Aaron Schwartz is sitting in a studio in California. The actor has recently moved from New York City to LA to continue his acting career. He is shooting with Brad Everett Young, Actor/Photographer and the founder of Dream Loud, a campaign to raise awareness for arts/music education in public schools.
"Aaron was pretty stellar to shoot with." Young says. He came in and gave it 300% and we laughed through most of it. Not sure how any of the shots turned out." He joked.
"I came out to LA eight months ago to continue pursuing a career in acting." Schwartz explains "But it proved more challenging to go from being a New York actor where most NY casting directors knew me, to an LA actor who was primarily a new face."
Schwartz credits a recent
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"I also linked up with producer Jordan Kerner of Mighty Ducks fame and ended up signing with some pretty stellar representation KMR and BOHEMIA GROUP and I'm really excited about LA opportunities." Schwartz states.
Some of the recent opportunities include working on an independent short called "When It Burns" written and Directed by fellow Bohemia Group client Maria Sten. A synopsis can be found here.
"And I'm signed up to work on a really cool independent feature called "Will Wilson" which will be shooting in New Mexico in December which will co-star my real life girlfriend Raychel Diane Weiner." Schwartz states. Weiner stars in an up-and-coming Stars limited series "Flesh and Bone." The feature is based on a "William Wilson" by Edgar Allan Poe and the screenplay is written by David Herman.
Schwartz does get asked about these films pretty regularly. "People usually ask 'Did we know how to skate before filming the ducks?' The answer is 'We sure told casting we did.'" He laughs. "I think every kid that booked the Ducks never skated a day in their lives. Subsequently, we flew out to Minnesota a month early and trained 8 hours a day / six days a week and ended up becoming good little hockey
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"Well, looking back on television and film in the 90's I think there was a purity in the narrative. Video games were simpler. You had Contra: the most confusing aspect was the [up up down down left right left right BA BA start] code you had to enter to skip levels but that was as complex as the video game got." He says smiling. "Now we have Halo where you need a user's guide to figure out how to even shoot the gun. He explains. "I think it's the same with movies/TV. Everything just seemed a little simpler and more wholesome back then. And I think we as an audience long to escape the bullshit that can consume all of us and get lost in a fun, no frills story where the loser wins and the boy gets the
Tom Bissell, in his essay, “Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter” has described video games and how they are unique and different from movies, books, or even interactive films. Bissell says “I came to accept that games were incompetent with almost every aspect of what I would call traditional narrative.” This is showing the readers that even though there is a plot and story line, as characters can control and alter the story line or outcome by what you do or see throughout the game.
Avriel Benjamin Kaplan was born on April 17, 1989, to Michael Kaplan and Shelly Kaplan in Visalia, California. Since Michael Kaplan was Jewish Avriel Benjamin Kaplan’s name was hard to pronounce, so they called him Avi for short. When Avi Kaplan was five years old his sister was born, Esther Kaplan. He went to school at Mt. Whitney High School. In school, Kaplan was bullied because he was part Jewish. As a freshman in high school, he was asked to join a chamber choir primarily made up of junior and senior students. When Kaplan was 15 he taught himself to play guitar, and later in life, he even performed at restaurants and other places. he performed at Visalia, California coffee houses. Kaplan wrote his first song called “Collision” which is very close to his heart.
Movies have the ability to transport people to different times and places and distract them from ordinary everyday reality. They allow for a range of emotions to be experienced. At their core, movies examine the human condition. There are plenty of deeper truths woven into screenplays and plenty of lessons to be learned, even when an individual is solely seeking entertainment.
Stephen Schwartz is a famous American composer, producer, and creator of music and film. With a degree in drama, Schwartz was first hired as a producer in his early years. Schwartz was interested in musical Theater since the early 1970’s when he was famous for three popular shows on Broadway; Godspell, Pippin, and The Magic Show (The Songwriters Hall of Fame). Stephen Schwartz accomplishments include winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, obtaining three Grammy Awards, three Academy Awards and also being nominated for six Tony Awards. (circletheatre.org). Stephen Schwartz has made an impact on American Musical Theater by influencing Americans by composing famous musicals and earning many awards from which American’s remember him by.
"I think it's fun to see where we're playing the right way. It's fun for our guys to see everybody happy playing the right way."
“The biggest mistake we have made is to consider that films are primarily a form of entertainment. The film is the greatest medium since the invention of movable type for exchanging ideas and information, and it is no more at its best in light entertainment than literature is at its best in the light novel.” - Orson Welles
“He’s been playing well, but we just need to get him the ball more. The last couple of games, he’s been shooting like 65-percent. We need to get him the ball, or at times, we just don’t look for him.”
Stephen Schwartz is a famous American composer, producer, and creator of music and film. Stephen Schwartz has been appointed as having one of the most significant careers in American musical theater for over four decades (Laird, 2014). With a degree in drama, Schwartz was first hired as a producer in his early years. Schwartz was interested in musical Theater since the early 1970’s when he was famous for three popular shows on Broadway; Godspell, Pippin, and The Magic Show (The Songwriters Hall of Fame). Stephen Schwartz accomplishments include winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, obtaining three Grammy Awards, three Academy Awards and also being nominated for six Tony Awards. (circletheatre.org). Stephen Schwartz has made an impact on American Musical Theater by influencing people from composing famous musicals and earning many awards from which American’s remember him by.
In the story Aaron’s Gift by Myron Levoy, Aaron thinks of his Grandmother's old goat as a pet and says, “ Her goat escapes from the Cossacks at last.” This shows that there is symbolism between Pidge and the goat.
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My dad began playing when he was just a kid, six or seven. He’s told us stories of him and his brothers play in the parking lot of their elementary school as well as one of him throwing an older kid’s stick off the fire escape, of the same building, and “running for the hills” afterward. He began playing real ice hockey when he was in middle school. He likes to say that he was the best skater on the team, but my
Anyone who was born in the 1980s or 1990s, they most likely played their fair share of video games. The majority of people remember playing games like Tetris or Mario and the vivid memories that go along with experiencing them. The memories that involve getting a high score in Tetris to the memories of completing a hard level in Mario and the challenges one had to get through to achieve them. There are certain individuals wish they could bring back some of those great memories, trying to relive the past. This is called nostalgia. A lot of people yearn for the past, hoping to reclaim their youth and the memories that they created during these earlier years. Some authors now are trying to incorporate this reminiscence into their stories. They
and performed in four of his own TV shows. His skating foundation has been dedicated to
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