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400 Pages of Scribbles
So. I’m writing a book. Here’s the scoop on the behemoth: It’s called Comics for Film, Games, and Animation: Using Comics to Construct Your Transmedia Storyworld and will be published by Focal Press (to whose website, Mastering Film, I contribute regularly) sometime next year. The guiding principle of this book? That as filmmakers, or game ...
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The Summer of Disconnect(-itude) Episode One
It’s been just over two weeks now that I’ve been in the “Land of Disconnect(itude)” in Ohio, getting stuff done and having a minimal Internet presence. I’ve long wanted to have more video content on this site, and combined the two situations into one solution, The Summer of Disconnect(-itude), my new video diary series about ...
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Desktop Design
Not sure if any of you want it, but I thought I’d share. Just fiddling around a bit with Hipstamatic on the iPod Touch, and making sexy pictures of the antiques I have. This is from the box of an old 8mm auto-splicer. I liked the design, so I made it into a desktop tryptic. ...
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Whiz!Bam!Pow! – The Sketchbooks
To give the early supporters and fans of Whiz!Bam!Pow! a peek inside the process and provide updates, my writing and producing partner, Paul Klein, and I crafted these “Sketchbooks.” They function as our “behind the scenes,” video diary type things. Stay tuned to this page for updates as new Sketchbooks will be added regularly, both here, ...
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Whiz!Bam!Pow!
Do you remember going into a grocery store with your mom, annoyed at having to be there, save for the one saving grace? A spinner rack filled with comics. As mom would load up on things that you hated to eat, you spun that rack, the comforting metallic squeak demanding you look at all of ...
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Obviously
THE ART OF THE OBVIOUS DOL When Tyler and I first talked about doing a video of OBVIOUSLY, we kicked around several different concepts and for awhile it looked like the project wasn’t going to happen at all. Then something really interesting happened – Tyler hit upon an idea that completely encapsulated what the song ...
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Multi-Hyphenate
First thing’s first. What’s a Multi-Hyphenate? (1) a person who has (or is known to have) several main occupations. (2) A blogazine featuring writings from the new wave of filmmakers, comic book creators, storytellers, musicians and other creatives as they navigate the new media landscape. (3) Me. (4) All of the above. When I first ...
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Gather ‘Round the Mic
For more than 10 hours on a sultry Cleveland night, in a bar roughly the size of a small two-bedroom apartment and on a “stage” cordoned off by tables and placemarked with an Oriental rug, musicians from all over the world played and sang their hearts out. The day before was an all-day, all night ...
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Il Mio Canto Libero
ON IL MIO “Lucio Battisti’s ‘Il Mio Canto Libero’ was a song I grew up with, thanks to my father who put me on to his music. Very inspiring, very real, for the song speaks of the freedom of ”being”, something very real to me and my visions of composition. Tyler Weaver helped bring my ...
