ASIFA-Hollywood: The International Animated Film Society
Saturday, January 29, 2005
I did not take a camera to the Afternoon of Remembrance because I thought that it would be disrespectful. Other people had cameras so I was wrong. As fortune would have it my 14 year old daughter, Raven, did sketches of all of the speakers.
I will be dealing with some of the speeches and great stories later but right I have to charge the walky-talkies for the video archive crew and look at the John and Faith Hubley special that Martha and Sol taped for me.
All and all, it was a great event and well worth the trip into Hollywood. And to the girl from USC that I talked to about the ticket, e-mail me I just got a cancellation. larry(at)agni-animation(dot)com
Remembrance
I will be dealing with some of the speeches and great stories later but right I have to charge the walky-talkies for the video archive crew and look at the John and Faith Hubley special that Martha and Sol taped for me.
All and all, it was a great event and well worth the trip into Hollywood. And to the girl from USC that I talked to about the ticket, e-mail me I just got a cancellation. larry(at)agni-animation(dot)com
Remembrance
Party Games of Reality
So there is this game I play with my history classes when I want them to understand how concepts of reality and even reality itself changes from generation to generation. It is called different things by different people. It is that party game where you whisper something to the first person and then she/he whispers it to the next and so on and so on and scooby dooby doo until the message is completely changed by the time it gets to the last person.
History is like that game only you never get to ask that first person in the line of whispers what really was said.
I am off to hear the whispers of the past today and I am going to take notes.
History is like that game only you never get to ask that first person in the line of whispers what really was said.
I am off to hear the whispers of the past today and I am going to take notes.
An Afternoon of Remembrance
Lasky-DeMille Barn
2100 N. Highland (At the Hollywood Bowl)
Hollywood
Saturday Jan. 29th
1 PM
Thursday, January 27, 2005
If You Can Keep My Head, My Son, When All Else Are Losing Theirs
Back on All Hollow's Eve I told you that I had lost my head. This was a latex head, much deteriorated, that was my very first ever movie decapitation back in the days that I did FX for grade Z slasher flicks.
I was sad about this loss because it was a bridge to my distant past and a family All Hollow`s tradition. I am happy to report that my son has found my lost head in the bottom of his closet.
Ironically, I get my head back on the very day that Annette and I are losing our minds trying to handle all of the comp tickets for animation schools.
I was sad about this loss because it was a bridge to my distant past and a family All Hollow`s tradition. I am happy to report that my son has found my lost head in the bottom of his closet.
Ironically, I get my head back on the very day that Annette and I are losing our minds trying to handle all of the comp tickets for animation schools.
Are you wondering what to wear to the Annies to set off that tux? These are available at Target. Thanks to Steve Gattuso, long time ASIFA volunteer.
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Annette O`Neil runs this month`s Act of Membership meeting. The main topic is the Annies but the Afternoon of Remembrance, Comic Con, and the Animation Rescue Team are also talked about.
these are some of the people that help make the Annies happen. Many come back year after year to work the event.
So I read over the stuff I wrote last night and man was I, well you know, tightly whatever. I guest that is the good thing and the bad thing about a web log. That was what was happening with me working on putting together the Annies. And that is just me. I am a small part of the show. There are all these other people out there doing as much and much more to bring this thing off. It makes you think when you have the time.
Tonight is the monthly volunteer meeting for ASIFA. This meeting will be about the Annies.
2114 W. Burbank Blvd.
Burbank
7 PM
Tonight is the monthly volunteer meeting for ASIFA. This meeting will be about the Annies.
2114 W. Burbank Blvd.
Burbank
7 PM
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Stream of Conscienceness Pollution
It was the best of days it was the worst of days. I`ve been having a dickens of a time with my e-mail server and schools are calling up saying can I just have 9 more tickets and I`m playing phone tag with people and schools and I have no idea (yes, he said dickens of a time) if I got the e-mails back with the answers (sorry about that) I desperately need, and I lost my ASIFA animation wheel pin today that I have had for over 10 years and I am miga-bummed about that.
On the up side my Research and Development class went okay and my talk to the Brooks College Animation Club went really well and had a big turnout, and I really think I got across the importance of networking and membership in ASIFA-Hollywood as a part of any animation career plan, and if that didn`t work, the naked greed should have cut in when I flashed all of the invites to screening and this year`s Annie swag.
Another thing on the up side. I just got a call from Martha Sigall telling me that she taped a John and Faith Hubley special for me. Martha always puts me in a great mood and I am looking forward to seeing Sol and Martha this Saturday at the Afternoon of Remembrance. (make sure you go) Thank you Martha, you made my day. It was the best of days, it was the best of days.
On the up side my Research and Development class went okay and my talk to the Brooks College Animation Club went really well and had a big turnout, and I really think I got across the importance of networking and membership in ASIFA-Hollywood as a part of any animation career plan, and if that didn`t work, the naked greed should have cut in when I flashed all of the invites to screening and this year`s Annie swag.
Another thing on the up side. I just got a call from Martha Sigall telling me that she taped a John and Faith Hubley special for me. Martha always puts me in a great mood and I am looking forward to seeing Sol and Martha this Saturday at the Afternoon of Remembrance. (make sure you go) Thank you Martha, you made my day. It was the best of days, it was the best of days.
Monday, January 24, 2005
Getting Ready for the Annies
Rough day today. Lot on my plate. Spent all morning trying to give away Annie Tickets to students at Southern California animation programs, Cal Arts, USC, UCLA, Laguna College of Art and Design, Cal State Fullerton. Most of these people are not sitting in their offices waiting for someone to call them. They are out in classrooms teaching students. But by the end of the day all but one school has called back.
Then it was a meeting this afternoon of the Archive Video Crew for this year`s Annies. Ed Gonzalez, this year`s director, and I met with student volunteers at Laguna College today. This year we are trying to get the archive video out of the home video category and into a more professional end product that we will be proud to add to the Animation Archive.
For all of you on the Video Crew that are looking in to see your photos. Thanks it ups the number of hits on the web log. The Annies are at 216 Brand Blvd., Glendale this Sunday the 30th. Video Crew needs to be there at 1PM.
Still have to finishing prepping for my classes. Have the Act of Membership meeting Wednesday night 7 PM at the animation center 2114 W. Burbank Blvd. Where we have to hammer out all the loose ends for the Annies. (If you plan of volunteering for the Annies you need to make it to this meeting)
Tomorrow I talk to the Animation Club at Brooks College about ASIFA and the benefits of student membership in ASIFA-Hollywood. ($20 a year, the best deal in town - remember the Annies swag and the free screenings)
Sometime before Sunday I have to pick up the mini DV tapes for the Archive Shoot, print up more business cards, finish up giving out student comps, and brush my teeth, get some sleep, first star to the right and straight on til morning.
Rough day today. Lot on my plate. Spent all morning trying to give away Annie Tickets to students at Southern California animation programs, Cal Arts, USC, UCLA, Laguna College of Art and Design, Cal State Fullerton. Most of these people are not sitting in their offices waiting for someone to call them. They are out in classrooms teaching students. But by the end of the day all but one school has called back.
Then it was a meeting this afternoon of the Archive Video Crew for this year`s Annies. Ed Gonzalez, this year`s director, and I met with student volunteers at Laguna College today. This year we are trying to get the archive video out of the home video category and into a more professional end product that we will be proud to add to the Animation Archive.
For all of you on the Video Crew that are looking in to see your photos. Thanks it ups the number of hits on the web log. The Annies are at 216 Brand Blvd., Glendale this Sunday the 30th. Video Crew needs to be there at 1PM.
Still have to finishing prepping for my classes. Have the Act of Membership meeting Wednesday night 7 PM at the animation center 2114 W. Burbank Blvd. Where we have to hammer out all the loose ends for the Annies. (If you plan of volunteering for the Annies you need to make it to this meeting)
Tomorrow I talk to the Animation Club at Brooks College about ASIFA and the benefits of student membership in ASIFA-Hollywood. ($20 a year, the best deal in town - remember the Annies swag and the free screenings)
Sometime before Sunday I have to pick up the mini DV tapes for the Archive Shoot, print up more business cards, finish up giving out student comps, and brush my teeth, get some sleep, first star to the right and straight on til morning.
Sunday, January 23, 2005
It`s a Small World
Question, just how small is this industry, animation, we work at? Those of you on the inside know just how very tiny it really is.
Why am I talking about this question today, I may ask me? Very small, says I. In the last 2 days I have been called on, not once but twice, to comment on and make decisions affecting a school that is now being run by someone I taught with some time back, someone who was an out and out jerk to me, someone who stepped on me on his way up to whatever small heights.
The first time, yesterday, I was asked if I thought this school, now run by jerk person in question, was a good school for a former student, later team teacher, and friend of mine to continue his education at?
The second time was when I had to decide today which schools would be offered student comps for the upcoming Annies.
Now the school in question that said person is now running was only marginal on the list at best and was only being considered at all because the animation program had been run at one time by a person that was a good friend to ASIFA in the past.
I tell my students to look around the classroom because if they stay in the industry these are some of the people they will be working with for the rest of their lives.
I still work with, hang out with, and stay in touch with Kevin Alteri, Steve Bissette, Craig Boldman, Dave Dorman, Tom Foxmarnick, Chris Kalnick, Karl Kesel, Ron Randall, Dave Schwartz, John Totleben, Tim Truman, Rick Veitch, Stan Woch, and Tom Yeates, some of the guys that I went to school with at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Human Sacrifice all those years ago in ninteen hundred and seventy nine.
You have got to wonder about a person that does not know this simple truth. How can someone run an animation program and not know that you can`t afford to make enemies in the industry? You might wonder also just what my response was on the two questions about said person`s program?
The guy that asked about the school, I told him the truth. He is a good friend. I told him about cheaper options with better networking contacts. I also told him that the program was run by a person that had been a jerk to me, but that didn`t make it a bad program.
The Annies student comps? Hey, I would have had to justify swinging tickets to this program in the first place. I`m sorry for the students but I am not going out on a limb for someone that was a jerk to me. (/END OF INDUSTRY LESSON)
Why am I talking about this question today, I may ask me? Very small, says I. In the last 2 days I have been called on, not once but twice, to comment on and make decisions affecting a school that is now being run by someone I taught with some time back, someone who was an out and out jerk to me, someone who stepped on me on his way up to whatever small heights.
The first time, yesterday, I was asked if I thought this school, now run by jerk person in question, was a good school for a former student, later team teacher, and friend of mine to continue his education at?
The second time was when I had to decide today which schools would be offered student comps for the upcoming Annies.
Now the school in question that said person is now running was only marginal on the list at best and was only being considered at all because the animation program had been run at one time by a person that was a good friend to ASIFA in the past.
I tell my students to look around the classroom because if they stay in the industry these are some of the people they will be working with for the rest of their lives.
I still work with, hang out with, and stay in touch with Kevin Alteri, Steve Bissette, Craig Boldman, Dave Dorman, Tom Foxmarnick, Chris Kalnick, Karl Kesel, Ron Randall, Dave Schwartz, John Totleben, Tim Truman, Rick Veitch, Stan Woch, and Tom Yeates, some of the guys that I went to school with at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Human Sacrifice all those years ago in ninteen hundred and seventy nine.
You have got to wonder about a person that does not know this simple truth. How can someone run an animation program and not know that you can`t afford to make enemies in the industry? You might wonder also just what my response was on the two questions about said person`s program?
The guy that asked about the school, I told him the truth. He is a good friend. I told him about cheaper options with better networking contacts. I also told him that the program was run by a person that had been a jerk to me, but that didn`t make it a bad program.
The Annies student comps? Hey, I would have had to justify swinging tickets to this program in the first place. I`m sorry for the students but I am not going out on a limb for someone that was a jerk to me. (/END OF INDUSTRY LESSON)
