Many years ago, I had the great pleasure to be part of the producing team on a couple of Jason Reitman's early short films. In God We Trust was a festival favorite.
Gun Runner was a game prototype abandoned when Midway Games fell into bankruptcy and shut down. The game's goal was to create a third-person, action adventure game in the vein of the Bourne films. The pre-visualized scene depicts a car chase which was to happen in the middle of the game.
Created for the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, (TRADOC), Breakdown was used as part of a regimen to teach soldiers negotiation and bargaining skills. The follow-up to Trouble at Checkpoint Four, Breakdown moves the action to Afghanistan. In the vignette, two U.S. Army military advisors must persuade a reluctant, and possibly corrupt, Afghan National…
Where U At? was produced for hip-hop artist Malaysian MC in 2005. It was distributed in Malaysia and other southeast Asian countries. In my research for this project, I discovered that many Asian hip hop artists at the time tried to emulate the “straight from the ‘hood” style of American hip hop artists. But it felt…
Ron DeSantis has proposed a permitless carry law that will abolish all gun training and safety requirements to carry a gun in Florida. It’s sheer lunacy.
"You see the mob takes the Fifth…If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment." - Donald J Trump in 2018 … wonder what changed his mind on the 5th??? https://twitter.com/cbsnews/status/1620485148096565248
News outlets criminalized for critical reporting. Journalists hounded on social media, or even killed, for speaking truth to power. Cash-strapped newsrooms scraping by with a skeleton staff. This is current state of our global free press.
Some thoughts:
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