Global Wahrman

Nancy has passed away and nobody I know is willing to talk to me about it.   We go to the grave alone, I guess.   In honor of Nancy, here ar...

I am still reeling from the news that Nancy St. John is dead. How can someone be just a few years older than me be (a) so much more accompli...

draft There was a time, perhaps 1984 or so, long before computer animation was accepted by polite society, when the true believers would ass...

draft A good friend recently passed away, unexpectedly.  Steve Gano was a graduate of the Media Lab and a mutual friend of dozens of peopl...

draft Memorial for Liza Keith at Restaurant Hama in Venice on March 3, 2019. Allen Battino, Phillipe Bergeron, Joseph Goldstone,...

My friend Anne Anne M. Adams is in a hospice and is not expected to regain consciousness. She did an amazing job of fighting cancer and the...

draft I wish to note that Ursula K LeGuin is dead. She was a great influence on me growing up. It makes me ashamed to have failed...

Prophets of doom rarely made a good living in the old days. Prophets of happiness and so forth could count on buying that new goat, wago...

There are, or were, two important vegetarian restaurants in Los Angeles. One was The Source on Sunset Blvd and the other was The Inn of ...

[updated 3/15/2013 to mention Al Gmuer and Jerry Mills] Many years ago, our little production company, deGraf/Wahrman, inc (dWi) ended u...

As we examine the origin and history of visual effects, from time to time we will come across masterpieces of the art of the opening title...

[Colleagues have asked, where is a picture of Wendy Wahrman?  When I get a suitable picture of Wendy I will post it].  Once upon a time I...

The other day after a memorial service for an old friend from Disney, some of the Disney people took me to a local restaurant for dinner. ...

This post is about the time I thought I had seen a ghost. This is the only time in my life when I have sincerely, completely and wit...

The following stories are probably true or at least partially true. When I worked at the RAND Corporation we were managed with a syste...

This essay is on the general topic of how we perceive coincidence, and read patterns into them.  Do those patterns actually exist?   I doubt...

This post will showcase two very elegant visual effects shots/sequences in the movie The Bourne Identity (2002) . Sadly none of the cas...