Hindsight

The game reached store shelves this week for both PlayStation2 and Xbox platforms.

Support me and my friends (testers, developers, artists) who worked on this game and pick it up. It’s a lot of fun. I can’t say more because I have a lot of bias (an understatement after testing the game for over a year). You’ll just have to give it a try yourself.

Park Chan-wook’s “Oldboy” (2003) was showing at the University Edwards theater, across from where I used to attend college.

Well aware that this film was available as a bootleg, I preferred to catch it on a big screen. I’m glad i did.

“Oldboy” is very twisted and ultra-violent. The squeamish may find themselves looking away from the screen ever so often to avoid the [understated] painful bits. But those others who enjoy violence and stories without restraint will get a big kick out of it. Mari and I were pretty much floored and were still bringing it up later that night.

Lead actor Choi Min-sik is in his prime here. I expected no less.

After catching the film, we had a hankering for Korean food. The kimchee soondobu (Tofu Soup) that I ordered was very spicy - next time I will not ask for “medium” as the spice strength…

I’ve had time off work since last Tuesday. Our project has more or less wrapped up and I’ve been granted seven days to not be at work, which is a privilege.

The last few months, as previously mentioned, haven’t amounted to much outside of work. I was working some nights until the following 3am morning. It wasn’t new to get those kinds of hours worked in during crunch time - I think I’ve just gotten tired of it and that’s why things are going to change.

Milestones. My project Statement of Agreement was selected for exhibition at the Jutro Filmu (Future of Film) 2005 festival in Warsaw, Poland. This was an extremely pleasant surprise.

I spent my first day or two of my break redesigning the Hindsight Project. This doesn’t signify any new videos, unfortunately (I just started on my days off). But it was something I’d been meaning to get to for quite some time. Its completion also signalled the need to create once again….

I finished my first solid draft of a videoscript. It’s refreshing to be writing again, and even more so when the right [musical] inspiration comes along to ignite it. Of three videos I’ve mapped out, two will be themed about Japan. Yes, I am going to Japan for the entire month of May. Very, very excited about this. But also very scared about the unknown that awaits when I return.

For no reason, here is a picture of a PlayStation2 labeled George Foreman grill that was at my friend’s house.