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This month is host to countless different types of events; the most likeable of the two are at fully distinct ends of the spectrum, the cities Fashion Week & The Brit Awards 2009

Both of these events are enormously celebrated & have happened to become somewhat of institution & methodically annual occasion.

The Cities 2009 Fashion Week takes place in New York, Milan & Paris, the most remarkable & cherished urban cities in the entire world. The first initial Fashion Week was situated in New York, in 1943 and was basically planned to focus concentrated attention away from France fashion style during World War 2 when fashion trends insiders were authorized to go to Paris to Catch the Paris Fashion shows. The long awaited unbelievable Fashion Week takes place in February, this is just basically an opening for artistic designers both well known names like Stella McCartney & up and coming fresh designers to strut their own hottest collections on the runway. This presently gives fashion and store buyers a chance to take notes of what’s without a doubt going to be in demand this coming new season. Fashion Week begins with New York City Fashion Week followed by London’s Fashion Week, Milan Fashion Week and then at last French Fashion Week.

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The greatest city on earth has another reason to brag with the unveiling of the long-awaited public art project The Gates by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Despite its popularity, some visitors feel the $21 million art installation is not art at all. Whether a work of art or spectacle, the orange flags strung like a ribbon throughout Central Park are sparking conversation and drawing in visitors by the subway load.

According to the Central Park Conservancy, which sells official Gates merchandise at the Park’s entrance on 59th Street, 10 to 20 million people are expected to visit the park during the 16 days that The Gates are on display.

“February is the slowest month for tourism in the city and the exhibit has already brought an unexpected number to the park, which is usually dead in the winter,” said Central Park Conservancy staff member, Chris Trimbull, 25. “I think it’s more popular than anyone had realized.”

Before The Gates opened, a mere 200,000 visitors were expected, however, the day after Mayor Michael Bloomberg unfurled the 1,089,882 square feet of streaming saffron fabric along 23 miles of park paths, attendance was already at 700,000 people.

Standing 16 feet high, The Gates are attracting the young, elderly, tourists and students alike, who took photographs, held hands, and observed the temporary display, despite temperatures falling below freezing.

New York’s AM news station 1010 WINS recently conducted an online web poll asking if The Gates are art or joke. Out of 1298 respondents, 65% said joke.

Lou Quillio is in agreement. With his sister and two daughters, he drove three hours from Saratoga, New York to see the golden gates. “It’s just a thing, it’s less the art and more the social aspect, it’s an attraction and a spectacle,” said Quillio.

His sister Susan, however, disagreed, saying, “It’s beautiful against all the gray rocks and bare trees.”

No matter what people thought, everyone visiting the park seemed to discuss the artistic merits of the project, even talking to strangers in a city of people who rarely make eye contact.

The communal experience, says Beth Fichtel who works in Manhattan, is better than the 7,500 steel structures wrapped throughout the park. “The energy in the air is contagious and it’s cool to be in something as enormous as Central Park and be surrounded by tons of people all talking about the same thing.”

While he jogged underneath the colorful billowing fabric, Manhattan resident Danny Schwartz asked, “I like it, but I don’t think it can be defined as art, but who’s to say really?”

Well, architectural student Amanda Herron, 22, reverently believes that Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s work is highly creative and refused to miss their recent endeavor, so she flew in from Alabama just for the event.

“Their art is inspiring, we study their installations in school and how they are able to change a space dramatically, then leave and change what people originally thought of the space,” said Herron. “It is so interesting, it comes and people soak it in, and then it’s gone.”

Herron further suspects that even after The Gates are removed, people will still be discussing them. For now her theory is true, The Gates are a big topic of conversation and debate at the office, in the news and around the world.

About the Author

Tara is currently going for her masters degree in journalism at NYU. She freelances articles for tri-state publications and writes a daily blog, When Tara Met Blog www.tarametblog.com

The promise of the rewrite is very sweet. I have collected
evidence that the more authentic the labor put into rewriting
your screenplay, the greater the reward, and the reward is high,
for whatever lovely, wonderful moments you might have discovered
in the frightening process of plowing through the first draft,
those moments, those seeds, are only seeds, and they only
fulfill their destiny as giant, involving scenes in the movie
that screens before people. So if I shortcut my revision, I will
miss the prize, pure and simple.

The process of rewriting is recreating. I need to make a
contract with myself to make room in every moment of my writing
for the imaginative magic of inspiration, that flash of
brilliance which some call talent, the muse, God, or
desperation, to deliver something that did not exist just a
second before, but now lives forever, like a huge white rabbit
suddenly from a hat. This usually happens when my fingers are on
the keyboard and there’s white below from where I’m typing, and
I have no idea where I’m going. Or if I have some idea, I don’t
have the answer, but I trust and that’s it.

Rewriting is technically every change you make to your draft.
There, I said it, so now you can’t come back and argue with me
about what you think a rewrite is. But now I will tell you what
rewriting really is, or what it really is not. Rewriting is not
cutting and pasting. It’s not reading through your draft on your
computer screen and changing words. It’s not pushing your cursor
down the page, highlighting text and deleting it. I think this
is called editing or deleting or garbage time or easy on the
damn brain, but it’s not called rewriting over in the bust your
ass capital of screenplay planet.

Rewriting is almost starting completely over. It’s almost
accepting that you have nothing after celebrating like you won
your tenth super bowl simply by typing the end and poking two
brass fasteners through a pile of paper. Rewriting is taking
that pile of paper, plopping it beside you where you can see it
without a lot of movement of the head, and copying it over with
an industrious attitude.

Okay, basically if you open a new file and name it second draft,
or seventh, or whatever, lie all you want, but if you simply
copy it over and the only thing that gets changed is the things
that make you physically jerk in your chair, then you are not
rewriting with an industrious attitude. An industrious attitude
can mean a lot of things, I will probably call it something else
next week, but it simply means you are open to work, and with a
rewrite, the premise to work is the belief your script needs
work. If you can’t see much wrong, how can it need a lot of
work, and how is the rewrite going to work? It won’t. So make
sure you have an open bent, and start typing it over.

What happens? Well, if you’ve never done it, I’m not gonna tell
you. A lot of screenwriters won’t even admit it they’ve never
done it, because it breaks your neck. If you have done it, it’s
almost time we did it again. Either way, go.

Now, how do I find out what’s broken? It’s not all on one page,
and it’s hard to see the big picture of the awful thing. Well,
this isn’t a book, this is just a short essay, so here’s a short
list of tools to get yourself into and ready for your
rewrite.

First, you got ask yourself, what’s the story, or more
specifically, what are the stories? I usually make up a list of
sentences that start with “The story of…” and fill in the
blanks. What are the stories that are emerging from your current
draft? What does your spirit want to tell versus what your poor
brain thought you were going to do back in the coffee shop? You
might find the list is long, and that’s a problem, too. There’s
usually a main one, maybe one close behind, then a few tiny
sweet ones. There is your family of stories. There they are.
Now. How are you treating them?

This is where you can make some kind of a chart. Like a
spreadsheet or something. Or the back of a dry cleaning receipt
will do. Divide up your script into the beginning, act one, act
two, act three, and the finish. By the way, I know there’s all
sorts of act divisions. Modify my directions at your will. It’s
fine. So within this chart you will pencil in the beats that
exist within the current layout of your script. When you’re done
charting the arcs of your family of stories, you will
undoubtedly find HOLES. Wow. Nothing’s there. Didn’t see that
before. Okay, you better put something in there.

Let’s say you got your chart pretty full, in fact, it looks like
the stories of your movie have something resembling a beginning,
middle and end. Now what you need is to make every scene as good
as your best scene. Yeah, terrible news. How do you determine
this? Grade your scenes. Some scenes might get an A. Others
maybe a B. Give your work an F or two. Once you do this, you
will know what scenes are functioning as placeholders and what
are moneymakers. In the end, rewriting is making everything the
most special ever. Anything short, and you have more rewriting
to do. Unless you can live with an uneven ride. But this is a
rewriting article, not a give up article.

Finally, a reminder. Screenwriting becomes artful when
compression arrives. Shorten your everything. All dialogue and
description is representative of this life traveled through a
living soul. Uh, that’s you. A screenplay is just another poem,
it’s just another small bit resembling something we recognize as
human beings. Seven Samurai is a very short movie compared to
what happens in a life, even shorter stacked against forever.
But it lives beyond forever, doesn’t it?

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About the Author

Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance
Film Festival for LOVE LIZA ,
Gordy Hoffman has written and directed three digital shorts for
Fox Searchlight. He made his feature directorial debut with his
script, A COAT OF
SNOW, which world premiered at the 2005 Locarno
International Film Festival. He is also the founder of the BlueCat Screenplay
Competition. Dedicated to develop and celebrate the
undiscovered screenwriter, BlueCat provides written
screenplay analysis on every script entered. In addition,
Gordy acts as a script consultant for screenwriters, offering
personalized feedback on their scripts through his consultation
service,
www.screenplaynotes.com. For more articles by Gordy on
screenwriting, visit
www.bluecatscreenplay.com.

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at all? Is it any better than them sitting in front of a
television?

Many parents simply do not have the time to monitor all the
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know that there are many predators online that are seeking out
our youngsters. But, there are ways to prevent them from coming
near to our children. For example, in online gaming rooms, you
can easily disable chatting and interaction. You can also
disable instant messages as well. Yet, an even more effective
manner for protecting our children while they are online is to
simply keep the computer they will be using right in the living
room, the kitchen or in any area that is open where you can see
what’s going on just by turning your head. When parents are
aware of what is going on while their children are online, they
can keep their children better protected. And, it’s never too
soon to talk to your children about stranger danger even on the
computer.

Okay, but what about the gaming? Should we allow our children
online to play games?

It is important to break down some age levels here. For children
who are young, it is essential to allow them time to learn about
computers, but you need to do it in a one on one situation. In
these cases, there are many games that are actually quite
beneficial for them to play. Many games can teach reading
skills, math skills, and many other aspects of learning. And,
because it is fun, kids simply love to do it. They enjoy the
colors, the sounds, and the idea of playing with Mommy or Daddy.
It’s a great time for some bonding as well.

Then, we can look towards the older age. Those who enjoy
cartoons on television will love the games that focus around
these topics. And, you’ll find many games that do. Online games
like these can help with motor skills and computer usage skills.
But, why not teach them a little by getting them into a
different type of game, one that will challenge them. For
example, word puzzles and just puzzles in general can stimulate
the mind in many ways. Or, teach them a little history with a
program like Oregon (or Amazon) Trail in which they need to
survive a treacherous trek through the wilderness. Even older
children can benefit from the “Sim” games as well. The less
violent ones are better because they teach your little
entrepreneurs to use many skills to build cities, buildings,
companies…you get the idea.

When it comes to allowing teens online, you really need to allow
at least some online time. At that age, they are into
communicating with their friends through email and instant
messages, but interactive games are very popular. Competing
against friends is a definite need that many kids have. Is it
any worse or any better than a Playstation or Xbox system?
Probably not, but at least they are interacting with others.
And, you can somewhat monitor their actions or limit their
internet exploring when you provide them with what many ISP’s
are offering and that is parental controls on accounts set up
just for kids.

So, where does that leave us and the online gaming world? Should
children be allowed online? Yes, we believe that kids of all
ages should at least have the opportunity to learn how to use
the computer. It is an essential skill. But, what about playing
games? Yes, they need this too. In a safe environment, there are
few other places that you can play so many games for a low cost.
They can learn from them as well. You can monitor just what they
are doing. If you are a parent trying to figure out where you
stand with your children being online, consider it a learning
experience to allow them to surf with you, even if it’s just
once. Then, you will be able to see just what is out there to
offer your children and how well they enjoy it.