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ALL OF THE GREAT AMERICAN WEST BLOG POSTS
All 26 Southwest USA Twofisted Touristing Posts Collected in One Spot OK, I can’t actually promise the full Great American West, that would basically be all of this: The area Ed and I toured August 2019, and from which the … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged American West, Antelope Canyon, Arizona, Bryce Canyon, Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Colorado River, Death Valley, Grand Canyon, Grand Staicase-Escalante, Hoover Dam, Horseshoe Bend, Lake Powell, Las Vegas, Meteor Crater, Monument Valley, Navajo, Nevada, North Rim, Petrified Forest, Rainbow Bridge, Red Rock, Sedona, South Rim, Utah, Valley of Fire, Walnut Canyon, Zion
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MONUMENT VALLEY
Our final magnificent stop of the Great American West Tour Ed and I took the summer of 2019 was Monument Valley on Navajo land right at the border of southeastern Utah and northeastern Arizona. Certainly saved one of the best … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Arizona, Artist's Point, Butte, Ear of the Wind, East Mitten, Great American West, Hogan, Hollywood, John Ford, John Wayne, Merrick, Monument Valley, Navajo, petroglyph, photography, selfie, Stagecoach, Sun's Eye, Totem Pole, Utah, West Mitten, Western, Yei Bi Chei
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AMERICAN FILMATIC ARTS AWARD(S?)
Maybe I should just say thank you and not ask awkward, pedantic questions? This past Friday I received this notification email regarding my short film “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre“: Dear Danny, CONGRATULATIONS! Your film submission has been chosen for … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Notes in the News
Tagged 2020, adaptation, American, arts, Awards, brooklyn, Covid, Edgar Allan Poe, Filmatic, Hakki Subentekin, musicabre, musical, short film, story, The Tell-Tale Heart, tongue twister
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Canyon de Chelly
The most famous feature of Canyon de Chelly is Spider Rock, a 750 feet (229 m) tall sandstone spire. So I will start this blog post with it, even though it is not the first thing visitors entering Canyon de Chelly … Continue reading
TELL-TALE LA WEEKEND
Watch (and vote for) “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” for Free this Weekend via the Los Angeles Television, Script and Film Festival This Saturday and Sunday, or more precisely from midnight EST Friday night through midnight PST Monday morning, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Notes in the News
Tagged Edgar Allan Poe, festival, film, free screening, LA, LATVSFF, Los Angeles, musicabre, musical, script, short film, television, The Tell-Tale Heart, vote
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SELFIE with ADAM
Friday I attended the live Adam Lambert concert. I missed out on his last concert appearance in New York because it sold out before I made it to the ticket website. But this time I got my ticket early. And … Continue reading
Posted in Live! On Stage, Melodies Linger On
Tagged Adam Lambert, all female band, concert, Covid 19, dancersize, internet connection, isolation, live, pandemic, Rock, selfie, stand-by, superpower
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The SOFIE Trophy
A big Fed Ex box got delivered today, and inside, carefully packaged, was our SOFIE Trophy, the award “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” won from The Short Film Awards last November. It’s rather big and has weight. And shines … Continue reading
ARIZONA VISTAS
Continuing our August 2019 tour of the American West, after we left the grounds near the Petrified Forest Visitor Center, we drove on into the Petrified Forest National Park, a large national park in Eastern Arizona, with more petrified trees, … Continue reading
TWO MORE TELL-TALE AWARDS
“The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” recently received two more awards from FESTIVAL ANGAELICA and the Spotlight Film Awards; and has been announced as an official selection at the LATVSFF & Fixion Film Festivals I’ll start with FESTIVAL ANGAELICA. As … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Notes in the News
Tagged adaptation, Angaelica, Award, Awards, Bronze, certificate, Chile, Edgar Allan Poe, Experimental, festival, film, Fixion, horror, Jury Award, LATVSFF, Los Angeles, medium-length, musicabre, musical, Santiago, script, short, short film, Spotlight, television, The Tell-Tale Heart
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Shifting Light
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin'
Tagged christmas cactus, ivory, lamp shade, light, lord of the dance, Nataraja, photography, saint george, shadow, statue, sunlight
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TELL-TALE at ANGAELICA
Watch Tell-Tale for Free at Festival Angaelica thru Dec 30 It’s a Tell-Tale holiday surprise! Thru December 30 you can watch my musical short film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic story “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” for free, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Notes in the News
Tagged Angaelica, december, Edgar Allan Poe, festival, Film Festival, free trial, Holiday, horror, musicabre, musical, short film, The Tell-Tale Heart, Vivien Martinez
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PETRIFIED FOREST
If a tree falls in a forest 200 million years ago, can you hear it? Well, no, you probably will not hear it. But if the tree is carried away by flood waters, and quickly submerged in silt… … it … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Arizona, desert, Edward Elder, forest, fossils, National Park, Petrified Forest, petrified log, photography, stone, trees
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THE ART IS ALIVE SESSIONS
A Tell-Tale Q&A and an Actor Panel This August I participated in several Zoom sessions with the Art is Alive Film Festival. I just received the recordings of two of them. First up is Art is Alive founder Cindy Mich … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Literary Lyricism, Live! On Stage, Musicabilia, Notes in the News
Tagged Acting, actor, Art is Alive, Cindy Mich, Covid, directing, Edgar Allan Poe, education, festival, film, filmmaking, Improvisation, Michael Gentile, musicabre, panel, Q&A, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, Wisconsin
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A TOWN OF TWO LUCYS
In the village of Celoron, part of the town of Ellicott, on the western boundary of the city of Jamestown, in Chautauqua County, in the state of New York, United States, a statue was erected in honor of Lucille Ball, … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Celoron, Chautauqua, Dave Poulin, Ellicott, Jamestown, Lake, lighthouse, Lucille Ball, Lucy, Mark & Jetta Wilson, memorial, New Lucy, New York, park, Scary Lucy, sculpture, statue, Vitameatavegamin
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FREE TELL-TALE SCREENING SUNDAY
“The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” will stream this Sunday, December 6, as part of the London International Motion Picture Awards free screenings of their nominated official selections on Films On Go TV. The L.I.M.P.A. will start showing films today. … Continue reading
