My new wallpaper choice

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I struggle with wallpaper. I get very bored of it very easily and obsess about finding the highest resolution images possible.

This is why I will never get a tattoo.

My latest wallpaper is preeeetty baller though:

Night and Day!

It’s from my favorite pixar short to date, Night & Day.

It’s far more cheerful than my last wallpaper choice:

I was having a hard time concentrating pre-vacation...

Probably my favorite in recent memory has been:

Cary Grant hi res photos should be a currency.

That’s all! I would attach the Day and Night characters for your own desktopification, but they are all kind of customized for a small Acer monitor and a pretty iMac monitor, a duo I doubt many have.

Review of iPhone App “Wunderlist”

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If you are like me, you fetishize to-do lists. With the multi-project school life we all lead (or professional life we try to maintain on the side), it becomes your only way to keep edit sessions and deliveries from getting out of hand. Not to mention your personal life! I can’t tell you how many times I feel I’ve really got this multitasking thing down until I realize that I can’t go to the gym, as scheduled, because I haven’t brought anything to exercise in…but it was on the calendar, at least.

“Wunderlist is a Simple, Elegant, and Free To-Do App that Synchronizes Across Your Machines”.

Before Wunderlist, I spent 3 hours at Target and still forgot to buy these items...


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USC Food Spending Part 2: The Coffee Bean

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When I was in undergrad, we had a joke that we should start a coffee shop in the Ross Theatre Building where we had our classes. We had even had a joke naming session of what it would be called and what drinks it would serve:

The winner was Schindler's Latte

Names not shown in the picture are were The Lord of the Beans, It’s a Wonderful Latte, The Treasure of the Sierra Grande, Donnie Darkroast, Chai Hard, and La Venti e Bella.

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Editor Food

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The art of craft services on student sets will always be lacking. But a student or freelance editor has the luxury of a microwave, fridge or at least the time to order pizza from Papa Johns (and earn them Papa Points).

These are my Dos and Don’ts of my editing food choices and prep methods from over the years and how I’ve sadly tailored them for working and gaining weight faster. Continue reading →

Summertime

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Yes! Josieazzam.com lives again! After a very intense breakup with bluehost.com (they got me when I was young and foolish), I am back on track with a domain name that looks sort of legit. Especially as my website already looks a little pre-fab, I’ve got to at least look like I have a vague idea of how the interwebs works.

So much to do today! I have to finish gathering selects for a documentary I’m editing, through a grant from the National Science Foundation for the program “Be A Scientist”, as conducted by a group called “Iridescent”. It’s hours of footage of children adorably learning how to make Lunar Landers and Stomp Rockets out of construction paper and pipe cleaner. Tough gig.

Then I’ve got my co-editor-turned-director Evan Matthews coming over to work on his CTPR 533 with me. 533 is the advanced directing class at school, a little desperately ambitious since you’re creating a thesis scale scene on your own. 546 gets a crew of 12, Thesis films get tons of reel hungry people, 532s are small enough to nab some crew but 533s are for serious on your own. Fortunately, Evan Matthews has horses and cowboys in his so people are flocking to the scene.

Then, some more crazed selects gleaning before heading off to Disneyland tomorrow! A well deserved day off to celebrate the end of the semester. Only one more year left until this cozy USC blanket gets ripped off and I’m told to get up, get dressed, and get to work.

12 hours of editing, Go!