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Storytelling & Screenwriting Inspiration: Quito, Ecuador Legend About the Church La Merced
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:32:30 +0000Here’s the way I heard it: the church was built between 1700 and 1742. The tower is the highest in colonial Quito and contains the largest church bell. After construction, every bit of the building was blessed by priests except the 47m high tower, which as the story goes was quickly taken over by everyone’s best [...]StartupSound.prefPane: Necessary Mac Software for Screenwriting Expatriates
Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:37:24 +0000The average pay is $150 per month. You’re in a $5 room. Everything is still. It’s 10 pm. Ta-Da. The MacBook Pro starts up. No. Hell No. I couldn’t find a way to turn off the start-up sound on my Mac without installing this program: StartupSound.prefPane. There was some question as to if it would work [...]Quito, Ecuador: A City That Likes To Throw Down, With & Without The Spanish
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:20:48 +0000Two Saturdays ago, that being August 9th; well, let me start this way, there is a major avenue in Quito called the 10th of August (Av. 10 de Agosto), but I sometimes have trouble putting dos and dos together. …Saturday, I go down to the lobby of my hotel and the woman behind the counter tells [...]Happy Birthday to Quito, Ecuador Filmmaker and Artista Carolina Arroba
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:32:35 +0000A couple of years ago, on my way out to a new life in California I was standing by a overloaded Geo Metro smoking a cigarette at a rest-stop somewhere along I-40, watching a guy watering his dog, and to make a long story short: I struck-up a conversation with said guy, who was going [...]Prices for Screenwriting Expats in Quito, Ecuador.
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:31:46 +0000I’ve had enough time to wonder around Quito and get a grasp of the cost of living. I reside in the historic center of Quito (Old Town, El Centro) on what turns out to be an inexpensive working class street. All of the Old Town is an Unesco World Heritage Site, and a great place to [...]Have Screenplay High Concept Will Travel: Quito, Ecuador for Screenwriting Expats - $300 per Month
Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:06:43 +0000Writing Screenplays in Quito, Ecador California might be the entertainment capital of the world, but why must you choose to hole yourself up to write your first selling on spec screenplay there? Los Angeles is way too expensive, and dirty for just sitting around. You might have access to other screenwriters, but even that is part of [...]Travel Update - Quito, Ecuador: First Impressions and the First Five Days
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:35:13 +0000When I first got off the plane in Quito, I was exhausted. My cheap ticket from San Francisco ($550) was too Indiana Jones like, from SFO to LAX to Panama City to Quito. All of this was over night, and took 12 hours with layovers. The flights themselves where not long enough to get comfortable, [...]Safe.
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:32:45 +0000I´m here in Quito. I found a place for the month with free internet for $165. No problems with the visa. Don´t show up in Quito hung over as it is a very high city. Full report to come. J Roland a2a_linkname="Safe."; a2a_linkurl="http://blog.j-roland-kelly.com/index.php/2008/07/24/safe/"; [...]Filmmaking & Screenwriting for the New 3D; Real D Has New Possibilities
Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:52:23 +0000There’s a lot of talk about 3D films coming back. Over the weekend I went to see Journey to the Center of the Earth in Real D to see what all this noise was about. The new 3D is going to be huge. I now know what all the noise is about; I was blown away. [...]Screenwriting & Filmmaking: Screenplay Inspiration Is Where You Find It
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:30:25 +0000Read the local paper. Take a walk. But read the local paper. Check out this story from my current town of residence Mountain View, CA. No car, no recourse ?Vacationer returns to find his car towed, auctioned and up for sale on Craigslist — by a tow company employee Seeing this story makes me remember how much [...]
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