10 Second Stories

Who says a web site can’t be launched in 2 hours? OK nobody has, but that’s what I did last Sunday. Presenting my new project… 10 Second Stories…

The site is focused on the art and craft of making 10 second movies. It is designed for both novices and seasoned professionals. I will eventually have video galleries and “Film Festivals.” Stay tuned.

Submit your 10 second movies now.

Blue Cosmic Monkey

OK, so maybe this took a little more than a weekend, but I needed to perfect the cocktail recipes…

One thing I really enjoy is taking two subjects and combining them to create a new project. One day I was doing a little bit of research on the Mayan Calendar, the thirteen moon/month system that includes unique “seals” for each day of the year. I came across the Planet Art website which includes the ability to find out what your seal is by submitting your date of birth. My birthday is “kin 91: Blue Cosmic Monkey.“

Of course my first thought was, “That sounds like a great name for a delicious cocktail!” And this is how I came up with the idea for the Blue Cosmic Monkey Cocktail Book. It is comprised of 13 tequila based cocktails concocted by me and tested under the highest and most grueling standards. In other words, if like it, it must be good.

I published it in comic book format through Ka-blam. This is a terrific and low-cost method of self-publishing comics. They do a great job and the quality is outstanding for on-demand printing.

I still have a few copies left. You can buy them at the Blue Cosmic Monkey website.

Wear Spanish

This project was inspired by a t-shirt that I saw last year that had nine objects with Japanese words for those objects printed below each image. I thought it this was a great way to learn a new language, but didn’t quite help with sentence structure, so I decided to take it to the next level.

Now, one of the funny things about me is that I grew up in a household where Spanish was the second language but I never actually learned to speak it fluently. The weird thing is that I understand it if I hear it or read it. The human brain can be funny that way.

Anyway, I decided to do a tongue-in-cheek-web-t-shirt-mash-up to teach some Spanish fundamentals. The result is Wear Spanish, a site that includes animated tutorials on how to use a t-shirt printed with a dozen objects and spanish words.

These t-shirts are available through Printfection. Try one, buy one, learn Spanish!