Q & A session following a screening of “Legend of the Guardians” with director Zack Snyder. Recorded on 7 November 2010 @ the Directors Guild of America in Hollywood, CA.
In loving memory to Roy Lee Barnes 9 Feb 1936 – 29 October 2006 Ars Gratia Artis
This is an excerpt from a conversation I had with my late father Roy Barnes who served in the entertainment industry for close to 30 years as a member of both the Art Directors Guild (IATSE Local 800) and the Set Designers & Model Makers Guild (IATSE Local 847).
In this snippet we talk about the meaning of art. This recording took place in the ICU ward of St. Joseph’s hospital only a few days before he passed away from cancer.
Note: My father is receiving supplemental oxygen during these recordings therefore a slight hiss can be heard throughout.
Q & A session following a screening of Toy Story 3 with producer Darla K. Anderson and director Lee Unkrich. Recorded on 23 October 2010 @ the Aero Theater in Santa Monica.
Toy Story 3 will be available in a standard DVD edition, two-disc Blu-ray and in a four-disc Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy combo pack and the PSP edition on 2 November 2010.
A year ago this week my friend Hollis Hawthorne fell into a coma as a result of a motorcycle accident she suffered in India. Her progress has been slow but steady and both her friends and her family have been blogging about it and documenting every milestone.
For instance, recently her friends blogged as of the beginning of this year, she’s been singing and humming to songs she listens to on her iPod.
In the blog that Holli’s mom keeps she reported that yesterday Hollis was being evaluated to see if she is a candidate for the Shepherd Center of Atlanta, one of the top rehabilitation hospitals in the nation, specializing in medical treatment, research and rehabilitation for people with spinal cord injury or brain injury.
These blogs are very poignant reads, so be sure to check them out by visiting FriendsOfHollis.com.
As a network of kith and kin I think we did a pretty amazing job of fundraising to get Hollis back home. However, her family is still burdened with out-of-pocket medical expenses recently such as the purchase of a new custom wheelchair and Botox injections in her right arm so they can stretch her arm out in order to place a brace on it to straighten it. There are other numerous costs as you can well imagine so fundraising for her medical continues. If you have a bit to spare, please donate to Hollis.
I first met Martin Bosworth (aka @martinboz) a year ago this month at the L.A. Tweetup, a face-to-face social networking meetup for Los Angelenos. So in a weird way it seems fitting that I learned of his recent death on Twitter.
Bosworth was a managing editor at the consumer advocacy siteConsumerAffairs.com. He also posted to his personal blog Boztopia. In the short time that I knew him, I found him to be an extremely intelligent and articulate man full of mirth and wonderful ideas to share. Upon reading his blog post entitled “Who’s Gonna Take The Weight?” I discovered an in depth recounting of his fight against thyroid disease.
To me the tragedy in his passing is the fact that he had a long standing struggle with his insurance company to pay for his medical treatment because of a gap in coverage between jobs. He was only 35 years old. You can read more here.
Ensuring that health care reform isn’t just about providing coverage to the uninsured, but reforming the system to prevent excessive overbilling, medical errors, and other costly mistakes and bureaucratic snafus that only harm the patient and waste the provider’s time.
I have faith that my current issue will turn out okay. I’ve been through worse, after all. I think, in a philosophical sense, that I am going through this at this exact time in order to drive home how serious the need for better health care is. Listen to my story, share it, repeat it, and do everything you can to support real health care reform for all.
— Martin Bosworth
The passage of a national health care reform bill is more than an economic issue: it’s a moral one as well. To quote the late Senator Kennedy providing access to health care is a “fundamental principle of justice and the character of our country.’’ Please contact your senator today.
Goodbye, Martin. I will miss your strong smart voice pixelating out from my little neighborhood of the blogosphere. May you rest in peace.
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This clip featuring Twitterer @chaiguy and Bosworth was taken on 4 February 2009.
It was a super wet rainy day for a meet up with Aldrine Guerrero from Ukulele Underground who’s here in SoCal to attend NAMM. Since I don’t play the uke (and have no plans to) I thought I’d just come to see his live show on Tuesday at DiPiazza‘s in Long Beach. But then I saw that there was going to be meet up and since it was MLK Day which meant I was free I was like, well why not go? Eddie would! 🙂
Above is an audio recording of the review of “A Serious Man” with the only person to leave a comment on my blog to a Be My Guest screening of the latest Coen Bros. movie. The theater was not as full as some of the other previous screenings I’ve seen these past few weeks either. But I attribute this apparent lack of interest to the busy-ness of the holiday season and not so much the film per se.
Who wants to Be My Guest to a SAG Awards screening of the new Coen Bros. movie “A Serious Man”? It screens on Monday, 14 December at the ArcLight in Sherman Oaks located at 15301 Ventura Blvd.
As with all guild screenings this is sure to overbook so meet me early in line at 6:30pm to connect and play catch up before the holy day madness. Immediately following there will be a 40 minute Q&A session with Director of Photography Roger Deakins and Costume Designer Mary Zophres. Afterwards I ask that you hang out with me for just a few minutes to videotape your review of this film.
All you have to do to enter is leave a comment below. I’d like to step things up a bit and ask you to tell me something serious and/or silly. Your choice. Limit is one entry per person and be sure to leave some sort of contact information (i.e. Twitter, Facebook, email, etc) so that I can contact you in the event you are the winner. The drawing ends on 13 December at straight up noon and the winner will be selected using the Random Number Generator at Random.org.
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