Looking Down on Everything.

Mornin'

I'm going to keep this post (and hopefully the rest to come) a little less formal than the last, i still cant understand what drove me to be so civilized with my speech. (Paradox?)

The title of this post seems very appropriate, and will make sense in a second, but as promised i will explain the title of the blog itself first. Funnily enough, i am not a die hard Matrix fan, i enjoy the trilogy thoroughly, but the concept is the more intriguing part for me. Anyhow, we all take life so seriously, and spend so much time caught up in it that we can never just reflect. Metaphorically, behind the matrix - our society's (worldwide) there are some very special places your mind can go, only if you can un-plug yourself from everyday life and look upon how trivial it all actually is. There you have it, maybe i think too much, and my ideas are pretty radical most of the time but I always seem to be able to set myself apart from everything in a surreal kinda' way, and that is where the inspiration for this blog came from - because i talk to myself far too much!

SO back to this post, quite literally the greatest thing i saw yesterday was this - http://www.vimeo.com/9679622 . A fantastic short film of a day in New York, filmed and edited using a photography method called tilt-shift photography. Which, for those of you who have not heard of, is achieved by using a special lens that tilts the view of the camera to make everything real look miniature. Its fantastic, and really made me think about how small we all actually are. I just wanted to put my hand into the video and play god...

Secondly, i watched Kevin Smith's outrageous debut feature 'Clerks' last night. Made for a micro-budget of $27,975, it follows a day in the life of a shop clerk who has to come in on his day off. Featuring extremely (and i mean it) explicit dialogue and amusingly atrocious topics, it really signals the start of Smith's career. However if you can look past all the bullshit that his characters discuss, and the expletives, behind it all there is constant referral to the banality of life, both in their world and ours. I always treasure watching the debut's of my favorite directors, and i don't think i have been disappointed yet. As we are on the subject, i highly suggest that anyone reading this check out: Following [Christopher Nolan], Reservoir Dogs [Quentin Tarantino] and Hard Eight [Paul Thomas Anderson] as they all forecast the career's that their directors will make.

It may have been a bit of a subjective post this time round, but with many interesting things on the horizon, be prepared for some very unique content soon.

Laters'

Weakness of the Mind.

The day has finally arrived,  I have succumbed to society's feeble magnets of desire - and created my first blog. I seemed to have been goaded into a lot lately. Since starting University, i have purchased both an Apple iPhone and iMac (at considerable expense). Do i feel satisfied i hear you ask? No, of course not. Capitalist society tweaks the mind in many ways.

That probably makes me sound like Karl Marx but believe me on this one, I am about as Marxist as America is a Democracy.

Oh and that's another thing about me. I like to contradict myself, and very rarely make much sense. So try to keep up as best as you can.

All formal things aside, expect to hear a lot of rants, far too many biased, judgmental opinions, and a lot about Film, Culture and Life. So, without further a do, i shall fall back into the world of Cinema Narrative History and spend another three hopeless hours searching for a decent journal.

Caio

P.S.
I shall explain the name of this blog next time!