From the monthly archives:

December 2009

Coming Attractions: Candyman

December 24, 2009

In 1976, David Klein had one of the best (or worst depending on your perspective) ideas of his life.  It was that year that the odd-ball idea man came up with the idea for fluorescent colored, unusually expensive jelly beans.  He called his new candy concoction, Jelly Belly Jelly Beans.  And the rest is history.
Candyman: [...]

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Help Fund A Documentary Film: December

December 15, 2009

I’ve run across a great way to help documentary filmmakers complete their documentary film projects.  Kickstarter.com is a website for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, and explorers to seek and find funding for their projects.
Here’s how it works:
An artist posts a description of their project on Kickstarter.com.  The description includes the amount of money [...]

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The Heart Is a Drum Machine

December 12, 2009

Title:              The Heart is a Drum Machine
Director:              Christopher Pomerenke
Producer:            Chris McDaniel (Exec), Ryan Page, Hans Fjellested, Joe Mundo,
                                 Connit Hoy (Co), Christian Castle (Co)
Cinema:                Hans Fjellestad
Editor:                  Hans Fjellested
Music:                   Steven Drozd
Year:                     2009 (75 minutes) 
Synopsis:  Frank Zappa once said, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”  But what of talking about music?  Many of today’s top artists and scholars [...]

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Trimpin: The Sound of Invention

December 1, 2009

Title:              Trimpin: The Sound of Invention
Director:              Peter Esmonde
Producer:            Peter Esmonde
Cinema:                Peter Esmonde
Editor:                  Rick Tejada-Flores
Music:                   Trimpin, Concon Nancarrow
Sound:                  Matthew G. Monroe, Gabriel Miller
Year:                     2008 (89 minutes) 
Synopsis:  The music of Trimpin has to be seen to be believed – and that’s not a syntactical error because Trimpin doesn’t just make music.  He composes the music, plays the music, and creates [...]

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