Oftentimes we’ll be watching an awards show, or an interview and we’ll hear them thank a great deal of people. God, family, the fans, the companies that made their high achievement possible, but rarely do we hear acknowledgment to one of the most common inspirations of modern technology, philosophy, the arts and many a world changing idea, all thought up whilst pooping. But nay, not even an honorable mention goes to a task we (hopefully) regularly engage in thoughtfully pondering the daily quandaries that we accrue in our busy lives. These often scheduled respites allow us to process, to stew, if you will, and serve as the bathtub did for Galileo as our porcelain muses. Those moments of “Eureka!” we often neglect to note happen whilst pinching a loaf.

And yet we live in a society where much of the population can barely admit they partake in this (hopefully) daily ritual. Some in their effort to mask their completely natural, biological need to poop, behave in an appropriately constipated manner. Should we feel shame for something that everyone-as the wonderfully illustrated children’s book expresses so colorfully-does? Some would go so far as calling it vulgar and inappropriate to acknowledge the fact, but they probably thought to say so on the crapper. Even the derogatory term “toilet humor” denotes a cheap, sophomoric, tasteless comedy, when really, if you think about it, most humor is toilet humor. For that is where it was birthed in the mind of the comedian, or writer! While riding the bowl.

Credit needs to go where credit is doo, people. I say we begin to acknowledge that while we are cleansing our systems we also purged useless thoughts to come up with the groundbreaking ideas we are being given credit for. Next time you nail a presentation and your boss shakes your hand and says “Good work!” say “Thank you sir, I came up with the idea while pooping.”

Gabriel Judet-Weinshel was a filmmaker featured in Music in the Dark and he approached me to produce a rather abstract flash site based on a few of his designs. It was a bit of a challenge, but we finally settled on the final product.

Having been a Yankees fan all my life, I’ve seen them down in worse places than they’re in now, but that fact is no consolation to seeing the state of the club the past couple years. It seems there was a surge in 1998 and though the Yanks have won the world series in subsequent years, nothing has topped that incredible season so far. A recession if you will.

In two years Torre picked up where Showalter left off and took a young team and made them legend. But it seems we’ve forgotten the legacy of Buck Showalter. If it wasn’t for his commitment to the farm system, his keen eye towards the future, that young team would have never existed.

Now that the Yanks are considered a dynasty once more and no longer a joke, ridiculous salaries and high priced acquisitions are the name of the game. Now if you do go to your farm system you have a new problem! Put a young kid on the same line up as Teixeira, Damon and A-Rod on a team with the highest payroll in the Major Leagues and he is almost rendered impotent by the pressure.

1998 was a young team of farm players playing on even ground. The payroll was still ridiculous, but the fan base was dwindling. They grew up as a team as the seats started to fill up. They matured gradually. Bring up a kid from the minors who normally has good stuff, and you might very well just see a young player who can’t handle his nerves. The bar is much higher now, and occasionally they’ll get lucky with a Melky, or a Gardner, but good ballplayers in the Yankees farm system are now being picked up by other Major League clubs and being used as weapons against the Yankees. You’re supposed to build a farm system to support you, not work against you!

High priced acquisitions are the name of the game, but what are you really buying? Seeing as the length of Major League ballplayer’s career rarely goes past the mid 30′s, you’re essentially paying more for damaged goods. The new acquisition is hyped in the media, we laud his achievements, throwing in words like Cy Young, or Golden Glove, or MVP, throw in a contract that would make Orson Welles blush, then we are somehow surprised that he doesn’t perform. One of these days Yankee fans are going to stop buying into this inflated non existing success. It’s been a long time coming and no matter how many big names you bring to the park, you can’t keep manufacturing expensive, mediocre seasons without an equivalent fallout. And it’s happening.

Unfortunately it’s happening at the worst possible time. After blowing $1.5 billion on a new stadium, $161 million on Sabathia and $180 million on Teixeira, fans aren’t going to keep paying to see their team get swept by the Red Sox. What’s naturally going to happen is a sharp decline for the club as a whole. A crash if you will.

And I’m actually all for it! For the Yankees to be great again they need to go back to a time where Showalter’s approach can actually thrive and that was a dark, dark time for the ball club and the fans. I was there! I believe we need to be there again.

Thus ends my rant about the Yankees. I’ll post something more stimulating later…

Music in the Dark III I think I was still in film school when I was asked to make this site for composer Michael Whalen’s annual silent film festival. I thought it was a fantastic concept, he would score the silent films extemporaneously live using a keyboard, laptop and electronics.

Music in the Dark IV I was asked to come back and design the site for Music in the Dark IV. Basically the client wanted me to take the old site and merely give it a face lift using the new branding for that year’s festival and update the content.

Back in 2006 I was hired to redesign and maintain this boar of a site. Trust me it was even more of a boar before I got to it! Had to keep it up to date with all the new exhibits that constantly ran through the gallery as well as posting pieces that were being sold. Alas in the years since that site has been forever lost. What I have is the non functioning front page from that delightful site.

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I almost started writing my cover letter here, since I’ve been typing it ad nauseum trying to gain some kind of employment in these harsh economic times-but nay, I say! This is my site and I shall divulge my personal and professional info in such a manner as I see fit!

To Whom it May Concern,

I am a highly motivated video editor with 4+ years film industry experience…

Seriously though, I edit videos. I also from time to time will dabble in the dark art of web development as you are witness from this explosion of blue on your computer screen. I’ll periodically post evidence that I am indeed what I claim to be on this site, which is a very optimistic forecast since the last update I had done on my personal website was in the good ol’ summer of aught five. But for realz (when you use the “z” at the end of words it means you mean business), I’ma be all up on this this time. I’ve even included a section for my acting stuff! I’m going to dig in the crates for your viewing enjoyment and my deep felt utter embarrassment as videos of a much younger me belting show tunes in tight leather pants make their way into the ether of public consumption.

My hope is that you find this site to be at the least, entertaining, and possibly inspiring. I’m all about using inventive creativity to bring solutions to the needs of clients and companies that aren’t necessarily creatively inclined. I’ll attempt to ooze it from this orifice/outlet of web development and if you are interested in hiring me, or you’ve got some great stuff you want to show off, or if you just want to drop me a line feel free to hit me up on twitter, or on facebook. I’d love to hear from ya.

There’s a blog as well that I hope to be making use of. Living in the New York City area, there never ceases to be things to write about, it’s just a matter of me taking the time to write them. It’ll range from anything from movie and video game reviews, to deep issues of the soul and God, to short videos of my friends doing ridiculous Karaoke. All in all be prepared for some extended periods of TMI and other like acronyms as I let myself go ranting and creating, freely and without abandon.

I present to you the third iteration of jaykimdotnet.