Fine photographer Eric Hoffhines shoots away at writer R. O'Donnell. Eric Hoffhines graduated with a BFA in Photography & Cinema from Ohio State University. He has freelanced for CNN and worked in all areas of production for ABC Network News, Nightline, and the original Oprah Winfrey Show.Eric has worked as a cameraman and editor on the Fox Chicago […]
National Archives, Bread-lines circa 1930I have lived through many rigid times in America. Over the centuries, I have witnessed some awfully strange and fantastic trials surrounding our cultural composition. Especially during the Crash of 1929, preceding the Great Depression.It is a dreadfully sad affair when you see your neighbors forced to move out of thei […]
What if Cupid watched the slasher flick My Bloody Valentine 3D?Cupid is right outside a suburban window. An old angel with dirty wings, he stands there peek-a-booing through the frosty glass of someone’s living room. He takes a withered hand and wipes away the chill, wonders why the roses and the paper hearts aren’t hung around the living room akin to the ho […]
The Kreep, Karmela, and Coraline box #46 from Liaka FilmsI am so in love with Henry Selick's animated 3D masterpiece Coraline that I will see it a hundred times more, and if so allowed, many times thereafter. Such a luscious and ample world it creates. From the very launch of the film, a tiny whiff of shadowy wonder swiftly frees my inner child, taking […]
Gothic poet and illustrator The Kreep (a.k.a R. O’Donnell) has received an entirely handmade box of treasures collected specifically for him by the CORALINE team at Laika films. Inside the box, numbered 47/50, are highly decorated secret compartments that contain relics from the film including a bat/dog model, a bat body mold, authentic skeleton key with sec […]
Finch & Lily producers decided to try WiX for a widget. Pretty cool. We like it. Check out “Another Christmas is Near” by award-winning Broadway composers Adams & McDowell: funcky iPod with a Santa beemer. Enjoy!
T’s here at last All kids aghast Beneath moonlight The witch’s rite Sunup, sundown T’all around Spooks t’goblins Do abound There’s Mr. bones T’zombie moans There’s bats Huge rats Ye ole black cats Haunted tombs T’boo costumes Trick or treat Candy t’eat So… have a nifty halloween May dark & drear […]
FINCH & LILY is a story of human kindness victorious over desperation, isolation and poverty. Written with the simple and stark brilliance of BEING THERE and the universal uplifting appeal of IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, the storybook characters are set in fanciful and imaginative physical neighborhoods in the style of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY [ […]
Across the window pane an autumn leaf hovers
T’sway back and fourth
drop toward DC street below
Float endlessly along concrete stairs
As hobgoblins n’ witches titter crosswalks
Whist beneath lamppost he stands in shadows
T’know duty holds him still
A Priest eyes the leaf
Folding over n’ over
T’land at feet quite cold
How he knows what waits inside the girl
For it is endless
Without patience
All ego n’ bitterness scold
T’kill the slightest warmth
Bend most delicate devotion
Crush innocent soul
There in window peeking
Tiny leaf hitches another gust
T’disappear into the gloom
O’ exorcist t’cross himself
Stand more erect than his age permits
Removes his hat
T’approach such wickedness
Unyielding