After shooting Jay Spivey’s “Last Word” column on Wednesday, I tried to think of something that I’d done or thought or been as a kid that I’m as nostalgic about as he is about little league baseball. Nothing came to mind. This isn’t because my kid years weren’t what they ought to have been. All […]
Pragmatic creative seeks collaborators. Experience preferred. Or something like that. The trick, I’ve realized, isn’t finding a story to tell or even figuring out how to tell it. Storyboards and logistics are easy. The trick is getting my ass in gear. One way of getting my ass in gear is to put myself in the […]
However modest, the sound studio that I pieced together in the mid-90s was a magical thing. To me. Magical to a guy with only one year of middle school piano under his belt and who’d only recently begun to unravel the mysteries of waveform editing. At the heart of my poor man’s Abbey Road were […]
