Poorly designed movie

Speaking of bad designs, The Last Airbender is one of the most poorly designed featured film I have ever seen.  Being a person who watched the television series, I thought that this movie would have been at least decent.  However, it did not turn out the way I expected.  I tried detaching myself from the television series thinking I was just expecting too much.  That actually made it worse.  The only reason why I remotely enjoyed (I'm using this term very loosely.) is because it had something to do with the television series.

Moving to the reasons why this movie was so poorly designed is it's pacing.  This movie had a horrible pace and barely any exposition.  Who are these characters?  I'm not even too sure even though I had background knowledge.  People who I've asked who watched this movie without watching the television series were confused throughout the movie with questions unanswered.  Furthermore, there were no attachments to any of the characters.  None of the characters were loveable, hated, nothing to make us sympathetic to them.  It was a whole cluster fest of who's who, what's going on, why is this happening, and what reasons are things happening?

In my opinion, the main selling point for this was the special effects and 3-D.  The 3-D capabilities weren't even that apparent.  3-D is such a novelty gimmick, but if you're going to use it, use it to it's full potential.  The special effects were decent, but not great and the martial arts were not even correct from what I've heard.  There was so much delay in between the motion of the martial arts and the movement of the elements, that you'll might as well pull out a gun and shoot the person before they even perform their great feat.  You could even just pull out a sword and run to them before the elements were manipulated.  It could not be taken seriously especially with the poor acting skills.  Let's not even get started in the obvious fake emotions being portrayed in this movie.  In addition to that, were the horrible costumes.  They looked almost as fake as the acting in some characters.  One of the characters was obviously wearing a bad wig, and couldn't get it on correctly.  I was able to see her real hair at some points.  How could you even let that get in your movie with such a bad blooper?  The costume looks cheaply made.  Here is an example:

Comparing these costumes is like comparing the costumes I'm about to provide below.

The top is the concept art, the middle is the amateur fan-made costume that looks cheaply put together, and the bottom is the better fan-made costume.  The middle is what makes me think of The Last Airbender's costume and the bottom represents what it should have looked like.  Overall, The Last Airbender, was a poorly designed movie in many aspects.

President-fears-pretzel stamp

I kept changing my mind from what I wanted to do.  Originally, I thought of something that could have been something that might upset a few people.  Thus, I changed my idea over and over again.  This didn't come out as perfectly as I wanted, but due to the short amount of time I had because of my indecisiveness, this became my end result.  I thought it'd be fun to have an American stamp that satirizes an American president.  If  you recall the first few months of Bush's presidency, he choked on a pretzel.  This is what this stamp is referring to.

Nom nom head

Here's a little girl veggie head

On my way home...

Here's a picture of the 7 train coming from Queens into Grand Central.

Empty

 Here's a close up of a seemingly empty trashcan and an empty hallway.  This picture has deep depth.

 This second picture is of an empty staircase with lots of line.

 A close-picture of a locker.

Here's another empty hallway.

Smile or else the baby will get you

For this week's assignment, I've chosen a picture of a baby making some silly face asking if you smiled today.  What draws me to this pictures and why I like it points to one reason.  That reason is because it's funny.  It gave me a chuckle.  Anything that can put a smirk to my face makes me automatically like it. 

Artistic Statement

Ideas, thoughts, emotions, energy, understanding, cohesive, repairing, arranging, planning, and making things flow and in sync all of these seem sort of random when you throw them together.  All of these are what inspires me, and all of these can hit someone randomly.  To me those are the best inspirations are the random ones.  It’s funny because random doesn’t always work well with cohesive or making things flow and be in sync, and it definitely doesn’t align with planning, yet somehow the random ideas or thoughts inspire me to make things flow.  Ideas and thoughts are what get my excited about something and want to test it out to see how it works.

I’ve studied media and theatre arts on stage and off.  Other than being on stage or camera, I haven’t found much else that is expressive, fulfilling, exciting, or inspiring enough for me besides editing.  With editing, you can change the pace of things and express certain things.  A certain speed and sense of urgency can be created through editing.  Rearranging things to make sense and linear is another thing that is great about editing.  Editing involves a thought process, planning, and understanding of what scene is supposed to be where and what shots will make the scenes better and in what order.  It’s like solving a puzzle by arranging things so that the audience can keep up and understand what’s going on.  Solving a puzzle for others to display for others, how can that not be exciting?  The process of choosing what shots would look best in the scene and comparing the different shots is always fun to me.  Though it may be tedious at times, but when you find the perfect shot to make the scene at its best, it’s very exciting and fulfilling.