Life After College...The Aidan Mewha Story

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I recently received a job from SBS Farms in New York. I am moving to Florida to work with some of the most talented individuals in the horse industry.

Sunday, March 25, 2007

WTAE

Going to WTAE I realized how wonderful big markets are. They're so clean, so crisp, and yet everyone seems to have a complex...so that's the only downside. I felt a lot of pressure just walking in there to be professional and be rushing around doing important things. I was rather surprised that everyone was dressed to the nines, seeing as how at my work, mostly everyone wears jeans and a nice sweater or something.

There wasn't anything new or exciting that I learned going there, other than key people's names that I need to remember for the future. Overall, I enjoyed getting to leave campus, although I was dying of bronchitis when I went, and that may have jaded my perspective.

Check List

Before I graduate here are all the things I need to get done:

1. UPdate and prettify my resume
2. Make resume tapes/gather writing samples
3. Make an e-portfolio
4. Keep working on my script/film a selected scene
5. Pass my classes
6. Continue waking up every morning motivated to get these things done
7. FIND A JOB
8. FIND A PLACE TO LIVE

That's what needs to be done before I can get out on my own May 19th, and it's what I'm working towards currently. My internship is almost over, so I'm hoping I'll have more time to get things done in the month I have left.

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Very Nice

If you'relooking for a movie that will help crack open the pictures in your mind and expand your level of understanding about other cultures...this movie is not for you.

Borat is a mockumentary about a news reporter from Khazikhistan and his producer traveling to the united staes to help encourage understanding of other cultures for his people. Borat contacts many scholars, like a humor specialist, feminists, and even african americans to teach him what its like to be free in america.

After a "devastating" telegram fron Khazikhistan telling borat that his wife died, he decided to celebrate by travelling across the country to find his true love: Pamela Anderson.

While there are many outrageous moments (i.e. the naked wrestling scene) it's a very clever movie that cracks your funny bone and makes you feel better about your own discriminations against people.

this movie is not for people who take themselves seriously, you have totake it with a grain of salt and laugh at the tongue-in-cheek references to Jewish people, mentally handicapped, and women.

Overall, an A+ film.

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Crash


Director Paul Haggis' filmtocriticize racism and how it effects all different kids of people in all different kinds of life. From the opening scene where the police officers crashed in a asian woman who criticizes the latino woman's ability to "blake" correctly all the way down to the blatant racism of Sandra Bullock's character who claims the mexican man changing her locks is going to go sell their keys to some of his "homies" it follows how sometimes we use racism in a joking manner not even realizing that we're boing racist or not...up to the point people become bigots.

Its a very intersting story involving 8 main characters whose lives touch one another within a 24 hour period, I guess giving meaning to the title Crash. The plot has so many twists and turns it will keep you guessing until the very end. It is poetically and so effectively strewn together that you have no idea who the good guy or the bad guy is...maybe because with racism everyone seems to walk that line from time to time that there is no good guy.

Crash won the academy award for best picture and best screnplay in 2006, and deservedly so. While at some points the racist situations seemed forced and some of the dialogue was chep, by the time it was all over, I couldn't care less. An amazing film that can be described in only three words: go see it.

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Welcome back internet

It's nice to have my internet connection back after traveling all over the world to get settled for spring break. I've missed all my e-mail updates from mr.weaver, no joke, I do miss them when they're gone.

Anyway...looking at the Philo T. Farnswarth documentary I must say that yes, it educated me on where television originated and what people went through to get television going, but it didn't really make me give a damn.

The entire thing droned on and on about hardships and tubes and lines...yes I am more savvy on what is happening on my screen, but as long as I don't have white noise i'm not on my knees thanking Philo every night of my life. Sorry, but that film never really interested me. It's a nice introduction when you don't have anything else to do in class and don't feel like cancelling, but other than that, i could do without it. Looking at it critically, there was a definite beginning, middle and end, along with a slight climax,so storytelling-wise thumbs up. The mechanics of it were functional and it did what it set out to do...tell a story.

While it told the story and let us document history in another way across media, it didn't do anything groudbreaking to make it stand out from anything else that's been done on an A&E biography or something on the history channel.

I like Philo and I appreciate television, but that's all I have to say about that.