A Walk in the Park Productions

Thanks to everyone who reached out about my free design offer yesterday. I'm looking forward to our collaborations.

I wanted to share another piece I designed and tell the story behind it.

The below image was made for the digital comedy series HEADSHOTS, which I created with Shane Murphy, Colin Fleming, Eric Schiller, Christopher Spaleta and many other great collaborators.

In episode 7, we took a good-natured poke at contemporary dance. John Marcucci, the hilarious leading actor seen below, played the apotheosis of the pretentious artist who didn't know what he wanted. I wrote the first draft of the script and then took it into the writers' room with Shane, Colin, Eric and Chris. Behind the heightened goofiness of the episode, there was a genuine dilemma of how to get a client to explain what they want. We'd all experienced that before. I can't remember the ending of the first draft, but I think having the photographer using the dancer's pretentious language to connect with him was already in place. Still, something was missing. I think Colin suggested that once the dancer felt seen and understood, he had the epiphany "Hard key light from above, wide oblique angle, bloody diaper." Everyone in the writers' room cracked up.

There were many brainstorms about the final image as well. You may need to watch the episode for context, but one wild picture idea was to have a pool of blood on top of a drum and then have our dancer bash the blood into the air with two d***o drumsticks. If only we had the budget.

For our final image, Eric created some great textured lighting, John brought incredible passion to his poses and Kat Milligan (our make-up and SFX artist) placed that blood with great professionalism. I just had to press that shutter button.

I brought the image into photoshop and wanted to do very little to it at first. The idea of a broadway playbill at the Monsanto theatre was a last minute decision ironically suggested by the dialogue (easter eggs for the most attentive audience members). It was a bit of a hunt to match the official Playbill fonts (parodied as Showbill) and to find a weird font for the title "Phallus Wound". The halo of light around his head was also a photoshop addition which almost happened by accident during a small touch-up.

I've never been so proud of a silly image.

Hi friends, I'm offering free graphic design work to fellow creatives out there. This includes musicians, comedians, writers, dancers, painters and small business owners who need digital ads, posters, logos or anything similar.

Why? I'm looking to expand my portfolio.

In case you don't know, I've been working as a creative director and senior writer at an ad agency for a few years. My work has included conceptualizing and overseeing ads for TV, radio, billboards, digital etc. While I oversee the work of others, I still do plenty of my own writing, filming, editing and designing as well. The attached image is a logo I made this week for my friend Gary's band Lon Chaney Movie

I'd like to find more clients with fun, bold and challenging visions for their brand, but to get them, I need to fill out my portfolio a bit more. I don't think I'll be able to take on more than two or three projects right now, but send me a message (email, text, DM or reply to this post) and let's see what's possible.

A dispiriting, but in-depth, look at the state of online comedy:

CollegeHumor Helped Shape Online Comedy. What Went Wrong? The company grew from a scrappy startup to a digital media player. Now it’s clinging to life after mass layoffs.

We produced an original comedy series!

Take a look:

Headshots | Season 1 - YouTube

Location: Toronto,

Position: Videographer

Pay: $450.

Time: Sept. 8 - 7pm.

Looking for an experienced shooter to cover a TIFF party. Stand up and sit down interviews. Must be familiar with ENG style shooting with handheld and lav mics as well as lighting for sit-down interviews. Please send reel and cover letter to [email protected]

A Walk in the Park Productions and Fish Suitcase are about to make a new comedy series. Take a look:

Headshots Headshots explores our current obsession with vanity. It peels back the glossy image we all try to present to the world and reveals the painfully funny truth underneath. Our rotating cast of quirky characters allows us to poke fun at every level of society.

Our special edition of the viral hit SURE LOCK just started to pull in 100 views a day. Will it go viral a second time?

SURE LOCK: A True Poo Story | Special Edition Watch our new web series trailer and tell us what you think! https://youtu.be/IFJQOX_87Jo Surelock first went viral back in 2007 and later won a Canadian com...

Merry Christmas from AWITPP and the warped minds of Fish Suitcase

Sleep with one eye open.

Looking for something funny? Check out AWITPP's sister company Fishsuitcase:

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Home of the Gangster $hit and Headshots web series.