festival-ing

i survived my first film festival as a programmer. actually i more than survived, i OWNED it, baby.

i made sure to chat often with visiting filmmakers, talking to them about filmmaking and especially where to get the best ramen in the city (it's motomachi on denman, btw).

i really enjoyed moderating the documentary panel and two Q&A sessions except for the fact that the microphone died for all three speaking opportunities. maybe it's a sign that i should be speaking louder. yeah, that's it.

there were really only 2 stressful moments:
- we didn't have the proper audio cable for a particular format and had to pull up the mackie mixer that was powering the microphones as an intermediary device.
- the hdcam deck inexplicably didn't want to turn back on. luckily we discovered this 5 hours before the deck would actually need to be in use. we brought in a new power cable and then as we were standing around, it suddenly turned back on.

but i'd have to say the most rewarding part was being in a position to sincerely thank the filmmakers for their work and to encourage them to make more films knowing how discouraging it can be most of the time.


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in other news:
- the condo still hasn't sold
- i need to do some serious video editing in the next little while
- B and i are going to portland the weekend of Nov 21
- the craigslist couch i bought only a month ago is being turfed. the legs just aren't supportive enough and only one of us can sit on it at any given time.
- today we bought the retro couch from nood
- my dad is in taiwan visiting my mom for 2 weeks
- i've started 2 new knitting projects
- my new favourite drink is the whiskey sour
- we tried this new chinese wonton noodle place on broadway near cambie and it was OK.

abode hunting

to keep a track of which places we really like or might be memorable, we've come up with nick names.

guess what our nick name is for this loft?




other names we've come up with are:
- dream design
- pink pole (they had a pink pole in the middle of the bedroom)
- cigar collection
- psychiatrists office (sometimes we called this place cast iron collection)

wtf

seriously, they couldn't take 5 seconds and REMOVE THE SAFEWAY BAG before taking the picture?

a picture that is supposed to delight and entice potential buyers to pick up this cute little house for around $600k?

sigh.

dude, stuff is happening

like:

- did a pickup shoot for ELTEE at J's apartment last week.
- getting my condo ready for sale = painting, chalking, cleaning up the patio, putting up prints, and generally feeling that there's not enough time to do everything before the open house this weekend.
- festival programming stuff for VAFF
- last week i started a weekly tues night project mgmt exam prep course that goes until dec 2. here's the interesting acronym i get to add after my name if i pass the exam: PMP. before you all get too excited, it stands for: Project Management Professional
- VIFF starts this week and i haven't even purchased my tickets yet
- i just agreed to edit together a trailer for a short film
- also i'm coming down with something and feel like crap

that is all.

oh, and B moved in.




J waiting for Rob to prep the GH1



Rob and his precious GH1

real estate listings are funny

so, there's already a website devoted to perplexing real estate listing pictures called lovelylisting.com

but B and i have noticed our share of lovely listings ourselves and i think i found one worthy of sharing with my friends and family.



this is for a listing in east vancouver. i don't even understand the purpose of this picture except, perhaps, to show that the house comes fully equipped with its own door opener.

En Vogue @ the PNE

the en vogue show at the PNE on Aug 25.2009 (oops i have the wrong date on the video) was a small reprieve from the MASSIVE WEEK 'O STRESS.

@selmaz and i thoroughly enjoyed en vogue's show, however, i'm pretty sure our male companions were not quite as excited as we were.

anyways, this might be the shortest montage i've ever created at just over 1 minute. my favourite part is the last scene.

another MAMM, another montage!

you know how much i love putting together a montage.

here's the montage i put together and screened at the MAMM Gala Screening this past Saturday.

MAMM 2009 Montage from chinalily on Vimeo.