Two Sketches... One Person

I ran across this online... I'm sure several people have. Being a woman who has self image issues this really struck home. Below is a project done by Dove on how women percieve themselves... I find it fasicinating and it gave me so much the think about. It's something maybe a little more "serious" than what we normally post... but something that I wanted to share!

 

Sure, but... Mad Men, Am I Right?

Among the best jobs that I can imagine, television critic is up there. One of the most respected critics out there, Alan Sepinwall, explains how his job has gone from casually watching the three or four major networks to a constant barrage of quality television. One telling portion talks about how many shows are now on cable (and not the five major networks):

In 2007, there were 42 original dramas and 17 comedies. By last year, that number had ballooned to 77 original dramas and 48 comedies. And in the first four months of 2013 alone, there have been 34 dramas and 19 comedies. And that's on top of everything that ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC and the CW are doing. That pace will slow down somewhat as we shift into summer, but I'd still expect 2013 to top the 2012 numbers, and to keep rising. Netflix is making its own original shows now, and releasing all the episodes at once. Amazon has pilots in development. The amount of television expanding, but so is our definition of what counts as "television."
 

It's a good point- in the last few years, I've certainly gone from knowing at least something about any show people talk about, to sounding like my parents (What's the name of that show? Do we get that channel? How come I've never heard of it?)

You can read the whole thing here.

Friday Video

Okay. That's funny.

Roger Ebert

Three links for the recently deceased Roger Ebert:

The Onion's fantastic Roger Ebert Hails Human Existence as 'A Triumph';

An short essay written after 'Knowing', the another Nicolas Cage movie that got worse the more you thought about it;

Roger's rememberance of Gene Siskel.

Who needs sleep???

It's not like I didn't already have a very full list of things I'm terrified of....

Sigh. 

"Hi.  I'm the size of your face!!"

New Species Of Giant Tarantula Discovered...omg.

And so are TJ and Dave

This week's Radiolab is a conversation with TJ Jagodowski and Dave Pasquesi, two of the nation's best improvisors. They do a weekly show at one of Chicago's best improv theaters in which the two of them build a two-man, hour-long play out of nothing. The discussion centers around how they deal with that level of uncertainty each week, and how they are able to provide such a high quality show despite that uncertainty. If you have fifteen minutes, it's well worth a listen.

...That It Be Totally Believeable

If things have been slow here, it's because the May Ozy scripts are being written now, or at least they should be. One of the things I really like about our process is the way our scripts are seen as a rough draft. From the night we share them until show night (and sometimes the next show night,) we constantly move things around, add jokes, take out lines that aren't working. It's all about collaboration and feeding off of each other.

Looking at someone else's process is always interesting to me- seeing where we're the same, what we can steal, what we excel at- but this may be, if you'll excuse the reference you don't know I'm making for another five seconds, the Holy Grail of seeing someone else's process.

Some kind, brilliant soul recorded the 1978 planning sessions between Kasdan, Lucas, and Spielberg for Raiders of the Lost Ark, and a transcript is available online. It'll take me a while to get through- it's 90 pages- but it's a great read.

Lucas — There's also the thing you can do which is your famous "Jaws", or what I call the hand on the shoulder trick, which is not only skeletons, but we can have skeletons that aren't that old, they just have drawn skin all over them, that are lurking in the shadows.

 

Spielberg — Falling into their arms. A skeleton comes out of the cobwebs, and just embraces the guy. The guy eases him to the ground.

 

Lucas — At the more tense moments in that whole thing. We'll work on that more specifically. Anyway, he goes through a series of really spooky scary things.

 

Spielberg — What we're just doing here, really, is designing a ride at Disneyland.