Screenplays OF SCIENCE (ence, ence, ence)

Posted: January 11, 2021 | Author: | Filed under: Exhibit Development, Interactive, Production, Research, Science, Screenwriting, Television, Writing | Leave a comment

Science communicators write screenplays? Heck yeah I do: the kind you see in museum exhibitions and planetariums (planetaria, if you’re nerdy).

I’m stoked and honored to be working on one about human space flight for a NASA grant, working with the Bell Museum and brilliant full-dome producers at Morehead Planetarium. Hoping it will be the kind of film that makes every kid who sees it want to work for NASA.

Every kid?

Well why not, I ask you.

And hey, wow: Victoria the T. rex, the video I wrote and directed for immersive, in-exhibition viewing, has won three awards! 🏆 🏆 🏆 See a sample from it (minus narration) at my instagram page, linked below. Cinematography, animation, and production by the incredibly talented folks at Animism Studio:

“Victoria the T. rex” now open in AZ

Posted: January 29, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: Exhibit Development, Interactive, Museums, Research, Science, Screenwriting, Writing | Leave a comment

“Victoria” is a newly discovered T. rex specimen, the second largest and most complete known to science (after Sue, at the Field Museum). I had the great honor of working alongside some of the world’s leading paleontologists to develop a touring exhibition around Victoria’s pristine fossil remains, complete with “Become Victoria” interactives and a fully immersive Cretaceous-era diorama come to life. Best of all, the entire experience builds directly upon the most cutting-edge T. rex science. (We’re talking forward stance and feathers, people.)

[EDIT] And that’s not all! This November, 2020, I was utterly chuffed to learn that the film I wrote and directed for in-exhibition has won three awards! Much credit is due to the incredible, unrivaled work of Animism Studio with whom collaboration was a career-topping thrill.

The exhibition, Victoria the T. Rex, is open now at the Arizona Science Center. Colossal thanks to the entire top-notch team, including Dr. Dave Hone, Dr. Heinrich Mallison, IMG, NGX Interactive, Stacy Sidman, and Khalil Williams. Check out the suuuuper flashy trailer for the exhibition below:

Ed Zed O––Whaaa…?

Posted: August 11, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Fiction, Nonfiction, Production, Screenwriting, Writing | Leave a comment

Just got called on as Writer/Producer for a cutting-edge new interactive documentary, paid for by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It’s called Ed Zed Omega.

But what is Ed Zed Omega…?

Let’s find out together, August 15, 2012.

Copywriting for the Finns

Posted: April 25, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Copywriting, Screenwriting | Leave a comment

As you may have gathered, I write copy, among other things.

Here is a corporate video I wrote for Nokia, earlier this year. (For you yanks reading this post, remember Nokia’s headquarters are in Finland, so there may be a few items which feel lost in translation. Don’t worry, I think you’ll find them. After all, the world is shrinking as we speak. And the universe expanding…? Oh dear…)

Just look at those statistics, frozen in time, like so much dandelion fluff…

New Agey B.S.

Posted: April 19, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Comedy, Copywriting, Screenwriting, Writing | Leave a comment

It is the end of an era.

For a good while now, I have been writing horoscopes for the masses at Comedy Central’s mobile site. We called it Uncle Louie’s Crystal Balls. As of a few months ago, Uncle Louie went out of business, but you can still visit him and his fellow astrologers Suzanne Mekulvic and P. Perp the Prophet Talker, frozen in time, because the internet is forever.

The upside: now that Uncle Louie’s LLC is no more, you can get our back stock of horoscopes (previously only available via a subscription with T-mobile), upon request! By which I mean I can show you writing samples of them, informally and without compensation. Here are a few. There are literally thousands more where that came from.

The second upside…? I’m still writing quizzes for Comedy Central (among other things), doing my part to keep productivity down across the United States and Canada. Here’s one. And here’s one. Oh, here’s another one.

Go forth, into truth and not into ignorance.