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My daughter attends UCLA. She knew I wanted a UCLA ball cap, but frugal as she is (nothin' wrong with THAT trait in a college student!), she wouldn't pay the $50 or whatever it was for a bonafide hat for her dept. (Theatre/Film/TV). So she made me one--I now have a UNIQUE UCLA ball cap, that all the other UCLA dads can just go ahead and be jealous of. She even hand-embroidered the letters "TFT" on the back, like the real ones have. phil p
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"What kind of a peace do I mean and what kind of a peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and build a better life for their children–not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women–not merely peace in our time but peace in all time." - John F. Kennedy, June 10th, 1963
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When I agree to do a job, I am hired to do the sound recording for a given project. A simple concept most would say, but what obligation do I have to be filmed doing my job as a part of another media project related to my gig or used at some point in time in ways not yet determined or thought up? What side of the camera am I on? What side is the important one? The reason I ask this is the ever present "behind the scene's crew" shooting us shoot the commercial. It used to be this happened w name talent Super Bowl type spots every now and again. That was then. Now these mostly nice folks are shooting us shoot on many mundane everyday spots. Maybe 50% of the jobs I do have t…
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Funeral this week for a grip friend of mine--very well known guy in the SF film community. In addition to family and non-work friends there was a sizable contingent of movie crew people, who mostly ended up sitting together. It was a nice, sombre, Catholic mass. When, during the priest's homily, a plane flew over the church, several crew people, out of habit I guess, glanced at me: that location production "are we gonna cut?" look, and then realized how absurd that was.....we smiled to ourselves. phil p
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A first for me today. I worked with a cameraman who wasn't born when I started out.
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http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7392161/
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I have just read the absolute best interview ever with my father, Haskell Wexler. Anyone interested can read it HERE - Jeff Wexler
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I ate a little humble pie at the start of this season. Up to now in my hubris I have always stood firm on the fact that I consider myself a mixer not a recordist and so have, for the most part, shunned the use of ISO tracks except where absolutely necessary. Now that post have mandated the use of ISO tracks whenever wires are used I have seen first hand how they can assist the dialogue editor in assembling a clean track thereby circumventing the application of looped dialogue to the scene. Sometimes. Along with my education in the use of pro tools this lesson has moved me further into the realm of modern recording techniques and loosened my grip on traditional methods t…
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http://www.reverbnation.com/store/view_item_merch/artist_390948?item_id=365434&merchprice=22.99 Your thoughts? Ty
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I had a shoot at madame tussaud. They did not want to stop the AC while shooting 1 2
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I dont think they make the statues from Wax anymore but the the museum manager refused to shut the ac off. And It was the noisiest AC I have ever heard. The shoot was yesterday and today production is complaining about the AC. Whos fault is it?
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From Deadline Hollywood and Nikki Finke: Reliable sources tell me that Eddie Fisher has died. He was 82. The singer and entertainer and TV star of his own show and co-star of films Bundle Of Joy and Butterfield 8 had his heyday in the 1950s. In 1953 Fisher was given his own 15-minute TV show called Coke Time, sponsored by the Coca-Cola company; it was so popular that Coke then offered Eddie an unprecedented $1 million contract to be their national spokesperson. But Fisher is best known for having been married to Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, and Connie Stevens and for fathering multitalent Carrie Fisher and TV actress Joely Fisher. He created quite the worldwide sca…
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I was in negotiation for a reality show. It was following 8 women around las vegas. Production wanted only one boom direct cable to camera and no wireless because they did not want to spend the extra buck. I told them that it would be very difficult next to impossible and refused to do it. They hired somebody else. Today I get an email from production pretty much laughing and making fun of me, saying it is working just fine with one boom. Are these people serious?
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I'm sure I'm not alone in hating certain aspects of sound recording. Marydixie, my boom op, hates people kissing or eating food. Lips smacking drives her nuts. Not much of a drive, but still.... I have a long list of peeves when it comes to recording actors. Here are two. # 1 is actors who when they say action all but swallow their voice and push no air at all. No one in life talks like this. When I see/hear this, which is all the time, I see them acting and it is more apparent than they suspect. Amateur hour IMO. The noise floor roars as the mumble core their way through a scene that the other actors can't even understand and they start mumbling as well. #2 actors wh…
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Screenwriter-producer Irving Ravetch died yesterday at Cedars Sinai Hospital of a lingering illness. He was 89. Ravetch and his wife and writing partner Harriet Frank Jr were nominated for two Academy Award for writing Hud (1963) and Norma Rae (1979). They co-wrote eighteen other films, including Hombre, Conrack, The Rievers, The Long Hot Summer, The Sound and the Fury, Home From the Hill, The Cowboys, Murphy’s Romance and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. In addition to co-writing Hud, Hombre and The Rievers, Ravetch also served as a producer on them. Ravetch, who was born Nov, 14, 1920, in Newark, N,J., is survived by his wife Harriet Frank, Jr. as well as his sister…
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This is from the deep pocketed environmental group "Heal The Bay".
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We are truly international! Special thanks goes out to our main man in China, Cloud Wang. Cloud has made a very generous contribution in support of this group. I am pleased we have such interest in China. Thank you again, Cloud for making this group such a great place!
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La Shona Tova!!
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Musing today on past jobs and crazy situations that I found myself in over the years. I thought it might be interesting to hear about the craziest most challenging, weird or just plain funny predicaments that we've encountered in our careers. I'm sure there are so many in each of our anecdotal arsenals that it would take a book, but just choose one that sticks out, so to speak. I posted some years ago about an Unsolved Mysteries that i did about Elvis's early years in which they hired a look alike based on the fact that he could, (so he said) play the guitar. Of course, having said whatever it took to get the job we find on location in Memphis that he hadn't a clue. I th…
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I assembled a little slideshow for possible use at the CAS Awards Banquet next year where I will be receiving the Cinema Audio Society Career Achievement Award. http://web.me.com/jwsound/Site/v.cas_slideshow.html
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I didn't know where to post this so I started a new topic. Film/TV/Book?Music reviews from group members. Hop in if so inclined. I really enjoyed "The Kids Are All Right" for many reasons, but mostly I liked the story. This film was a recognizable slice of LA/SoCal life. I don't see many of these. The director, Lisa Cholodenko, is a major talent in the old 70's ideal of a director and their subject matter and story. Her films remind me of Hal Ashby. Not sure many saw "Laurel Canyon" by her, but well made and worth a viewing IMO. The Acting, Camera, Art Direction, and Sound on "Kids" were outstanding in a very serving way to the story, but were invisible and drew zero…
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Yesterday was our shoot at the Justin Bieber concert (in Oakland), all behind the scenes. I spent most of the day sitting in hallway outside his dressing room in my full bag rig, everything on, swapping batteries to a charger on my cart, as we waited for himself to give us shards of time in which to shoot the little promo pieces my client needed for their product tie-in. The tour is, as you might expect, the full-boat mega pop 2010 edition--all the bells and whistles. Interesting for me--I hadn't been around this kind of thing in a long time, and had forgotten the bigness of it all. Two moments: 1: JB comes tearing out of his dressing room on a Segway scooter, and we…
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I was having a office clear out and came across over a hundred what I call thoughts for the day. I used to hang a different one on the cart each day. Most I've made up during the endless hours waiting for D.o.p.'s to finish lighting and some I've nicked off other mixers and I thought this one was particularly poignant. The Sound Mixer's Prayer Lord, Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change and the courage to change the things I can and give me the wisdom and cunning to hide the bodies of the talent, directors, producers and production managers I've had to kill when they have really pissed me off. Malcolm Davies. A.m.p.s.
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That's right, you read it correctly. In 1986 President Ronald Reagan signed the "Immigration Reform and Control Act" ("IRCA") to require employers to verify the identity and the eligibility of ALL employees hired to work in the United States. From that point on everyone had to fill in a required I-9 form before being legally employed. In those 24 years, think how many times those of us in the Los Angeles area film industry have filled in one of these I-9 forms? I would guess each of us has done so over a thousand times or more. However in the early 90's the CSTAF, the Contract Services Administration Fund asked each of us to personally go to the fund headquarters…
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More funnies from xtranormal artists:
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