writer, editor, blogger. overall digital word nerd.
pixar has nothing on me.
July 29th, 2010 | 8:22 pm
In a previous post, I first introduced you to my new love affair with the site xtranormal.com. I am going to have sex with xtranormal.com. You just watch.
Anyways, I like finding a way to bring fun into my day job. So, here’s a little something an amazing piece of art I did while still on the clock (legitimately!). I would place it in the same vaulted territory of amazing post-modern theatre as my previous work “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air Goes on a Job Interview.” While that piece was described (accurately, by me) as a modern-day Big Chill, I would say my new work is on more of a My Dinner with Andre meets Night of the Hunter vibe. I present to you “Visit Smoke Magazine at Booth 2329″:
i am spielberg.
July 22nd, 2010 | 3:26 pm
I am in love the site xtranormal.com! It allows you to create a scene using rendered computer animated avatars. I SO wish this existed when I was younger and more immature and had more time at work!
Luckily, I had some downtime today!
(Plus, I’m really not all that mature!)
I present, my first amazing film. It had a small budget, but I think it has a lot of heart. The passion of the actors and filmmakers helped create something really special that will touch everyone a little inside.
I present The Big Chill of our generation, a little film I like to call The Prince of Bel Air Goes on an Interview:
UPDATE: I noticed a small little snippit of a scene was missing. I even tried re-creating the high-res movie and it is still missing. Anyone else ever that problem?
i am the real king of the south.
July 21st, 2010 | 11:32 am
Not to brag, but with a fraction of the art and design budget, I think the T.I. cover for my little hobby magazine isn’t all that bad compared to Complex’s T.I. cover, with all their rhino moneys behind it.
Here is Complex’s cover. Here you can see they have T.I. covered with a bunch of wires or something. High-contrast black and white. Art.
Meanwhile, on the other end of the publishing spectrum, here is the King of the South looking damn smoove with cigar in hand. Yes, we adapted it from a movie still, but it works well. I think that we are able to stand on our own:
For the record, the Complex story is a Q+A. I, on the other hand, actually wrote a full-length feature about T.I. (and his love for cigars) based on a 20-minute phone conversation he was nice enough to do with me for my tiny little magazine. Not to toot my horn, but I think it’s pretty good.
(toot.)
I’ll put it up here when our issue is off the shelves.
I don’t want to sound bitter, but roughly one kazillion more people are going to read the Complex feature than will read mine. But they should really consider my story. I’m of the opinion that magazine Q+As are the written-word’s equivalent of Terminator Salvation: there’s lots of things happening, it seems like something interesting should be going on. But in the end, there is no there there, and then we all die a little more inside as a result. And I’m not going to argue that interviewing isn’t an art. It is. But, when I buy a magazine, I’m hoping for the opportunity to learn about the person on the cover—and I get that through a good writer’s descriptions of how they speak, small vignettes of how the subject reacts with their entourage, or observations of how their face looked at different points during the conversation. Little moments. Things that won’t come through in some summer intern’s transcription. I want something that will captivate and challenge me for the duration of my subway ride and/or extended shit.
Just saying, I enjoy a good feature piece.
i’m, like, a writer.
July 18th, 2010 | 8:11 pm
Hello! Have you ever noticed the link at the top of this site called “writing.”?
You haven’t been clicking on it.
I can tell.
But you really should! It’s a collection of a lot of features I’ve had published over the past few years, including the celebrity interviews I do for my dayjob. Anyway, I’ve spent the past few weeks transcribing them so they’re easier to read. They are now available in full on this site or as a Google Docs link of the full layout. I’ve even given you the option to go all old school and download a PDF to your computer. That way you can enjoy these works in some godforsaken place where you don’t have access to the internet. On camping trips. In a submarine on a spy mission. On the moon. In purgatory with all the unbaptized babies. Wherever top-notch feature writing is enjoyed.
Enjoy!
the magic of facebook.
July 6th, 2010 | 2:11 pm
is flattr the future?
July 6th, 2010 | 12:18 pm
TechCrunch profiled a new micropayment start up which could have fascinating implications for blogging or, really, any kind of information sharing.
Flattr is a new Swedish service that is basically a lot like the Facebook “like” button that can be found on this very blog. But every time you like or “flattr” something, you give money to the owner of the post your are “flattring.” In order to be part of the service you start off with a small amount in an account (they’re starting with 2 euros per month). And then every time you Flattr something, that money is dived up amongst everyone you flattred that month. Each flattree wouldn’t get a lot, but if they have a post that is flattred often enough, they could get some real coin.
A fascinating concept that could really revolutionize the way information is processed, created, and shared.
I’ll be watching.
