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Post-it Note Diaries is the culmination of almost two years worth of work. It features 20 essays by some of my favorite writers, comedians, performers and artists and one by yours truly. I illustrated each story on a series of yellow Post-it Notes and laid the whole thing out like a comic. To find out more about the project, preorder a book, or to read a sample chapter please visit the book's website. |
After 9/11, the government began encouraging local police, private security and everyday Americans to report so-called "suspicious activity" that may indicate a security threat. Taking photos of landmarks, walking "nervously" and writing in a notebook are all activities that have led to people being stopped and questioned. Could you be next? Directed and produced by Carrie Ching
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What's the price of gasoline? In the U.S. it's about $4 a gallon. But some experts say the true price of gas is much higher. What about the costs of pollution, and the global and local problems caused by it? Who pays for those? This animated feature from the Center for Investigative Reporting calculates the carbon footprint and other external costs of gasoline use in the U.S. The talented David Fischoff composed music for this but it was cut at the last minute for editorial considerations. Reported by Sarah Terry-Cobo Produced by Carrie Ching and Sarah Terry-Cobo Sound mix and editing by Carrie Ching Animation and illustration by Arthur Jones |
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Everyone who's a Public Radio fan dreds pledge drives, not because they hate donating but because they make for such awkward listening. It's hard to hear the NPR hosts transform themselves into giggling used car salesmen, smarming it up for cash. It's like having your favorite college professor suddenly try to sell you a RONCO food dehydrator. |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 In 2010 I participated in the 20th Century Fox Ink-ubation Program. where Fox gives small development deals to animators, in hopes to find American's next animated sitcom hit. For the program I turned in a 15 minute animated presentation for a television show called Kids Like Us. Animators Karl Ackermann and Jon Bryski helped with the production and direction of the shorts, David Wilcox story edited, and Mark Greenberg did the music and sfx. |
| Man Man is a band from Philly that do their best to channel the manic kitchen sink ethos and bug-eyed energy of Beefheart. The band gave me some loose direction for the video -- they wanted it to start at a house party where a guy finds his girlfriend in the arms of another man, then it was to end in hell where our lovelorn protagonist has decided to spend eternity. The short was a collaboration with the taciturn and talented Zander Brimijoin. |
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Remember 2008? Remember when websites entertained people not just competed for our likes, diggs, pingbacks and tweets? In 2008, Lexus, the luxury car company, hired my friend Starlee Kine (writer, comedian and radio personality) and I to create a series of entertaining animated video shorts reviewing things. "What sort of things?" you ask. Well, really, really random things. Things like French conceptualist Sophie Calle, Gene Hackman's career, a forgotten island off of Manhattan where Typhoid Mary died, LOST season 4 and famous Art Heists. Even more random than the things we reviewed were the other people Lexus hired for their shorts like ex-Friend Lisa Kudrow (!?) and Jon Anderson leads singer of 70's prog group, Yes. As random as the job was these videos were a blast to work on and it makes me very nostalgic for three years ago. My favorite videos are for Last Words, Fun and the Fox and the Hedgehog. |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 Found magazine turns other's people trash into everyone's treasure. They publish stuff submitted by the magazine's readers -- stuff like lost to-do lists, forgotten birthday cards, discarded kids' homework and old poetry on napkins. I used to work for the magazine, designing their website and art directing Dirty Found, a publication that collected all the material that was too racy for regular PG-13 Found. We didn't just publish dirty Polaroids though, we ran anything that was overly candid or sexually ridiculous, like heartbreaking break-up letters, lurid prison correspondences and crazy drawings by hormonal teenage boys. Jason Bitner, Dirty Found's editor and I wanted it to read like a vernacular Kinsey report not a porno mag. Each issue was meticuously assembled and every spread was hand collaged to seem like it was straight out of your uncle's wood-paneled basement. |

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Busy Beaver Buttons is a Chicago-based company that makes buttons of all shapes and sizes, good, fast and cheap. This is a little instructional comic that was included in every order like a puzzle in a cracker jack box. It's pictured here at 100%, and was offset print in two colors. It was also turned into a silkscreened poster, as you can see in slides 6 and 7. |
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| 6 dead rapper buttons for $6. Price includes shipping and handling. If enough people email me I'll make one for Pimp C. |

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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 These are three CD designs I did for some friends in Chicago. Two are for the mighty and eccentric, Icy Demons, a band who never met a time signature or pun they could resist. First, is the Japanese release of their breezy summer pop album, Miami Ice, on Easel Records. Second, is their 2006 lost break-up masterwork, Tears of Clone, on the defunct Eastern Developments label. The final record included in this gallery is by Butchy Fuego for Pickled Egg Records UK. Years ago Butchy and I made a couple radio documentaries together for WBEZ/Chicago Public Radio. One on suburban ghost hunting, the other on Christian rock music. |
| This is an installation made in collaboration with artist Agnes Bolt at The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. During the summer of 2010 Agnes and I interviewed dozens of kids at the museum then edited their voices into sound bites around themes like "laughing/crying," "saying I love you," "animal sounds," "ohs/ahhs" and "diseases that old people get." We placed sensors on the stairs and assigned selected sound bites to each step. As the museum patron ascends or descends the staircase the sounds grow in intensity and the themes are programmed to rotate every hour. To make everything work we wired the sensor pads on the stairs to midi-controllers that were run through a PC.http://www.agnesbolt.com/ The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh is a great institution that balances fun, education and shear chaos in equal parts. Whether young or old it deserves a visit the next time you are in the Steel City. |
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Here are a few other items I designed for This American Life. Slide 1 is a letterpressed postcard I made for TAL's subscriber program, where fans of the show received a CD of a new TAL episode every month. Slides 2 and 3 are shirt and patch made as tour merchandise. Each depicts a flaming squirrel made famous in "Squirrel Cop," TAL episode 115. Slide 4 is a business card I designed for them when they moved from Chicago to New York. |



