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Conversations from the Future: Me and probably someone else's grand-kid

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A boy sits near me in the park, waiting for the airbus. Above us in the nano-haze, an advertisement appears, blocking out the sun. It's a trailer for "Star Wars XII: Infinity Gauntlet Cross-Over edition." "Star Wars is so stupid." The kid says. "You have to understand," I say. "It used to be really cool." Then I look around at what has become of the city. "But cool doesn't matter in the long run." The kid looks at me funny. "The word "cool" isn't even cool," he replies, then goes back to his ZooZoo-Room. (Oh, ZooZoo-Room. It's pretty much the only thing kids care about. Facebook?...

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Apple Maps = Internet Explorer, or, The Beginning of The End

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Consider, long ago, when the original iphone came out, the features were truly remarkable, a whole new set of tools in a phone: visual voicemail; real full page web surfing; youtube; and Google maps, all built in, beautifully, in a touchscreen interface that was revolutionary and effortlessly simple. All of these features were based on the idea of providing the consumer with something new, things that they would easily take to, useful tools to help in everyday life. Today we get an earful, among other nuanced upgrade features, of Apple Maps. Now, I'm not saying Apple Maps will be bad, and I'm not saying...

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2012 Update

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"What the hell is going on?" you may be asking. Sketch-a-day is more like sketch-a-month, the blog lies dormant, no new pics, even the facebook page is updating slowly... Well... It's called a job my friends. I've been given a position over at Trigger Street Productions, and taking care of business over there, as well as some last minute vfx freelancers, pretty much ate up the end of my 2011. But fear not, for Gordy and I are still around, and truly, the opportunity to work with the supremely talented folks that I spend time with all day is only going to mean good thing for purchase viagra...

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Headlines and the Arts

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This image is part of a series from Canadian artist Jonathan Hobin, depicting young children playing in sets from headline news events. The use of buy generic cialis online sets is not happenstance, as Hobin's day job is as an art director in the save money on auto repair TV and Film industry. More of his work in this series, and additional info, can be found here, at design boom: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/14285/jonathan-hobin-in-the-playroom.html Using major, tragic events in art and storytelling is always a delicate matter, and a big red bullseye for anger and criticism....

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I Crave you, Rhett Wade-Ferrell

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How did we get here? It went cialis canadian pharmacy something like this: I'm chugging away over the weekend at Tadapix, and the song "Crave You", by Flight Fanatics, comes on. I like it, shazam it, and then come home and watch the music vid. THEN, finding the video intriguing, I look up the director, monsignor Rhett Wade-Ferrell, and fall upon his blog, which includes vimeo links to his work. REALLY great stuff. buy cialis Named one of Rolling Stone's Top Ten new directors of 2007, Rhett is keeping busy with music artists, and he has this formalism-meets-Spike-Jonze thing going on that...

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Updates: The Fein Players, The Manual, SR, etc…

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Dear website, I've missed you. I'm sorry I was out working, you know, so I could afford to keep you running, not to mention relevant, but if you'll have me, I promise to never be so distant again. emoticon, emoticon, Paul - - - - - So we shot the table read series, (current working title: The Fein Players) and wow, these New Colony kids & Co. are hilarious. There is so much good stuff, so many improved gems in each take, that it is going to be a bear to pick and choose in the editing, but better to have too much than too little. Huge thanks to Megan Johns for wrangling such a stellar...

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The Manual – beginnings

It's happening, the viagra uk latest iteration of The Manual is taking script format, and all I can say is, there's a feeling abou this one that didn't exist in previous drafts. Also you'll see that the latest two Sketch-a-Days are related to the story. This is happening organically, and I hope viagra without prescription it continues, although I'm sure I'll pepper in some random stuff along the way. That's about it, just super excited to be writing things like "EXT." & "GOBLIN #1" again after months and months of beats, outlines, and backstory mishmosh. Stay tuned! er,... bookmarked?...

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Drive and the Real Girl: The Lars Trilogy Unmasked!

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Well, the title says it all, but it has come to my attention that the movie Drive was actually the second in a character trilogy for actor Ryan Gosling. The arc begins when Gosling portrays the titular "Lars," seeking love and understanding in his nosy-familial Wisconsin hometown. In Drive, we see the unnamed Lars mask his mysterious past, and unload his Canadian wood chopping skills on some would-be assassins. Much is under wraps for the third installment, but suffice cialis 20mg to say, it involves Lars 'driving' back to his hometown, only to find his dead girlfriend, Rachel, risen from...

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Bad Breaking In

So I don't know how many of you know buy levitra online canada this, but Chris Nolan is a champion online scrabble player. I mean he's like IBM super computer good. And so it happens, that when we're playing one day, I get handed a string of unbeatable letters with unbelievlevitra online overnightable placement options, and even I, Gordy the bad with word-sies, know that I have a figurative checkmate on Mr. Memento. So, being the sly player I am, I raise some stakes against ol' Chrissie-poo. My rented slk350 (yeah, still driving it, can't give it up, you know?) against a copy of the Dark Knight...

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Dive, Dive!

So I am ready to make another run at a script for cialis online italia the Manual. As such this will take up most fo my writing time, so I'll be off the grid for a bit, blog-wise ("No, Paul, Please! What will we do?") Patience SR faithful, I will viagra professional be back, and you have cheap cialismy word that at least the sketch-a-days will be coming every... other day? Until then, maybe people should send in requests. Gordy is running amok in this town, and it would be my sincere wish to send him away on missions submitted by you guys. So there's that. There's also Netflix (Quickster?...

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