Ryan Moulton is 22 years old and lives in Gainesville, Florida. He loves to design things, make movies, and take photos.This is his personal site. To check out his portfolio, go to RyanMoulton.com. He loves to collaborate on projects, so feel free to get in touch.
Here's a video we made for the November 21, 2008 Theatre Strike Force Gator Nights show. We came up with the idea on a Monday, wrote it on Tuesday, rewrote on Wednesday and shot and edited it on Thursday and Friday. It premiered Friday night for an audience of about 200.
This was a lot of fun to make.
This is a short video a friend and I made for class. Learn how to make a robot.
I forgot to post this, this was the Gary Attack ad. To advertise for Theatre Strike Force's Fall Show, we created two tv spots. One for our fictional candidate, Gary, and one against him. I made these ads.
A few things about the Attack Ad. The baby is my nephew, Micah. The violin was played by April D.
It felt really good seeing this ad on TV during the commercial breaks of the Daily Show, even if we were only airing them on campus.
The Steamboat Willies for Truth was originally just a play on Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, but it soon became something more.
This was another video from the big Theatre Strike Force fall sketch show, "GARY: A New Hope For A Better America." I shot this and stuff. This and Don't Vote were shot in one long, fun, tiring night.
The entire Gary show takes place in an alternate reality where there is a political candidate, Gary, running for president. Theatre Strike Force, the improv troupe at UF, is invited to perform at a rally for Gary. The hour and a half long sketch show itself was the rally, culminating in an appearance by Gary himself. I played Gary in the live show.
This video was originally shown as part of Theatre Strike Force's Fall Show 2008, Gary: A New Hope for a Better America. I shot this.
All the lighting was done with a china ball and a work light. Luckily, there were a ton of c-stands and flags and other stuff around in the photo studio to help out.
Go vote tomorrow!
Here's an ad I shot and helped write with TSF Sketch. We're really into this Gary candidate, apparently. We're hosting a giant rally on Oct. 27th...
(Sketch comedy)
This will be on the tv!
This is a little web promo video that I shot/edited (and did a little bit of directing) for/with an Upstart member named Jovone B. Assisted by Tito A. and Liz P.
The idea was to recreate an 80's music video show. It was fun and I think it was successful. I'd like to tackle a real music video or two, so if anyone out there knows of/is a band that needs a music video, just get in contact with me.
As always, watch it in glorious HD over at Vimeo.
I shot this video a month or so ago. I'm not in the video in any way, I was just doing videography, but if you have a half hour you'll probably enjoy this totally improvised musical. AM Radio, the musical improv troupe of Theatre Strike Force, is very talented.
Here's a PDF of a sketch that I wrote with TSF Sketch (specifically, a ton of help from Filup M and Erik V). I performed it as the opener to the first big TSF Improv show of the semester Friday night. I was Dr. Killdeathmurder and I wore an eyepatch, a lab coat and a hook arm.
It was a very topical sketch about the Large Hadron Collider Particle Accelerator and supervillains.
UPDATE: A video of the sketch is up on facebook: Dr. Killdeathmurder.
UPDATE: You know what, here's the sketch on the YouTubes.
Here's another batch of clips from the feature length film I was DP on this summer.
Hey! Here's a little bit of footage from the feature we've been shooting the past three weeks. So exciting. Youtube messed up the aspect ratio and horribly compressed it.
Hawaii Girl is a series of videos that I shot around May. We shot five episodes. It's technically an adaptation of a web comic I did back in High School that may or may not still be online somewhere.
I never thought it would happen, but Shaun Spalding provided a lot of encouragement and we eventually found the perfect actresses to play real life cartoon characters (Jenn and April) and a few days to shoot.
I've taken forever to edit them.
My idea was to take the pacing and rhythm of a comic strip and apply it to short films. Keep things extremely short, cut out everything unnecessary. I think this is a good way to go about adapting film stuff to the internet.
I don't know how well I executed these ideas.
Wake-up Time, the one posted here, was the last one we shot, took the least amount of time to shoot, and was the quickest edit. If we had had another five minutes in the location, we could have gotten it perfect.
I'm telling myself that I'll post a new episode every week until all five are posted, and I hope I'll be able to stick to it.
So, we're two weeks into shooting Adam's feature film version of the short we shot last summer. It's a lot of work and a lot of fun. I'm really excited about how it's all going.
I perform improv with Theatre Strike Force and we had a show a little over a week ago. I recorded the whole thing and a few videos from it (including a few featuring me) are up over at the TSF vimeo page. Make sure to watch in HD (if you feel like it).
Dance Marathon has come and gone once again. I'm still sorting through footage. Here's the opening video I made and a master take of the Linedance.
Click through to see them in HD at Vimeo. HD! This is truly a pleasant future.
An illustration for a guns on campus point counterpoint "Viewpoints" section.
Oh and hey, why not, Iraq War's fifth birthday.
My first flash info graphic thing! Here it is at AlligatorSports.
On Thursday, I had an illustration in the Avenue (The Alligator's Arts and Entertainment section).
This is the first time I've gotten to illustrate a story and I hope it sets a precedent for letting me do it.
Some recent stuff. The spread is from a Magazine Design class assignment (To answer any questions, I am Ryan Moulton). The poster is going up around campus just as soon as I can find a stapler that works.
This is the process I use to come up with my daily political cartoons at Alligator.org.
I usually get to the office anywhere from 7:30pm to 10pm and then I talk to the editor or opinions editor to find out what stories are going in the paper the next day. I might try to casually make a few jokes to warm up. There are usually a few story options. I read them.
Then I start brainstorming. I write lists of ideas in my moleskine notebook. I free associate. I try to understand the story and what's really at stake here. I talk to people to get my brain unstuck. I might go buy some dinner somewhere. I usually end up on facebook.
Sooner or later, I'll have something figured out. Some of the best days are when I hear a story and immediately understand what the joke is or where the twist of the story is.
Ninety-nine percent of the time, I draw in Adobe Flash. I use a wacom 9x12 tablet that I bought 7 years ago and draw directly into the computer. I sketch the layout and art and then go back and "ink" everything.
Sometimes, when I'm drawing, I'll come up with a better joke. These are usually the best jokes, because they are usually part of a "wacky stack" where the jokes just keep coming.
I'll draw for a while and then add shades of grey or color.
When I've finished the comic, I usually sit around for a few minutes trying to get up the courage to show the editor, managing editor, and opinions editor. I go and do that.
They tell me if I made any grammar mistakes and whether or not they like the comic.
My deadline is 10:30. The deadline where I actually die is 11.
After I finish the comic, I do stuff for the website until I go home around 1 am.
So I've left my job at RecSports at the University of Florida. It was a great experience and now it's time to move on.
So now I'm looking for freelance work/collaboration in the areas of: editorial illustration, photography, film/video (documentary, or narrative) , and web/print design. Check out ryanmoulton.com and give me an email or something.
ALSO: I'm on the lookout for a summer internship in the area of either online video or design.
TOMORROW'S COMIC: TODAY. This is for the special Viewpoints part of the paper. The special topic of this week's Viewpoints was the 2008 election.
It's kind of weird to realize I've been cartooning almost every day for almost a semester now.
I took some photos before/during Theater Strike Force's fall show the other day. These two were some of my favorites.
ALSO, I don't know if you were there, but if you were, I had one line in a video sketch ("Yeah Gellieman, DANCE!") and was The Hand of God in The Miracle of Life. I also animated the eyes/mouths.
OKAY. So this summer my friend Adam Bowers was making this movie called New Personal Worst. I did all the camera work for it. Well, the movie's nearing completion and he just put a trailer up for it. Watch this trailer and then get excited.
At 2 a.m. last night I got asked to design/illustrate a cover for the Alligator's Homecoming Edition.
I was happy with the result, regardless of whether or not the science held up. Only bad point: for some reason The Suits didn't want me to set my own type, so what eventually went to print was a much much weaker type treatment.
Oh well, I'll always have the memories.
UPDATE: It looks pretty good printed. Today was the homecoming parade and a lot of us went out and handed them to people. It was great seeing a copy of it in pretty much everyone's hands.
Here's a step-by-step:
Robot Car! New video at the Alligator.
That's how we comic in Alligator town.
ALSO: My friend Beau organizes an underwear dash once every semester. A lot of people show up and it's an awesome fun time. It's about being alive.
This dash was the subject of my first documentary, Everybody in their Underwear. Check out the video. Check out the dash. You won't regret it.
Here's a photo project from my lighting class. Assistance by S. Spalding. Subject was D. Djeljosevic. Class reaction today was favorable.
I designed a package compiling the Alligator's coverage of the Andrew Meyer gets tasered story.
Check it out if you enjoy people getting tasered, world-class student journalism, cartoons by Ryan Moulton, or grid based design with an emphasis on type and hierarchical presentation of information.
Blah blah blah blah.
I'm excited because now that we've set the precedent for breaking out of the template for special coverage packages, we can do it more often and it gives me more opportunities to do neat little web design projects. Hopefully.
I've been cartooning for the Alligator since Summer B started. Last week I successfully did one comic for every day of the week. I usually miss a day. Here's yesterday's comic. It's about the protest that happened yesterday in regards to TaserGate 2k7.
Side note: I think it was pretty lucky that we got the "Most Popular" module debugged the night before TaserGate 2k7 broke, allowing people to see that the comments were exploding.
You get it literally minutes before it goes live on alligator.org! Feel the glory of being a rymo.org patron!
I was less happy with this video than with previous ones. I won't bore you with details. Frank C. was awesome though. I really want to try some sturgeon now.
Right now I'm very happy with how this poster turned out. Printed out it looks like a watercolor painting.
About 75% of the way through, I realized that I was subconsciously inspired by the photo of tomatoes on this NYT story. I spent a few minutes just looking at that graphic the other day.
Another new mini-doc up at the BRAND NEW ALLIGATOR.ORG (which I also did a ton of design work on, and I'll be doing an indepth posting on soon, hopefully).
So my friend Val wanted some free headshots. I wanted to learn how to shoot better portrait photography. On Monday we got together and had a photoshoot.
I'm still editing photos, but it was a very good experience. I got a little more confident at working with off-camera lighting and got some awesome pictures out of it. One of my favorites is at the top. Some of the photos were a lot more "model-y" and less "actor headshot-y", but oh well. She did a very good job.
I'll probably post some more to flickr eventually.
And if anyone out there that I at least kind of know wants some nice photos taken, just let me know.
Hello. It's the last day the New Student Edition of the Alligator will be on news stands. The NSE has a lot of articles that new students at the University of Florida might enjoy/learn from, but I think more importantly, it includes an awesome cover by me. I don't think I was credited anywhere, but oh well.
Put it on your wall! Or something! Just search for the orange Alligator boxes anywhere on campus.
Here are some spreads from the RecSports magazine I worked on last Thursday and Friday.
I love doing layout.
Kamphey.com made me their/his person of the day for July 30, 2007. JAWESOME!
As a response I did this quick portrait of Kamphey.
Here is a fake teaser trailer for my friend Adam's movie that I'm doing camera work for. We were packing up after shooting at the infirmary and decided to shoot this little thing.
The real movie has nothing to do with hands coming out of stomaches... OR DOES IT?!?
Here's a photo of the cast (minus me) of a commercial a friend of mine shot this weekend. It was a pretty wet, pretty fun shoot. Delicious cheese was served.
For this photo I used a little flash gun shot into a reflective umbrella to light them. The past few days I've been feeling like I want to get back into photography a little. Hmm...
ALSO: I just did a quick design for the Camera Phone Photo Blog. It's been a while since I've wrestled with MovableType. Bleh.
Here's a fake book I designed for one scene of my friend Adam's movie. I got it printed up and stuck it onto a book we found in the library. It looked pretty convincing.
The man in the kilt is Patches Beardley, and he will teach YOU how to be a man through chewy foods and harsh words.
New photo gallery at Rec Sports: Strongman 2007.
ALSO: here's an older one that I'm not sure I ever linked: here: this link: here: Prom Rugby.
Hello friend. I have an iPhone. The iPhone has a camera. I use the camera. The iPhone has email. I email the photos to flickr, which posts them to a blog I set up.
Amaze yourself with photos of food I eat, places I go, screens I look at, and people I'm around! Almost every day!
I have not yet done anything with the design so... sorry.
New video at alligator.org: "WE GET DIRTY TOO"
What I gained from this one: confidence with abbreviating dance/music (just cut with the beat/ I only really effed it up once near the beginning, I think), rhythms stuck in my head for several days, a few nice shots that I really liked, got to go to a step show (which I never would have had the confidence to before).
I shot 45 minutes and edited down to 3. After groups performed, practically everyone would come down onto the main little stage area and danced. It was pretty intense. I did not include much of this because: not as rhythmically intense or interesting, the music was most likely copyrighted and I didn't feel like dealing with that.
Bad things: a few different overexposure problems. Who were those guys (Why didn't I get their names)?
I have a short mini-documentary up on Alligator.org. It's right here and it's about a tai chi/fencing instructor that raises cougars. It is available here: Bruce and the Cougars. The story text is by Devin C.
This was the first video for Alligator.org. (I think?) We got the video request last tuesday, I shot the video Sunday morning, and by Monday night, I had the hours worth of footage edited down to five minutes and 44ish seconds. It was still a little long, but parts of it were ridiculously cute.
I'm hoping this leads to more video requests to the Alligator's new media staff.
More and more often, my days are really awesome. I've had quite a few days where I've been busy from morning to night just doing stuff that I absolutely love.
One part of the culture of facebook is that on a person's birthday people flock to that person's wall and post things like "Happy Birthday!"
Yesterday was my birthday. I made a graph showing when people posted on my facebook wall.
Last summer was hard. I wasn’t doing a lot of productive stuff and that just made me realize I was lonely. I did a few freelance projects, including an illustration for the Office of Sustainability and another thing for the Business Alliance of Greater Gainesville. In the fall I did a bunch of film projects. I got really involved with Upstart’s Film Slam thing. Every two weeks I made another short film. I made it to the finals.
Most of the shorts were really bad, but a few were great.
I made my first documentary film Everybody in their Underwear. That was a really exciting experience for me. I entered it in the ART Film Festival and won first place in the Documentary Short category. Going to the actual film festival was pretty weird (I thought there would be zero people there but there were about seven) but my brother was there to support me.
I worked on a few different web projects around this time. I reworked the design for Newsies. Newsies 2.0 was much more professional looking. Eventually I did websites for an honors society and a summer camp.
For a while I’d considered web design one of my weak points but over the past year I’ve started to feel a little more confident. I’m learning how to be confident with just designing to solve problems rather than designing to ornament or style something.
Christmas break was good. I was looking forward to the coming semester pretty heavily but the semester didn’t fulfill its promises entirely. It was still good though.
One of the highlights of spring was getting to go to Miami with a few people that I barely knew to try to make a documentary thing. That was an incredible weekend and I’m so thankful for it.
I spent a lot of spring obsessed with getting this one internship. It got to the point where I knew quite a bit about everyone who worked at this small company based on their individual online presences. They crept into my dreams, voices and all.
This is without ever having any contact with them at all.
I spent a lot of time getting a portfolio together and fine-tuning and worrying and freaking out.
Eventually I didn’t even apply.
The semester ended quickly and out of nowhere I was invited to help out with online stuff for the Alligator. I had my summer job.
Working on a redesign for the website of UF’s independent student newspaper has been a great experience. It’s given me a chance to really collaborate with other people on a high level and I’m loving it. I’m hoping we can pull everything together for a successful launch of the redesign.
This has been a weird year for me personally. I don’t like to talk about this kind of thing, but this year has been one of the first where I’m not obsessed romantically with someone completely out of reach. I haven’t really been interested in anyone. Just kind of blank this year.
Weird.
This year I did get to meet a lot of interesting people. Now I want to meet more of them.
I drew a portrait every day for one-hundred days. I remembered how fun and relaxing it is to draw and it seems like, at least to me, I quickly became better. My hand and eye became more confident.
Again this year I was on Dance Marathon Tech Team. I was a lot healthier this year and able to bring a lot more to the table. I did my second (maybe third) biggish (at least for me) motion graphics project and made about thirty short motion identity loops for the entertainers. I'm still very pleased with how these turned out. I also took a ton of photos at the 32-hour Dance Marathon and had a much higher quality-to-crap ratio than last year. Also, this year, I shot in manual and was able to much better post-process my photos to get higher quality images.
Awesome.
This year I’ve grown as a person, I think. It’s been a new experience living entirely alone. No roommate, no dorm, no family. Just me above the laundry room at Arbor Lofts.
I think I’ve always had a ton of independence but maybe it just gave me more? I don’t know.
That was year twenty. Plus or minus a lot that I’m forgetting now.
Now I’m twenty-one and that means I can adopt a child and run for mayor. If I’m going to get any of that done, I’ve got to get going.
My name is Ryan Moulton and I love my iPhone.
Facebook has different applications that people can add to their profiles. One of these is called Grafitti. I drew the above dinosaur on a friend's profile.
It was a pretty good experience. It reminded me of drawing on Oekaki boards--these little squares in webpages that you could draw in and then post and people could comment--a few years ago.
It's like drawing with MS Paint and although that can be kind of annoying, there's a beautiful simplicity that comes out of it.
Right now, about twenty of my facebook friends have the graffiti app installed on their profile and I kind of want to just draw random crap on all of them.
There are a few problems with that though: 1) For most of these facebook friends, I don't know them well enough to place a reasonably well drawn thing on their facebook profile without it coming across as weird and 2) the drawings would be there for a few weeks, or at least until three more people had drawn.
Anyway, to come to a conclusion, I like to draw.
This is how you become a cartoonist for The Independent Florida Alligator:
JD: Hey Rymo, want to be cartoonist for next fall?
Rymo: OK. I'll do it for summer b.
My first try didn't run cause it was far too libelous?
So I updated the Portrat-A-Day project. I kind of stopped on day 100. Now the final twenty or so are up. I think I'll use the page as a sketch blog from now on.
Today I painted Bach. "Holla Bach", get it?
Sigh...
Big Snakes make kids giggle. That's the headline of a story. I was there when they decided it was dirty. It went live anyway and got picked up on Fark and we got 50,000 page views just today.
Awesome!
So earlier this week I was thinking a lot about the logo design for the 2012 Olympics. Go look at it.
Because I'm a terrible blogger, I'm just going to ask a bunch of questions and answer them myself.
Is it good? yes. Does it look good? Maybe. What do you mean by that? There's a certain jarring ugliness to it that is endearing and memorable.
Endearing and memorable, what do mean by that? It's different in a fresh way and grows on you--I went to sleep hating it and woke up appreciating it.
Bullcrap, ugly is ugly? Here's something else: this logo, with it's bright late-80's/early-90's style colors and sharp angles, could very easily be developed into an entire visual language for the 2012 olympics. What? You wouldn't judge an entire language (english) from the first letter of its alphabet (a), would you?
A giant event like the Olympics requires literally pantloads of designed things, from broadcast design, to stadiums, to posters, to McDonalds promotional tie-in commemorative cups. This odd logo brings with it a way of communicating visually that will be both memorable and (probably) beautiful.
Maybe.
Added this to my portfolio—it's the motion loops from DM. You can just scroll down to see some of them, I think they're still on this page.
There are times in your career development when you pass certain landmarks.
Today was the first time I had a bunch of suits tell me they needed more (and thicker) ads above the fold on a website. Exciting!
Still though, I'm very excited about the redesign we're working on for alligator.org. We just started last week and it feels like it's going to turn out very well.
And I've decided I really really enjoy collaborating with others. Some of my favorite projects this year have been collaborations.
So if the telecom department completes the paperwork I'll be producing a series of short documentaries and publishing them online this summer (and getting school credit for it/access to school equipment).
Do you have any suggestions for stories? I think my range is going to be within three or four hours of Gainesville, but right now I'm planning to drive far far (far) away to do one episode on my brother's Team Effort volunteer service camp. The documentaries will be on a variety of different subjects and done in a few different styles. Planning on doing one a week.
I really really hope this happens.
Also, I didn't get Florida FlyIns. (Oh well, I'll apply next year.) And I may be working at the Alligator doing online stuff this summer.
Also, I am thinking about doing a redesign. Hmm... This design was started on May 22, 2006.
I actually did this poster, which hasn't been printed yet (won't be printed?), before the sustainability flyer I posted a few days ago.
I'd spent seven years KNOWING that drop shadows weren't something for good and decent people. Sometimes you have to just try things and grow or something.
What am I even saying?
Here are the work samples I submitted with my application for the Florida FlyIn program, including three new video things NEVER BEFORE SEEN BY ANYONE INCLUDING ME.
Well, I guess I saw them when I was filming them, editing them, and watching them over and over and over.
So I'm editing this documentary footage and a guy's talking about having a knife pulled on him in a homeless shelter. The guy next to him as he's telling the story says, "Pull a butter knife on ya, put some butter on your arm."
Somehow, three months later, this amazes me.
If I don't come back, I've probably got a giant log/80lb hammer in my head.
Sometimes I feel like I'm actually getting somewhere.
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Look at this: THIS. It's so incredibly beautiful. I've watched it like eighty times since last night. This makes me happy and excited about many things.
What I look for most in media is energy. I like upbeat driven songs; I like movies that you can feel. Hmm. I'm not quite expressing myself correctly.
I just really really like this little commercial. As a person who likes this kind of thing, this inspires me a lot.
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I've realized that I'm a bit like a bird: I'm attracted to patterns and colors. On people and on things.
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For Dance Marathon I offered to create a bunch of motion graphic things that would be on screen while the different performers were doing their things. I made about thirty of them all in all. Here are some.
Here is a link to every episode of This American Life with John Hodgman listed in the description.
I have been listening to tons of episodes of this radio show over the past two weeks. It's an inspiration both as a journalist and as a person. Get the Podcast and listen.
Do this thing that I command.
I feel kind of odd for kind of focusing this post on John Hodgman, the PC from the Mac vs. PC commercials/Daily Show Correspondent/author, since I've only heard a few of the episodes he reports in (Superpowers and Plan B) but oh well. What's done is done. Ira Glass is awesome as well.
Also, check out the first episode of the tv show.
I feel both very good and very tired.
I'm at Dance Marathon again. Taking photos and making graphic things for the big screens in the O'Connell Center sometimes.
It's called a "callback" when a comedian makes a reference to a joke from earlier in their set. This is a good way to end a set because people like to laugh at what they're familiar with, even if they only became familiar with it a few minutes earlier.
I went to see Lewis Black perform at the O'Dome yesterday along with my brother and a few thousand other people. Very very funny. As we were driving over, I made a joke about how, in a television special from years back, Lewis Black introduced a joke "If it weren't for my horse..." and then later ended his set with a callback to it.
I don't know why I made the joke. Later, the warm-up act, Johnathan Something, used the callback technique to end his set. I was pleased by this.
I was thinking about the short play I wrote for the Senior retreat back in high school. It was basically poking fun at where different people from our class would be in twenty years.
It easily got eight times as much laughter as any of the other plays we did for the other classes.
People like to laugh at themselves and at those they are most familiar with.
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society needed someone to create a new web presence for them. RYAN MOULTON was on the job.
Take a look.
Hey? Do you ever have those dreams where you're traveling across the country in a camper with someone you knew in High School solving Murder Mysteries and playing around in muddy ditches?
Thanks Lost, Bones, and Facebook.
PAD continues, even though I haven't been updating the web site.
Lately, I've been drawing famous people. More politicians and directors and miscellaneous people. I do this on days when I don't feel like getting personal and finding someone I know to draw.
I put up walls.
I wish I could hover about a foot off the ground and travel around like that.
HEY GATOR NATION, where are my hover boots? I'm talking to you, physics and engineering departments.
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March: In like a lion! FREAK OUT.
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Tonight: I wrote a web site proposal. Was finishing up a draft for another web site. Couple days ago I sent in some revisions for a project for the Office of Sustainability.
I need to become a better designer. Also, I'm excited about motion design. I want to do more of it.
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I had a dream that it was snowing in Gainesville and I was throwing snow balls around. I was taking photos and I could only take a few before the front of my lens was covered in snow/ice.
OK. I may be going out on a limb here, but I'd just like to make the prediction that "Drowning Meredith" will become the new "Jumped the Shark" expression.
Definition: Phrase used to describe a show that has lost its relevance/spark.
Example: "Oh man, Heroes really drowned Meredith when that one asian guy turned out to be the messiah."
I'm watching 30 Rock.
Here's a gallery of some of my favorite photos from shooting Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament at SWRC on Feb. 16.
Also check out the Rec Sports Home Page to see a flash thing I built that pulls in XML and jpgs and swfs. I was very happy to figure out flash/xml.
Did I mention that I got promoted from photographer to photographer/webmaster a while ago?
Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament at SW Rec Sports Center. This is one photo where the strobe didn't fire. I like the silhouettes.
It's really really cold.
Miami was incredible. I've got a whole bunch of video to capture and edit and I'm really excited.
Some of what we documented: Bus ride, Venetian Pool, Viscayne Gardens, Little Havana (Domino Park), night fishermen at South Beach, the Umoja Village Shanty Town and a Cigar Maker.
Such a good weekend.
I'm going to Miami tonight and will be back late Sunday. We're making some kind of documentary project. Photos and video to come.
I was photographing people running the stadium stairs for work today and we ran to the west side of the stadium to look at the sunset. I captured this moment with my moment capturing device.
One of my short films, Clouds, is going to be playing before movies in the Reitz Union theater as part of The RUBZone block for the next few weeks. So show up to such films as The Departed (maybe, I don't know when the new episode of RUBZone will be premiered), The Princess Bride, and Little Miss Sunshine fifteen to twenty minutes early and you will see me on the big screen ACTING and EMOTING and STUFF.
Everyone's talking about Clouds!:
"Clouds is really, really funny." - Shaun "Inuit Jargon" Spalding
"[I hate Clouds, it's an abomination. I wish the clouds really did kill him in the end.]" - Brian Brown, director of Conversations in Bathrooms.
"Hahahaha. ... Hahahaha. ... Hahahahaha. ... Hahahaha! ..." - Film Slam Finals Audiences.
Some of my favorites from the last couple of weeks.
I'm freaking out about portfolio stuff. It's in my dreams. I've got my eye on this one internship and I want my stuff to be perfect before I apply... I hope I don't wait too long.
There are people in my dreams giving me career advice.
I need to become a better designer. I need to become better at everything.
Work work work. I love the way it's put in that book The Agony and the Ecstasy, this work gives energy rather than takes it.
I'm trying to draw a portrait every day. I don't know how long I'm going to do it.
So I'm randomly drawing people I know and other people that I don't know. Facebook helps.
If I draw you, that doesn't mean I'm secretly in love with you. I think some people associate those things.
My film, Everybody in Their Underwear, got reviewed by Shamrock McShane in this month's Satellite. (Along with the rest of the Acrosstown Repertory Film Festival)
Or maybe I should say, my old nemesis Ryan Mowton got his film reviewed in this month's Satellite.
I could barely read it, because the situation was far too surreal. I think he said my ending copped out.
He's right. Whenever anyone sees EitU, they always ask, "So what happened at the police station?"
According to Bergeron (THE PROTAGONIST), nothing happened. He just promised to cooperate with the fuzz next time.
There's still stuff I should have done to fix it.
But Wow! Shamrock McShane! I saw him in a play one time!
I wish they'd spelled my name right though.
Somethings don't happen unless you make them happen. Just because something is hard is no reason not to do it.
Harry and the Potters Rocked my face off.
Really great show. Stuck it to the man. Balloons flying everywhere. Jumping up and down. At the end, Harry and Harry ran into the crowd screaming "Hugs! Hugs for everyone!"
Hilarious and awesome. I bought a shirt.
With as much time as I've spent complaining about poorly thought out crap phones, I want this soooo much.
Well done, Apple.
Here are some colors. Was the color scheme for a web site, but then the color scheme changed.
Lately, I like combining photos. On its own, a photo can be good or bad or whatever. Smashed together, many photos become more than the sum of their parts. Even mistakes look good.
I am getting excited about 2007.
I made gingerbread houses yesterday with Anastasia Green and Chris Rubano. I designed a magnificent three story palatial dinosaur farm that immediately collapsed into itself. I had an incredible stomach ache that night.
OK! Finally got the tag cloud figured out! Yes!!! See, now you can see all the tags for all sixty seven posts and they are sized according to number of times they have been used.
I couldn't have figured it out if it wasn't for the internet. Thanks internet!
I acted in a short film for a couple of friends in an Advanced Electronic Field Production class. That film, Quirks will be premiered today in Gannet Auditorium (Weimer Hall) somewhere between 1 and 2pm as a part of a class-wide screening.
There is also going to be a live webcast so check this link between 1 and 2.
But keep in mind, there are other films showing too so you might have to wait for a little bit.
Prepare to get your face ACTED off. This production is so advanced it will melt your heart. Directed and Produced by Dawniece Tims and Lindsey Samilian.
EDIT: The live webcast is over but I changed the link to the archived version. The one I'm in is second. link.
We went christmas caroling last night and stopped by Broward Dining Hall and dropped a few songs on them. The staff there responded amazingly. There was dancing and percussion and awesomeness. I only got one or two pictures and none were any real good.
There was hot chocolate and we went to dorms and just randomly knocked on doors. It was very fun.
ALSO: we sang Carol of the Bells. Holy crap. We were awesome. Never before has there been such vocal richness in the world. Never before.
Here are some things:
Film Slam Finals
"Seven Rounds. Over Thirty Short Films. One Champion."
December 5 / 8pm Reitz Union Cinema
Film Slam is an intense biweekly filmmaking competition that Upstart Films does. I participated this semester and I won two rounds and am in a three-way tie for first place. Film Slam Finals is the final round. Come out and see all the shorts again for the very first time, and see the world premiere of three original short films by Natalie Andres, Zach Weissmueller, and Ryan Moulton.
Quirks
"Ever hear that saying 'Let a smile be your umbrella'? This is kind of like that. Maybe." Directed by Dawniece Tims and Lindsey Samillian.
December 8 / TBA
This is Dawniece and Lindsey's Advanced Electronic Field Production project. I star as a guy who smiles a lot and eats eggs and does some other stuff. I hear it's funny or good or something? Check it out. You can also watch some of the other telecom class productions. Sweet!
Everybody in their Underwear
"Beau Bergeron decided that seeing all of his friends running around in their underwear would make a great art project. He made it happen. Now, in its fourth iteration, the Great Underwear Dash sent 800 underwear-clad college students screaming through the University of Florida's campus and down University Avenue."
December 9 / 1pm & 5pm Acrosstown Repertory Theatre, Gainesville, FL.
Winner of the Documentary Short Category at the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre Film Festival, It's just 9 minutes and 13 seconds and it's my first documentary ever.
Also, no one else entered the documentary category so I won by default. Ryan Moulton: he wins contests no one else enters. I'm trying to not let this get me down.
I had my final thursday of classes today. So that means no more Reporting lab. So that means no more stories due Thursday morning.
Question after the final in class assignment: We get 50 points off for fact errors, sure, but do we get points off for libel?
Let's hope not, cause I think I libeled something fierce.
Back to Gainesville. I leave for Christmas break on December 10th, I think.
So I dreamed that I was a velociraptor wearing an army uniform and driving a tank through a jungle shooting things.
I'm the most manly guy in the world.
So is blatant product placement the new way for NBC to beat Tivo?
The Office tonight had a weird several minutes where that one guy was shredding things in a Staples shredder. Papers, a cd... And then during two commercial breaks they had the shredder shredding cds and mail and stuff.
And now 30 rock is all about Product Integration.
Ok. Super. Now put your shows online, NBC! Stop living in the past!
I guess what I am trying to say is that I really hope tomorrow is a snow day.
EDIT: it's not. Also, I'm eating my cornflakes in a tupperware container with a giant ladle. ...No time for dishes.
happy 11:11 on 11/11.
I sometimes feel like I barely exist. I started trying to think about where I have been.
3 hours ago, I was giving a presentation on Werner Herzog, the german film maker.
6 hours ago, I was working on finishing that presentation.
9 hours ago, I was writing my reporting professor's obituary. (It was an assignment).
1 day ago, I was cold and sitting in Neurotheology class. I ate a burrito and talked with my brother.
4 days ago, I drove back to Gainesville after spending the day with my family and grandparents.
5 days ago, I got a hair cut and visited my high school to see the fall play. Talked with my old drama teacher. Talked to the few people I still know that are there. I was behind the theater/band room with the cast before the play started. All the guys still got together and jumped and did the "Lion face/lemon face" thing that was started my sophomore year. I felt good seeing the tradition continue.
6 days ago, I rested and ate dinner with my family and we talked.
1 week ago, I drove home to Port St. Lucie after a long day. I had turned in a reporting article that morning about the Sex on the Lawn Reproductive Health fair. (I eventually found out I got a B on it, and that's pretty good for me.)
8 days ago, we finished shooting for Quirks, a short film my friends were making for a class. I was the star?
9 days ago, I screened a short animated film I had been working on as a film slam. "Ryan Moulton is crazy."
Hmm...
Okay, America. Don't screw this up.
I'm watching you. O_O
EDIT: 10:06pm. I heard Bill Nelson won; I was totally expecting Katherine Harris to use witchcraft to help her win. Looks like Crist took governor though... Hmm...
EDIT: 12:06. I heard that immediately after conceding, Katherine Harris made a coat out of 101 puppies.
Now, I'm probably just hypnotized from working on this all weekend but... I think parts of this are really funny. Here's a still.
ALSO, I don't have time for NOR ACCESS TO a conventional six slot muffin pan. So... I've got ONE GIANT MUFFIN hurtling towards edibility in the oven.
What do Hitler, Hugh Laurie (House, M.D.) and the Velociraptor from Jurassic Park have to do with eachother?
We've got the pixels, now we just got to make 'em dance.
Film Slam is a biweekly film making competition put on by Upstart Films. It's very much awesome. I've been taking part in it this semester and after three rounds, I am in second place with five points.
With Film Slam, things are often rushed but the resuts can be awesome. I am now going to link to one of the first round entries made by my friend Zach Weissmueller. I may have misspelled his name. I am in this film. Actually, I star in this.
Written and directed by Zach. This is from some point in September?
I might post one of my shorts at some time...
I dreamed that a Ryan that doesn't like me gave me a bag full of reptiles and amphibians and leaves and branches. One of the frogs had a humanish face.
At eleven pm, I was worrying. I was nervous. I didn't know if I would be able to get the footage I needed. I didn't know if people would show up. I didn't know if someone would smash my borrowed camera. I didn't know if I would be able to talk to people and get them to talk back to me. I didn't know if I would be laughed at for being extremly hairy.
I told myself "In two hours it will all be over. In three hours you will be asleep. What happens has already happened from just another perspective."
I went and I had an amazing time, no matter what the results are.
So I saw this movie Underground by Emir Kusturica. It's about a guy, Marko, who builds a bunker under his house and hides a bunch of people down there in World War II Yugoslavia.
And then continues telling them the war was still going on for twenty years. And then more years after that. Eventually, he blows them up and himself and then dies several years later.
This feels like a good candidate for the greatest movie ever. Or at least, the greatest movie dealing with European issues. One of the weirdest things was how the movie treated spaces. (And this woman whose book we use in class freaks out about spaces.)
Basically, the underground exists as a place displaced people can just go to. There's an underground road leading to different countries. When I first saw it I was thinking, "Oh, Europe has an underground road from yugoslavia to Athens, Berlin, Italy, etc. Cool!" Then I was like, "Oh wait, that's not possible." Later I was thinking, "Oh! It's like a subspace metaphor like in Super Mario Brothers Two, Being John Malkovich, or Scott Pilgrim. Neato!"
Anyway, the movie is surreal and darkly funny and for several scenes there's a full band following around the characters. It's such a good movie.
Sitting here worrying about light. Not enough of it creates motion trails. Not enough of it yields a crummy muddy picture. I wish I had a giant sun that I could put in the sky whenever I want.
But I know that I very much prefer this set of problems over math problems.
I'm sorry, but does anyone really think anything will ever be accomplished by joining a facebook group?
I went to UF President Bernie Machen's house for the Blue Key Brunch yesterday. I was taking pictures (for Rec Sports) of the Synchronized Swim team performing. After that, I ate some of the brunch foods that were waiting under the tent as three members of Sister Hazel performed an acoustic set. Remember them? Fox Kids Countdown?
Gator Growl is a large pep rally. Perhaps, the largest pep rally. Because my brother has cool friends, we got to sit in the Rich People Box Seats and eat free food.
When Albert Gator spoke, he spoke with a voice that was... um... Pretty stereotypical. I think I heard Alberta call him an uncle Tom.
I am not joking.
I can't believe I hadn't thought of that sooner.
I done seen some movies.
Dudes! It's ROCKTOBER! Fill your mind with the nostalgic thoughts of fall and prepare to rock ultimate!
Tonight, I saw the touring squad from the UCB improv theater. I laughed so much my face hurt.
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I was really delighted to learn that the journalism labs have color laser printers that can print 11 x 17 in full color. I have about 1800 free prints. I could wallpaper my room eighteen times.
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I don't think I'm meeting enough people. I'm meeting some people. People.
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Would you rather exist as a joke or not exist at all?
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Life is life. I am simply existing.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 21 - WEST LIBRARY.
I saw UF Basketball person Noah Kim Joah (or something, he's eight feet tall) with his associate of the heart at the library looking at dvds.
"Ohh, Dr. Strangelove..." he said.
I think he was being ironic.
I freaking love that movie. How weird. I guess? Hmm... Once again, I have failed to make a point.
Four of my photos are being shown in an exhibit at the Reitz union this week. Not the exact four I would have chosen though. OH WELL.
The exhibit is on the meaning of life. It's a class thing. An honors college thing.
Go look sometime? I guess we are having an opening on the fifteenth? Or something?
Port St. Lucie to burn trash at 10,000 degrees fahrenheit.
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida county has grand plans to ditch its dump, generate electricity and help build roads — all by vaporizing garbage at temperatures hotter than the sun.
The $425 million facility expected to be built in St. Lucie County will use lightning-like plasma arcs to turn trash into gas and rock-like material. It will be the first such plant in the nation operating on such a massive scale and the largest in the world.
I believe this will be awesome if it doesn't send out a poison cloud that kills everything around my home. GO PSL! Set those trends!
I participated in a 24-hour filmmaking competition the other day. Five p.m. friday to five p.m. saturday. Create a movie.
I was teamed up with two people I had never met before and one person I have an interesting work history with. We all bonded. Totally. A reporter interviewed the crap out of us but in the end reworked the article so that we were barely mentioned. Hahahaha.
The movie may or may not be put online at some point in the future.
I got my car towed Saturday morning because I was someplace editing it.
The place where Car Towers put the cars they steal is the worst place on earth. I am pretty sure I would rather go to Iraq than go to the car tow lot again.
I have every friday off.
JOU 3101 | Reporting
Lecture every tuesday and thursday at 11:45. Lab is thursday from 8 to 10:30.
I spent the last year hearing how incredibly horrible this class would be. You have to write two stories each week; one in class and one out of class. The class average for the first out of class story was in the 50's. This class should help me break through some confidence issues? Maybe?
IDH2931 | Writing & Love
Every tuesday from 3 to 5 and every thursday from 4 to 5.
I spent the last year wanting to take this class. A class about writing, non-violence, creativity, love, loving and lots of other stuff. The teacher is ridiculously awesome both in the inspirational way and in the crazy anecdotes "I trained with the greatest Akido master in Japan" way.
JOU 3411 | Design
Every Monday from 1:55 to 5 and every wednesday from 1:55 to like 2: 45.
The class seems to be a basic overview of design for media people. Typography on up. We'll be using Quark instead of InDesign, so that means I get to actually learn Quark.
IDH 3931 | Neurotheology
Every Wednesday from 5 to 8.
What is the mind? What is the self? What is consciousness? What is God in relation to all of these things? Discussion! Incredible class!
ENG 4135 | European Cinema
Every tuesday from 7:20 pm to 10:20 pm. Every thursday from 12:50 to 3:50.
A tour of some of the important works of European cinema. Screenings on tuesday, marathon discussion session on thursday. Neat stuff.
Umm...
Today my brother came over for a short while and I learned how to play Let's Impeach the President on guitar and we sang it. It was hilarious.
I'm back in Gainesville, Fl. Classes start on the 23rd. I don't have the internet at my apartment because of a hilarious serious of unfortunate mishaps.
I really love my new apartment though.
The cool/easy thing is to say that Lady in the Water, M. Night Shyamalamanan's newest moving picture show, completely sucks.
Sure. Say it. Reap your coolness, coolies.
It was alright. Not the greatest movie, not the least pretentious movie, not a movie that's above breaking the fourth wall, not a movie that's too good to just pull plot devices out of absolutely nowhere, not a movie that takes great pride in "suspending disbelief" or "classic styles of story-telling." Ummm.
For all these reasons that it should not be a good movie, it is a good movie. Sometimes I like seeing something that completely pulls itself out of its own butt.
Umm... Three out of five blue cows. Because I feel like it.
So my parents, brother and I were going to the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young concert yesterday.
A few days earlier, I had asked who the least popular member of the band was. Everyone agreed it was Nash. And so... We were all screaming "NASHHHHH!!!" a lot.
Almost immediately, I realized Nash looks like the principal from the breakfast club. Not everyone found this as funny as I did.
It was good liberal fun, I only heard one person talking about government conspiracies though. Good music that I might not have experienced live if not for my parents. Haha.
The old-ish people were getting into it. I saw one guy walking around in socks! Right on the grass! Woah!
Good times with the family. Summer's ending. I go back to Gainesville this Saturday.
I was someplace the other day and I heard this song. I recognized it from somewhere but couldn't quite place it.
"Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba, never be the same again."
I thought it was from this video game that I rented and played like six years ago, Jet Set Radio Future. I thought the song was by this weird band Cibo Matto.
Wrong.
I spent like an hour searching for it, searching through iTunes, googleing lyrics.
Anyway, tonight, after searching some more, I finally decided to try The Song Tapper. You just tap in (on the space bar) the rhythm of any song and it tells you what the song is. I did it, and it actually worked. First result: Fa Fa - Guster.
I love living in the future!
Anyway, I guess I remember where I heard the song: over a year ago, late at night, watching Guster perform on Austin City Limits. I had no idea who they were, but I guess their songs got into my brain.
Yup.
SUMMER 2006!!! RYAN WATCHES MOVIES!
Uh... PART TWO!!!
One of the greatest three hours of british television I have ever experienced.
Made me feel alive again. I'm not ashamed to admit to watching the Disney Channel.
When I heard about Violent Cop I thought, "Wow, it's got to be good!" Well... Takeshi Beat Kitano was awesome, is awesome, and will more than likely continue to be awesome but the movie just didn't catch me. Hmm...
Clumsy politics. Kept refering to the US as "that country." Hahaha.
One of the best mockumentaries I have ever seen. Pulled me in, made me laugh. I watched it and then immediately watched the commentary. I watched it again the next morning. Seriously.
I was feeling: frustrated about pretty much the same things I am today.
I watched: Harry Potter 2.
I ate: a bagel, an oriental chicken salad, presumably other stuff.
I created: a really well done painting that isn't online. It was of some random person that I saw on facebook. (I know that's creepy.)
I had: not yet learned to not expect people that look like other people to be like other people. Have I learned that now?
Hi.
Rymo.org is my web site. I never tell people about it but... blah blah blah confidence blah.
Anyway, currently in post photos and words mode? So... YES. EXCELSIOR.
OKAY. It's standardized testing season and a student is taking the SAT. This student is subconsciously psychic, meaning that if 26% of students anywhere select the correct answer on a question, he will automatically select the correct answer as well.
He scores really well, but does he deserve the score he got?
I say yes, because holy crap he's psychic.
hahaha. Today was productive.
I coded a way for people to post comments. Sooo... The non-existant readers can post comments now.
Yeah...
UPDATE: This thing was sooooooooo incredibly delicious. Grow your own pineapples. Or rather, have your parents grow some pineapples.
I don't want this to turn into a dream blog, but...
DREAM: My family and I were waiting in line for a live taping of some show in New York City. When we got to our seats, we found out that the show was Power Rangers. A stage manager or whatever came out on stage and told us that tonight Kaiser Sosee would be playing the role of Zordon and that we should save our seats. Some people picked up their seats and left. I wrote something on a piece of paper and stuck it on the seat.
What the crap?
Summer.
Recent projects: Artwork for a bag and t-shirts. A logo for a summer program for high school students that may or may not get funding (rush job). A logo for an alliance of locally owned and operated Gainesville businesses. A web site for Upstart Films that is still very much in progress. A redesign for this website called Newsies (the redesign hasn't launched yet). Redesigning the resume. Fixed a bunch of things on rymo.org like tags and the Rymo.org Tag Cloud (this is not how a tag cloud should work >_<). Trying to get portfolio together and get slightly more professional site really going.
Upcoming projects: Logo for an office at UF. Other project. Other stuff.
Also: watched a ton of movies.
I've seriously worn these shoes for the past three years. Almost every day. Until recently, I didn't believe in sandals.
SO. I've worn these shoes about three hundred days a year for three years.
900 days. 21600 hours. 1296000 minutes. 77760000 seconds.
Wait, I wasn't wearing them while I slept so... just forget it.
I had a dream where birds were attacking my house.
You know, just like in that movie about those birds?
I can't quite remember the title of the movie.
Let's do movie review time, yes!
I watched this documentary the other day called War Photographer. I guess it's about how photographing human suffering makes you kind of a loner.
Memorable scenes: That one where he's taking pictures of a family that lives on the gravel between train tracks and the father only has one arm and one leg. The final scene where he's at the sulphur mine and it's all smokey and you keep asking yourself, "How can anyone work like that? It must smell like crap!"
I liked the use of small video cameras mounted on the photographer's camera to get us more into the moment. Clever and totally worked.
Three out of Five blue cows.
They really made Superman seem godly. Weird. He just sits in the atmosphere and hears everything.
Superman should get in the habit of using his x-ray vision to check people for kyptonite before he goes up and starts talking to them. If that's your only weakness, then why wouldn't you always check for that?
Aliens can't reproduce with humans unless they seeded earth with us just a few thousand years ago. Just for that, I'm docking one point.
Two out of Three blue cows.
This is more for me than the hypothetical people that visit this page. I'm twenty, better get some of the life details hammered out.
My name is Ryan J Moulton. I was born in july of 1986 which means horoscopically I am a cancer. The other day I was worried I had cancer but I don't think I do anymore.
Question that makes me uncomfortable: "What kind of music do you listen to?" I either avoid answering it or just say "All kinds" and hope the conversation shifts. Once someone said, "Well, that means you don't like any music..."
I'm pretty sure I told that person to shut the crap up.
I really like to live vicariously through tv and the internet. I should probably get through this habit and start living.
I want to be self-employed someday.
Ever hear that song by that band Plumtree? The song is called "Scott Pilgrim." I have heard it.
You probably haven't. Don't lie.
I was thinking about morality the other day and tried to reason out my personal moral code.
I have a personal moral code. I think?
Anyway, I decided there were two kinds of morality: internal and external.
Sometimes I like to say people's names. I've heard that saying someone's name in casual conversation with them is a sign of friendship. Also, name-usage will help develop friendship. I don't know if this has anything to do with me liking to use people's names as opposed to just "hey you" or just jumping into conversation.
I've had various websites online since before this millenium started. I don't really tell people about them. Even this one. That you're here is kind of a mystery to me.
What am I ashamed of?
I don't usually get mad. Things that do get me mad though: telephone companies. Lack of trust in me. My failure.
I can't remember if I don't believe in time or that I believe time-- OH. Ok, right. I just don't believe in time as something that is just a line. It's kind of like a mountain range.
Have you ever drawn charts to, uh, chart your romantic interests over a period of time? Me neither. I only sketched that chart.
Lately, I've been attracted to the aesthetic of naming things like "Alpha Event" or "Beta Event" etc. I link this idea to an episode of a tv show that was a series recap and, later, a clip of nuclear bomb footage.
I spend too much time on facebook. I don't actually do anything on facebook.
Remember imprinting? They talked about it in middle school biology. It's when a baby duck locks onto its mother for life and by doing this learns what it is to be a duck.
I might be wrong.
Anyway, I've been thinking about how we model ourselves after what we see around us and in the media. Go find a role model.
Do I have a role model?
Ever hear about those people that don't believe other people are sentient beings because there is no proof/they just decided to believe that? I don't believe they exist.
When I was in seventh or eighth grade I made a movie for this "Social Studies" project with a friend of mine. Our movie was called "The Elian Gonzalez Crisis." I put "Social Studies" in quotation marks because that's the most bogus name for a school subject ever. I don't remember what the movie was titled, "The Elian Gonzalez Crisis" is my best estimate.
That was the first time I was involved with the destruction of a camera. I felt so bad.
Someone must have said that if you Pre-Visualize you can make stuff happen. That only worked once for me. Or rather, once that I noticed. And even then, she had already seen the movie so what's the point?
I probably like you.
I lost track of my lifetime average after it was 1 for 8. Then there were a bunch of technicalities and weird awkward things? I don't know.
It's hard for me to pick favorite things. Why do we do that again?
Ummm...
Hey. I'm excited about life.
Central Park, Ground Zero, China Town, Little Italy, the Guggenheim, Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater, Museum of Natural History, Avenue Q, Empire State Building (zero visibility), Museum of Modern Art.
Other stuff too. Tons of wandering around. Incredible trip.
SUMMER 2006!!! RYAN WATCHES MOVIES!
I have been adding a ton of photos from the past year up on the old flickr account. EXCELSIOR.
Some are from the Dance Marathon. But just a few. I took like a thousand photos? I was there for almost the entire thing? I went home for three hours to sleep?
Others are just random stuff.
OH! A few are from the basketball riots. I should probably add a few more from that...
Summer! I'm waiting on a bunch of things. The tension's getting to me.
I'm so bored I'm growing a beard.
I think it would kind of be funnny to name pets after people you know and not tell them about it. Then, one day, they come over and it's really really awkward.
Since like four years ago I've been using Movable Type to manage content on this site. It's worked really well but has kind of been a crutch to not learn some other stuff? So now I'm not using it.
I've learned enough php and mysql to set up a script or whatever to put stuff into a database and get it out again. I like this. I'm trying to figure out how tagging. I've kind of got it there but I still have a bit of stuff to figure out.
I want rymo.org to be tag based. Make it easy to get to the stuff people specifically want to find and hide everything else. Hahaha. O_O
So the other night I had trouble falling asleep because I couldn't stop thinking about carpentry. I've caught the fever for building.
It's my secret desire to build a couch this summer. Also, a book shelf. And I kind of don't mean a "futon" or WHATEVER. I'm talking full blown upholstered couch.
This is a difficult entry to write. I don't like to talk about my dreams/aspirations/plans because then I have the world to answer to when I fail OR I have the world to surprise when I succeed.
But with the 2 people who visit this site (Mom, Brother) as my witness, I WILL BUILD SOMETHING.
Metaphors. They are good for comparing one thing to another.
OR ARE THEY?!!? Find out after the cut.
I once heard a guy say that blogs bore him.
I hear the LIBERAL MAINSTREAM MEDIA (allcaps means they're extra liberal!) say that bloggers are all ravenous plagiarists that are destroying journalism.
I hear people under 25 saying that blogs are nothing but narcissism.
It's like hearing someone say that books bore them, or that books are disrupting the power of politicians, or that all books are poorly written autobiographies. Genres people? Blogs are just a way of publishing, not a genre unto themselves.
Blogging is so much easier than any other form of information dissemination that came before it. Easier to create, and easier to receive. You can reach an audience without any investment except for time.
I have failed to make any points?
Umm... I'm sitting here in my pajamas, and that's more than the MAINSTREAM MEDIA will admit to. O_O
New web site design. Can you believe it? I can't.
Summer. I have been getting that excited feeling in my stomach lately. Either I'm excited about life or my laptop is boiling my insides. O_O
Welcome to Rymo.org. Summer 2006.
