. . . the intersections of LIFE are part of a 6 Degree Ripple Effect

This “ripple” encompases and circulates in “time” and posits upon the premise that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other.

O.D.D. stands for Other Dimensional Discussion and our O.D.D. Room project will roll out as a developing Creative Game and ZO Magazine EXPO based on the premise that Time is linear and Life is metaspherical. The intersection of these two forces forms a type of Circle. The Expo, and its unique 13 micro episodes will connect storytellers, cast, and the full production team and associates into a living circle of energy with ZO’s participating global community. We explore the theory in our unfolding film’s discussion that such creative connections are what fuel the 6 Degree Ripple.

Producer, Bonita Z, first met Kip Dellinger through best friend, Gwen Howard*. Her serendipitous flight from Filmways (later Orion) Pictures’ Accounting Dept. to then Dellinger & Dellinger was to spark a lifelong friendship and very unusual “conversational documentary of Hollywood origin stories.” Kip was a young tax phenom (if there is such a thing – lol) and a spoken word compendium of the inner workings of “show business” through their taxes. 

This friendship would connect a new family that included Royal Dellinger, Sandy Christmas and a host of others who some playfully knicknamed “Kip’s Angels.” The offices on Sunset at the entrance to Beverly Hills would become the center of such acquisitions as the film studio at the Mary Pickford estate — and rather than traditional meetings, Kip would hold court at the Cock-n-Bull which later became a showroom for Range Rover. Monthly and quarterly dinner documentary conversations continued (even to now) with Kip hosting a growing group of friends associated with ZO. These conversations were most certainly seeds for the strategies and real world methodologies that would help form the complexities of the structure for The O.D.D. Room and its Game Structure roll out.

*(There’s a peek of Gwen in Ep. 10 of the O.D.D. Chronicles at one of our parties.)

Kip is now a Senior Tax Partner at Kallman & Company LLP, and has been a Board Member and Advisor for ZO through all of its iterations . . . ______________________________________________

We’ve had many conversations about the serendipity that has been a stream through our lives. As we continue the interesting conversational film that has developed into the O.D.D. Room, we are tremendously blessed by the 6 Degrees of providence that have amazed us and connected such a diverse group — and highlighted the Ripple Effect working through the project, and our personal lives.