February 2012
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While I’m gone this week, stay off my beach!
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Happy Birthday, Kurt
Today would have been Kurt Cobain’s 45th birthday, yet what’s more surprising to me is that it will be 18 years ago this April when he took his life. I grew listening to his music, even hounding local record stores for rare B-side and import albums at the age of 10. Despite being too young to understand the songs, Cobain’s voice and guitar combined with Dave Grohl’s...
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alexandra rose tozzi
Eight years ago I lost a good friend on Valentine’s Day, and each year on this day I can’t help but to think about Zan and her family and close friends. I try to honor her memory by doing something she did so well which was make people smile. Yesterday I was invited to join my buddy Mike (who built my site) at the assisted living center where his girlfriend works, and dance with...
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WatchI don’t usually receive fan video submissions.
But when I do, I post them.
Thank you, Virginia and Kelly.
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Saturdays Were Made For Voiceovers
My next project is a combination of voiceover and animation, and continues the work I have been doing for Team San Diego (TSD). TSD is a community health education initiative designed to improve the medical and social service coordination for the chronically ill. These short animations will focus on the key elements that make up TSD’s program, and if I had to describe the style and tone of...
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Everyone has their own Caldonia.
January 2012
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Terry Gilliam 10 Lessons For Directors Today
1. Growing up is for losers
As a child, I always drew funny creatures, funny characters. But I think the trick is not to grow up, not to learn to be an adult. And if you can maintain the kind of imagination you all had when you were babies, you would all be wonderful filmmakers. But the world tries to make you grow up, to stop imagining, stop fantasizing, stop playing in your mind. And...
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From The Yard to The Garden
And now for your viewing enjoyment I present the ESPN 30 for 30 film From The Yard to The Garden: The LemonJello Smiff Story.
produced by Madden Meiners, Mike Lemery and Jeff Branch
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From The Yard to The Garden - teaser
Check out the new ESPN 30 for 30 teaser promo: From The Yard to The Garden
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December 2011
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From the Archives
This was me putting my film/comm studies knowledge to use a few years ago on a storyboarded camera set-up for the Love Language video I put together of their show at The Soapbox. Don’t judge me too much on the drawings because I thought the finished videos turned out pretty well. Check them out:
- The Love Language: Manteo
- The Love Language: Seasons (later renamed...
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Watchpaulscheer:
Super Funny Video from Adam Scott, Ken Marino and Mark Duplass
November 2011
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The Basics of Motion Design
This is great.
via Rogge & Pott, Design.
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WatchNot sure why but this is a regular thing with him and these bowls.
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Silence is Golden
- via NPR article “After Pepper-Spraying, A Powerfully Silent Protest at UC Davis”
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Sox-ford?
Not that he looks like a girl or she a guy, but Sox kinda looks like Kelly Oxford in this photo.
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Can't Stop, Won't Stop
You’ll have to excuse my lameness for copy/pasting someone’s facebook status, but this was taken from my brother’s wall and is just one of the many reasons why he is and always be my hero. Fuck cancer.
“Played basketball for the first time in 4 yrs. It was a month before my cancer diagnosis that I last played. I always wondered if I would be able to play competitive...
October 2011
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Mourir Auprès de Toi (Dying With You)
Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi on Nowness.com.
This is amazing. Spike Jonze wins again, and just in time for Halloween.
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Terry Gilliam's Do It Yourself Animation Show
I’ve been researching a lot of animation technique’s lately for one of my projects, and one company I refer to regularly for ideas and inspiration is Common Craft. They recently posted this video of Terry Gilliam’s Do It Yourself Animation Show, which is a great behind the scenes peek into how he created some of Monty Python’s animated sequences.
“…consider...
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Watch19-year old cat playing with his whisker.
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Going pretty far back with this, but I dig the cover art Ruben Fleischer made for one of the yearly mix cds that he would post on his old site.
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We Need A Doctor
I wish Hunter Thompson were still around to cover the current presidential campaigns like he did back in the ones leading up to the ‘72 election. Given our current political climate, his perspective would be a refreshing one considering the many faces in the GOP field and the stories behind them. His “enhanced” view on the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements would be a...
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Tintin title sequence
Pretty awesome and creative uses of one shape in the (unofficial) title sequence for The Adventures of Tintin. Seems so simple yet its so detailed. Gotta love the score as well.
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Bob Odenkirk sells El Camino, Black Keys. Sketch comedy aside, he makes a great lawyer and car salesman.
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Young Blood
My buddy Dave cut together a sweet video from some partying/hangin out footage he shot a while ago, and set it to The Naked and Famous’ track “Young Blood.” Their album has been making the rounds on my speakers ever since thanks to him.
p.s. the dude at 1:18 is dangerously handsome
shot/edited by Dave Afrika
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The return of Bevis and Butthead. The Wonder Years streaming on Netflix. Arrested Development announcing more episodes and a movie. Good week for tv nerds all around.
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Cooley > Romo
Any true Redskins fan can appreciate how much Cooley loves the city and his team, especially when it comes to talking about the Dallas Cowboys. Granted the rivalry has become diluted over the years due to poor and inconsistent performing teams, but you can’t help but to get a little fired up when hearing Cooley’s comments about Tony Romo’s performance last Sunday against the...
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Catching Hell
Alex Gibney’s 30 for 30 documentary “Catching Hell” is hauntingly interesting. You can’t help but to feel sad for Steve Bartman, yet even more frustrated by the fan and media reaction to it at the time. It shows the dark side of a city’s love for their team, and the lengths it will go to blame an error and eight unanswered runs on an unfortunate scapegoat.
Gibney...
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