March 2012
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February 2012
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The West Wing, "Shibboleth" AKA "There's an...
CJ: They sent me two turkeys. The more photo-friendly of the two gets a Presidential pardon and a full life at a children's zoo. The runner-up gets eaten.
Bartlet: If the Oscars were like that, I'd watch.
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My Take on Mulan
Jerry Goldsmith’s score for Mulan does a brilliant job of balancing her femininity with her obviously masculine badassery of, you know, defeating the Huns. It’s a tricky thing to do and a very interesting concept, so I wanted to try my hand at it, though through a different genre because, I mean, who among us mortals can even compare with Goldsmith?
Writing this piece has been one...
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WatchPad Yatra: A Green Odyssey, the documentary I’ve been working on for the past few months with some fantastic people, just released its first trailer! It looks so good - please check it out for yourself as well as the website.
The trailer also features some music from the film as well!
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Olympics 2012: The Stadium
Here comes another piece, now the second, that I’ve written by hand. I’m still excruciatingly slow at it, but I also think I’m making progress as far as efficiency goes.
The idea behind it is pretty embarrassingly simple - ever since I’d seen the opening for Star Trek Deep Space Nine, I’ve always wanted to write a piece that uses that interesting...
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This post comes a little late, since this article published a week ago, and an earlier version of it many months ago. But anyways, here is the final version of China Daily’s profile on me. It’s fitting for this to appear on Tumblr since that’s how the reporter Amanda and I first “met,” and over the topic of chicken fried steak no less.
Dear Amanda, thanks for all...
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WatchHere’s a cool side project I got to work on over the weekend - it’s a fake trailer for a fake remake of Bruce Lee’s Return of the Dragon, done as a submission for the Fake Film Festival in Vancouver.
Friends/actors/directors Osric Chau and Stanley Tsang did some amazing martial arts choreography and even trekked to the Great Wall for what I can only imagine must’ve been a...