New Technology

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This is a test of the wordpress-facebook link.  Its a brave new world, and if all goes well we'll be sharing everything between the blog (at www.casualdog.org/how-to_blog) and Facebook (How-To: The Movie).  Amazing, eh? Please let me know if you have any ideas or issues.
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Log line, anybody?

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[caption id="attachment_506" align="alignleft" width="300"] Looks like a log to me.[/caption] How-to: advice to young doctors on blending science, healing, and art in 21st century health care. Please help by suggesting log lines.   What?  See the movie first?  I don't understand...
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Reflexivity

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Reflexivity in film making is a tricky thing.  It is very easy to fall into self-indulgent and narcissistic pits - why should our own struggles be interesting to anyone else?  The specter of the wealthy dilettante, fooling themselves that they are some sort of artist (and pandered to because they…
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New Title, Anyone?

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OK, enough is enough.  It is time to crystalize this film's direction - well, re-crystalize.  Hopefully we'll still put together a pair of films, cut from the same cloth - the Director's version (mine) and the subject's version (alan's). The director's cut will use reflexive techniques and Alan's biography to…
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Apple of my I

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Most visual artists use Apple computers if they use any, and this is particularly true of film editing.  Apple's Final Cut Pro software has carved out a hefty chunk of the film editing market, although Avid's Media Composer and related products are still the gorillas.  Apple is due to release…
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Casual Dog, Updated

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I have just finished remodeling the Casual Dog Productions, LLC editing suite. It is now much more functional - and it looks much better! We now have a Panasonic plasma monitor. After calibration, it isn't quite up to color grading - but then, the walls are optical communications blue anyway.…
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New News from Osha Neumann

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I am reading Osha Neumann's new book.  It is a fascinating and gripping memoir of his time as a 1960s anarchist in New York City.  I'll update this entry as I digest it (and when I am more awake - I worked 90 clinical hours from Sat-Fri, slept three hours…
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What’s in a name?

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I have been unhappy with the working title What's Inside, Professor?  for quite some time now.  For one thing, it is hard to write down - that dang question mark.  Also, it is a bit cryptic.  As the project has evolved, I have settled on an approach that uses Alan's…
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Back Toot!

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We are back to it!  In the past two weeks, we have been plowing through captured tapes, breaking things up into individual clips and furthering the logging process.  Experiments with Adobe Soundbooth's transcription feature haven't been so encouraging... It is exciting to watch this material with a fresh eye, and…
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