An update on a manuscript I abandoned and then returned to. Somewhat like Joseph Conrad’s return to finish his novel in 1920, twenty years after he started it. Rescue after a twenty year lapse from the start of the novel. The third in a famous trilogy. Feel below MS could be very useful to a […]
The Neuroscience Behind Storytelling Strategies Is a multi-disciplinary approach the way forward for a rather stagnant screenwriting industry? In effect, it seems the stagnation is most congregated at the beginning of the screenwriting process and putting an idea on paper and attempting to move it forward in a screenplay. Screenwriters congregate under various structures or […]
_________________________________ It has been an amazing year of discovery for me. This first full year after the pandemic when there has been time for reflection on the two-year event and repercussions. I somehow managed to come across three of the most incredible books I’ve ever read this year. I wrote reviews on all three of […]
_____________________________________ In the important new book Propaganda 2.1: Understanding Propaganda in the Digital Age by Peter Fallon, the author attempts to bring the ideas about propaganda of Jacques Ellul into the current digital age. Ellul wrote one of the most famous books on propaganda called Propaganda published in english in 1964 and died in 1994 […]
Founder of The French Laundry Sally Schmitt Sally Schmitt / February 28, 1932 – March 5th, 2022 (Note: The song “Sorta, Kinda” by the New Life Orchestra seems to go with this blog about Sally Schmitt. The constant theme of the elegant and graceful piece of music represents a purposeful and passionate life.) “All in […]
THE ART OF ROB GONSALVES “I believe that there is a real magic in life. Sometimes the experience of it can be dependent on one’s point of view. I have come to see the making of art as the search for that point of view where the magic and wonder of life appears not so […]
Nothing gives us hope as much as the arrival of a new baby. Here is the arrival of that message of hope named Owen Sanford Ullman. My wife Stephanie is now a grandmother for the first time and I am a new step-grandfather. A huge congratulations to new parents Drew and Kelly and new grandparents […]
“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.” Carl Sagan __________________________________________________ Watching the short three and a half minute video above with astronomer Carl Sagan’s narration has […]
Sometimes, the best trips are the spontaneous ones undertaken at the spur of the moment with no real plan. Like the short trip my son Chris and I took on a hot August in Sonoma County. We first stopped at the award-winning Wilson Winery on Dry Creek Road just west of Healdsburg, California. First photos […]
