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Limitation vs. Possibility

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than it is to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt. This quote was inscribed on a plaque on a wall of my father’s office and now it’s inscribed in me. At the start of a new year it’s customary to take stock [...]

What to Expect When You’re Expecting Trailer

Kirk Jones (Everybody’s Fine, Waking Ned Devine) directs What to Expect When You’re Expecting written by Shauna Cross (Whip It) and Heather Hach (Freaky Friday) adapted from the best-selling pregnancy instructional book of the same name. The film follows five couples dealing with the arrival of a child including Rosie (Anna Kendrick), a woman who reunites with an old flame and fellow food-truck owner and becomes pregnant, and Brooklyn Decker as the perky wife of a much older man who [...]

Gigniks Interview: Seth Jaret as Manager & Producer

Here’s a succinct video overview of what Seth Jaret does as a manager & producer — two of the many hats he wears on a daily basis including developer, packager, Content Creator, video editor, marketer, blogger, social media marketer, consultant, guest speaker, entrepreneur and dad. This career interview was produced, filmed and edited by high school students at LACES (Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies), a magnet school, for a new organization called gigniks. gigniks is a non-profit program run [...]

Children, Chocolate and Honesty

I slip my five year-old daughter a piece of chocolate and tell her, “Don’t tell Mom I gave this to you – it’s our secret.” She nods enthusiastically as the chocolate melts on her tongue. When my wife enters the room, my daughter––in an attempt to hold up her end of the bargain––announces, “I just ate a secret!” * * [...]

Guinevere Turner explains the perils of working with Uwe Boll

Via Joystiq: “Scripts are late. Writers are two years late. I was two weeks late,” Bloodrayne film screenwriter Guinevere Turner passionately explains in an interview pulled from “Tales From the Script,” a documentary showcasing stories from across the world of screenwriting. “Uwe Boll calls me [on the phone], ‘This is fucking disgusting! You lied to me! Where is my script?!’,” she continues, demonstrating how she held the phone away from her head as he yelled. Unsurprisingly, Turner wasn’t a [...]

Has Social Media Got You Down?

Are your recent Facebook status updates uncompelling? Are your latest tweets pointless and devoid of humor? Are you feeling blasé about social media? Hilary Graham directed this commercial for prescription-strength eFrienda, the cure for Antisocial Media Disorder.

Making Hell on Wheels

Think you know what it takes to build a train from styrofoam and wood? Watch how the crew of Hell On Wheels collaborates in bringing a functioning period locomotive to life. Hear from the cast and crew of AMC’s newest series which centers on former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon, whose quest for vengeance leads him to the construction of the first transcontinental railroad.