Autobiography

Digital Convergence Podcast Talks “Naked Filmmaking”

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Digital Convergence Podcast Talks “Naked Filmmaking”

I’ve been listening to the Digital Convergence Posdcast for two years now. The podcast consists of host Carl Olson, a photographer and DSLR filmmaker based in Atlanta, Georgia; Mitch Aunger, also known as “Planet Mitch” for his premiere DSLR website Planet5D, based in my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri; and Chris Fenwick, a freelance editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area who maintains a great site filled with life-saving editing tutorials. It’s a great hour-long podcast, that usually runs to an hour and fifteen minutes of so, and consists of Carl, Mitch and Chris discussing the latest styles...

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

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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 to sharing her time to fostering greyhounds that need a little bit more socialization (and manners) before they can be adopted into their forever homes. She has written beautiful and lengthy e-mail updates about the progress of these dogs, as well as anecdotes about antics that our pair will do, and many times these tales have wound up in the...

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The Book That Changed My Life

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The Book That Changed My Life

I was born in 1955. I loved movies as a kid and by around 1967 or so I was already thinking about wanting to make my own. I’d even started writing my own scripts. But cinema studies and film production was still very new. In Los Angeles, one of the colleges, U.C.L.A., had started a film school, but even then it was pretty ramshackle. There were only a few published books on the subject back then. Most were on film theory, written my English professors turned film analysts. I didn’t understand what they were talking about then and I...

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