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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Getting things done, and web providers who suck

Went in and totally added and smoothed out the sound to the first five minutes of Siren. It now plays fine, sounds good. You no longer "hear" the edits.

Later on today I'll work on part 2 which is a lot more and will probably take a couple of days.

I also worked on the CGI head explode that I'm going to have to create since the prosthetic didn't work. It's currently at the mediocre state(after working on it for about 6 hours). It's better than a lot of the internet head-explode videos you see that try to teach you how to do it. I'm using a combination of Andrew Kramer tips plus stuff I've learned over the years.

It's doubly-tough because I didn't actually plan to do it, so didn't really shoot what I would have had I known I was fucked on the practical effect. Anyway, will spend more time on it.

In other news my SHITTY web provider--who is ipower.com for the record and I hope they read this blog--decided to charge me $324 without asking me in order to renew my "IPowerPro Hosting Plan".

Now let's consider--I've been with them for over ten years. Last time I renewed the hosting plan it cost $135 for 3 years. You're telling me it's almost THREE times the cost now? And I'm not using a ton of bandwidth or disk usage.

I told them--I'm leaving, then. I can get plans for under $3 a month from about a million other web hosters. I also gave them the option to renew me for $3.95 a month because THAT'S WHAT THEY OFFER ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THEIR WEB SITE.

They said they can't do it--they lose money at that rate. Meanwhile I've renewed the domain names(I own three of them) through them at additional cost every year.

So fuck them. I've already paid for three years through ipage.com, at a total cost of $81. That's right, a savings of $243. Sure I now have to upload all my web page files there, but with the speed of ftp that's really not a giant problem anymore.

Just a little hassle. Meanwhile, did I mention to AVOID IPOWER.COM if you don't want sucky service? (and this isn't the first problem I've had with them--there have been quite a few over the years but because I'm lazy I put up with it)

In other news, I'm having a hard time sleeping lately. The enormity of what I have to accomplish in the next couple of months is weighing on me. If I had nothing to do but finish T-tory it would look like this:
Finish Prowler--this is Mark's. I have to tighten it and then figure out just how fucked the audio is, and let Mark know what he has to get looped. I ain't doing that shit.
Finish Jack--there's some minor color correction still to do and I have to fix a couple of shaky composited shots.
Finish Siren--still have the pickups to do, then put them in, then make all the sound good, then color correct the whole thing. (btw, did I mention how fucking AWESOME Premiere CC's new built-in color correction stuff is--man, this update ROCKS)
Do tests for the wrap-around. Cast the wrap-around. Get the FX built for the wrap-around. Do the shooting script. All the other little things involved. And then shoot/edit the thing.
Find two more filmmakers who want to make a short to go in this thing. Scratch that--two more COMPETENT filmmakers. Get them to get their shit done and to me so I can edit the whole thing into a movie.
Do the credits for the movie, front and back. Get the flick scored.

This is just the stuff for T-tory. This does not take into account the holiday book I have to finish by late August. The screenplays I have to finish.  The other shit on my to-do list. The year is almost halfway gone.

Fuck I don't wanna talk about James Horner dying. That sucks. My plan is to convince myself now that Alan Silvestri did the Aliens score so that I don't have to think about Horner dying every time I watch the movie now.

Gotta stop here. Drugs are kicking in. Yep, that's how I'm going to sleep today.

Monday, June 22, 2015

Editing Notes

Done the first rough rough cut. Came in at 12:19 total length. I expect the final version to be around 11 minutes, so I'm not far off.

I'm pretty happy with it. I'll tighten it, and put the pickup shots in, maybe replace a few shots with some new takes we do. I have to do some Visual FX work, fix the sound. Long way to go.

As for editing, I edit a bit different from most people. It's just the way I've always done it so it's the way I work.

Most editors that I know use the method of editing where they go through their footage and set in and out points to send the pieces to their timeline. (They will typically color code the clips depending on how good or bad they are--a step I skip completely) Then they rearrange them on the timeline in the order they want and go from there.

What I do is drag every clip I've shot onto my timeline in their entirety and then go through each clip one by one. I want to see every piece of every clip. I never delete a whole clip--there's always a useable piece that may save my ass down the line.

I go through and find the best performance of each take and bring those down the timeline to the front and begin to arrange them the way I want. But at the end of the timeline is always the other clips I can re-inspect and perhaps use in case I change my mind.

It can quite messy to someone not used to it, as you can tell from the pic above of my desktop. That's what the Day 2 footage timeline looks like.

It's not until I'm nearly done that I delete everything at the end of my timeline and remove unused clips.

Once I have a rough I'll go through and start tightening it, making it better. Every time an edit catches my eye, that's an edit I take another look at. How can I make it flow better? Why did it catch my attention.

A lot of editing is simply trial and error. Putting shots together, trying other shots. Sometimes shots you think will go together simply don't, while other shots that shouldn't work end up beautiful together.

One of my best-edited films, HH, was only as good as it was because I had to edit the entire movie three separate times. I lost the hard drive I was working on twice, and had to start from scratch. But each time the movie got better.

Anyway, there's a glimpse into my editing suite.

Also on the T-tory front, am thinking about asking my composer Chad to do the score for the whole flick. Originally I wasn't going to since I was only going to have directed about 25 minutes of the full movie. But now that I'll have directed half of it I'm thinking it would be great to have him back.

Not sure if he can/will for the little I can pay him. Heck, he just did orchestration for Jurassic World and did the full score for Lego Jurassic Park video game. He's a busy guy. But I'll ask, see what he says.

Anybody watching Wayward Pines? It's about a dude who wakes up in a town with no idea how he got there. The inhabitants of the town are all acting weird. He tries to escape but he can't because there's a wall blocking the town in, and dangerous creatures out in the woods.

I know, right? Like my flick GOH. I don't pretend they're stealing from Luke and I--hell, we're all basically just stealing from The Prisoner with our little slants. It's just funny to see the resemblances.

Shows not bad though. Keeping my interest.

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Almost Done The Rough Rough Cut

Ryan venturing into the woods, shot by my brother Mike

I'm smoothing out some of the rougher edits and I have the last 90 seconds or so to edit. I haven't done any sound work other than to sync the lapel mics. I didn't sync the boom mic, but I figure I'll go through and do that later since I'm using the lapel mic for all of the dialogue.

Anyway, wanna see what I mean about shots not matching due to sun? This is an example of back to back shots that I gotta make match.

Lotta sun in shot 1, no sun in shot 2.

I'm going to have to selectively light shots in a sunlike fashion in shot 2. Since I wasn't on a tripod I'm going to have to motion stabilize it first, precompose it, then go in and pick a bunch of spots that look hot in the first shot and make 'em look hot using curves or levels, probably color correct them a bit.

Not fun.

I already took a mailbox out of one shot early in the flick. Turned out to be easier than I expected even though we pan right through it.

Experimented with the head blow up scene. I think I'm gonna have to CGI it. Didn't want to, but I'm not sure how much more work I want to attempt on it just to have it not happen. Hey, we tried, right? (and I can prove it with plenty of video)

Have a shot list of the things I want to pick up. It's getting bigger, but shouldn't take very long. Gotta figure a day to do it when I can get Ryan back.

We still need some kid arms, and I'm not sure my kid can sit still long enough for the mold to harden. Gotta figure it out.

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Being Your Own Director of Photography

Things I Like About Being My Own D.P.:

  • Things get done quicker. Knowing the shot I'm looking for, I don't have to communicate to the D.P. how I want something shot, or use storyboards to illustrate it. None of these shorts would be getting done in a weekend if I wasn't D.P.ing them.

Things I Don't Like About Being My Own D.P.:

  • Far fewer good surprises. Sometimes a D.P. will come up with ideas or shots you hadn't thought of. Collaborating with a good D.P. can be a great thing.
  • Nobody's watching my back. A good D.P. keeps frame sides and eyelines in check for you in case you get a little lost.
  • Sometimes I get caught up in the shot, not the scene. I'm watching composition and focus, when sometimes I should be paying more attention to the performance. Also, as I'm quickly finding out on this short, I should also be paying attention to the script. We didn't have a script supervisor or continuity person to keep an eye on the script, and as such we missed some lines.
I'm working with day two stuff in the edit right now. The thunderstorms are bothersome because I keep unplugging the computer every time the thunder comes near us. Can't afford to lose the computer or hard drives.

The above was brought about because the other good/bad thing about being your own D.P. is that you know when shit's going wrong. There's a scene involving a backpack in this short, and I knew it was a mess when we shot it.

The action wasn't consistent and I was having a hard time figuring out how to make it happen with the shots I'd conceived. And now in the editing room I'm seeing how disjointed it is.

In addition, the spatial problem I knew I was gonna have is rearing its massive head. I tried to get the wide shot but we were running late and the sun was flaring so I knew the wides wouldn't match. Couple that with the continuity of where the bag and shotgun are, and it's a mess.

So I'm planning some pickups. I'm going to have to work some magic though because I'm not bringing Meadow back. That means on this wide I'm going to try to pick up(that wasn't on a tripod cuz I was standing in weeds and right on the edge of a stream) I'm going to have to composite Ryan and the bag/rifle into the shot somehow(which will mean I have to take him OUT of the original shot to composite him in). All without a clean plate.

I'm moving to the scene where Ryan gets a stick through the leg. It's gonna be the best scene I think.

Long post. We need some cleavage.

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Day 2 Shoot

That's me with my favorite cheap shoulder mount. I have the two handled one, but I gotta tell ya for my money this is the best. You can even mount a shotgun mic and a zoom right to it(which I did for Bounty).

Anyway, I didn't discuss the night of day 1, did I?

I came home and immediately got to prepping for Day 2. Which is:
Dump the cards, audio and video. Recharge all batteries. Then I decide to go the hard route--instead of starting at 9am we're going to start at 7am, head over to the eastern shore and pickup the scenes we missed, then back to the meadow to resume the schedule, albeit one hour later.

I text everybody involved to see if they're all good with it. They are. It's gonna mean not much sleep, but better we get it done with now than try later.

I don't need any drugs to go to sleep. I get about five hours, and then its--

Zig and I get up. I skip the doughnut run since pretty much nobody ate them. To the eastern shore!

We bang out the shots pretty fast. We get the truck stuck in the mud briefly, but push it out. We're just about on time for the revised schedule as we head back to the parking lot on the other side of the bridge.

I fucked up and forgot to tell Melissa we were meeting an hour late. Then Meadow calls and says she's feeling unwell but she's coming anyway, will be like a half hour late.

We're falling behind, so I grab all the guys and say let's go set up base camp and Melissa can bring Meadow over to it.

We do it. But as we're dragging the cooler through the parking lot a fucking wheel falls off. Can't be put back on. So I carry this fucking cooler full of ice and water and tea to the camp site. I am sweating like a fucking pig by the time we're in place.

We start rolling through some shots. It's going well. The meadow is pretty shady which means I don't have to stop down to f16. Even so, using the 14-42mm lens keeps a lot in focus.

We run a little late but we break for lunch. Meadow wants to go with my brother to pick up lunch, since she's got gluten issues and doesn't know what she can get to eat from the sub shop.

This is where a little glitch comes in. It takes a solid hour for the lunch to come back even though the sub shop is about two miles away. There's nothing we can shoot without Meadow.

This picture shows, from left to right, Stewie, Ryan and Zig.

Finally she comes back and I tell everybody to shovel the sandwiches down cuz we gotta get moving. Time for shotgun fun.

I shoot all three cameras at Meadow, then we move her out and bring in the dummy head we want to explode. It's dicey getting it set up cuz Meadow was close to a tree and we're using a tripod to hold it up.

Finally my brother takes a shot with his revolver using shotgun shell. The head flinches but doesn't explode. On closer inspection the nose is indented and there's a slash on the cheek. Our second shot gets the same result.

So we pull out the actual shotgun and load it up. Paper/scissors/rock for who gets to shoot it. My brother gets to do that too. First shot and the top of the head head DOES explode, but it also spins around and the wig flies off.

Mark resets. We do it again and get a very similar result. Not sure if I can make it work with the whole head/shoulder swivelling.

Gotta move on anyway to the last scene.

Ryan needs a latex appliance on his face but it's so fucking hot and humid that we're all sweating. The appliance doesn't want to stay. Meadow's artificial fingernails are falling off too.

We hear approaching thunder. We gotta get this shit done. It's only like five shots but I've allocated like three hours for it because I'm not sure how the FX are gonna look. But now that we're behind schedule with a storm approaching we may have barely an hour.

But we do get it done. Not sure how it'll look but the important part is that we got every shot/scene needed except for an FX shot we simply couldn't do this weekend. Great news is that we can get it just about anywhere. It's a CU insert.

It starts pouring as we're loading out, but we get the important equipment in the car before it gets wet. I dump the water/ice, but the cooler still has a bunch of cans and bottled water in. I carry it out, nearly having a stroke due to the two big hills.

NOW UPDATE: Spent most of the day syncing the day 2 audio, of which there was much more. Will do some edits tomorrow. It's looking very nice for the most part. Probably will be the best segment in the film, though my wraparound could give it a run for the money.

Which reminds me--now I gotta start breaking that into a shooting script and do some tests on how to get good results in low light with the GH4.

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

The Siren Shoot

Rough weekend.
(But big thanks to Ryan, Zig, Stewie, Melissa, Meadow, my brother Mike, and Cutting for coming out and enduring the brutal heat)

By that I mean a lot of work. All went pretty well though. The picture above shows Melissa who came in to help with costume and makeup, and that's Meadow who's playing the title character of this segment.

Anyway, let's get to the weekend! (and please don't repost any of these pics of the shoot)

Took a drug and went to bed at like 10:30pm, up at 5:30am to hit the eastern shore. We're over there shooting, stuff's going relatively well. Some dog walkers show up at the first location, which is CRAZY, because it's in the middle of fucking nowhere and it's 7:30am.

I told them I was shooting a video for my kid. They asked more questions, and I lied some more, but they stayed out of the way.

We ended the eastern shore shots ahead of schedule(I THOUGHT...more on that later) and headed back to the woods.

My plan on day 1 was just to walk the trail my brother and I had location scouted and get the shots we needed. We didn't take a ton of gear but some was heavy so I'd brought my kid's wagon. We strapped the shit on that and Stewie gamely pulled it.

We got a couple of the shots/scenes, and before long the fucking front wheel on this wagon has bent because it's a GIANT PIECE OF SHIT.

At a slope we decide to give Stewie a break, leave him at the wagon and go up to where we can get the last couple of shots on this side of the woods, then we'll come back for him.

We do that. I also jog the ladder the rest of the way to the meadow and throw it in the weeds. We'll get it the next day when we're shooting in the meadow.

We head back. It's hot, humid, and I'm sweating up a storm. But so far things are going pretty well other than the fact that the slider's center hole is too fucking big for my tripod(should have checked but I figured it would be standard).

There ARE standard holes, but they're on the ENDS of the tripod. So we strap the big tripod to one end and then just lay the other end on my other tripod. The slider belt seemed a bit loose but I wasn't sure how to fix that--I will inform you now that on Monday when I prepped the gear to send back I discovered a hidden pocket in the slider case that has tools to tighten it. AWESOME.

Anyway, we're late for lunch but we go grab some subs and chow down, then head for the woods on the other side of the meadow where Ryan will do his big fall down a hill, plus he discovers where the Siren came from.

I have no complaints. We get done about an hour late, then head to my house for the shot where Ryan gets home and sees his kid. We're going to use my kid, I hope. Not sure if he can do it or not, I mean, convincingly.

I shoot Ryan's side of the shot, then spin and get my kid to do his stuff. Turns out he's pretty good. Bad news is I'm not sure their eyelines match up. I think Ryan was looking low, and my kid came out and didn't come down the steps.

And I was either too fried from the all day work/heat/nervousness about my kid that I didn't realize it until my sister's husband(who knows NOTHING about making movies) asks how they're going to look like they're LOOKING at each other.

I'm like...good question. But by then my kid was off to the beach for the rest of the weekend.

And somewhere in there I realized that I missed the two short scenes at the end of the script that take place on the eastern shore...

I had made a note that said shoot scenes 1,2,10 and 11 from 7:30am-10:00am, but I just skipped past that and went right into shooting. My fuckup.

This is a long blog post. Will do Sunday's rundown in the next blog.

But hey, here's a picture of the deathtrap tree that refuses to come down. See how far I cut it? Why isn't it falling?
UPDATE: 6:17am, Tuesday. All day 1 audio synced. Rough rough cut of the first sequences right up until Ryan runs into the Siren.

Will tell ya later about how I edit versus most people.

Thursday, June 11, 2015

The Tree Of Invincibility

I went back out today with a Home Depot rented chainsaw. It took 30 minutes just to start the fucking thing. I finally had to call Home Depot to ask them what was up. They said to hold the trigger when I pulled the cord.

That sound like a good idea to you?

Anyway, got it started and then cut into that tree some more. I cut it so far that there was only about 4 inches of tree left of the original 16 or so inches.

I should have taken a picture, but the whole fucking thing was miserable. It's muddy as fuck out there. Mosquitoes were attacking even though I put on bug spray. It was hot.

I'll take a pic when we're back out there on Saturday.

I could have cut through the tree entirely but there are two issues with that: 1) If the tree falls completely into two segments, the one piece will be lying flat on the ground. I don't want that. I want it to break and still be attached so it forms a triangle with the ground.

2) The tree's leaning a little in the direction I was standing while I cut. I cut the notch into the tree on the other side, but if I made it all the way through there was a chance the whole thing--which is about 30 feet tall--comes right down on me. I might have taken that chance if someone else was out there, but it was just me.

Am moving the shoot a little farther up away from the meadow. It's not so overgrown there, and it's also shaded a little. Since the other site would have had sun for part of the day but then would have lost it, continuity could have been a nightmare.

This way the lighting should be fairly consistent the whole time.

I'm still undecided on the look to shoot. CineV, CineD or the Natural with my modifications? Clearly CineV looks best right off the card. How much grading do I want to have to do?

So I'm leaning toward CineV, and then maybe I'll just go in and do some mild color work. I'm going to have enough shit to do as is, since it's pretty clear I'm going to be editing every short in this film, putting them all together, and then color correcting so it's sorta consistent.

(and I'm sure there will be a ton of fun considering just about every short was shot with a different camera...)

I did a new shooting script for day 2 today. Am making a list of things to not forget to do on the day of.

Am watching Zombeavers on Netflix. It's pretty goofy, but not terrible. It's as goofy as you'd expect a movie called Zombeavers would be.

Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Shoot Approaching Fast

Went over the FX guy's house last night to check out the stuff for the leg wound. I think it should work out fine. Got the shotgun from him.

Also went over and spoke with one of the other filmmakers and checked out his partially-shot short. His is one of the one's we're probably going to abandon. It just didn't turn out very well. I got all the footage from him and told him I'd take a look, maybe do my own edit and see if it can be salvaged.

It's pretty cheesy. Will have to think on it.

Know any talented graphic guys who could design a custom-made map like you find in the beginning of fantasy books like The Lord of the Rings? Someone who's just interested in credit in a feature film? Send 'em my way, I could use 'em.

Tomorrow I go out to rent a chainsaw and cut that tree down. On my own. So if you don't hear back from me, it's because the tree fell on me and I'm dead. Don't feel bad--it's actually a best-case scenario. Good news is I'll be filming it so you'll have some great footage to watch.

Thursday I go out and buy all the food/drinks/batteries. Here's a list of the stuff I rented from lensrentals for four days:
Kessler CineSlider $115
lensrentals HD $79
Panasonic 35-100mm f/2.8 X OIS $69
Manfrotto 502HD Fluid Head $27
Tiffen 58mm ND filter $21

It comes tomorrow(theoretically) so I'll have two days to mess with the stuff. Gotta send it back out on Monday. The fluid head is for attaching to the slider so I don't have to pull my head off my tripod every time I want to use it.

Rain is threatening but at this point I think we're just gonna make it work. I don't wanna waste the $350 I'm spending on equipment, and much of the shoot is under deep canopy where I don't even think the rain will hit.

But hell, if it's gonna rain I'd just as soon it rain the whole time for continuity's sake. I did order two rain covers for both cameras. Not sure what I'll do about the mics.

Sunday, June 07, 2015

Ha! Saturday From Hell

Boom, had a lot of plans for today. Had to go to a birthday party for my wife's niece. Then run out of that party to head to a graduation party for my nephew.

Then ran out of that party, cuz I had plans to go cut down that mutherfuckin' tree. I also figured hey, let's take a watermelon out there and shoot it with my brother's revolver that shoots shotgun shells, and see if it will explode it. I figure if the watermelon explodes, then the fake head will too.

My big problem is that I have no chainsaw to cut down the tree. Everyone I know owns an electric chainsaw. Home Depot wants $65 to rent one for the day and while it doesn't sound like much, I bristle at the fact that I can BUY one for only three times that amount. But I don't wanna buy one.

My dad owns a saw and an axe so I just figure I can use those. The tree's gonna be dead anyway.
Out to the woods!

We get to the meadow and I immediately see the rain of the past few weeks is fucking me in the ass. The meadow used to be a meadow, but now grass has grown to like two feet. Big weird plants are sprouting all over. It's starting to look like a fucking jungle.

I try to ignore that. I'm there for the tree. But the tree I wanna chop down turns out to already be leaning a certain direction. Even if I cut it in the proper spot it's still gonna fall the wrong direction.

So I pick another tree that looks like it might fall in the right place. It's not QUITE so dead, but it has no big branches coming off of it.

We start sawing the tree. We take 90 minutes sawing. The tree is more than halfway cut through, with a big notch on the side we want it to fall but IT. WON'T. FALL.

Look, the timelapse my brother shot:

It's kinda comical when viewed like that, right?

I got frustrated and my arms hurt, plus it was starting to get dark. So I tell Mike let's go blow this melon up and then come back.

We moved farther into the woods and set up the melon. I ended up getting a honeydew since it was closer to head size than the watermelons I saw.

I set up my camera to shoot slow mo. Here's what happened on shot 1. (Note, I color corrected the first part of this clip--the 2nd part is slowed down even more in Premiere and I just left it un-corrected.)

For those with a GH4 wondering how I have audio, I used a mini Zoom recorder at the same time, and just slowed it down and put it with the video.

So awesome. The lone bright spot, because we went back to the tree and sawed some more and couldn't get it down.

I went back to my dad's and he helped me turn the L-bar into something that can attach to the slider and the camera, so that's another thing down. I also printed up new releases for the actor and actress.

I don't know what this is. What is this and why does it exist?

Wednesday, June 03, 2015

Premiere Problems

So I've been a big proponent of Premiere for years and years. When people said you couldn't cut a movie on it way back in 1999 I did it. All the FC snobs laughed at me until I asked them where I could see their movies, cuz they could see my movie at any Blockbuster or Hollywood Video.

And yeah, when they went to the CC suite I was pretty skeptical. I don't like not owning my software. But after trying it I was sold. It's pretty impressive.

There was a new update recently. I don't know if it's the problem, or if this is just the first full test of using the GH4's 4K video, but I'm getting little glitchy things in the exports.

Wanna see one?

Watch the first 5 seconds. See that crazy weirdness that happens for like 4 frames at the beginning? What the fuck is that? It happens in another video I made also.

I have no explanation, and I'm sure it'll be one of those things the Adobe techs will ask for a million stats on my computer, and then have no idea what caused it. I don't have time to fuck with it, so rather than re-export the whole video I did the old half-ass way.

Make a five second patch, import the full render and the patch, then export a new copy. Seems to have worked, so it's not like that glitch is repeatable(which would make finding a fix easy, because it would mean the problem has to do with what's going on in that exact moment on the timeline).

Things I did in prep for Siren today:
  • Got the L bar, have to machine a way to attach a quick release head to it. See, I have this crazy idea that I can use the slider we're renting to do crane shots by attaching the L bar, then mounting the camera sideways. When we tilt the slider vertical the camera should be level. Then you slide up and down rather than right/left, and you get a 36 inch crane. Not much, but I'm not looking for any big crane shots on this.
  • Got the wig for the Siren head. Only have one, so I'm not sure how much blood/gore is gonna get on it for our second try. Not too worried either way.

  • Got a new XLR Y cable. I discovered while doing our fun commentaries the other night that my XLR splitter that goes into the Zoom is glitchy. If it gets pulled too hard a wire must go loose inside, and bye bye sound. Problem solved with a new one.
Things that I'm worried about having to do before the 13th:

  • Go out and chop down the tree and position it to where I want it. See, I don't own a chainsaw and turns out that I don't know anybody who does. So I either have to go out there with a fucking saw or an axe, and chop this tree down. And it's got a diameter of like two feet.
  • Once it's down and in place I will finalize the shooting script/shot list for that day. But until I know where the tree's gonna be I can't visualize those shots.
  • Need to get this wig cut into the haircut of the actress. Right now it's super long. She has short hair.
  • Gotta figure out what I'm gonna do about the truck the character's supposed to be driving. I was gonna use my dad's--he's got a big pickup truck that's perfect for this guy going hunting. Only problem is that my actor doesn't know how to drive a stick shift. My current workaround has me guilting Stewie into using his truck. It's not perfect, but neither are my movies so that's cool, right?
  • Gotta get all the bullshit stuff for the shoot--snacks/drinks, bug spray, sunscreen
  • Gotta figure out the "costume" the actress is gonna be in. I really need to find some girl who's into makeup and costumes, who can come out and be on set with us, and just fix the actress up into something cool, and make sure she stays looking good through the day. (and also have her robe or whatever handy for between takes, cuz I don't want the actress sitting there naked all day--I'm sure someone will wander by and report us for shooting a porn)
  • Gotta double check all the FX to make sure it's gonna work on the day of. Also gotta figure out a way to do the body parts/head in the book bag because we don't have any kid body parts, and no time to cast them.
So these are just a few of my issues. The major ones. Honestly, day one's gonna be cake as far as I can see. I think there's only gonna be like six of us. We're gonna go into the woods, walk the trail and get the shots we need, take a lunch, head back to the other side of the trail and get the only FX shot of the day, then head to my parents' house for one brief scene.

Long as there's no rain it should be good. Day two is worrisome though...

So a bonus pic because she makes me feel like everything's gonna be all right.

I guess I could mention that I got offered a shooting job next week. $500 a day, expenses paid. Would be gone from Monday - Thursday in my least favorite state New Jersey.

If I didn't have the T-tory shoot(and gear coming in Thursday that I'd like to experiment with), then I would totally jump on it. Sounds like an easy shoot, with their camera(that I'm not at all familiar with but let's face it--I've shot on so many goddamn cameras in my life I could probably pick it up quick, especially since it's a Panasonic(HCX 1000 4k).

Told 'em to hit me up next time for sure. I'm trying to find them a replacement.


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The Premier League Numbers And Stats - Matchday 2

* Arsenal have won just two of their 13 PL games since the Carling Cup final. If a table was constructed from points accrued after that Wembley defeat, the Gunners would lie in 15th.
* Arsenal's PL win percentage with Samir Nasri in the starting line-up is 49% since his arrival in 2008. Without him it's 62%.
* The last time Arsenal started the league season without a goal in their first two games was 1969-70. They finished that season in 11th - one point and one place below Tottenham.

Aston Villa
* Gaby Agbonlahor became the second (after Dwight Yorke) Villa player to score 50 PL goals for the club with his strike v Blackburn.
* Villa's attendance of 32,319 was their lowest at Villa Park in the league since April 2007.
* Darren Bent has only had two shots in 180 minutes this season - but both were on target.

Blackburn Rovers
* Blackburn have lost 12 of their last 17 away matches in the Premier League.
* Rovers have managed just four shots on target in the opening two matches of the season.
* Rovers have won just five of Steve Kean's 23 PL matches in charge - a win percentage of less than 22%.

Bolton Wanderers
* Bolton have lost three consecutive home games in the PL for the first time since December 2004.
* Ivan Klasnic's minutes-per-goal rate is second only to Javier Hernandez in PL history (the condition to this stat is that the player must have scored over ten goals).
* Kevin Davies is already joint-top of the 'fouls chart' this season along with Grant Holt and Ryan Shawcross.

* Chelsea have won all 11 of their PL games against West Brom - scoring 31 goals and conceding only four.
* Chelsea have now won 29 of the 30 league games in which Florent Malouda has scored.
* Four of Nicolas Anelka's six shots were on target v West Brom on Saturday. Fernando Torres did not have a single shot.

* The Toffees were unbeaten in 11 PL games at Goodison Park before QPR's visit.
* They have lost their opening game of the season for the last four seasons.
* Tim Cahill tested the keeper with only one of his attempts on goal v QPR.

* Fulham's defeat at Wolves brought an end to a three-game unbeaten league run away from home.
* New signing Patjim Kasami managed a woeful 62% pass completion rate at Wolves before being substituted at half-time.
* Half-time substitute Moussa Dembele touched the ball more times in 45 minutes than an isolated Andrew Johnson did in 90 minutes.

* Liverpool made a phenomenal 31 tackles at the Emirates in comparison with 18 from Arsenal.
* In the 20 minutes they were on the pitch, Luis Suarez and Raul Meireles only misplaced one pass each at the Emirates.
* Luis Suarez has now recorded a PL goal every 200 minutes of football. Andy Carroll's relevant stat is 188 minutes.

Manchester City
* Man City have won five PL matches in a row for the first time in their history.
* City have scored seven goals in their opening two league games for the first time since 1961. That season they eventually slumped to seventh.
* A City side shorn of Nigel de Jong made only nine tackles in 90 minutes v Bolton.

Manchester United
* There were 49 shots in Manchester United's 3-0 win over Tottenham.
* United have scored 20 headed goals since the start of last season - five more than any other team.
* They have picked up 58 points from a possible 60 at home in that period.

* Newcastle United
* Newcastle's pass completion rate of 64% was the lowest of any Premier League club this weekend. Bucking the trend with 93% was Gabriel Obertan.
* They have lost only one of their last seven Premier League games.
* Joey Barton is one of eight PL players to be booked in both games of the nascent season.

Norwich City
* Norwich are unbeaten in their last five Premier League home games.
* Leon Barnett had managed only a 50% pass completion rate before he was harshly dismissed.
* Canaries boss Paul Lambert made more team changes - six - than any other PL manager between the first and second league games of the season.

* Neil Warnock's side have mustered just three shots on target in the opening two PL games.
* Tommy Smith's goal was his third in 51 Premier League matches.
* The victory at Everton was Warnock's first away win in the PL since December 2006 with Sheffield United at Wigan.

* Stoke City
* Stoke reached a possession stat of over 50% at the 118th Premier League attempt at Norwich on Sunday.
* Stoke have conceded 14 headed goals since the start of last season.
* The Potters have scored in only three of their last ten away matches in the Premier League.

* Sunderland have kept just two clean sheets in their last 18 PL games.
* Lee Cattermole has been cautioned or sent off in 51 of his 149 PL appearances.
* Sunderland have lost seven of their last eight PL games at the Stadium of Light.

Swansea City
* Leon Britton found a teammate with 98% of his 51 passes v Wigan on Saturday.
* Swansea have dominated possession (58% and 64%) in their opening two matches, but are yet to score.
* Centre-halves Steven Caulker and Ashley Williams passes the ball more than any other players on the pitch.

Tottenham Hotspur
* Brad Friedel was credited with making 11 saves at Old Trafford.
* Rafael van der Vaart attempted nine shots at the goal of David de Gea.
* Since he joined the club in 2008, Spurs have won 43% of their PL games when Modric has been playing but 52% without him.

West Brom
* After making no saves v Manchester United, Ben Foster earned his corn with six v Chelsea.
* West Brom have lost two consecutive league games for the first time under Roy Hodgson.
* Shane Long has scored two goals from a total of three shots since signing for West Brom.

* The Latics are unbeaten in their last six Premier League games.
* Wigan's Ben Watson is the only PL player to score a penalty this season - but even he missed one on Saturday.
* Victor Moses is the only Wigan player to be caught offside so far this season.

* Wolves attempted a massive 20 shots against Fulham on Sunday.
* They have not won their opening two games of the season since 1998-99, when they eventually finished seventh in Division One.
* Kevin Doyle's last five goals for Wolves have all come at Molineux.

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Winter Sports: A Group Experience

The intent behind our Winter Sports Program is that these lessons and experiences let our students have a real-life group driven experience where there is crossover between programs; where there are great opportunities for the students to practice the life skills they have been learning and practicing in such a safe environment here at MCS. It is an opportunity to let our students explore one of Utah's greatest beauties- the mountains and our incredible snow.

Please keep in mind that these lessons are peer-oriented and group options are bound to contain a number of skill sets being presented, developed, and learned amongst the students. Some students are at the peak of that skill set and some are at the base of that skill set. However, those students are all within the same level. It can become very frustrating when friends ski/ board together on the weekends, but are grouped apart for the lessons. However, we ask that you place your trust in the ski program to group our students as they see fit and ask that you remind your children to do the same.

We really want to enforce that as these lessons continue on, it really is a collaboration as a group to learn and practice. Snowbird has hand-picked instructors specifically for our school, and instructors go through intense training on how to meet the needs of each student in the group.

A successful day may not be or mean that your student was the fastest, moved up a group, etc. A successful day should be evaluated on whether or not your student was safe, having fun, in an environment where they can learn without frustration, were able to communicate their feelings appropriately, follow instructions, and engage appropriately with their chaperones, instructors, and peers. Ultimately, when a student is feeling comfortable and safe, there will be more detailed, controlled progress. One of the reasons we appreciate Snowbirds Ski Program is that they take an approach to individualized instruction that is similar to our approach here at MCS.  However, their ability to separate every single skill level is limited by a number of factors.

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First Day of Winter Sports 2015 - 2016

Congratulations to all our Winter Sports participants making it through the first day! We were so impressed with the order, care, and helpfulness from all involved. Everyone did so great that we made record time getting everyone ready, gear loaded, and on the busses.

As far as first days go, we did awesome! Snowbird will be sorting out, refining, and arranging groups now as they have seen the kids and identified where they should be. Please be aware that your student's group may change next week for what they were in this week.

We look forward to another successful Winter Sports year and are excited about next week's lesson. Stay tuned for updates.

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Winter Sports Registration & Waivers

Winter Sports Registration and Waiver Forms are now available. Please read through, fill out completely, and return to the MCS Office by December 18th. You may pick forms up from the MCS Lobby display or print them. Winter-Sports.pdf
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Montessori Parents' Guide to Snowbird Mountain School

Montessori Parents’ Guide to Snowbird Mountain School
February 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, & March 2nd, 2016

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2015 - 2016 Winter Sports Program: Snowbird

Winter is just a season away. Please keep in mind that all students participating in the Winter Sports Program this year will be REQUIRED to have helmets and goggles and there will be no daily rentals at the resort.

The PSA is working on potential discounts for MCS renters and will keep us updated. For now, please check out the list of Ski Swaps coming up.

Click here to see a list of upcoming ski swaps.

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MCS Family Ski Day

To close our Winter Sports season, Brighton Resort would love to host an MCS Family Ski Day. Tickets are at a reduced rate and can be purchased from the MCS Office. When purchasing your tickets, please ensure to make checks out to MCS.

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Winter Sports Video

There will not be any Winter Sports this Wednesday, February 25th. Instead, enjoy this video of the last 3 weeks of our Winter Sports Program.

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First Day of Winter Sports

The first day of Winter Sports was a success! We would love to thank all those who chaperoned and made it possible for our students to enjoy and learn such great activities and develop their skills and talents.

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Winter Sports Program Information

Winter Sports will be starting in two weeks. You should have received the following pdfs in your email. Please read through and ensure you and your child are prepared for Wednesday, February 4th! If you have questions or concerns, please contact Ashlee Haslam at (801) 355 - 1555.

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My Journey of Discovery

My Journey of Discovery

On Monday, July 7th, I joined MDC as the 2014–15 Autry Fellow. For me, accepting the offer to work at MDC was a natural continuation in what has been a seven-year “journey of discovery” in finding my role in the fight for social justice across the nation. I am deeply inspired by the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that remind us “change will not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.” So for the last seven years, I have been intentional about living my life in honor of those words and in service to a struggle. Although the injustices plaguing our world are great in number, I am dedicated to expanding educational and economic opportunities for America’s most under-served families.

It was not until I graduated from high school in 2007 and found myself unable to attend the colleges I was accepted to that I began to think more deeply about access and opportunity. I was not an all-star student. I made my share of mistakes at the beginning of my high school career and had to play catch up as an upperclassman. Despite these early mistakes, I was accepted into seven colleges and universities. But as the son of a single mother and the youngest of five children, my family did not have the economic means to send me to any of them.

This disappointing reality rocked my adolescent world just as I was beginning to truly understand and hone my own academic capabilities. For the first time in my life, I felt like I belonged at a great institution of higher learning but found myself barred from these institutions because of my family’s economic situation. Even at 18 years old, this fact rattled my sense of fairness. I could not understand how someone who wanted to better himself and excel academically could be so close and yet so far from accessing higher education because of exorbitant costs and lack of meaningful financial aid. Ultimately, my family and I decided that I would attend a local community college and I worked a part-time job to pay my way. I promised myself that I would not replay mistakes from my high school days. For the next two years, I studied tirelessly—all in the hopes of earning an academic scholarship so I could continue my studies without restraint.

In 2009, I transferred to Cornell University on a need-based scholarship. Despite this blessing, I carried with me a deep curiosity about what, if anything, I could do to change the education system in order to open up access to all children who were willing to work hard but did not have the resources to afford higher education. I had secured two internships—one with the U.S. Department of Education and one with the New York State Senate—that let me see firsthand how federal  and state government shape education policy.  Both internships were rewarding, but policy seemed a bit too removed from the achievement gap that was brewing in classrooms across the country. From my dorm room in Ithaca, I yearned to be on the ground, in a classroom. I wanted to do work that was more direct, more tangible, than analyzing policy outcomes. These sentiments convinced me to apply for Teach for America.

Teaching would prove to be the most challenging, but also most fruitful, experience of my life. Working at KIPP Gaston College Prep affirmed my belief in the power of a high-quality educational experience to radically change lives and unlock potential. But living in Halifax County, N.C., challenged my preconceived notions about the ease with which social problems associated with poverty could be overcome. In conversations with friends and family, I emphatically expressed my frustrations about a system that seemed so large and cyclical and difficult to reverse. I bemoaned how there was no economic mobility solution without a functioning, high-quality educational system for all children. But I knew there could be no meaningful educational reform that ignores the crippling effects of poverty. As a teacher, I felt limited in my ability to address these issues in a way that leveraged my interest, curiosity, and prior skills. I wanted delve directly into the issue of poverty and learn, study, and engage in related issues such as employment, health, mobility, and economic security.

That’s why I applied for the Autry Fellowship. I was deeply intrigued by MDC’s strategies for promoting economic and social justice. I, too, believe that in order to create true pathways to opportunity, people must first be engaged on the community level. As a fellow, I hope to learn strategies for creating lasting relationships within communities to bring about systemic change in our educational and economic framework. Although I do not know how my year at MDC will ultimately influence my journey of discovery to find my place in the collective fight for social justice, I do know that MDC will leave an indelible mark. I am confident that the MDC experience will expand my understanding of how to create and implement community-based anti-poverty initiatives.

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appear for an examination before trial with respect to those

issues raised by the proposed counterclaim; and (3) compelling

the plaintiff Ralph H. Speken to appear for a further examination

before trial; and (4) for such other and further relief as this

Court may deem just and proper.

     This personal injury and wrongful death action was commenced

on October 11, 1994 with the filing of the Summons and Verified

Complaint with the County Clerk (Exhibit A). The plaintiffs,

Ralph H. Speken and Stephanie Z. Speken, sue on behalf of their

deceased son Seth S. Speken. On November 8, 1994, a Verified

Answer was served on behalf of the defendant (Exhibit B)

Contemporaneous with the service of a Verified Answer, a Demand

for a Bill of Particulars was served (Exhibit B)

As the Court will note, the defendant's Verified Answer

contains a "First, Separate and Distinct Affirmative Defense"

reading as follows:

          7. The injuries and damages of the
          plaintiffs, RALPH H. SPEKEN and STEPHANIE Z.
          SPEKEN, for which these causes of action have
          been instituted, were caused wholly or in
          part through the culpable conduct and
          contributory negligence on the part of said
          plaintiffs and therefore the amount of
          damages, if any, shall be diminished in the
          proportion which said conduct attributable to
          said plaintiffs bears to this defendant's
          conduct, if any, which caused the damages.
          (See Exhibit B)
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the more commonly seen "culpable conduct" affirmative defense,

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[Wired In raw #88: Apple #5]

Raw footage for "Wired In," a never completed series on the technological trends and innovations of the 1980s. This video is a continuation of an interview with an Apple employee about the company's history, philosophy, and mission. Later in the video, we watch an Apple II Computer introductory program. Apple #5.

00:00Copy video clip URL This tape begins with color bars.

00:39Copy video clip URL Cut to a shot of the Apple representative. He continues to talk about Apple computers as personal educational tools. He also states that Apple was the first company to come up with the concept of a personal computer. The rep also talks about Apple’s competition with other computer companies. He states that Apple’s real competition is with pen and paper. This lasts for several minutes.

03:35Copy video clip URL The videomaker asks the representative about the computer industry and its relationship to the ailing U.S. economy. He explains that about half of their product is shipped overseas, but that they would like to sell far more products here in the U.S. A videomaker asks the rep about distinguishing between real computers and videogame computers. The rep states that it is an important distinction for consumers to know. He states that videogames are single purpose devices whereas computers have multiple purposes built within them. He goes on to briefly talk about some of the newer products in the works at Apple. He remains tight lipped, but does talk about some of the newer storage devices that the company hopes to release in the near future.

06:37Copy video clip URL The rep addresses the issue of software piracy. He talks about some of the procedures the company takes to combat piracy. He goes on to talk about some of Apple’s most popular software programs. The videomaker asks the rep what it’s like living in Silicon Valley. “It’s a place where you take technical competence for granted. You take a fairly high level of education for granted because that’s what’s all around you. You take to some extent having the best of things around for granted. I wouldn’t live anywhere else I don’t think.”

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Nov 1, 2008

Sub aquatic listening with Speedo AquaBeat

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Speedo AquaBeat Waterproof MP3 player

Any exercise can get a little dull without your favourite bit of music to keep you going, so a small MP3 player has become a common site in gyms. It is all well and good to strap a MP3 player to your arm and go for a job but there are a few problems if […]

Oct 30, 2008

How to watch free internet television

Posted by in How To, Lists

So you want to watch something but you haven’t got the DVD and it is not on TV right now? Fancy watching what you want for free and right now? Thankfully the internet is a wondrous place and comes to your rescue. There are a plethora of sites out there on the World Wide Web […]

Oct 2, 2008

Mind reading music player

Posted by in Gadgets, Mental Media, News

I have always wondered what it would be like to have a sound track to my life, like they do in movies. When I am happy and it is sunny I can stroll down the street to something cheerful where as when I am in a mood I would hear something equally glum. Musinaunt, a […]

Oct 1, 2008

Phillips Flavours LCD TVs change with your mood

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A new range of LCD televisions from Phillips are intended to have a fresh and vibrant look. Phillips isn’t concentrating on creating thinner HDTVs or advancing the technology; instead the Dutch electronics manufacturer believes we are fickle, changeable bunch so have launched a range of LCD TVs with interchangeable frames. The frames are held on […]

Sep 28, 2008

AirCurve: Music without speakers or wires

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AirCurve iPhone Dock

I know the couple of entries have been relating to the iPod and iPhone but I promise we are not turning into fan boys, there are just some interesting accessories appearing on the market recently. This iPod docking station from Griffin is no exception. The AirCurve for the iPhone and iPhone 3G is described as

Sep 28, 2008

iPhone powered by the sun

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Solar power, coud it be the answer to our power crisis? Well no, it is not efficient enough yet but it will charge your iPhone in less than 3 hours. A solar powered iPhone leather case has gone on sale and hopes to be the answer to the iPhones shocking bad battery life. The case […]

Sep 26, 2008

Mental chargers: iPod and iPhone chargers with a difference

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iYo YOYO iPod charger

iYo YOYO We saw the iYo YOYO (pictured above) and memories of our childhood came rushing back, yoyos are versatile toys; you can walk the dog, go around the world and now you can even charge you iPod or iPhone with one. The Swedish designer Peter Thuvander has taken your average yoyo added a little […]

Sep 25, 2008

Lyra Slider: The first PMP to use sliding technology

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Lyra Slider PMP

Mobile phones have been using the concept of sliding for a long time but it has never caught on in the portable media player arena before. Well this is about to change with the new Lyra Slider, a basic PMP which has used the concept of a sliding front to shrink in size without having […]

Sep 23, 2008

How many WiMo devices does it take to display an image?

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When you think of you average Windows Mobile device what would you conceder to be the areas which require development and could be improved? Maybe the battery life or the performance

Sep 22, 2008

Unboxing the new Samsung Omnia

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“Unboxing” has been with us for a while and its format is widely known and accepted by tech geeks around the world. It is very exciting to open a new gadget and it is the trend at the moment to share that with the world wide web. So why pick out this one…? In short […]


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    September 25, 2012

    The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung.

    1. Can Justin Timberlake bring MySpace back? (AllFacebook)

    2. Quartz, the new business news site from Atlantic Media, has launched (Nieman Lab)

    3. The Economist says it’s the first magazine to set a digital rate base (Adweek)

    4. Twitter co-founder suggests a replacement for the follower count (Buzzfeed)

    5. YouTube lets creators add voter registration annotation to video (SocialTimes)

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Orleans Parish DA: Jailing Rape Victims is Okay

Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro either doesn’t understand the gravity of his recent statements or doesn’t care. He’s on the record saying jailing rape victims to ensure their testimony is okay.

Orleans District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro says in some rare cases, it’s necessary to put a victim or witness in jail to get a dangerous criminal or sex offender off the streets.

“If I have to put a victim of a crime in jail, for eight days, in order to…keep the rapist off of the street, for a period of years and to prevent him from raping or harming someone else, I’m going to do that,” Cannizzaro said.

These statements come on the heels of a judicial watchdog group called “Courtwatch NOLA” taking issue with the DA’s office using “material witness warrants” to compel victim testimony. These are arrest warrants for witnesses or victims that send someone the District Attorney feels vital to the case to jail. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. If your testimony is important, you’re headed to the pokey.

Why would a DA’s office jail someone vital to the case? Wouldn’t a more compassionate form of ensuring their return to court be just as effective, and maybe a better look for a region and an office that already has terrible PR in the eyes of the community? In Cannizzaro’s eyes, it’s all a small price to pay in the pursuit of justice.

The DA maintains it’s a small price in the pursuit of justice.

“Steps have been taken to arrest that person, to indict him, to bring him to court and [the witness says], ‘I don’t want to get involved,’ in my opinion that is wrong,” Cannizzaro said.

That small price to keep your witness means one more person goes into the jail, with their alleged rapist. One more person gets to do the squat and cough in front of a booking officer to ensure no contraband makes its way into the jail. If that person is lucky, they won’t get a cavity search violating them a second time, this time state sanctioned. They’ll get the same jail issued jumpsuit and crocs as their rapist.

That’s DA Cannizzaro’s idea of a “small price.” It’s more about keeping the really violent offender off the streets for a long time than making sure victims and witnesses aren’t treated with compassion. A little inconvenience for them now means the bad guys are off the streets, and a little inconvenience never hurt anyone, right?

“Is it more important for this witness to be inconvenienced for a very short period of time or is it better for the community to get the violent offender off the streets and keep him off the streets,” Cannizzaro added.

Of course, this is Orleans Parish, where there’s a bit of a problem determining just when those alleged violent offenders will actually get a day in court. That problem actually saw a guy charged with rape get released from jail before ever getting tried for the offense. Cannizzaro threw a fit over that too, but let’s not get past the point of this post.

Three hundred and forty eight miles from Orleans Parrish is Harris County, Texas. Last year, during a sexual assault case, “Jenny,” a victim suffering from bipolar disorder, broke down on the stand during testimony and said she couldn’t continue. District Attorney Devon Anderson wasn’t too thrilled with the idea of her rape victim not returning to court. So she sent “Jenny” to jail. Let Devon tell you all about it.

Unfortunately for Devon Anderson, she’s no longer Harris County’s District Attorney. When it came to choosing between “Jenny” or Devon, the public chose the former and voted Devon Anderson out of office. The current Harris County DA, Kim Ogg, conducted sweeping changes of the District Attorney’s office and even testified in favor of “Jenny’s Law,” a piece of legislation giving victims and witnesses their own attorney and a full hearing before a judge signs an attachment warrant.

Leon Cannizzaro didn’t look to the fate of Devon Anderson when making his current statements to the press. That could very well be the end of his prosecutorial career, given the public’s interest in seeing victims and witnesses treated with compassion instead of dealing with an inconvenience.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. And in Orleans Parish, Leon Cannizzaro’s failure to remember the past of Harris County may condemn his future as a District Attorney.

Time to bust out the popcorn. Happy Friday.


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The 1993 British film An Eye on X follows Wigan's quest in carving two statues of American black activist Malcolm X, one life size and the other on the head of a toothpick. Additional footage in the production archive includes Willard flying aircraft made out of thin balsa wood, carving on the head of a toothpick and talking about his early life. Wigan was inspired to do his work beginning at the age of 5. He is learning disabled, and doesn't know how to read or write. He said that his childhood teachers "made [him] feel small, made [him] feel like nothing." He decided to prove that "less is more," and that "nothing could be everything."

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Today’s guest blog is by our own Melibee, Kyle Rausch.  Kyle and I had a great conversation about the new Study Abroad 101 rankings and how it told a completely different story than our “go to” data in our field, IIE’s Open Doors Report.  Read on to hear Kyle’s thoughts about what story data can (or can’t) tell.

If there is one practical thing I will take away from my graduate program and the scores of academic studies I have drudged through it is that a careful evaluation of the data presented can often times tell a more interesting story than the study itself!  Frequently, I’ll find myself having more questions than before I started reading the study thanks to curiosity in how the data was compiled and what the statistics are really telling me.  Inevitably that is about the point where I decide to power on the Keurig and indulge myself by clicking on the time-sucking Facebook tab that is of course always open on my browser.

I suppose it’s not really surprising then that a long, back-and-forth virtual conversation ensued when Missy, Melibee’s founder, asked for one of our Melibee hive members to come forward and write a post about the new data compiled by the Study Abroad 101 (SA 101) Study Abroad Rankings.  Always interested in lists, rankings, and data about our field, I thought I’d take a stab at it.  A cross-country move, multiple loquacious drafts, and several headaches later, I still am not entirely sure what the data out there about study abroad and student trends is telling us.

The Study Abroad 101 Study Abroad Rankings list is a survey that is sent directly to the students participating on different programs and as such it provides a very Gen Y picture of American study abroad.  It includes categories such as the most livable cities, top short-term programs, top food cities, and interestingly enough, the top program providers.  With the recent release of IIE’s Open Doors report, it is interesting to consider SA 101’s more student-driven stats as compared to the IIE’s more academic findings

Since IIE’s report is compiled based on data collected from academic institutions in the country I think that it is regarded as the definitive source for documenting study abroad trends.  However, the results from the Study Abroad 101 survey seem to present something different.  Consider the category ‘Top Friendliest Cities,’ and we find a cultural story.

What does it mean that American students voted the top 3 friendliest cities as Asian cities?  The Study Abroad 101 report indicates that this category was based on the amount of friends whom American students had met in the host country and with whom they would be likely to remain in contact.  The fact that Seoul (South Korea), Hirakata (Japan) and Tokyo (Japan) placed in the top could be taken to mean that Asia is a more open region when it comes to meeting others.  Is this because the region is regarded as more homogenous as whole and therefore more readily seeks the other?  Still, looking at the data there is a gap that needs to be addressed: Hirakata is #2 with only six programs evaluated.  It would be helpful to know how this city placed so high in this category having so few programs in the study.

Similarly, another category, ‘Top Livable Cities,’ says much about our American culture.  Whereas the top 3 friendliest cities were cities in Asia, it appears that this has no correlation to how livable American students regard a city.  Instead, the top 3 cities in this category are all English-speaking locales: Melbourne (Australia), Dublin (Ireland) and Gold Coast (Australia).  As a lover and student of languages, I think that our country’s under-appreciation for learning foreign languages has an influential effect on how we find the livability of a city to be.  This trend does correlate to the findings of IIE reports too, which always reports the United Kingdom as the top destination to where U.S. students travel, largely because of the perceived similarities in culture and language.  In my opinion, many American students want to study abroad…just not in locations where they have to radically challenge their western ideology.  Thankfully, the IIE does show a recent change in this trend with interest in China on the rise, and interestingly a large increase in Costa Rica.

There are just a couple of the stories I took away from these reports.  Every year I am always eager to see the new results published in the Open Doors report to monitor the trends of our field.  I was intrigued by Study Abroad 101’s survey since it seems to present a different perspective on study abroad trends and what is important to the student.  However, I still have many questions raised from both studies.  For instance, how does the IIE handle the possibility of skewed data for those well-known schools that send a large portion of students from other institutions?  And for the SA 101 survey, why were those categories picked and why does the data favor third-party providers so much?

I’m not sure this blog post presented any definitive conclusions drawn from these studies (I’m about ready to power on that Keurig again!) but I’m interested…what stories is the data telling you…what questions does the data raise?

Kyle Rausch

About the Author:  Kyle Rausch works for Arizona State University’s Study Abroad Office in Tempe, Arizona.  In the past he has served as Immigration Specialist and Passport Acceptance Facility Manager at Florida State University where he is finishing his MS in Higher Education Administration.

  • After just completing a course in Intercultural Communication – this post is much appreciated! These scales of rating are so rooted in cultural perceptions, and highly individual. Saying something is the “best” or “friendliest” is so bizarre in a cultural context. It begs the question – did those who took the survey have any intercultural competence at all? This data is relatively useless, the story it tells me is that we need better data collection in Study Abroad.

  • Missy Gluckmann

    Very good points Vanessa. What are we trying to convey to readers with this data? Kyle and I discussed how this data tells a thousand potential stories – but it really depends on where you sit to see the value (or lack of). Perspective is everything, eh?