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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Community, Round 6: Flashlight vs Paper
« on: Dec 19, 2012, 06:03 pm »
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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Stage management/Directing internship for film
« on: Dec 19, 2012, 01:14 pm »
I know the DGA had a pretty competitive Directing apprenticeship.
I would suggest talking to local T.V. stations and perhaps getting a start there - television news, of course, does a lot more regular productions.
Also, contact a university with a strong film department, and see if any student productions are up and running - but featured films are always a gamble, since you are geographically bound.
Long show, hit up your state's office of film - the one that gets permits in order or hands out money to lure in film projects - see who is filming in your area and then - cold send a letter.
Those would be my suggestions
I would suggest talking to local T.V. stations and perhaps getting a start there - television news, of course, does a lot more regular productions.
Also, contact a university with a strong film department, and see if any student productions are up and running - but featured films are always a gamble, since you are geographically bound.
Long show, hit up your state's office of film - the one that gets permits in order or hands out money to lure in film projects - see who is filming in your area and then - cold send a letter.
Those would be my suggestions
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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Regional Round 5: Multitool vs Photocopier
« on: Dec 18, 2012, 09:44 pm »
Nice to know someone is on Nick's side . . .
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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Community, Round 6: Flashlight vs Paper
« on: Dec 18, 2012, 09:20 pm »
This is a no-brain, I totally agree with the multi-talents (and dare I say handsome, yes, I dare) Nick . . .
Flashlight over Paper any day!!!
Flashlight over Paper any day!!!
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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Regional Round 5: Multitool vs Photocopier
« on: Dec 18, 2012, 09:17 pm »
I would like to public apologize if something I said was taken as offensive by Nick.
He must be in a very vulnerable position, being on the losing side.
Here is a cute picture of a puppy to make him feel better.
Oh, is that a cute puppy on a PHOTOCOPIER. My bad.
How about a kitty cat.
Oh, that probably stings a bit . . .
No cute photos, how about, we just take a moment and show Nick, what he loves the most . . .
YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT - A BROKEN MULTI-TOOL, LIKE HIS BROKEN LOGIC.
PHOTOCOPIERS RULE!!!!!!
He must be in a very vulnerable position, being on the losing side.
Here is a cute picture of a puppy to make him feel better.
Oh, is that a cute puppy on a PHOTOCOPIER. My bad.
How about a kitty cat.
Oh, that probably stings a bit . . .
No cute photos, how about, we just take a moment and show Nick, what he loves the most . . .
YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT - A BROKEN MULTI-TOOL, LIKE HIS BROKEN LOGIC.
PHOTOCOPIERS RULE!!!!!!
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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Regional Round 5: Multitool vs Photocopier
« on: Dec 18, 2012, 04:16 pm »
PHOTOCOPIERS RULE!!!
In all due respect, Draw-into-the mouth-by-contracting-the-muscles-of-the- lip -and -mouth- to -make- a -partial- vacuum it, Nick!!!!!
In all due respect, Draw-into-the mouth-by-contracting-the-muscles-of-the- lip -and -mouth- to -make- a -partial- vacuum it, Nick!!!!!
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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: University, Round 5: Binder vs Scale Rule
« on: Dec 18, 2012, 12:11 am »
You can do a show with a binder . . .
try taping out a floor without a scale rule.
try taping out a floor without a scale rule.
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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Regional Round 5: Multitool vs Photocopier
« on: Dec 17, 2012, 10:29 pm »
Mountain Dew?
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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Regional Round 5: Multitool vs Photocopier
« on: Dec 17, 2012, 08:44 pm »Quote
My final point on this matter for the moment is simply this: when was the last time a photo copier came equipped with the ability to open your beer? Multi tools help you during, and after your work day.
And we get the explanation for Mr. Tochelli's lies, decent and, and obvious, slip in rational judgement . . . Mr. Tochelli's apparent rampant alcoholism . . . beer is an evil mistress.
Again, he doesn't deserve our hate, just our pity - - - beer drinkers.
[Matthew needs to full disclose his father is a big-big mucky-mucky in Anheuser-Busch]
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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Regional Round 5: Multitool vs Photocopier
« on: Dec 17, 2012, 06:56 pm »
Oh . . . ageism, you rear your ugly head.
It must be so nice around the holiday season, sitting in your counting house, NICK, counting your vast amount of wealth from your multi-tool sales . . . keeping warm, why us stage managers around the world sit with little more then a single lump of coal.
Stage Managers, here this . . . if Nick would have his way, yes, you would be able, to save a trip to a tool box, and fix an item. YAY MULTI-TOOL - that's what it fofers. But then he would have you, sit, perhaps by candlelight, with a dull pencil, and write out in LONG HAND, 20 or 30 times, copies of the rehearsal report to hand out. When would you sleep? When would you rest? Think of the aches and pains in your hand, think of the heart break and sorrow. Yes, yes, but we did save a trip to a tool box. BRAVO MULTI-TOOL. Thank you for that . . . excuse me for not clapping, I think my hand just feel off due to all the long handed copying I am doing . . .
Wake up! WAKE UP!!!!
Don't let the 1%, embedded in the wealth and comfort of their corporate wealth/war chests - you know in your heart of hearts - you don't want to return to the dark ages of hand writing line changes, or, if you so happen to have an off-set printer handy . . .
Can we imagine doing new plays without a photo copier?
Seriously, but again, Nick would have us save a quick trip to a tool box.
Listen, yes, I am older, and further down the career path then some of you here - but without the photo-copier, we would have to go back to the horrors, and terrors, and chemical poisoning of the mimeograph machine - old stage managers know the horrors and the brain cells killed. THAT'S THE WORLD NICK WANTS US TO LIVE IT. Damp, purple, blurry copies - are we cave men? Are we peasants? Have you tried writing in pencil on freshly mimeographed paper? GOOD LUCK MY FRIENDS, GOOD LUCK!!! It's world I don't want for me, my children or my children's children.
I like Nick, I respect Nick - I think Nick is good guy. Great wife. Beautiful kid. Heck, I would love to take him out to dinner, buy him a drink.
But it doesn't not, in any way, mean his opinion is right. We all know the multi-tool is a good replacement in a pinch, but let's call it what is is - cheaper, smaller versions of tools you should already have access to. Shades, pale imitations. Why not get the right tool for the job?
And what if that job is copying a lot of paper - my friends - I give you the photo copier.
Mr. Tochelli, in his last post, wants you to believe I am old, out of touch with the younger stage manager and their needs - lost touch with the pulse of the younger stage managers. But, Mr. Tochelli, let's not just throw out almost 40 years of experience in this business, and over 25 years stage managing - let me offer advice, my sage wisdom - there is no contest - the photo copier by a landslide, the photo copier is the true friend of stage managers everywhere.
Post Merge: Dec 17, 2012, 06:59 pm
Oh this just in, Nate Silver calls the race for the photo copier . . . calls it - pols are NOT EVEN CLOSED IN IOWA - and he predicts the photocopier will win by a bigger land slide then Obama won.
Just saying . . . be on the right side of history.
It must be so nice around the holiday season, sitting in your counting house, NICK, counting your vast amount of wealth from your multi-tool sales . . . keeping warm, why us stage managers around the world sit with little more then a single lump of coal.
Stage Managers, here this . . . if Nick would have his way, yes, you would be able, to save a trip to a tool box, and fix an item. YAY MULTI-TOOL - that's what it fofers. But then he would have you, sit, perhaps by candlelight, with a dull pencil, and write out in LONG HAND, 20 or 30 times, copies of the rehearsal report to hand out. When would you sleep? When would you rest? Think of the aches and pains in your hand, think of the heart break and sorrow. Yes, yes, but we did save a trip to a tool box. BRAVO MULTI-TOOL. Thank you for that . . . excuse me for not clapping, I think my hand just feel off due to all the long handed copying I am doing . . .
Wake up! WAKE UP!!!!
Don't let the 1%, embedded in the wealth and comfort of their corporate wealth/war chests - you know in your heart of hearts - you don't want to return to the dark ages of hand writing line changes, or, if you so happen to have an off-set printer handy . . .
Can we imagine doing new plays without a photo copier?
Seriously, but again, Nick would have us save a quick trip to a tool box.Listen, yes, I am older, and further down the career path then some of you here - but without the photo-copier, we would have to go back to the horrors, and terrors, and chemical poisoning of the mimeograph machine - old stage managers know the horrors and the brain cells killed. THAT'S THE WORLD NICK WANTS US TO LIVE IT. Damp, purple, blurry copies - are we cave men? Are we peasants? Have you tried writing in pencil on freshly mimeographed paper? GOOD LUCK MY FRIENDS, GOOD LUCK!!! It's world I don't want for me, my children or my children's children.
I like Nick, I respect Nick - I think Nick is good guy. Great wife. Beautiful kid. Heck, I would love to take him out to dinner, buy him a drink.
But it doesn't not, in any way, mean his opinion is right. We all know the multi-tool is a good replacement in a pinch, but let's call it what is is - cheaper, smaller versions of tools you should already have access to. Shades, pale imitations. Why not get the right tool for the job?
And what if that job is copying a lot of paper - my friends - I give you the photo copier.
Mr. Tochelli, in his last post, wants you to believe I am old, out of touch with the younger stage manager and their needs - lost touch with the pulse of the younger stage managers. But, Mr. Tochelli, let's not just throw out almost 40 years of experience in this business, and over 25 years stage managing - let me offer advice, my sage wisdom - there is no contest - the photo copier by a landslide, the photo copier is the true friend of stage managers everywhere.
Post Merge: Dec 17, 2012, 06:59 pm
Oh this just in, Nate Silver calls the race for the photo copier . . . calls it - pols are NOT EVEN CLOSED IN IOWA - and he predicts the photocopier will win by a bigger land slide then Obama won.
Just saying . . . be on the right side of history.
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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Regional Round 5: Multitool vs Photocopier
« on: Dec 17, 2012, 05:24 pm »
And like a photo copier, I like to turn out quality reproductions of the show time in and time out . . .
Like a photo copier, I am warm, not cold like the metal in a multi-tool
And you won't see me screwing around backstage like your common multi-tool.
Nick, I like how you are totally not responding to the fact you have a FINANCIAL INTEREST in the outcome of this bracket.
"Mr. Tochelli, how do you address the fact you refuse to disclose any and all financial gain you might receive from the multi-tool industry."
Like a photo copier, I am warm, not cold like the metal in a multi-tool
And you won't see me screwing around backstage like your common multi-tool.
Nick, I like how you are totally not responding to the fact you have a FINANCIAL INTEREST in the outcome of this bracket.
"Mr. Tochelli, how do you address the fact you refuse to disclose any and all financial gain you might receive from the multi-tool industry."
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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: TERMS YOU NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE
« on: Dec 17, 2012, 05:21 pm »
Sorry . . . I was trying to start a thread about odd terms for something . . . thus the "Stalker Sheet"
I am very well aware of the need and use for Headshot Page (or whatever people call it). Often, the first people who will ask for it is the audio department . . .but I have used it for a wide variety of purposes.
I am very well aware of the need and use for Headshot Page (or whatever people call it). Often, the first people who will ask for it is the audio department . . .but I have used it for a wide variety of purposes.
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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Regional Round 5: Multitool vs Photocopier
« on: Dec 17, 2012, 12:26 pm »Quote
"Hey, Janice... are you finished with the portable copier?"
"Oh, yeah, I was finished hours ago. I gave it to Steve."
"Hey, Steve, you finished with the portable copier?"
"Uhhhh... I think Claire has it now."
"Claire, you done with the copier?"
"Yep. Keisha needed it. You know, grant season and all..."
"Keisha, you seen the portable copier?"
"Oh, yes, totally. I left it in Martha's office."
"Martha, do you have the copier?"
"No, Dennis picked it up twenty minutes ago."
"Dennis, have you got the copier?"
"Yeah, I did, but Janice came by and grabbed it right before you walked in..."
SAID NO ONE EVER
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The Hardline / Re: AEA and "Right To Work"
« on: Dec 17, 2012, 12:25 pm »
But this is in the short term . . . taking power away from unions is a slippery slope, and in the end might end up doing more harm to workers and workers' causes in the long run.
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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Regional Round 5: Multitool vs Photocopier
« on: Dec 17, 2012, 11:15 am »
Nick . . . photocopier pulls ahead by two votes, the people are speaking.
(LCSM - good point, no, "I left the photocopier on my other pants")
Post Merge: Dec 17, 2012, 11:25 am
FOUL BALL . . .
Nick, shouldn't you be disclosing you work for a company that on their web site SELLS MULTI-TOOLS.
Aren't you profiting from the sales of Multi-Tools?
I think your vote should be removed.
I have never once worked for a company that sold, serviced or manufactured photo copiers - my love for them is pure, not tarnished by gold, and perhaps only slightly uncomfortable around small children.
(LCSM - good point, no, "I left the photocopier on my other pants")
Post Merge: Dec 17, 2012, 11:25 am
FOUL BALL . . .
Nick, shouldn't you be disclosing you work for a company that on their web site SELLS MULTI-TOOLS.
Aren't you profiting from the sales of Multi-Tools?
I think your vote should be removed.
I have never once worked for a company that sold, serviced or manufactured photo copiers - my love for them is pure, not tarnished by gold, and perhaps only slightly uncomfortable around small children.