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New 2200 Sq. Ft. Studio! New Canon Cine Lens Set!

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New 2200 Sq. Ft. Studio! New Canon Cine Lens Set!

71’x32’ (2200 Sq. Ft.) Millionair Studio- $250 a 24 hour day or $25 an hour. 61’x32’ Red Finch Gallery - $250 for 6-10pm Weekday Evening. $350 For weekend evening. Free tee shirt with $100 rental (See Photograph) Canon Cine Six Lens Prime Set $250 We now have a 71-foot by 32-foot studio with a 13-foot-high ceiling. That’s over 2,200 square feet of studio space. It features a garage door and is mostly underground with thick 2-foot concrete walls so it is the most temperature controlled space you can imagine. Sound does come through the garage door but once I solve that...

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Be an Artist not a Fo artist (aka a Fartist)

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I don’t know what it is with this time of life I’m in but I think I’m having basically realizing what happened in my 20s. One of the things I’ve realized is that I spent about 20 years of my life surrounded by people in my college and graduate school who would look like artist and talk like artist but never actually made art. And by art I mean make any piece of work at all. It didn’t have to be good it just had to be something. To quote a favorite professor of mine “Crap in hand is better...

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Apple Watch in Use

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         So I’ve been using the Apple Watch since it came out and I feel like I can finally comment on it.  When I got the Apple Watch I was so skeptical about it’s usefulness that I kept the packaging incase I wanted to return it or sell it on eBay. But I’ve thrown out the packaging material and the Apple Watch is always on my wrist.            First of all the Apple Watch is an excellent Fit Bit. The Apple watch has shown me how little I actually move on days I edit photographs or do computer...

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Texas Ranchers and Mac Pros (Thoughts on)

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I’m hopeful Apple will release a new Mac Pro in January. That being said I am frustrated again that it has been over 3 years (and two generations of Intel Xeon CPUs) since they have done an upgrade.            We rely on these computers to do our work. A faster computer means the work is done quickly which means they have more time to create. It is a mistake that Apple is neglecting the creative class that saw them through the 90s. Also it is a huge mistake in marketing. For the same reason the Ford F series of trucks benefits...

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My brief guide to the Sundance Film Festival

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Here is my brief guide on attending and having a film in the Sundance Film Festival.  The Sundance Ski Resort Screening room or Salt Lake City Venues are excellent places to get a stand-by tickets Friday and Saturday evenings on Park City Main Street are a lot fun. You will see an A list TV star and older A list movie star. Good times. If you want to get into the Sundance Film Fest the best way to do it is to participate in the Sundance Institutes, Screen Writing Lab, Directors Lab, etc. They are like the most perfect film...

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