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  Hollywood Q&A: How to Break into the Movie Business [PODCAST]

  May 16, 2012 / Podcasts, Seth Speaks

  In this podcast, Seth Jaret speaks to aspiring screenwriters about best practices for breaking into the entertainment business and sustaining success once you do. Seth covers his “origin story” and personal journey, starting with his initial successes with Rounders and 10 Things I Hate About You, culminating in the launch of Content Engine. He addresses the transformation of the film business, what it means to be a Content Creator, and how writers and directors need to eschew the culture of permission in favor [...]

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  Interview with Astrologer, Ra Rishikavi Raghudas [PODCAST]

  May 15, 2012 / Podcasts, Teachers & Seekers

  As part of his series on TEACHERS & SEEKERS, Seth Jaret interviews Content Engine’s resident astrologer, Ra Rishikavi Raghudas. Listen in on a conversation about astrology, spirituality, the zeitgeist and the cosmic influence of the stars and planets on all of us — whether we are attuned to it or not.    

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  Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

  Week of May 7 – 13

  May 7, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!

  In ancient times, on the isle of Crete, King Minos constructed a legendary labyrinth, in the center of which was a great bull, fierce and potent, the embodiment of raw strength and fertility, which was worshipped by the populace. Appropriately, this was during the Taurean Age (circa 1500 BC), when the Bull was at the center of many cultures’ religious rituals. It was said that those who entered the labyrinth and found their way out through the confusing maze, without [...]

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  Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

  Week of April 30 – May 6, 2012

  May 2, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!

  This week’s energies remind us of the legend of King Arthur and his utopian kingdom, Camelot. It’s a time for construction of long term projects that have the potential to succeed in a big way. So if you wonder what the King is doing tonight, I suggest you look within yourself to find the idealist who can initiate this change. This week’s keynote: TRUST IN YOUR DREAMS. There’s a scene in the film “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” that [...]

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  Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

  Week of April 23 – April 29, 2012

  April 23, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!

  Like a field beginning to sprout new growth after a gale-force wind has passed over it, this week may seem boring when compared to the last few. But—repeat after me: BORING IS GOOD! WE LIKE BORING! BORING MAKES ME EXCITED! Relatively peaceful and harmonious energies interpenetrate the week. It doesn’t mean that nothing tumultuous happens in the world or our individual lives, only that it’s not as unstable an energy pattern as we’ve seen in the last few weeks, so [...]

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  Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

  Week of April 16 – April 22, 2012

  April 18, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!

  There’s a scene in an early episode of M*A*S*H that handily sums up the energy of this week. Cross-dressing Corporal Klinger shows up in line one morning with a flowery bonnet on his head. COLONEL BLAKE: “Why the hat, Klinger?” KLINGER: “It’s Spring, sir!” In other words, this week we don’t need much of an excuse to feel good. The Sun is in its last week in the fire sign Aries, which gives the world natural oomph and vitality. In case [...]

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  Adventures of a Film Scholar – Part II

  April 13, 2012 / Adventures of a Film Scholar, Articles, Creator Corner

  So what’s it about? This is a question that I pose to my students. A very short, but – in my opinion – the ultimate make-or-break question as to whether a script (or the resulting film) will actually work. I don’t mean make money, I don’t mean be a critical success (both of those outcomes have many other contributing factors), I mean work on the raw, unadulterated, nuts-and-bolts STORYTELLING level. Most of what I do in academia is to flag [...]

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  STAR POWER! Astrology Unleashed

  Week of April 9 – April 15, 2012

  April 10, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!

  Picture if you will—no, not Rod Serling—a trip you’re taking down a river in a small canoe. You’re entering into a series of cataracts and rapids, and the water begins to swirl and pull from several different directions at once. Then you spot a group of large rocks to which you are being pulled. You’ve got only a moment or two to make a good decision that will enable you to avoid a nasty scenario. That’s what the energy is [...]

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  The Spiritual Power of Titanic

  April 6, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!

  “It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand caverns…” –John Keats, On the Sea And you thought it was only a movie. A five-hankie weeper of a love story, certainly. A tragic historical event for sure, unforgettably re-created by a virtuoso film director. Definitely an Oscar-winning, record-breaking monster of a film, which spawned Leo-mania and a backlash to its extensive emotionalism. And it still seems to have enough potency to inspire another [...]

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  Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

  Week of April 2 – April 8, 2012

  April 2, 2012 / Articles, Star Power!

  Everybody sing “Hallelujah!” Yes, it’s Easter time, but that’s not the only reason to be joyful this week. There are at least three major planetary events occurring now and several minor ones as well. It makes for a week in which that long red light finally turns green and we can GUN IT! Actually, we might just sit there for a moment while we realize it because Mars doesn’t turn direct until the 14th, but that’s not so bad either. [...]

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  The Spleenectomy

  March 23, 2012 / Videos, Virals/Shorts/Music Videos

  Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith wrote and directed THE SPLEENECTOMY, starring Anna Faris, as part of Glamour magazine’s Reel Moments program. Kiwi was the first non-actress to be selected to make a film for Reel Moments. Her short debuted alongside shorts directed by Courtney Cox and Demi Moore. Kiwi and Anna have collaborated twice on short films, both of which starred Anna and were written and directed by Kiwi. Their first success together was THE HOUSE BUNNY, which was co-written by Kiwi’s [...]

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  Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

  Relax, Your Sign Is Still Your Sign

  March 22, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!

  I was once called by a reporter after Pluto had been demoted to dwarf-planet status and asked how it would affect astrology. I said, “It won’t. Nothing has changed energetically. Astrology will work anyway.” People, it seems, are still worried about not being the right sign after the (very old) news flared up last year that the constellations are out of alignment with the zodiac signs. My answer is the same: “Nothing has changed. Astrology will work anyway.” Those who [...]

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