Just Four Fun

4 jobs You've Had In Your Life:

• Kings Ice Cream
• Vans Shoes Sales Clerk
• Pacific Sunwear Sales Clerk
• Ruby Tuesday Server

4 Movies You Could Watch Over and Over:

• Boondock Saints
• Fight Club
• Matrix (any of the trilogy)
• Mr & Mrs Smith

4 Places You Have Lived:

• Milton, DE
• Memphis, TN
• York, PA
• Harrisburg, PA

4 TV Shows You Love To Watch:

• Invasion
• Family Guy
• Lost
• Arested Development

4 Places You Have Been On Vacation:

• Hawaii
• Niagra Falls (Canada side)
• Las Vegas
• Israel

4 Websites You Visit Daily:

• Watermark (homepage)
• Friends who have posted in their blog
• Google
• Forums

4 Of Your Favorite Foods:

• SUSHI!
• Chinese
• Italian
• Seafood

4 Places You Would Rather Be Right Now:

• Rolling in money
• On vacation
• With Lindsey
• Sleeping

4 Bloggers You Are Tagging:

• Tim
• Jason
• Nick
• A random person on myspace

Heart Day

Last night I was up until 2:00 AM burning DVD's for a job that deadlined today. All I had to do at that point was put a disc in the drive, wait 15 minutes until it popped out, then repeat...90 times. So, instead of being insanely bored I decided it was time to design another desktop. It's been way too long, I love doing pointless design work!

This one's called "heart day". Hope yours is good!



EDIT: I have to post this. I made a Halo version of this wall for Dan (see comments). I think I actually like it better!

Which Halo 2 Character Are You?

Nice.



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Happy Super-Bowl

The best part? Chips & Dip.

This years Superbowl was L.A.M.E. Lame. Mostly the game, only partially the commercials. Naturally, I picked and rooted for the loosing team. (As always.) I expected way more from teams that made it that far. There were a few good plays. Like the one where the steelers guy tried to sneak it in over the line at the last moment after flying through the pile of players having already landing...pfft. Just keep those carrots coming up in that review room guys.

O.K. Enough sports. On with the awards!

In the category of "Best Beer Commercial":
As was expected, Anheuser-Busch had some good spots. I thought the "Hidden Bud Lights" idea was great. The "Magic Fridge" was pretty funny too....haha!

Both commercials cumulatively get three glimmering clipart trophies.



In the category of "Most Excellent Post-Production":
The "Budweiser: Wave" commercial was an excellent concept and very well executed. Three Goldies. I'm really not sure how they pulled off the "Tacoma: Indestructible" spot. If it was CG, then it was amazing. If it it's not, then why wasn't I invited to the car bashing??

On a slightly different playing field, I have to give credit to the "Nissan Murano: Manta Ray" spot as well. A graphical car turning into a ray and back again. Nice. A flock of clipart for all of you.


In the category of "Ridiculous Yet Somehow Funny"
Burger King's "Whopperettes" Holy crap, how long did that take??
One not so glimmery, or shiny and definitely not edible clip-burger.

Thanks for joining us here at the DemonFishShire Bloggery Commercial Awards. We hope to see even one person that cares next year!

And now a word from not my sponsor.

SuperAd Sunday...I Mean Bowl

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm no sports fanatic. Actually that is the first time I've even thought the word since this time last year! The parts of the game I do catch (when the crowd gets loud and something interesting happens) I enjoy. The rest of my time is spent huddled near the food and drink engaged in light conversation. Or if it's the party of someone I don't know well, I stare at the scoreboard graphics until I've recreated them in my minds version of Photoshop (JS2).

But once I hear "We'll be right back after this!" my eyes are glued to that TV. Why? Because I don't want to miss the next 2.4 million dollar ad that's being shown for the only time in history. My thoughts are not only on who had the best commercial of the year, but why it's the best and how they made it to be the best.

A few years ago I wished for a magical place where designers and media gazers such as myself could view such entertainment at will, anytime they wanted. Enter Al Gore. Thanks to him, such a place exists today on the net. *rolls eyes*

I just googled it and found these two sites that seemed to be up on what's going down.

www.superbowl-ads.com is a flash site that has archived all superbowl ads from 1998 to present! It seems to be a little slow so let them load once then play it again from the start and it should work smoothly all the way through.

www.ifilm.com/superbowl is an awesome site. They not only use QuickTime format (my personal preference) but they have a feature that allows you to quickly and easily "snag" your favorite ad and paste the code into your blog or myspace page. You'll be seeing an example of that in a later post!

Either way, these both should be good links to keep handy for "the one" you missed while in the bathroom this year.

Behind Lacrosse

This is the show that many of you have been hearing me talk about recently. I had the distinct pleasure of working with some awesome talent in the area in order to make this pilot happen.

It's not so much a sports highlight show where you'd see the latest plays and team scores, but rather a show that goes behind the game of Lacrosse and talks about how plays are done, what it's like being a professional Laxer, etc. I just finished editing the pilot episode a few weeks ago and finaly was able to find a good setting in Cleaner to compress it to a decent size for web. It's about 12 minutes long so if you have A.D.D., you can just srub through the different sections. Comments very welcome.

Check it out!