Colts in the News

I just finished “First Daughter”. The details of the film are: Directed by Forest Whittaker. The President's daughter goes off to college (surrounded by hordes of secret service men) - many escapades later, she falls in love with the wrong man - what a surprise! Anyway it’s lots of fun. On the website (click on the link above) is a sampling of my photos. I've enrolled in a Computer Graphic Arts program until I start my next film in January. Joel Schumacher will direct Patricia Cornwell's novel “Cruel And Unusual”. They're hoping to cast Nicole Kidman as Kay Scarpetta.
We shot 14-hour days for twelve weeks. My job as Still Photographer is to be on the crew everyday, shooting everything the motion picture camera shoots. My photos are used for everything regarding publicity and advertising: poster art, newspaper advertising, magazines, video box, DVD, website, etc. I use Canon 1V cameras (enclosed in blimped housings to muffle the sound so I can shoot during dialog scenes). I shot the entire film with color negative Kodak 800 ASA (for interior low light scenes as about a 2.0). All the prints were done digitally -- the technology is much better than using chemical printing -- no grain at all. This was my 44th motion picture -- plus many years of shooting for CBS and all the other TV stations. I hope to keep working as long as they hire me.

Tom Whelan Wins 12th OTL Title

Thomas Shess '63 is editor of a new quarterly design and architecture magazine for San Diego Magazine. It's called HDQ -- for Home Design Quarterly. It appears with San Diego Magazine January, April, July and October. Shess, a 1970 SDSU grad in English/Liberal Arts is married to Deputy District Attorney Phyllis Shess. The Shesses live in North Park and have two sons Zac and Michael and two grandsons Cole and Jackson

	A Crawford graduate with a saddlery sounds like a banjo player with a Porsche, but my Stetson is off to Tom -- or "Mas" as he is now known to his amigos. If you've pulled off the freeway for pea soup, you might want to say "Howdy!". For Mary Pomplun Russell '62, who just lives up the road a piece, I'm expecting a report.

	(Actually it's the Western Puget Sound Sun -- I couldn't get the Washington Post link to work)

I don't know if it's for sale. You'll have to contact him. (Hint: Try the 1969 Email page)