Everyone Is Entitled to Everything

Infinity + 1901

danashco — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:16:48 +0000

The motion graphics animation that I created for IP Pixel (Starcom Mediavest) in Chicago is now available. You can view the reel here.

Hat tip to Mark Neigh for the shove and Steve Saltarelli for the animation assist.

Practice Resurrection

danashco — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:32:39 +0000

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know.

So, friends, every day do something
that won’t compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Denounce the government and embrace
the flag. Hope to live in that free
republic for which it stands.
Give your approval to all you cannot
understand. Praise ignorance, for what man
has not encountered he has not destroyed.

Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.

Put your faith in the two inches of humus
that will build under the trees
every thousand years.
Listen to carrion – put your ear
close, and hear the faint chattering
of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world. Laugh.
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
though you have considered all the facts.
So long as women do not go cheap
for power, please women more than men.
Ask yourself: Will this satisfy
a woman satisfied to bear a child?
Will this disturb the sleep
of a woman near to giving birth?

Go with your love to the fields.
Lie down in the shade. Rest your head
in her lap. Swear allegiance
to what is nighest your thoughts.
As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn’t go. Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.

What’s it like to work at your company?

danashco — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:38:55 +0000

The Chicago Tribune is running an article on the Gen Y Project that I worked on this summer. I produced video profiles for some great companies in Chicago:

Hard Rock Hotel
Google
Morningstar
Edelman
Digitas
Marketing werks
Starcom
Orbitz.com
Field Museum
Big 10 Network
Deloitte
Performics
rEvolution
Tru
Euro RSCG
NCSA
WMS
Threadless
Total Attorneys
Homescout Reality
Vodori
Innerworkings
Echo Global Logistics
MSDS Online

You can see the rest of the videos I created on Brillstreet’s website (click through to their youtube channel for proper aspect ratio).

2009 Lollapalooza

danashco — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:48:06 +0000

Right before the demise of yet another Chicago magazine, Venuszine had me backstage filming some thirty interviews including Passion Pit, Of Montreal, Peter Bjorn and John, Gang Gang Dance and Blind Pilot.

Out of all of the interviews, Carebears on Fire took the cake. They might have been the most well spoken and articulate of the bands, and for 13 year olds, you cant fake that kind of enthusiasm. See them all here.

Cheers to dHerve and Jumpshot for heading the project up.

Blitzen Trapper “Black River Killer”

danashco — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:31:32 +0000

Back in March, I worked with The Cutting Board to shoot a video for Blitzen Trapper at the Empty Bottle:

Driskill Wedding

danashco — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:44:28 +0000

The images from Phil and Kristen’s wedding are now online. Feel free to right click download any of them.

30 foot jumpshot

danashco — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:26:47 +0000

I went to an art opening at the Co-Prosperity Sphere last Friday and right outside the entrance was a basketball goal mounted at the building top with a 30 foot net hanging down. As it turns out, my friend Chris Roberson was the man behind it.

Gonna Go Out for a Peter

danashco — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:21:13 +0000

I received the following text message from Google Voice after Mr. T Doty left me a voicemail earlier today.

yeah what’s up so my plane get done tomorrow or and i was planning to take the train to go to chris is but he said he’s gonna be at rehearsal dinner at that time so i think that trent you think i’m trying to because the they said they were all gonna go out for a peter or something actually get down the personal dinner and i guess would be best for me to meet up with you to go with you from there so call me back and so i can get your address and i can figure out what to take the train to find you if that works if it’s if it’s alright call me back bye

I m not sure whats better: not having to listen to the recording anymore or the process of deciphering the “transcription”

Pounding Ideograms into Concrete

danashco — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:16:45 +0000

Rattling nerves, dislodging bones

danashco — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:55:02 +0000

Dostoevsky taught me that not by arguing, but by creating—creating characters who demonstrated the dehumanized desiccation of an unGodded life and, in contrast and comparison, the terrible beauty of a pursuit after God. —”God and Passion” by Eugene Peterson (pdf)

My bones are under assault. Dostoevsky is at it again, and this time its Crime and Punishment. While some folks might argue that Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot and Demons are less than blood-curdling thrillers, it would be hard to say that C+P falls short of spellbinding. But like the rest of his oeuvre, even the minor events are spectacles, and much is to be said of the discontinuous, sudden and unexpected, disharmonious and undignified. In a word, terrible—but all the while broadcasting a comical carnival of disruptive and unsettling truths spoken by holy fools. Its an upside-down religious experience of weirdness and wonder, one that reckons a new sense of righteousness coming at us despite our best intentions to avoid it.

A reading from Mr David Dark’s latest Questioning Everything with a revelatory word on Dostoevsky’s “surefire drama of people going crazy” (4min).