Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Monthly Archives: April 2005


This is coming to you live from the set of Tohubohu’s film, which is tentatively named after Scott Andrew LaPera’s “The Big Lie That Solves Everything”. Hint two on what we’re up to – it’s a new, postmodern spin on the genie’s three wishes story. With luck we’ll have something up for y’all to see […]

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Tohubohu is once again in full effect, making two different (yet mildly interconnected) films for this year’s 48 Hour Film Project in Washington, D.C. I’m here with my old partner-in-cinematic crime Bill Coughlan, and we’re making a fantasy this time around with the requisite character a hypochondriac, the requisite prop a bottle of wine, and […]

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Third up in the launch list, fresh off the presses this afternoon, is Rob Warner Photography, a clean, sharp site for a Chicago photographer with a portfolio powered by Todd Dominey’s SlideShowPro. Lots of Flash involved in this one, so heads up. Next!

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This project, produced by Anne Gallagher at Extreme Marketing and designed by Maria Sitelis from Sitelis Design, is a very utilitarian but straightforward and elegant site for Levin Ginsburg: Attorneys at Law. This project’s been a long time coming, but it’s always cool to see a plan come together. (Thank you, Hannibal.)

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As I push these projects live, I’m going to throw links to them up here so you can see what I’ve been working on. First up, a nifty little Flash piece for one of our Sound Advice voiceover clients, Tory Ross. Check out the nifty zooming trick accomplished by a scaled motion-blurred Photoshop image bookended […]

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All right. I fly out of here and into DC tomorrow at noon. This means I have to finish up a whole pile of projects in the next 24 hours, then make a movie in the 48 after that. In the words of the great Black Eyed Peas, “Let’s get it started in here.” Watch […]

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It’s 4:30 A.M. on a Tuesday It doesn’t get much worse than this In beds in little rooms in buildings in the middle of these lives which are completely meaningless Help me stay awake, I’m falling… – Counting Crows, “Perfect Blue Buildings” 4:30 AM on a Thursday, actually, but close enough. Late night marathon email […]

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Dear sweet Jesus, if the Adobe-Macromedia merger means that Flash MX 2006 will support Photoshop-esque layer effects, I want it and I want it right now. That is all.

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The good Scott Thigpen provides yet another interesting life insight: Nineteen Basic Human Requirements. These are as follows: Connect emotionally Be vulnerable and share feelings Have an appropriate sense of power and assertiveness Say “NO” Have initiative and drive Have at least a minimal amount of organization Be real, but not perfect Accept imperfections and […]

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Have had this design for less than a week and I’m already tempted to chuck it out the window. Someday when I have time again (ha!).

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