Monthly Archives: August 2011

Happy New Year!

It’s probably because I’ve been a student for most of my life, but as the summer cools off, and the light changes, I get excited to be starting again. Labor Day is my New Year’s Day. Continue reading

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Perception of Value, part 2

If movies have no intrinsic value, then why is it that we want to watch them in the first place? Continue reading

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The Perception of Value (part1)

At its heart, the experience of watching a movie is not the plastic disk of the DVD, the seat cushion in the theatre, nor the bit-rate of the stream from Netflix. The reason we sit and watch a movie is to watch the movie, just as eating the soup is the whole point of buying soup, or riding the bus is the whole point of the bus ticket. And yet, while we all have absolutely no problem calling the unsanctioned printing of thousands of copies of bus tickets a “wrong thing”, and we’ve got no problem calling the guy secretly sneaking bowls of soup out of the back door “a thief”, the perception of someone doing the exact same thing with a movie is seen as no big thing. Continue reading

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We’ve had some delays hereabouts lately, and the reason for them is simple: between the July 25th L.A. Premier Event for “Driving by Braille” at AOF, and the subsequent screening of the same at the Feel Good Film Festival this … Continue reading

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Living the Metaphor

The other day, the same day that Driving By Braille received runner up for Best Picture, and won for Best Produced Screenplay and Kristina Lloyd won for Best Female Filmmaker, I jumped off a seven meter diving platform. No, I wasn’t stressed about winning. I just had decided to start a diving class earlier in the month. Continue reading

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