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About rorydean

Rory Dean is a multi-medium artist, writer and new media strategist working as a creative consultant and technology liaison in the San Francisco Bay Area. He specializes in print-to-web publicity, promotions and design marketing using traditional and social media networks. As a motion pictures & television professional, his short films, productions and commercials have screened to domestic and international audiences. His clients include artists, entertainers, corporations and non-profits. Dean is co-owner and founder of Dissave Pictures, a boutique production company focusing on audio, video, photography and multi-media designs. Dean's personal and professional interests include dreaming and avid notebook journaling, creative and copy writing, promotions and marketing, audio/video production, photography, videography, editing, web design and new media. He’s also a fan of collaboration and knows when to turn the reigns over, offer feedback, lead the team and step aside. His portfolio includes print, online, film, video, photography, graphic design and promotions. He’ll show you. He has a book and everything. "When not juggling various online worlds, I do a pretty good mime – but that’s another story."

Some Safety Glass Distance (2013)

Writing is in my blood, it makes me feel connected to an often overwhelming sense of disconnectedness. Continue reading

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Argo (2012)

So “Argo” should be on your list of movies to watch if you’ve missed it up to now. Be advised that the thrills come in bite-fulls and the story is much more about an ensemble cast than any one particular player. This has double feature written all over it. Pick up a couple of other movies while you’re at it and if all goes South in a hurry you can skip around, go and come back, have a hot dog why don’t you and then give it a while. Call “Argo” the lettuce and the cheese – just make sure you’ve got the right accoutrements to make it a meal. Continue reading

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I Melt With You (2011)

“I Melt With You” feels like the mid-life rights of passage you’ve heard about or are living, the runway that many men land and take off from. Gathered for many drinks with the best friends of their lives quickly becomes a dangerous Bacchanalia of doomed ritualizing, darkly lit and disturbing yet familiar to anyone who has ever fallen off the beaten path and enjoyed it too much. Continue reading

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Female Directors Redux

Reblogged from Above the Line: Female Directors Redux – Women in Film in Hollywood and beyond After reviewing my original list ”Female Directors – Above and Beyond a Call to Duty” and discussing female filmmakers with a variety of film aficionados, … Continue reading

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Savages (2012)

“Savages” is based on the wildly popular novel of the same name by Don Winslow, with a script co-collaborated between Stone, Winslow and Shane Salerno, the film is rapid fire tongues and razor wire wit governed by Stone’s obsession with the collateral damage of good and evil. It.feels like the perfect vehicle for Stone to crack the whip on the lazy and the uninspired who watch in idle fascination as media and technology washes the consequences of their detachment to violence over them. Continue reading

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