"Fifteen Minutes - More Or
Less"
photo essay by Alan C. Baird, 9TimeZones.com
[Francis Ford Coppola's Virtual
Studio offers a free membership; after joining the
site's
Photos section, all Zoetrope links on this page (including my
bio)
will become active.]
Thanks to a plane ticket from CNET producer
Shirin Etessam, I had the honor of
participating in a TV.com
report which features the Virtual Studio ("Coppola's Zoetrope")! Hop aboard the ol'
broadbandwagon and sample their online
clip,
excerpted from a television episode which was first broadcast on the weekend of February 17,
2001. [Free viewing software: RealPlayer 8 Basic
plugin plus Netscape browser,
or cheesy knockoffs.] This segment
also aired on the CNBC
cable/satellite network, during their Saturday and Sunday (2/17+18) editions of
News.com.
Here's a bit of behind-the-scenes material, culled from my small
rôle
in the video shoot:
Driven, Part 1: Anikó recently
converted her California learner's permit into a full-blown driving license, so she wanted to
christen it at the Burbank airport. [She's my new feleség ("wife") as opposed
to felesegg ("half-*ss"). I've discovered, to my dismay, that the
Hungarian language can be verrry tricky.]
Driven, Part 2: Jennifer Knott graciously carved out a chunk of time
from her busy day, to meet the flight and deliver me to CNET's San Francisco studio.
Traffic was heavy on the Bay Bridge, and somewhere in the middle, I may have badgered
her into joining up as a Zoetrouper.
The Boss:
Shirin is caught red-handed, in the act of producing.
World HQs For A Thousand, Alex: Transamerica &
AZ.
Old Friends, Bookends: I
scrounged a few minutes to visit college buddy Tom Dolan in his shop on Geary - still
crazy after all these years.
On
Location: Scott Wicks stows his camera and Charlie Wagner reflects on what might have
been, while Shirin (center) lowers the boom.
Seal(s) Of Approval: All of these lazy
flipper-limbed circus refugees are very much alive, even though they didn't look (or smell) that
way.
There's No Place
Like Home: Somebody seems to be thoroughly enjoying the trip's
booty...
[And here are two
more samples of Anikó's
photography!]