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Greek & Turk, take 2

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

The saga of the face on the yoghurt container continues. It is also an interesting insight into the often convoluted path an image can take from the initial exposure to print, a path ripe for …

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Greek ≠ Turk

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Here is a legal nightmare. Let’s say you have a dairy that makes yoghurt. Turkish yoghurt. Well, since you are not in Turkey we can discuss the “Turkish” part (maybe you got the recipe from …

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New book gets its own website

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

New book = new website. Little Rock author John Giessmann’s novel An Angel of Obedience just hit bookstores. To promote the book, John contacted us to create a new website for it. www.NephilimWatch.com was launched …

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Film & Company produced video starts out press conference

Monday, March 1st, 2010

When Southwest Power Pool held a press conference announcing plans for their new headquarters, they chose to show Introduction to Southwest Power Pool, a video we recently created for them.

Southwest Power Pool last …

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The myth is announced

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Apple has finally unveiled the latest gadget: the iPad. But that is not really the most interesting thing. Rather the interest lies in how for months on end rumors and speculations have been ever more …

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28 days

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Another 28 days is the new measure of a pound of flesh. At least that’s what it seems like after the Warner Brothers and Netflix agreement that means all those movies in your (and my) …

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The value of proofing and checking

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Links are great, and we all use them in print, videos, and on webpages. At least they are great until a link turns out to go some place other than you thought. That is what …

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How long to wait for a rental?

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

So Hollywood wants another staged release in the life of a movie: Theatrical showing, release on DVD and Blu-ray 4 to 6 months later, and (here’s the new thing:) now only after another 30 days …

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Nov. 9, 1989

Monday, November 9th, 2009

When I first stood at the Berlin Wall in 1971, 10 years after it was built, I seriously did not think I would live to see the day it came down. Communism was advancing around …

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Iowa film office confused, puts movies on hold

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) shows 268 titles with locations in Iowa. John Wayne was from Iowa. Cloris Leachman came from there. Field of Dreams (1989) put the state on the map. The state of …

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