BLOG: Pushing the opening of the envelope
The awards season has kicked off. Watching the Golden Globes last weekend I realized that the top grossing films of the year didn’t even have a presence. No Avengers, no Dark Knight Rises,…
BLOG: Fortune or Acclaim? As if you had a choice.
Let’s be clear. As an individual you probably don’t get to control how your creative work will be received. Creators and their creations are at the whim and fancy of the general public…
BLOG: To the nerds go the spoils
I’ve spent this past week meeting about 250 new people and trying to get to know them by learning a little about their interests and likes. A small percentage of them felt no…
BLOG: Dopamine ’13
Happy New Year W3RKSHOP’ers! Kicking off the year rejuvenated and reloaded to give you that dopamine in 2013. I spent the first day of the new year by plopping my rear in a…
MOVIES: The Man with the Iron Fists review
I should probably preface my review with an acknowledgement to say that I am proudly biased in regards to this film. As biased as any long time Wu-Tang Clan fan can be. Since…
BLOG: LBCC 2012 report
Recuperating from manning the W3RKSHOP table at the Long Beach Comic-Con this weekend. The studio team was out in full force. I spent most of the con manning Aposcar Guevara Cruz and Allen…
W3RKSHOP Q&A: Animation Schools
Q: Hey (Aposcar), I got a question/favor to ask: I have a cousin who lives in Rome, Italy and he wants to attend college in the United States. He wants to go to…
BLOG: Conflict resolution
Reading the latest, newest, biggest can’t-miss-crossover-story-of-the-year-that-will-outshine-everything-that-came-before-and-whose-implications-will-be-felt-long-after storyline “Avengers vs. X-men” issue #1 I realized that super heroes truly have some conflict management issues and are potentially bad influences on the youth of America(and yes,…
BLOG: Wait for it…
So I have a sister graduating from high school in the next couple of months. We’re trying to sort out this whole thing with the cap on the number of ceremony tickets she…
What my week looks like – 04/23/12; Wonder of Creating, tha shi cray
What my week looks like comes mid-week… With back to back to back meetings Tuesday and an uninspired unproductive Monday (as well as currently fighting a cold that came out of nowhere), I…