“…You want to make it any country, you gotta know the language. And filmmaking is a world of its own. But it’s more of a code than a language, a verbal secret handshake. What does it really mean when someone asks, “Its on a European budget?” Here’s how to crack the code.”
[Finishing overview of Raindance Canada's Saturday Film School w Elliot Grove, and the elements of budget, casting, lighting and camera angles.]
Jan
27
2012
“…Choose your creativity adventure. We are genetically modified girls living in a genetically modified world. Are we making creative aspects using less than creative means, and realizing only a limited aspect of our own creativity?”
[Lamenting post about the automatic arts of photography, music and *gasp* possibly writing?]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2012/01/ghost-writers-ghost-town-the-lost-arts/
Dec
09
2011
“…The story of Billy Bishop is a great one. But transferring a story does not mean a straight transfer of elements when transferring to a different medium.”
[Post about how I walked out of my first movie - a musical transported, not translated, to cinema.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/12/the-medium-is-the-message-if-you-stay-that-long%e2%80%a6/
Dec
02
2011
“…You want to make it any country, you gotta know the language. And filmmaking is a world of its own. But it’s more of a code than a language, a verbal secret handshake. What does it really mean when someone asks, “Its on a European budget?” Here’s how to crack the code.”
[Finishing overview of Raindance Canada's Saturday Film School w Elliot Grove, and the elements of budget, casting, lighting and camera angles.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/12/3848/
Nov
28
2011
“…While The Kooks are best known for boppy bits like “Matchbox” and “Naive”, their slower jams were surprisingly the best of their live set. “Sway” has that rising bridge that just screams for singalong screams. And the crowd gives their sway, soul and heart even without Pritchard claiming he needs it.”
[Review of The Kooks gig w/ The Postelles @ Sound Academy, Toronto, Canada - 23 November 2011]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/11/the-kooks-kick-off/
Nov
18
2011
“…First off, Raindance Canada’s course is not for newbies, students or amateurs. Of course, that doesn’t stop all of them from attending. Grove’s fascinating charisma, however, doesn’t allow you to think of yourself as a newbie, student or amateur. He offered real life insight and practical advice on the art of filmmaking.”
[Overview of Raindance Canada's Saturday Film School w Elliot Grove, and how screenwriting compares to writing a book.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/11/twins-a-film-of-similarities-raindance-canada-saturday-film-school/
Nov
07
2011
“…Their set jumped from tribal beated and falsetto yelps in “Welcome to the Occupation” to slow jam “Every Man I Fall For”. This may have halted any rising energy in any other set, but the crowd showed no slow down in its sing-a-long. Most of the slow songs had Willett on the piano, and what crowd doesn’t love a piano man singing us a song?”
[Review of Cold War Kids gig w/support Act Young Man @ Phoenix, Toronto, Canada - 4 November 2011.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/11/cold-war-kids-play-in-the-sun/
Nov
03
2011
“…Chromeo pulls off their live set with the right balance of slick, sleek and smooooth. The only imbalance was P-thugg’s Sonny to Dave1’s Cher. Dave1 with his foppish dark curls and shades overshadowed P-Thugg’s push buttons, but it still was just right. When Dave1 enthused the crowd to clap, we clapped. When Dave1 charmed the crowd to scream, we screamed. And P-Thugg punctuated each command with a synthed, ‘oh yeah!’”
[Review of Chromeo's gig @ Sound Academy w/ supports Mayer Hawthorne & The County, and Breakbot - 2 November 2011, Toronto, Canada.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/11/fell-in-love-with-chromeo/
Oct
28
2011
“…It’s a real psyche ward, with real people popping out of and skulking around dark corners, complete with a real coffin to simulate being buried alive for visitors…My friend was wrong – you don’t have a scare limit. The anticipation and anxiety of the other houses keep building and feeding off each other.”
[Review of Powerhouse of Terror Charity Haunt - 3 Haunted Houses @ Power House Recreation Centre, Humber College, Kipling, Canada - Thursday, 13 October to Monday, 31 October 2011 (except Tue, Wed and Thurs)]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/10/real-life-is-infectious-%e2%80%93-and-scary-the-powerhouse-of-terror/
Oct
21
2011
“…In an age where faces were replaced by books, and now books are replaced by Facebook, cries of privacy are louder than ever…I recently checked the ‘back end’ of my Google Analytics to see what drives traffic to my website/blog.”
[Post about the ego-crashing search terms that lead ppl to my blog.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/10/searching-for-my-ego/
Oct
19
2011
“…The crowd were in a trippy, juxtaposed time-warp. Each set brought an old-time familiarity [Purity Ring – childhood innocence, Com Truise – 80s montage, Neon Indian – old-school resonance] but this is music way ahead of its time. Each artist brought entirely different sounds to the system and to the norm in general; their groundbreaking beats uniting instead of dividing.”
[Review of Neon Indian gig w support acts Com Truise and Purity Ring @ Lee's Palace, Toronto, Canada - 18 October 2011.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/10/viva-la-electronica-trifecta-neon-indian-w-com-truise-purity-ring/
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