Thursday, August 5, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
Email Forward
My mom is the self-titled "Queen of the Internet" and has taken to sending me forwards. Weekly. But, this one was pretty cute and very relevant to GGG!
A friend of mine just finished taking an evening class at Stanford.
The last lecture was on the mind-body connection--the relationship between stress and disease.
The speaker (head of psychiatry at Stanford) said, among other things, that one of the best things that a man could do for his health is to be married to a woman, whereas for a woman, one of the best things she could do for her health was to nurture her relationships with her girlfriends.
At first everyone laughed, but he was serious. Women connect with each other differently and provide support systems that help each other to deal with stress and difficult life experiences.
Physically this quality "girlfriend time" helps us to create more seratonin -- a neurotransmitter that helps combat depression and can create a general feeling of well being.
Women share feelings whereas men often form relationships around activities. They rarely sit down with a buddy and talk about how they feel about certain things or how their personal lives are going. Jobs? Yes. Sports? Yes. Cars? Yes. Fishing, hunting, golf? Yes. But their feelings? -- rarely.
Women do it all of the time. We share from our souls with our sisters, and evidently that is very good for our health. He said that spending time with a friend is just as important to our general health as jogging or working out at a gym.
There's a tendency to think that when we are "exercising" we are doing something good for our bodies, but when we are hanging out with friends, we are wasting our time and should be more productively engaged--not true. In fact, he said that failure to create and maintain quality personal relationships with other humans is as dangerous to our physical health as
smoking! So every time you hang out with a gal pal, just pat
yourself on the back and congratulate yourself for doing something good for your health!
We are indeed very very lucky. Sooooo let's toast to our friendship with our girlfriends. Evidently it's very good for our health.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
girlsgirlsgirlsthefilm.com coming soon!
buckle your seat belt because girlsgirlsgirlsthefilm.com is coming soon!
(yes we are aware that girlsgirlsgirls.com was taken.)
our new "home" should be launching soon so please stay tuned!!!!
thanks!
Friday, June 18, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
A Great Short!
check out this amazing short.
Their site.
I'd love to get in contact with the director. (and all 82 other filmmakers) Each answer so unique and genuine!
What film would you create if you had an unlimited budget?
Their site.
I'd love to get in contact with the director. (and all 82 other filmmakers) Each answer so unique and genuine!
What film would you create if you had an unlimited budget?
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
a few "fun" facts
Neither Warner Brothers nor Paramount Pictures hired a single female director last year. Walt Disney Studios and Universal Studios hired just one apiece.
Women accounted for 7% of directors in 2009, a decrease of 2 percentage points from 2008. This figure represents no change from the percentage of women directing in 1987.
"One producer was candid enough to say 'We want to go to a guy."
2% of all cinematographers were women.
The proportion of women on screen hasn't changed since the 1940s.
Audiences, including females, are so used to hearing a male voice that when they hear a female voice they think something is wrong.
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