Book Review: First Time Director
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A fledgling director needs to learn a seemingly impossible number of skills. He or she has to know how to block a scene, how to deliver a good moving master, how to coax acceptable performances out of unskilled actors and great performances out of skilled ones.
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"Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)" (Putnam, 224 pages, $22.95), by Dave Barry: The latest book by Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry is his twisted take on the first few years of the new millennium, prefaced by his brief but equally warped overview of the previous 1,000 years.
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Get started with video production, but keep your eyes open for sticky situations.
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Tobias Schlitt shares some of his toughts on one of his latest in a list of books to read - Exporing PHP.    Although I did not read it, yet, I'd like to recommend it to you, since I think to know the authors good enough to believe they write good books.   In short, "Exploring PHP" is a roundup about advanced PHP programming experiences, covering different topics like: Event driven programming in PHP, Generation of 3D graphics, Refactoring and Migration, PHP6.    From the little that he's looked into the book, he can already tell it's a good resource and is recommending it based on that and the authors it comes from.
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Movie actors making their directorial debuts often do it as a labor of love. For Michael Keaton, directing âThe Merry Gentlemanâ was a bit of a daredevil adventure.
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Over on the KillerPHP blog today, there's four new book review postings covering a wide range of books for all skill levels and all from O'Reilly.   The books he (quickly) reviews are:  Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL PHP Hacks Programming PHP, Second Edition Learning PHP & MySQL  Overall, he enjoyed and would recommend the books, but each of them definitely has their place in a developer's learning process as well as their own unique fit as far as what the developer needs (ex. quick hacks versus general information).
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Though it contains no code, this new article on PHPBuilder provides a good perspective for those looking to get into PHP and what to expect to find.   A couple of months ago, I knew almost nothing about PHP, only that is was a programming language that I needed to learn. Today, my whole site relies upon PHP and I have gained the confidence that almost anything is possible using PHP. I accomplished this achievement using methods that I will describe in this article.   The author talks about the methods followed to get into the language, including making smaller goals at first, just to get used to things. The manual is also suggested as a "best friend" for a developer and looking at other people's code can provide insight into your problems.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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Neil LaButeâs âThings We Said Todayâ is the most skillful entry in the first evening of the Ensemble Studio Theaterâs annual two-part marathon of short plays.
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There is a new review posted on Slashdot today covering the APress book from W. Jason Gilmore - "Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL, From Novice to Professional".
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One way to escape the  rigid rules of Hollywood formula filmmaking these days is to  base your movie on a book. Adapt a movie from a best-seller  like &quot;The Devil Wears Prada,&quot; and you can make up your own  rules.
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Successful movies are almost always films that can easily be described. Studio executives must be pitched movie plots in minutes. However, once a movie is greenlit, shot, and sent to theaters, it's received with a barrage of verbose criticism and media analysis.
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An ingenious first film Â made on a budget of about $7,000 by a former engineer and self-taught filmmaker Â about the perils of ingenuity.
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Taking Questions: A first set of answers from James Sanders, an architect, author and filmmaker based in New York City, based on questions from City Room readers.
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The director launched the book of the same name at Mumbai's J W Marriott on February 4.
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Roger Director, a screenwriter and television producer who grew up on Long Island, wrote the book on being a Giants fan.
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Business & money: How independent producers are putting their movies straight on the internet.