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Designs on The Big Dance: Who Will Create The Ultimate Dress For The Ultimate Prom – Fashion News Paper

Three contestants, six dress designs, yards of beautiful fabric, and the ultimate spotlight for one design winner: it’s time for the Hearst Media “The Ultimate Prom 2009″ Contest, sponsored in part by Hancock Fabrics (OTC symbol: HKFI).
In “The Ultimate Prom” competition, three students from New York City’s High School of Fashion Industries will compete to [...]

Building a Video Universe, One User At A Time – Adotas Exclusive

While innovation certainly makes things more efficient, quick, sleek and sexy, often the fundamentals remain the same. Entertainment is no exception.
Compare a play from the 1800s and a web video being watched on an iPhone– the delivery methods couldn’t be more different, but both mediums share the fundamental characteristic of telling a story that resonates [...]

Lack Of Ad Targeting Keeping Publishers From Making Money With Online Video – The Business Of Online Video

Last week I moderated a session at the Digital Publishing and Advertising Conference (DPAC) on the subject of video monetization and syndication strategies for publishers. We had a great mix of panelists represented with Matt Wasserlauf, CEO of Broadband Enterprises, Johnny Boston, President of Raw Digital and Lynn Bolger, EVP  at comScore.
While we discussed many topics [...]

Who Can Produce a Cool Tribute Video? – BizBash

Honoring a retiring exec or an award winner with a video about their life’s work is a great idea, but only if the piece doesn’t move guests to check their BlackBerries or sneak off to the restroom.

Here are three companies that specialize in these types of films and, if asked, will travel to make it happen. With more than 20 years of combined film and television industry experience (…)

Susan’s Note – Cosmogirl

Last month I told you about a new Web show called St. Claire Falls. It’s about two best friends, Jaime and Anna, who live in a Michigan town called—what else?—St. Claire Falls. They want to be on a TV reality show called BFF, but to apply they need an audition tape. So they beg Claire, a Juno-esque girl (who, btw, can’t stand them) to film their day-to-day dramas.The only reason Claire agrees to it isthat she has a crush on Jaime’s boyfriend, Scott—now she’ll have access to him.

New York International Independent Film and Video Festival – LA 2007 Awards

On Friday November 2nd 2007 The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival Awards Celebration took place honoring filmmaker award winners from the past festivals of March 1st-8th 2007 Los Angeles festival, July 19th-26th New York and September 27th- October 4th Los Angeles at China Club in Midtown Manhattan New York.
LA 2007 Awards
Grand Jury [...]

My Name Is Alan – Slant Review

by Paul Schrodt
True to its title, My Name Is Alan and I Paint Picturessees the world through its subject’s childlike eyes. Alan Russell-Cowan (a.k.a. Alan Streets) is a schizophrenic artist whose paintings both distort and insulate him from reality, but instead of understanding this process, writer-director Johnny Boston lets Alan’s corrosive worldview speak for his documentary. Boston [...]

Using Art to Exorcise His Demons – NY Times Review

By MATT ZOLLER SEITZ
There is no shortage of documentaries about mentally ill artists, but “My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures,” by the director Johnny Boston, finds a fresh way into the subject.
 
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The artist Alan Russell Cowan with one of his paintings.
At first this feature about the British-born New York painter Alan [...]

My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures – NY Magazine Review

 Critics’ Pick
Johnny Boston’s involving documentary about Alan “Streets,” a paranoid-schizophrenic artist from Britain trying to make it in New York, walks a fine line between easy sentimentality and dry, clinical analysis. But despite the obvious pathos of its subject, the film somehow manages to avoid both pitfalls, thanks mainly to its foregrounding of the artist’s [...]

My Name is Alan and I Paint Pictures – Wikipedia

My Name is Alan, and I Paint Pictures is a 2007 documentary directed by Johnny Boston. The film stars and is materially about Alan Russell-Cowan, an artist diagnosed with schizophrenia.

The documentary My Name is Alan, and I Paint Pictures focuses on Alan Russel-Cowan, a street painter diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, as he works to break his way into the professional art world.