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Valderi Valdera: July 2009
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Friday, July 10, 2009. Manhattan City Walk #1. Last Saturday, my boyfriend Matthew and I walked our first of several planned city walks, exploring the neighborhoods and parks of the Upper West Side. We mapped our 12.5 mile walk with Google Earth, and the composition below features some photographs I took along the way. Click on the map for an expanded view. I will post again with pictures from our next Manhattan adventure! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). An Attempt at Motivation. Too Much Free Time.
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Valderi Valdera: February 2008
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Monday, February 25, 2008. This weekend I watched Kiki's Delivery Service. 1989), an animated film by acclaimed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, and found myself succumbing once again to the charm and enchantment of one of Miyazaki's quintessential heroine-driven films. Like Chihiro in Spirited Away. And Sophie in Howl's Moving Castle. If only there were more of these heroines modeled in film and television for girls around the world to aspire to be. Films by Hayao Miyazaki (English titles):. Swimming U...
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Valderi Valdera: November 2008
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Friday, November 28, 2008. Twilight: Fanatics and Fangs. Minus the Fangs. On Monday, I received an email from a desperate friend who, after seeing Twilight. Opening weekend, was already suffering serious Robert Pattinson-related withdrawal symptoms and the desperate need to see the film again . 24 hours later. I wasn't actually planning on seeing the movie. Well, that's not true. I had decided if the Rottentomatoes. In theaters 4 times before I was satiated. Of course, I was actually. 12 at the time.
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Valderi Valdera: September 2009
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Sunday, September 13, 2009. Tragically, I have fallen out of the habit of blogging lately and most of the posts that I've started writing in the past few months have gone unfinished. I wanted to start fresh with a new blog and a new focus on daily entries rather than only posting a few times a month. Daily entries means shorter average post length ('cause there will be more of 'em! If you've enjoyed reading my entries here at "Valderi Valdera", check out my new blog - Valderi 365. An Attempt at Motivation.
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Valderi Valdera: March 2008
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Sunday, March 30, 2008. For the past few months I have been shipping my undergraduate senior film to festivals all over the country, and when I heard that one of my former NYU professors, Sharon Badal, had just published her first book, Swimming Upstream: A Lifesaving Guide to Short Film Distribution. I picked it up and began to read. Recognizes that everyone has an opinion, and fortunately, there's still plenty to learn directly from the experts and the independents, without a textbook editor as a middl...
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Valderi Valdera: December 2007
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Friday, December 28, 2007. Sweeney Todd: The Singing Barber of Fleet Street. There's only one two words that can really describe Tim Burton's film adaptation of Sweeney Todd. A musical by Stephen Sondheim): relentlessly intense. Would be appropriate as well, but only if you are in a punning mood. I've been a fan of Sondheim since I first discovered Into the Woods. My sophomore year of high school. I was introduced to Sweeney Todd. From the opening frame of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
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Valderi Valdera: December 2008
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Sunday, December 28, 2008. Dame Maggie Smith, an Oldie but a Goodie. I watched The First Wives Club. I had forgotten that the unsinkable Dame Maggie Smith was featured in the movie as a wealthy New York socialite who aids the first wives in their revenge schemes against their former husbands and their mistresses, and when she appeared on screen, as spicy (and old) as always, I felt all warm and fuzzy inside. I've loved Maggie Smith, the perpetual old lady, since I first saw her in Hook. What I have recen...
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Valderi Valdera: February 2009
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Saturday, February 28, 2009. Reading Books Without Pages. Last year in my post, Reading vs. Listening, the Debate. Amazon recently released the Amazon Kindle 2. The second-generation of its ebook reader, the Kindle, first launched in November of 2007. The Kindle 2 is sleeker than its predecessor with a better battery life, but with the same hefty price tag - $359 for the device and $9.99 per book for most new releases and best sellers. The Count of Monte Cristo. And Bram Stoker's Dracula. Is on my 2009 b...
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Valderi Valdera: May 2009
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Friday, May 15, 2009. Google Top Results . Forming an LLC by State. This is completely random, but also kind of hysterical . As I'm preparing to begin a film producing career at the indie level, the next step is incorporating as an official company. And logically, every next step begins with a Google search for the question that needs to be answered, such as, How much does it cost to get an LLC in NYC? At the top of the Google search list below the sponsored links is my answer:. 4 How much does breast au...
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Valderi Valdera: October 2008
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Sunday, October 26, 2008. Nick and Norah's Infinite Night Out. My trip last weekend to see Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Was my first movie theater outing since catching Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. Back in July (there just hasn't been much of interest this movie season). I didn't feel a need to write a review on The Dark Knight. As it has been done to death, and I hardly have anything new to offer. My review in two sentences? Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. And the recent hits Juno.
