I’m not too broken up over this since I had been leaning towards trying to get straight into the film industry, but it’s still one less option that I have now. And it also would have been nice to be a Bruin finally. I guess I’ll settle with just being a Phoenix.
Now to keep working hard at finding a job for the summer…

[tags] UCLA [/tags]

A new trailer for The Da Vinci Code has surfaced. Check it out here.

All of you non-senior Oliners, if you weren’t planning on sticking around after Expo, you’ll be missing out on the SAC movie kickout to see The Da Vinci Code on May 19th. Don’t miss it as it looks to be great!

Graduation on the 21st could also be a good reason to stick around…

[tags] Da Vinci Code, movie [/tags]

According to a BBC News article, Star Wars producer Rick McCallum has confirmed that the new Star Wars TV series is set to begin filming in 2008 and be ready to air the same year.

“Hopefully if we can make it work and everybody’s excited and watches it we will keep on going,” said McCallum.

The series will be set between episodes three and four of the film saga.

It would cover the 20 years in the life of Luke Skywalker growing up that remains a mystery to most film-goers.

McCallum said there would be “a whole bunch of new characters” and the series would be “much more dramatic and darker”.

Apparently, it is unlikely that any of the stars from the movies would be playing roles on the show. The Star Wars fanboy in me wants to see this work!

[tags] Star Wars, tv [/tags]

This post is coming to you from sunny San Diego where it’s 62 outside and gorgeous right now. I just finished doing some reading while laying out and it was definitely nice to have a contrast to the relatively cold spring that we’ve been having in Boston.

Sadly, my time at home in San Diego for break is already quickly coming to an end. I’m only here until early Friday morning and then I’ll be flying back to Boston. It’s always nice to see my friends from home and see how things have slightly changed.

I haven’t really done any posts in a while because I’ve been so busy at Olin with things for Yellow Lights or for SCOPE or for CORe stuff.

To be more specific, in the last 2 weeks before break, my SCOPE team ran a 22-person focus group spread all over the Boston area involving cellphones with a program that we had developed. We had to coordinate all of the meetings as well as providing technical support for the buggy software that we had written. Luckily, the program was working decently for a majority of the ten days that the focus group was going on and we feel like we received a lot of justification for the decisions we’ve made to this point, which was good to hear.

In Yellow Lights, we’re slowly winding down with filming. We’ve got about 8 scenes still to film, 3-4 of which have dialogue, and we’ll hopefully be done with filming by the end of the first weekend in April. We’ve already begun the tedious editing process and so far we’re happy with how things have turned out. We may need to do some dubbing for the outdoor scenes, but luckily no complicated reshoots.

Last night, I was thinking about the fact that I only had two months left until I would be graduated from college. It’s still weird to think about, I guess.

Oh, one other thing was that I finally got to see the 2006 RX-8’s in person and I’ve picked the color and model that I’m going to order tomorrow! Here are a couple pictures as well as a link to all the pictures of the Phantom Blue RX-8 that I’ve taken.

[tags] Yellow Lights, RX-8, RX8, Olin College, San Diego [/tags]

“Paramount Pictures is to make King Tut a pitch from scribe Neil Crawford, according to Variety.

Story is described as an action-adventure/romance pic, loosely based on Howard Carter’s discovery of King Tut’s treasures in 1922 Egypt.” - From KillerMovies

This type of movie is definitely right up my alley. I’d love for this to have the feel of the Mummy yet stay historically accurate. I think if I ever make it big in Hollywood, I’ll someday make an archaeology/Egypt movie. That would be awesome…

[tags] Egypt, movie, King Tut, Paramount, pyramids, Hollywood [/tags]

We found it in the grass. Is it yours?

[tags] lost, found, key, grass, funny [/tags]