Get Reel

Get Reel gives you tools to view the media in a completely new way that will create mental, physical, and spiritual health and happiness while you view. In a media-heavy world, you can be the producer of your life and learn how to view TV, movies, and the Internet consciously and stop being influenced by the hypnotic effects of their messages. You will become aware of the ways that viewing media causes hypnosis and how you can break any trance you may have absorbed, replacing it with your own ideas of how you want to live your life. Get Reel moves you from pursuing goals and ideas that you attempt to fulfill without satisfaction toward the ones that are truly your own. It provides the blueprint on how to:

• break any ineffective belief or hypnotic trance that you unconsciously absorbed from the media, your family, peers, or any outside influence;

• discover the conscious, effective, fulfilled person that you truly are, free of outside influence;

• learn conscious living skills that will enable you to view each opportunity in your life with full awareness, allowing you to make the best choices;

• continue to enjoy the entertaining, educational, and fun benefits of your favorite website, TV show, or movie;

• turn struggles into open pathways to your happiness and success with trance-breaking techniques; and

• have a great time in the process.

You can get into the film industry and this book will show you how. The beginning of this book is structured to take you through each step in finding your first job in the film industry. It assumes that you have made the decision to move to Los Angeles, or are seriously considering a move out West. Regardless of what level of readiness you are in, there are many key factors to consider: getting to Los Angeles; finding an apartment; preparing a CV; getting an agent; etc. Each is a necessary step in becoming a successful player in this industry, regardless of what position you aim to hold. After taking care of all this, you can then move on to the main goal, getting the 'reel' job as an actor, a writer, a director, etc.

Are you an animator looking to get your foot in the door to the top studios? It's tough if you don't have a demo reel and portfolio that reflects your unique style and incredible talents. The reception of that reel will make or break you; so it's no wonder that creating a demo reel can be such a daunting task. Reel Success by Cheryl Cabrera can help. This book guides you into putting the right content into your portfolio, how to cater to the right audience, and how to harness the power of social media and network effectively. Accompanied by case studies of actual students' demo reels, this book teaches how to develop a critical eye toward effective and ineffective demo reels. Looking to get your foot in the door? Break it down with Reel Success.

This book not only offers tips to make fly fishing easier and more productive, it helps make fly fishing more fun! The up-close and detailed photographs show how. The author has collected these 300 tips from other anglers and expert sources over the years; everything from buying new waders to using hemostats to timing the strike to casting sinking fly lines. He's tested and used them all-his advice really works. Chapters include tips on: Preparing to Fly Fish; Tackle and Tackle Rigging; Care and Cleaning ; Freshwater Fly Fishing; Saltwater Fly Fishing and Traveling with Fly Tackle.

This is a reference manual for basic information about bass fishing for novice and experienced bass fishermen, both men and women. How to find fish, develop patterns, which baits to use and where and when to use them.

Reel to Reel, Alan Shapiro’s twelfth collection of poetry, moves outward from the intimate spaces of family and romantic life to embrace not only the human realm of politics and culture but also the natural world, and even the outer spaces of the cosmos itself. In language richly nuanced yet accessible, these poems inhabit and explore fundamental questions of existence, such as time, mortality, consciousness, and matter. How did we get here? Why is there something rather than nothing? How do we live fully and lovingly as conscious creatures in an unconscious universe with no ultimate purpose or destination beyond returning to the abyss that spawned us? Shapiro brings his humor, imaginative intensity, characteristic syntactical energy, and generous heart to bear on these ultimate mysteries. In ways few poets have done, he writes from a premodern, primal sense of wonder about our postmodern world.

“A remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat.” —Lily Tomlin “Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known.” —Peter Sagal, host of Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! and author of The Book of Vice “Is there a secret to happiness?” asks comedian Paula Poundstone. "I don’t know how or why anyone would keep it a secret. It seems rather cruel, really . . . Where could it be? Is it deceptively simple? Does it melt at a certain temperature? Can you buy it? Must you suffer for it before or after?” In her wildly and wisely observed book, the comedy legend takes on that most inalienable of rights—the pursuit of happiness. Offering herself up as a human guinea pig in a series of thoroughly unscientific experiments, Poundstone tries out a different get-happy hypothesis in each chapter of her data-driven search. She gets in shape with taekwondo. She drives fast behind the wheel of a Lamborghini. She communes with nature while camping with her daughter, and commits to getting her house organized (twice!). Swing dancing? Meditation? Volunteering? Does any of it bring her happiness? You may be laughing too hard to care. The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness is both a story of jumping into new experiences with both feet and a surprisingly poignant tale of a single working mother of three children (not to mention dozens of cats, a dog, a bearded dragon lizard, a lop-eared bunny, and one ant left from her ant farm) who is just trying to keep smiling while living a busy life. The queen of the skepticism-fueled rant, Paula Poundstone stands alone in her talent for bursting bubbles and slaying sacred cows. Like George Carlin, Steve Martin, and David Sedaris, she is a master of her craft, and her comedic brilliance is served up in abundance in this book. As author and humorist Roy Blount Jr. notes, “Paula Poundstone deserves to be happy. Nobody deserves to be this funny.”