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Submit A Pilot
Everyone in the world is invited to submit a Channel 101 pilot. Make the first episode of any kind of show you want, no longer than 5 minutes. Do not strive to fill 5 minutes. It can be five seconds long. 5 minutes is the absolute maximum. via Submit A Pilot.

Story Structure 106: Five Minute Pilots
When I talk about “story structure” I'm talking about something very scientific, like “geometry.” Your story could have “perfect” structure, in that it hits all the resonant points craved by the audience mind, but that won't make it a perfect piece of entertainment. Example: Once upon a time, there was a thirsty man on a couch. He got up off the couch, went to his kitchen, searched through his refrigerator, found a soda, drank it, and returned to his couch, thirst quenched. That was “perfect story structure.” On the other hand, the story sucked. via

Kata Dream Bag Challenge
KATA invites you to design your dream photo bag and submit it to the challenge. Every design posted on the Dream Bag Gallery will be reviewed on originality and merit; first by viewer votes and then by the judging panel. The winner will have the original Dream Bag hand built by Kata and win a professional photo kit worth $5000: Canon 5D Mark II DSLR body, 2 Canon lenses Gitzo tripod kit and Litepanels Camera Light. via Dream Bag Challenge.

Judd Apatow Internet Interactive Interview Live wednesday
Judd Apatow is letting the internet interview him, live, on Funny or Die’s Writers Room series this Wednesday at 12:30 PST. They are taking questions for the famed comedy writer-director (Superbad, Anchorman, Pineapple Express) on Facebook and so far 160 people have submitted their pressing inquests. From the looks of it, this could be worth a new lunchtime browser window. Over/Under on number of Freaks and Geeks questions is 4. via Judd Apatow Lets Internet Interview Him, Here Come ‘Freaks and Geeks’.

MoMA | Tim Burton
Taking inspiration from popular culture, Tim Burton (American, b. 1958) has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of personal vision, garnering for himself an international audience of fans and influencing a generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics. This exhibition explores the full range of his creative work, tracing the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work in film. It brings together over seven hundred examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, photographs, moving image works, concept art, storyboards, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera from such films as Edwa