Hi All,
I'm moving over to http://jyslifetimes.tumblr.com/.
Blogger has treated me well and it's so hard to say goodbye, but I feel I get better outreach at tumblr.
Much love and I will write/post more soon!
Best,
James
June 23, 2012
March 28, 2012
Entanglement
He was driving home in the rain when it hit him.
“This is ridiculous.”
They knew this would happen. The project meant he had to be away from her for many months, doing things that seemed like gibberish to everyone.
“He smashes things,” she would tell her friends.
And he did. Small things. Things so small, it’s hard to tell if they exist until they collide.
…sharing different heartbeats…
He pressed the button on his phone and let it record for a beat.
“This song came on and made me think of you.”
He recently discovered voice memos and he had something to say on this long ride home, under the pouring sky.
“Tomorrow will be half a year since we last met and I’m falling apart.”
He pauses as an oncoming car blinds him momentarily.
“I wish I could share this car ride with you, along with this dark sky.”
He turns down the volume of the song.
“I still feel you, 10,000 kilometers away. Maybe your taking a nap right now and tracing my path home from another space.”
The rain beats down harder.
“I visit you when I dream. You’ll tell me to wipe my nose and then we would sit in your room and watch the Milky Way rotate outside your window.”
He looked at the sky.
“When I wake, your still in everything I do.”
He passes by a coffee house with a few night owls perched at the counter.
“Every reminder of you – a song playing in a cafe, a scene in a film – cuts a small wound and slowly bleeds me to death. If you feel a fraction of the same pain, guilt shoots through me like lightning.”
He slows down as he crosses a puddle the size of a small ocean.
“Why are we doing this to ourselves?”
He glances at the papers in the passenger seat.
“I’ve been thinking a lot about that question and also another question we’ve been trying to answer on this project.“
He rubs his hands along the steering wheel.
“There are these two particles that have become linked somehow. Whatever we do to one, it affects the other, even across long distances. We shot one to a lab on the other side of the world, and when they spun it one way, we see the paired particle spin the other.”
The chill in the car bites him. He turns on the heater.
“If what we’re observing is true, even if we separate them by an entire universe, they’re still connected. These particles are bound by something unseen, something profound, something we’re only beginning to understand. It’s like crazy.”
The familiar old brick façade of the hotel comes into view.
“I know you nod off when I talk about work, but all these questions in my head are starting to blur together. I miss you terribly. See you soon.”
He taps his phone.
He ponders the rain and the view of the parking lot from his rental car.
He climbs the stairs to his empty room.
December 28, 2011
Fight Life World Premiere!
Three years ago I was being choked out by another student at Jake Shield's Gracie Fighter gym in Berkeley while Jake looked on.
I wondered to myself, "I didn't know film research could be this painful."
Seems like ages since that moment, but it's been worth the wait. After 3 years of production, Fight Life the MMA Documentary I helped produce is finally coming to the big screen.
Location: The Roxie Theater in San Francisco
Date: January 20th, 2012
Time: 7pm and 9pm
Special Guests: Jake Shields and more.
"Fight Life" is a groundbreaking documentary that gives the audience a rare look into the real life of the professional mixed martial arts fighter and the sport they've chosen.
Trailer:
The Chase (Film Exercise)
So during the four months of procrastinating on a new blog post, I took a production class at a nearby community college.
Here's a short film that we made for an assignment.
"The Chase" by Jon Jung, Kyle Knaus, Dury Kim, and me.
More videos and entries to come (sooner than 4 months fo sho).
August 28, 2011
MOVE ON
In July 06', my then friend Long needed actors for his college photo project. He needed twins, so my brother and I being young and naive, volunteered. The results of the ill fated collaboration are the series of pictures seen in the video.
Despite destroying all I held dear and causing me to fall into a deep depression, Long gave me the photos as a gift after the exhibit. He says it was the least who could do since the car accident and at the time I took it as a sign of regret on his part and forgave him. It's good to have a chronicle of the bright times as well as the incredibly dark.
My twin brother was really into Pinback and although it was painful, I filmed the photographs to the Pinback song 3x0 in our old room in Mira Mesa as a tribute to him. The REAL him.
Still in grief and shock over the events that transpired, I filed the film away to be posted at a later date.
However, Long got wind of the video and, as if he hadn't done enough to me, stole back his photos and my laptop with the film and ran away to Mexico where he bootlegged copies of the film and became a prominent artist under the name Largo.
Last night, after five years of meticulous planning, I finally found Long hiding in Tijuana and executed my revenge. While burning all his possessions, I came across my old laptop.
It's time. I've moved on and can finally post the film to an American audience.
May it serve as a reminder to everyone to not involve oneself in things that they do not fully understand.
Note: The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any resemblance to the names, character, or history of any person is coincidental and unintentional. That is to say, this is all made up!
August 27, 2011
DIRECTIONS IN DIALOGUE: Byron Q - Part 2 - BANG BANG
In Part 2 of my CAAM interview with Byron Q, we focus on his recent feature film "BANG BANG" and the process behind the scenes.
Byron also gives some great advice to other up and coming filmmakers.
Check it out!
July 22, 2011
DIRECTIONS IN DIALOGUE: Byron Q - Part 1
I got to talk with my home boy and fellow filmmaker Byron Q about his recent feature film “BANG BANG” and how his unpredictable life growing up influences his work.
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