October 25 visiting artist lecture Nadim Karam 

-Architect, painter, sculpter and urban artist

-Creates dreams for cities

-Karam is from Beirut, Lebanon

-Themes "Movements"
he speaks through the hardships that he endured from living in Beirut.
Even in times of war and terror, creativity cannot leave us.

-Can cities still dream after terrorist attacks?
-Makes art sculptures for fallen cities
-Understand the sprit and the story behind the city.

-His art work usually consist of human or animal figures placed in a city.
they mostly tell stories of hardship and war. some of them are the size of 2-3 story buildings
they "are moving urban toys"
-Make something that has a question up for debate.

Sepember 20th visiting artist lecture Matthew Robbins
-Wedding/party-planner/ interior decorator

attended san francisco art institute -

-finished at Cal state

he is in to telling a story with your work, weather its tragic or beautiful.
working in San Francisco
moves to New York for better job opportunities

and starts his own business
friends from San Francisco has connections with Martha Steward  -With in 6 months of opening his own business matthew is on the cover of Martha's magazine.
some of his themes are
"How do you own it"
how to work with color
-inspired by color and fabrics.
linking personal inspiration to reality :how to bring your ideas to life.
he takes common objects such as sea shells, fruit, patterns on ceramic pots, french candies and travel-
then makes a composition/story about  that specific item or theme.
-to create a beautiful setting or scene

New pitch
 Revised PLOT
CJ the main character wakes-up on the ground bleeding from his face and appear to have been in a fight.
he looks around puzzled and finds the guy who beat him up is standing over him, mocking him and laughing.
earlier...
CJ and his two friends are joking and skateboarding in the park. they stop to look at a girl across from them.
they stare at her still joking around, and talk about how fine she is.
The two friends persuade/ dare CJ to go over there and slap her on her butt. they soon find out that she has a boyfriend. his two friends are still tempting him to do it anyway . as they are leaving they pass the girl and her boy friend. the two friends walk by first laughing and making weird noises. CJ walks by, pauses and slaps the girl on her behind. she screams and immediately looks at her boyfriend..  CJ's friends run away the boyfriend turns around and stares him down.  

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Pitch

The theme of my film is "don't be a hero." When a situation changes from the controlled and customary to the unfamiliar and hazardous. or "shit just got real." these situations or scenarios can lead to unexpected and potentially life-threatening consequences. I want to show the relationship between two friends and how they interact (usually joking around) with each other on a day to day basis.
-my characters are average teens who like to skateboard and have fun.
-it  will be told from my main characters POV they will be in every scene.
-target audience is my peers, friends/family -people ages 18-29.


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