{"id":850,"date":"2006-02-16T07:20:50","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T15:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2006\/02\/inviting_the_elephant_into_the\/"},"modified":"2006-02-16T07:20:50","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T15:20:50","slug":"inviting_the_elephant_into_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/inviting_the_elephant_into_the.php","title":{"rendered":"Inviting the elephant into the room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KCRW&#8217;s <i>The Business<\/i> radio show (audio file <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.org\/cgi-bin\/db\/kcrw.pl?show_code=tb&#038;air_date=2\/13\/06&#038;tmplt_type=Show\">available here<\/a>, the story starts at about 21:30) has a charming story about graduate film students and their final project. Despite a tight budget and a killer schedule, they decided they needed a live elephant for the shoot. So, they got one.<\/p>\n<p>The story asks the question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nIs it reasonable to ask for the unreasonable in the fear-filled world of real Hollywood filmmaking?**<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To which one of the students responds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\n&quot;I think studio executives want to do extraordinary movies. They get scared because maybe someone isn&#8217;t confident enough to bring them along and hold their hand and say &#8216;you know what, it&#8217;s going to be alright&#8230;it&#8217;s going to be amazing.&#8217;&quot;<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I talk alot about being thoughtful, responsive, and connected to the community as an arts organization and an arts manager. But stories like this remind us that being bold and a bit crazy is also an essential part of our work&#8230;if the vision demands it.<\/p>\n<p>When a creative project demands an elephant, sometimes it&#8217;s our job to get one.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n**feel free to replace &#8221;fear-filled world of real Hollywood filmmaking&#8221; with &#8221;risk-averse, cash-strapped world of nonprofit culture.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KCRW&#8217;s The Business radio show (audio file available here, the story starts at about 21:30) has a charming story about graduate film students and their final project. Despite a tight budget and a killer schedule, they decided they needed a live elephant for the shoot. So, they got one. The story asks the question: Is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}