Thoughtful Preparations: Media Spin Blog

Long time PDI/DreamWorks staff member, Adam Chin, has written and directed an independent film, Maladaptive. Congratulations Adam, on doing this without Spielberg or Katzenberg putting in their 2 cents! Incredibly, Adam was able to work long hours on PDI/DW’s computer animated Shrek 2 and Madagascar feature films while completing his movie. Maladaptive will be shown at San Jose’s Film Festival in March, Cinequest.

Created an alternate parallel universe mediaspin weblog, for the fun of it over at Blogger just to see what that would be like. Very nice design templates designed by San Francisco’s cutting edge Stopdesign. Gotta love that Google money. Perhaps because there is a lot of new blog activity over there, the blogs are slow moving, like 56k modem days.

Recently added a few new sub-domain sites on the wonderful Bluehost server for mediaspin.com.

• http://www.greberadio.com – my grandfather’s radio company history.
• http://www.thegleeps.com – The Gleeps. Animated characters who live forever.

What’s an animator to do? Jib Jab vs. Spiderman 2. South Park vs. Shrek. Flash vs. RenderMan. If you get the picture, then maybe you’ve made your choice which picture pleases your eye best. Let’s face it, in the disposable Flash world, it’s the soundtrack that matters, not the high end visuals. I confess I’m conflicted. Back in the days when Terry Gilliam animated the Monty Python TV shows and movies, I took delight in his rule breaking collage animations. Terry now is disgusted by animation, and I sorta know what he means. – HG

Wouldn’t you know it, the spam bots look for new blogs to post their helpful “comments” on. Let’s add blog comments to the list of e-mail, and pop-ups that have become stained by the commercialization of the Internet. The spam was an invitation to play poker, just in case you have the urge. – HG