Hollywood2020

Out of the dark more info on ShadowDancers.tv

You never know what you're going to see on the TV news these days...blogged by Joyce Schwarz, www.hollywood2020.blogs.com, yet I was a bit surprised to see this amazzing POS (point of sale) /public space art/promo display system on the news as a new way to preview real estate in Los Angeles.

www.shadowdancers.tv -- a new app in public space video promo --"reel" shadow dancers as seen in windows of a new real estate complex in Los Angeles, blogged at www.hollywood2020.blogs.com.

What a brilliant 'killer app' Shadowdancers is especially in a market on a downturn. We found their applications list fascinating and are including it here. More info at the website www.shadowdancers.tv. We look forward to talking directly to the creators --perhaps at my Digital Hollywood workshop on widgets in early March-- stay tuned for more details. Or email me at [email protected]. Joyce Schwarz, JCOM, www.joycecom.com, marketing and new media company launches for emerging media & entertainment.

Dance Clubs-	Dance the night away alongside the Shadow Dancers
Limo Services-	Turn any limo ride into a party on wheels
Bars-	Instead of the news, why not watch Shadow Dancers
House Parties-	Spice up your next party with Shadow Dancers
DJ Visuals-	DJs finally have quality visuals to compliment their music
Passion Parties-	A sexy DVD for your next passion party
Celebrity Events-	Perfect for high profile private parties
Fashion Shows-	As seen at Carmen Electra's recent fashion show
Modern Art Installations-	Seen at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, PA
Fraternity Parties-	The Frat house will never be the same with this DVD at the party
Strip Clubs-	Watch our beautiful girls dance in between the sets of your beautiful girls

et on the downturn.

OHIO UNIVERSITY FLIES INTO SECOND LIFE TO OPEN NEW VIRTUAL CAMPUS

WOW -- stand up and cheer-- that's the Ohio University marching song-- because the fabulous college that we all call HARVARD ON THE HOCKING -- is now in Second Life www.secondlife.com blogged by Joyce Schwarz, www.hollywood2020.blogs.com 

Here's the link to the campus and here are some pix that I screengrabbed off of the YOUTUBE.com video...more info later. PS If you're reading this Ohio University -- I'd love to teach, maybe even premiere my new book there! You can reach me at [email protected] and my website is www.joycecom.com.

OHiO UNIVERSITY, in Athens, Ohio pix from SECOND LIFE OU campus, for more info contact Ohio U alumnus Joyce Schwarz via email at [email protected] and I'll hook you up with the right people!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFuNFRie8wA

CAPTION FOR YOUTUBE.com video reads: A promotional video for the Ohio University Second Life Campus; a virtual campus featuring multiple learning and collaboration opportunities for students on the Ohio campus and all over the world. For more information contact: [email protected].

SOLOIST AUTHOR STEVE LOPEZ ASKS WHAT IS SUCCESS?

SYNCHRONICITY is a sneaky fellow, tonight it zapped me out of my laser focus in writing my new book to turn around and actually LOOK at the TV and PBS Tavis Smiley show blogged by Joyce Schwarz @ Hollywood2020.blogs.com.

Why? Well, I heard the words Cleveland, Ohio (where you faithful readers know I am from)and then I saw one of my favorite LA TIMES columnists on the tube for the first time. There was Tavis with this gray-haired gent who looks a bit like a college prof and boy was I surprised that it was Steve Lopez -- now author of the new book "THE SOLOIST" about the life of homeless musician Nathaniel Ayers who was originally boarn in my home town Cleveland. Funny, I always thought that Lopez was Hispanic?

LA TIMES COLUMNIST STEVE LOPEZ, INTERVIEWED BY EVA MARIE SAINT AT TOWN HALL, Los Angeles @ WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA THEATRE 4/17/08.

Anyway, turns out that the book is coming out tomorrow and for those of you not sitting here like me trying to finish your own book -- you might want to head over to the WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA theatrea and see Lopez and Eva Marie Saint at the TOWN HALL tomorrow night at 7 p.m. Steve Lopez, author of "The Soloist: A Lost Dream an Unlikely Friendship and the Redemptive Power of Music," will speak with actress Eva Marie Saint on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at the Writers Guild Theater as part of TOWN HALL's ongoing Writers Bloc series. For more info go to: visit www.townhall-la.org, Cost: $20.

According to the Town Hall press release online:

Soloist" is an intimate portrait of the gifted violinist Nathaniel Ayers and traces his promising education at Juilliard, his struggles with schizophrenia, and the factors that led to his homelessness in Los Angeles. The book describes the circumstances that prompted their friendship and the author's efforts to improve the musician's life in spite of numerous setbacks.

MORE ON THIS STORY LATER THIS WEEKEND -- Later this week or this weekend-- I'll link you to some great articles I found about the upcoming film adaptation of THE SOLOIST -- it's now being lensed partly in Cleveland-- near the old Hough area -- Carnegie Ave which was in it's heyday in the 60's and 70's when Ayers lived their with his family and attended a special music school.  Turns out that Ayers went to Julliard via my undergrad alma mater Ohio University in Athens and then had a sting at Ohio State too. More on all of that later.

HE WRITES ABOUT THE PEOPLE ......Even if you don't remember his name, you've probably read Lopez-- he's the guy who writes about PEOPLE -- interesting people...no the 3 dot Herb Caen kind of journalism, but the day-to-day folks kind of writing that made a newspaper in the past, the media of the people! Lopez is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and the author of three previous novels. He has been an Editor-at-Large for TIME magazine and has also written for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Lopez met Ayers during his work on a LA Times series of columns about Skid Row and homelessness in Los Angeles.

TIME MAGAZINE HAS A GOOD INTERVIEW with Robert Downey Jr. who is portraying Lopez in the upcoming flick of the same name as the book -- THE SOLOIST and Jamie Foxx plays Ayers as an adult. Stay tuned for more clickthroughs on this story. Book sounds fascinating...

Anyway for the kicker as we say in Journalism 101 to the headline on this story-- on the Tavis show Lopez said that Ayers story made him re-think what SUCCESS is -- seems that Ayers has no regrets about his own life. And Lopez who is biding his days at the last of the Third Estate of newspaper journaism was revitalized to his own passion -- writing through this experience.

Nope, it's not as nice a fairy tale as AUGUST RUSH...but it does sound like music to my ears as I finish this book on PICTURING YOUR FUTURE -- and that's another column...hmm that's another blog -- I'll be clicking you through to the new blog next week. Don't worry HOLLYWOOD2020 will continue and head into it's THIRD YEAR next week -- REALLY -- more than 1200 posts ...3 years with you folks and me....zooming along into the new Hollywood and the era of new media. But thank heavens Steve Lopez still walks the beat of writing about real people in a reel world......gotta give the guy some credit...success does benefit by some shoe leather after all! ha

LAW OF ATTRACTION VISION BOARD BOOK OPEN CALL FOR ART SUBMISSIONS www.ihaveavision.org

Those of you who read this blog regularly know that I also write books, blogged by Joyce Schwarz, email: [email protected]. . Right now I am in the midst of finishing a book called THE VISION BOARD: unlock the secret to an extraordinary life.

There is a temp website set up at www.ihaveavison.org. Please note that the website is not optimized yet and will be completed in honor of Leonardo DaVinci's birthday on April 15 -- BUT you can leave your name for the email newsletter there. And you can write to me directly at [email protected] if you have artwork to submit for the book. I will then send you a one-time permission form to fill out.

MORE INFORMATION ON JOYCE SCHWARZ VISION BOARD BOOK

Click on thumbnail to see the draft catalog page for THE VISION BOARD book: Unlock the Secret to An Extraordinary Life by Joyce Schwarz, Harper Collins Publishing, Collins Design, fall, 2008. To contribute artwork or your own Vision Board success story to the book,email Joyce Schwarz @ [email protected]. To find out more about the book or media interviews with Joyce Schwarz, email her at [email protected]. Thank you.

PODCAST INTERVIEW WITH JOYCE SCHWARZ ON WHAT IS  A VISION BOARD on Lisa.fm radio link here to hear it:

How do you do you create a Vision Board as seen in the movie "THE SECRET" check out my new podcast -- http://www.lisa.fm/audio/jsvisionboard.mp3

THE ART & SCIENCE OF CREATING A VISION BOARD --
What if you could picture your future? What would you wish for if a genie suddenly appeared in front of you. Many of you may be familiar with the term Vision Board having seen it featured in the film and book "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne.

What you may not know is what is a Vision Board ?  And how do you create one?  Briefly a Vision Board is a visual representation of your best possible future that you create traditionally by designing a 'life collage' or 'future collage' by cutting pictures of things and symbols, phrases, mottos, quotations that represent your future.

Done right --you do a Visioning exercise in advance and create a guiding Vision Statement to aid you in this creative right brain process. It is a fascinating and many say spiritual experience. Of course there will be much more about the creative process in the upcoming book THE VISION BOARD by Joyce Schwarz-- the book is aleady listed on Amazon.com for preorder.

Here is a sample of a Vision Board for Obama that a colleague of mine who works on his online campaign created for the book using some great digital software that is available as an app on Facebook.com

Sample Obama for President Vision Board.

Email me for a link and more info-- [email protected].

The Vision Board system is being used in schools, churches, Universities and by life planners, career counselors and spiritual advisors around the world. Note some people call these "Dream Boards", "Wish Boards" , "Treasure Maps" or "Life Collage".

VISION BOARD SUCCESS STORIES:

NOTE I am also looking for spectacular success stories about using Vision Boards to change your life. We already have some great ones about how a Vision Board inspired a new baby and several weddings and one television anchor used it to visualize her weight loss of more than 75 pounds.

VISION BOARD ON OPRAH -- on February 6,2008 Oprah did a complete 1 hour show on WHAT IS A VISION BOARD showing examples -- here is a screengrab from the Oprah.com site and a link to that show for more info on Oprah's take on a Vision Board. You can read an extensive transcript about the show on Oprah.com -- here is the link to the television show-- below in red.

The link to the Oprah show is in red below. Oprah.com featurs a recap of her show on WHAT IS A VISION BOARD that was on February 6, 2008. http://www.oprah.com/spiritself/slide/20080206/ss_20080206_284_108.jhtml

OPEN CALL -- to submit digital pictures of your own Vision Board, please send them to [email protected] and be sure that they meet these

specifications for submissions to THE VISION BOARD book by Joyce Schwarz.

320 DPI and at least 10 x 10 inches (if possible).

Boards should be shot against a white background and should not be folded or bent when the picture is taken.

NOTE: If you don't feel that you can get a quality image of your board with your own digital camera, then please just take a snapshot and send it to me at [email protected] and Joyce Schwarz will get back to you with details about where to send your board via mail or where to deliver it to her in Marina Del Rey, California. NOTE deadline for all boards is April 14. SO ACT NOW as they say in those infomercials. You could change someone else's life by sharing your board.

ARTISTS -- I am also looking for unusual artwork that represents and comlements the theme of THE VISION BOARD-- artwork that represents inner traits of wisdom, vision and your personal take on visualizing your best possible future using collage, painting, jewelry making, dolls and art native to your culture such as Native American or African American or Asian etc. For more details and examples email me at [email protected].

VISION BOARDS FOR LIFE EVENTS -- I am also looking for Vision Boards done to honor or preview life events such as graduation, weddings, new baby, fitness, weight loss, anniversary and more.

For more information about submitting your digital picture of your Vision Board and/or Vision Board artwork, contact Joyce Schwarz directly at [email protected]. Thank you. Deadline is April 14.