Starting this Friday (3/5/10), the Mask and Wig Club will be traveling to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Long Island and Boston to present their 122nd annual production “A Cheshire Catastrophe”. I’ve been told it’s like Alice in Wonderland meets The Wizard of Oz. If you live in these cities (or are in Philly and haven’t […]
As part of my new Fashionistas series, I share a story about one Penn alum’s new media fashion company that began at Penn and is now an established online business… Ethan Lipsitz (C’06, Off the Beat) wants you to experience fabric self-expression from the company he stitched together since his days as an undergrad at Penn. […]
If a piece of food is labeled “organic”, how much do you trust that it is good for you? One Penn filmmaker explores this and his findings may surprise you… Kip Pastor (C’04, Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society)‘s feature-length documentary In Organic We Trust (set to come out next fall) will take a first hand look at the […]
Last August, I I posted about producer Jake Avnet (C’05, Co-Chairman of Undergraduate Film Advisory Board, Founder of the Lecture Series) and his hot viral video take-offs about (1) Trojan Condoms and (2) the film American Psycho. Since then, Jake has produced a very funny, very NSFW viral video with Scott Baio. And now Jake […]
Back in October, we started our “An Actor’s Path” vlog series with Penn alum Alex Weber (C’09, Lacrosse). Just a few months in LA, Alex is definitely being very proactive with his career. Last month he got his new headshots and this month he signed with a print agency and got his new comp cards […]
Yesterday, I began Games and Movies Week with some news of People’s Choice Award nominations for some of our alumni’s films. Today, it’s game time! Check out this entertaining video described as “An intense game of Risk is condensed into one minute of video”. The film was a class project from Jason Merrin (C’13). If […]