Colleen Doran reports that she was asked to submit some of her work to be used as props in an upcoming episode of the CBS show Numb3rs:
They are filming an episode entitled “Graphic”, and it takes place at a comic convention. The creators of the show picked some of their favored cartoonists to send along props, banners, standees and comics, and executive producer Ken Sanzel decided to have my work on the set.
Bummer on the back end of that, is that they also invited comic artist people to pop in and play themselves, sitting behind their booths signing autographs. I really can’t fly all the way to California next week, so I will enjoy seeing what makes it to the screen. For all I know, any footage featuring A Distant Soil will end up on the cutting room floor, but I will certainly be watching that episode with the VCR rolling.
The episode, titled ‘Graphic,” airs Nov. 23, right at the end of sweeps.
October 19th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Great underdog show about two brothers, a FBI lead agent and college math professor, solving crimes. Currently in its fourth year, and that episode’s airing on my birthday.
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/numb3rs/
October 19th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Another thing: David Krumholtz (pictures), who plays mathematician Charlie Epps, had a bit part in the film, “Superbad”
October 19th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
I think it’s really neat that there are still luddites out there who continue to use VCR, just as though it were still the 1980s!
I would watch, but I’ll be too busy playing my Commodore 64.
October 19th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
VCR = already paid for.
Anything else = $
October 19th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
And I was fortunate to be picked to have a booth for this shoot next week! Woo-hoo!
October 19th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Thanks for considering me a luddite for the sole reason that you conclude I ought to fork over dough to pay for equipment I don’t need.
The equipment I do need, like the Epson 10000XL Photo professional quality scanner set me back a few grand this month.
If you would like to buy me some new video equipment that I really don’t need so you won’t have to go to the trouble of calling me a luddite, you are welcome to do so, because I love gifts.
October 19th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
PS: I had my eye on this wonderful dvd player and recorder. It’s about $500. I didn’t get it because I have had almost $20,000 in unexpected family and business expenses this year.
I hope you will get it for me. Having suffered the sling of your contempt, I await the boomerang response of your generosity.
You may contact me via my email. Thanks.
October 19th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
make sure to get one that has a hard drive,
waiting for the disc to to be recordable can take a few precious minutes.
October 19th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Ooh. Good advice.
And while we are buying me presents…
I’ll take an Epson Stylus Pro 11880. It costs about $15,000.
I could use the Adobe CS3 software bundle that just came out, and I would really, really love to upgrade to a G5 Mac. MACOS10 Leopard would be nice.
And if you just can’t manage any of those, I am missing the power cord on my Belkin 7 Port USB hub.
Please save me from the fate of the luddites and send me vast amounts of expensive technology I cannot afford.
Thanks.
c
October 20th, 2007 at 7:10 am
*nudges colleen* ask fer a cintiq, too. if I can’t have one, you should.
October 20th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Hot diggity! I’ll take that Cintiq! What a great idea! My WACOM is over a year old, and it’s so two seasons ago.
What, a Cintiq’s only a another $2,500! Chump change! I’m a professional! I need it for my work! It totally sucks to have to draw on a pad and see it on a screen! I want to draw on a screen and see what I am doing! And besides, I hear it helps to keep the wrist healthy and prevent carpal tunnel syndrome. The future of my career depends on you!
…No one has stepped forward yet to finance my thrust in to the 21st Century. This is so bumming me out.
October 20th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
only 2,400 beans?
they’re 4000 here in oz, an’ thats the normal size! the huge ones are probably 7000 beans!
damn you american dollar!
*shakes fist*
(congrats on having work featured in ‘NUMB3RS’, by the way.)
October 20th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Hey, thanks edc. And good luck with that Cintiq. I can’t afford one, either.
It looks like Myles is not opening his/her wallet for my benefit. I think people who take it upon themselves to decide what I should own should pay for it.
I’m still waiting for all my modern goods.
And yet…only silence.
October 20th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Hey I still use a vcr so knock that crap off! In fact, I have found that when I put on my “The Song Remains The Same” vhs tape it kind of mirrors a vinyl disc because it pops and stuff and is kinda neat. Anyhow, congrats to all involved with the show. And Colleen, you just go right ahead and enjoy that vcr cuz I’m right there with ya!
October 20th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
What crap? Read my post? I said being a luddite by holding on to old technology (phonographs, typewriters, VCRs) was neat. Not bad or wrong, but neat, as in keen or swell. Please don’t assume I could only have meant my post in a sarcastic way.
After all, I myself am a luddite since I still occasionally use DVDs as opposed to Blue-Ray Discs.
Peace
October 20th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
And while we are buying me presents…
Okay…$25 down. Just $2575 more to go…
October 20th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
OK Myles, I believe you.
But if someone is a luddite for using dvd as opposed to blue-ray…then we really need a new vocabulary to apply specifically to people that don’t have all the latest goodies because they don’t have all the big funds to pay for them.
Luddite would not be that word since that refers to someone who fears technology, i.e. a radical neo-primitivist.
That would not be someone with a dvd player.
One who is still using dvd instead of blue-ray might be either “poor” (can poor people even afford dvd’s?), or “lower middle class”, or even “has other financial obligations that do not allow the purchase of non-essentials”.
But I would really like to upgrade to a new MAC, so thanks to gwangung for the tip!
My current monitor is so ancient that it has whiskers.
And it is the size of Rhode Island.
Rhode Island with whiskers. This is a sad, sad thing to have in your home.
My mother is a genuine luddite. She still types on a Brother word processor.
October 20th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Oh, I have enough funds to afford to replace my DVD collection with Blue-Ray, but I choose not to. I simply believe that many times the Old Ways of doing things really are better.
Maybe its just my last futile attempt to hold onto the ‘Good Old Days’ of ye Olden Times, but I’m purposefully holding onto my DVDs for at least a couple more years.
October 23rd, 2007 at 6:24 pm
please don’t buy into the blu-ray hype. it’s crap, and if you buy the hd-dvd player it’ll up-res you standard dvds and it a thousand dollars cheaper.
yay for colleen!