Category : Dallas

There’s a Cattle Drive in Big D. It’s not what you’d expect in Dallas. Fort Worth is where one would think of when talking about a Cattle Drive. But, in this instance, the Cattle Drive is a huge sculptural installation in Pioneer Park in downtown Dallas. I think it funny that Dallas has the artwork [...]

I am a geek. I’m also a nerd and a dork. These confirmed traits make me totally qualified to write a review of the recent Dallas ComicCon FanDays held at the Irving Convention Center. Mine will be a mini-review as I was only there for one day. Let’s begin at the start—ordering tickets. We ordered [...]

Summer in Texas is always a challenge when it comes to dealing with the heat. This summer isn’t quite as bad as last year’s, but it still gets into the triple digits once and awhile. With that said, we are lucky here in North Texas, to have had a good amount of rain thus far [...]

This is a shot from our TV shoot with the marionettes. Needless to say we had a very fun time shooting this spot, despite the pressures of time that come with every production. Jim is our talent and he did a great job of playing the maniacal marionette operator, pulling the strings of our little [...]

Yesterday, I spent my entire work day in Big D. I started the morning off at the Merrill Lynch building off 75, working on color with Steve Franko, the master of color for broadcast in Dallas for, well, forever. I’ve been going to this building for some kind of business for the past twelve years. [...]

This past week we shot some new TV spots for a client. In one of them we got to use some marionettes and that allowed me to venture into a very magical, almost mystical place full of every kind of puppet you could imagine. As a child, I was totally infatuated with puppets and marionettes. [...]

This weekend I was able to get over to the celebration for the opening of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, or as we’ve been calling it, the Calatrava Bridge. Santiago Calatrava, the famed architect, has designed several bridges, I believe four, that were to be built in Dallas. Unfortunately things haven’t proceeded in the smoothest of [...]