Doc Submitted Yesterday

It's done! Journey of the Mind was submitted yesterday to the Arizona State U festival, different from what? The web page for the movie is now under construction, and should be ready in the next few days.

There's a possibility that this documentary could also get shown on a local television station... More on that as details arrive!

3rd Site, Part II

So far, with the exception of a single pop-up window that was not a repeat occurrence, this 3rd site experiment is working well. Thus, I've decided to put the "Z site," aka Garett's Moving Ratings [and more], into the new location as well.

This includes the start of my Oscar Predictions for 2009, complete with a new design that works a bit better than last year's did, however creative it was. I've mentioned in a previous News Blog entry some possible nominees for Best Pic, but lately, there's been a LOT of buzz for Kathryn Bigelow, the Director of The Hurt Locker. Not only is she from San Carlos (the town I grew up in), but she also happens to be an ex-wife (prior to Linda Hamilton) of James Cameron (think Titanic).

Anyhow, her film is getting rave reviews, and she herself is getting serious talks about becoming the 4th female to become a Best Director Oscar nominee. Three cheers from a fellow San Carlan!

3rd Site, Part I

As you may have noticed by now, if you're capable of reading this very text, our site has transferred both its Home Page and News Blog to a new site: directorG.uuuq.com. While the address is slightly longer, it was necessary for several reasons: 1) This News Blog takes up more space than you'd think -- at least 11 MB, 2) I needed a 3rd site that actually permitted FTPing files, which the 2nd site (jimthzz.bingodisk.com/public) simply wasn't capable of, 3) It was free, and 4) No Ads!

So, call it a celebration of sorts, as anything that's free (and means it) is a worthy cause. We'll see how well it works; it took nearly 2 weeks before it would let me register. Also, I'm having to put this main index page on there, too, so that I don't use an iFrame to insert the News Blog to another site's page (since it gets iFramed to the bottom of the main page regardless of where it's located...!).

The original links of directorG.com and directorG.com/news (for now, at least) will stay the same, and you'll get redirected to the new Zymic ones.

Top Ten Zen

Lately, I've been doing a LOT of web work. So, to give you just a PEAK of it, I've updated the Yearly Top 10 Lists of my Movie Ratings. Now, they appear a bit more like the Best / Worst lists, are color-coded, and are archived by year in a pull-down menu. It's much more sensical, and it's easier on the eyes!

Further, I don't know what exactly was faulty about my movie reviews on the Best / Worst pages, but I fixed 'em, and added several more! I'm hoping at minimum to have reviews for all of my #1 selections for each of the years there's a Top 10 List for, and I'm about half way there. New reviews so far were written for such films as Memento, Being John Malkovich, The Dark Knight, and Into the Wild. Quick reviews can't be that hard to write, right?

Anyhow, it's all located here. Next up: the 100th News Blog Entry!

Trip Transfer

In the announced closing of Geocities, it suddenly hit me: I needed to change the site location of what might be the oldest part of this site, my Trip to Washington D.C. photo album. Then I decided, why not convert it into a set of GPicturama pages?

It seemed perfect to do so, and probably was my very first stab at making such an album page. So, now the Trip to Washington D.C. pages are a part of GPicturama. Though the trip occurred in 1999, the pages are in 2009 because that is the year it was added to that portion of the site.

And now, because it was such a surprisingly awesome film, here's the trailer to this year's Star Trek! Way to go, J.J. Abrams!

Gulf Coast PSA

Yesterday evening, I found a video on YouTube that I actually assisted in the production of during my final semester at CSUMB. Made for a video community service class, my group produced a series of Public Service Announcements to represent the Gulf Coast Civic Works Project, which in 2007 hoped to create 100,000 jobs in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

For this specific PSA, I filmed two significant interviews, particularly that of Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton. The project (Gulf Coast Civic Works Project PSA (2007)) is now listed on this site as well.

Enjoy!

It Is Written

This past evening, Slumdog Millionaire and Milk won WGAs for Best Adapted and Original Screenplays, respectively. This continues to confirm Slumdog's destiny of reaching Best Pic status, and that Milk is bound to win at least 1 or 2 significant Oscars as well -- perhaps Sean Penn will get his 2nd? I simply must wait until my Oscar Party on the 22nd for the final results...

While it may not be fate, the new code for the redesigned movie web pages has certainly been written [by yours truly]. I decided that it might look better to put links regarding various available media at the side, rather than have the media occupy half of the page from the getgo. It all now appears in a media layer once the links are clicked...

So far, it's only been officially uploaded into the 2005 movies, Abrupt and The King Who Rained, as an experiment. More should be uploaded soon...

New Site Entry

Despite being completed last year, there was no site page for Gizdich Ranch: Tour of the Juicery... until now.

It's now there, so check it out! Now, I must do the same for Cannery Row Documentary, which we didn't produce, but I was the cinematographer for. Kinda like with my positions in The Perfect Lie and El Despertamiento, it will be more for resumé purposes to document my involvement. Hrm... Maybe the layout of the site could include another category... Just a thought.

The Site Wizard

There have lately been some issues regarding our contact page, which was formerly powered by Bravenet Web Tools. As of today, it is powered by The Site Wizard, requires no pop up advertisements, and is controlled within the same window through layers. Another key addition within the site's major redesigning.