Drive (2011)

I have just watched the movie “Drive” and I really enjoyed it! May be quite slow in some parts of it but the overall thing is quite interesting. I really liked the soundtrack, I am listening it right now, and the actors interpretation. It is cool the way you discover the main character as the movie goes. He is a totally different person at the end of it but still the same. A thing I kinda hate in movies is when the whole movie becomes a music clip with nice images working alongside with a great soundtrack, and mostly if it’s so obvious, but in this case, yes! I liked it! So I absolutely recommend the film!

Meanwhile, I bike!

"Graffiti Wars" (2011)

Nice documentary I have just watched, great for chilling out prior to go to bed. It is called “Graffiti Wars” and it talks basically about the rivalry between “Bansky” and “King Robbo”. I had seen “Exit Through the Gift Shop” about a year ago and I really liked it, but I have to admit that there was a strong commercial background in the paintings and art that “Bansky” and “Thierry Guetta” were selling. I had the opposite feeling with this one as “King Robbo” and all other artists featured in the documentary were expressing themselves rather than selling themselves to make money, which I believe is the right thing to do. After watching both documentaries I would definitely support “Team Robbo”.

Above all, I want to mention that the artist I liked the most was “BLEK LE RAT”. Simple, clean but nice! And I really enjoyed him talking about his art.

If you have about 40 minutes of your life to spend watching this documentary I would definitely go for it.
Just click on the links below.

“Graffiti Wars” on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO5P80x-m6k

“Exit Trough the Gift Shop” trailer on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T47tLGSehA&feature=relmfu

Meanwhile, after a quite stressful week at work, I will go straight to bed!

I would say, that’s it! It looks like the hostel to hostel trip has reached it’s end. I have finally found a place where I will stay for the next four months and till the end of my internship here in Amsterdam. Nice student house, shared with three dutch students, Rick, Bart and Ruben. I have rented Paul’s room, the last tenant, who had to leave it as he was no longer an student. I am an intern, so I will stay.

Now that my brain can finally rest on the duty of finding a place to stay, I will try to keep other things going and hopefully at the end of the journey I will look back and it would had worth it!

Meanwhile, I will have lunch!

After 30 days of relaxing life in Cris and Constantino’s place, I had to move again.

During my stay in Amsterdam I have slept in 5 different hostels, 3 different houses and now I am waiting for another place. I will probably move in a couple of days, fingers crossed. It is a nice students place, quite close to my work office, so I would say I am lucky, at last! Not after suffering a bit when I had the opportunity to choose between two apartments and the day after it look like both were gone! But as I said, one stayed with me, so I will have a place to stay for the next 4 months, after this, I don’t know yet. There’s such an amount of possibilities that is totally useless to start thinking about all of them!

Life’s good in here, nice weather, nice people, nice job… nice house soon!

Meanwhile, I will enjoy my last hostel nights!

As I always say and try to keep in mind, I am learning a lot here at PostPanic. I believe a good VFX artist need to know a bit about being on set, knowing how shooting material such as cameras, lights and chromas work. That’s probably the reason why me and a couple of interns there went to the set for the last commercial we are working on. It was five of us: VFX supervisor, VFX supervisor assistant and the brand new three interns helping in as many tasks as possible. I was in charge of the on set measurements: distance from this point to this point, how big is the chroma, how high is the camera… It was a funny and interesting task as well as a bit stressful, as I had to ask for camera information in between shots, take measurements of the camera height in relation to a tracking marker after the first assistant director had said “CUT!” and before he has said “ACTION!”. Thrilling action by the way!

There’s another cool thing about being on set. The VFX crew, normally sited in front of the computer dealing with all the things that went wrong on set, found itself immersed in a totally different environment. You also have to wait for the shooting crew to set up the shot, which can take a while, and during so you can spend time talking about other stuff, which I believe is cool. For the healthy of a the team, it would be great to have a shooting once a month. It would be healthier for all of us, even that in the shootings you eat more and shittier food, drink more coffee, can get really stressed if things go wrong…

But anyhow it is a great experience I like to be part of every once in a while.

Meanwhile, I will go to work as everyday!