Blue Wave 10-4 & More [part I]

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I Scream, You Scream...

We all scream, for ice cream!
...I shot that on Veteran's Day this year, and then used it in a PicMonkey edit with their new Graphic Novel effect. I love the effect so much and I have been using quite a bit. Anyways I did the edit on the right for Deanna, for Thanksgiving this year. It was the first one of the DCBuggles too, which you find more of here... https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=DCBuggles That is how the GrfxDziner group pool looked on Thanksgiving too. The butterfly and ballerina were incredible, and the horse racing rail too. Thanksgiving is always big with Deanna's Foundation, and Veteran's Day too. I started another comic strip too, for the Stoolies of Government Center...lol! They are on a mission too :]


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Rescue Me [matted & edited with PicMonkey]…

I created several still images that can be combined in a grouping or series. They were all shot by hand at night, without a tripod. I wanted to have them crop exactly so I could flash the lights on animation…..the originals all have different lights lit at different levels as that is how the camera captured it. I made one initial qwik slideshow type video [embedded further below]. This is the Movie Trailer that I made from cut up portions of that initial video… the series….
see these for more info regarding the matting too.... I simply opened the first image with the black matte, and then added another shot using the overlays portion and selecting my own. I scaled it to fit the width of the previous shot and then adjusted opacity, so I could line it up with the first one. I did this for each of the shots. Here is the initial video I used to cut up for the movie trailer….
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Justice for Deanna Cremin...
18 Years after Her Murder
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Remembering 911...

That was something I made a couple weeks after the attacks of September 11, 2001. At the time I was a kitchen designer at Home Depot in a location just north of Boston on Route 1. My shift started at 9:00 am, and as usual I was in the employee locker room getting ready to go to my area, when I saw the first report of a plane striking the World Trade Center in New York. The reporters had little information at the time and initially thought it was a small private plane of some kind. Shortly proven wrong when the second jet struck in full view of the cameras.
 I went to my department and told a couple folks who were already there. Within just a few minutes others were talking about it too, it was so surreal. The store cleared out pretty much completely as the customers were heading home to be with their loved ones. All you could hear were the sirens going down route one to Logan Airport. The two planes that struck the World Trade Center had departed from Boston a short time earlier.
 I for one will never forget what happened that day, but I was also amazed at the way our country responded. That was quite inspiring.
 American Flags starting being displayed almost immediately, and this patriotism spread rapidly. President George W. Bush did a remarkable job I feel in both consoling and inspiring the country in what must now be the new way we live.
 When I created the idea for the advertisement, I presented to my store Manager at the Home Depot. I sat down with him and explained




my idea of having all the stores within the company be sources of donation for the many. many victims' families whose life had changed that day for eternity. I felt it was something that would be pretty straight forward to set up, and hopefully in the end could allow for some sort of comfort for the families whose lives were torn apart. We talked for about an hour. I gave hime the print outs and he assured me he would show it to the proper people. He was reassigned to another store the next day, and I never heard from him again. We were always encouraged to present any ideas we had to the store manager, but when they transfer so quickly it leaves little room for an idea to grow.


I redid the ad a couple years later and geared towards the Homeless Veteran's places. Years before I had done some volunteer work with a person that was a vendor of mine. He was spear-heading a shelter

for Homeless Viet Nam veterans in the Boston area. They had a van and would search the streets on cold winter nights as well. If you out and homeless, they would pick you up and take you to their shelter. They help many people all through the year. I still believe that we can help both the families that were devasted by the horrific events of September 11, 2001, as well reach out to so many of the Veteran's groups. It will be more of a focus this coming year for the Deanna Cremin Memorial Foundation. Please, never forget.