Paying the Price for Experience: A Rollercoaster Shoot

Paying the Price for Experience: A Rollercoaster Shoot Tale What appeared to be a straightforward process turned out to be a rollercoaster of unexpected challenges. The plan was simple: secure a colleague’s lighting setup, collaborate with a stylist for a top-tier wardrobe, pick up the celebrity from the hotel, conduct […]

The Arrival of the Fat Pants

The Arrival of the Fat PantsThe saga begins each year around Thanksgiving, a time of culinary abundance intertwined with the Puritan’s stern disapproval of wastefulness. This inevitable collision ushers in a steady expansion of our waistlines. Then come the holiday soirées, replete with delectable hors d’oeuvres and tantalizing cocktails. And […]

All I Want For Christmas

Is everything in the Apple Store. So says the girl child…in blissful ignorance of our family budget and the realities of choices which must be made in the adult world. Move over ghost of Christmas future, Steve Jobs is taking your place. What happened to wanting a Barbie? At age […]

24 Years a Slave

Coming to a venue very close to you: 24 Years A Slave.  The story of an emotional struggle of one (or more) sane and balanced individuals to come to grips with the consequences of their biological drive(s) to reproduce.  It has not received any Academy nominations nor is it likely to.  The producer/director pushed […]