LA’s prized FYF Fest returns to heat up the streets for its 12th annual year, August 27th and 28th! Setting up shop in Exposition Park, the popular music festival boasts a truly stellar lineup. Heavy hitters like Kendrick Lamar, Grimes, Father John Misty and Hot Chip are set to perform, along with indie darlings like […]
Been wanting to check out the thriving music scene, artsy, coffee-drinking, beer-drinking, beard-loving, slightly-granola, slightly-nihilistic (but nice) vibe that is Portland? Get thyself to Project Pabst, occuring the weekend of August 27th. Get there early, stay later in the week and we’re talking a full-fledge vacay in the cleanest, most organically fueled city of the […]
You’ve just spent endless months toiling away at your desk to force an idea out of your head and onto your computer screen. You save your beloved screenplay as a PDF file and giddily send it to your entire circle of friends. You preemptively pat yourself on the back, anticipating the pure storytelling bliss that […]
Not to be beat by last year’s killer lineup, the second annual Wrecking Ball festival comes in swinging, this year, with a lineup that absolutely crushes. Taking place in Atlanta, Georgia, the two-day music fest will feature the cream of the crop of the indie, punk, emo, and hardcore rock scenes, boasting performances from legends […]
We’re dead in the middle of the summer blockbuster season. Massive $200 million + movies all battling for the attention of the general public, with each flick desperately attempting to prove that it’s worth your hard earned cash. So which big summer blockbusters are worthy of seeing and which smaller, more intimate films do you […]
Making things is hard. It’s so much easier to live a life of consumption. Just sitting back and playing video games, reading books, and watching movies. It’s so much easier to let life wash over you. But that’s not satisfying at the end of the day, is it? Do you wake up fulfilled after a […]
Steven Deleonardis enrolled in the Film Connection because he liked the idea of learning on-the-job with a mentor. Little could he have known that within a few months he would be taking paid travel gigs with his mentor studio that would take him to locations across the United States, and even Hawaii! “It’s been great,” […]
Recording Connection student Charles Huston (Chicago, IL) is a lifelong, self-proclaimed “tech head” who says he knew from his early teens that he wanted to produce music. “I was big into shoegaze,” he says, “so I started getting into Radiohead. I was really big into Pink Floyd, My Bloody Valentine, just the craziest textures…And then […]
In the age of instant access via the World Wide Web it’s a bit surprising that most people still have major blind spots in their cultural awareness. With its stirring rhythms and soaring harmonies, music binds cultures and transcends language and heritage. It’s arguably the oldest and most important of all the art forms. As […]
Writing can be hard. It can seem like a massive brick wall just appears in your head and there’s no way to get those ideas, words, and scenes down on paper. At times, getting through the wall requires not thinking about writing as your great “masterwork” but rather, setting up a series of creative problems […]
