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FILMZINE los angeles palm springs Vol.14 Issue 275 OCTOBER 2019 #PEOPLE #INTERVIEWS #DINING #CHARITY #FILM #ENTERTAINMENT
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FILMZINE<br />
los angeles<br />
palm springs<br />
Vol.14 Issue 275 OCTOBER <strong>2019</strong><br />
#PEOPLE #INTERVIEWS #DINING #CHARITY #FILM #ENTERTAINMENT
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(213) 493-5312
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Fender Game Of Thrones Sigil Guitars-<br />
D.B. Weiss’ Personal Collection<br />
Photography by Jodi Domingue<br />
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In celebration of<br />
Game of Thrones’<br />
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The Hunter Hayes model is made from lightweight<br />
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The Budweiser Clydesdales refers<br />
to teams of Clydesdale horses<br />
used to pull restored turn-of-thecentury<br />
beer wagons for Budweiser.<br />
They first appeared in 1933,<br />
given as a gift to the brewery’s<br />
CEO from his son to celebrate the<br />
repeal of prohibition.<br />
There are a few Clydesdales<br />
stabled at the brewery in summer.<br />
Warm Springs Ranch in<br />
Boonville, MO is the Budweiser<br />
Clydesdales breeding farm.<br />
There are several tours of different<br />
length and focus available<br />
and each requires a ticket.
Anheuser-Busch owns a total of<br />
about 250 Clydesdales, kept at various<br />
locations throughout the United<br />
States, one of the largest herds of<br />
Clydesdale horses in the world. The<br />
largest breeding facility is at Warm<br />
Springs Ranch near Boonville, Missouri<br />
which is about 150 miles west<br />
of St. Louis.<br />
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CHAPTER ONE: EBER-<br />
HARD ANHEUSER, MEET<br />
ADOLPHUS BUSCH<br />
“It is my aim to win the American people<br />
over ... to make them all lovers of<br />
beer.” - Adolphus Busch (1905)<br />
Our founder, Adolphus Busch, journeyed to America<br />
from Germany in 1857, determined to make his dreams<br />
come true. Adolphus wasted no time once he landed in<br />
St. Louis, and started work at a brewing supply company.<br />
Among his clients was Eberhard Anheuser (the name<br />
might sound familiar), who owned what was then known<br />
as E. Anheuser & Company. Adolphus married Eberhard’s<br />
daughter, Lilly, in 1861.<br />
After fighting for the Union during the Civil War, Adolphus<br />
joined his father-in-law’s business, bringing big, ambitious<br />
ideas with him. Adolphus’s entrepreneurial spirit and sales<br />
prowess contributed enormously to the brewery’s growth.<br />
By 1875, Adolphus was named secretary-treasurer, and<br />
in 1879, the company’s name was officially changed to<br />
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association. After Eberhard’s<br />
passing in 1880, Adolphus became president.<br />
CHAPTER TWO: A LESSON IN INNOVATION<br />
Adolphus was drawn to St. Louis because of the city’s<br />
large German population. But a large German population<br />
meant a lot of beer, which in turn meant a lot of competition<br />
for Adolphus and Eberhard’s brewery. Luckily, Adolphus<br />
was a talented salesman with an eye for innovation.<br />
He wasn’t about to be discouraged by competition.<br />
Recognizing the need to expand outside of St. Louis to<br />
places with a less-crowded beer market, Adolphus stayed<br />
close to emerging technologies and developments that<br />
could make expansion possible. One major development<br />
was pasteurization, which increased the shelf life of bottled<br />
beers by up to four months, and allowed for further<br />
shipping. In fact, Adolphus pasteurized his beer before<br />
America pasteurized milk.<br />
Refrigerated rail cars also helped Adolphus ship his beer<br />
across long distances, but they were expensive. He took<br />
matters into his own hands and started a company to<br />
build the rail cars faster, and for less money. A network<br />
of rail-side ice houses followed shortly after, and before<br />
long, Anheuser-Busch was taking the entire country by<br />
storm.
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1. Invocation (1:59)<br />
2. Rock Star (5:18)<br />
3. Alcohol (4:59)<br />
4. The Firestorm Symphony<br />
(5:06)<br />
5. Go To Hell (6:53)<br />
6. Entr’acte Confusion (2:16)<br />
7. I Wanna Know (3:46)<br />
8. Entr’acte Frustration (0:56)<br />
9. Sick & Tired (4:52)<br />
10. Entr’acte Deception (0:59)<br />
11. Attitude (5:32)<br />
12. Can You Feel It (5:51)<br />
13. The Outsider (7:12)<br />
14. Black & Brown (4:38)
FIRESTORM ON VINYL<br />
Firestorm will be available on all popular<br />
formats, including digital/streaming, CD and<br />
vinyl. The vinyl version will be a limited edition<br />
double set with a bonus Rocky Kramer<br />
poster, and should satisfy every audiophile<br />
out there, as it’s 45 RPM, 180 Gram virgin<br />
vinyl and mastered by Bernie Grundman<br />
himself at Bernie Grundman Mastering.<br />
Firestorm comes out August 13 worldwide.<br />
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RANDAL KLEISER<br />
GREASE DIRECTOR TALKS ABOUT HIS VR<br />
DRAMA PROJECT DEFROST<br />
Best known as the director of the<br />
classic musical Grease (1978), Randal<br />
Kleiser has made quite a departure for<br />
his latest project – the virtual reality<br />
drama series Defrost, which consists<br />
of 11 five-minute episodes.<br />
In a screening held in Beijing on April<br />
27, Chinese technology writers and<br />
others watched three episodes of<br />
the series. Afterwards, the audience<br />
had the chance to chat with Kleiser<br />
through Skype.<br />
All 11 episodes of Defrost were released<br />
worldwide on April 25 on Veer,<br />
a Beijing-based platform for VR content<br />
set up by three young Chinese<br />
entrepreneurs in 2016.<br />
Kleiser tells the Post in a phone interview<br />
that he used over US$300,000 of his own<br />
money to make the film, the script of which<br />
he finished even before he made Grease.<br />
“My brother is a visual effects supervisor. He<br />
has done many movies. He began his career<br />
with Tron, the Disney picture. He always<br />
shows me new things like digital make-up<br />
and the Oculus Rift,” he says.<br />
“I first tried Oculus four years ago. It was walking<br />
through a villa in Italy in 3D. I was able to<br />
walk around, go up the steps, look out and see<br />
it all as if I was really there. It blew me away. I<br />
wanted to figure out how to do a drama with it.<br />
I thought of the script that I had written a long<br />
time ago and I adapted it to VR.”
Defrost takes place in 2045 and revolves around<br />
the experiences of Joan, who was cryogenically<br />
frozen after suffering from a stroke and woke up<br />
after three decades. Instead of being happy for<br />
her reunion with family, she was weak, confused<br />
and at the mercy of a dubious doctor who cares<br />
more about showcasing her as a successful<br />
medial experiment than her well-being.<br />
Donning VR goggles, the audience assumes the<br />
perspective of Joan, witnessing her encounters<br />
with her relatives and medical personnel firsthand.<br />
Kleiser says each of the five-minute episodes<br />
was done in one take with no cuts. “I got the<br />
actors to rehearse how to move within the five<br />
minutes. It’s like a small play for each episode.<br />
When we rehearse for each episode, we have<br />
an actress in the wheelchair, so the other actors<br />
can interact with her.<br />
“When we are shooting, we put her out and put<br />
in a dummy [with a VR camera in the place of a<br />
head] instead. That’s how we are able to create<br />
the emotions [felt by Joan, which are in turn felt<br />
by the audience].”<br />
In 2015, Kleiser directed his first play The Penis<br />
Chronicles, about the uncertainties of eight New<br />
York men over their sexuality and masculinity.<br />
He says that experience has helped him with<br />
making Defrost.<br />
“If I hadn’t done that play I would not have been<br />
able to do Defrost very well. I learned how to<br />
direct the audience’s attention without having a<br />
camera or lens or [film] editing. [I learn how to]<br />
just do it all in one wide shot.”<br />
In spite of the huge resources tech titans like<br />
Samsung and Facebook poured into developing<br />
VR headsets and the heated hype regarding the<br />
potential of the technology, VR is still a niche<br />
industry with only techies and hard core video<br />
game fans willing to buy the expensive headsets.<br />
Kleiser says for VR to revolutionalise the filmmaking<br />
industry, the technology has to overcome<br />
hurdles regarding definition and user comfort.<br />
“Each episode of Defrost is only five minutes<br />
long because people who use VR only like to<br />
be in it for five minutes at a time. Right now, the<br />
headsets are kind of clunky and uncomfortable.<br />
As the technology of the head mounted displays<br />
get better, lighter and easier, people might probably<br />
want to stay in it longer.<br />
“Right now, we are at [only] 4K [definition].<br />
[However], 16K is [the level of definition] which<br />
is supposed to be close to the way the human<br />
eyes see. So we have a long way to go to make<br />
it look totally real.”<br />
Defrost is not Kleiser’s first brush with cutting-edge<br />
technology. Working in 70mm 3D, he<br />
directed Honey, I Shrunk the Audience, which<br />
ran for over 10 years at the Disney Parks in Anaheim,<br />
Orlando, Tokyo and Paris.<br />
Kleiser has also developed a virtual-reality<br />
simulator for the US government to train soldiers<br />
to handle improvised explosive devices in the<br />
Middle East.<br />
“I really enjoyed doing that project,” he says. “I<br />
have met one of the soldiers that went through<br />
the training. He went to Afghanistan and he<br />
was blown up in a Humvee and the training<br />
helped him survive.<br />
It was very exciting to know that I have actually<br />
helped people survive an explosion. The<br />
simulator is still being used. All the people<br />
going to Afghanistan have to go through this<br />
training before they leave.”<br />
In spite of VR’s current shortcomings, Kleiser<br />
is full confidence in its future potential. He<br />
is also ready to make the second season of<br />
Defrost if he can find investors.<br />
“There’s nothing like VR. You feel like you’ve<br />
really been there and experience the movie,<br />
rather than watch it. I like the idea of [the<br />
audience being the first-person immersive<br />
viewer]. There’s no other medium which<br />
does it.”<br />
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