Kalmunity

You can go and see Kalmunity (live organic improv) tonight at the Marquee Club. Screen Arts' very own Reed Jones will be opening for them. It should be a great event that is sponsored by the Centre for Art Tapes (CFAT) with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Council on African Canadian Education, and the gracious support of The Marquee Club and MusicStop. CFAT has presented performance and audio art events in Halifax, since the early 1980’s.

Concessions Are For Girlie Men

Concessions Are For Girlie Men is an article on Slate by Edward Jay Epstein that explains Arnold Schwarzenegger's contract for Terminator 3. It's filled with lots of details of how films are financed and how contracts are put together. Find out how a contract for a big-budget film is structured and all of the perks that a star can receive.

Thelma Schoonmaker Interview

You can read about one of the best editors in the business as MovieMaker Magazine interviews Thelma Schoonmaker. Lots of neat information and insight from Schoonmaker. Some good advice for all editors.

Photos of the New Location

Screen Arts Studio - Room 418,
originally uploaded by Chris Campbell.

I was able to look around the new home of Screen Arts program downtown yesterday. Of course I took some pictures of the Halifax Downtown Campus. It's going to be a neat place.

working title

If you look at working title, you can see hundreds (maybe thousands) of film title screens all arranged alphabetically. It was assembled by cuechamp. Amazing!

Creativity and Deadlines

you just sit down and start the hard work, and trust that it will happen, even if it doesn't feel like it

Kathy Sierra writes about creativity and deadlines in the muse always comes late. Why do we always seem to work right up to the deadline? Being creative many times involves doing the work, it doesn't appear before you start most of the time, but it shows up after you start working on something.
(Via Creating Passionate Users.)

Ten Rules for Independent Filmmaking

AmazeFilms has a list of Ten Rules for Independent Filmmaking that feature some familiar, but solid advice for success in the film business.

Mentat Wiki

The Mentat Wiki is filled with all sorts of information of how to become a better thinking. It's great to do some of this stuff everyday to expand your brain.