Category Archives: College

College of the Canyons Student Film Showcase 2011

My Short film “Light” made it into the end of the year Showcase at College of the Canyons. Come see my film along with all of the great student work this Friday in Hasley Hall Room 101 At College of the Canyons.

Time: June 3, 2011 from 6:15pm to 9pm
Location: College of the Canyons
Street: 26455 Rockwell Canyon Road
City/Town: Santa Clarita, CA
Website or Map: http://canyons.edu
Phone: 661.259.7800

 

Half way there!

Thank You!!!

 

Due to the wonders of social-networking and the power of crowdsourcing we’ve already found 50% of our support for our independent film. Looking to raise $200 for an independent film project at College of the Canyons, we’re offering a spot in the films end credits for $10. So far these sponsors have come aboard:

Awards and Recognitions in Beautiful fused glass.
661.816.5138
KolibriGlass.com
Facebook.com/kolibriglass

Graphic Experience
Custom Framing and art Gallery
Graphic-Experience.com

Butlers Coffee
Coffee House, Free wi-fi, Live Music Weekly
ButlersCoffee.com

Ali Rae Pursley
A.R. Morningstar Photography
Modelmayhem.com/armorningstarphoto

Walter Moran
Filmmaker

Edwin Vasquez
Local Artist

Chuck Linn
Realtor

Sweetwater Carriage Company
Private Carriage Rides
661.902.9892
SweetwaterCarriageCo.com

Sweetwater Ranch
Full service equestrian facility
661.902.9892
SweetWaterRanchAV.com

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That puts us at HALF way!

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Possible

Oh boy… the research paper. Do we really have to talk about that? I fear that this blog may interfere greatly with my procrastination. At this point, I don’t have a lot of solid work done. I am actually still reading the Great Gatsby and that worries me a little bit. On the plus side I took a “writing research paper” workshop in the Learning center today. So I have completed the first step (somewhat) of getting organized.
I have read all the details and understand the assignment very well, as well as all the requirements. BUT, I don’t really have a good time schedule or goals laid out. AND this week is super busy.  I am working Weds – Saturday, and have school wed and thursday. So both those days I can’t work on the paper. I need to finish reading the Great Gatsby, and go from having 0 pages to having 5 by Sunday, with the only available time to do that being today (which I also have to take the two hour timed essay, since I can’t on Weds or Thursday), when I get off work Friday night or before work Saturday morning. And whatever is left I’ll have to work on Sunday after noon (so much for a day of rest right?). 
Did I mention, I haven’t started doing any research? In fact I really don’t know what to search for with the prompt I chose. I’m supposed to talk about how the girl’s in Reading Literature in Tehran reinvent themselves and discuss the illusions their society creates as well as the illusions they create and relate that to Gatsby “honesty of imagination.” Hmmm… where should I begin to search? Do I look up Iranian society? Scholarly literary analysis of Reading Lolita In Tehran and The Great Gatsby? Scientific or psychological articles about imagination or honesty? I just don’t know what direction to take there.
Not to mention, that all of this is going to require more reading… ah! Cue the violin music, as the S.S. Ben’s Research Paper sinks into the harbor. Hopeless! Hopeless! Hopeless! Hopeless! Okay, I may be getting a little over dramatic, but hey Jennifer said vent! And my form of venting is highly dramatic.
So here I find myself in this sticky situation, things look bleak, and I am wishing my research paper was done, well wishing this semester is over… but anyways, there must be a glimmer of hope or some silver lining in these thunderclouds. So let’s take a look at the glass half full! I gave my final speech in Public Speaking, so there are no more assignments in that class, doesn’t look like I have any home work in Art History either. AND, there are no Exploring Language questions or Reading Discussion questions to wrestle with this week… and I already finished my extra credit blog for English, AND I am finish this blog right now on a Tuesday! 
So even if it does come down to finishing this draft at the eleventh hour, at least this paper will be the only thing I have to worry about at the eleventh hour. Besides now that I’ve vented through this blog, I can start to fell the fog roll out of my mind and the little gears of inspiration slowly start to turn. This paper is again, possible.

The Quest for various things in my life… Ch. 1


Ah, that’s a title that I can go for. The search for admission continues. I am beginning to find my way through the tangled web of transferring colleges. All the courses I need to take at AVC are available in the Intercession and Spring Semester, Hooray! I also found out that the Pasadena City College has the pre-requisite course I need to take (again hooray, because there were complications to taking the class at College of the Canyons). However oddly enough, I managed to misspell my own last name on my application to CSUN, Benjamin Aandrews! So I need to call and get that straightened out, magically enough the automated system at CSUN does not respond to me pressing numbers on my cellphone, so I need to call from my home phone hopefully tomorrow morning. Enough of that school stuff though, onto business:

Exciting things are happening with DragonCowProductions. I edited a video for a friend from church’s Air Force Retirement, $20. Picked up a bunch of used dvd covers from a friend, used one for the Retirement video and made a very professional cover, on Photoshop. I am currently (and nearly finished) editing a video made by Dean’s band mates, it’s about a killer teddy bear, pretty funny so look forward to that. In October my sci-fi video “Landing” was featured on TIme Warner’s Reel Chasers and the producer of the show wants to do an episode about DragonCow Productions for November, hooray television exposure! Matt Baldwin (from Landing) has also agreed to be in the upcoming web-series “Rebel Filmmakers” which I am writing a pilot episode for. And last but not least filming for Ghetto Movie is nearly done, there is also a new Preview for it online now at http://dragoncowproductions.com/ghettomovie

In other news Alta Dena has egg-nog on sale. I love egg-nog. Happiness tenfold! Thank you for reading, have a great day, and as always wish me luck!