For a lot of people, this may have begun to look like a lackluster holiday season, what with the plummeting economy to so perfectly compliment the soaring unemployment rate. However, while it might have been a "leaner" Christmas this year for various reasons, it was, at least for me, padded with a lot of genuine happiness and laughs. Emphasis on the laughs, which result when your family whips out old videos from the 80s, one of which features you as a two year old giving dad a bright yellow sweatshirt with a picture of a horse on it for Christmas. Followed by him asking whatever happened to that sweatshirt because he rather liked it. :)

It's been a noticeably leaner year for charities as well, again for obvious reasons. Something small, though very nice I think, that one can do though is to use GoodSearch.com as their search engine, as they make small donations to the charity of your choice each time you search. There's also GoodShop.com, which is like what Amazon would be if 30% of what you paid for n item went to charity. Just a really easy, good way to spread the love.

Again, enjoy the holiday season with your friends and families...allow yourselves to be distracted from the current issues and unearth some old home movies or something of the sort! 

Till 2009!

This past week I've kept busy helping out in the art department for Givenchy's Ange ou Demon fragrance TV commercial. This was kind of a treat for me because a) I very rarely work in the art department and it was interesting to get a feel for that (very detailed and intricate!) side of production, and b) I got to know some very talented designers, set dressers, wardrobe supervisors, etc etc. Uma Thurman is the face of the campaign, and the commercial was directed by Mira Nair, with whom I have interned and assisted for the past year. I was working under production designer Stephanie Carroll, who has worked on films like The War Within, Definitely Maybe, and the new Amelia Earhart biopic starring Hilary Swank (also directed by Mira Nair). Needless to say, I felt very privileged to be working among this group and felt I learned a great deal just watching them get it all done. 

Next week, I'll be on set for Two Tones Pictures production of "Mr. Cellophone", for which I am representing Passage Pictures as a co-producer. Tony Cox and Anthony Pizzuto, the talented and fantastic team of web designers in charge of this here site, are directing and acting, respectively! Our good friend, actress Lipica Shah, is also playing a role in the film. Should be a fun weekend!

Stay tuned for a possibly large update ... waiting to make some final decisions, but the skies look clear to fly for a big project in February! As I said, stay tuned!

So everyone get their holiday cheer on, to make up for the fact that I have forgotten to do so! Will be updating soon, thanks for stopping by!