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Making Fagen

by Christopher T. Wood May 8, 2013

Monologist Christopher T. Wood delves into dialogue and presents an ingenious meta prequel to the trailer for his screenplay, Fagen, depicting the pitch to the studio. Watch it, read it or both. TS

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Gus Harper in Motion

by Gus Harper April 26, 2013

Isaac Rodriguez directs this short film that explores the technique of Los Angeles artist Gus Harper, showing us the process as Gus makes several of his paintings, which are notable for their archetypal and dreamlike quality. To learn more about Gus Harper and buy or commission works, please visit him here. TS Gus Harper – […]

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Table of Contents Locks Horns with Wikipedia

by Tony Shea April 1, 2013

A new database of information is rising up to compete with Wikipedia. And it may just change all of our lives – or what we think of as our lives. While Wikipedia has become the leading source of information on the web, maintained and edited by a group of online volunteers, and free to the […]

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Facial Expressions – Can They Be Used by People Who Aren’t Professionally Trained Actors?

by Tony Shea and Dan O'Day McClellan February 22, 2013

Every year after the Oscars telecast I receive dozens of emails from my students saying that they noticed something unusual, something about how actors seem different from themselves and the other people they encounter in daily life. My students aren’t quite sure what the difference is, but they have a sense that actors do something […]

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No Pain No Gain

by Tony Shea January 17, 2013

Katy McCaffrey, our Contributing Editor here in Los Angeles, wrote in her blog earlier this week about how she and her husband have begun the grueling regime that is the Insanity workout, the new get ripped quick religion. In her article, she mentions describing the new fad to another couple and encouraging them to join […]

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Micro-fiction Story Contest

by Staff November 13, 2012

This is our continuing bi-weekly micro-fiction contest where we ask you to submit your best story of 250 words or less based on an image that we provide. This week’s image in entitled GEORGE  MISSES THE BUS – AGAIN and comes to us courtesy of photographer Frank Lubick.  We’ve added our own story below and […]

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Roy G Biv

by Jay Hood November 7, 2012

Wondering what to do with all those books on the shelves in the digital age? Jay Hood has the answer. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-AYbdvCGuI]

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The Dog Vote

by Todd Nash November 6, 2012

This morning before I left for the polls I had to see who my man, Bailey, liked for the presidency. His friend the “Possum” is representing Obama and his friend “Ellie the Elephant” appropriately is representing Mitt Romney. I in no way guided him with treats towards one candidate or the other. He makes the […]

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Election Day

by Dan Cohen November 6, 2012

In honor of Election Day, audio artist Dan Cohen subliminally invades our minds again with his new 93 second trilogy. !WARNING!: THE AUDIO RECORDINGS BELOW SPECIFICALLY CONTAIN NEURO-HYPER-BOND SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES THAT CAN PENETRATE THE DEEPEST LAYERS OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS AND EFFECT THE ACTUAL WAY YOU VOTE IN TUESDAY’S ELECTION. BY LISTENING TO THE RECORDINGS YOU […]

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ART vs. ART – Rodney Dangerfield vs. Jean-Michel Basquiat

by Tony Shea November 2, 2012

There are those that say art can not be judged against other art. And there are those that say art can only be judged by category (painters vs. painters, writers vs. writers and so on) and genre (westerns vs. westerns, comics vs comics and so on) And then there are those that say throw them […]

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Monday Micro-fiction Story Contest – Hurricane Sandy

by Staff October 29, 2012

TO ALL OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS ON THE EAST COAST WE HOPE THAT YOU ARE SAFE AND WELL AFTER THIS DEVASTATING STORM. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION TO THE RED CROSS FOR HURRICANE RELIEF. Hurricane Sandy Every Monday, we’ll be doing a series of collaborative competitions where an artist provides us with a […]

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ART vs. ART – Highway to Hell vs.Catcher in the Rye

by Tony Shea October 26, 2012

There are those that say art can not be judged against other art. And there are those that say that art can only be judged by category, painters vs. painters, writers vs. writers and so on. And then there are those, like us, that say throw them in the ring. We wrote down a list […]

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Sigmund Freud

by Dan Cohen October 8, 2012

Listen to Dan Cohen’s audio experiment that is simultaneously climbing both the dance and psych department charts. WARNING: THIS PIECE MAY CONTAIN SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES. By listening to this piece you agree to be co-opted as a secret soldier for THE ORGANIZATION. Click the arrow below to listen: [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/55546902″ iframe=”true” /] **You should like Shea […]

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