
Revolving Floor Happy New Year!

Revolving Floor We're taking submissions for the next issue. The theme is "Blank Slate" and the deadline is 1/30/10. It's advisable to query before submitting if you haven't been involved before.

Revolving Floor Susan Sfarra's short film about life on a Christmas tree farm, The Growing Season, has been selected for the Slamdance festival. It was originally shown on Revolving Floor. Congratulations, Susan!
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Very beautiful. Nothing like a day of honest labor with grampa. Love how you allowed the scenery to play the lead role. Where was this filmed?

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"When I was twelve, my mom left my brother, sister, and me with our
stepdad and took off with two friends from work for a ten-day “real
estate strategy” trip to Puerto Vallarta. Turns out not a lot of real
estate was discussed." Antonio Aiello
returns to RF with a piece that is part essay and part film.
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My mom and her stepmother hated my grandfather’s chair. He spent 365 days a year parked in that chair, a once-vibrating, pea-green leather recliner dotted with burn marks from tobacco embers and still-lit ...

Revolving Floor "While I stayed with my parents, I took some satisfaction in both the practicality and the benefits, to her, of the arrangement."
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The basement is almost finished. When I bought the house, the basement appointments were High Seventies: chocolate paneling; shag carpet, not only wall to wall but wrapped around the one otherwise exposed ...

Revolving Floor Amy Meckler returns with a short story about a man who monitors surveillance cameras in a women's clothing store.
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The sight of a woman undressing no longer interests Jim. After eight years of watching the security monitors at a certain Midtown women’s clothing store, Jim has seen every state of undress, every awkward ...

Revolving Floor Susan Sfarra returns with a touching short film about aging and loss.
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Susan Sfarra is a screenwriter living in Brooklyn. Two of her scripts are being pursued by production companies. Medicine Avenue, an inside look at pharmaceutical advertising practices, is based on the ten years she spent working in advertising. ...

Revolving Floor Rosa created this photo as a mashup from several photos she found in the creative commons. The mashup was created as an illustration to her own story about the intertwining of literal and figurative evolution.
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I am smoking a cigarette when She tells me about Tiktaalik. She is miles away but her voice is urgent in my ear, tinny through the miniscule speaker in my cellular phone.

Revolving Floor NYer cartoonist Liza Donnelly has drawn her first animation, in collaboration with Emmy-winning animator Mike Milo.
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Mike Milo is a 2 time Emmy award winning, 6 time nominated animator, director, producer and designer. He has worked for most of animation’s major studios including Cartoon Network, Disney, Nickelodeon, Warner Bros, Universal, Sony, Film Roman and Hanna Barbera. ...

Revolving Floor Dreams, nightmares, sound equipment, and Condoleeza Rice, from Life Below The Line.
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When I was eight, we moved to the suburbs and into a big, creaky, beige house. I got my own room, with my own walls on which I painted a giant rainbow above my bed (a move that I was to regret when I hit ...

Revolving Floor The first eight pieces in the our new issue, Lost and Found, are now live. Check it out! Notes on individual pieces to follow.
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When we lose something — a possession, a lover, a friend, a god, a name — we want to believe that we’ll get it (or him or her) back. So we assign it a word that indicates it’s eventual return, rather than its current position. ...

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In 1977 my college cast me out into the world … that puts me in a certain generation—not a hippie, not a yuppie. My mother was knee-deep in being a homemaker and didn’t have the oomph to take advantage of any advance for women, but I think she would have if she had thought she could get away. ...

Revolving Floor The second cartoon caption contest doesn't have a winner yet. You (yes you, unless you've been published on RF) could still win a personalized book from the cartoonist.

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User comment: " As a teacher who is particularly concerned about
the demise of our language, I counsel parents to avoid Dr. Seuss."
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I am Sam. Sam I am. You can already see where this is going. There will be fox. There will be socks. Ultimately, of course, there will be green eggs and ham. It’s a story of a pushy little fellow ...























