Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
- Ronald E. Osborn
just to keep myself from feeling like i'm heading towards the woeful path of stagnation, i made a short reading list that should occupy me for quite a few weeks to come. see now, growth is good. this is scout on hyper-geek mode. ^_^
the techie stuff:
1)
Flash MX Savvy / Ethan Watrall
2) PHP Scripting 101 / Vikram Vaswani
3) Visual C++ 6.0 Programmer's Guide / Beck Zaratian
4) Final Cut Pro 3 & the Art of Filmmaking / Jason Cranford Teague
the artsy stuff:
1)
Typographics: The Art of Typography from Digital to Dyeline / Roger Walton
2) The Technique of Film Editing / Karel Reisz
3) Tuklas Sining: Essays on the Philippine Arts / Nicanor Tiongson
4) Making Documentaries & News Features in the Philippines / James Kenny
5) Guerilla Advertising / Jay Conrad Levinson
6) Film Art: An Introduction / David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson
7) Introduction to Photography / Rhode & McCall
the heavy stuff:
1) Unmasking the War on Terror: US Imperialist Hegemony and Crisis / Center for Anti-Imperialist Studies
2) Voices & Scenes of the Past: The Philippine American War Retold / Maria Serena L. Diokno
3) The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State / Frederick Engels
4) Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience / Gabriel Kolko
the fun stuff:
1) Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte
2) I *heart* Huckabees / David O'Russell
3) I Am Sam / Jessie Nelson
4) Baraka / Ron Fricke
5) Punch Drunk Love / Paul Thomas Anderson
6) Dodes' Kaden / Akira Kurosawa
7) Seven Samurai / Akira Kurosawa
8) Rabbit Proof Fence / Phillip Noyce
9) Central Station / Walter Salles
10) The Birth of a Nation / D. W. Griffith
11) Red Beard / Akira Kurosawa
12) Umberto D. / Vittorio de Sida
13) Throne of Blood / Akira Kurosawa
14) The Gold Rush / Charles Chaplin
15) The Legend of 1900 / Giuseppe Tornatore
16) The Idiot / Akira Kurosawa
17) Trainspotting / Danny Boyle
18) 2001: A Space Odyssey / Stanley Kubrick
19) Dr. Strangelove / Stanley Kubrick
20) Eyes Wide Shut / Stanley Kubrick
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i think i might have forgotten how it is to sleep. orpheus, won't you please come visit?
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