Question by angelareut: Art versus Real Life? O.K. I know this will sound crazy, but I really need advice. I am 32, african american, ivy league educated, and married to a Kenyan national I met in college. My husband is very, very western (or else I would never have been attracted to him in the first place probably) but a year ago we decided to live a year in Kenya, in his village, as Kenyans, and he would make a documentary about it (he is an … [Read more...]

This Video Byte Mosaic represents the culmination of a nine month long FOCUS ON FILM program sponsored by the Clean Air Network. The program was designed to raise awareness on Air Pollution in Hong Kong by teaching TEENS film production and empowering them to shoot their own videos that explored the questions raised by the topic. Focus On Film is a not for profit arts organization that uses film making to empower youth creatively regardless of … [Read more...]

by ddavidn Photography Classes - Learning The Basics Photographs serve many different purposes: from serving as graphic memories in an easy store format to acting as a good method of breaking the monotony in reams of printed matter e.g. newspaper story, magazine article or even to educate the public or customer as in a doctor's pamphlet or marketing material. Where illustrations were used earlier, now vivid and beautiful pictures … [Read more...]

Timeless themes in the Facebook age According to Aaron Sorkin, the themes in "The Social Network" are timeless, like the ones that fascinated the Greek playwright Aeschylus, Shakespeare and Hollywood screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky. "It was just lucky for me that none of those people were available, so I got to write about it," he says. Read more on Detroit Free Press Building A Winning 'Network,' But At What Cost? Ben Mezrich's The Accidental … [Read more...]