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KAB First Place – Chiefs Coverage - Station Promotion Campaign 2020
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KAB Honorable Mention – 65 Years with WIBW - Station Promotion Campaign 2019
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Official Selection – Reviver (Redux) - Saint Louis Sci-Fi & Fantasy Short Film
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Official Selection – What Darcy Saw - Saint Louis Sci-Fi & Fantasy Short Film Fe
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First Place (Horror/Thriller) – What Darcy Saw - Planet Comicion Kansas City Film Fest
(2019)
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Creative Services (
2016 - 2023 )
by WIBW-TV Commercial Production -
12:21 (
2005 )
Film (short) by 12:22 Productions Co-Writer, Extra, Co-Producer, Time is an orobus. This is our first short film. Our purpose was to create a film that you could watch forwards and backwards, inspired by the fact that, at the time, you could add a parameter (loop="palindrome") to the QuickTime embed code that made the player show the video forwards, then start playing it backwards once it reached the end. The ending montage represents a backward viewing, and ultimately makes for a much better viewing experience, as re-watching the film all the way through backward got old after even one attempt at it. I still feel there's a potentially knock-out Twilight Zone idea in here, we just didn't nail it down properly. And I laugh at the 2 years of pre-production to make sure our timelines worked out right for all of our characters during that minute of time that loops. Maybe we should have worried a bit more about the story... The film made its big screen premiere at the Slash and Bash Film Festival in Topeka, and also received decent reviews from the Washington DC Film Festival, the Long Beach Film Fest, The Palm Springs Film Fest, and was invited to be shown at a festival in Israel. Other palindromes, in case you didn't notice, are hidden in the short. • The time... 12:21 is obviously a palindrome. • All of the characters' names are palindromes... Bob, Otto, Eve. Even the unnamed purse snatcher was named JJ in the script. • The 181 address on the side of the building when the purse snatcher gets caught. • The car that hits Otto has a bumper sticker on it that says "Race Fast Safe Car." • We tried to include some audio palindromes... for example, the moment that the sandwich board guy says "Somebody Call 911!" Bob is saying "NO NO NOT (you honey)!" Backwards they sound almost the same... Since the word NO sounds like ONE backward. We were reaching, sure... but it is there. • The man that bumps into Otto says the same thing that Otto says, "Why don't you watch where you're going?!" ...that segment could be played forwards and backward and would seem the same. • The ring itself is a snake eating the head on the other end. • The ring also coincides with the They Might Be Giants song "I Palindrome I" (And I am a snake head eating the head on the opposite side... I palindrome I) - which is the song that is playing in the car that drives by. • Otto starts to give out Dave's phone number backwards, but is bumped before he can finish it. • Otto's backward-playing voice recorder opens and closes the short with the line "This is only the beginning." • At the end (or the middle, if you wish) you see the sandwich board guy holding a sign that says "The End Is Near!" - To which we find out it's not really near at all, and if it were, it would be a good thing. • About half way thru, (or a 1/4 of the way if you count the backwards viewing) we see the sandwich board from the other side and it says part of a quote from Robert Frost... "There are only middles." The full quote is "You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings -- there are no such things. There are only middles." There may even be more that we have long since forgot. I know we wanted to have sale signs in the windows that sold kayaks for $59.95 and such... but we never got around to making that happen. At the time, we had not known that Michel Gondry had already created a video achieving this same idea some 8 years prior. Many people have also tried to create such a film, but most of them are single shots without much movement. We were not going to restrict ourselves just to make it easier on ourselves.
Education
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Washburn University
(1991-2018)
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