Santa came to the theatre

Oh joy!

Follow the Clues

Unlock the mystery.

The third day

Emily likes school and it looks like the boy likes his nose.

The second day

She looks more excited today.:)

The first day of school

Pa talks about extra footage on DVDs

Good movies don't need extra footage. Chocolate bars don't come with extra chocolate to dip them in.

Sheriff Wilson

Made this for a celebrity day job contest.

sheen

Abstract Architecture

I shot this for an abstract architecture contest. Can you guess what building this is?

Pa talks about fitness places

Those fitness places are ridiculous. All you get is athletes foot while pressing your muscles against some sweaty upholstery and then you get to see some creeps in the shower.

How to make an arrow sign

Today I'm going to show you how to make an arrow sign.

You may think an arrow sign is a simple two minute task but you'd be wrong. I was asked to make a temporary arrow sign for the Mayan Restaurant's waiting line. "Just make a simple arrow sign that says Enter Here," my boss told me. Hmm, that sounds easy enough. Wrong.
I made this is two minutes.


Then my boss came over to give me instructions on how to make it right.
It went something like this: "The arrow looks crooked. What font is that? That's not a good font. Use Myriad Pro. Make the font bold. Make the arrow black... no, make it red again. Make it look good and call me over when you have it ready."

I put more effort into the sign to make sure it was perfect because we were going to have the sign printed on photo paper and framed.

First I made some guides to make sure everything was straight and aligned perfectly. I changed the font to Myriad Pro Bold Condensed. Then I used the pen tool to draw a perfect arrow.


If you've been following along your arrow should look like this. If it doesn't you better start over.


Now the sign is perfect. I printed it on regular 8.5x11 paper and then we taped the piece of paper to the stanchion pole at front of the line at the Mayan. The next day the sign had a refried bean stain on it and the day after that it was torn and crumpled on the floor.

I'm glad we spent 30 minutes on making it perfect. If you ever are given the assignment to make an arrow sign please take this perfect sign and use it. I'll feel good knowing that my sign got more use out of it.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Pops came to visit

Natalee's Last Day

Vanilla Milk with a cheese wedge

Emily likes her vanilla milk with a cheese wedge.

The Shane Show

Thomas invited Shane over to perform his reptile show. It was cool.

Booth of Crap

Drove to Thanksgiving Point this morning and Sean showed me the projection booth of crap and the door to nowhere.

No Fun

The signs I made January 5th, about children under five not going into R rated movies arrived today. After 6pm is bad but any time before 6pm is ok to take your four year old to House of Wax. The sad thing is that I even had to make this sign. It's stupid. Parents should have common sense to not take their young kids to R rated movies regardless of what time it is. But parents do take their kids to movies like Red Dragon and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. As a projetionist I've seen it myself. There will be an auditorium full of kids and when you check your movie schedule to see what movie to thread you read, 'A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge' when you expected to be playing Fantasia.
"Timmy, what would you rather see tonight, Pooh's Heffalump Movie or Lord of War?"

"Ooh, ooh, Lord of War! Lord of War!"
"Ok, jump in the minivan. Lord of War it is."

I'm not kidding.





I like the look of this poster.