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Doing a Site Revamp

Buz — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:53:42 +0000

Step one of a long-overdue overhaul whose ultimate aim is converting site to WordPress (finally), but already in a kerfuffle with this “design”. Tossing Vectips, FFFFound!, OnceMade, and Smashing Magazine (along with a sliced banana and a tablespoon of Nutella) into a blender makes a delicious website smoothie, but the line between “inspiration” and clear, shameless rip-off having been crossed (accidental and unwitting, I assure you) now necessitates a re-redesign before launch! Argh!

The make-over should be done within next two weeks at the end of which I’ll have a clean site, without such blatant “borrowing”.

Hope you enjoy the new logo/mascot, toned down from a few preliminary overly kawaii options (the former stern ’slice spokesmodel moved on, currently shaking ‘n flipping a sign outside an Alhambra cellphone store. he’s happier there, actually). I’m recycling some unused assets — ideas that never went live.

Book of Short Stories

Buz — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:33:00 +0000

Whilst out in Kansas visiting my very loud family (it’s possible, folks, that I’m NOT the loudest) Judy showed me, then allowed the borrowing of the "Book of Short Stories" — a collection of essays, book reports, "what I did this summer" stories by fifth graders, and the great part is this was published February 1931! I’ve started uploading all of the stories, but there’s already a dozen or two up there. I just think this is such a neat find. Check ‘em out and let me know what you think! Start with these Pretending and A Beautiful Site.

Havana Before Castro

Buz — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:45:00 +0000

Just started on a new site for Peter (Moruzzi) for his soon-to-be-released book "Havana Before Castro, When Cuba Was a Tropical Playground". So far it’s just a coming soon page, but check back as there’s so much good material to work with even I should do OK.

BTW, nearly finished reading the galley — it’s a fun, quick read.

Update (19-July): Peter’s added some excerpts from his book and a terrific classic mojito recipe, also from the book. Check it out.

Cycleway Coffee (Hermon /Highland Park… errr, somewhere in Los Angles)

Buz — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:04:00 +0000

My recurring lament “wherefore art thou, neighborhood coffee house” ends with the opening last month of Cycleway Coffee, a truly first-class coffee house nestled at the foot of the hill-saddle between Highland Park, Monterey Hills, and the Arroyo Seco — otherwise known as “Hermon”.

Their opening day was quite well attended, capped off by a stop of some scores of bicyclists enjoying the monthly NELAart Organization – Spoke(n) Art Bike Tour (open-studios throughout Highland Park). I dropped in during the day to shoot these photos (also posted as a Flickr set).

The very existence, as brief but notable as it was, of the cycle way was a complete surprise to me. And while it was never finished, rarely used, and was replaced by a freeway it’s quite a tale.

(full disclosure: yes, I worked on their web site)

Download Blank Storyboard Templates

Buz — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 04:32:00 +0000

Here’s a gallery of storyboard templates, straight TV/DV and Widescreen aspect ratios. Variants include camera and title safe marks, plus camera and scene staging areas, should you be of the particularly exact type or animating.

Go to the Screenplay & Storyboard Templates, in addition to an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of these storyboard templates there’s a Microsoft Word script template you may download (free, gratis, of course) and helpful links to more scripts

download blank story boards (Adobe Acrobat: blank_storyboards.pdf) (81 KB)

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