Naturally, I'm Worried

lifeofbk:

So, this is going well.

Long story short, these guys wanted a promotional video on a $1000 budget. I got them two P2 cameras, a full light kit, and time at the (extremely expensive/amazing) LA Sound Gallery, along with a stuido engineer doing sound and Sean on second camera.  Because they didn’t have the time/money to multrack a vocals/piano session, all sound was recorded and mixed live.

Four days after the shoot, they decided that they didn’t like the mix and stopped payment on my check.  All the money got sucked out of my account, and I’m now in the red for all of their expenses.  As of right now, Marlene Arden and Phil Conti are refusing to correct their stopped payment for completed services (aka: check fraud), and I’m screwed.

Marlene Arden googles her name often enough to feel the pressure that the internet is putting on her this morning.  Hopefully, this leads to her coming to her senses and cleaning up her mess.

Help me out, and spread the word in any way you can.

soupsoup:

Comic book nerds commit seppuku.

Aw I would have rather have had them buy DC. Disney Batman would been fun as hell.

ceallaigh:

squashed:

The show’s run is ending, Grant explains, because no one — not the station, not PBS, not the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — will put up the several hundred thousand dollars needed to renew the show’s broadcast rights.

Grant says the funding crunch is partially to blame, but the decision to end Reading Rainbow can also be traced to a shift in the philosophy of educational television programming. The change started with the Department of Education under the Bush administration, he explains, which wanted to see a much heavier focus on the basic tools of reading — like phonics and spelling.

I feel old and sad. Is there really no longer room for a show that teaches kids to love books?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :(

(But don’t take my word for it….)

(via soupsoup)

WHUT.