Ohio-born, Chicago-based actor, writer, web developer and programmer.
February 3, 2012 – 12:24 pm
Like most of the modern world, I spend my days comfortably swaddled in a blanket of predictability, comforted by an sense that, while we may not know if there’s life on other planets or who, exactly, put the “bop” the Bop-Shoo-Bop-Shoo-Bop, we as a species have got it pretty well nailed … CONTINUE READING /
January 27, 2012 – 4:48 pm
We talk a lot about storytelling techniques here in the office. Every project we take on has several layers of “story” – who the client is, where they want to go, and what’s standing in they’re way; or who we are, what we’re excited about, and how we get there. What … CONTINUE READING /
January 26, 2012 – 4:59 pm
While everyone’s buzzing about this year’s Academy Award noms (and snubs), we thought we’d take a moment to announce our partial list of nominees for Best Use of the Oscars as Prestigious Award Analog (aka the “Metas”). Winners receive a gold-plated statuette of post-structuralist cultural critic Jean Baudrillard looking into … CONTINUE READING /
January 25, 2012 – 5:01 pm
The wispy, shimmering light shows that are the Auroras Borealis and Australis (aka the Northern and Southern Lights) may seem like benign – even heavenly – events. But as today’s science headlines remind us, they’re actually the signs of apocalypse, narrowly averted.
The colors we see from Earth’s surface are the … CONTINUE READING /
January 24, 2012 – 4:41 pm
I’m a big fan of smart funny.
It’s entirely possible that my entire body of work – as both a writer and a performer – is based around the premise that “funny” and “smart” are two great tastes that go great together. When paired with funny, smart loses its overbearing know-it-all-ness … CONTINUE READING /
February 7, 2011 – 3:59 pm
This next thing I say is going to sound completely insane. Know that I know this – in fact, all of us here at Marshall know this. We know that we are going to sound like an SNL sketch, or like the fruition of a sociologists fever-dream of a world losing … CONTINUE READING /
February 4, 2011 – 4:15 pm
Everything we do at Marshall belies our “other careers” in the theatre and performance biz. One of the clearest benefits of that history is that a sense of efficiency – “What is the simplest path to the best outcome? What is the best use of our resources?” – is deeply engrained … CONTINUE READING /
February 3, 2011 – 12:19 pm
The Blizzard of ’11 has had some unexpected side effects. Judging by the calls and emails we’ve been getting in the last 36 hours, folks have been coming out of their Jack London-esque battles with ice and snow with a renewed sense of purpose. Maybe being stuck indoors has given people … CONTINUE READING /
January 21, 2011 – 1:52 pm
One of our most unique ongoing projects is a blog covering all things wine for Strongbox Wine Cellar. Our intrepid researcher and writer, Bilal Dardai, scours the web several times a week to come up with tidbits, facts and tips for oenophiles (and oenophilo-philes) the world over.
A few … CONTINUE READING /
January 12, 2011 – 10:00 am
When you adopt a series of stock photos as your tongue-in-cheek stock-in-trade, you have to get used to other people using them for their intended, yet boring, purpose.
So while we were surprised to see our very own ad shipped to us on the label of this “premium compatible toner” box, … CONTINUE READING /
