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I believe it was Olivier who said, aside from Hamlet the other truly great role for an actor is Santa Claus.

This holiday season I was fortunate enough to be Hamlet, er.., Santa!

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Is Louis CK changing the scope of content distribution for good? In what appears to be Earth shattering news (if my twitter stream is to be believed), Louis CK – the often acerbic, always hilarious stand-up comedian slash sitcom star/writer/director/editor released his latest Stand-up show as a $5 download directly from his own website.

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Well, its official, I’m a working mom!

For the past six years I’ve been running our small business as if it was my baby, and in many ways it is. But, I always knew one day I’d be an actual mom.  I never pictured myself to be a stay at home mom. 

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If you ever visit the World Wide Web, and I’m guessing you do since you’re reading this, then you’ve probably seen an explainer video. An explainer is a short (under two minutes) animated video that, not surprisingly, explains how a product works or what a new/start-up company does. 

These have become very popular in the age of “I don’t have an extra 15 seconds to read that paragraph so just show me in cute pictures the very least I need to know.”

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This blog was originally posted by Chicago Filmmaker/Actor/Friend of the Teeth Joe Avella on his own blog. 

Most times I shoot in noisy locations or ones I need to leave quickly because I’m there illegally. Time is always of the essence and I don’t like getting bogged down with more equipment. What almost always suffers in my production process is the audio.

Thanks to the library of sound FX in programs like Garageband and free sound sites like Free Sound Project, you can easily recreate any location specific sounds, but not dialogue.

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