Archive for October, 2009

It looks like my dreams are slowly coming true inch by inch. I just hope I don’t get overwhelmed with the amount of blessing coming up next semester. Looks like most of the “stressful” elements aren’t going to bug me because of my subjects and I get to teach some kids about the basic principles behind film making. It’s like a double cheeseburger, teaching the kids and also learning more about film sounds like a great idea. Also I won’t be handling that much (I think I’ll only be handling one) software specific courses meaning I don’t have to memorize how an entire software works so that it would be easier to teach the kids.

Another thing coming up is that I have a great family who’s willing to support my dreams by helping me getting the camera of my dreams. There were a few bumps in the way, but I’m happy that hopefully this month I’ll be using that camera to start my mysterious project.

I’m excited and ecstatic. I just finished Batman Arkham Asylum and now that’s out of the way, I can focus more on what I’ve been wanting to do for 5 years. Just when I thought things would end with my dreams 2 years ago, I can’t believe it’s actually coming true right now. God does work in mysterious ways. No detective can figure out what He’s up to becuase probably, it’s best not to. Surprises always make my day.

Holy Smokes Batman! For the first time in so many years, someone has finally made a decent game that involves you and your huge roster of villains. Not only that, it’s a game that actually works!

Batman games of the last decade have either been good at best and unplayable at worst. The last game that came out which was based on the Batman Begins film was actually good but ended up underwhelming and extremely simple. Eversince, Batman was off the radar and it seems that people have forgotten about the Dark Knight in the gaming industry even with the extreme critical and blockbuster success of the latest film of the franchise.

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Would you live your life in a world where everyone isn’t real?

Much like the Matrix films, Surrogates has that philosophical theme of whether people can be satisfied with what’s not real for the comfort of their own satisfaction. As Matrix was all about a virtual world created by Artificial Intelligence, Surrogates’ environment centers more on android robots that can replicate and even enhance anything a human being can do. All the people have to do is plug-in to their device and they are connected to their “Surrogate”, the android robot, which they can control and actually go around the world in and also look like whatever they want it to look like. Life then becomes easier because feeling rejected or being in danger is now just an after thought.

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