Mark Coleran Visual Designer

Credit Where Credit is Due

It has been a very strange week.

On Thursday I noticed a sudden surge in people following me on Twitter and was a little confused as to the reason. Some days, one or two people follow you. All of a sudden, there are hundreds! It turns out the reason was an article in Gizmodo that had a write-up on the work I have done in film.

It was really nice to see the article and great to get good coverage of what is usually a much scorned, misunderstood and hidden area of work in film and television. The core of the article really hit at what we try to do when we create these things and it was refreshing to see such insight.

There is however something I wanted to add to the discussion and it comes down in essence to the title of the article. Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them. I have nothing wrong with them being called Ridiculous. I agree, they sometimes are. What I would like to expound upon is the ‘man’ part.

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Press Pains

It looks like getting things the way I would like them in Wordpress is going to take a lot more work and time than I anticipated. Especially difficult for a code idiot like myself. Until I get the new layout functioning just the way I would like, I am going to refrain from fixing the images and folios and uploading the rest of the content. It will be coming along soon. In the meantime if any one has any good tips on creating themes and using Wordpress frameworks, give me a holler.

Returning Calls

One thing that has come to note whilst updating the site is that my old site had my old telephone number on it. Unfortunately I was never able to pick up the messages on that number while abroad and would like to apologize to anyone who never received a call back. Certainly did not mean to be rude. Drop me a mail if you did so.