Here’s percussionist Wade Culbreathe with my scoring sessions photo book that he bought:
Paid for a Session (but not really)
Tonight I got paid to go to a scoring session. Well, not really. I shall explain. I am working on a website for a composer. That composer had a scoring session today. Instead of sitting at home and working on the website alone, in front of the television, I figured I would go to the scoring session, lend my support to the composer, and work on the website. I am being paid for the work I do on the website, …
Deep Sea 3D IMAX
After attending the scoring sessions in December and January, I finally got to see the final product: Deep Sea 3D IMAX, featuring score by Danny Elfman (with additional music by Debbie Lurie). With most 3D IMAX films, the realism is pretty damn impressive – but this was more than that – this was basically a 2006 film, and it was frickin unreal! Running only about 40-minutes long, the documentary skimmed the surface of underwater life, but it provided a fascinating …
Final Destination 3
In anticipation of this third chapter in the Final Destination series (kinda oxymoronic, no?), I watched the original film again. It had a lot of smart moments, and very clever gags in which the teenage survivors of Flight 180 were dispatched in ways that would make Rube Goldberg proud. The third one was written and directed by the same folks (James Wong and Glen Morgan), and so I was hoping for something close to the same level. Readers of this …