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Jonah

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About Me


Born and raised on Marthas Vineyard Island off the coast of Massachusetts, and escaped as quickly as I could for film school in Los Angeles, and never left. I am an avid reader and constantly watch movies, buy DVD's, cook, eat (especially at the Curry House in Little Tokyo, Noodle City, 888 Seafood or Palms Thai Restaurant), draw, talk (I can be quite loquacious), work on my computer, learn about new digital filming technology and make short films. I have an extensive foreign film collection (Hong Kong, Korean, Japanese, Anime and Indian films) and always have a book to read.

I am working editing documentaries for DVD's (Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King Special Extended Edition DVD's, SAW Special Edition, did some work for the King Kong DVD and Kong is King web site, and the Ferngully Special Edition DVD), edited a reality show called REMIX for BET and direct music videos, and short films on the side.Need to make some serious money so I can buy a house, and have room to fit all this s*** I have in my apartment, which is not only where I live, but where I work as well, and it is the place that my friends affectionately call the bunker (yes it could use some sunlight). I am always happy when women don't run screaming from seeing it. They don't have to like it, just not running away is nice. He he he.

I have been working lately doing HD technology consulting as well as Visual effects supervising, which is really enjoyable. I love being on the front of the technology curve, I just wish I could afford all the technology that I know about! Ha! Damn I want a Panasonic HVX200, as I could be making movies and commercials right now.

You can download my resume here , read personal blog on movies and music , or my new Los Angeles Restaurant and Wine Reviews Blog or view my company home page, Whale of a Tale Productions :


My Interests

devil sticking, filmmaking, editing, sketching, history, movies, hong kong movies, korean movies, japanese movies, DVD's, books, Macs, Technology, Computers, After Effects, Motion, Shake, Final Cut Pro, Editing, HD, Video Cameras, Photography, Anime, Manga, Music, K-Pop, J-Pop, Canto-Pop, The Curry House, DDR, Model Making, Painting, guitar (though I am really, really bad), Glidecam, XBOX 360, Mass Effect, Guitar Hero

I'd like to meet:

No more of these junk friend requests, if you seriously share interests and aren't trying to make a buck, or date someone or make me listen to your band then go ahead and make a friend request, but how about a message first?,

Other weirdoes like me. People who want to make some short fims and get them out there. I would love to get a small group of filmmakers together and work on each other's short films, and make a bunch of them each year, maybe even one a month. I really want to get this going. Music videos, short films, full length indies. I need to start creating soon! And I need to get other people fired up about doing it as well!

I am trying to come up with as many concepts as I can, and get some other people to work on them. At first I was just trying to work with what I had available, but no I am just trying to come up with various short film ideas. SOMEONE HAD BETTER WANT TO MAKE A FILM SOON!

People who love technology and want to use it to make films.

People who passionately love movies as much as I do, and can turn me on to great films I haven't seen.

People who have passion and creativity in their lives.

A world champion devil sticker who could teach me more! Someone to teach me to juggle bowling pins and pass them in between, since I already juggle pretty well.

Music:

ahmasté, ARLO, Atomic Rooster, Baby T, Bob Marley, British Sea Power, Buffalo Springfield, Cat Stevens, Cibo Matto, Concrete Blond, Darren Hanlon, David Gray, Dog Shit, Drunken Tiger, Electric Eel Shock, Electrolites, Elton John, Faye Wong, Fleetwood Mac, Flogging Molly, Future Bible Heroes, Get Set Go, Glenn Gould, Grateful Dead, Guided by Voices, Jets to Brazil, Jimi Hendrix, Kelly Chen Wai-Lam, Led Zeppelin, Lou Barlow, Lucksmiths, m-flo, Magnetic Fields, Midnight Oil, Modest Mouse, Mountain Goats, Muse, Nesian Mystic, New Maximum Donkey, New Order, Pablo Brazil, Park Ji Yoon, Pink Floyd, Pizzicato Five, Puffy AmiYumi, Radiohead, Ringo Shena, Roger Waters, Sebadoh, Shins, Simpletons, Sleater Kinney, Sonic Youth, Steve Miller Band, T, Tasha, Tegan and Sara, The Beatles, The Cure, The Pixies, The Police, Thelonious Monk, Timelords, Tokyo Jihen, Tool, Unsane, Unwound, Utada, Utada Hikaru, Wong Faye, Yes Dear, Yuka Honda

Movies:

2001 A Space Oddysey, 2046, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Alien, Aliens, Amelie, Annie Hall, Apocalypse Now,, Ashes of Time, Back to the Future, Bad Sleep Well, Battle Royal, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Branded to Kill, Brazil, Center Stage, Charlotte Sometimes, Chungking Express, Come Drink With Me, Comrades Almost a Love Story, Days of Being Wild, Dil Se, Donnie Darko, Election, Fantasia, Garden State, Ghost in a Shell 2: Innocence, Girl with the Diamond Slippers, Golden Swallow, Goonies, Gross Point Blank, Hana Bi, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Hero, In the Mood for Love, Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan, JSA, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Lone Star, Mean Streets, Memento, Mononoke Hime, My Life as a Dog, My Wife is a Gangster, Naked, Nausicca And the, Old Boy, One - Armed Swordsman, Only Yesterday, Princess Bride, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Red Beard, Samurai 1, Samurai 2, Samurai 3, Saving Face, Shaun of the Dead, Spirited Away, Star Wars, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Tears, The Angel, The Angel with Iron Fists, The Bad Sleep Well, The Eel, The Empire Strikes Back, The Fisher King, The Odd One Dies, The Road Warrior, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Third Man, Tokyo Drifter, My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari No Totoro), Valley of the Wind, Versus, Viva Erotica, Water, Young and Dangerous, Zatoichi

Television:

Life on Mars BBC, Red Dwarf, Deadwood, Huff, Red Dwarf, Dr. Who, A Cook's Tour, Anthony Bordain No Reservations, Six Feet Under, Carnivale, Firefly, Taxi, M*A*S*H, Battlestar Galactica, The Office, The Office BBC, Northern Exposure, Tales of the Gold Monkey, The Sopranos, Rome, Real Time with Bill Maher, Star Trek TOS, Fraggle Rock, The Muppet Show, Muppets Tonight, The Storyteller, Amazing Stories, Anime, Macross, Robotech, Genesis Climber Mospeada, His and Her Circumstances, Kare Kano, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Lain, Haibane Renmei, Ranma 1/2, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, FLCL, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Nadia and the Secret of the Blue Water, Ghost in a Shell Stand Alone Complex, Full Metal Alchemist, Bleach, Appleseed

Books:

The Soong Dynasty, Kitchen, Goodbye Tsuginami, (anything by Banana Yoshimoto), Norwegian Wood, The Wind up Bird Cronicle, (anything by Haruki Murakami), Ender's Game, The Prophet, Nueromancer, Red China Blues, Master and Commander, The complete Aubrey and Maturin series, Harry Potter, The Marshes of Mount Liang, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Story of the Stone, Dreams of a Red Chamber, Angels and Demons, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age Or the Young Ladies Illustrated Primer, Cryptonomicon, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Dirk Gently Holistic Detective Agency

Heroes:

Wong Kar Wai, Haruki Murakami, Christopher Doyle, Vittorio Storaro, Cheung Man-Yuk, Michael Collins, Ching Ling Soong, Walter Murch, Orson Welles, Gregg Toland, Salvador Dali, my mom, Linda Carnegie, Chang Cheh, Lau Kar Leung, Gordon Liu Chia Hui, Umetsugu Inoue, Johhnie To Kei Fung, Wai Ka Fai, Andrew Lau Wai Keung, Tom Baker