If you haven’t had a chance to see Frankenweenie yet, please do. It encompasses all the wonderful things, good writing, good directing, black and white, and stop motion. It’s fabulous.
And if my praise isn’t enough, you can have an opportunity to peer into the mind of the writer.
Evan Luzi from The Black & Blue, guesting at Fresh DV:
For cinematographers and directors, skills that enable you to light, to compose, and to translate the ethos of a story into the visual medium of film are far more useful than the ability to dive into the minutiae of sensor size. For producers, your ability to go beyond specs and learn more about the tone of the project, the budget of a project, and the practicality of a camera in the reality of a production is paramount.
I couldn’t agree more.
But Luzi forgets one extraordinarily important by-product of Spec Obsessive Disorder (SOD).
An Ex-TSA agent is telling his story after he spent 3 years in prison for stealing $800,000 worth of goods from passengers. What slays me is that he speaks of the thievery as if it’s part of the job description. The criminal TSA agents are using the X-Ray scanners as a tool to locate what gear to steal.
Pythias Brown, a former Transportation Security Administration officer at Newark Liberty International Airport, spent four years stealing everything he could from luggage and security checkpoints, including clothing, laptops, cameras, Nintendo Wiis, video games and cash.
Speaking publicly for the first time after being released after three years in prison, Brown told ABC News that he used the X-ray scanners to locate the most valuable items to snatch.
I feel bad for the good TSA agents for whom this is just a job. They are going to be in the shadow of this ugly cloud. Which is why I urge you to keep your cool when you go to the airport. Not everyone in a TSA uniform is a criminal. Assuming such is not the answer.
A phenomenally well done movie about time travel that doesn’t cook your brain with time travel theory.
One of the best parts of this job is utilizing our creative skills and our contacts to change the world for the better.
Michael and I, along with Nat Geo photographer Ben Horton and writer Jesse Seaver are banding together to volunteer time and money to produce a story in Nepal about World Wide Healing Hands, a non profit organization that is obsessed with diminishing the staggering maternal mortality rates in emerging countries. … Continue Reading
A long while back I did a story on the Impossible Project. A group a Polaroid enthusiasts who purchased the Polaroid manufacturing gear from the closing Enschede factory and saved it from its pending doom.
