Chicago is a city of icons. You realize this quickly when trying this A-Z picture-taking walk downtown. The city has a character and it comes through strongly in its public lettering. Chicago letters are robust and classic – those Roman
The tradition lives
I am Chicago-bound today. Provided the planes, trains, and automobiles cooperate, tonight I will be seeing Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Steppenwolf. After much debate and some tinkering, I have elected not to pack the new iPad for the
How they do things in Texas – pretty much the way we do them here
Here’s a few pictures from the shoot on Friday. With a total crew of five – and that includes the Producer/Director, who also played an on-camera role – they shot all the dialogue in my 24-page script in a single
Corporate Travel: I doez it
Found out last night that I’m flying to Dallas tomorrow night. They do food well in Texas, right?
Sliding into commitment
A writer/director I know offered to send something of mine to a couple of managers, which meant plugging another script into Celtx and converting it. I suppose this means every script is headed this way. This time it picked up
Dirk & Brenda in: Hopelessly Devoted
All you need is love.
San Francisco A-to-Z
I remember reading a tip in a book on photography that an overcast day is an invitation to take pictures of things that are nearer the ground. The light and shadows are less harsh that way. And it was an
Mini-Tripod: My faithful friend
I had a spur-of-the-moment idea that informed most of my picture-taking in San Francisco, so there are very few straight-up scenery photos for me to share. While I put the series I’ve got in mind together, though, here’s one standalone
Just in from our foreign desk
I have been informed that I made someone in an Israeli Military Prison laugh today. It is most definitely not every day that I can say this.
Problems you want to have
I’ve been meaning to trade up on my screenwriting software for some time. My old burned copy of Final Draft can’t do .pdf conversions, and Adobe’s own site doesn’t know what to do with old Final Draft files. Enough industry