Let me get this out of the way: I freakin’ hate social networking sites. I don’t know why but I just couldn’t get a grip on how these sites became so massively popular. In my entire internet life I maintained 2 accounts: Friendster and MySpace. Friendster because it’s the social network of choice for most Filipinos and all my high school and college friends are there. MySpace because, well, it’s MySpace. I rarely check those 2 accounts unless I receive a notice on my inbox that I have a new something. I refuse to sign-up to any more as countless invitations arrive on my mailbox goes directly to the trash or the spam folder. Then came Virb.
I first heard about Virb while listening to a recent episode of MacBreak Weekly. I became curious and decided to check it out. The homepage alone shows that it’s a “cool” site, with featured prominent artists and a nicely-designed layout. Signing up is a breeze and I’m creating my profile in no time.
This blog is said to be blogging about all things awesome. It won’t live up to its tagline when I don’t write something about 300, the most awesome movie ever. Keep in mind that I saw it on IMAX so the exaggeration can be the result of the whole “IMAX experience”
First of all, I only heard about the movie because it’s currently the favorite topic on Digg right now. Call me dumb or an idiot but I don’t really know any of Frank Miller’s work except for Sin City and I didn’t know the story of the Spartans. Sure, I heard about it and they probably thought it in my high school but I’m not exactly sure what happened…I always taught Sparta is a brand of underwear. Anyway, I saw the trailer and it looks absolutely stunning so that got me hooked.
A lot of movies have tackled ancient battles and not quite did they live up to 300’s gorgeous scenes. Watching it feels like a good cut-scene from a video game and I mean that in a very good way. From the brilliant use of matrix-style slow motion effects to the artistic shots and cinematography, I just couldn’t stress enough how stunning it is.
I know I’m a little behind but I found this Conan clip freakin’ hilarious. I don’t get to watch Conan anymore because I go to bed early… yeah I’m such a baby.
I haven’t been updating this blog that much because I’m still looking for my “blogger identity”. I mean, I’ve been blogging for more than 3 years now but that’s just mostly about my personal life and that was my teenage angst writing. Now that I’m planning to make this sort of like my portfolio site, I don’t think it’s appropriate to write personal stuff anymore. That’s it, I’m not writing personal stuff anymore. I don’t want people to know what I’m up to.
Having said that, I just created my very own Twitter account. Since I don’t want people to know what I’m up to, I don’t want them to visit this link.
