The Academy Awards are tomorrow, and Hollywood Boulevard is shut down for blocks. Appropriately, the awards are run like a big budget movie set, controlled for light, sound, and weather. Los Angelinos get miffed because Hollywood traffic is rerouted all week. It’s difficult to imagine the budget for this event - it must [...]
Entries from February 21st, 2009
Academy Award Nominated Editors
February 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Things To Do In Los Angeles
The American Cinema Editors (ACE) hosted their 9th annual “Invisible Art, Visible Artists” series, where all five of the Academy Award Nominated Editors meet on stage at the Egyptian Theater to discuss their craft. What an absolute treat. Editing is alchemy. And almost by definition, the best editing is invisible. Or to put it differently, [...]
Testing the Blog
February 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Miscellaneous
Testing and Tinkering
This week I’m migrating servers and hosting. I’ll also be testing out a new design for the blog, as well as playing with widgets and CSS. Things may be weird for a few days…
The Puzzle is…
I’d like to navigate the transition from blogging The Last Hurrah, to just plain blogging. I have the [...]
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Let’s Get Back to Work
February 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Things To Do In Los Angeles
Today I marched in front of SAG headquarters to support the Let’s Get Back to Work rally. Basically, it was a rally of crew people who would prefer that SAG not strike. Or at least, that the SAG leadership maybe pick up the pace a tad and resolve some of the inner [...]
