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i am dan!

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About Me

hello. i am dan. im currently at newport studying a degree in documentary film and tv, it's quite good. i spent the first year at uni doing a degree in film, that wasn't so good and so i changed to documentary, which as i just stated is quite good so the change was worth it and now im happy. im also one half of webangthedrum (fancy production company name i know) with sarge (real name james sargent), where we do our best to make short films, music videos and visual stuff. check out myspace.com/webangthedrum for more info. If you think you might be interesed in having us make anything for you then send us an email ([email protected]) and we will get right back to you. snazzy website on the way soon. For now, heres a music video we made (with no budget!) and a mini-doc (in which i nearly got arrested!)Doel - Lifting Gear Engineer
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My Interests

i really enjoy filmaking, going to gigs, djing, cooking, travelling and seal hunting. that last one was a joke, not very funny granted.

I'd like to meet:

i would like to meet my many influences such as michel gondry (i would be willing to sleep with him to learn half the stuff he knows), spike jonze, chris cunningham, jonathan glazer and wes anderson. i would also like to meet bjork and thom yorke. i have already met steeve coogan, so thats one crossed off my list.

Music:

Im really into electronica music. i think its the only pure genre of music left, the only genre that has not been exploted yet. i think its the most emotional and organic form of music. my favourite acts are boards of canada, prefuse 73, kid capret, the knife, whitey, cut copy, hot chip, nathan fake, m83, metronomy, air, amon tobin, vitalic, chris clark, aphex twin, daft punk, four tet, the postal service, hess is more, ladytron...im also open to other stuff but obviously it has to be good!

Movies:

i think wes anderson is the best filmmaker alive at the moment. he creates films that are so perfectly emotional and dark humoured. the royal tenabuans and life aquatic are the best two films out there! im also a big fan of leon and david fincher movies like fight club and seven. genius.

Television:

i hate admitting it but at the moment it has to be lost. i know its so incrediably stupid and they are never going to tell you any concrete info about what the hell is going on but man, its so gripping and shot so very well for a tv program. and south park, it is truely offensive which makes it amazing to watch.

Books:

i don't like books, i don't really have the time! but my favourite book is yes by danny wallace, it changed my life. it did, really!

Heroes:

is there such thing as a hero in this mordern day that we live in? Apart from jack thomas james davies, he really is amazing.

My Blog

home, newport, wales - day 36 - the last blog

hey everyonehalf an hour later after writing the last blog jack came down to make peace and we enjoyed one last thai curry together at our hotel and then one final walk around bangkok before retiring ...
Posted by i am dan! on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:06:00 PST

bangkok, thailand - day 34

hello the last day in kuala lumpur was good. we went to the place with the tree canopy walk, which turned out to be some ladders with a plank of wood to walk on supported between trees with some ...
Posted by i am dan! on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:43:00 PST

kuala lumpur, malaysia - day 30

hey so we've been in kuala lumpur city for a few days now and its kinda been up and down. alcohol is expenisve here and we are both low on funds, there are no cheap bars and no places to play free poo...
Posted by i am dan! on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:52:00 PST

kuala lumpur, malaysia - day 26

hello at 3am last night we arrived in the big city of kuala lumpur, dazed and confused in a mode of half sleep we spent two hours wandaring the streets to find somewhere to sleep. not a great start! b...
Posted by i am dan! on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:23:00 PST

Koh Phi Phi, Thailand - Day 21

hey today we arrived on the tiny island of koh phi phi (pronounced pee pee!) which an island of the west side of thailand, so we've gone from east side to west side. gangsta. we didn't much on the la...
Posted by i am dan! on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:40:00 PST

koh samui, thailand - day 18

hello koh samui is amazing and so beautiful, on the first night we drank by a fire on the beach and watched this lightning storm across the sea, i'd never seen lightning like it, it just wouldn't stop...
Posted by i am dan! on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:51:00 PST

Koh Samui, South Thailand - Day 15

hey people sleeper trains are fun. it just seems really weird walking around a train in just your pants to brush your teeth and go for a slash and then go to bed and then waking up and having no idea ...
Posted by i am dan! on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:48:00 PST

thailand somewhere - day 13

hey mmmm, ok. so we got on the 12 hour bus that was going to take us to somewhere in vietnam but we got to the border control and the commy bastards wouldn't let us in! we were stranded on the border ...
Posted by i am dan! on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:13:00 PST

phonsavan - Laos Day 10

hello once again we successfully penetrated into Laos and it was a lot easier than we thought it would be and then we spent two days (eight hours of each) on a slow boat that went to Lanang Prabang, w...
Posted by i am dan! on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:07:00 PST

thailand/laos - day six

hello we are currently really far north in thailand in a little place called chiang khong which was a six hour sweaty bus journey from chiang mai. we arrived in the evening and got a place to stay for...
Posted by i am dan! on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 07:20:00 PST