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photos from protests in LA

yesterday was May Day and street protests were in action.

sad can be interesting

one more to add to the sites worth visiting

Sad Things

finding something cool online

i never know what to look at online. other than Google News, i literally stare at a blank page.

so in an effort to find out what is cool online, i started a set of bookmarks called Cool Sites and have been dropping stuff in there. not much so far, but a few things...

this web comic

this site about Kryptos at CIA hq

these beautiful photos of Missouri skies

and political blog that seems to be in the mix

if you know of something cool online that i should check out, please email me!

the wrong thing to say

this is the first time i was quoted in WIRED. not the best choice of words. i got a pretty funny (ANGRY) call from our PR agent at the time...and learned to choose my words more wisely, at least when i know they are being quoted.

"It's a bit sad that someone had to launch a format that accommodates people too fat and lazy to get off the couch and return a movie to the store," scoffs Blaine Graboyes, creative and technical director of Zuma Digital in New York, a DVD services and authoring facility.

NIST 2002

i am trying to find the presentation i gave at the NIST / DVDA Conference in 2002. it was about all the things i did wrong at ZUMA - and a few of the things we did right. but more about what we did wrong.

K's article about the Final Fantasy DVDs

P and K and their baby W came over for dinner this weekend and it made me think that we met as professional adults and have all known each other for 10 years now - and more friends than work now.

he accompanied me on the blind date at which i met T, who i am about to marry...

K wrote this great article once about the DVDs for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within which i executive produced and creative directed back in day at ZUMA. it was our last great hurrah! and worth it too.

make sure you get the Special Edition version on DVD and not the 1 disc DVD or the UMD.

DVD Pitches

here are some old pitches and concepts for original DVDs that i wrote or worked on with friends. if you have the cash and want to produce a cool project, consider DVD Party Games or The Film Composers Series.

these are PDFs and i guess i consider them my property, but someone i respect is credited with once saying - steal my shit, i'll just make more!

Guba?

btw, have you seen Guba - it searches Usenet groups for videos and photos, then makes them available for streaming and download in various formats, including for iPod and PSP.

storyboarding PPT

not that i knew anything about the subject, but i found someone who did. back in 2002 i was asked to speak at the LA DV Conference on "storyboarding" - so this is what i presented. the better part of the session was Josh Hayes, who i met researching the field and have since stayed in touch with.

if you ever need a great storyboard artist, call josh. and ask for a copy of his demo DVD. we spent a long time working on that one!

The Fall Collection

i found this old video that Isaac and i produced of The Fall Collection a few years ago.

you should check it out if you are in or around NYC this fall.