John Cameron Mitchell on "Rabbit Hole"

".... a beautiful, resonant instrument that can respond to gentle guidance."

Sometimes, you get lucky. Sometimes everyone gets lucky.

This was one of those productions.

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["Rabbit Hole" @ imdb.com]



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Production Assistant Advice for Everybody

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"Intuition and feeling the urgency."

Thanks Amy.

A guilty pleasure, I enjoy this show. Yes I do.

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Tags: work, advice, production assistant, n96, nokia, test

Advice from Lisa the Paperwork PA

Take good notes.

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Social Objects 101

If you're interested in marketing, this is a 'must-listen' interview.

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Amy's So Smart

An interview w/Amy Redford @ Sundance.

Her directoral debut, "The Guitar", premiered Friday there and plays throughout this weekend.

Fingers crossed - from inside and behind the camera, it sure felt like it would be an excellent film.

David Leonard and Amy cut it. A movie's frequently made and certainly finished in the cutting room.

The sound edit will have been challenging. Hope they had time & funds to do it right.

The sound department did its level best.



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Frank Langella for Oscar :: Starting Out in the Evening

Frank Langella and "Starting Out in the Evening" will be in Boston this Sunday, January 20, 2007.

For my Boston friends.

If you're interested in acting, to hear Frank speak on the subject as he is honored by the Boston Society of Film Critics who awarded him Best Actor for 2007 should prove enlightening.

Enclosed is an interview with Mr. Langella from the American Theater Wing, founder of the Tony Awards, on the subject of his Tony Award-winning Broadway role as Nixon in "Frost/Nixon", a role he played while simultaneously filming "Starting Out in the Evening".

Vote for Frank for the Oscar.

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VlogEurope 2007 :: Stealing Breakfast

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Guilty. Pleasure.

Mmmmm.

Leaving VlogEurope 2007, inadvertently stole breakfast. The victim didn't mind.

The key to being a successful career criminal: induce victim gratitude.

This fellow "paid more".

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Tags: vlogeurope, 2007, vlogeurope07, breakfast, theft, stealing, faux_press

Two Interviews :: Microwave Video Transmission

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Two young folks I admire.

Need to send video long distances without cables? Use microwaves.

This was the first time I'd been on a set where a helicopter was used. I was excited.

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Two Camera Assistants :: Tool Belt / Bibliography

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Two camera assistants with whom I had the pleasure to work this past summer give us glimpses into their world of work.

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POST NOTE: Focus on the TOOLS; interview subjects are immediately at ease in front of the camera with the tools of his or her trade.

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Christmas Gifts

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What if we all gave stuff to strangers? Great holiday gift giving idea from Jose. - Taken at 10:03 AM on November 23, 2007 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu

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WGA Strike Looms :: Union Members Speak

Members of the Writers Guild of America, West speak about why they've volunteered to serve as Picket/Contract Captains during the WGA's talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

Marketing the contract negotiations. Framing the questions / issues.

Unions have lost tremendous ground in the last 20 years.

Let us go no farther down the slippery slope toward a return to the complete and heartless exploitation of labor.



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Faux Press Interview :: Makeup Theory

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This summer's rideshare with Sharon proved educational and fun.

She gets to the crux of the matter brilliantly.

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Tags: faux_press, work, makeup, theory, film, television, interview

The Binkie Interview

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These young ladies made my summer mornings as special as special can be. Neither I nor any of my siblings have kids, so hanging out with my friends' kids daily if only for a little bit, for six weeks, was charming. Getting in touch with my 'auntie' self.

Aren't they lovely?

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Third Generation Platform (.3gp)

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VlogEurope 2007 :: Interview with a Man of Patience

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Joel's landlord is a stonemason and man of patience.

My mom taught me to be able to speak with anybody, anywhere, any time, and find at least one thing that they know and have to share. After that, the rest's easy.

Music by Harmsichord, via Archive.org.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: vlogeurope, vlogeurope07, faux_press, interview, stone, mason, patience

VlogEurope 2007 Organizer Raymond Kristiansen Media

Raymond via Raymond's Blip.TV's show player.

Kudos to him for his excellent work getting the conference together and creating together.

Honorary member of the Faux Press.


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RE-vlog :: John Udell Interviews Mike Hudack of Blip.TV

The economics of plenty. Explained. Download the interview HERE.

Hudack speaks to creating a business model that facilitates customers' needs rather than locking customers in.

Blip.TV listens to its users.

Blip.TV is responsive.

Hudack is one of independent media's best and most ardent ambassadors.

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The above is a movlog entry / commercial for Blip.TV

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Frank Langella's on Broadway

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Frank. What a guy.

Here he is on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show.

I could listen to his voice every day. All day.

There's a lot of 'process' information in Lopate's interview. Heads up, actors and directors among you.

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WTF :: Composer Andrew Shapiro Interview

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Composer Andrew Shapiro plays every Sunday from noon to four p.m. at the 160 Broadway McDonalds in Manhattan. I found Mr. Shapiro's marketing sensibility compelling. Perhaps you will too.

Art & Commerce.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

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Re-vlog :: Media Nipple on 49Media Podcast

Photo by Chuck Olsen

Holland Wilde is a cultural farmer and maker of the videoblog site "Media Nipple" whose motto is "nipples sell everything."

In the linked post - one of his recent best - he examines the recent media trend of demonizing nature. Holland says:

Television must make money. And one of the very best ways to attract viewer eyeballs is to create fear. This makes Nature a perfect target for exploitation. In a mediated world, humans must fear all that is natural.

Holland collects and shares moving images from the MSM for analysis and shows us where the media's headed. Consuming the soon-to-be Doctor Wilde's media excerpts is an effective antedote to propaganda and highly recommended.


In the media enclosure, Chris Ritke of 49Media interviews Holland on the what's and why's of the necessity of Cultural Farming. Chris is a fine interviewer. I know from experience.

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The Faux Press :: Radio Man Hotline / Teamster Jokes / Crew Parking / Film Set Legends / Definition of Judaism

Radio Man.

NYC Film Hotline: 212-714-8045

"Call my hotline, you miserable movie whores!" New York legend, eccentric, and real life movie star Radio Man giggles. This bicycle-powered guy inexplicably shows up at darned near every NY/NJ film set. Bronx, Staten Island, Newark. He's there.

Crew members shake their heads and wonder how in God's name he knows where and when to show up for a meal and news. It's a mystery. And so is he. But his hotline is right on the money. Check it out.

One of the things I love about Radio Man is that he's a default member of the Faux Press, which is why a few years back I took out an advertisement on his hotline. This is the kind of back door marketing I find charming. Marketing, folks.

When eight years ago we met, he was wrapped head-to-toe in garbage bags and duct tape. He's cleaned up his act in the last decade, so you might not these days mistake him for homeless as I at first did.

In his celebrity, he's become an entrepreneur, collecting autographs along side the professional autograph hounds. Professionals are distinguished by the stacks of pre-addressed FedEx envelopes they hold as they wait outside the star campers.

I personally witnessed Radio Man (a/k/a Craig A. Castaldo / Craig-Radioman / Radio Man / Radioman / Craig Radioman Schwartz / Craig Schwartz) emerge from a stretch limo for the Season Five premiere of "The Sopranos" at Radio City Music Hall.

An inveterate sports fan, it's the radio always strapped to his torso that spawned the moniker.

TEAMSTER JOKES

Included in this podcast are the first in a series of Teamster jokes I'm collecting.

I love Teamsters and what they so thanklessly and mysteriously do, not least of which is work at least - at least - 18 hours a day. It's long been a personal mission to help people understand the importance and difficulty of what they do.

Folks laugh because Teamsters sleep as the film crew works. They laugh because they haven't done the math.

They and the trucks arrive on set an hour or more before we do, and can't leave until we're finished. Only after the shooting crew wraps can the trucks be driven an hour to secure storage. It's then Teamsters return home.

FILM SET LEGENDS

John gives us a tease of the John Wayne story he promises to tell as part of The Faux Press' continuing collection of Film Set Legends that began with the nameless production assistant who once lost a day's work to rise from the disaster a producer.

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