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I suppose that anyone who writes for money, adventure, or fame will end up with a clips file with things that are more odd than end. Below is some of the stuff I've done that doesn't easily fit any particular category
Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine – "I Say" essay
The Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine used to run an essay each week under its "I Say" banner. I sold them a humorous one about getting an electrical line run from my house to the garage. I cracked the market my first time out. You can read it over in Blather.
Cleveland Enterprise Magazine
Cleveland Enterprise Magazine is the house organ for the Case-Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management. A pretty snooty venue for the likes of me, huh? I did a one-shot profile of a fast-growing local business – Foundations Systems, Inc. – while I was between my NASA job and the editorship of GWD. I've misplaced the actual issue in which I appeared, so what you'll see is a reconstruction based on the draft I sent to Cleveland Enterprise. See, it pays to never clean up your hard drive.
Video
I've done a variety of video work with topics ranging from NASA wind tunnels to educational video scripts for the prevention of seed diseases. The work has ranged from simple script writing to taking a video from end-to-end, being responsible for writing, directing, editing, and 3D animation. The latest effort was a profile of an up-and-coming veterinary hospital. That's their logo to the left. That's me, Hollywood on the Cuyahoga.
Punto de Vista
A Portuguese / English journal of the arts. How the heck did I end up with a piece in this? As a favor to a college friend. I wrote a piece on visiting the Salvador Dali museum when it was still in Greater Cleveland. Dali is my favorite surrealist, so it didn't take much arm-twisting and I got to see the collection before – like a leather-skinned octogenarian – it moved to St. Petersburg, FL. My most vivid memory of Dali is when he appeared on the Dick Cavett show before Dick migrated from mainstream TV into his PBS niche. Dali came onstage with a cane with a huge silver head and proceeded to use it to bash holes in a 6x6x6 box filled with smoke. Billowing clouds erupted and a New York fire crew rushed onstage to put it out. Dali then took a seat across from Dick and began talking like one of his paintings, in a thick accent. Cavett did the only thing available to him: he looked a Dali and went "Boojee! Boojee! Boojee!" And thus TV history was made. At the museum, pieces like The Hallucinogenic Toreador were marvels to behold. I won't wax too profound since my profound is shiny enough.
Promotional Brochures
Try to boil down a business to the front and back of a 8x11 sheet of paper, give it impact, and make it attractive. Here are some of my attempts. TekRight was an effort at marketing a tech writing company to members of Cleveland's Council of Smaller Enterprises at one of their quarterly trade shows. I learned not to market high-end work to people who run businesses from their basements.
This brochure was for one of those Total Quality workshops where people are self-actualized with lots of touchy-feelie activities like cooperation and teamwork and everyone leaves with high self-esteem that vapes once they get back to the cube farm. I did this one as a favor to a friend to ran the workshop.
Toaster Forum
This was a newsletter I put together for a monthly computer forum I used to attend back in my video days at NASA. The Video Toaster was an add-in board to the Commodore Amiga computer [anyone remember that?] that was cool beans at the time. It allowed video creation and 3D animation for peanuts. This, too, was a labor of love rather than money. When Commodore went belly-up, so did the forum.