Six years ago I embarked on a very interesting project. Take 48 hours, a genre drawn from a hat, and a required prop, character and line of dialogue and see what comes out. This is the 48 Hour Film Project, an international competition to see how quickly filmmakers can race against the clock to make …
“You Know, Your Cousin Works on CSI”, Or How I Finally Made it to California
My mother has this story that she likes to tell where I'm three years-old and I'm sitting on the front porch of our house in sub-urban Baltimore with suitcase waiting for a cab to come down the street and whisk me away to the airport. When the neighbor asked where I was going, my response …
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2012: A Year of Adventure in Review
An update to this blog is way overdue. My apologies for not doing it sooner. For now, I start by saying that 2012 was a year that was everything I wanted and more. If this was truly going to be the end of the world, this is how I would have wanted to go out...not …
The Adventures of Becky: Episode 6- Otakon 2012 (Or Where Becky Met ALL of the Sherlock Fans)
After Katsucon ended in February, my love of convention going was back in full gear. While I'm still not as into anime as I once was, these cons are just amazing. There's just such an amazing energy. So, when Manya and Emma asked if I would be going with them again this year, I couldn't …
The Adventures of Becky: Episode 5- Sleep Deprivation…48 Hours….
What do you get when you hand an aspiring film maker, a random genre, a character, a prop and a line of dialogue and say, "Make a film. You have 48 hours."? The answer is one of the toughest film competitions I can imagine. And this is what I did over a week ago...though it …
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The Adventures of Becky: Episode 4- There and Back Again
So, I’ve not been very good at updating…which is honestly not surprising. Not at all considering that I’ve got an enormous amount of schoolwork to do this semester, a show that is taking up all of my free time and a part-time job. Yeah. Not surprising to anyone that I haven’t been good about updating …
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The Adventures of Becky: Episode 3- Katsucon 18 (Or Rather, Becky Searches for the Elusive John and Sherlocks)
Well, I've been rather excited about Katsucon since probably December when I decided that nothing was going to stand in my way this year to go. I haven't been to a convention in a really long time. Particularly an anime convention. Mainly because I fell out of touch with anime somewhere along the lines of …
The Adventures of Becky: Episode 1- The Shooting Range
So, I decided as I thought about a title for this post that I wanted a way to differentiate all of the different things that this blog encompasses. As it is a combination, film review/media commentary blog/adventures of me/photography blog. Hence the title, "the adventures of Becky". I kind of like it, so I'm going …
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2011: A Year in Review
(Warning: This post will be long.) 2011 is ending with as much bang as it came in. Last year at this time I was wandering about Boston with friends (Chelsea, Becky T, Lucas, Mel, and my boyfriend, Geoff) as we explored what we could during the first night festivities. We wandered about the city exploring …
