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Shakedown Films Wednesday March 19, 2014
Sometimes when you want to find out where to go on the web for info and inspiration, you need to ask actual filmmakers! Director Michael O'Connor and writer Ninon Schubert of Shakedown Films have blogged up a list of the sites they go to most often, including producer Ted Hope’s Hope for Film, the website of the British Film Institute, and the wonderfully named Art of the Guillotine—which, they say, has “everything you ever wanted to know on film editing.” Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 9, 2019
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond Tickets for Brainwave | Power, at
The Rubin, February-April 2019 go on sale Thursday, January 10, 9 am. Info Registration open for In Our Time: A Year of Architecture in a Day, an all day symposium on
January 19. Presenters include Eyal Weizman, Elizabith Diller, David Lang and Beatrice Galilee, and Vincent Fournier, among others. … Read the full Story >>
THE BLACK AND BLUE Monday February 10, 2014
Two of the hardest things to get a handle on in the film industry are how much you can expect to make, and where the jobs are. But, notes the Black and Blue, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics helps
eliminate some of the guesswork by revealing the average wage of a camera operator, where the most jobs are, and how much the industry is projected to grow. Answers: $49K/year; California and New
York; and slowly. But there’s much more info to pick through. Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday March 14, 2017
Special Events Continuing through March 18 Asia Week.
Various venues, NY, NY Info March
15-26 New Directors | New Films 2017. MoMA, 11 West 53rd Street, & The Walter Reade Theater at
Lincoln Center. Info Resist | Protest
Wednesday, March 15 Designing Resistance | How to Create and Distribute Political Art & Design, with Intererence Archive,
7-9 pm. SVA Library, 380 Second Avenue, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday October 3, 2017
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond Tuesday, October 3
The Work of Nicolas Carone, panel with Ro Lohin, David Ramm, Marticia Sawin and John Yau, 6:30 pm. New York Studio School, 8 West 8th Street, NY, NY Info Black Intimacy | Film Series, through October 16. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, NY, NY Info Xu Bing | Art … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday March 31, 2016
Culture wars have become a part of thoughtful discourse today, unlike the bloody battlefields that
characterized the 1970s in America, when this form of argument first arose. At that time, artists and academics were re-defining the production and meaning of art on parallel with the redefinition of
identity in terms of race, ethnicity and gender. Ethnic groups shaped separate combat zones that promoted the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 22, 2023
Abundance. Vitality. Progress. This was New York City circa 1848, in a painting that depicts
Manhattan’s downtown skyline as seen from Brooklyn.
Thanks to the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, New York City became
the Eastern hub of continental commerce.
This view celebrating the optimism of the day, by an unidentified artist,
is in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum. Info … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday January 11, 2018
Change only happens when individuals take action. There’s no other way, if it doesn’t start with people.—Aliya Haq, National Resources
Defence Council This looks, on the surface, like a blinding glimpse of the obvious. However, most people know how difficult it is to make—and keep—a New Year’s
Resolution. But a group of 12 artist/activists in Brooklyn and DC banded together following the 2016 … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday August 31, 2017
For all the would-be burners out there who were unable to snag a
$475-ticket to this year’s festival—yes, the 40-second window didn’t work for most—this DART page is devoted to the phenomenon known as Burning Man. Since 1986, revelers from
far and wide have trekked to the temporarily constructed Black Rock City, located in Black Rock Desert, for a week of art, music, dancing, … Read the full Story >>
Photo Attorney Tuesday August 25, 2020
Recently, photographer Gregory Mango won a lawsuit against BuzzFeed that, notes the Photo Attorney website, sets a precedent. The United States Court of Appeals for the
Second Circuit ruled that BuzzFeed was liable for 3rd party infringement of one of Mango’s photos because the online publication removed his copyright info from the image. Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 26, 2020
“The common perception of the book today is fairly
straightforward: a series of pages organized around a spine and protected on either side by two covers. This format allows for easy access, storage and retrieval of information. Yetwhat happens when
the book is stripped away of centuries of preconceptions and is allowed to reveal something else: playfulness, utility, invention?” With this provocative question, the … Read the full Story >>
Indiewire Friday August 29, 2014
Is the feature film obsolete? The future of filmmaking is becoming clearer—and it looks like episodic series. Now Indiewire reports that the American Film Institute is launching a workshop
series for women directors focused on episodic projects. Participants will produce content for the web and streaming services. Applications are being accepted through January 7, 2015. Go here for more info. Read the full Story >>
Cinematography Database Wednesday August 3, 2016
For cinematographers, having an effective online portfolio is an essential, and Matthew Workman of Cinematography Database explains how to created one. What you want is a website that is functional
and interesting, notes NoFilmSchool. Workman offers three essential tips: 1. Include only your best work; 2. Make your contact info easy to find, and 3. Instagram,
Instagram, Instagram. Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday October 17, 2017
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / Open Studios / Art Fairs / and Beyond Tuesday,
October 17 The Inequity of Wealth in Contemporary America, pane, 6:30 pm, with: Leslie McCall, a sociologist and political scientist at CUNY's Stone Center on
Socio-Economic Inequality, Shawn Escoffery, director of the Strong Local Economies program at the Surdna Foundation, and Natasha del Toro, an investigative journalist and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 13, 2016
Educating generalists in a world that increasingly rewards specialists is a daunting prospect—especially when you're talking about American high school students following the Common Core
curricum. So when I saw the announcement from the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum for a chair design competition, I dug in. The announcement begins: Cooper Hewitt,
Smithsonian Design Museum announces the launch of Student Design Challenge #ThinkOutside, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 8, 2018
On a tip from DART subscriber Elliot Kaufman, I checked out the current show at the Hudson River Museum, in Yonkers, where photographs celebrating Hudson River crossings are on view.
In Harry Wilks: Hudson River Bridges, Wilks shows us the Hudson River from a sharply designed perspective. Girders and railings frame or bisect the views; lines of structures
intersect with lines in nature, leading … Read the full Story >>
nofilmschool Friday May 31, 2013
If you’re a film student, film teacher, or filmmaking institution, it has never been a better time to get in on a RED camera system, notes NoFilmSchool: The company has begun offering an
educational discount on most of their products, with discounts in the 10-percent range. Go here for more information. Go here to apply for the program. In other news, RED’s partner in 4K distribution, ODEMAX, is looking for independent
filmmakers to submit work for possible distribution through its network. Go here for info on that. Read the full Story >>
collider Tuesday May 21, 2013
We have mentioned the upcoming Collider Conference on digital production previously—here is an update: The conference (June 9 to 11), which will feature panels and master classes on
animation, VFX, and motion design, will also be hosting a VFX Town Hall meeting (6:00 pm, Monday, June 10) where industry insiders and attendees will be discussing the current state of the troubled
VFX business. The meeting will also be live-streamed. Go here for more info. Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday February 23, 2016
Talks / Discussions / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday February 23 An Evening with Paul Chan & Claudia La Rocco, 5:30 pm. Danspace Project, 131 East
10th Street, NY, NY. Info Panel: How to Look at Mexican Art, 6:30 pm. The New School, 63 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. Info Let’s Talk: Curating Your Life in the Arts, with SVA Alums, 7 pm. SVA Theater, 333
West … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday May 16, 2019
As a
young photographer juggling artistic work with commercial assignments, John Goodman always had color slide film loaded in a camera. Beginning in the 1970s and through the late 1980s, he photographed
on the streets of Boston, finding fleeting moments of connection at diners, shops and gas stations. He printed a few images, but packed most of his slides in a cabinet and only … Read the full Story >>
