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Larry Brody: Getting to Know the Thai Kaeng

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A rare calm moment from The Fantastic Friends Episode 1

by Larry Brody

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A typically tense moment from the newest version of the Sangre De Cristo teaser

As many of you already know, I’m a partner in a Thai animation studio start-up called Southeast Asia Animation. SEAA is the home of a group of Thai animators calling themselves the Thai Kaeng and their Big Boss, a 17 year old genius currently living in the leafy green state of Oregon.

In as short a logline as I, as SEAA’s Senior Advisor, can give it, Thai Kaeng Anime is a combination of new ideas and deliberately old school methodology geared to achieve two purposes – the entertainment and amusement of the audience and the fulfillment of its creators’ need to function as true artists.

In other words, the Thai Kaeng isn’t just sitting around drawing and writing, its using drawing and writing and all that to meditate and become one with the universe, while at the same time conjuring up the craziest, funniest, scariest, bloodiest stuff its members can get jammed into their brains from out there in the void. read article

2017 Writers Guild Awards Submissions Deadline

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The WGAW wants to remind us that its awards (and pretty much all other showbiz awards) go to the self-starters. If you did WGA covered work in TV, radio, and New Media, including any series covered by the WGA, it’s time to nominate yourself for one of the most coveted prizes in the Industry.

So, like the pic above says: read article

Peggy Bechko’s World Update

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Update on a Writer’s Journey
by Peggy Bechko

Autumn is coming to Santa Fe, where I live, and the flowers are bursting forth in a purple and yellow display that’s breathtaking. I can see them from my office window which makes my office an exceptionally nice place to work this time of year as the temperatures begin to cool.

It’s also a great time to take stock and figure out what’s coming next for this writer.  After all, we’re heading into winter – the traditional time for hibernation, and for writers the perfect time to curl up with a computer and really put out some great stories and more while the fire crackles on the hearth and the hot chocolate steams in the mug.

First and, these days, in the forefront is the Planet of the Eggs Comic series brought to you by The Egg Chronicles, that I co-create with creative partner Charlene Brash Sorensen. read article

Larry Brody’s Poetry: The Second Time I Saw The Stars Dancing

by Larry Brody

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Time now for a bit more about the dancing stars, which often strike me as Indian Country’s Great Gift to the rest of the world. Oh…and my companion in magic for so many – but nowhere near enough – years, the Navajo Dog:

The Second Time I Saw The Stars Dancing

The second time I saw the stars dancing read article

Classic TV – The Alfred Hitchcock, Um, Touch

The Master of Suspense (and Comic Timing)
The Master of Suspense (and Comic Timing)

by Doug Snauffer

I love Alfred Hitchcock Presents (and its later incarnation, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour), but I hate Hitchcock’s famous and oh-so-skillfully delivered epilogues.  Earlier this morning, for example, MeTV, a classic TV mini-network, aired one of the best hour-long episodes, “Ten Minutes From Now,” starring actor Donnelly Rhodes (Battlestar Galactica) as an unstable artist/bombing suspect.

The episode has a great hook at the end, which I won’t reveal. But afterwards Hitchcock made his customary closing comments in which he drolly offered a wrap-up to the story that basically ruined the wonderful, surprise ending that the episode’s writer and director had so skillfully crafted.

Hitchcock did this regularly, on an almost-weekly basis.  Viewers would tune in and watch in suspense, for example, as someone committed the perfect crime, only to have Hitchcock come on for his closing epilogue and reveal the man was stopped for speeding a mile down the road, broke down and confessed on the spot, and is now serving hard time. read article