Posted by tjparsons on Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:00am

No mouse, no keyboard, no pen, no touch screen. No tangible input devices of any kind. Just an electronic ear - more simply known as a decent off the shelf headset microphone. Believe it; its here, and has been for quite some time. It may be lurking in your current OPERATING SYSTEM and you may not even know it.

Right now, I am sitting in my chair, talking to you via an amazing invention called voice recognition. Part of my new year's schedule was finding time (it ended u...    [Read More]

Posted by tjparsons on Tue, 22 Dec 2009 7:36pm

     Many years ago,  fifteen to estimate to the best of my ability, there was this weirdo that worked at a rapidly going out business grocery store in Woodstock, Virginia. Between customers he would advance a foot or so of  blank register tape, write down notes, observations or draw designs for ideas. After work he would drive home, open up a shoe box and throw the ideas inside (fuel a project another day). Eventually he came to pull out every tape that he wrote up...    [Read More]

Posted by tjparsons on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:40pm

 I am really happy to have recently purchased Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium . Just the smell of ...    [Read More]

Posted by tjparsons on Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:39pm

The first time I met him,
I  was talking to him at  USC and he said:

"...when  I make a film, or a cartoon I look at this world like I'm from another place, another planet..or even a child ..everything is brand new..fresh..most things seem strange to me anyway, the world is so odd when you really think about It . It helps.."[Read More]

Posted by tjparsons on Sat, 23 May 2009 11:38pm

One of the great things about redefining a work space, filing and organizing is the things you find while doing so.

One of the hard lessons of being professional and maintaining a professional work environment is labeling: Label very specifically and date to nearest possible day. One other hard lesson to learn and practice consistently is make a back-up copy and a back-up copy of the backup copy. We take too much for granted the integrity of these...    [Read More]