Pravin's sporadic writing and personal projects will now be featured at pravin sathe dot com. Make sure to hit the link and check out the work.

I've recently taken a shine to typography to the point where I am ready to admit I know absolutely nothing about type. So I did what any good internet citizen does: searched high and low for links where I could learn without taking a typesetting course (which I plan to do in the near future). To save others the time of searching the web for good intro material (it's harder than you think), here's a list of links y'all might enjoy. Head over to: del.icio.us/pithcell/typography for four good ones and keep it bookmarked as my adventures in type continue.

My background in flash is more on the actionscript/web side and so it was a welcome (read "So Damn Tedious) change to utilize flash as a keyframe animation program. Teaming up with Christian Bovine, we set out to bring to famous illustrator's work to life. Our subjects of choice: Marcel Dzama, Charles Schultz (Peanuts), Frank Miller (Sin City), Aaron McGruder(The Boondocks), Chester Gould (Dick Tracy), and Adrien Tomine. Check out the result here.

Ask me or Christian Bovine what sequential imaging is and we'll say Tough Guy Johnny. Never, ever use plasticine without a proper wireframe.

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My experience with making music has been a fraught one. In elementary school when we were required to choose and play an instrument I chose the viola and was given the 5th chair (out of 5). When joining the glee club meant auditioning by singing a scale my teacher said I was good but wrote a huge "no" on the index card I handed to her with my name on it. Band in junior high and high school - baritone - I was third chair (out of three) and had trouble not only memorizing notes but sight reading music. On that note, making music with the found sounds on the ITP floor and mixing them in Audacity.

My initial storyboards for a video project in 5 parts about Orpheus and Eurydice fell apart after the location I planned to shoot in was renovated (the storyboards called for a warehouse space that was dimly lit, was under construction and had peeling paint and plaster). At a loss for ideas, I went to a performance of Perfect Partner, a film by Kim Gordon, Tony Oursler and Phil Morrison, starring Michael Pitt and Jamie Bochert with a live soundtrack featuring: Tim Barnes, Kim Gordon, Ikue Mori, Jim O'Rourke and DJ Olive.

Notation of use of digitial devices over a 4 hour period.

Nisa hands her bag to the teacher's assistant, not following the teacher's instructions. "It's your responsibility," says the assistant.
Mother is watching, strike one.

I am not sure what The Residents plan to gain by releasing blank CDs to a public that is already buying less of them.

Somewhere along the road of 24 hour news, and more recently 24 hour sports we have come to accept the idea of intellectual discourse as a contact sport.