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    What are you doing with your life?

    I'm talking about right now, in your life, what are you doing? Are there a certain number of important tasks you're battling at hand? Discuss!

    Currently, I am desperately waiting to hear from several universities I applied to. USC and Chapman University top my list, as I applied as a Critical Studies and Film Production major, respectively. I also applied to New York University as a Cinema Studies major, although it is unlikely I will get accepted there without being accepted somewhere locally. As a backup, I applied to Woodbury University as a Psychology major where I will be able to minor in Film.

    Meanwhile, I am designing several websites. I am working on a hookah website which will provide visitors with tips and general advice for hookah preparation. This project is completely for my own because I have always wanted to collect hookah information for others. I am also designing a company website with my brother-in-law for my father's business. I am responsible for the overall layout, as well as articles and written information.

    I am also developing an original feature length screenplay, which will probably come together if I don't get into film school. I am spending my time crafting this very personal story about a mother and son, while drawing my inspiration from my personal favorite films and filmmakers: Atom Egoyan (Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, Ararat) and Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain). I should be working on completing post-production on Amorosa, my first short film, which was completed in August 2008. I had to put off the work when I started working on my applications and must go back to completing the film.

    Perhaps it's just me, but I feel the need to constantly keep myself busy. Unfortunately, these projects never pick up and are never finished. My problem is I am involved in so many projects, I can never finish anything and end up losing interest. Hopefully, this thread will serve as a painful reminder.
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    Re: What are you doing with your life?

    I am also slowly working on a home theatre for my new house. For now, I am simply making my decisions on equipments (projector, surround sound system, receiver) and will eventually start purchasing them and designing the actual theatre itself.

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      Re: What are you doing with your life?

      I am currently working with school and homework.

      Slowly I am starting to build onto my flash creations. During the summer me and my friends are going to make a 5-10 minute flash movie(Not amateur, real nice graphics, and all.) I am still thinking of writing a script for it then i will be making 2 more scripts to clean up and make sure everything goes in order and I will even start(dare I say) storyboarding(DUN DUN DUN.)

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        Re: What are you doing with your life?

        I am working & going to school so I can get my B.A. degree.
        Positive vibes, positive taught

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          Re: What are you doing with your life?

          I am in my second year at university and have no idea where I am going really, maybe IT I don't know. Annoyed though...NZ used to have free education from pre school to university, but the free market capitalists cut that back...the only bad side...student loans.

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            Re: What are you doing with your life?

            Originally posted by Sero View Post
            Slowly I am starting to build onto my flash creations. During the summer me and my friends are going to make a 5-10 minute flash movie(Not amateur, real nice graphics, and all.) I am still thinking of writing a script for it then i will be making 2 more scripts to clean up and make sure everything goes in order and I will even start(dare I say) storyboarding(DUN DUN DUN.)
            I think I remember you telling me about this a few months ago.

            I remember messing around with Flash at your age. I made some pretty interesting movies during September 11 where I tried to recreate the attack in New York. Keep it up, there's a whole world to learn outside of Flash and you're at a good start.

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              Re: What are you doing with your life?

              Guys, continue pursuing your projects that you feel so adamant about. And whether you like it or not, if you "abandon" them they will come back to you. I have many projects in my life and I want to pursue them not for myself, but so that they can materialize and their full fruit could be of use to others in the future.

              I am teaching piano, doing my linguistics program and pursuing martial arts on a more or less consistent basis (every week). I want to find mastery in all these things and be able to teach them myself.

              I want to end up traveling across entire continents by foot, Canada is good for that and in my opinion, so is Russia. When I look at a globe, this is what I think about. I want to find personal mastery over diverse elements of nature and terrestrial distance. I want to leave my mark along the way frequently, building "checkpoints" that serve as camping bases or even makeshift architectural structures along the way that can host other voyagers in the future. I would also like to plant plenty of fruit trees in certain checkpoints for this same purpose.

              Another thing I'd like when I embark on this voyage is to have a pack of dogs with me that I will train to hunt, scout and defend. I know little about how to train dogs for this as of yet, but I will learn because I know dogs can make great companions and are very useful to man.

              I know that in nature, if you spend enough time in it, the concerns of city life completely vanish. They take on the form of entertaining recollections, as removed from your reality as the television you watch. Instead, you are connected with the sounds of the forest, the sounds that the birds, creatures and critters live in. It is its own language, a marriage of stillness and movement, of instinct and observation. I want to spend time learning and speaking this language.

              I would like to travel through several towns and perhaps along the way as well in these voyages, meeting and learning about many different people, their lives, beliefs, traditions.
              Last edited by jgk3; 04-17-2009, 12:11 PM.

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                Re: What are you doing with your life?

                jgk3, you would absolutely love Into The Wild.

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                  Re: What are you doing with your life?

                  Originally posted by One-Way View Post
                  I think I remember you telling me about this a few months ago.

                  I remember messing around with Flash at your age. I made some pretty interesting movies during September 11 where I tried to recreate the attack in New York. Keep it up, there's a whole world to learn outside of Flash and you're at a good start.
                  Thanks.

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                    Re: What are you doing with your life?

                    Originally posted by One-Way View Post
                    jgk3, you would absolutely love Into The Wild.
                    thanks for the suggestion, I wikied it and it sounds interesting.

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