Make Your Own Damn Movie!: Secrets of a Renegade Director

Lloyd Kaufman, the writer/producer/director of such cult-classic films as The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke 'Em High, and Tromeo and Juliet, offers a guide to movie-making unlike any other available anywhere. In 25 years, Kaufman, along with partner Michael Herz, has built Troma Studios up from a company struggling to find its voice in a field crowded with competitors to its current--and legendary--status as a lone survivor, a bastion of true cinematic independence, and the world's greatest collection of camp on film.

As entertaining and funny as it is informative and insightful, Make Your Own Damn Movie! places Kaufman's radically low-budget, independent-studio style of film-making directly in the reader's hands. Thus we learn how to: develop and write a knock-out screenplay; raise funding; find locations and cast actors; hire a crew; obtain equipment, permits, and music rights (all for little or no money); make incredible special effects for $0.79 each; charm, schmooze, and network while on the film-festival circuit; and, finally, make a bad actor act so bad it's actually good.

From script-writing and directing to financing and marketing, this book is brimming with utterly off-the-wall, decidedly maverick, yet consistently proven advice on how to fully develop one's idea for an independent film.

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Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

"Magnificent! The best how-to manual ever published." — Kevin Kelly, Cool Tools

The renowned author of Understanding Comics offers brilliant instruction on how to actually create this widely beloved art form.

Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism, and web design. In Reinventing Comics, McCloud took this to the next level, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are generated, read, and perceived today. Now, in Making Comics, McCloud focuses his analysis on the art form itself, exploring the creation of comics, from the broadest principles to the sharpest details (like how to accentuate a character's facial muscles in order to form the emotion of disgust rather than the emotion of surprise.) And he does all of it in his inimitable voice and through his cartoon stand–in narrator, mixing dry humor and legitimate instruction. McCloud shows his reader how to master the human condition through word and image in a brilliantly minimalistic way. Both comic book devotees and the uninitiated will marvel at this journey into a once–underappreciated art form.

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GF expects me to always drive her from work

We are both 25. Recently her dad helped me with buying a car as I don't know anything about them and he had his fair share of cars in life. I work 3 days from home and 2 days on site. She is working at the restaurant as waitress (she starts uni soon but only 2 times a month on the weekends). I work 7 30 to 15 30 and she is working 11 00 to 21 or 22, not every day because mixed schedule. We are currently arguing wheter i should always drive her from work to house (we live together) but I dont feel like its reasonable. I told her that she has a bus and it would be cheaper, she told me that she doesn't like taking buses when its dark because its sketchy at night. So I told her I can drive her from work but not everyday and she got angry saying its weird to her and all her friends from work have boyfriends that drive them, that her dad helped me buy a car and I should want my girlfriend to be safe. I feel it's either I drive her always or we cant come to compromise.

I honestly doesn't know if Im in the wrong here, her arguments seem kinda valid? But at the same time im not her chauffeur, she is a grown adult and can take the fucking bus, its not like im not exhausted after work.

My answer to this is I should stick to my boundary and not drive her and see what happens but this doesn't seem fair somehow, am I gaslighted here?

Edit: I feel like I should add that she cooks clean I buy grocieres, we try to split expenses but I still provide more. She has 6 min to bus station from work and then she has to wait 10 to 20 minutes for bus, after that she has 3 min from bus station to home. Driving her takes 30 to 40 min total.

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