Archive for December, 2009
Wait, no, that can’t be right. Let’s revisit Rob Donoghue’s post from yesterday (“Dragon Age: Leaving Out The Egg“), and see if I can’t get on track, here. Rob said something awesome, something of which I was utterly unaware: Back in the day, Betty Crocker rolled onto the market with mixes for making cakes and [...]
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Time, I think, to try out a new format for this here Painting With Shotguns series of posts. Gone shall be the bullet point buckshot of previous incarnations, and now we’ll do something a little more targeted — y’know, like a heavy deer slug, punching clean, thumb-sized holes in your brainmeats. (When I was a [...]
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Awooga, awooga. Warning. Sirens. Red lights flashing. A naked old man gesticulating wildly. I’m going to spoil various fictional properties. I do not like spoilers, and I am not spoiling them because I drink in your misery. That said, in making my point it will be necessary to pull back the curtain on some particular [...]
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SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES TWELVE FEATURE FILM PROJECTS FOR JANUARY SCREENWRITERS LAB 12.14.2009 Los Angeles, CA-Sundance Institute has selected twelve projects for the annual January Screenwriters Lab, to be held January 15-20, 2010 at the Sundance Resort in Utah. This year’s group includes filmmakers from regions throughout the world, including the United States, China, Southeast Asia, [...]
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The other day, I told you to throw the pebble. Today, I’m going to tell you how I sometimes throw the pebble. Or the acorn. Or the pennies. Or the fastball, hand grenade, or angry wombat. Choose your metaphor and hold it tight. Unless you go with “angry wombat,” because you do not want to [...]
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