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plan ii thesis stuff

Noël — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:12:43 +0000

a few film samples of stuff I’ve been doing.

And my most favoritist picture I’ve taken of Mr. Feeny!!!

return to Austin

Noël — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:50:42 +0000

So Johnny Skydiver was received warmly, but almost everybody said “It was so short!” Uuuggh I knooooooow!!! But…… I picked the song because it was short and because I notoriously run out of time to finish my animations and I wanted to finish SOMETHING for once.

There weren’t many people there that could make use of my demo, but I’m glad I made it. When I got back I made about three dozen more copies and I have no idea what I am planning on doing with all of them. Sometimes I think I want to design DVD menus… I have a lot of fun making them and they’re a great way to top off the long hard road of making something for viewing consumption. (Like the SKINNY DIP DVD menu I made, which loops absolutely seemlessly for eternity might I add)

Here’s what the DVDs look like:

And here’s the DVD menu homepage. It’s super simple but I like it.

If you want one, please, I’ll give you one. Just e-mail me at noelwells at that gmail website. I like sending mail.

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from LA:

Finally, I have to catch up with three days of school work which is surprisingly a shit-ton of school work. Plan II Physics is seriously eating me for lunch and I’m tired of being its meal. I just put out a casting call for my 16mm 1-3 minute short. I’m sort of not looking forward to it because I feel like I won’t have time to make it good.

My thesis ideas are coming along well. I’ve actually started doing research, which I guess means I am excited about it, which I guess means I might do a good job on it. Could it be?
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Things to Do: Brainstorm DVD menu business plan
Things to Make: Business plan for DVD menu company

Week 2 Photo Developing Complete

Noël — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:33:39 +0000

Favorite Photos from Week 2 Roll 1. I started stalking people in New York City. I usually ended up taking pictures of them from behind because I’m not ballsy. I like little old ladies. Locations include the Upper West Side, Midtown, and Brighton Beach (and the rain that caused an exodus at the station.)

Week 1 of Photo Developing complete

Noël — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:22:18 +0000

I had 36 rolls of film from my trip that I couldn’t afford to develop, and they’re all jumbled up. I am developing five or so rolls every Friday and then posting my favorites from one roll ~~each day of the week~~, along with any interesting details.

Tomorrow will be CD 1 Week 1. Pictures from all six rolls include NYC, Wisconsin, Chicago, and Austin arrival. Some of my favorites already on flickr.

Week one down, 6 more to go.

In other news, my music video animation for the band Watch out for Rockets was selected to be apart of the UT Hollywood Showcase, so I’ll be heading back to Los Angeles September 23-25.

Check it out the animation here:

Johnny Skydiver – Watch out for Rockets from Noel Kristi on Vimeo.

I’m also made/making the website for a charming and funny Austin independent film Harmony and Me. Sophie T. is doing a lot of stuff for the film along with director Bob Byington and she got me on board, so we’ll be working together to promote it in various ways (Looks like my IFC internship is already coming in handy.)

Check out the trailer, or better yet, it’s screening at the Museum of Modern Art starting September 18th. Ooh la la!

It’s raining. Right this second.

Noël — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:57:01 +0000

I’m growing fond of the rain. It’s like a little mischevious child who brings you such frustration but at the same time, your life is that much better for it. I planned a big day at Brighton Beach yesterday. It was supposed to be sunny all day so I had to take the opportunity. After 40 minutes on the train from Penn Station, the skies were blue, and the Q was running express. Yes, I’d be there any second. An audible “All HELL NO” broke me from the 1957 photography book I was purusing. And literally seconds before we pulled into the Brighton Beach stop, it began POURING rain. People were really pissed, and over a 100 people got off at the platform not knowing what to do, and it was soon packed with the exodus of people fleeing the beach. I just laughed. And laughed. Of course. I love you rain.

I waited it out for about 20 minutes and eventually made it to the beach and spent several hours reading, swimming, and snapping photos under a gray sky by the grey ocean. Is it GREY or GRAY? I forget which I prefer.

I took some polaroids. Lots of old people lounging about in speedos, doing exercises, “sun”bathing. I bought my very first ice cream cone in NYC from a soft serve truck. Got it with rainbow sprinkles. It was perfect. I loved Saturday.


	I watched this little girl for awhile… I think she was using her magical powers to bring in the waves.


	This guy wanted me to take his picture, but then said “You’re not America’s Most Wanted, are you?”

June Polaroids

Noël — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:59:43 +0000

Night of MJ’s death. Outside Apollo Theatre. Impromptu dance party broke out. Counted three boomboxes.

Atlantic Avenue Artwalk. Lots of chairs, babies, old stuff, and an instance of black face (see above)

My apartment.

mermaid parade

Noël — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:37:38 +0000

Click for larger jiggle view

I went to Coney Island for the first time for the annual Mermaid Parade. I wasn’t 100% clear on what that meant until I actually witnessed it for myself, and among dressing up like mermaids or relevant nautical themed play-on words like “Splash Dance,” it also meant a lot of boobies, pasties, parisoles, spandex, sequins, men in drag, and freaks jumping around on stilts. Probably where American Apparel will cull their Fall/Winter ‘09 collection. The lady above was particularly a crowd pleaser.

There was an abundance of child participation. My favorites were the half naked mothers pushing their baby strollers.

Harvey Keitel was “King Neptune” and I shot a couple of close-ups of him later in the day along with a pretty decent polaroid to add to my celebrity polaroid collection that has reached a formidable total of three. (1 and 2 for point.)

Later I saw Harvey, (that’s what I call him now) telling his chaffuer to go get him some hotdogs and then I stalked the chaffuer as he pushed through the crowd at Nathan’s, eventually cutting in line and ordering (in an Eastern European accent) three hotdogs, one with saurkraut, and a small fry. And yes, I’m probably always that creepy. That’s why I have so many awesome friends.

And other Coney Island Shots

More pictures on my Flickr share.
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Things to Do: Go shopping for spandex.

And what brings you to New York?

Noël — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:25:01 +0000

I applied/received an ambiguous IFC/Sundance Film Channel internship through a sponsoring foundation, and the winner got a stipend to go do it in New York. Since I was essentially going to live in New York City for free, I uprooted all of my summer plans in Austin, including working, saving money, and graduating, for not graduating and working without pay and ultimately losing money.

As for the internship, I found out I am a marketing intern for IFC, working with grass-roots campaigns. My work detail has included creating pages and pages of Wikipedia content for shows and walking around Brooklyn distributing flyers and trying my damnedest not to fall asleep. I have been promised a day a week with the editing department but we’ll see if that happens. I am in a hoteling space on the AMC floor butting elbows with a very hardworking freelancer. I feel bad for her cramped up in here.

Emmy’s on the American Movie Classics floor at Rainbow Media

Some pictures I took while flyering in Brooklyn for the “mumblecore” web series Like So Many Things. (Park Slope, Williamsburg, Flushing)

On a side note… I was warned, but OH MY GOD. Park Slope is crawling with babies, strollers, and women waiting for their water to break. And there is no significant age range in babies either, it’s like women get pregnant, move to Park Slope when they are 7-8 months in, have a baby then push it around for awhile, then up and leave to the suburbs when they’re tired of having to wait in long lines of strollers to get a latte.

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I tried half-heartedly to get a flexible job, but it looks like a minimum requirement to work in retail or food here is being at least 30 and moderately rude.

So I added one day a week to my “work” schedule with an internship at Mayhew Breen Productions. They used to make awesome commercials, but now they make infomercials, and by infomercials I mean “Buuuut wait! Call within the next 15 minutes and we’ll throw in an extra sharp cutting blade absolutely free!” It’s pretty amazing.

The first day I was there, they were recording the voice overs for a new exercise device. I got to witness an absolute infomercial KING switch from his nasally New York City accent to the commanding, firmly persuasive and upbeat voice of that infomercial guy which is embedded into every American’s psyche. I’d have to say I can scratch that one off my bucket list.

A clip I recorded of him coming from the monitors.

I’ve been taking lots of pictures, don’t know what is or isn’t worth sharing.

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Things to Do: finish Wiki pages uughh

Things to Make: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$