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MICF – My Picks

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This year’s been creeping up so quickly, already up to the point in the year where you can walk into a venue in the CBD and see a decent funny person make you laugh sporadically for about an hour, and I can definitely get around that

My picks for the festival are probably

Aaron Chen – An extremely funny up and coming comedian called Aaron who’s about to do his first solo comedy festival show, having been a part of a wacky but great show called Zanzoop last year (won the Audience Choice Award), very excited to see him

Aaron Gocs – An extremely funny up and coming comedian called Aaron. This isn’t a stitch up, but it will probably involve stitch-up discussion. Quite possibly the general Australian internet publics most celebrated internet comedian of last year, and seeing him a few times last year has me extremely convinced that something very good will come from this full hour.

Isabel Angus presents BLISS! – This is a great show, Isabel gets into characters for her shows and the entire hour is an exploration of that kind of character, the first one I saw “EDGE!” was about a young child star called Stella trying to make it into the industry with her mum in her ear on the bluetooth, and BLISS! which I saw at Fringe last year tackles “thinspo”, pretty interesting material there.

In terms of the deep dive into the creative process, it had me thinking how all these comedians spend their time, whether it’s like Jordan slaving away in a room to think about material, I think deep for comedy would be just constantly trying to get inspiration for material, which might be outside or something

Power and the Passion

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The power of the passion that one has to pursue something they believe they should be doing is quite strong, and in the reading it is quite interesting to delve into the idea of the passion mindset and the craftsman mindset. 

“Be so good they can’t ignore you” is an interesting mantra laid out by an interesting man in Steve Martin, a comedic genius who definitely would have influenced a few budding comedians by now, but it seems like he was honing his craft for a decent amount of time, brainstorming how he could so much as innovate the monotonous way comedy had become in order to become a major player, which follows the contention that Newport seems to be holding, where in mindlessly following ones passion can only be so beneficial, relying heavily on the application and deep thought given to the passion in question, which does have me thinking where do I stand in this regard? How much deep thought have I really put into this? Here and there I get a few thought bubbles but I feel as if I could definitely be more committed.

Dreamer (feat. Starrah)

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I convinced my food-eating friend to check out this falafel place with me some time last week, which we did do, on the way realising the new Charli XCX mixtape is actually pretty massive. But once we got there, even though the hummus plate was slightly disappointing due to the misleading amount of falafels given, and the weird runnyness of the hummus because of the way it was prepared, I made a really massive find, and it was kind of a blast from the past.

By that I mean, I saw a Video Busters. That’s right, a video store, in 2017. A shop with DVD’s localised entirely within this shop, that you can rent, on Tuesday’s for a dollar each. I felt thoroughly obliged to rent a DVD, but in this Netflix world I had to opt for something I thought I wouldn’t be able to acquire easily on some other form of technology. So naturally, I went to the Australian section. Coming across Joffa: The Movie, I got a thought bubble to watch some sort of Footy movie, and walked away with Australian Rules, a movie a thought was directed by Khoa Do, but I was wrong (footy legends was the one I was thinking of). Was intrigued by the way a particular scene was edited to convey, without the use of evident violence, but still telling a violent act, through like subject-to-subject.

Wild Imagination

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I found the reading as a bit of a cohesive way to really make more sense of editing, contextualising something i tend to really do with mostly intuition and hardly any knowledge. Especially editing in such a way that fits in with the way our brains worth to fill in the blanks, and perceiving the whole in CLOSURE.

In this case, contextualisating this different ways editing can work help to better make sense of what i going on. Aspect-to-aspect seem to be crucial in Japanese manga for it’s ability to foster a vivid imagination of what is going on and perhaps also as a way of storyboarding an inevitable anime episode. They help to form a scene in ones mind rather than allowing one play out.

down down

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This weeks reading essentially pushes us to make sense of the exercise we did during the lectorial, to ascertain how we assess media and what media in fact means to us. What has been intriguing me a lot lately is genuine full on artist and advertisement endorsement, like the Coles x Status Quo collaboration which seemed to accentuate something rather interesting that was going on, the use of music altered to become an ad, rerecorded by the musicians themselves. Definitely an interesting type of media to consume, an ad in itself

self portraits

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It was interesting seeing in class how everyone decided to do their creative self-portraits, whether it be with the use of proper gear and how that was applied in context with everything else, and thought it was really quite an interesting glimpse into what everyone was about, and I find myself still trying to think what I’d what to set out in a creative self portrait, compiling what I’d filmed/recorded/took whilst everyone was showing me their self portrait, so it might make sense to put them all on here.

musings of movies past

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So I watched Trainspotting 2 on Tuesday night and was pretty intrigued by the entire experience, in that the way it was done that was so incredibly nostalgic, and a call back, but also so telling of I guess what it is like to go through an addiction. Especially when it comes to films where the endings are ambiguously potentially good, like at the end of the original, Mark has the money, he “chooses life”, spud gets money, Begbie deservedly and Sickboy probably undeservedly gets hung out to dry, but we have our protagonist choosing to move away from that life, and the innocuous nice guy character of the film getting a little cut of the money. Then to see in T2 when we get a very good idea of what happens in those 20 years, especially that Spud didn’t take that nice gesture well, simply using it to get more skag providing major context it I guess, to just think about endings of films and what people expect or anticipate from them

deep… dish pizza?

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Reading this weeks reading regarding deep attention and hyper attention was rather intriguing, because while skimming through it as I picked up a piece of paper whilst walking through the class, I didn’t finish it. Then when we were prompted to read about it during our break I started reading but about half way through I remembered that I needed to find out whether or not I needed to sign up for that Essendon membership soon so that I could get ANZAC day tickets, so I kinda proved which end of the spectrum I existed in.

That said, I feel like while we are all pretty hyper attentive these days (all as in yopros and younger), deep attention isn’t completely unachievable for people, it’s a type of attention we can choose to adopt when we feel the need, whether it be intently binge watching the latest netflix drop or reading a really good book.