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| Thursday, September 11th, 2008 | | 3:02 pm |
My first produced idea
I haven't really told anyone beyond a facebook post or two, but I'm writing scripts for The Onion News Network now. Since it takes about six months for something to go from idea to video, nothing of mine has appeared online yet other than a few news crawl items. Until today. Someone else wrote this script based on the "Next President Faces Economic Recession From End of "Buck Fush" T-Shirts" idea ONN accepted from me in February. Economists Warn Anti-Bush Merchandise Market Close To Collapse | | Friday, July 18th, 2008 | | 12:52 pm |
Help Me Get Onto Television!
So on a whim I entered a contest to land a small part on Mad Men, the AMC TV show about advertisers in the 1960s. Guess what - I'm in the top 10! If I can get enough votes I'll be in the pool the producers consider at the end of the contest. MAD MEN!http://blogs.amctv.com/mad-men-contest/2008/07/don-draper-by-a.phpThat's the link, and it just takes a single click to vote. Right now I have 80 votes but the guy in the lead has over 150, and this contest's just begun! Plenty of time for some other ambitious fellow to eclipse my head start. If you have extra time leave a comment, since those attract more viewers. Your mouse is a source of incredible power! Use it well and propel me to a glorious fifteen minutes of fame! Thanks! | | Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 | | 10:24 pm |
| | Monday, February 25th, 2008 | | 1:38 am |
| | Friday, January 4th, 2008 | | 12:10 am |
| | Monday, October 22nd, 2007 | | 4:36 pm |
Hey film people
The City of New York
MAYOR'S OFFICE of FILM, THEATRE and BROADCASTINGOctober 1, 2007 - On Saturday, October 27, the New York City Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting, will present "Careers in Entertainment Production: Paths to Opportunity", a panel discussion at the Bronx Museum, located at the 1040 Grand Concourse, at 165th Street, Bronx, NY. Industry insiders will participate as panelists and speak to students about breaking into and working in New York City's entertainment production industry. These panelists represent different sectors of the entertainment production industry. Panelists include: Frank Fleming, Costume Designer (AUGUST RUSH, THE KITE RUNNER, WEDDING DAZE) Matiki Anoff, Makeup Department (MUSIC AND LYRICS, DADDY'S LITTLE GIRLS, DIARY OF A MAD BLACK WOMAN) Alan Lebow, Cinematographer (COMING TO AMERICA, "60 MINUTES", "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE") Jono Oliver, First Assistant Director (THE GREAT DEBATERS, THE HONEYMOONERS, JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE) Wynn Thomas, Production Designer (INSIDE MAN, CINDERELLA MAN, A BEAUTIFUL MIND) "Our local entertainment production industry employs 100,000 New Yorkers and contributes $5 billion to our economy on an annual basis," Katherine Oliver, Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting said. "As we attract new production business to the City and create new jobs through the 'Made in NY' incentive program, we are working to ensure that a diverse group of New Yorkers have access to these positions, through programs such as this panel, the City's Diversity Task Force and our Production Assistant Training Program - a series of free, full-time, month-long training programs developed with Brooklyn Workforce Innovations. For more information, visit www.nyc.gov/film ." The panel begins at 10:00 am. Doors open at 9:30 am. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis. Please RSVP to rsvp@film.nyc.gov by Thursday, October 25th. All panelists are subject to change. | | Friday, October 19th, 2007 | | 11:25 pm |
| | Monday, September 24th, 2007 | | 11:30 am |
Poems and Your Personal Failings
My poetry class is going well, and turns out to be an excellent outlet to vent emotions my robot brain can't eliminate. That isn't the real reason I took the class, it being that I was too lazy to take Spanish. Well, this is the first real poem that I wrote for the class, though per the assignment's specifications I'm copying someone else's style and if you know enough about poemish stuff maybe you'll recognize whose. I certainly wouldn't. ( By posting poetry I am now a livejournal cliche' )On another topic, my girlfriend is searching for jobs now and we spent some time working together on the "What is Your Greatest Weakness?" question that is the bane of many a interviewee. A few years ago, I'm pretty sure I blew my shot at an awesome summer internship that would have paid me $400 dollars a week to work for a marketing company that advertised on virtual billboards in online games. When asked to identify my greatest weakness my reply was "Mortal, I guess." This is what you do not do. Nowadays my answer to that question is that I have a very diverse background, having worked in film, television, web, and print, and that instead of having tons of experience in one specific subfield I'm more of a generalist. And that for instance while in web design I could create a simple web page I don't have experience with more in depth things like flash or javascript. This is a way of saying "I'm good at everything except stuff you don't expect of me." So, just out of curiousity, what is your reply? "My greatest weakness is how I answer this question" - The Onion | | Monday, August 27th, 2007 | | 1:01 pm |
I'm taking a poetry class this fall for fun, and the reason why is that I realized I have absolutely no internal rating system for judging a poem. When I read a book I can say "That was a good book" or if I see a movie "What a stunning film". But when it comes to poetry half of the "great" poems I read I can't figure out what makes them good. It's not that I think they're bad, it's as if I send a request to my rating system and just get back a message: #SYNTAX ERROR# For instance this is an excerpt from former NYS poet laureate John Ashbery's Retro: "It’s really quite a thrill/When the moon rises over the hill/and you’ve gotten over someone/salty and mercurial, the only person you’ve ever loved" I mean, it's nice. If a friend wrote it I'd say "That's a nice poem". But they're going to be broadcasting this on MTVu. Is it really better than something I can make up on the spot, like say... "I'm so excited/I just can't hide it/I'm about to lose control/Bittersweet and poignant, I think I like it/" | | Monday, July 2nd, 2007 | | 3:01 am |
POLL
When you read a book and the book starts to suck halfway through do you stick with it to the end or ditch it en route? | | Sunday, July 1st, 2007 | | 11:40 pm |
| | Thursday, June 28th, 2007 | | 12:04 pm |
A fun waste of time
Einstein wrote this quiz last century. He said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz. * There are 5 houses in 5 different colors * In each house lives a person with a different nationality * These 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet * No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink. Here's the question: Who owns the fish? 1. The Brit lives in a red house 2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets 3. The Dane drinks tea 4. The green house is on the left of the white house 5. The green house owner drinks coffee 6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds 7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill 8. The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk 9. The Norwegian lives in the first house 10. The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats. 11. The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill 12. The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer 13. The German smokes Prince 14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house 15. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water With these 15 clues the problem is solvable. I'll put the answer in my comments section so don't go there until you solve it/give up. | | Thursday, May 31st, 2007 | | 11:49 am |
I had an idea
What if there was a website that let you commission ghost written screenplays and novels from trained NYU (and other places) screenwriters? You'd submit your story bullets, receive a quote and time estimate, pay in advance, and then a member of our talented writing staff would complete it by due date. We'd retain no rights to the film, it would belong to the buyer alone. I wonder if there's enough of a market for this? What do you think? | | Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 | | 8:34 pm |
HOLY SHIT
HOLY SHITON A STICK. If this is what technology is capable of I've wasted my life by not majoring in computer science. | | Sunday, May 13th, 2007 | | 12:30 pm |
A Look At Salutations
When writing professional business correspondance knowing the name of the person that will actually read your letter can sometimes be a luxury. I've been forced to choose between the different options for unknown receipient, and none of the selections really appeal to me. 1. Dear Sir or Madam: This makes you sound like an amazingly ignorant person and completely undermines whatever follows in your letter. "Dear Sir or Madam. I have a business proposal or maybe I don't for you to consider or not consider. I am a smart or stupid individual with a history or no record of success in this kind of endeavour/failure. Please write back to me or don't using the self addressed envelope included/absent with this letter/rambling mess." 2. To Whom It May Concern: This feels like you're really grasping for straws. I have a feeling that half the time someone receives a letter like this the person laughs and says "Sure, I'll give it right to who it concerns" and tosses it in the trash. Biting wit would be if they sent the letter back to you; after all, who does it concern more than the person who wrote it? 3. Dear Sirs: I asked my dad, who has an MBA, what the appropriate salutation is. He told me that Dears Sirs is standard when communicating to an entire department or whole company. And I can see why. It's resolute and direct. Who are you referring to? Sirs! How many? Two or more! And flattering too. The reader thinks, "why, I am a sir! yes indeed I am!" The only downside is what if a woman reads it? Or a man with feminist ideals. "An excellent letter...from a sexist bastard! Only immolation is fit for this misogynist missive!" I think there needs to be a new term with all the direct certainty of Dear Sirs that's gender neutral. But "Dear Person" is horrendously bland. How about "Dear Esteemed Arbiter"? Maybe "Exalted Fatemaster"? Damn, maybe I'll just stick with Sir or Madam. | | Saturday, May 12th, 2007 | | 12:23 am |
| | Saturday, May 5th, 2007 | | 2:33 pm |
Pathetic De-Dullification of a Simple Task
I have unproud moments. This is one of them. *I'm getting dressed, put on the same pants I wore yesterday and am surprised to find that my wallet, keys, and cell phone are not in the pockets like I expected.* Me: Huh...I wonder where they are. Strange that all three went missing at once. *Thinks* Me: (excited) This is the exact same thing that happened to Morpheus in Preludes and Nocturnes! *I find all three pretty quickly* Me: Damn it. That is the lamest comparison I think I've ever made. No more imagining my doings as epic. | | Monday, April 9th, 2007 | | 4:07 am |
Bustle and Flow
I rode the bus back to New York from Binghamton today. I have to say, the weather transitions between here and there are as unsubtle as those in The Truman Show. On the ride up blue skies were suddenly swallowed by raging blizzard. It was like passing through a clearly defined wall of grey snow. During my stay it was snowy and cold most of the time. On the way down the cloudy skies magically parted to reveal blue perfection. I was able to walk outside with my coat open. How could a three hour drive seperate two climes this diverse? I overbooked again. Not in the way that a hotel overbooks but in that I brought four novels along with me. Of course I didn't get more than a chapter or two done of the first. I had trouble reading on the bus ride back because I was distracted by the view outside. The view was monotonous but interesting nonetheless, I don't get much of a chance to see mile after mile of desolate forest mid-winter. There were quite a few streams and rivers which, as a city dweller, were a bit of a shock to me. I don't see water spontaneously flowing all over the place too often. I'm used to a few wide dirty channels like the East River but every time I'm out in the woods somewhere and encounter a tiny natural stream I spend a good few minutes thinking it's really really cool. "Woah! A stream! Like in books and stuff!" I had no idea they were this plentiful though. Sometimes it's painful to be this ignorant about natural processes. Plentiful streams make sense. Water falls from the sky. All over the place. Most of the planet is covered in water. Of course streams would be common. | | Thursday, April 5th, 2007 | | 1:11 pm |
The Jewish Experience
Me: Breakfast time on passover! I think I will round up something delicious and kosher! *Several minutes of scouring the fridge and pantry* Me: Ah, G-ddammit. *I settle down to my breakfast of a bowl of cottage cheese, five dried apricots, half a piece of matzah, and two chocolate macaroons.* Me: (as I eat cottage cheese) G-ddammit. | | 12:02 am |
On The Road Again
I will leaving NYC again today, this time heading for Binghampton NY. This is somewhat unusual in that I just got back from a weeklong vacation to Ohio on Sunday, meaning just three full days will have passed in NY before I vamoose. I somewhat like keeping busy like this, the months of unemployment between working on Law and Order and starting the NBC pilot I just finished killed a small part of me. Maybe the part that was content to just stay still and didn't get restless. Anyhow, I look forward to seeing you next week after my exciting time in upstate NY. There will be pictures. These are quiet trips for now to visit people I care about but eventually I'll go somewhere truly exciting and the pictures will actually be images you'll want to examine. Like Kuala Lumpur or Narnia. |
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