Hey Kids!

After seeing the Zappa epis "Uncle meat" it reminded me that I have neglected the SUPER Indie people....

DPP is now Magic Hair Studios and located at the top of Barham Blvd in Universal City, CA.

Like we do every year, we are taking a limited number of Indie projects at reduced rates using the same “hedge deal” format as last year. If you took advantage of this last year you KNOW what a savings it is and just how turn key a post services shop we are.

It works like this: Let us bid on a project – we’ll work with you on a rate - and lock you in to that rate for all of 2009, regardless of WHEN you start production or post.

There are some caveats and conditions to it, but nothing unreasonably restrictive or that doesn’t make sense and we can talk about those when you come in.

Best,
Gaston Hinostroza
Project Development Director
Magic Hair Studios

3365 Barham Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90068

323-851-2404
323-851-2402 – FAX
818-415-3410 - Cellular

AIM: bdgstone2
gaston@magichairstudios.com

www.linkedin.com/in/gastonhinostroza

MHS is a turn key post services facility specializing in HDCamSR Color finish, 5.1 Surround audio, remote VO sessions, On/Off-Line editorial support, up/down/cross conversions.

Bringing talent, experience and technology to the television and indie film communities.

Hey Cats and Chicks!

Between the strikes drama (s) and the economy things can not get any wackier for people like us who live in Indie FIlm.

BUT...like they say, in chaos there is profit!

i.e. : I have editors, bays, colorist & motion graphics staff that I am paying who are just sitting around.

Got that pet project you coulnd't finish?
Do it now!

Short a few thou for theatrical distribution finishing?
NAH! No Sweat! I'll make what you have work!

Gotta a FANTASTIC project but nowhere to edit no can you AFFORD anyone but student editors?
DON'T DO IT! My senior guys are ready and availble.

Need post work for your SUPER low budg feature, short, commercial, music video, etc?
I'm in a position to make you a really ridiculously good deal for your project (like almost student rates).

Our colorist/compositor is one of the BEST in the business, our audio/sound design partner is Oscar and Emmy award winning and our CTO is a work flow genius (i.e. he is built in to all of our bids = savings to you).

Call me and let’s talk about your project and what you need to get done and let’s figure out what we can do for you.

Gaston Hinostroza
Project Development / Client Relations
Digital Phoenix Post
3100 West Burbank Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91505
818-973-1210 - Main Line (ext 2321)
818-973-1220 - Fax
AIM. bdgstone2

THE NEWS:

Supreme Court to Hear Tribunals Challenge
By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 1 minute ago

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider a challenge to the Bush administration's military tribunals for foreign terror suspects, a major test of the government's wartime powers. Justices will decide whether Osama bin Laden's former, driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, can be tried for war crimes before military officers in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

THE ISSUE: Just in case you need some talking points for when you are embattled with neo-patriots created by the fear mongering that the Bush Administration has stirred up; THIS is why a balanced court is ESSENTIAL and why Judge Alito can NOT be allowed to sit on the bench.

As the article states, the Supreme is going to hear a challenge to the Bush administration's military tribunals for foreign terror suspects, which is not only a major check of the government's wartime powers, but will put Chief Justice Roberts (who as an appeals court judge, ruled against Hamdan this summer) in the difficult situation of sitting in judgment of one of his own rulings.

In contrast when the Supreme Court first took up cases involving or as a result of the government's war on terrorism, the well known swing vote, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, in one case, found and wrote that "a state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens."

ACTIONS: Also send it your local, state, and congressional representatives. Send it to your local and national newspaper editors. Send it to the local news producers and news desks. This is SPAM appropriate. Send it to your entire address book. Begin and end each broadcast with Justice O’Connor’s words "a state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens."

To contact your elected representatives: www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

League of Women Voters Media email database: Http://www.capwiz.com/lwv/dbq/media

TV news addresses: digbig.com/4bqmq

Addresses for major U.S. daily publications/wire services/weekly publications: digbig.com/4cqge

Major publication addresses by state: digbig.com/4bwxw

Ladies and Gentlemen –

After the scandalous news for the GOP of the past few weeks and Governor Dean’s wishy washy showing on the Sunday shows lately, it has become apparent that “we the people, in order to” re take our imperfect union and continue it on path where the nation and society can be judged by how well the least in our society is realizing their own American Dream, we MUST, quickly and immediately, get and stay on a message that resounds through out the nation.

If the Democratic Party and its members (that means you and me) are the lesser of two evils compared to the outright 3 ring circus that is currently the Bush administration, we have a “clarity of message” problem my friends.

These are days when the Mr. Bush, right before going into his “terrorist boogieman” “evil people” speech has the unmitigated nerve to stand up in front of a crowd of people and actually talk about Rosa Parks as if she had something to do with anything that changed anything in his or his collective family’s life. This from a President who thinks that the Patriot Act is actually in anyway patriotic.

Let’s start simple, shall we…'how about something like…'

When was the last time you heard any good news?

That’s simple and to the point and leaves the conversation open to start talking about a time when gas near or under $2 a gallon; when the economy was not only growing, but allowing opportunity for ALL Americans to buy to the prosperity; when you weren’t afraid of what might be lurking in the shadows or the color of the nation security threat level. Days when we hoped to see the light and not just the end of a seemingly endless quagmire of a nightmare. Days when we talked about healthcare and top shelf education for all. Days when we found ways to help people from being welfare dependant to self reliant, which in the end gave them a sense of purpose and being, which we all need, rich, poor, white, black, red, yellow or polka-dotted.

When was the last time you thought that there was promise in tomorrow? Hope for the future?

These are the questions wee need to be asking ourselves and the people around us. This is the message we need to drive home if we hope to go back to the days when the welfare roles were being lightened by progressive programs that helped people find their better day.

When was the last time you heard any good news?

When their was a national surplus and not a runaway national debt.

When you little worried what minor civil liberty was next going to be chipped away from your shrinking list rights and freedoms.

When our leaders asked for our participation and help in moving in a direction and not told that we “just gotta understand” this or that.

When was the last time you heard any good news?

Now is also the time for us to write our local Democratic leaders and tell them to put on pads and a helmet and get in to the game. Now is the time to huddle, call the plays and put points on the board. Now is the time to publicly stand together and detail out a stand, for better of worse, what we as Democrats believe and plan on doing once back to steering the ship of state towards an inclusive brighter day for all.

We just can’t be for whatever the Republicans are against. We have to be for SOMETHING. A standard. A belief. An ideal. Things people can look at and say, “Hey, that’s me! I think that way.”

So clear your mind and sincerely ask yourself, when was the last time you heard any good news?

Gaston Hinostroza
Life Long Democrat
Los Angeles, CA

OK!...ENOUGH!...This guy is a Brown Shirt, Goose Walker through and through...

When it comes to the "fundamental right to be free from discrimination." Supreme Court Nomineee Roberts says that "there of course is no such right." WHAT!?

What about "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness "

Okie dokie...below is the article form AP...I;ve also included a link to help you easily find your congreeman (womman, person, etc) and tell them this guys is UNACCEPTABLE!

US Senate (bunch of whossies - here;s all their e-mail addi's) www.senate.gov/general/co...ors_cfm.cfm

House of Rep's (enter your zip code and you're iin business) www.house.gov/writerep/

Ok,...read for your self...this is IT!...ENOUGH! He is NOT the one! NO WAY!

HELLO!? CREATED EQUAL!? UNALIENABLE RIGHTS! ? What the HELL is going on!?...

Ok read this and PA LEEZ write your congressman and tell them you whole heartely DO NOT support RObert's as a nominee for the SUPREME COURT!...because he DOES NOT BELIEVE IIN MYRIGHT NOT TO BE DISCRIMINATED AGAIN!...(sheesh! I mean really com'on kids)

Roberts Scoffed at Promotion for O'Connor By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer
57 minutes ago


WASHINGTON - As a lawyer in the Reagan White House, John Roberts scoffed at the notion of elevating Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to chief justice as a way to close a political gender gap, calling it a "crass political consideration."

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On another topic, Roberts, who was nominated as a justice by President Bush last month, advised the White House to strike language from a description of a housing bill that referred to the "fundamental right to be free from discrimination." He said that "there of course is no such right."

More than 38,000 pages of documents released this week by the National Archives offer new details that portray Roberts as embracing the conservative philosophy of the Reagan administration.

Some Democrats and liberal interest groups called anew on Friday for the release of more documents that might shed light on Roberts' views. His confirmation hearings are to begin Sept. 6.

"Many of the documents made it clear that as a junior official in the Reagan administration, he was part of an intense effort to impede progress on numerous key issues, such as progress on equal rights for women," said Sen. Edward Kennedy (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass., a member of the Judiciary Committee that will consider Roberts' nomination.

Added Sen. Frank Lautenberg (news, bio, voting record), D-N.J.: "The question before the Senate is whether this is the person who should replace the first female justice of the Supreme Court."

In an Aug. 2, 1984, memo, Roberts responded to a former member of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, John E. Sheehan, who had written President Reagan to suggest an election-year strategy that Roberts described as closing the "so-called 'gender gap.'" Reagan was more popular among men than women.

Sheehan's plan called for then-Chief Justice Warren Burger, who was nearing retirement, to step down soon after the 1984 Republican convention and be appointed as an ambassador.

"The president would elevate Justice O'Connor two weeks later, and then name yet another woman to succeed O'Connor two weeks after that. Presto! The gender gap vanishes," Roberts wrote.

"Any appointments the president may make to the Supreme Court will not be based on such crass political considerations," Roberts advised in a memo to his boss, Fred Fielding.

In recent weeks, O'Connor — who has been a swing vote on the Supreme Court on issues including Title IX gender discrimination and affirmative action — has praised Roberts' selection as her successor, but has expressed the one regret that he isn't a woman.

Burger eventually retired in 1986 and was replaced as chief by then-Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist, whom Roberts had clerked for in 1980. Antonin Scalia was then appointed to fill Rehnquist's seat.

The memo and other materials made public Thursday by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., and the National Archives completed the disclosure of more than 50,000 pages that cover Roberts' tenure as a lawyer in the White House counsel's office from 1982-86.

Nearly 2,000 more pages from the same period have been withheld on national security or privacy grounds.

Additionally, over the persistent protests of Senate Democrats, the White House has refused to make available any of the records covering Roberts' later tenure as principal deputy solicitor general during the administration of President George H.W. Bush.

Representatives from seven liberal-leaning organizations Friday called on the White House to put out those documents, saying that what's been released so far has raised questions.

Memoranda from his service as deputy solicitor general would "potentially say a great deal about Judge Roberts' views on important areas of the law" such as civil rights, abortion and the environment, said Nan Aron, president of the Alliance for Justice.

Among the documents that have been released, in a June 14, 1983, memo, Roberts showed skepticism toward an expansive view of "fundamental rights" under the Constitution when commenting on a housing discrimination bill.

"Fundamental rights" is a legal concept that has been used to justify a broad array of civil rights under the Constitution, including a right to privacy.

Noting that the proposed administration bill would justify penalties by pointing to a "fundamental right to be free from discrimination," Roberts advised that the language be deleted.

"There is of course no such right; at the very least 'illegal' should modify 'discrimination,'" Roberts wrote. "More significantly, 'fundamental right' is a legal term of art triggering strict judicial scrutiny."

Other memos paint a picture of a politically savvy attorney who tried to restrain inflammatory conservative rhetoric by the administration.

In a June 20, 1984, memo, Roberts commented on a proposed presidential anticrime speech that touted Reagan's program to appoint judges who would respect the rights of victims as well as the accused.

Roberts advised against Reagan making a pledge to bring "sanity back to the courtroom."

"This strikes me as a bit strong; I would delete," he wrote.

Roberts indicated in a March 25, 1985, memo why he initially didn't join the American Bar Association. He is now a member and recently received its "well-qualified" rating to become a justice.

The ABA wanted Reagan to proclaim on Law Day that all citizens should join him and "the American Bar Association, the sponsor of Law Day."

Roberts cited several problems with that, adding: "Finally, those of us who have declined to join the ABA because of its hostility to the administration might feel betrayed."

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Associated Press Writers Jesse J. Holland and Andrew Taylor contributed to this report.






Gaston Hinostroza
IM (aol) bdgstone2