WORKSHOP IN THE MATRIX
MATRIX BROADCAST FROM FLASHPOINT INSTALLED IN SECOND LIFE
VIRTUAL CLASS HELD IN SECOND LIFE
HINDSIGHT - WRITE SOMETHING WORTH READING ABOUT OR DO SOMETHING WORTH WRITING ABOUT
Monday, May 26, 2008
POPCHA! GUYS FROM BROOKLYN PRESENT SECOND LIFE WORKSHOP AND DETAILS ON "BROOKLYN IS WATCHING" FOR FLASHPOINT STUDENTS
WORKSHOP IN THE MATRIX
MATRIX BROADCAST FROM FLASHPOINT INSTALLED IN SECOND LIFE
VIRTUAL CLASS HELD IN SECOND LIFE
EDITING AND FOLEY LAB WORK ON NEW FLASHPOINT FILM BY DEAN PAULA FROEHLE - THE CLOCKMAKER
THE PAINTING
EDITING BEFORE TRIP TO MEXICO
FOLEY LAB FOR SOUND EFFECTS
SOUND DESIGN STUDIO
STILLS FROM ANIMATION DEPARTMENT
EDITING BEFORE TRIP TO MEXICO
FOLEY LAB FOR SOUND EFFECTS
SOUND DESIGN STUDIO
STILLS FROM ANIMATION DEPARTMENT
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New Art for Tullman Collection - "Mel Gibson Busted!" by Kuhl & Leyton from Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art in Miami
"MEL GIBSON - BUSTED! JULY 28,2006 - DUI"
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Nice Tribune Article on Son of Rambow Guys Mentions Flashpoint Academy Visit
'Son of Rambow' springs from the well of filmmaker's early memories
By Kelley L. Carter
Tribune reporter
May 9, 2008
Tribune reporter
All writer and director Garth Jennings really wanted to do was craft a throwback film, you know, something that would take him—and with any luck an audience—back to an untainted place in the 1980s, when make-believe was enough to entertain us for hours on end.
What he and filmmaking partner Nick Goldsmith ended up with was a story of two unlikely friends—the class deviant and the kid whose religious sect dictates that he never watch television—who go on a moviemaking mission and break down barriers.
"It started when I had seen a copy of 'Rambo: First Blood [Part II],' " says Jennings of his love affair with films. "It blew our minds. [My friends and I] were like, this guy can do anything! He can take on 200 men with just a stick and a knife! He was in the forest, and we used to play in the forest every day, and this was like the perfect film for us. It just blew us away, so much so that I made my own action movie with my friends based on Rambo."
From that, he says, he started making what he considers terrible little movies with his childhood buddies. Years later—after film school and after a little early success with his business partner Goldsmith—here's the movie based on that memory.
The pair revisited the film school experience in Chicago recently at Flashpoint Academy for the Media Arts and Sciences, 28 N. Clark St., where they touted their film and met with the college's students.
"Son of Rambow," opening Friday, tracks two kids who try to make their own film. More important, it captures that childhood-like wonder.
"When you look back on that age when you were about 11 or 12 and the world is very different and anything's possible and you don't consider the consequences in terms of relationships or even jumping off dangerous things and all that good stuff—that's what we wanted to get at," Jennings says. "It was just all about trying to capture that feeling and how we remember it rather than how it really was."
It also was a way to contribute something to the canon of coming-of-age films. There hasn't really been much out there that satisfied the filmmaking duo, who go by the name of Hammer & Tongs.
"You don't have that emotional, uplifting feeling that older films like 'Stand by Me' or films like 'Harold and Maude' have. These sorts of films—they had a sort of strange effect on you. You came out of the cinema, and you just felt good about life. ... And we knew we wanted to make a film that would have that sort of effect on people."
The film was shot in 2006 and for the most part features first-time actors. Ed Westwick co-stars as an older brother, and thanks to CW's "Gossip Girl," he's one of the best-known.
"I think it's a very humbling story. It's good to be reminded of life on a smaller, more natural scale that can make us smile and feel warm inside," Westwick says. "It's the way we were when we were young and were oblivious to the complications of our lives."
klcarter@tribune.com
Copyright © 2008, Chicago Tribune
By Kelley L. Carter
Tribune reporter
May 9, 2008
Tribune reporter
All writer and director Garth Jennings really wanted to do was craft a throwback film, you know, something that would take him—and with any luck an audience—back to an untainted place in the 1980s, when make-believe was enough to entertain us for hours on end.
What he and filmmaking partner Nick Goldsmith ended up with was a story of two unlikely friends—the class deviant and the kid whose religious sect dictates that he never watch television—who go on a moviemaking mission and break down barriers.
"It started when I had seen a copy of 'Rambo: First Blood [Part II],' " says Jennings of his love affair with films. "It blew our minds. [My friends and I] were like, this guy can do anything! He can take on 200 men with just a stick and a knife! He was in the forest, and we used to play in the forest every day, and this was like the perfect film for us. It just blew us away, so much so that I made my own action movie with my friends based on Rambo."
From that, he says, he started making what he considers terrible little movies with his childhood buddies. Years later—after film school and after a little early success with his business partner Goldsmith—here's the movie based on that memory.
The pair revisited the film school experience in Chicago recently at Flashpoint Academy for the Media Arts and Sciences, 28 N. Clark St., where they touted their film and met with the college's students.
"Son of Rambow," opening Friday, tracks two kids who try to make their own film. More important, it captures that childhood-like wonder.
"When you look back on that age when you were about 11 or 12 and the world is very different and anything's possible and you don't consider the consequences in terms of relationships or even jumping off dangerous things and all that good stuff—that's what we wanted to get at," Jennings says. "It was just all about trying to capture that feeling and how we remember it rather than how it really was."
It also was a way to contribute something to the canon of coming-of-age films. There hasn't really been much out there that satisfied the filmmaking duo, who go by the name of Hammer & Tongs.
"You don't have that emotional, uplifting feeling that older films like 'Stand by Me' or films like 'Harold and Maude' have. These sorts of films—they had a sort of strange effect on you. You came out of the cinema, and you just felt good about life. ... And we knew we wanted to make a film that would have that sort of effect on people."
The film was shot in 2006 and for the most part features first-time actors. Ed Westwick co-stars as an older brother, and thanks to CW's "Gossip Girl," he's one of the best-known.
"I think it's a very humbling story. It's good to be reminded of life on a smaller, more natural scale that can make us smile and feel warm inside," Westwick says. "It's the way we were when we were young and were oblivious to the complications of our lives."
klcarter@tribune.com
Copyright © 2008, Chicago Tribune
Noted Author Marie Brenner Coming to Flashpoint Academy to Speak to Students about Her New Book - Apples and Oranges
BIO
Marie Brenner is an author and Writer at Large for Vanity Fair.
She has published five books, including Great Dames: What I Learned from Older Women (Crown, 2000) and the bestselling House of Dreams, The Bingham Family of Louisville (Random House, 1989). She joined the staff of Vanity Fair in 1985; she has also been a contributing editor for New York magazine and The New Yorker, and has contributed articles to the New York Times Magazine and Vogue.
She is the winner of six Front Page awards for her journalism and the Frank Luther Mott Kappa Tau Alpha Award for research. Her 2003 investigation of the rise of anti-Semitism in France (“France’s Scarlet Letter’) made international news.
Her expose of the tobacco industry, “The Man Who Knew Too Much”, was the basis for the 1999 movie “The Insider,” which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Her article “Erotomania” became the Lifetime movie “Obsessed.” The director Alex Gibney is currently developing her article “In the Kingdom of Big Sugar” for Tribeca Films.
She lives in New York City.
Flashpoint Academy Expands to Include Broadcast Media Program to be Based in Newly Re-Designed NBC Studios at Merchandise Mart
Flashpoint Academy will be expanding its course offerings in September 2008 to include a comprehensive program of studies in Broadcast Media with a particular emphasis on the Internet and new web-based distribution methodology.
New Faculty members, content advisors and long-time industry professionals will all participate in the development of a brand-new curriculum and in the program itself.
David Rammelt and Linda McLennan Visit Flashpoint Academy
Linda McLennan and Bill Kurtis in an Old Classic WBBM Promotion Video
New Faculty members, content advisors and long-time industry professionals will all participate in the development of a brand-new curriculum and in the program itself.
David Rammelt and Linda McLennan Visit Flashpoint Academy
Linda McLennan and Bill Kurtis in an Old Classic WBBM Promotion Video
Friday, May 09, 2008
Another Interesting Article on Art Chicago and Artropolis from the Chicago Reader
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