My Creative Mojo

This is a fun project I worked on with Erik C. Andersen & Eric Kurland.
It was shot at the Los Angeles Convention Center during the Star Wars 30th Anniversary Celebration. Scenes were shot on the fly with convention attendees, and we weren’t entirely sure what we’d have in the end.
An interesting creative process. Step #1: [...]

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Two seasonal Yellowstone National Park concession workers have been fired after a live webcam caught them urinating into the Old Faithful geyser.
According to Yellowstone National Park Geologist Hank Heasler, “These two gentlemen were lucky they didn’t get burned by the steam. Not so lucky, the dude that used Old Faithful for a colonic. It’s been [...]

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NEBRASKA ARREST
A man was arrested after authorities were tipped off about a reckless, naked driver on Interstate 80 in central Nebraska.
He is the first person to be diagnosed with Stage 5 Nebraska Flu.
DRUNK BREAST FEEDING
A 26-year-old woman in North Dakota was arrested for breast-feeding her baby while drunk. The woman claimed she was feeding the [...]

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Stephen Hawking Hospitalized
Stephen Hawking was hospitalized on Monday because of a mysterious illness, and doctors expect him to make a full recovery.  Upon hearing this, Stephen got excited until the doctor clarified, “except for that neuromuscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis thing.”

Police defend using a taser on naked man at Coachella
This week, police defended their use of [...]

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OBAMA’S ECONOMIC SPEECH
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama acknowledged in a major economic speech that “times are still tough” and warned that a culture of “instant gratification” undermined the economy.
Said Marius Schwartz, professor of economics at Georgetown University, “I don’t understand how the entire financial system was brought down by me feeling myself in a rapid [...]

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OBAMA RELEASES RECORDS FROM REGAN ADMINISTRATION
Obama ordered the releas of nearly a quarter of a million records from the Reagan White House. Unfortunately, 97% of Americans don’t have the equipment to play an LP.
CO-CREATOR OF DUNGEONS & DRAGONS DIES
Dave Arneson, one of the co-creators of the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game died after a [...]

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SUDAN ELECTIONS
Sudan will hold its first general election in 24 years in an electoral process that starts this April and will finish in February 2010. Although it seems like a lengthy time frame, it is expected to finish before the resolution of the Coleman/Franken recount.
WOMAN DIVORCES HUSBAND FOR CLEANING TOO MUCH
A German woman has divorced [...]

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TATA MOTORS – WORLD’S CHEAPEST CAR
The Indian car manufacturer Tata Motors announced it is taking orders for their Nano, a very small bubble shaped car that is priced at $2000, making it the world’s cheapest car, at least until the release of an even smaller and cheaper car, the Shuffle, which has an autopilot that [...]

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MEGHAN MCCAIN
After Meghan McCain criticized Ann Coulter and other conservatives in her online column, political commentator Laura Ingraham criticized Meghan’s weight, comparing her to a plus sized model. Meghan then appeared on The View and continued the volley by saying to Ingrahm, “Kiss my fat ass.”
To avoid further escalation, John McCain stepped up to his [...]

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Dec 9: Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested for trying to sell Obama’s vacated senate seat. Blagojevich defended himself, saying “I wasn’t selling the seat, it was a senatorial surcharge for baggage. As the recession deepens, everyone will be charging this fee, including Southwest.”
John McCain publicly announces, “I want to work with Obama.” Rahm Emmanuel [...]

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I just ran across this screenshot that I grabbed last summer, which was screaming to be posted.
The Award For “Worst Ad Placement” Goes To…
RED STRIPE BEER! HOORAY BEER!

creativity, news, sideshowdoug

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Blasting a handful of news items that been stacking up:
Dec 5: Happiness is contagious, researchers reported Thursday in the British Medical Journal. So get your booster shots before we get too far into happiness season. Health officials have indicated that the booster shots are especially important for young children, the elderly, and those who have [...]

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Writing a press release may not sound like the most exciting thing to write. But amped up on creativity it can be loads of fun for the writer and entertaining enough to keep the reader engaged.
Here is the press release I wrote for Dougtionary.com:
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PRESS RELEASE
Dougtionary one year anniversary!
It began on October 18, 2007, when the [...]

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So this is normally the place where I’d write about my personal creative process, but I found a post by a friend from film school at Montana State.
Adam writes comics & recently spoke at the Portland Creative Conference about his creative process.
http://adamgallardo.blogspot.com/2008/09/creative-conference-talk.html
Enjoy!

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About a year ago I realized I had the knack for making up fake words, often by changing a single letter or combining portions of words that have a similar sound. At times I’ll hear someone mispronounce a word — and while most nice people let it slide because they know the intended word, I [...]

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Our microwave has been making some weird sounds lately and although it still seems to cook okay, I wonder if it’s leaking some type of brain altering waves that will turn me into a mutant. And since it takes forever to cook a frozen entree, it’s time to get a new microwave. One with more [...]

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I like browsing at a book store from time to time, so today I go to Borders. I wander down a random aisle and a Julie Cameron book catches my eye. She’s the author of “The Artist’s Way”, but this is a different book that I don’t recognize. “Walking In This World, The Practical Art [...]

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I’m in a wrestling ring. I’ve never wrestled before, yet I am being challenged. One person approaches and I am forced to wrestle them. I don’t know what to do, so I try it and manage to pin them. It’s not as difficult as I thought. One by one, people approach me and try to [...]

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I’m seated at a card table along with three Indians in traditional Native American clothing and headdresses. We’re playing Indian poker. The dealer deals us each one card and we all slap them on our foreheads, face out. I look around to see what card the other players have, and we’re all stumped, looking around [...]

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