Posts by Ashlee Renz-Hotz

How These 10 Books Are Like a Shot of Tequila for 2017 Like a sip of the golden fire, these books will make you feel invincible.
Some of these tomes will open you like a window and let it all hang out. Others will flash some skin. Others will make you weepy, with a whopping hangover after. And, some, I can promise, you just might hate.
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How to Find Your Great Idea The quest for that boom moment
We all are in search of our profound thoughts, that bit of brilliance we know is waiting to come to us. You know what I’m talking about. That boom moment that will make you a lot of money. That inspiration that will write your novel for you. Get you a zillion followers. Change your life.
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The Virtual Vision: How Virtual Reality Is Changing Art and Our Worlds
VR is now being used for gaming, as a way to tell stories, view movies, train athletes, pilots, doctors, interact with others, design architecture, plan transportation projects, even for therapy.
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7 Lessons to Inspire from Entrepreneurs at Tribeca’s Imagination Day
The Tribeca Film Festival is notorious for exploring world innovations and new ways of storytelling.
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Film Industry Down-low from the American Film Market
Here are the top tips and hot, sweaty news from this year’s American Film Market.
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Performance Art or the Art of Performance? Marina Abramovic’s “Goldberg”
This is when I realize something – Marina Abramovic is from another planet.
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Is America Ready for the Real “Hamlet”?
If Lars Eidinger’s “Hamlet” is so groundbreaking, why hasn’t it, or Mr. Eidinger, come to the US?
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Burning Questions for Lars Eidinger, One of the Truest Actors in the World WARNING: You might have to smell his “piss in the corner"
I can say without hesitation, Lars Eidinger is the best, truest theater actor I have ever seen. He’s not so bad digitally either.
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For the Spoilsports, Downbeats and Pessimists An impromptu therapy session
I sometimes find myself still pandering to my inner saboteur, always trying to justify my choices. When a stranger asks me what I do, I will often say a general, airy, “I’m in the arts.”
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The Audience: Find Everyone’s Story
As if “making it” wasn’t enough, after a life-changing internship Nana Onishi finally found her true path. She became the gallery owner of Onishi Gallery.
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The Audience: A Changing Game
I have been pondering the idea of the modern audience and how difficult it is in this world of internet, TV, cinema, art, gaming, etc., to draw people in.
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Look Into My Eye The lowdown on Skype auditions
Get ready. Skype is the new media wave for auditions, chats, and interviews. You will be looking into that little black hole a lot.
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Will the Artist Please Stand Up?
While waiting in the snack line, a middle-aged man with a fantastically broad NY accent turned around and asked me that grand question: “Are you an actor?”
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