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Light Is My Friend: Hollywood Park Alley

January 20, 2012
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Light Is My Friend: Hollywood Park Alley

This is part of my on-going photography studies of how light plays on familiar places where we live. Almost every day, or at least every other day, I’ll walk the dogs either from the house or back to the house by way of this alley that runs behind Freeport Boulevard in Sacramento. The dogs love it for the smells — there are three Chinese restaurants in this one strip mall. Photographically, I’m always drawn to the visual texture of the brick walls, the various shades of paint, or lack of, on them, the cracks, as well as the different...

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Ed Burns Guests On New Sundance Channel Series

January 13, 2012
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Ed Burns Guests On New Sundance Channel Series

Last weekend I posted a blog about actor/writer/director Ed Burns premiering his new self-financed indie Newlyweds (a cousin effort in naked filmmaking). This morning I received an e-mail from an east coast promotions agency asking me to share with...

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Light Is My Friend

January 11, 2012
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Light Is My Friend

I generally find harsh sunlight to be the ugliest light of all, but this morning, for some reason, it was amazing. Perhaps because it was early and there was just enough humidity in the air to allow a little...

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Ed Burns makes “Newlyweds” for $9,000 with a Canon 5D

January 1, 2012
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Ed Burns makes “Newlyweds” for $9,000 with a Canon 5D

How long have I...

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Good Deeds Open Doors At Goodwill

January 1, 2012
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Good Deeds Open Doors At Goodwill

The last day of 2011. New Year’s Eve. KCRA reporter Brian Hickey and I are sent out on assignment to cover people making last minute donations to get breaks on their 2011 taxes. Last year Brian Hickey had gone...

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My Favorite Films of 2011

December 31, 2011
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My Favorite Films of 2011

The headline might be a little dubious–I’ve only been to the movies a few times this year. I wait for almost everything to come out on DVD or Blu-Ray. Not that I’m not interested in the new movies, but...

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Christmas Day, 2011 – Unfortunate Events & Personal Reflections On Journalism

December 25, 2011
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Christmas Day, 2011 – Unfortunate Events & Personal Reflections On Journalism

Christmas Day, December 25, 2011 I’ve really been looking forward to this Christmas Day. It’s one of those rare Christmas Days where I actually have the day off. News is a 7-day-a-week business and Christmas is just another day....

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Jimmy Ennett – Australian Naked Filmmaker

December 20, 2011
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Jimmy Ennett – Australian Naked Filmmaker

A few months ago I was reviewing my Youtube account and saw a mile of comments left on my videos. A few of them were from a young filmmaker in Australia named Jimmy Ennett who said that he was...

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Matthew Modine – “You don’t need all that stuff” – Part 3 of 3

December 19, 2011
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Matthew Modine – “You don’t need all that stuff” – Part 3 of 3

Here is a portion of my interview with Matthew Modine on 12-9-2011 where he discusses shooting his new short film Jesus Was A Commie on the streets of New York City with just a Canon 5D DSLR and a...

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Matthew Modine – KCRA Common Ground Profile – Part 2 of 3

December 17, 2011
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Matthew Modine – KCRA Common Ground Profile – Part 2 of 3

Every now and then in the business of TV news you get a chance to meet and do a story on someone who’s work you admire and who had been a part of something historic. Matthew Modine is an...

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Matthew Modine – From Joker to Jesus – Part 1 0f 3

December 15, 2011
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Matthew Modine – From Joker to Jesus – Part 1 0f 3

Several weeks ago I received an e-mail from a friend and former co-worker at KCRA asking if I could help out a filmmaker friend of hers. Her friend had a short film and wanted to know more about some...

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Naked Filmmaking – Now Part of the Kindle Lending Library

December 8, 2011
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Naked Filmmaking – Now Part of the Kindle Lending Library

Naked Filmmaking is now a part of the newly introduced Amazon Kindle Owner’s Lending Library. This should allow more people the opportunity to try the book out than would have before. And I believe that once you try the...

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Wayne Freedman: Fellow Journalist Getting The Word Out On Working In Television — In Print

December 4, 2011
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Wayne Freedman: Fellow Journalist Getting The Word Out On Working In Television — In Print

I was in Vallejo this past Wednesday, November 30, covering the memorial for fallen Vallejo police officer James Capoot. It was a very moving memorial where all of the media from Sacramento and the Bay Area were on hand....

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Bonnie’s Greyhounds – My Wife’s New Site On The Web

November 27, 2011
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Bonnie’s Greyhounds – My Wife’s New Site On The Web

My wife Bonnie’s passion for our greyhounds Alex and Ava, and for our first greyhound Lola, is so full and deep. She has fallen head over heels for this breed. Now that she is fully retired she has taken...

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Christmas Is Upon Us

November 26, 2011
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Christmas Is Upon Us

The Christmas Season is officially here. Known as “Black Friday,” the first day after Thanksgiving when all the stores are mad with super-low one-day sales and the public turns into shopping zombies to get deals for Christmas gifts. Personally,...

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Yanina – An Artistic Thank You

November 25, 2011
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Yanina – An Artistic Thank You

You always hope when you do a story that the people in the story will be happy with it. Thank you notes are some of the most kind and thoughtful gestures. I’m always touched when I receive one. The...

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