Welcome!
Thanks for stopping by. I’m so busy I’ve yet to add a lot to my own site, but I’m working on it when I have the time. Do check out the links above for my award-winning short films and visit the Los Angeles Ghost Patrol’s site, with whom I’m collaborating on a project. Then click on over to my LinkedIn profile — I’m currently looking for work in the Los Angeles area.
Shadow Cities
If you have an iPhone or iPad, it is worth checking out the ground-breaking, location-based game Shadow Cities. Continue Reading →
Shadow Cities is a massively multiplayer online role playing game or MMORPG. I have seen it referred to several times as an ARG, but the only alternate reality it involves is its location-based playing field. There is no through story line or character interactions outside of chat with your teammates, who obviously are not fictional. Therefore I don’t consider it an ARG.
DIY Days LA
On October 28, 2011, I recharged my creative batteries at the DIY Days event at UCLA. DIY Days bills itself as a roving conference for those who create, and it takes usually place twice year, once on each coast. Jam packed with workshops, project demos and talks, the day was a non-stop whirlwind of meeting new people and learning of new approaches to funding, production & distribution. There were several great keynote addresses, including Henry Jenkins’s “If It Doesn’t Spread, It’s Dead.” Here are some brief insights from the panels I attended:
SALIGIA-7 Case Study – Ian Ginn
A transmedia sci-fi thriller whose first chapter, Zombie Alarm #1, ran in Amsterdam earlier this year. There are three main narratives: (1) Teenagers who start to display illness, (2) Zombie hunters who try to alert the public, and (3) Society’s reaction to the threat, which includes SWAT teams as well as a rogue officer. Ian called this “participatory storytelling” to differentiate it from an ARG.
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Trailers
None of my short films are online for public viewing due to my school owning copyright and/or me wanting to find other paid distribution outlets. But I do have trailers from several of them available on Vimeo. Click through to watch.
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Robot Chicken DVD
Holy crap! There’s an ass-load of extras here! The people in charge of Robot Chicken really know how to appease the DVD and Blu-ray base, don’t they? – DVDTalk.com review
Part of my work on the Emmy-winning Robot Chicken is to produce the show’s DVDs. This year I worked on both the Season 5 and Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III packages. The show’s creators Matt Senreich & Seth Green want to cram as much awesome material as possible into these discs for our rabid fans, and it’s up to me to figure out how to do it. Let me walk you through the production process…
NASA Tweetup GRAIL patch
As a participant in the NASA Tweetup for the GRAIL moon mission, I was a part of a group effort to design a patch for the Tweetup. Artist Nathan Moeller designed a preliminary patch with a central rocket & plume and twin stars for the GRAIL spacecraft. Working off comments posted by the Tweetup group, I then modified the design to more closely feature the Delta II rocket and the GRAIL spacecraft side-by-side, also adding in the smoke plume across the bottom. I redrew each element from actual photos in Photoshop and then took the design down to the required 8 color scheme for embroidery.
NASA Tweetup
I found out in early August, that I was selected to participate in the NASA Tweetup for the GRAIL — Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory — launch at Cape Canaveral in September. I’ve been meeting my fellow “tweeps” online, making plans & learning about the mission. GRAIL will fly twin spacecraft in tandem orbits around the moon to measure its gravity field in order to learn more about how the moon, the Earth and other rocky planets formed. During the Tweetup I’ll get to hear from mission scientists & engineers, tour facilities at KSC (can’t wait to step inside the VAB!) and hopefully see the Delta II rocket carrying GRAIL launch from the historic Space Launch Complex 17.
