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...people just by doing something they love for the fun of it. And they're starting to be able to make some money because the advertising people are starting to talk to these people, thanks to Google and other companies. In that zone, you have sort of professional-amateur authorships, with authors who are sort of half pros, half amateurs, who are not quitting their day jobs, but they're paying their bills with money they receive from this, and they're building little audiences. And that's just an extraordinary thing to see happen...
...will feature more than 600 competitiors—“is one of the most prestigious and longest-running collegiate DanceSport events in the entire United States,” Harvard Ballroom President Thomas E. Mikuckis ’07 writes in an email. Some of the top amateur dancers in the United States will join teams from across the country in competition this Saturday and Sunday...
...provided by South African rap artist Zola, exemplifies Tsotsi’s originally hard-edged persona. However, after he steals the car and begins to bond with the child, the belligerent rap is replaced by composer Mark Kilian’s soothing tribal music. The film’s amateur cast delivers amazingly deep performances, which can either be attributed to the strength of Hood’s vision or to its own African backgrounds. More often than rousing speeches (which could lose their effect on American audiences since the movie is in subtitles), silence and poignant facial expressions dominate...
...seized” by a subject–what Abraham explains in more concrete terms as the inspiration for “a basic premise and plot summary.”Luckily for students, friendly environments are present in several classes offered at Harvard.Pre-professional and amateur students mingle in screenwriting and playwriting seminars offered by the English department, for credit, and the non-credit Winthrop House seminar.For some, Mullins’s screenwriting class is too selective to keep up with its demand. “The creative writing department here sucks,” mourns James C. Oliver...
...watercolors weren’t always so carefully preserved. Until the late-nineteenth century, watercolor was considered an inferior medium, suitable only for preparatory sketches and amateur entertainment...