Bridge by Ting is not only a delight to experience, but has a beautiful moral behind it that I think is absolutely appropriate for the times we live in. This is my animation Thesis Film done during my time at the Academy of Art University 2010. 🙂 Bridge is a story about four animal characters…
I ran across The Replacements on TV while channel surfing the other night. I love the message in that movie, that if given half a chance, even people who no one thinks of as “stars” can still step up and get the job done. And when I heard David Bowie’s Heroes playing at the movie’s…
As a veteran who suffers from depression, and has also met and talked with many who’ve experienced actual combat during my time in VA hospitals, Memorial Day always manages to fill my mind with a confusing combination of pride, sadness, and rage that I’ve never been able to adequately express. After struggling with it all…
I know times are hard, and it’s been a good long while since we Ohioans had something to brag about, but you know it’s really gotten bad when we’re desperate enough to beg an athlete to stay here: Now I love the great King James as much as the next FANatic, but this whole thing…
Every time I’m forced to interact with other people, I find the experience so anxiety filled and draining that I feel like kissing the walls of may apartment when it’s finally over and the door has closed it all away again. It’s amazing to me how people can be just like pinballs with brains: they…
When this song was first released, it captured so perfectly for me the concerns I had about the antics of my then teen-aged daughter. But I think it’s also apropos to my current concerns over the way we respond in the midst of a crisis. The Eagles – Those Shoes Tell us what you’re gonna…
I’ve just finished watching a recording of this past Sunday’s episode of In Plain Sight. It was about a bridge designer who had to go into witness protection after testifying that a bridge that had collapsed and killed many had had it’s design changed by the builder. The sad ending to the story, and why…
After a very long time, I had the opportunity to talk to my oldest son the other day. I say ‘talk to’ because I hardly let him get in a word edgewise. When I realized how much I was hogging the conversation I started to apologize by telling him how rare it has become for…
I Want Ice Water! 