Crunkadunkedalorusaurush

I spent the whole cucalorus festival cucalorusing and recovering from cucalorusing. I'm somewhat screwed for the next week or so because of it, but so it goes and I'll stand by that as an acceptable trade off. I had no choice as one who takes advantage of opportunity but to take advantage of the opportunity to see what's out there in festival world, meet filmmakers, hang out with them and fellow film majors and drink drink drink the heavenly bounty of free beer. There was a little bit of bad vibes on the beer front; a friend of mine who worked at jengos, not joselyn, was stressed about the apparent dearth of it. There was a point at jengo's where I was denied it (rudely) because I wasn't a filmmaker even though I had a short in visions and my bumper played and I helped with ichthyopolis. I just didn't get a filmmaker pass. I thought this pretty absurd given the jengos situation I have come to be very comfortable with. I understand there were less sponsors but the glut of alcohol later that night showed me that booze really wasn't that scarce. Anyways, I got my drink on just fine and everything was crunk and dandy.

I saw a lot of films as well. Some favorites were Wesley Willis's Joyrides, Los Cronocrimenes, Shotgun Stories, Absurdistan, and Lightning Salad Moving Picture. I liked the Superkiiids presence at Cucalorus and Cucalorus' presence in their film (LightSalMovPic). They introduced several movies that I saw: Joyrides, Shotgun Stories, Absurdistan. Their tent outside of Thalien was pretty funny. They gave me and my friend a ride to Jengo's. And I liked seeing the guitar guy and an actual cucalorus in their film, along with all the familiar wilmington faces. Lightsalmovpic was pretty absurd but it was consistently A.D.D. in a way that worked. It was like a buddy comedy narrative built out of Stella-esque sketches. The machine gun sounds in the laundry room fight sent me into fits of gigglage.

Self - Portrait

The self - portrait is a great assignment because of its openness and the inherent desire to do well on a presentation of self. My mental draft had several phases. Initially I was going to do a grotesque/awesome long slow motion take of me naked dancing with a ridiculous prosthetic wing wang. This represents sarcasm, bombast, fun, and expressionism. I wish I did that. I was going to be butt naked with boots and goggles and fingerless gloves on a smokey field. However, my original idea of a meat filled magnum condom was bunk and I didn't have time to drive to south carolina for smoke bombs and the immense quantity of other projects really boxed me in so I was working with facebook pictures to create something. I was working a lot in photoshop trying to make an animation almost since i have almost 800 facebook pictures. I somehow did not anticipate how much time this would take. Not only did it take a lot of time to cut out the pictures and arrange them but I had a lot of trouble sequencing them the way I wanted to. This was the second botched idea, even more of a loss because it was a massive waste of precious time. I did use a little bit of the effort in my final though. My finished self portrait is a sort of understated comment on myself and the working process perhaps, I've commented enough about it I think in the self evaluation. It didn't have the same technical length of effort as other projects, but I think it has an aesthetic, it is cohesive, and I would include it on my reel because it is different from anything I've really seen before whether in this case it is percieved negatively or positively.