Posts by Ashlee Renz-Hotz

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.

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.

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.

The Tribeca Film Festival is notorious for exploring world innovations and new ways of storytelling.

Here are the top tips and hot, sweaty news from this year’s American Film Market.

This is when I realize something – Marina Abramovic is from another planet.

If Lars Eidinger’s “Hamlet” is so groundbreaking, why hasn’t it, or Mr. Eidinger, come to the US?

I can say without hesitation, Lars Eidinger is the best, truest theater actor I have ever seen. He’s not so bad digitally either.

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.”

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.

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.

Get ready. Skype is the new media wave for auditions, chats, and interviews. You will be looking into that little black hole a lot.

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?”