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What I Think About 82nd Oscars

Written by Nicholas Chan on March 9, 2010 – 12:40 am -

I woke up pretty early today, not very early, at 9am exactly, washed up, then lay my lazy ass on the comfy couch and turned the satellite TV to the channel broadcasting 82nd Annual Academy Awards, a.k.a. Oscars. This is my first time watching a LIVE telecast of Oscars and I am a fan of movie and film. I didn’t watch all the 10 nominated Best Motion Pictures, but have watched Avatar, District 9, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Up and Up In The Air.

The event was so grand and I imagine myself, one day being at the event, as an invited guest or perhaps a behind-the-scene filmmaker? I’m dreaming definitely. Haha.

Well, the result is out. The Hurt Locker by top director, James Cameron’s ex wife Kathryn Bigelow had it big, won the Best Motion Pictures. IMO, I don’t like it, perhaps Oscars winning pictures are always like that? The film does has its special and arts, the blast and booms were nice, the story is special, the acting, but just it’s not an enjoyable one. Maybe because it’s about the US Army, it’s talking about patriotism? I don’t know.

Everyone was talking about Avatar, I don’t find it very interesting though, but I find it very AMAZING, it amazed me with the 3D, the music, the way of making and the animation. It does feel hollywood to me.

I like Inglourious Basterds, nice film, nice acting, hilarious and historical with lame fictional fact. This is also the film that made me know that who is Quentin Tarantino.

Up in the Air was boring to me, maybe I don’t know the way of enjoying it, but it’s nice being nominated.

District 9 was un-hollywood too. A documentary style film, could be a new style of making film and I find no reason disliking it.

Up, the animation was an art. I do feel the art, and the story was inspiring. I understand why it did not get the best film. =D

I didn’t watch the rest like An Education, A Serious Man, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, and The Blind Side. Gonna check it out soon when HD releases.

Another thing I would like to say, the most enjoyable film but was not nominated in 2009 is Star Trek.^^

Do you like The Hurt Locker?

Tags: Film, Movies Talk, oscars, trailer, video
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Happy Chinese Tiger New Year 2010

Written by Nicholas Chan on February 15, 2010 – 10:48 pm -

Wow, I am back. When I am not studying right now, I am so so busy with the Chinese New Year celebration and preparation. Finally, at this moment, I get some time off to login to my blog and write something up. So here’s the main point, I want to wish everyone, Chinese or not-Chinese, a Happy and Lovely and Funny and Shioks and Bombastic and Wonderful Chinese New Year! =) All the best, good luck always, healthy and wealthy always. Rocks!

Tags: Chinese New Year, cny 10, video, Videos
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Olympus E-P1 Pen TVC

Written by Nicholas Chan on November 28, 2009 – 1:55 am -

I am quite into retro camera lately, just an interest that suddenly struck my mind, this might me old but check out the Olympus PEN commercial. Pretty girl and lovely camera. Woo!

Too cool already.

Tags: camera, cool, Cool Stuff, japan, Model, TVC, video
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My 2 Favourite Short Films Made From Canon DSLR

Written by Nicholas Chan on November 16, 2009 – 9:25 pm -

I have a new interest lately and that is making video. This interest came to me after I’ve made my very first short film, Don’t Eat My Pringles and have been Googling a lot for the techniques and stuff. I don’t really have a pro cam, but I do wish to own one and that’s why the Canon EOS 7D is in my wishlist now. Canon EOS 5D Mark2 is just way too expensive and it cost almost RM12k while the ONLY option is Canon EOS 7D at around RM6-7k.

That’s a good all in one deal with microphone input, photographic lens, 1080p video shooting. If you buy a HD camcorder roughly says RM3k and a static 35mm adapter to use the photographic lens on the camcorder, it will be total almost RM4-5k. I am sounding geeky here, to make it simple, video DSLR is more worthwhile.

And here I want to share 2 short films that I’ve found in YouTube which made from Canon DSLR.

Tags: art, Cool Stuff, geek, Photography, Short Film, video, Videos
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Namewee FU*Ks TNB Malaysia

Written by Nicholas Chan on October 29, 2009 – 12:12 am -

Saw a new video made by Namewee, I am kinda fan of him. In this latest video, he got heated and angry over the blackout at his residential area. He was in the middle of composing a song and, BLACKOUT. The whole area went dark but the funny thing is there’s electricity at the Muar’s TNB building. See the video and see how he went to the TNB to complain and scold at those lazy ass.

Tags: Funny, lazy, Malaysia, muar, namewee, scold, video
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Glass stepping show at Gurney Plaza

Written by Nicholas Chan on October 23, 2009 – 1:03 am -

Recently, while I was jogging on Gurney Drive, I saw there’s a couple doing street performing at there. It’s the second time that I saw them at Gurney Drive. The guy play on the violin and the girl dance. No idea whether they touring to Penang and do some random street performance here or what. The guy is from Taipei and the girl is from Russia.

One part of their street performance was the Russian girl got her feet on the broken glass. Sounds pain but she’s fine with it.

Although this is cool, but I realize that not many people get close to check it out. I wonder, is it really uninteresting? Or the locals are just too lazy to walk close to see what’s happening?

Tags: Arts, gurney drive, Penang, Performance, street, video
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