Last weekend my niece Abigail reached a milestone in her young life– she was taken to her first movie.
This event is a sort of maturity marker for parents– To take a very young child to a theatres makes some basic assumptions: Will he or she sit still for two hours? Will he or she understand, [...]

I received this message from Faye, the producer of “Arrangements:”
Hi Folks:
“Arrangements” has been invited as an Official Selection of the 2008 International Cine Santa Cruz Film Festival. Festival dates are May 9 - 17 this year - more details to come when the schedule is confirmed.
We are also planning a special private pre-Festival screening [...]

We have implemented a policy change at work.
As noted previously on this site, Digital Television is set to kick off in about a year. One of the profound changes this represents is to the very delivery form of television: It’s aspect ratio. SD (Standard Definition, Analog TV) is 4:3– and DTV is 16:9.
It’s as simple [...]

You’re at home, trying to enjoy your new post-2009-ready digital TV. But what you’re seeing is something like slow-motion crash test footage. The major networks are slowly– excruciatingly slowly– being crunched into shapelessness by the WGA strike. Sure, “American Idol” is back on (and you’re welcome to it), and God help us the revived [...]

The long interruption of the holidays behind us, I checked in with Chip and the gang in Santa Cruz to see how the cut of “Arrangements” is coming along. Turns out there is lots and lots happening!
I’m going to turn it over to Chip Street for the new (and amazing) details.
Today [January 13, 2008] we [...]

A few entries ago I crowed about our new HD DVD player and the incredible quality of the content available.
I also mentioned Warner Bros., A home video giant with a massive catalog of titles, was hedging their bets, putting out HD titles in both Blu-Ray and HD DVD. On Saturday, they announced they had finally [...]

Santa brought us a Toshiba HD-DVD player. It’s the A3 model, which included two HD DVD movies in the box. Santa must have picked it up at Best Buy, because the receipt also comes with five more free discs, a sort of mail-in rebate deal.
Got it set up, plugged into the 42” Panasonic plasma-screen via [...]

Today’s take on the WGA strike originates from an essay on SFGate by Noah Hawley, a novelist and writer for “Bones.” The piece is called “What the writers strike is really about,” and like all op-ed columns written by striking writers it conveys a certain veracity. In fact, Mr. Hawley makes one of the most [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve been on the air, but I have a good explanation.
Our office was burglarized.
In the wee hours of Monday morning two guys broke into our offices and stole stuff. Most of the swag they got were, what I called later, “unintentional decoys:” A busted laptop, a camcorder on it’s last [...]

At this point, the precious raw footage of “Arrangements” has been digitized and sits, cataloged and ready to go, on the editorial platform. There were apparently some delays in delivering continuity notes and footage logs to editorial, but at this point all has been handed over and the editorial process has begun.
I took this moment [...]