the off hour musings of a washington, dc creative studio
Michael
AIDS Memorial Park Design - NYC

AIDS Memorial Park Design – NYC

Ever since I submitted a design board for the WTC Memorial competition, I’ve been (happily, nerdily) following memorial and public space design competitions and this one has some really unique and innovate entries and a nice, simple well-designed winner in the “Infinite Forest” entry by studio a + i, pictured here.  The space that will...
High Heel Race Turns 25, Looks about 37   ;-)

High Heel Race Turns 25, Looks about 37 ;-)

Finally, A Whiteboard Video

We’ve been trying to do our take on a combination whiteboard illustration / animation video for quite some time, but have run into frustrating cancellations or budget issues for the past year (who hasn’t, right?).  Well, we’re finally there, and into our second shoot day.  From this footage, we’ll take the illustrations and our 50...
xtranormal

xtranormal

Doubtless we’ve all seen at least one of the viral videos linked below using http://xtranormal.com.  Funny, heh. Other than just being a goofy video creating tool, we could also use xtranormal  to accurately time scripts that are text or V/O heavy as well as see if a joke or a narrative works in a voice...
Picturing the 4th

Picturing the 4th

I was about ten, so that would make it the US bicentennial in ‘76, give or take a couple years. My family was on the way back to Ohio from our annual beach trip to the Outer Banks and we stopped off in DC for the fireworks. It’s the only fireworks show I remember, viscerally....