Global Wahrman

draft I just want to get a message to Richard Edlund, ASC, somehow.  I know he is on the Board of Governors of the Academy.  Anyway I want...

draft If there had not been such a brouhaha about “diversity” and the “motion picture industry”, I might not have discovered which of ...

When experienced and senior people such as myself deign to teach callow youth about the "industry", what is our motivation and ...

Carly Archibeque at some social event.   Formerly married to a good friend of mine, and now very distant, perhaps to create a clean beginni...

Warning: This essay contains spoilers for the film Pacific Rim (2013). Some are born great and some have the mantle of greatness put...

Here are my comments on the visual effects nominees for this year's Academy Awards. To recap, there were ten films on the long...

This is my report on the Academy VFX Bakeoff.  This year I was accompanied by Jon Snoddy and his friend Allison.  Their presence kept me ...

Tonight is the so-called Bakeoff  at the Academy for the Visual Effects nominations. The screening is for the Visual Effects subsection ...

When I declined to attend the SIGGRAPH 2013 Keynote Speech, a friend was surprised and concerned. The Keynote speech was a collection o...

Tonight is Hollywood's most holy night of the year. It is the day when our people come from all over the world to virtually or liter...

The visual effects nominees are: Life of Pi, Prometheus, Snow White, Avengers, and Hobbit. My unnamed academy award winning source got fo...