THE BROTHERS STRAUSE
Whenever i get to voice my opinion about Los Angeles and the business, I like to start out by saying there are three types of people here: those who actually work in the business, those who think they’re working in the ‘business’, and those who the rest of the world thinks is the business.
Providing you actually want to have a normal life here, you gravitate towards the first group.
To the uninitiated, they’re a bit hard to distinguish from everyone else waiting in the morning line at Starbucks. But if you know what to look and listen for, they’re as easy to spot as a leased Bentley on Sunset Blvd.
On one particular morning, I had the chance to stand in line at my Starbucks and engage two of the most unassuming and most successful people in town. Gregg and Colin Strauss, co-owners and founders of Hydraulx, the only digital effects company that can give ILM a run for its money and the guys who brought down the Titanic. Literally.
Way back in the end of the twentieth century, 1996 or so, James Cameron had put the call out for an iceberg. A big iceberg. One that could [Read more...]
