i'm back!

so after a long awaited hiatus, i'm back blurbing about the things i'm geeking out about. lets get right to it!

big things are happening in collegiate news this week. over 30 dead at Virginia Tech from a Korean student shooter. it seems like he wasn't paid that much attention beforehand, even when showing signs of being highly mentally disturbed on several different occasions. Writing violent scripts, stalking girls, never talking. i feel as if i can identify with his situation coming from a Korean background and knowing how it feels to be marginalized in a institutionalized racist society, but it's deeply saddening that his mental condition never went diagnosed, perhaps changing his perceptions and options in life.

on a related noted, the ways in which we consume media has progressed once again. a student took a cell phone video of the VTech incident in progress, ushering in the new tide of citizen-filmed media.
it has happened in earlier occurrences like the vid of Saddam Hussein actually being hanged, but this is different in that this video can actually be shown to everyone opposed to an execution. an hour after posting the student's cell phone video onto the CNN.com website, over a million hits were recorded. we can only expect more of the same in the future of headline grabbing events.

on a lighter note, here's an amazing trailer for Barbarella, a film from 1968 starring Jane Fonda, that pretty much, is the best trailer ever.