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Onward & Upward de Michael Wiese

Onward & Upward

Autor Michael Wiese
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2013

Observăm de la prima atingere că Onward & Upward se prezintă ca un ghid portabil, un volum compact de 246 de pagini care ascunde însă o geografie personală vastă. Nu este doar o cronică a succesului în industria cinematografică, ci o invitație senzorială în culisele unei vieți trăite între platourile de filmare din Miami și templele din Kathmandu. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Michael Wiese alege să își fragmenteze parcursul: de la inocența descoperirii „microbului” filmului în Illinois (secțiunea OBSERVING), la efervescența din San Francisco în perioada Summer of Love și, ulterior, la o căutare spirituală și profesională prin Japonia, Bali și Egipt.

Subliniem contrastul fascinant dintre această lucrare și volumele sale de referință, precum The Independent Film & Videomaker's Guide sau Film & Video Marketing. Dacă acelea erau manuale riguroase de supraviețuire în piața de film, Onward & Upward este o „felie de viață” (slice of life) care prioritizează experiența umană în detrimentul cifrelor. Structura narativă este una fluidă, autorul sărind peste detaliile tehnice plictisitoare pentru a se concentra pe momentele de grație sau pe eșecurile tratate cu un umor fin. Cititorii care au rezonat cu A Million Miles in a Thousand Years de Donald Miller vor regăsi aici aceeași temă a reeditării propriei vieți pentru a o transforma într-o poveste demnă de marele ecran, însă cu un accent mult mai pronunțat pe mediul boem al producției de film independente.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781615931392
ISBN-10: 1615931392
Pagini: 246
Dimensiuni: 158 x 222 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Michael Wiese Productions

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este ideală pentru cei care vor să înțeleagă industria filmului nu prin statistici, ci prin experiențe directe. Cititorul câștigă acces la mentalitatea unui producător de succes care a navigat prin schimbările radicale ale televiziunii și video-ului. Este un motiv concret de inspirație pentru oricine simte că parcursul său profesional are nevoie de o dimensiune spirituală și de curajul de a explora teritorii noi, dincolo de biroul de producție.

Despre autor

Michael Wiese este un producător, regizor și scriitor cu o carieră de peste două decenii în epicentrul industriilor de film și televiziune. Cu o experiență solidă acumulată inclusiv ca vicepreședinte de programe originale la Vestron Video, Wiese a devenit o figură emblematică pentru cineaștii independenți. Prin editura sa, Michael Wiese Productions, a publicat zeci de resurse fundamentale pentru industria de divertisment. În Onward & Upward, el își distilează expertiza într-o formă narativă, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care viziunea artistică se împletește cu realitățile pragmatice ale distribuției de film.

Descriere scurtă

By always testing the limits, a young Michael had a yearning to understand “the secret of life” and began to “see things worth seeing.” During the turbulent ‘60’s in San Francisco he makes his first films exploring his inner world. Later, under the pressure to support a family, he moves to New York and lands “real jobs” in the entertainment industry. But while climbing the corporate ladder, he loses his footing on the spiritual path. With guidance from his mentors, friends, and wife, he regains his sense of purpose, which brings him today into the most productive and satisfying period of his life. This book is a record of that journey and of those things that are important to creating a contented life.    

Cuprins

Prologue

OBSERVING – Champaign, Illinois
Bright Lights, Toes, Baby Jeff, Wabbits, Dough Boy Elm Street, Encounter with Death,The Paddle, Big Chief Al’s, Johnny Disappears, First Grade Candy, The Cheater, A Close One, Miami, Reading Club, King of the Wild Frontier, Lake of the Weeds, Killing, I Get It From My Dad, Treasure, Softies, New House,The Secret of Life, Park Here, The Kuhns and The Wieses, Darkroom, Music, Puny Uni, Initiation, First Jobs, My First Deal, The Sterlings, Bad Art, Driving, The News Gazette, Film Bug, Doc Unit, Rochester

OPENING – San Francisco – Summer of Love
Jade Muse, Underground Movies, Messages  Messages, Naked Ambition, A Party for Fellini

QUESTING – Japan and Beyond
Japan, Road to Bali, Bali, Return to Corn Country, Japan – Take Two, Kathmandu, East Africa, Egypt, Santorini

RETURNING - America
Saddhu in New York, San Francisco Redux, Asian Refuge, An Aquatic Future, Living in the Avenues, Silver Box, est, Extraordinary Powers, Bucky, San Anselmo, Enter Kaskafayet, An Experience of Light, Hardware Wars, Ketamine, Finding Joe, Dolphin Bliss, People Who Live in Glass Houses, First Book

WORKING – The Entertainment Industry
Robot Wars, New York, New York, My First Real Book, Pay Cable – The Movie Channel, The Budget Book, Vestron, The Beach Boys, Life After Vestron, Goin’ Hollywood, End of A Life Cycle

SOWING – The Spirit
Shirley, Pacific Arts, The Great Ken Lee, She (Who Knows All, Sees All) Shows Up, The Test, Diet for a New America, Vigil, Julia Bronwyn, What Our  Children Eat, Knoxville, One Month Birthday, The Merry Maidens, Studio City, Shake Rattle and Roll, You Have to Tell the Spirits, Cashing In

ENJOYING – Cornwall
First Year in Cornwall, Brother Jeff, Permanent  Residence, MWP, Dolphin Girl, St Loy Today, My New Best Friend, The Extension, Bali Brothers, Sacred Sites, The One in Your Garage, Stem Cell Adventure

KNOWING – Other Realms
Mother Ayahuasca, First Journey, The Second Journey, The Birth of Divine Arts

TRANSFORMING
The Parkinson Journey

Recenzii

“Like some of the best things in life, Onward and Upward was a joy I wasn't expecting. An autobiography of author, filmmaker, producer and entrepreneur Michael Wiese, this book craftily outlines a life well lived, weaving in wide-angle historical sketches with an intimate close ups on the movie making and distribution business. The cast is studded with luminaries like Salvador Dali, Buckminster Fuller, Shirley MacLaine, and a host of Hollywood movers-and-shakers, as well as Wiese's family and teachers. But the real star is Wiese himself, and the strange, intoxicating journey of his own spiritual path –from Bali to the jungles of the Amazon. Wiese peels back theme and story to remind us why we make films, and books, and love – and like Balinese shadow puppets, he reveals the hand of something greater in the drama of life.”
 
Rak Razam, author, Aya: A Shamanic Odyssey


“Michael Wiese has written a unique memoir, the inspiring story of a courageous individual born at a time of huge cultural change who has followed his heart and made a genuine contribution to consciousness. From small town America, to Haight Ashbury at its peak, to the world of New York and Hollywood media, to deep spiritual exploration in the jungles of Peru and beyond, Michael has trusted his inner being and taken risks that would have daunted a lesser person. His book is an emotionally honest, entirely unpredictable adventure. It tells the compelling tale of a gifted and resourceful person who stays true to his values, always chooses the spiritual and the compassionate, never forsakes his deepest values and is often willing to head into the unknown. The result has been a joyful life, permeated increasingly by spiritual wisdom. This is a book that readers will cherish. It imparts the immense value of staying true to one's convictions and visions, and demonstrates the inwardly rich life that results when integrity is maintained despite the circumstances. One puts this book down with a sense of a life well-lived, and a feeling of gratitude that the author has chosen to give us such a candid record of his impressive journey to wholeness.”    

Ralph White, Co-Founder and Creative Director, New York Open Center




“Onward and Upward was a pleasure from start to finish. Michael's way of only telling the interesting parts of his life, skipping the tedious details, and maintaining the same light touch for successes and failures makes this book a genuinely engaging autobiography. The fact that he is the only person I've ever heard of who was thrown out of school for not sleeping with a girl, that he was pivotal in bringing the first underwater concert to Dolphins and the most successful years of his career was when he was most lost gives his narrative enough twists and turns to have kept my attention to the very magical end. I'm so glad that he wrote it. You will be too.”

James Fadiman, Ph.D., author, The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide

Notă biografică

Michael Wiese has a knack for being at the right place at the right time and when that’s not the case, he enthusiastically creates his own opportunities. He has been a producer, director, writer, and publisher. Twenty-five years ago he broke away from the straight and narrow to create a substantive body of work.  Despite being diagnosed five years ago with Parkinson’s, his search for healing has taken him from stem cell therapy to Amazonian plant medicine. His spiritual quests have been documented in his latest films The Sacred Sites of the Dalai Lamas (Tibet), The Shaman &Ayahuasca (Peru), and Talking with Spirits (Bali).

Extras

MY FIRST DEAL
Summer is coming to an end in two weeks and I have a plan. I make an appointment to meet with the directors of the Champaign High School Board after their monthly meeting. I tell them I have a great band (we know dozens of songs now) and we want to play “The Howdy Hop.” This is Champaign High’s first dance of the new school year. If we can play at that event, everyone will know who we are. The School Board asks our price. I say, “$75.” They negotiate by saying that this is too much. I say, “that’s our standard rate.” They rebut, “anyway, we don’t expect a big turnout. I say, “all right then, we’ll play for free and if anyone shows up we’ll take 75% of the gate.” They agree. My Dad, who has a law degree but never practiced, always says to ‘write it down’. So I get their promise in writing.