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2022 - 12 - 31

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5 Ways To Get Out Of Your Filmmaking Comfort Zone in 2023 | CineD (CineD)

Make your 2023 goal to try new experiments and workflows in your video production and see where the path takes you.

Or make a project entirely out of motion graphics, keep it to 15 seconds, and give it to your client to use on their social media. It’s important to always be learning new skills, trends and ways of doing things, and in video production it’s certainly essential to keeping up with the times, let alone growing as a creative. In addition, you might also be missing out on jobs where the client requires you to use a different NLE. Or if you don’t want to be too dramatic, just take less gear with you and focus on the story. What about forcing yourself to use only a COB light shot through a shower curtain for your documentary interviews? And of course you can experiment wildly with your own personal unpaid work, but if possible, try to fit experimentation into your paid work. And it’s very easy to fall into that trap over and over again. Lock it down and get a series of shots that tell the story with movement in-frame rather than with camera movement. Maybe you don’t think anamorphic is for you, or it doesn’t fit your client work, but you’ll never know until you try. And luckily there’s an entire world of tutorials and courses out there that are dedicated to helping you learn new skills and or production approaches. You can certainly set concrete goals, whether it’s business or personal goals, but that mindset can be limited to what you know today – your worldview, your current situation, your opportunities and what you think is possible next year. With video, no two projects are alike, and you have many frames to experiment with, so there’s really nothing stopping you from trying new tactics except for fear of failure, time, or motivation.

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'I've got to get out and tell people': Pete Buttigieg on his road ahead (The Guardian)

Can the US revitalise its infrastructure? Is the US ready for a gay president? And does Buttigieg still plan to run one day?

“And the ugly is you see a level of targeting going on for political convenience, in my view, driven by a lot of figures who don’t want to talk about their lack of solutions on other issues, that can really be costly and even physically dangerous for vulnerable communities right now. “It can be tough in a space – and Fox is an example – that tends to offer more coverage of some controversial angle around electric vehicles or racial justice than would offer any coverage of the thousands of specific projects that we’re investing in around the country. The bad news is it’s coming in a climate of rights being withdrawn at the US supreme court, including potentially more of the hard-won rights of the LGBTQ+ community. The secretary reflects: “To be sitting with Chasten and seeing the president make that into law was really moving and and reassuring. [happy to reap the benefits](https://democrats.org/news/dozens-of-republicans-who-opposed-the-bipartisan-infrastructure-law-want-projects-funded-by-it/). [Infrastructure](https://www.theguardian.com/business/infrastructure) is not like tax policy where, at the stroke of a pen, people feel results instantly. Road accidents kill about [40,000 people a year](https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/2020-traffic-crash-data-fatalities), comparable with gun violence and far worse than other countries; Buttigieg finds this unacceptable and hopes that self-driving cars might be part of the solution. It sounds a little bit cosmic but that really is part of what is on the table right now with our responsibility to deliver.” So after four years of chest thumping and big promises without results, this administration knew, this president knew, that it was long past time to do something and it turned out the public appetite was there, the deal space was there.” Buttigieg, who is unapologetically from the government and here to help, says: “The beginning of the Reagan era brought about a vicious cycle of public trust, where resources were stripped away from the government. [according to the World Economic Forum](https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_TheGlobalCompetitivenessReport2019.pdf). Buttigieg has gone from running a city of 100,000 people to a department whose budget is bigger than the gross domestic product of most countries.

Get the frog out (readthereporter.com)

By BRAD FISCHER Guest Columnist. Editor's Note: At 46, Brad Fischer, Brownsburg, was diagnosed with stage 4 gastric cancer. He was given one year to live.

I wasn’t certain the F word rhymed with “duck.” However, I was pretty sure the message was the same: she was wanting me to leave. After my cancer diagnosis, what I found surprising is how much I missed Monica’s classes – not just the physical benefits, but the emotional and mental boost. I assumed “get the frog out” was equal to “get the flip out” – a slightly softer and more playful way of asking me to exit. I just like the workout.” I kept my head down and made my way to the back of the room trying to be as stealth-like as possible. She pointed to the floor along the back wall. As I bent down to grab him, he took a giant leap forward, escaping my grasp. There were brief moments when we were all shuffling left and right to the music that I thought we must look like a bad MC Hammer music video. Our family schedule made it difficult for Tonya and me to return at the same time. We went from stretches, to squats, bicep lunges, tricep kickbacks, lateral shoulder raises, and a host of other moves I was learning for the first time. I was huffing and puffing and could feel my muscles aching, begging me to quit. I was expecting other women to be there. Scaramouch columnist Scott Saalman read the book over the holiday break, loved it, and wanted to give it the spotlight it deserves.

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Here's an idea for 2023: It's time to get out of the house (The Mercury News)

With the new year starting, it's a great time to explore museums, restaurants, parks and theaters in Silicon Valley.

Try the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose or the New Museum in Los Gatos. Make a plan to visit the mineral springs at Alum Rock Park, stroll by the Stanford Dish or hit the 342 miles of hiking trails at So whether you’re in the office or at home, how about taking one day a week to go out to lunch? Santa Clara has the Triton Museum and the de Saisset at Santa Clara University. The Cantor Museum of Art at Stanford is a gem, as is the Euphrat Museum at De Anza College in Cupertino. TAKE IN A SHOW: Performing arts organizations are still struggling with small audiences as they try to stay open and keep actors, musicians and behind-the-scenes tech workers on the job.

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Here's an idea for 2023: It's time to get out of the house (The Mercury News)

With the new year starting, it's a great time to explore museums, restaurants, parks and theaters in Silicon Valley.

Try the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose or the New Museum in Los Gatos. Make a plan to visit the mineral springs at Alum Rock Park, stroll by the Stanford Dish or hit the 342 miles of hiking trails at So whether you’re in the office or at home, how about taking one day a week to go out to lunch? Santa Clara has the Triton Museum and the de Saisset at Santa Clara University. The Cantor Museum of Art at Stanford is a gem, as is the Euphrat Museum at De Anza College in Cupertino. TAKE IN A SHOW: Performing arts organizations are still struggling with small audiences as they try to stay open and keep actors, musicians and behind-the-scenes tech workers on the job.

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GET OUT — Best Bets for the Weekend template (Oct. 20-22) (copy) (The Courier-Express)

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