Authors — Colin Healey
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Playing the Fool: Embracing Tarot while Kickstarting For Entertainment Purposes Only
Last Thursday, in a fortune telling shop in Manhattan’s West Village, a woman around my age told me the Evil Eye was on me and my family. She told me she was afraid for my life, and I needed to give her $500 right then so that she could burn a candle for me. When I told her I didn’t have the money, she asked if I had an ATM card and could bring her the money quickly. I said “thank you” and left. I wasn’t worried about the “Evil Eye,” but it was an eerie brush with the city’s […]
by Colin Healey on Aug 22, 2016 -
The 10 Things I Learned Because of the 2013 IFP Labs
The following is a guest post from Colin Healey, whose film Homemakers participated in the 2013 IFP Narrative Labs. Just like you, dear reader, I believed the final days of the year 2012 A.D. would end with untold devastation and destruction, brought on by the fateful impact of a thousand mega-asteroids, rampant and untreatable avian pig-SARS, and the appointment of Nazi T-Rex as Speaker of the House. Certain the end was nigh, I convinced a ragtag posse of artists, actors and sassy interns to spend humanity’s last remaining summer crammed in a sweaty, dusty, tumbledown house on the east end […]
by Colin Healey on Dec 19, 2013
