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Echo Park Theater Society will screen it for no fee for you ($5 entrance), as part of their "Micro Cinema" series. And you can do a Q&A afterward. The theater holds 60 people.

http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/rabbithole/microcinema/index.htm

I am not a hipster (I grew up in/live in echo park, and I hate their parking spot taking/beard growing ways), but I have to say that most of the time, a mac is a good deal.

It just works.

Another reason is the bundled and subsidized software. iMovie and Final Cut Express are unmatched on PC. I LOL when I see the MS PC commercial that shows some woman buying a computer for video editing for less that 2 grand. What is she going to use to capture and edit video? Adobe's Premiere costs almost 2k.. iMovie is free, and is more than enough for 95% of home users. Need more features? Final Cut Express is subsidized, $99. Want to spend a shit load of money? get the full final cut package, it will cost the same amount as Premiere Pro.

I have never bought a mac. I have a retail license for windows xp pro that cost $150. I did this because, at the time, there was more open source video encoding software availible on Win32.

However, I will never upgrade to Vista, and will likely never upgrade to Windows 7. Linux desktops are mature enough for everyday use, especially since 95% of poeple ONLY use their web browsers (my sister-in-law has used her computer for 12 months and has not created a single document).

Need a document? Open Office is okay (not great), and works on Win32, Mac, and Linux. Open Office Base works very well.

Summary: most users would be better off with the closed hardware and subsidized software that comes with mac. Nerds should be using Linux 100% of the time. Microsoft should be severely punished for their OS blunders (home users chose them only because it is the de facto standard in busness, but the majority of businesses are still using XP, two years after Vista's introduction, so there is NO reason for home users to use Vista.)

Jesus, I've ignored this thread for weeks, and now y'all are meeting close enough for me to walk! Then again, I'd have to cross the on-ramp to the 2 freeway at glendale blvd. No stop sign or light, I've never actually seen, let alone yielded to, a pedestrian there, but to be fair everyone drives that stretch pretty fast (35 zone). Its too close to drive too... Catch you next year!

Seriously, I hope everyone enjoys my neighborhood and Bavarian costumed waitresses at the Red Lion Tavern. And yield to pedestrians, you never know when it'll be a fellow sifter!

Oh, and in case anyone wants to confirm their directions: From the Interstate 5, take the 2 freeway south (Echo Park), freeway ends in about a mile (it was supposed to extend to west LA, buts that's a whole other story), exit on the RIGHT (don't actually know what that exits called since I always go the other way, but if you stay left you get dumped onto glendale blvd going the wrong way.) Turn right unto glendale blvd (heading north), the Tavern is about half a mile away (you'll go up and over a hill, the bar is near the bottom, so you won't see it until you're pretty close) and will be on your right.

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Backyard? Oh, someone must live in the valley.


Actually...This was my previous house in Echo Park (just behind Dodger Stadium) I shot that back in November and just got around to cutting it together yesterday. The house was built back in 1918 so they had yards in both the front and back, back then.