This angel statue in Brighton was used in Mirrormask.

This apartment building, prior to its rennovation, was used for filming in Mirrormask. It was the building where Helena lived.

So they pulled my application for film school. At the 11th hour, an unpaid medical bill from 2002 was reported on my credit report (funny how they waited 5 years to report it, as I would have paid it earlier had I known of it), which dropped my credit score below the threshold needed to qualify for a student loan by myself. Without any means of paying tuition, my attempt to go to the Vancouver Film School has ultimately failed.

But I’m not giving up on my dream. I’m just having to rethink how I’m going to accomplish it. Increasingly, it’s looking like next year I’ll move down to Los Angeles to try to break in there. In the meantime, I’ll have to work on the skills I’d have learned in school and build a demo reel on my own. This is a somewhat daunting task, as I was looking forward to not having budget be as much of an issue, since equipment and expertise would be provided by the school. But I am determined, and while I may not be able to go to film school, I will nevertheless complete my career transition into film.

It is a long road, but one which I am determined to walk.

See here.

I absolutely agree with MacDailyNews’ take on the matter. The home cinema experience has been improving so much in recent years that in many cases it eclipses the experience at a theatre. Going out to see a movie has been harder and harder to justify, especially with increasing prices. Some people do care about it, sure, but the simple fact of the matter is that people who seriously care about movies will go out and get those 60-inch HDTVs, and the cripplingly good surround sound systems, and will end up with a much more pleasant experience than they’d get when going out to the cinema.

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29 June, 2007 will be a day which will always hold significance to me, but not for the reasons you might expect.

As anyone who’s been reading my site for the past six months knows, I’ve got a serious case of iPhone fever. I’m totally obsessed with it, and plan on buying one as soon as I am able to. That said, I’m not in line today and I’m not buying one today.

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