King of California
Michael Douglas gives a great performance in writer-director Mike Cahill’s feature-length debut, KING OF CALIFORNIA. Douglas stars as Charlie, a troubled musician who has just been released from a...
View ArticleMoving Pictures
With cameras in computers, cell phones and who knows where else, we seem to take for granted that cameras can go anywhere. In the early development of the movie camera, they were much more stable and...
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Need a video produced? Motion Graphics got you down? I’ve got the company for you. Fred and Sharon’s Movie Productions. Or, check out the video on Youtube.
View ArticleIt’s all part of the plan.
Keeping up with the craze over the new Batman movie, I thought I’d add to the hype by posting this nicely designed poster. The chorus of ‘hahaha’s’ written to form the bat symbol is a neat detail....
View ArticleObjectified: New Hustuit Design Documentary
Let’s face it: Gary Hustuit’s documentary Helvetica was a runaway hit. I certainly didn’t expect so many designers and non-designers alike to get so goofy about a film about a typeface. Building on...
View ArticleObjectified Documentary Trailer
Objectified Documentary Our old friend Gary Hustwit, who brought us the feature-length film Helvetica about typography, graphic design and global visual culture, is putting the final touches on his...
View ArticleZe Frank, back again in The Remnants
Our old friend Ze Frank has been a little harder to find since The Show went off air (or I guess offline) two years ago. A project he was recently involved with came online, a short 12 minute film...
View ArticleY@H
Young at Heart is by far the best documentary I have seen in a long time. It follows the Young @ Heart Chorus, learning new songs for their upcoming show. The difference with this group is that they...
View ArticleRandom Acts of Delight
We all have reasons for our love or disdain of Twitter. It’s been around since 2006, which makes it about 400 in internet years—so it’s even somewhat shocking that it remains relevant. I don’t object...
View ArticleOn Pablo Ferro, Movie Title Design Magician
I was honoured to be invited by SPARK Animation 2012 to give the introductory remarks before the North American premier of Pablo, a documentary by Richard Goldgewicht about legendary title designer...
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