Life In The Pacific Northwest
The Meadowdale High School Film Festival is next week. I’m excited for the kids and expect it’ll be great. And I’m not biased at all. *ahem*
*note: I’m a Meadowdale alum, and several of the participants are kids I’ve been honored to watch grow up. I’m totally biased.
A few days ago I stumbled upon this trailer: Kubo and the Two Strings. A stop-motion animated films of epic proportions. Yes, I know that’s a cliche, but I find it far too fitting to not use it.
Anyway, I’m deeply disappointed in myself for not noticing this film before. The trailers, by themselves, are truly beautiful. It has a stellar cast (Matthew McConaughey, Charlize Theron, George Takei, amongst the most luminary), and 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s clearly a film that needs to be seen. Just got to figure out where or how that will work out as I doubt it’s in the theaters any more (was released last year). But Kubo is on Netflix!
So, enjoy the preview below. Let me know what you think. Especially if you’ve seen it (no spoilers, por favor).
With generous support from the City of Everett Cultural Arts Commission and the EvCC Foundation, Everett Community College’s Nippon Business Institute and Japanese Club invite you to join us at our third annual Japanese Anime and Manga Arts Festival (JAMAF 2017). Activities take place on the EvCC campus located in north Everett at 2000 Tower Street, with the main stage sited in the Jackson Conference Center.
The good folks at Everett Community College, along with the City of Everett’s Cultural Arts Commission are delighted to bring you their 2017 Japanese Anime and Manga Arts Festival.
Next month, May 19th & 20th…and this event is FREE! And open to everyone.
Their website has all the details.
Yesterday’s post on my old Travel Dreams, and then a comment by JoanJet (probably not the rock star…) reminded me of another piece of this: it’s evolution.
JoanJet wrote about her plans to throw an iKamper (check out it’s Kickstarter campaign) on the top of her Navigator and hit the road. That’s very close to what I picture myself doing….eventually.
Looking at the iKamper campaign reminded me of this film by Zangs Films: Our Land – Traversing Oregon. (They had a similar camper set up on their Landcruiser in the film). It reminds me of what’s great about the Pacific Northwest, our current policies around public lands and how important they are to maintain.
Anyway, check out the film. It’s worth your (just over) 15 minutes.
(*if you liked the film, check out the behind the scenes blog post from the folks at Zangs)
