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well the goings-on in my recent life... i'm 15 now, still want to become an artist (and i've been improving a lot), living with my parents, been dating a guy for over a year now, dealing with drug addict sister, dad lost his job (ffff michigan), going to be a sophomore in high school, just got back from a short vacation in canada. so basically life is okay.
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- Recently finished my B.Sc. in double majors Environmental and Natural Resource Management & Agricultural Science. Not planning to do a Masters anytime soon. Currently unemployed but only decided to start applying for jobs in late August.

- Been dating a 17 year old Chinese girl, the only one in Trinidad, for a couple months and things are going swell in life, except a car accident I had two weeks ago =(
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Building websites and applications as a freelancer, jumping from project to project. Ignoring PMs from friends because I'm "busy", trying my hand at pixel art when I'm not.

I'm not aiming for anything in particular at this moment except for making money.
Last Edit: July 25, 2009, 09:16:17 pm by Dada
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Working in the kitchen of a camp.  I'm gettimg my Associates after this upcoming semester, then going to school for Nutrition (after I take a couple of science classes at community college that transfer).
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I'm 21 years old now....

I live on my own with 2 and 1/2 roomates. I say half because a dude kinda comes and goes...don't really see him much.
I'm a community college graduate with a communications degree.
I work in 2 radio stations owned by the same company.
I also work full time at Burger King.
I'm soon to be attending Heidelberg University come August to complete my bachelors.
I was recently engaged and broken up with, but have since been dating another girl...whos a gamer, that I credit to my past fiance for hooking us up.
I'm still playing The Way, best RM2k Game ever, never beat it even after 5 years.
I have contemplated tinkering around with RM2K or RMVX, but haven't found the time.
My step dad recently died a month ago, and I spend a lot of time at my mother's farm helping her out.
I'm uncertain about my future.
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scared shitless because my senior year is coming up, i'm a biochemistry major, i have nothing on my resume but my shitty summer waitering job and tutoring a 5 year-old with ADD for a few weeks

my semi-intentional decision to get through school without speaking to anyone important about anything has failed. i'll be applying to grad school and maybe will get in somewhere if they preferentially select for hard-working polish dudes with only average grades
why don't you get an internship or something instead of sitting around living off your parents money? seriously, you're almost graduating with a science major and the whole concept of doing something with what you're learning just hasn't entered your consciousness as something that you should be investing your time and effort into?
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that came out as kinda me being a dick, but think of it as words from the wise: get yer ass in gear, you've got a billion opportunities!
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why don't you get an internship or something
This is great advice. I got an internship too and it did wonders.
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I find it interesting that you haven't already done one yet.  Doing an internship is actually a requirement for graduating with a biology degree at my college (I'm going to hopefully do mine next summer)
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I'm 21 years old now....

I live on my own with 2 and 1/2 roomates. I say half because a dude kinda comes and goes...don't really see him much.
I'm a community college graduate with a communications degree.
I work in 2 radio stations owned by the same company.
I also work full time at Burger King.
I'm soon to be attending Heidelberg University come August to complete my bachelors.
I was recently engaged and broken up with, but have since been dating another girl...whos a gamer, that I credit to my past fiance for hooking us up.
I'm still playing The Way, best RM2k Game ever, never beat it even after 5 years.
I have contemplated tinkering around with RM2K or RMVX, but haven't found the time.
My step dad recently died a month ago, and I spend a lot of time at my mother's farm helping her out.
I'm uncertain about my future.
do you live in ohio?
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I have always considered my life more or less uninteresting and meaningless and this topic helps me to see that I am right. Not complaining, just stating. Although not that I think about it, it is a little depressing.


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- Been dating a 17 year old Chinese girl, the only one in Trinidad, for a couple months and things are going swell in life, except a car accident I had two weeks ago =(

What happened to that black girl that you were completely obsessed with and dumped your long term gf for?


Me: Studying Journalism, hoping to become a music journalist, going to canada next year then going to visit israel and the rest of the world yyyyyeah
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I work at pizza hut .

Only specific goal I know of atm is buying the Fallout 3 DLC
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Only specific goal I know of atm is buying the Fallout 3 DLC
operation anchorage sucks btw
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yeah only get it for the level cap raise (from 20 to 30) because the gameplay that it adds is totally not worth the effort of completing
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Broken Steel's the level capping one, and adds on to the main storyline I think

I've heard O:A sucks too but I checked it out and I think I'd kinda like it.

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Been hating life forever. Everyone tells me it's typical teenage angst but I've been wondering for a long long time when I'm going to grow out of this stage because apparently it's inevitable, and if I understand that it is bullshit than how come I am what it is??????????????

Yeah, did 3 17 hour film shoots, holding a boom pole, feel really insignificant even on a small production like this (at least $2000 USD), where the director and interning at MTV is a year older than me and the director of photography is two years younger than me and has worked on numerous professional productions while I have absolutely nothing creative I can contribute besides holding a fucking boom mic in the air standing around listening to people do shit while I do barely anything... Which also goes off to the fact that I am not going to film school, nor studying anything I want to. Going to a college I don't want to go to studying fucking computer science because I got rejected by NYU Tisch because I flunked my first two years of high school and the college I am attending rejected me for film for some odd reason despite not asking for a portfolio. Makes me think I will never ever ever succeed or getting anywhere with this movie shit if absolutely everyone wants to make movies and millions of kids are in the some position I am in... especially since I haven't done jack shit because of the environment I've been placed in, no friends, no talent, no collaborators, no nothing. And yes, I've looked, so don't fucking argue with me because I've had this discussion more times than I could could and the arguer never knows what the GODDAMN FUCK they're talking about but they all argue with me the same shit and make shit up about film like they know what they're talking about,.

So in a month, what I will be doing "these days" is attending Rochester Institute of Technology, studying shit I hate, not knowing what i want to do and living with a dumbass roommate, and living on a "mainstream floor" which is 75% deaf, and leafo told me the deaf kids are assholes. Really, I don't want to do this shit at all because film is so goddamn competitive, and not doing anything for a year (especially since I shoot probably one very short shitty no-effort film a year due to resources and lack of collaborative talent, and overrall talent), is putting me very behind and will severely limit my chances of getting a camera job at PBS  or something, which is all I am reaching for realistically. The fact that I'm stupid, and everyone constantly telling me I'm stupid, taking 9 months of expensive private SAT prep classes and getting a 1650 and a 1700.. doing shit early in high school and having no AP classes. Surrounded by dumbass Christian hypocrite kids, stupid ass family, a unorganized dirty house, living in an environment where I constantly feel limited, and ultimate simply uncomfortable. Been doing shit I don't want to, going to do shit I don't want to.

Been trying to get my short film, which is incredibly easy shot and finished but my actor, who is very reliable had some shit going on and couldn't come, and the weather report has raining for last week and this upcoming one.... So it'll never get done, even though it's supposed to be quick practice to dig into my longer 10 minute short which I am probably screwed for. I need to do a rewrite but I have absolutely no writing talent, nor can I come up with any ideas except distorted visual images, so the dialogue all sucks.

And, I don't even have a job. I didn't even look despite the local blockbuster which is filled with assholes, so I got the fuck out of there. Sitting on the computer, been watching much less movies than i usually do in a month, not motivated to do anything.. Sitting on gaming world all day fucking #2 most online member, constantly arguing on #gamingw, eating 2 small meals a day and sitting around. Playing Little Big Planet once in a small while. Throwing plates across the hall. Been reading more, too lazy to do storyboards idk. Angy all the fucking time, trying to fight off a fly that keeps flying into my fucking face. Leaching off my parents as usual, spending a lot on comic books every Wednesday. Planning to see indie movies with friends who don't show up. Trying to come up with ideas I will never have, the usual.
Last Edit: July 27, 2009, 02:50:48 am by Psyburn
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Been hating life forever. Everyone tells me it's typical teenage angst but I've been wondering for a long long time when I'm going to grow out of this stage because apparently it's inevitable, and if I understand that it is bullshit than how come I am what it is??????????????

Yeah, did 3 17 hour film shoots, holding a boom pole, feel really insignificant even on a small production like this (at least $2000 USD), where the director and interning at MTV is a year older than me and the director of photography is two years younger than me and has worked on numerous professional productions while I have absolutely nothing creative I can contribute besides holding a fucking boom mic in the air standing around listening to people do shit while I do barely anything... Which also goes off to the fact that I am not going to film school, nor studying anything I want to. Going to a college I don't want to go to studying fucking computer science because I got rejected by NYU Tisch because I flunked my first two years of high school and the college I am attending rejected me for film for some odd reason despite not asking for a portfolio. Makes me think I will never ever ever succeed or getting anywhere with this movie shit if absolutely everyone wants to make movies and millions of kids are in the some position I am in... especially since I haven't done jack shit because of the environment I've been placed in, no friends, no talent, no collaborators, no nothing. And yes, I've looked, so don't fucking argue with me because I've had this discussion more times than I could could and the arguer never knows what the GODDAMN FUCK they're talking about but they all argue with me the same shit and make shit up about film like they know what they're talking about,.

So in a month, what I will be doing "these days" is attending Rochester Institute of Technology, studying shit I hate, not knowing what i want to do and living with a dumbass roommate, and living on a "mainstream floor" which is 75% deaf, and leafo told me the deaf kids are assholes. Really, I don't want to do this shit at all because film is so goddamn competitive, and not doing anything for a year (especially since I shoot probably one very short shitty no-effort film a year due to resources and lack of collaborative talent, and overrall talent), is putting me very behind and will severely limit my chances of getting a camera job at PBS  or something, which is all I am reaching for realistically. The fact that I'm stupid, and everyone constantly telling me I'm stupid, taking 9 months of expensive private SAT prep classes and getting a 1650 and a 1700.. doing shit early in high school and having no AP classes. Surrounded by dumbass Christian hypocrite kids, stupid ass family, a unorganized dirty house, living in an environment where I constantly feel limited, and ultimate simply uncomfortable. Been doing shit I don't want to, going to do shit I don't want to.

Been trying to get my short film, which is incredibly easy shot and finished but my actor, who is very reliable had some shit going on and couldn't come, and the weather report has raining for last week and this upcoming one.... So it'll never get done, even though it's supposed to be quick practice to dig into my longer 10 minute short which I am probably screwed for. I need to do a rewrite but I have absolutely no writing talent, nor can I come up with any ideas except distorted visual images, so the dialogue all sucks.

And, I don't even have a job. I didn't even look despite the local blockbuster which is filled with assholes, so I got the fuck out of there. Sitting on the computer, been watching much less movies than i usually do in a month, not motivated to do anything.. Sitting on gaming world all day fucking #2 most online member, constantly arguing on #gamingw, eating 2 small meals a day and sitting around. Playing Little Big Planet once in a small while. Throwing plates across the hall. Been reading more, too lazy to do storyboards idk. Angy all the fucking time, trying to fight off a fly that keeps flying into my fucking face. Leaching off my parents as usual, spending a lot on comic books every Wednesday. Planning to see indie movies with friends who don't show up. Trying to come up with ideas I will never have, the usual.
i am happy for you. all the people who have easy rides through film school invariably become shitty filmmakers anyway. the only people who are ever really good at it are the people who have to take the FUCK ALL YOU PEOPLE, I'LL DO IT MYSELF approach. as long as you don't let anybody ever take it away from you, and are willing to dedicate a lot of your free time to studying the medium(which you appear willing to do), there's no reason why you won't be able to make legitimate strides as a filmmaker yourself.

anyway, the only real use you can get out of film school is competence with equipment, or perhaps ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT if you like shitty movies. you can teach the technical shit to yourself, and you'll probably be better off. film is an artform; you can't be taught an artform. all the great artists are self-taught anyway. for you, i see it as being the struggle to find your voice as an artist. i think you've already got the motivation. you need to find out what it is you want to say through the lens(what convictions you have, what you care about), and how you can best say it within your own ability and means.

if you haven't seen it, you should watch the movie primer for a confidence boost. it's a testament to how little you really need to make an outstanding film.


ps don't knock getting a camera job in public broadcasting. that's where michael keaton got his start
Last Edit: July 27, 2009, 03:12:57 am by Hundley
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ps you may not want to study computer science though. it sounds like a bad fit for you. you should pick something else like psychology or philosophy or english that may be directly applicable to the act of storytelling.

you don't want to be following the asian stereotypes anyway