{"id":128,"date":"2012-09-08T17:46:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T17:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microcosmpublishing.dev\/blog\/2012\/09\/action-is-awesome\/"},"modified":"2016-02-02T18:16:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T18:16:20","slug":"action-is-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/action-is-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Action!&#8221; is Awesome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3647\/\">&#8211;Action! by Bill Brown&#8211;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"cover\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action1.jpg\" \/>\n<p>I wish every book was like this. I opened this book when it first came in,&nbsp;here at Microcosm, and started skimming through the first page to check it out. Before I knew it I had read the whole thing! The&nbsp;delightful fluency of the text and the cute illustrations just kept me enthralled.<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"cute\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action2.jpg\" \/>\n<p>Now I know things about making movies that I never thought I&nbsp;would. I always thought it would take some sort of classes and textbooks to&nbsp;learn about the different kinds of &#8220;old-school&#8221; film, all the types of&nbsp;lenses and what they&#8217;re used for, the different ways of lighting a scene,&nbsp;or ways of exposing video.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"film\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action3.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Though I still have much more to learn, I&nbsp;now have a general understanding of these things. Learning about&nbsp;&#8220;film grains&#8221; and &#8220;depth of field&#8221; got me thinking about things I enjoy in&nbsp;movies that I&#8217;d never really thought about before.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"depth-of-field\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action4.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently been&nbsp;given the opportunity to score a documentary and it has&nbsp;started opening my eyes to the movie making world, but I never&nbsp;considered making my own movies. I&#8217;m a musician that enjoys all&nbsp;things audio, but this book forces me to consider taking up this&nbsp;art-form as well. After all, anyone can make movies with this book.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"easy\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action5.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I especially enjoyed the audio section. Despite knowing most&nbsp;of the stuff in that particular section, It was a really great&nbsp;refresher. Even movie making professionals should read this to get&nbsp;their feet back on the ground and get them in touch with why they might&nbsp;have wanted to make movies in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"audio\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action6.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bill Brown certainly has a&nbsp;way of making even the most complicated matters seam feasible. There&#8217;s&nbsp;something about this book that tugs at me to try new things. You can feel his enthusiasm jump out of the&nbsp;pages. This book is great for anyone of almost any age.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"fun\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action7.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It will&nbsp;be on my bookshelf for the foreseeable future, awaiting any day&nbsp;I might need a refresher on the numerous subjects this book covers. Thanks&nbsp;Bill!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"i'm the turtle\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action8.jpg\" \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3647\/\">&#8212;get it here!&#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3647\/\">&#8211;Action! by Bill Brown&#8211;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"cover\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wish every book was like this. I opened this book when it first came in,&nbsp;here at Microcosm, and started skimming through the first page to check it out. Before I knew it I had read the whole thing! The&nbsp;delightful fluency of the text and the cute illustrations just kept me enthralled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogifesto","tag-books"],"my_excerpt":"<p>&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3647\/\">--Action! by Bill Brown--<\/a><\/strong><\/p>  <img class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"cover\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action1.jpg\" \/>  <p>I wish every book was like this. I opened this book when it first came in,&nbsp;here at Microcosm, and started skimming through the first page to check it out. Before I knew it I had read the whole thing! The&nbsp;delightful fluency of the text and the cute illustrations just kept me enthralled.<\/p>  <img class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"cute\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action2.jpg\" \/>  <p>Now I know things about making movies that I never thought I&nbsp;would. I always thought it would take some sort of classes and textbooks to&nbsp;learn about the different kinds of \"old-school\" film, all the types of&nbsp;lenses and what they're used for, the different ways of lighting a scene,&nbsp;or ways of exposing video.<\/p>  <p>  <img class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"film\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action3.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p>Though I still have much more to learn, I&nbsp;now have a general understanding of these things. Learning about&nbsp;\"film grains\" and \"depth of field\" got me thinking about things I enjoy in&nbsp;movies that I'd never really thought about before.<\/p>  <p>  <img class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"depth-of-field\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action4.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p>I've recently been&nbsp;given the opportunity to score a documentary and it has&nbsp;started opening my eyes to the movie making world, but I never&nbsp;considered making my own movies. I'm a musician that enjoys all&nbsp;things audio, but this book forces me to consider taking up this&nbsp;art-form as well. After all, anyone can make movies with this book.<\/p>  <p>  <img class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"easy\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action5.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p>I especially enjoyed the audio section. Despite knowing most&nbsp;of the stuff in that particular section, It was a really great&nbsp;refresher. Even movie making professionals should read this to get&nbsp;their feet back on the ground and get them in touch with why they might&nbsp;have wanted to make movies in the first place.<\/p>  <p>  <img class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"audio\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action6.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p>Bill Brown certainly has a&nbsp;way of making even the most complicated matters seam feasible. There's&nbsp;something about this book that tugs at me to try new things. You can feel his enthusiasm jump out of the&nbsp;pages. This book is great for anyone of almost any age.<\/p>  <p>  <img class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"fun\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action7.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p>It will&nbsp;be on my bookshelf for the foreseeable future, awaiting any day&nbsp;I might need a refresher on the numerous subjects this book covers. Thanks&nbsp;Bill!<\/p>  <p>\u00a0<\/p>  <p>\u00a0<\/p>  <img class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"i'm the turtle\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action8.jpg\" \/>  <p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3647\/\">---get it here!---<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","my_excerpt_rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3647\/\">&#8211;Action! by Bill Brown&#8211;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"cover\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action1.jpg\" \/>\n<p>I wish every book was like this. I opened this book when it first came in,&nbsp;here at Microcosm, and started skimming through the first page to check it out. Before I knew it I had read the whole thing! The&nbsp;delightful fluency of the text and the cute illustrations just kept me enthralled.<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"cute\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action2.jpg\" \/>\n<p>Now I know things about making movies that I never thought I&nbsp;would. I always thought it would take some sort of classes and textbooks to&nbsp;learn about the different kinds of &#8220;old-school&#8221; film, all the types of&nbsp;lenses and what they&#8217;re used for, the different ways of lighting a scene,&nbsp;or ways of exposing video.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"film\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action3.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Though I still have much more to learn, I&nbsp;now have a general understanding of these things. Learning about&nbsp;&#8220;film grains&#8221; and &#8220;depth of field&#8221; got me thinking about things I enjoy in&nbsp;movies that I&#8217;d never really thought about before.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"depth-of-field\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action4.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently been&nbsp;given the opportunity to score a documentary and it has&nbsp;started opening my eyes to the movie making world, but I never&nbsp;considered making my own movies. I&#8217;m a musician that enjoys all&nbsp;things audio, but this book forces me to consider taking up this&nbsp;art-form as well. After all, anyone can make movies with this book.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"easy\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action5.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I especially enjoyed the audio section. Despite knowing most&nbsp;of the stuff in that particular section, It was a really great&nbsp;refresher. Even movie making professionals should read this to get&nbsp;their feet back on the ground and get them in touch with why they might&nbsp;have wanted to make movies in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"audio\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action6.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bill Brown certainly has a&nbsp;way of making even the most complicated matters seam feasible. There&#8217;s&nbsp;something about this book that tugs at me to try new things. You can feel his enthusiasm jump out of the&nbsp;pages. This book is great for anyone of almost any age.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nofloat\" alt=\"fun\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/action7.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It will&nbsp;be on my bookshelf for the foreseeable future, awaiting any day&nbsp;I might need a refresher on the numerous subjects this book covers. 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