As a kid, have you ever thought that there were monsters lurking in your closet, or under your bed? What if you knew that those monsters are real, and live in a separate world powered by the screams of children? In this strange and colorful world much like our own, monsters are highly trained to […]
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Have you ever paid much attention to the little things in nature? What if you knew that there was a constant battle waged between the forces of life and death, and the future of the forest depended on it? In the new animated film “Epic,” from Blue Sky Studios, the war is waged between the […]
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Grab Your Camera: Sign- Up For Summer Workshops & Camps Grab your camera and join Outside the Lens this summer for hands-on workshops and summer camps. Learn to navigate the buttons on your digital SLR or master the elements of a great film, our classes will take your media skills to the next level. Any […]
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(4 out of 5 Starfish) When you ride a train, do you ever wonder how much people have toiled and worked to create the tracks that you ride across? Rocky Mountain Express is a stunning IMAX film about how a man named William Cornelius Van Horne, the President of Canadian Pacific Railway, began an ambitious […]
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Tap dancing is one of those dance styles you just love to watch. It can be lighthearted and take flight or a take the form of a demanding staccato of rhythm and sound; but whatever the beat, the dance becomes the music. From tap’s early beginnings in the mid 1800’s as a style of dance […]
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(4 out of 5 Starfish) In the DreamWorks new animation “The Croods” co-written and co-directed by Chris Sanders and Kirk De Micco, Eep, a teenage cave-woman, has been told all her life to always be afraid, and that curiosity can be dangerous. Her father, Grug, is overprotective and stubborn, always putting safety first. Along with […]
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As a 20 year resident of Carmel Valley, I did not arrive in a covered wagon, but I do feel like a pioneer of sorts. We moved Keane Studios to the Piazza Carmel center in 1993, only ten years after construction first began in “North City West.” For those of you who have arrived in […]
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Adult students coming into the studio to research dance instruction for themselves do so for many reasons. Some are students that have dance backgrounds from their younger years and are looking to ‘get back to their roots’; some look at dance instruction as a new hobby or a way to meet new people. But for […]
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Have you ever seen a monarch butterfly flying in the sky and wonder where they all fly off to? Dr. Fred Urquhart, a researcher, spend decades trying to figure out the mystery of the most incredible migration on earth: the flight of the butterflies. The new IMAX film “Flight of the Butterflies” tells the compelling […]
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If you are a Carmel Valley dancer, then chances are you are preparing for a very imminent and rigorous competition season. Dance competitions run year long, however most dancers will experience the ‘competition scene’ during the months of January through July. Being prepared in mind, body and spirit is key as is making sure just […]
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For all of you who have been around Carmel Valley since the “pioneer days” of the 80’s and 90’s, you may remember that Keane Studios used to be located next to Baskin Robbins, where the Chase bank is now. Ever since then, we have photographed your little ones with bunnies, and more recently baby ducks […]
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The message is not spoken, but written, chalk-scrawled on a bubble-shaped blackboard while the three boys smile at the camera manned by an Outside the Lens Youth Councilor, making humorous hand gestures. Their grins may have been comedic, but their message is true and solemn. It may not have meant much to them at the […]
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