Category: Personal
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Dead Men Don’t Have to Drill
I’m behind. I committed to a dozen animated Hitchcock movie posters and I’ve been stuck at four for a month. I need to stare at the noose. I’ve got to get this done. I love this idea and need to find a way to stay on track. I’m hoping this dozen will help, a renewed…
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The Birds – Animated Movie Poster
This is my fourth effort at animating Alfred Hitchcock film posters, and this one took a lot of time. I’m not sure if I’m going to make it all the way to my desired dozen posters by the end of the summer. This GIF is based on the 1963 theatrical release poster for The Birds and is…
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Vertigo, Dizzing Educational Awesomeness at UMW
Yes this post is an excuse to show another Alfred Hitchcock animated poster which I made while at UMW’s Faculty Academy (with Rear Window & North By Northwest this makes three, nine to go). But I’m not going to write about the film Vertigo and the designer of this poster Saul Bass. Ok one thing,…
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Reorienting My Compass, North by Northwest?
It’s been over a year since I first discovered ds106 and it’s amazing to me how much creative energy I’ve discovered since then – I’ve made more work in the past year than I have in the previous ten, seriously. Ok this isn’t exactly true, I’ve made many things over the past decade, but they’ve…
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It’s all about the X
I hear by announce my plan to bring together my various personal and professional identities – Michael Branson Smith, mbransons, mbsmith, msmith, MBS, and any other combination(s) imaginable or not, using my name’s letters to create anagrams, homonyms, heterographs, heteronyms – as a non-for-profit until a profitable subsidiary is formed with the eXtreme, eXtraodinary, eXistential…
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Honeyglazed + Photocopied in Color
One of my favorite books about design Fucked Up + Photocopied Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement showcases the history of punk band flyers from 1977-1985. The art principally created by the bands, then photocopied, and staple-gunned to walls and street posts all over town represented the DIY, mashup sensibility of the punk movement.…
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Color Your Monster Manual – Dragons Edition
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Michael Branson Smith So Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual madness continues in my home. We continue to choose monsters to blow up and color from the amazing Advanced D&D Monster Manual. Recently my kids have been more interested in hearing the backstory for each monster,…
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The End of the Journey to the Center of the Internet
[youtube width=”580″ height=”470″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yrway2OCEw[/youtube] Fellow friends of ds106, I am lucky to be alive. It’s been two weeks since being attacked by Prof. Oliver during the taping of my final reflection on teaching ds106 this semester. It was good fortune that despite all the blood loss, he somehow missed my vital organs. It was a trying…
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Advanced DS106 Color Your Monster Manual
I wanted to share this mashup of the Advanced D & D Monster Manual which includes a dozen pages of monsters blown up and in a vector format (which makes them scale without pixelization.) I’ve been making these for my kids to use as a coloring book pages. Both of them are hooked on coloring…
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High School Is Everyone’s Forever Ago
It’s been an interesting weekend. My wife and I made a work trip (for her work) to Amherst, MA. On Friday night we cut the trip in half by staying at my mother’s house, the home in which I spent the better part of my childhood. I hadn’t been in Wethersfield, CT for a few…