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College Essays Part 2: Electric Boogaloo

Paul — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:52:55 +0000

I’ve posted three more of my college film essays.

- A Modern Template for Film Analysis
- German Expressionism
- Soviet Cinema and the Art of Montage

It’s possible that they’ll be mildly interesting to someone.

BlogOsphere Assaulted by Self-Important College Essays!

Paul — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:46:04 +0000

I’ve had some of the essays and scripts I’ve written up on my writing page for some time. Unfortunately, I’ve been too lazy to transfer the documents from their Word format and make them into actual blog posts. Until today!

I haven’t transfered all of them because it is a tedious process to format things properly and link up the citations (I know I can get some plugin, but this really doesn’t warrant it.) I started with my four essays on Mulholland Drive from one of my film classes in college. The idea was that everyone chose a movie at the beginning of the semester and then wrote four essays on that film throughout the course as certain topics were covered. These are my four.

I honestly haven’t read these since I wrote them except for the bits I caught during the transfer process. It’s very possible that these are kinds of pompous, uninformed and pretentious allegories about David Lynch and film in general that get one “banned” from the “internet”. Enjoy!

- Mulholland Drive: Introduction

- Mulholland Drive: Semiotics

- Mulholland Drive: Ideology and Feminism

- Mulholland Drive: Spectatorship and the Avant-Garde

For History!

Paul — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:11:00 +0000

Ticket in hand, I will be attending what is sure to be a madhouse of epic proportions: the Downtown Chicago Victory/Concession Obama Rally. The slide show below should update in real time as I take and upload pictures. I’m using my iPhone, so quality has to suffer in order for immediacy to flourish.

I can’t be stopped

Paul — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:00:51 +0000

Wacky parody bumper stickers!

Paul — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:29:52 +0000

I was randomly inspired to make some HARD-HITTING POLITICAL SATIRE this morning in the form of fake bumper stickers. The first has to do with last night’s second presidential debate.

And the second is in reference to Joss Whedon’s amazing master-work.

Obama.

Paul — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:13:32 +0000

I like hyperbole. We will tell our children of this night.