FrankenScript :: Lee Gabel's Screenwriting Journal/Blog

I follow a bunch of people on Twitter. Some are prolific, and some are not. I was wondering today how much time is spent tweeting, so I did a little math. It’s actually quite startling. According to the Wikipedia entry for “words per minute (wpm)“, for the “purposes of measurement a word is standardized to [...]

Yesterday, I had to console my distraught son about his scratched Scooby-Doo DVDs. They were throwing read errors, making his beloved shows unwatchable. In there was a lesson about keeping good care of his things, but I just had to try and salvage the DVDs. That’s what good Dads do, right? So I hit the [...]

I encountered this the other day, out of the blue. For no apparent reason, going to Twitter.com resulted in a blank white screen. Lots of people are having this problem. I discovered a possible solution (at least it worked for me). I am running Windows XP and Firefox 3.6.13. Your results may vary, but I [...]

This entry is a little bit of a departure. I spent last week wading through Vegas Video for a personal video project of mine. There were clips that were very boring at normal speed, but when sped up by 400% created a more dynamic shot. It’s easy enough to speed up a clip in Vegas. [...]

From my visual effects side of life… Serious job offer for an experienced Nuke compositor on stereoscopic feature film. Telecommute ok. Email with your job experience and a link to a reel to: this email address

Working the day job as opposed to working a little less and having more free time to write. That’s the trade-off. I have accepted some visual effects work that is a little beyond my skill/comfort level. Things are taking me twice as long to do stuff, and I am still getting paid the same amount. [...]