barrington99@gmail.com A couple of weeks ago I received a letter from Amazon Studios saying that Children of Others had reached the semifinalist round in its Best Script contest. Yesterday they announced the five finalists, and my script was among them. A kind of fun thing about the contest is that you can actually read the work … Read more
What do you think? Successful examples of graphic work? Or no? I see the above sign almost everyday. I have to say that the photograph seems more effective than the actual sign, which somehow catches my eye as a I walk in such a way that I see “WALK CARRY NO” to the exclusion of … Read more
At work on Monday afternoon, I spent six and a half hours single-handedly doing this: So that on Tuesday, they could do this: The new furniture is all match-y and stuff. When it’s not still covered in boxes, I’ll take a picture. I think it looks nice, but unfortunately an entire office of new laminate … Read more
One of my favorite blogs came to an end today. It’s not listed in my sidebar, because…well actually I’m not sure why… Maybe it wasn’t public? If you follow this link, does it take you anywhere? If so, that’s her blog, you should check out a few entries while it’s still up. I read this … Read more
When I looked at the weather forecast online this morning (Friday), this is what I saw. Since the current temperature was 57, and it was Friday, clearly the low for Friday is not 63. What do you think is the logic for leaving the prediction unchanged? Would it be cheating to change the low temperature … Read more
I was going to tweet this morning–not like the early bird that catches the worm, but on Twitter, but then, as I was punching my pithy yet profound thoughts into my Blackberry, the a message popped up suggesting that I upgrade to the new improved Twitter. I thought–hell, why not? What else am I doing … Read more
This is a meme that has been circulating on Facebook recently: May I ask a personal favor…..Only some of you will do it, and I know who you are. If you know someone who fought cancer and won, or fought cancer and died, or someone who is still fighting please add this to your status … Read more
And not a lot to show for it. I took the car to the shop because it intermittently won’t start, but after three days, they couldn’t replicate the problem, so didn’t do any work on it. At work, things are busy as classes begin next week. This past week we’ve had surprise land battles over … Read more
Paul continues to work with his editor Adam to get a locked cut of the Rock Jocks–the film he wrote and directed. There are still many things to be done, like sound mixing, music, special effects etc, before the latest deadline for Sundance at the end of September. But this week he took a few … Read more
From my recent posts, you might think it was social-y, with movies and such. And kind of, it was, but it was really much more about being sick. Just a cold I think–but just-a-colds for me tend to involve a long and fierce battle with bronchial congestion, and an utter exhaustion component, and this cold … Read more