January 2010
14 posts
My mentors: Lilliana & George Seibert
George & Lilliana Seibert at the Harbor Pharmacy, 1958
Most of the mentorsI’ve written about have been work companions and no one I’ve worked with has had the same impact as George and Lilliana Seibert. It would have been their 60th anniversary today (George passed away in 2002) so it’s a great day to honor them.
Yes, Lilliana and George are my parents. And yes, most...
You're welcome.
Frederator Postcard Series 8.14, mailed January 29, 2010
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@ Jon Kane's house.
Optic Nerve’s Jon Kane and I met because I really loved the pioneering mix “No Sell Out” by Malcolm X & Keith LeBlanc, on Tommy Boy Records. (It’s too long a story to recount here right now.) After a bumpy start we’ve worked together awesomely ever since. Carrie and I visited Jon at his Red Hook (Brooklyn) HQ yesterday. We canceled the project that had...
Kevin Lofton & Fab 5 Freddy in the house.
Animation director Kevin Lofton was back at Frederator/NY, and this time he brought a special guest star, hip-hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy. We were all discussing feature projects, and maybe we’ve just about got one. Thanks for coming over guys.
@ Nathan Sawaya's house.
Just as I was about to post, Bailee Desrocher’s Lego “Click” post popped up on the Channel Frederator blog. It must be the Lego animation moment.
Carrie Miller and I went around the corner late last week to visit artist Nathan Sawaya’s studio. I was virtually introduced to Nathan’s work when I saw a commissioned piece on his work on my friend Liz...
Where it all began.
The visual Craft of William Golden
Talk about unsung heroes. For those of you interested in graphic design or broadcasting or branding or marketing or youre just a media freak like me you really should read this book, The Visual Craft of William Golden (hit Full Screen up above, or download a PDF; itll be easy).
William Golden is the father of broadcast design, having been...
Frederator Postcard Series 8.13, mailed January...
Frederator Postcard Series 8.13, mailed January 22, 2010
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John K's a special guy.
Letter from Amir Avni to John Kricfalusi, 1998
Ben Relles, Barely Political/Barely Digital guru, sent this around the other day from a great website, Letters of Note.
John K remembers what it’s like to be a fan with great aspirations, and always goes *way* out of his way to help artists. Amir, the letter writer, is now a fourth year Sheridan College animation student, but here he was 14...
Enjoy our holiday.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Michigan, March 14, 1968
As the son of a fifth generation American from a small farm town in New York, and a World War II political refugee from Eastern Europe, and I have so thoroughly embedded the hopes of the United States that most of the time I’m unaware of it. But I am completely the result of a special place.
And every once in a while a too rare time...
Coming soon!
The long awaited sequel from Frederator Books. Including the first published (!) interview with Eric Homan, a short essay by Bob Osher, the postcards in Series 6, 7, & 8, previews of Series 9 & 10, and more!
We’re aiming for March, 2010.
My favorite Christmas present.
Frederator Postcard Series 8.12, mailed January 15, 2010
Illustration by Stanley Rayon
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More Frederator postcards:
Frederator Postcards Series 1, 1998 Frederator Postcards Series 2, 1999 Frederator Postcards Series 3, 2000 Frederator Postcards Series 4, 2003 Frederator Postcards Series 5, 2004-2005 Frederator Postcards Series 6, 2007-2008 Frederator Postcards Series 7,...
The first Frederator website.
I was riffing through some old stuff, introducing a friend’s business to the internets, and this turned up from 2001. Time flies.
Husband material?
Frederator Postcard Series 8.11, mailed January 8, 2010
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More Frederator postcards:
Frederator Postcards Series 1, 1998 Frederator Postcards Series 2, 1999 Frederator Postcards Series 3, 2000 Frederator Postcards Series 4, 2003 Frederator Postcards Series 5, 2004-2005 Frederator Postcards Series 6, 2007-2008 Frederator Postcards Series 7, 2008-2009 Frederator Postcards Series 8,...
You'll never look at music the same way again.
MTV: The Making of a Revolution, written by Tom McGrath
By the mid-1990s, a teenager who’d had his mind blown by the music video visual feast was old enough to be a damn good writer and reporter, so Scranton’s Tom McGrath (now the Executive Editor of Philadephia Magazine) decided to literally write the book. MTV: The Making of a Revolution told the whole story (it’s now out of...
