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TORONTO - Academy Award-winning director Torill Kove is among the top Canadian talents unspooling short films at the Toronto International Film Festival.
A whopping total of 108 shorts will screen at the annual movie marathon when it opens next week. Of those, 42 will be featured in Short Cuts Canada, the festival's annual celebration of homegrown filmmakers.
Kove's "Me and My Moulton," loosely based on her childhood in 1960s Norway, is poised to be a standout. The brightly coloured animation follows a seven-year-old girl and her sisters, who desperately want their parents to buy them a bicycle.
The young protagonist struggles with the sense that her family is somehow different from others — a feeling that Kove herself grappled with growing up.
"The truth is that there wasn't anything that different. We were a pretty average Norwegian family," she said in an interview.
"My mom worked. She had a full-time job. This was in the 1960s and in my neighbourhood there weren't that many women like that. That was different. And my dad had a moustache, that was probably the biggest thing."
Kove, who has been based in Montreal since 1982, won an Academy Award in 2007 for "The Danish Poet." The short animated flick, like "Me and My Moulton," was co-produced by the National Film Board and Norway's Mikrofilm AS.
She said "Me and My Moulton" is about how children keep things to themselves and don't know how to communicate their feelings. The little girl feels so much anxiety and embarrassment that she gets a stomachache.
"It isn't something that just happens to kids. I think it's something that keeps happening as you grow older," said Kove.
"You still have things that occupy you that you have to deal with — whether it's too hurtful for you to talk about or too shameful or potentially destructive to the relationships that you have around you."
Other buzzed-about Canadian titles include Norman McLaren's newly-restored 1951 short "Around is Around," the first stereoscopic animated film ever made, and Toronto filmmaker Sol Friedman's "Day 40," a retelling of the Noah's Ark story that sees the animals discovering the darker side of their nature.
Some short films are based on existing work, like Michelle Latimer's "The Underground," adapted from the bestselling novel "Cockroach" by Rawi Hage. The film follows an Iranian refugee who experiences North American life by imagining himself as a cockroach, the only creature that will survive after the apocalypse.
Festival programmer Alexander Rogalski said more shorts are exploring science fiction this year, such as "Entangled," from "Orphan Black" writer Tony Elliott. The 15-minute film is about a scientist who alters reality after launching a secret experiment to find out what happened to her brain-dead partner.
"It's an exciting sort of glimpse into the writer's mind. He's come up with one of the most innovative science fiction stories of recent memory," said Rogalski.
He and fellow programmer Magali Simard pored over a staggering 841 entries — 200 more than last year — to select the flicks featured in Short Cuts Canada.
"I think more people are watching short films than ever before, and that's encouraged people to make work, knowing that it will find an audience," said Rogalski. "At TIFF, we've really championed those Canadian short films for so many years and we've seen our audiences and fan bases grow."
Other noteworthy Canadian shorts include Slater Jewell-Kemker's "Still," about a girl who discovers duplicates of herself and her abusive boyfriend, and Rob Grant's "What Doesn't Kill You," about high school seniors who discover they can reappear completely healed after a horrific car crash.
As for shorts from outside Canada headed to the fest, the inaugural Short Cuts International program features works from filmmakers representing 29 countries.
"Here is the Concatenation," a new 30-minute film from acclaimed French director Claire Denis, is among the most anticipated. With just two actors and no sets, it explores a strained relationship with a focus on language and race.
From Matthu Placek, "130919: A Portrait of Marina Abramovic" captures in 3D a special performance of the legendary artist, while Frank Ternier's "8 Bullets" is a feverish mixed-media animation about a French expat in Taipei who tracks down the man he believes is responsible for the death of his family.
Clement Trehin-Lalanne's "Aissa" follows a Congolese girl residing illegally on French territory who must undergo a physical examination. In "A Ceremony for a Friend," by Kaveh Ebrahimpour, a group of friends in Iran resolve to hang their comrade Monsour but allow him first to make a few final requests.
Calgary-born director Randall Okita has screened a couple of shorts at the fest before and this year will present his film "The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer," produced by the National Film Board. The 10-minute tale about two brothers who view their shared history in very different ways — both bearing deep internal scars — uses a mixture of live-action and animation to create a haunting visual style. Almost all of the faces are removed and the film instead focuses on shapes, silhouettes and layers to depict what's happening internally with the characters. The 35-year-old director plays a role in the film with his face erased.
"I think you want to put yourself at the centre of your work, literally and metaphorically, and if you're going to have to be angry at someone for making mistakes on screen, it might as well be you," said Okita.
He praised the Toronto festival for inspiring and supporting young filmmakers.
"When you look around at the Canadian filmmakers that have grown up going to the festival, being inspired by the films shown at the festival, I feel like it's a delicate balance to keep growing things internally as well as bringing people from around the world," he said. "I think they've done a good job of balancing the inspiration with the hoopla and the business side of things."
The Toronto International Film Festival runs Sept. 4 to 14.
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Bridge? The GOP LOSERship knows how to build a bridge?
Excuse me — the GOP establishment can't articulate their way out of a wet paper bag on anything requiring a clear concise consistent message. When the GOP dinosaurs become extinct, perhaps then something can happen.
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I don't want the partisan divide to be breached. As long as the progressive democrats are committed and energized by their un-American, anti-American ideology they need to be forcefully opposed.
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Says the person with DZ in his avatar?
Most players have been equally as bad. Any player voicing their twitter rants in an attempt to win over the fans hasn't gone about the process the right way. Posting facts is one thing; opinions another.
DZ has been a violator and problem on Twitter since long before the lockout - hence the reason Torts had big issues with his maturity and still does.
The younger players do tend to post more (since the technology is more in their time frame), and therefore tend to ***** more.
The fact of the matter is this: any instance of an NHL player comparing this to real life is blasphemy. There is no comparison. Not one. Even a floater making NHL's entry-level pay at roughly $500,000 makes more money than the average
does in the U.S. in
years or more.
There is not ONE comparison for families struggling to pay bills, struggling with foreclosure, struggling with credit, trying to feed their kids and much more then an NHL'er playing a child's game and making God-like money. There is no disputing this.
By the way: the fans are the ones responsible for everyone involved in these labor negotiations salaries. The same fans who struggle daily put forth a small percentage of their money each to enjoy the sport that's a graceful part of life throughout our short time here. When added up, all these small percentages of money from low-income families add up to the massive salaries responsible for the overindulgence by very talented people playing a child's game. Therefore, there is
not one suitable explanation for lockouts and labor negotiation issues
haha, I pointed out that I may be biased toward DZ so no need to point that out again
He had two tweets on this
"Surprise surprise"
It's immature and he could have done without it but honestly, a complaint like that isn't ignorant or deluded and doesn't deliver a sense of self-entitlement. We all know DZ tends to be cocky and a bit immature but I didn't mind that excessively.
The other one was along the lines of "We clearly don't have a partner in negotiations....." That one showed a different kind of immaturity. Perhaps I should say it's the LACK OF maturity to voice an opinion like that.
Those two tweets are not too overbearing imo. He's also been quiet since he started playing in Europe.
Rupper's tweets are more aggressive toward the league and much more self-entitled. There was much more pull on the fans as well as creating tension between the two sides for the sake of it.
If you read my posts earlier on what I thought of how much players made, I'm definitely not ignorant of the fact that they shouldn't complain especially to the general public and fans who are in the middle class.
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The War Party Bares Its Fangs on Iran
The Iran Regime Change Act of 2015
March 29, 2015 – When it comes to the Iranian nuclear program, the United States is rapidly approaching a point of no return. The P5+1 talks are coming down to the wire even as the participants express cautious optimism that a deal could be inked as soon as Sunday. But if the negotiations in Geneva fail or if their opponents in Congress succeed in blowing them up, leaders of both U.S. political parties will have to quickly come up with a plan B to prevent Tehran from building a nuclear device.
To put it another way, all those who have sought to sabotage an agreement will have to put up or shut up. The Congressional Republicans who invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to torpedo the Iranian talks, the 47 GOP Senators who wrote the leadership of the Islamic Republic threatening to block sanctions relief for Tehran, the 367 House members who penned a similar letter to President Obama, the bipartisan supporters of the Corker-Menendez bill and virtually the entire 2016 Republican presidential field will have to put their money where their mouths are.
And the amount of that money could be as much as $2 trillion over a decade. Thousands of U.S servicemen and women, as well as American civilians, could be the casualties of a conflict that might well spread beyond the region. To ensure that Iran can never develop nuclear weapons, that's the possible price tag in blood and treasure for an American invasion and occupation of Iran that would require "a commitment of resources and personnel greater than what the U.S. has expended over the past 10 years in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined."
Perhaps President Obama's foes on both sides of the aisle would like to bring that package up for a vote in Congress. Call it the "Iran Regime Change Act of 2015."
Of course, you'd never know about any of these risks listening to those who casually chant, "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran." (Continued)
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New York Times Magazine
March 25, 2015 – If you happen to be looking for your morning coffee near Golden Gate Park and the bright red storefront of the Arizmendi Bakery attracts your attention, congratulations. You have found what the readers of The San Francisco Bay Guardian, a local alt-weekly, deem the city's best bakery.
But it has another, less obvious, distinction. Of the $3.50 you hand over for a latte (plus $2.75 for the signature sourdough croissant), not one penny ends up in the hands of a faraway investor. Nothing goes to anyone who might be tempted to sell out to a larger bakery chain or shutter the business if its quarterly sales lag.
Instead, your money will go more or less directly to its 20-odd bakers, who each make $24 an hour — more than double the national median wage for bakers. On top of that, they get health insurance, paid vacation and a share of the profits. "It's not luxury, but I can sort of afford living in San Francisco," says Edhi Rotandi, a baker at Arizmendi. He works four days a week and spends the other days with his 2-year-old son.
Arizmendi and its five sister bakeries in the Bay Area are worker-owned cooperatives, an age-old business model that has lately attracted renewed interest as a possible antidote to some of our most persistent economic ills. Most co-ops in the U.S. are smaller than Arizmendi, with around a dozen employees, but the largest, Cooperative Home Care Associates in the Bronx, has about 2,000. That's hardly the organizational structure's upper limit. In fact, Arizmendi was named for a Spanish priest and labor organizer in Basque country, José María Arizmendiarrieta. He founded what eventually became the Mondragon Corporation, now one of the region's biggest employers, with more than 60,000 members and 14 billion euro in revenue. And it's still a co-op.
In a worker co-op, the workers own the business and decide what to do with the profits (as opposed to consumer co-ops, which are typically stores owned by members who shop at a discount). Historically, worker co-ops have held the most appeal when things seem most perilous for laborers. The present is no exception. And yet, despite their ability to empower workers, co-ops remain largely relegated to boutique status in the United States. (Continued)
The Christian Right Still dominates the GOP — Is There Any End in Sight?
By Amanda Marcotte
Progressive America Rising via AlterNet
March 18, 2015 – In a recent interview on Fox, Christian right writer [3] James Robison went off on a rant about how Christian conservatives need to take over the government: "There are only 500 of you," Robison said of Congress. "We can get rid of the whole bunch in one smooth swoop and we can really reroute the whole ship!"
He added that this takeover would cause "demons to shudder" and the "gates of hell to tremble," but what was really delusional about it was the idea that Congress is somehow devoid of Christians. In reality, 92% of Congress people identify [4] as Christian. More to the point, nearly every Republican, regardless of their sincerity in saying so, aligns with conservative Christianity, whether Catholic or Protestant, an affiliation reflected in their policy preferences. (One solitary Republican is Jewish.) The Christian right might not own all 535 members of Congress, but with Republicans in the majority, the Christian right is also in the majority.
And yet, as New York Times writer Jason Horowitz explained in a recent profile piece about evangelical organizer David Lane, Lane feels quite similarly: "For Mr. Lane, a onetime Bible salesman and self-described former "wild man," connecting the pastors with two likely presidential candidates was more than a good day's work. It was part of what he sees as his mission, which is to make evangelical Christians a decisive power in the Republican Party."
Say what, said any reader who has cracked a newspaper, the New York Times or otherwise, in the past four decades. Making the Republican Party beholden to the Christian right is like making the sky blue or making cats stubborn. Can you really make something be what it already is?
That the evangelical right already controls the GOP shouldn't really be in dispute. Not only do the Republicans do exactly as the Christian right tells them on every social issue, such as reproductive rights or gay rights, but Republicans also pay fealty to the Christian right by targeting Muslim countries with their hawkish posturing or using [5] Christian language to rationalize slashing the social safety net. If you were trying to come up with a quick-and-dirty description of the Republican Party, "coalition of corporate and patriarchal religious interests" would be it. (Continued)
We're Spending Billions to Support the Most Corrupt, Abusive Arm of Law Enforcement
By Susan Grigsby
Daily Kos via Alternet
March 15, 2015
These guys are scary.
In March 2014, three women from Honduras—a mother, her 14-year-old daughter and another teenage girl—crossed the Rio Grande near Abram, Texas. According to Garrett Graff's [3] article in Politico Magazine, they surrendered to U.S. Custom and Border Protection (CBP) agent Esteban Manzanares of the Border Patrol. Instead of taking them to the holding area in McAllen, Texas, Manzanares put them in the back of his patrol vehicle and drove around for a couple of hours.
Then he stopped his truck in a wooded area. He raped both the mother and the daughter. He slit the mother's wrists and tried to break the daughter's neck, leaving them for dead in the brush.
He drove off with the third woman bound in his green-and-white heavy-duty Border Patrol truck with a red-and-blue light bar on top, a Department of Homeland Security logo on the door and a U.S. flag on the hood. Somewhere out in the borderlands, the agent left his third prisoner hidden, bound with duct tape.
At the end of his shift, he went back for the girl, took her to his apartment where he raped her. Meanwhile, one of his earlier victims, still alive, had stumbled across the field of a surveillance camera and Border Patrol agents were sent to pick her up. Questioning the two victims led the agents to suspect that a CBP officer was involved and they called the local FBI office. Finding duct tape and blood in Esteban Manzanares' service vehicle, the FBI agents headed to his apartment. There, Manzanares shot himself after the FBI knocked on his door and identified themselves as federal officers. The girl was found in his apartment, alive, naked and bound to a chair.
Border Patrol Agents conduct an operations check on a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle on the South Texas border.
Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle. To protect against a secret flood of IEDs on the border?
After an internal bureaucratic struggle that forced him to turn to the secretary of the DHS, the new U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) [4] director, Gil Kerlikowske, issued a statement [5] that said, in part:
I want you to know that I consider these actions, if true, to be reprehensible and I know they are not representative of the agents of the U.S. Border Patrol. … I am deeply sorry that this incident occurred and am committed to doing everything in my power to prevent incidents like this from occurring again.
There are two things of note about this story. One is that Esteban Manzanares was already under suspicion [6] for allowing two border violators to go free, but the backlog of misconduct allegations at the inspector general's office was so great that he was allowed to remain on duty until an investigation could be done. (Continued)
Obama Absurdly Declares Venezuela a Security Threat
Channeling Reagan, Obama continues US pressure on Latin American leftist governments
by Mark Weisbrot
March 10, 2015 – Yesterday the White House took a new step toward the theater of the absurd by "declaring a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation in Venezuela," as President Barack Obama put it in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner.
It remains to be seen whether anyone in the White House press corps will have the courage to ask what in the world the nation's chief executive could mean by that. Is Venezuela financing a coming terrorist attack on U.S. territory? Planning an invasion? Building a nuclear weapon?
Who do they think they are kidding? Some may say that the language is just there because it is necessary under U.S. law in order to impose the latest round of sanctions on Venezuela. That is not much of a defense, telling the whole world the rule of law in the United States is something the president can use lies to get around whenever he finds it inconvenient.
That was the approach of President Ronald Reagan in 1985 when he made a similar declaration in order to impose sanctions — including an economic embargo — on Nicaragua. Like the White House today, he was trying to topple an elected government that Washington didn't like. He was able to use paramilitary and terrorist violence as well as an embargo in a successful effort to destroy the Nicaraguan economy and ultimately overturn its government. (The Sandinistas eventually returned to power in 2007 and are the governing party today.)
The world has moved forward, even though Washington has not. Venezuela today has very strong backing from its neighbors against what almost every government in the region sees as an attempt to destabilize the country.
"The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) reiterates its strong repudiation of the application of unilateral coercive measures that are contrary to international law," read a statement from every country in the hemisphere except for the U.S. and Canada on Feb. 11. They were responding to the U.S. sanctions against Venezuela that Obama signed into law in December.
Didn't read any of this in the English-language media? Well, you probably also didn't see the immediate reaction to yesterday's White House blunder from the head of the Union of South American Nations, which read, "UNASUR rejects any external or internal attempt at interference that seeks to disrupt the democratic process in Venezuela." (Continued)
2016's Untold Story: How The Election Could Bring A New Wave Of Progressive Warriors
While the presidential contest consumes much of our attention, down-ballot races could power a liberal revival
By Luke Brinker
Progressive America Rising via Salon.com
March 10, 2015 – As America marches inexorably toward a presidential election that will almost certainly feature another Clinton, possibly pitted against yet another Bush, a sense of resignation and fatalism has taken hold among many observers on both the progressive left and the anti-establishment right.
While Jeb and Hillary would trade barbs on such perennial wedges issues as abortion and same-sex marriage, and Clinton may be more supportive than Bush of what passes for a social safety net in this country — just don't mind that bit about ending welfare as we knew it, and try not to focus on that pesky vote for bankruptcy "reform" — neither Wall Street-friendly candidate poses a threat to the plutocratic powers that be. Indeed, the masters of the universe can't quite decide which of the two they'd prefer to see elected. Either way, they rest assured, they win.
Dispiriting as the coming national contest can be, however, it should not obscure one of the less-discussed dynamics of the 2016 elections: Across the country, a crop of unapologetically progressive candidates promises to infuse a new populist energy into the fight for the U.S. Senate, and may well transform the terms of debate within a Democratic Party that has spent the better part of the past three decades reconciling itself to the Reagan Revolution and embracing neoliberalism.
Rep. Donna Edwards (D-The Elizabeth Warren Wing) is the latest progressive to toss her hat into the Senate ring, announcing today that she will seek the seat being vacated by Maryland Democrat Barbara Mikulski. Though she has served in Congress for six years now, Edwards is fundamentally an insurgent: The community activist won her seat after toppling a hawkish, centrist incumbent in the Democratic primary, and as a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Populist Caucus, she's been at the forefront of the effort to move the Democrats leftward on issues like austerity, a living wage, foreign policy, and civil liberties. Befitting her congressional service, Edwards plans to run as an unabashed progressive populist.
"The corporate interests are gonna come at me with all their money," Edwards tells voters in her announcement video. "But if you'll join me in this fight there's no way we can't win. and when I step into Barbara Mikulski's shoes as your next senator, you'll always know where I stand — with you."
Edwards won't enjoy a clear Democratic field: Fellow Rep. Chris Van Hollen has already launched his bid for Mikulski's seat, and he has secured the backing of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid.
Though Van Hollen has put forth some worthy proposals on economic issues, he's hardly the most progressive nominee Democrats could field in a race their candidate is almost certain to win: Liberals haven't forgotten, for instance, that he backed the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction framework, which would have cut Social Security benefits. Edwards, by contrast, supports Sen. Warren's proposal to expand the program. The congresswoman has also staked out more civil libertarian positions than Van Hollen; whereas she supported the Amash-Conyers amendment to overhaul the National Security Agency's surveillance practices, Van Hollen voted against it.
While the Edwards-Van Hollen contest sets up a potentially epic clash, former Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold is unlikely to face any serious Democratic challengers as he vies to reclaim his old job next year. Feingold recently stepped down from his role as an African envoy for the State Department, stoking speculation that he'll seek a rematch with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), the man who ousted him in the 2010 Tea Party wave election. The former senator has done nothing to discourage such speculation, pointedly referring to his "once, current, and I hope future chief of staff" in his final State Department speech and planning a "listening tour" of his state.
Feingold's return would mark a particularly sweet victory for progressives, whose 2010 defeat ranked among the most devastating blows for Democratic liberals. (Continued)
A Rebuttal to Cleveland PD's Infuriating Excuses on Why They Killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice
By Shaun King
March 2, 2015 – Last known photo of Tamir Rice before he was killed by Cleveland PD. Taken just a few weeks before his murder.
Do you see the picture above of Tamir Rice? Please take a good look at it. Look at his eyes, his smile, his boyish manner. It was the last-known photo taken of Tamir just weeks before he was shot and killed by police on November 22, 2014.
Hanging out and having fun in the park near his home in Cleveland, Ohio, Tamir Rice broke no laws that day. A 12-year-old sixth grader, Tamir, according to his teacher, was on the drum line of the band, loved sports, and enjoyed drawing. He was the baby boy of Samaria Rice, had never been in any trouble with the law or his school, and he loved life.
Shot and killed by an officer who was dismissed from his previous police force for lying, mishandling his gun, and weeping uncontrollably during his gun training, Tamir is now being blamed for his own death by the city of Cleveland and called a "menacing" man child by the Cleveland Police Union.
Can I keep it all the way real? Call me dumb, but I just didn't see this coming. I know ripping apart victims of police violence is the modus operandi of the police, but seeing them do it with a child is despicably low, unethical, and unnecessary.
Speaking about Tamir last week, the man chosen by the Cleveland Police to represent them to the public, Steve Loomis, stooped to a new low:
"Tamir Rice is in the wrong," he said. "He's menacing. He's 5-feet-7, 191 pounds. He wasn't that little kid you're seeing in pictures. He's a 12-year-old in an adult body. Tamir looks to his left and sees a police car. He puts his gun in his waistband. Those people—99 percent of the time those people run away from us. We don't want him running into the rec center. That could be a whole other set of really bad events. They're trying to flush him into the field. Frank [the driver] is expecting the kid to run. The circumstances are so fluid and unique. …
"The guy with the gun is not running. He's walking toward us. He's squaring off with Cleveland police and he has a gun. Loehmann is thinking, 'Oh my God, he's pulling it out of his waistband.'"
While a real part of me feels dirty for even responding to Steve Loomis—it's not as if he's some random racist—he is the official representative for the police and what he thinks and says matters. Police voluntarily pay this man to be their mouthpiece.
First off, Tamir absolutely is the boy we see in the photos. We're not going back in time and showing photos of Tamir as a toddler, but we're going back to the month before he was killed. That's a boy. He has fat cheeks. His skin is as smooth (and hairless) as a baby's butt. His eyes have an innocence that most of us lost decades ago. They look like an episode of SpongeBob and a slam dunk from Lebron would take all of his troubles away.
We must refuse to allow Steve Loomis or anyone else to make Tamir into a man, a man-child, or a kid in a man's body—he was none of these things. He was a sweet, fun, playful son, brother, student, and friend. In the four weeks after the above photo of him was taken, he didn't morph into a goatee-having, tattoo-toting, musclebound man. He looked just like he did in this photo.
Secondly, Loomis called Tamir "menacing." Since when did anyone, including a man who is 5'7" become menacing? This is not even the average height for an American man, but is short. Both officers who pulled up on Tamir and Steve Loomis himself are several inches taller than this child. At quick glance, Loomis appears to be a huge man and the notion that he would find Tamir "menacing" is preposterous. Furthermore, the word "menace" has so many loaded connotations that just don't apply to Tamir. He was a boy playing at a park. (Continued)
How Class Struggle Emerges Under the Democratic Tent
Centrist Dems Ready Strike against Warren Wing
By Kevin Cirilli
Progressive America Rising via The Hill
March 2, 2013 – Centrist Democrats are gathering their forces to fight back against the "Elizabeth Warren wing" of their party, fearing a sharp turn to the left could prove disastrous in the 2016 elections.
For months, moderate Democrats have kept silent as Sen. Warren's (D-Mass.) barbed attacks against Wall Street, income inequality and the "rigged economy" thrilled the base and stirred desire for a more populist approach.
But with the race for the White House set to begin, centrists are moving to seize back the agenda.
The New Democrat Coalition (NDC), a caucus of moderate Democrats in the House, plans to unveil an economic policy platform as soon as this week in an attempt to chart a different course.
"I have great respect for Sen. Warren — she's a tremendous leader," said Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.), one of the members working on the policy proposal. "My own preference is to create a message without bashing businesses or workers, [the latter of which] happens on the other side."
Peters said that if Democrats are going to win back the House and Senate, "it's going to be through the work of the New Democrat Coalition."
"To the extent that Republicans beat up on workers and Democrats beat up on employers — I'm not sure that offers voters much of a vision," Peters said.
Warren's rapid ascent has highlighted growing tensions in the Democratic Party about its identity in the post-Obama era.
Caught in the crossfire is the party's likely nominee in 2016, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose husband took the party in a decisively centrist direction during his eight years in office. (Continued)
End the Embargo of Cuba Now – A Forum and Discussion
Ariel Hernandez, first secretary to Cuba's UN Mission, with Bob Guild and Luis Matos
By Pat Fry
The Metro NY CCDS organized and co-sponsored a panel presentation February 19th at Local1199 SEIU in mid-town Manhattan on the breakthrough in U.S. policy toward Cuba and what it will take to end the five and a half decades-long embargo of Cuba. Co-sponsors were the Local 1199 SEIU Latin American and Caribbean Democracy Committee and the World Organization for the Right of the People
to Health Care (WORPHC).
Long time Cuba solidarity activist, Bob Guild, Vice President of the NJ-based travel agency Marazul that has organized educational trips to Cuba for many years, spoke of the new travel regulations announced by the Obama Administration.
"The changes are significant for the right of the U.S. people to travel to Cuba," said Guild. He explained that any group can now sponsor a trip to Cuba – unions, neighborhood organizations, the PTA and not have to apply for a license to do so. From the point of view of U.S. State Department, said Guild,they are encouraging travel because they believe it will undermine the Cuban government and its political system. "We are not emissaries of the U.S. State Department," Guild said.
He spoke of the attacks on many who have advocated against the U.S. ban on travel over many years, including bombings of Marazul Tours and Local 1199's union hall that injured a maintenance worker, and the 1979assassination of Cuban American Carlos Muniz, a leading solidarity activist with the Antonio Maceo Brigade. The policy change is a victory for the Cuban people because the U.S. was forced to recognize the legitimacy of the Cuban state, he said.
Ariel Hernandez, First Secretary of the Republic of Cuba to the UN Mission, said "The blockade of Cuba continues and the U.S. policy of 'regime change' in Cuba has not abated." One way in which this is playing out is the attempt by the U.S. to ease import/export restrictions for the private sector in Cuba and not for publicly-owned restaurants and hotels. Hernandez said that the private sector in Cuba has some of the strongest pro-government people in the country. "Cuba will never accept any U.S. interference in our internal affairs," he said.
Negotiations on many issues including telecommunications and internet, will continue the week of February 23, he said. "We are optimistic in the process. We are very strong in our position of sovereignty."
Luis Matos of the Local 1199 SEIU Latin American and Caribbean Democracy Committee and the World Organization for the Right of the People to Health Care (WORPHC) spoke of the importance of educational trips to Cuba. The WORPHC has been organizing trips to Cuba for 30 years mainly among health care workers and rank and file union members. Matos stressed the importance of educational trips to Cuba in order for people to learn of the Cuban system of health care, Cuban life and society.
Muata Greene, a retired EMT medic in NYC, works with the WORPHC in organizing trips. He said "Cuba is a great example of the right of the people to health care. The people that go to Cuba are taking the message back to the U.S. – single payer health care for the U.S.," said Greene.
Among the 60 people attending were many activists in Cuba solidarity work, including Leslie Cagan who headed the Cuba Information Project in the 1990s, Gail Walker of Pastors for Peace/IFCO, Ike Naheem and Jaime Mendieta of the July 26th Coalition. Anne Mitchell of CCDS chaired the panel and welcomed everyone on behalf of the three sponsoring organizations.
In discussion of next steps to end the embargo, Pat Fry reported on the lobby efforts in Congress, spearheaded by the Latin American Working Group. The LAWG has an online petition in support of legislation to lift the travel ban (S. 299 and H.R. 664). The identical bills are bi-partisan but the lobby focus is aimed at Republicans before more Democrats sign on. A bill to lift trade restrictions was
also introduced in Congress but with less support at this time.
At the conclusion of the forum, there was consensus on a proposal to build a network to:
1) Share information and build support for "End the Travel Ban" legislation, including circulating the LAWG online petition at http://www.lawg.org/action-center/78-end-the-travel-ban-on-cuba/1407-tell-congress-its-time-to-end-the-embargo
2) Initiate a petition to completely bring an end to the embargo of Cuba and repeal the Helms-Burton law that enforces all aspects of the U.S. embargo.
3) Share information about educational trips to Cuba and build participation to encourage as many as possible to go to Cuba and learn first-hand the Cuban socialist project.
The US is Heading Into a Heavily Militarized Future
By Tom Englehardt
Beaver County Peace Links via TomDispatch
Feb 17, 2015 – I never fail to be amazed — and that's undoubtedly my failing. I mean, if you retain a capacity for wonder you can still be awed by a sunset, but should you really be shocked that the sun is once again sinking in the west? Maybe not.
The occasion for such reflections: machine guns in my hometown. To be specific, several weeks ago, New York Police Commissioner William J. Bratton announced the formation of a new 350-officer Special Response Group (SRG). Keep in mind that New York City already has a police force of more than 34,000 — bigger, that is, than the active militaries of Austria, Bulgaria, Chad, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kenya, Laos, Switzerland, or Zimbabwe — as well as its own "navy," including six submersible drones.
Just another drop in an ocean of blue, the SRG will nonetheless be a squad for our times, trained in what Bratton referred to as "advanced disorder control and counterterror." It will also, he announced, be equipped with "extra heavy protective gear, with the long rifles and machine guns — unfortunately sometimes necessary in these instances." And here's where he created a little controversy in my hometown. The squad would, Bratton added, be "designed for dealing with events like our recent protests or incidents like Mumbai or what just happened in Paris."
Now, that was an embarrassment in liberal New York. By mixing the recent demonstrations over the police killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and others into the same sentence with the assault on Mumbai and the Charlie Hebdo affair in France, he seemed to be equating civil protest in the Big Apple with acts of terrorism. Perhaps you won't be surprised then that the very next day the police department started walking back the idea that the unit would be toting its machine guns not just to possible terror incidents but to local protests. A day later, Bratton himself walked his comments back even further. ("I may have in my remarks or in your interpretation of my remarks confused you or confused the issue.") Now, it seems there will be two separate units, the SRG for counterterror patrols and a different, assumedly machine-gun-less crew for protests.
Here was what, like the sun going down in the west, shouldn't have shocked me but did: no one thought there was any need to walk back the arming of the New York Police Department with machine guns for whatever reasons. The retention of such weaponry should, of course, have been the last thing to shock any American in 2015. After all, the up-armoring and militarization of the police has been an ongoing phenomenon since 9/11, even if it only received real media attention after the police, looking like an army of occupation, rolled onto the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, in response to protests over the killing of Michael Brown.
In fact, the Pentagon (and the Department of Homeland Security) had already shunted $5.1 billion worth of military equipment, much of it directly from the country's distant battlefields — assault rifles, land-mine detectors, grenade launchers, and 94,000 of those machine guns — to local police departments around the country. Take, for example, the various tank-like, heavily armored vehicles that have now become commonplace for police departments to possess. (Ferguson, for instance, had a "Bearcat," widely featured in coverage of protests there.)
Since 2013, the Pentagon has transferred for free more than 600 mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles, or MRAPs, worth at least half a million dollars each and previously used in U.S. war zones, to various "qualified law enforcement agencies." Police departments in rural areas like Walsh County, North Dakota (pop. 11,000) now have their own MRAPs, as does the campus police department at Ohio State University. It hardly matters that these monster vehicles have few uses in a country where neither ambushes nor roadside bombs are a part of everyday life. (Continued)


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Excuse Me…. Your Feet are Filthy.
"Black socks, they never get dirty,
The longer you wear them the blacker they get!
Someday, I'll probably launder them,
Something keeps telling me don't do it yet…not yet… not yet….not yet….not yet!
Admit it – you miss summer camp sometimes! Anyhoo, this week, the incomparable Ray Pierce gave the internet a GREAT reminder:
If you're an acrobat or aerialist on stage, your feet need to be clean!!!!!!
Now, I'll be the first to tell you: I have absolutely looked down in horror mid act and realized that I was on stage in front of thousands of people with dirty feet. They were clean when I walked out on stage (I swear!), but after the walk between the wings and my trapeze, it looked like I had walked through Mount Vesuvius. *face palm*
Keeping Your Feet Clean in Circus – A Primer
- Keep a packet of baby wipes in the wings. If you need to go out barefoot, give them a quick wipe-down before you head out.
- If the stage is filthy (and in some cases, particularly abroad, it may be), ask if the stage can be mopped down prior to the show (be willing to do it yourself if you have to). Not possible? Wear your shoes to and from your apparatus, get carried out gracefully by a beef-cakey hand balancer, etc. Whatever you've got to do!
- When performing in a sawdust ring, have an easy-to-slip-on/off pair of shoes that you can wear on stage, slip off to do your act, and jump back in at the end (** make sure you don't need your hands to do this!!!!). I have a little black pair of crocs – NOT the clog kind – that work nicely for this.
- Consider performing in shoes! If it's just not practical for your act, fuggitaboudit. But many performers wear tan jazz or dance shoes while they work.
- Make sure your pedicure is intact! Many companies prefer no polish at all for just this reason.
Thanks, Ray, for a great reminder! May your feet be fresh (and clean) as daisies! Dare to imagine, Laura
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I Just Can't Take You Seriously With That Email Address
Brrrrr – greetings from the frozen tundra that is now NYC! We've recently received a virtual flood of inquiries and submissions (thank you!). In all the sorting, watching videos, filing photos, etc, one thing really stood out: a few choice email addresses that left us wondering if we were receiving casting info or erectile dysfunction spam.
I Just Can't Take You Seriously With That Email Address
If your email address is cutesy (email@example.com, email@example.com, email@example.com, etc), I assume you're twelve years old and your parents will have to come with us on tour.
If your email address is sexy (firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com, etc), you're probably not making it past my spam filter. I also wonder what you think you're applying for.
If your email address is… quirky (email@example.com, email@example.com, email@example.com, etc), I assume you either are new to the business, or that circus is very much a side job/hobby for you.
Your Professional Email Address
With a free email address one google click away, and easy mail forwarding available, there's just no excuse for an email address that leaves your professionalism in doubt. First impressions count for a lot!
- Your email address should be relatively easy to remember (when I'm casting for a gig, I don't want to have to stop what I'm doing and dig through materials to find it). A combination of your first and last name works well, or an initial/last name combo.
- Yes, there's room for creativity – just make sure what you choose reflects your professional interests.
- Our FAVORITE emails are email@example.com, because this tells us that you have your own website! That's another post, but you DO have your own website, right? We'll tawk.
So, what are you waiting for? If you know I'm talking to you, go right now and get yourself a smart, professional email address that won't push you to the bottom of the casting agent's list. Give yourself every opportunity for success – remember, it's a business! Dare to imagine, Laura
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The Day I (Literally) Pulled Out My Partner's Hair
Many moons ago, Angela and I were performing our duo silks act at Lincoln Center. Everything was zooming along in the usual way – rigging, rehearsal, makeup, warm-up, pacing, etc. When it was nearing performance time, we had our ritual pre-show argument, rosined up, and stepped into the spotlight.
If you've ever worked doubles on fabrics, what I'm going to say next will really resonate with you: everywhere – everywhere – you want to be, your partner already is. When we put our original choreography together, 50% of our time was spent figuring out the moves, and the other 50% was spent contorting ourselves so as to avoid a shoulder to the nose or a crotch to the face (officially the worst).
There's one spot in our routine where we're both kneeling together; I grab the fabrics, she stands up, and I follow….. but something was odd. In addition to the fabric, I found myself holding a handful of her hair, and, before I could adjust my grip, she stood up. And her hair (her real hair) remained in my hand……The show must go on, and she wasn't swearing at me, so I continued – stood up, swiveled around the silk, and extended my arm to pose before the next transition. A lone shaft of light shone down upon my upturned palm, still bearing bits of Angela's ponytail. I turned my palm towards the floor, hoping to dislodge the hairball, but to no avail – the rosin mixed with the sweat on my hand held it fast – a huge puff of curly red strands was practically velcroed to my fingers. So, I did the only thing I could think of: I quickly shook my hand, and watched (along with the entire audience) as the tangle of tresses floated down, down, down, and landed with a sigh on the stage. For the remainder of the piece, the little tumbleweed could be seen drifting back and forth along the floor, sometimes attaching itself to the end of the silks (it was an aerial hairball, after all), or dancing with the dust motes in the stage lights.
"Maybe no one noticed!", I thought. Oh – they noticed. We had no fewer than 20 people come up to us afterwards and say, "That was amazing! But, did I see you pull our her HAIR?!" Le sigh.
How did Angela fare, you ask? Oh please – she was fine. The base of her skull was a bit sore the next day, but that girl had hair to spare. She got me back, but that's a story for another time.
Do YOU have any hilarious doubles stories? Share them in the comments below!!! Dare to imagine, Laura
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Killian Cog Goes to the International Performing Arts for Youth Conference!
This weekend (pre-snowpocalypse), Killian Cog's Laura Witwer and Chris Delgado jumped into the whirlwind that is the IPAY Conference – a gathering of the top touring artists and shows for young audiences. We were in such incredible company! Artists and ensembles gathered from Australia, Scandanavia, Canada, the USA, and more to share and promote their work, network, and chat about the biz. We made some great connections, and are excited about the beginnings of a US tour! I would be lying if I told you we weren't THRILLED about the snow days that followed – that conference schedule was no joke. Killian Tour or BUST!!!! Dare to imagine, Laura
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New Years Eve – Ringin' 2015 in With Style!
This was a FABULOUS year for us here at ImaginAerial, and New Years Eve was extra special! We had not one, but TWO amazing events here in NYC! The first was at the Novotel Times Square – it's our third year there, and it's an evening we look forward to all year. The second was was at the prestigious Spice Market in the meat-packing district, one of Jean-Georges Vongerichten's fabulous restaurants. Have a look and happy new year!!!!
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What the Heck is a Tech Rider?
What the heck is a tech rider? Why should you have one? When do you trot it out? So many good questions! Oh my.
What the Heck is a Tech Rider?
A tech rider is a detailed list of requirements for your performance. They cover two areas: hospitality and technical needs. Now, let's be honest – none of us are going to be demanding much "hospitality" beyond water and maybe meals ("I want 1000 green M&M's and two cuddly puppies prior to every show!"), so let's focus on the technical aspects.
It's helpful to have two versions of your rider – the quick n'dirty version that you give to agents and performing companies, and the three page one you give to venues or clients when you're booking directly with them.
- Quick n'Dirty – If every performer for every event gave me a four page tech rider, I would keel over dead. If you're dealing with companies that hire circus performers often, send them the bare bones. Examples:
- Ariana Aerialist – I need an overhead anchor rated for a minimum of 5000 lbs of dynamic weight, at least 18 feet of height, a clear floor (no people, chairs, tables, etc), a minimum of three feet between my point and the lip of a stage, and 20+ minutes between sets.
- Giovanni German Wheel Artist – I need a clear, relatively smooth, dry floor, a minimum of 20 x 25 feet of performance space, 2-4 "minders" at room entry points to ensure that audience members remain clear of the performance area, and at least 20 minutes to space the act. It is also very important that I be able to check the placement of the lights and cords.
- Full Rider – If you're dealing directly with a client or venue, or a company who is new to booking circus acts, it's time to trot out the full version. Include everything – and I mean everything. Spell out your overhead anchor requirements, height, floor space, dressing room, EVERYTHING. Don't worry that you'll forget something – your rider is a fluid, living document – you'll add to it a hundred times as you figure out what you need.
Why Should You Have One?
Your full rider should be an integral part of your contract. Clients often believe we are superhuman, or can't imagine why a 125 lb girl can't hang on a 200 lb point (it holds 200 lbs!). If it's spelled out on paper, they've signed it, and they can't/don't/won't honor it, you're protected. It also gives them a clear understanding of all your performance needs, and what they need to do to make that happen for you. Everyone wins!
So, don't be shy! Spell it out. Be clear on your performance parameters, and go forth and be fabulous! Dare to imagine, Laura
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Boundaries, People! Do You Know Your Performance Parameters?
Angela and I have been asked to perform in some weird places. I mean weird. We've been asked to hang off fire escapes (no), hot air balloons (maybe), over fire cannons (suuuuuure), and atop shark tanks (just making sure you were paying attention). We are routinely asked if we can levitate (I wish I was kidding), if we will work nude (ain't nobody wants to see all that), and if we can do our aerial act with 8 feet of height (floor-ials!). If you're a young professional, one thing you'll want to really get clear about is this: what are my TRUE performance parameters?
Ideal Conditions
Everyone has ideal conditions for their act spelled out in their tech rider (you DO have a tech rider, don't you?). Your tech rider details the specific needs for your act, including spacing, safety concerns, rigging, etc. (**More on this in the coming weeks – it's a post all it's own.) When you're working in great conditions, it's lovely!!! I would say we get close to our ideal about 50% of the time. So, what happens the other 50%?
Make it Work
This past week, we had a lovely performance at St John's University. It was a show for the students, acts scattered over two hours, free standing rig, in the common room, no stage lights, music run off an iPod. For three of us, this was a perfectly fine set-up. For Chris Delgado, our German wheel artist, the space was particularly challenging. For one, it was carpeted (German wheel + carpet = crazy hard spiral). There was also not enough room for him to do much in "straight line" – flips and swoops and rolls and such. His solution? Spiral in one part of the room, and straight line down the hall! No kidding. I've seen Chris trot his act out on uneven stages that made me hold my breath, pocked cement floors, and now – a hallway. THIS is a performer who knows his parameters!
In the early stages of your career, the parameters will be very tight. It takes time to learn to adjust your work for a wide variety of situations. Here are some things to think about:
- lighting – what do I really need? Balancing acts, for example, often need a "quiet" stage (no fast spinning gobos or strobes). Jugglers have to make sure they're not being blinded. Silk and rope artists often prefer a lit floor to ensure they've placed drops correctly.
- stage space – everything from the kind of floor you need to how much space. You will eventually have several versions of your act for less-than-ideal stages.
- ceiling height – varies WIDELY! This is where having an A, B, and C version of your act ready to go comes in handy.
- costuming – need something tight fitting? No hangy-downys? Shins uncovered? Play with what you can work around.
- music – have Cirque-style, holiday, kid show, etc versions ready at all times so you're not scrambling a week before hand when the client or coordinator says, "By the way – this is a HanukkahKwanzaChristmasYule Spectacular. Send me your music by tonight."
Get creative! They want you to hang off a fire escape? No bueno. BUT, you have a free-standing rig that would work great! Or, you can bring in a rigger to set points on the roof and make it LOOK like you're hanging from the fire escape. OR you have an awesome ground act that would work better for this event. You get the picture.
Nope Nope Nope
Sometimes, it just won't work. German wheel doesn't work in 10 square feet. Hanging off a water pipe is not an option. Sometimes, we have to say no for safety reasons, or because an act just won't work or look good in a certain space. Knowing your true parameters gives you the confidence to make those calls, so the client gets an awesome show, or doesn't waste their money on something they won't be happy with.
Do you have a parameter story? A crazy place you were asked to perform, or a fantastic "make it work" moment? Please share it in the comments below – we want to hear about it! Dare to imagine, Laura
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Please Don't Make Me Slappy: the Right Way to Approach a Pro for a Favor
Each week, we receive 20+ inquiries of all sorts: training questions, career path questions, rigging questions, will you watch my video questions, the list goes on and on. The engagement we have with our audience is awesome!!!! …. most of the time. But ya'll – seriously – some requests and questions are just downright inappropriate. So, what is the right way to ask a pro for a favor or advice? Are you shooting yourself in the foot and souring a potential connection? Are you giving the right impression? Maybe. Let's dive in!
5 Do's
- DO offer to pay me for my time. Many teachers and professionals have consulation or career coaching rates (you can see mine here). In fact, when I was a wee aerialist just learning to rig, I paid for several hours of a riggers time. Some of the best money I ever spent! He was well compensated, I got a great foundation and learned a lot, and everybody went home happy. Winner winner chicken dinner!
- DO offer to take me to lunch. Are you friends or close acquaintences with the person? Don't assume that you still get free info. Ask to take 'em to lunch so you can pick their brain! It's the classy thing to do.
- Suggest a reciprocal gesture – cultivate a connection. Do you have skills that could be useful to them? For example, we have an amazing rigger friend (shout out, Bill Auld!) who comes to us when he needs aerial input or performers, we go to him when we have rigging questions, and try to get him on every gig we can. Everyone wins!
- Consider not asking! Is this a question that could easily be answered by google, a teacher, Facebook, etc? Do your homework!!!
- Be considerate and polite. Acknowledge that I may not have time to respond, etc.
3 Don'ts
- Don't pester me. Unless I've promised to get back to you by a certain date, don't follow up unless a month has passed.
- Please don't ask us to watch your video and give you feedback. Nothing positions you as an amateur faster than sending me your video and asking me to critique it. A) I have a to do list that is 10,000,000,000 miles long – please do not add to it if you want to be on my nice list. B) Unless we have built some sort of professional relationship, it's just not appropriate to ask us to basically "fix" your circus resume. Inappropriate in ANY business – the arts not excepted.
- I wish I didn't have to put this one in, but….. here we go! Don't act like I owe you something – I am not your bitch, I do not work for you, and we are not your personal career councelors. Mind your tone, friend.
All in all, remember that the arts are a business too. If you wouldn't send your resume to Apple and ask them to critique it, then please don't consider sending it to a circus company. It's still a weirdly small community, so keep it professional until you're besties (and even then…..). Dare to imagine, Laura
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Just Take the Next Step
Are you trying to do a Big Thing? Create an act? A show? Start a program? It can be so daunting, especially if this is your first attempt at whatever Big Thing you're trying to drag into the world. Now, I don't know about you, but I'm a planner. Nothing unsettles me more than embarking on a journey without a map, 10 years worth of extra provisions, my GPS, my compass, my atlas, an umbrella AND a backup umbrella, you get the picture. Recently, I've learned a little something: sometimes, you don't have to have the whole thing perfectly mapped out. Sometimes, you just have to take the next step.
Find the Next Step
Now, I'm not suggesting that you don't plan. Far from it! Plan away. But, if you find yourself in unfamiliar territory ("I don't know what the hell I'm doing or how to do it!!!!"), let me suggest the following.
- Stop. Breathe. You are not the first person to be here, and you won't be the last. You are not a fraud. Everyone has to figure stuff out for the first time. Whatever you do, don't pretend to know what you don't.
- Google it! Every time I'm stumped with a question, my first stop is my trusty friend, Google. No question is too stupid for the Googles…..trust me…..
- Take stock of your resources. Who do you know? What do you know? What do you have? Who owes you a favor? See if there's anyone who may be able to point you in the right direction.
- Stumped? Overwhelmed? Try to identify just the next step. Just one. Then one more. You don't have to have a start to finish vision of exactly how it all works! It's like a puzzle – add pieces as you get them.
- Do you know what needs to happen but OH MY GOSH IT'S WAY TOO MUCH AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE TO START???!!!!! Try a flow chart. It's like splatting your brain down on paper.
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." – Seneca
Be prepared. Do the work. BUT, keep your eyes open – the next step might be right in front of you – and not at all what you had imagined! Happy manifesting. Dare to imagine, Laura
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"How much for a contorting midget?" And Other Inquiries
I'd like to say we help dreams come true. Heck, our motto is "Dare to Imagine.." Bringing an exciting vision together is definitely part of what makes this job fun and 99 percent of the people we actually work with are really great clients.
Let's face it though, circus attracts some serious crazy. And we get quite a few amazing emails and requests. Sometimes, I think what I do in reality is stomp on dreams, smack people in the head with a hard dose of reality, and then either cry or laugh or both simultaneously. The acts we perform are definitely on the extreme ends of what is physically possible for humans to do. Therefore, some people think we can defy gravity, walk on water, or live on air. For those curious about what it's like to run circus events, and/or for those that also do events and just feel the need for a little comedic camaraderie, we made a list of the types of inquiries we get (which is honestly not far off from some actual inquiries we've gotten). Enjoy.
"I need three fire performers, two giants, and a midget that can contort. How much is that?"
"What can your performers do in saris?"
"How much for a show?" (No other details like city or date or what they might like provided)
"Our ceiling is 7 feet tall but we'd like a doubles aerial act." (Rug burn..)
"What can I get for $150?" (A nice pair of shoes)
"The acrobats will perform in skin tight non-stretch skinny jeans and body paint."(So you want to suspend fashion models)
"We'd like only females and need the acrobats to stay and serve the gentlemen guests."
"We need acrobats for a custom routine on a giant Mercedes hood ornament in Singapore the day after tomorrow. Can you please send all the CV's and pictures of every acrobat so we can approve them. Please send them by this afternoon."
"We'd like aerial bartenders who can serve for three hours straight." (We aren't bats)
"We don't have a ladder or anything, can you just stand on each other's shoulders to rig?" (That's another act)
"We'd like the acrobats to perch on the walls then jump onto the tables as people walk in to the space." (I don't know if Spidey is available)
"We'd like the performers to drop from the ceiling and land two feet above the audience's heads." (You go get the insurance to cover that)
"Here is a link of what we'd like." (a link to Cirque du Soleil's "O")
"We'd like 15 acrobats for an event in San Diego. We have no money, but it's great exposure for a great charity."
"We'd like three acrobats for an hour and a half show."
"Our theme is Marie Antoinette meets Ghost Busters meets Urban Grunge, can you send us pictures of your costumes in that style?"
"We'd like to attend every rehearsal leading up to the event, would that be okay?" (No)
"Slight change. It was going to be in my grandmother's backyard w a freestanding rig but now it's going to be at Madison Square Garden. I'm assuming I can just pencil that into the contract and initial it?"
"We'd like an acrobat to flip down the center of the dining table to start. Of course it will be before the appetizer is served." (phew, you had me worried)
"Can she perform to 'Wind Beneath my Wings'?"
"Can you fly the bar mitzvah boy in and have him land on the top of an acrobat pyramid?" (No)
"We'd like 24 acrobats for a six hour show that will really make people go 'wow'."(wow)
"Can the acrobat just jump off the trapeze to the floor at the end of their act?"
There you have it! Please feel free to leave any silly typical ones I may have left out or the craziest one you've gotten.
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With that 'Benedict Cumerbatch will be recycled for JJ's next film, Star Wars' rumour hotly doing the rounds, it was only time before someone actually reached out to Abrams to comment on the rumour (always a good thing to do, I believe.) In this case, an L.A Times Reporter quizzed Abrams on the whisper that his "Star Trek Into Darkness" star will be rejoining him for "Star Wars Episode 7″ – thus further cross-pollinating the "Trek" and "Wars" galaxies – and surprisingly, Abrams didn't flat out deny the rumour. In fact, if pushed further, he might've even confirmed Cumberbatch's casting.
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Maybe sometime between now and Christmas he'll also be asked about the many other casting rumours? Saorise Ronan, Michael B.Williams, David Oyelowo and so on. But I guess they have to actually confirm the returning original players first.
Meantime, if even to settle my nerves, Abrams telling the press that his debut in the "Star Wars" world will be "emotional and authentic".
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