FJTM: Drilling Down…

The following provides background information on folks who were interviewed for Patrick Solomon’s movie, “Finding Joe.” In order of appearance: Deepak Chopra Mick Fleetwood Tony Hawk Rashida Jones Laird Hamilton Robert Walter Robin Sharma Catherine Hardwicke Sir Ken Robinson Akiva Goldsman Chungliang Al Huang Rebecca Armstrong David L. Miller Brian Johnson Norman Ollestad Joseph Marshall [...]

Spreading the News: Finding Joe Gets NYC Date…

The Joseph Campbell Foundation just made a special announcement. FINDING JOE will play for ONE NIGHT ONLY in New York City at the Symphony Space on DECEMBER 13, 2012. The theater seats 750, but since it is the only showing in New York, they are strongly encouraging everyone to purchase tickets in advance. Film Director [...]

Things I Finished by Sarai: This Week’s Celebration

The Day of the Dead (Dia de Los Muertos) is a holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and around the world in many cultures that focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. The celebration takes place over two days (November 1–2, in connection with the [...]

Finding Joe: The Story Behind the Story…

An incident took place during the recently concluded Frys.com open. Someone who claimed to have been inspired by the movie “Drive,” threw a hot dog at Tiger Woods in an act that he claimed was “courageous and epic.” Getting arrested for disturbing the peace and impacting the results on that hole (Woods missed his 18-footer) [...]

Changes in How We Read…

A story (From Scroll to Screen) in The New York Times Book Review section got my attention.  The writer, Lev Grossman, raised some interesting points about how the way we read has changed over the years:  From scroll to codex to e-Reader.  He makes some great points. I love my Kindle because I can carry [...]

HBO’s Treme: Food Focus, Art Imitating Life…

Last Sunday in The New York Times, there was an interesting story about how the focus on food in this season’s HBO show “Treme.” One of the story lines this year follows a New Orleans chef, Janette Desautel, as she tries to make a go of it in New York (post Katrina, Desautel’s, her New [...]

Phoenix-bound: Tale of a Tribute to Your SF Giants

This is a story about a labor of love. There was a write-up in the San Francisco Chronicle about a non-commissioned work of art created by magazine cover artist, Mark Ulriksen titled, “Your 2010 World Champion San Francisco Giants.” The canvas is 4 feet by 5 feet — definitely different from a New Yorker cover.  [...]

Another First of Note — Recording Voices Out of Studio.

In an interview with The New York Times, Gore Verbinski talked about his own fashion risk — instead of recording voice actors individually in a studio, he produced their dialogue by having them act out their scenes together.  What he described as motivation by fear, I call really, REALLY, smart. I guess fear, really. Fear [...]

A Weekend of Firsts…

Firsts hit the box office this “first” weekend in March. Rango, an animated feature about an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff, was the first cartoon feature directed by Gore Verbinski (he is known for directing [...]

The Pilot of the Jedemi Chronicles

The following is the pilot of the Jedemi Chronicles. Since there is no money to fund the filming of it yet, we took the cost effective route and blocked the story using PowerPoint. Enjoy! Taming of the Suit: How it Happened One Night View more presentations from Annie Gladue. Point of reference: To learn more [...]

Ready for a Transcendent Experience?

Sometimes you just need to get away from it all… transcend the chaos and noise of the day-to-day, matters of consequence. Thanks to the fine work of Bill (“Billy”) Fitzgerald, here’s your chance. His “Balloons over Egypt” piece is fantastic!

It runs just under 5-minutes. Enjoy!

Famous Typewriters for 200…

A post on “ancient” typewriters (typewriters that were used by 9 famous writers), caught my eye. It included a picture of the gold plated portable that Ian Flemming (the creator of the James Bond series), Hemingway’s Royal Arrow, Steinbeck’s Hermes Baby, and the typewriter used by Apple Mac user, Douglas Adams, to write the Hitchhikers [...]

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