Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
What do burlesque boobs, booze, board games and brains have in common?
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
They were all a part of this past weekend’s Greater Los Angeles Area Mensa Regional Gathering. (My brother always teases me that we had to add “Greater”…otherwise we’d just be lame). ;-/ But Mensa events and people are not at all what most prejudge. (If [...]
Tags: acceptance, Alan Rachins, all-female improv troupe, April, astrology, atheists, big bang theory, Billy, boyfriend, branding, broken arrows, burlesque, conservatives, contagion, Cubs, current events, Daniel Kinno, Dharma & Greg, Dizzy Von Damn!, dominatrix, e-publishing, endorphins, feng shui, financial, Fred & Ginger, Fruit of the Loom leaf, geeks, Gene Steichen, ghosts, GLAAM, God, Greater Los Angeles Area Mensa Regional Gathering, Griffith Park observatory, Hollywood, hormonal connection, kink, LA Law, Leif Ganvort, liberals, LOLA, Mensa, Mensa Mind Games, Mensa RG, Mr. Snapper & Mr. Buddy, mythology, nametag stickers, nerds, oxytocin, personal space GPS, pleasure and pain, pub crawl, real estate strategies, Red Snapper, RG, Screenwriting, scuba diving deaths in the Mojave Desert, Sheldon, ShowBiz Mensans, skeptics, smoke jumpers, space shuttle, St Louis, striptease, Sudoku, sustainable economic systems, The Amazing Spider-Man, thermonuclear missiles, top 2% of IQs, UFOs, vaudeville, welcome, werewolf games
Posted in Events, Family & Friends, Mensa, Public Speaking, Reviews | 1 Comment »
Getting Things Right
Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
I’ve just finished reading Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. I am struck by how useful a simple checklist can be to professionals as divergent as surgeons in the emergency room to commercial airline pilots in eliminating potentially fatal mistakes in incredibly stressful situations. While not usually life threatening, our decisions [...]
Tags: 1998, artist, Atul Gawande, Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, commercial airline pilot, Director, ditched, emergency room, entertainment industry, entrepreneur, ER, Geoffrey H. Smart, greenlight, Heather Hale, independent filmmaker, Internal Rate of Return, IRR, LitCentral, Miracle on the Hudson, networks, Producer, production funds, screenwriter, surgeons, The Airline Captain, The Art and Science of Human Capital Valuation, The Art Critic, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, The Infiltrator, the Prosecutor, The Sponge, The Suitor, The Terminator, US Airways Flight 1549, VC, venture capitalists
Posted in Art, Book Mentions, Books, Career Development, Craft, Directing, PowerNetworking, Reviews, Screenwriting | 1 Comment »
Which Camera Should We Shoot On?
Friday, March 23rd, 2012
You should never pick your DP based on what camera he or she owns or has access to or can get discounts on. The decision on which DP to hire should be based on his or her talent (not just the reel but entire films – several of them), reputation, relationships, referrals, shared vision for [...]
Tags: 2K, 35mm, 48 fps, 5D mkII, Arri Alexa, ASC, camera, Canon 1D Mark IV, Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 7D, CineStyle, Clairmont Camera, color quality, compression, compression losses, Director, documentary, DP, drum test, Dynamic Range test, equipment, exposure latitude, film, flesh tone reproduction, General Lift, global shutter, highlight detail, human eyesight, It’s Not So Black & White, Kodak 5213, Kodak 5219, large scale technical camera, lens, low light sensitivity, Matt Seigel, Michael Bravin, Mike Curtis, Motion Artifacts, Nancy Schreiber, Nikon D7000, off-board recording, on-board, Panasonic AG-AF100, Phantom Flex, Price Point, Processing Power, Producer, Red Epic, RED ONE M-X, resolution, Robert Primes, Rolling Shutter, S Log, sensor, Sensor Design, Sensors & Sensitivity, SFR, shadow detail, sharpness, shutter artifacts, Siemen star chart, Signal-to-Noise Ratio, skew, Sony F-35, Sony F3, Spatial Frequency Response, Stephen Lighthill, sub-sampling, The Great Camera Shootout 2011, The Over Exposure Test, The Tipping Point, three episodes, Under Exposure Test, usable latitude, Weisscam HS-2, Wringer chart
Posted in Career Development, Craft, Directing, In Development, Movies, Projects, Reviews | No Comments »
For Your Consideration: Screenplays
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
As part of their marketing for Oscars and guild awards, studios share .pdfs of their award-contending screenplays: “Anonymous” by John Orloff (Sony) “The Artist” by Michel Hazanavicius (The Weinstein Company) “Beginners” by Mike Mills (Focus Features) “Bridesmaids” by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig (Universal) “Cars 2″ by Ben Queen; Story by John Lasseter, Brad Lewis [...]
Tags: Academy Awards, awards, Disney, downloads, education, Focus, free screenplays, free scripts, Lionsgate, Oscars, Overture, screenplays, screenwriter, scripts, Sony, Sony Classics, Storyboard, Universal, Weinstein Company
Posted in Handouts & Downloads, Screenwriting, Scripts | 1 Comment »
GATE 2 – What an Amazing Event! ;-)
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
GATE (the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment) is a nonprofit 501c(6) membership trade association that strives to inspire and empower professionals in the media, entertainment and arts to consciously create and distribute transformational content. Founded by visionary Chairman and CEO, John Raatz, last night’s “coming out” event brought “the tribe” together to activate and catalyze [...]
Tags: 12/22/12, 196 countries of the world in alphabetical order, Amish Grace, Annie Lennox, Ash Ruiz, Baba Oyadare Ranson III, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Damien Rose, Dara Marks, Didgeridoo, Don Miguel Ruiz, Drew Dellinger, Eckhart Tolle, Edward James Olmos, Faith Rivera, Frances Fisher, Fred Alan Wolf, Funkamentalz, Gary Zukav, GATE, Gate Community, Gate2, Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment, Hieroglyphic Stairway, Inside Story, It's 3:23 in the morning, Jahan Raymond, Jean Houston, Jim Carrey, John Raatz, Kate McCallum, Kyle Cease, Lili Hadyn, Louie Anderson, Marianne Williamson, Marta Mobley, my great great grandchildren, NOW, only a new seed can yield a new crop, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Quantum Physics, Rafael Bejarano, SuperBowl XLVI, The Four Agreements, Tibetan Bowl, violin, Wade Colwell-Sandoval, what did you do, Worldside
Posted in Art, Book Mentions, Books, Career Development, Craft, Directing, Drama, Events, Favorites, In Development, PowerNetworking, Projects, Public Speaking, Reviews, Screenwriting, Travel, Writing for TV | 1 Comment »
