The DVD is done!

I have been working diligently on getting my Dad's film on DVD for a few months now and I have been planning on doing it for years. And it is finally done! Well, technically I still do not have the covers, but they are to be delivered to me tomorrow.

To save money I designed the DVD menus in Photoshop and did the covers myself. That is one of the reasons it has been so much work. I emailed about 50 people who had contacted me from the website I made for my Dad a few years ago and have already received some orders. It feels very good to have it done in time for gift giving season.

The DVD includes a photo gallery and a really great short educational film made in the 70's by my Dad about being a wildlife photographer. I am so glad I got to put some extras on.

So, here it is. Take a gander. I am going to try and take a little break before I move on to the next big project.

i even inherit projects

I have been a little preoccupied lately with yet another deadline. I want to get my father's film out on dvd for Christmas. I have been wanting to get it on dvd for a while, but I am excited to say it is finally happening.

With the film, I am also including a few extras. One is a short film about him and what it is like to be a Wildlife Photographer and the other is a photo gallery. In order to save a good chunk of change I am doing the menu, the gallery, the chapters and some other things myself. Since my guy at the dvd factory is leaving soon for a long vacation, I have to hunker down and get it done this weekend.

So, here I am at home on a sunny Autumn day, listening to The Finches and Kathryn Williams and working on Photoshop. I made my first pot of hot tea of the season a minute ago. It is actually kind of chilly today. I love cool sunny Autumn days. I am drinking Harneys Vanilla Comoro with Coconut Creamer. Yum!

I also recently finished up the new website for my father and grandfather. Please take a look. It has lots of new stuff.

Okay, back to work. It will be nice to have this large project checked off my list and to be able to finally offer the dvd to people who ask for it. It is such an amazing story.

lately

I have been working on getting some photos together for a project for my father's book. I got a slide scanner for my birthday (thanks, sis and bro-in-law!) and have been scanning lots of old slides. Most of the photos in our family are on slides. It is strange to see so many images I have never seen before or only seen in black and white. Most of the color slides are still very brilliant and haven't turned.

There are slides all the way back to the early 40's. I can't get over seeing color images of my father when he was 5! I have only ever seen those years in black and white.


It is very emotional, however, to have these images in front of me everyday. I am glad I have the scanner and look forward to getting more scanned, but it will be nice to be able to put all these pictures of my father and grandparents away for a while. My father was so close to his parents, it was like they were still around when he was around. Now that he is gone I feel like they are truly gone and that makes it all harder. No one tells you that part.

Phew. Okay, well this post got kind of heavy so I will just end it there and post the other stuff I was going to talk about later. I will leave you with this image of my Grandfather with Lady. I love the colors in this slide. I wonder if it was always like that or if it has faded a bit.

It's been a long long time

PonyBoy Press has been pretty inactive lately. I haven't been doing crafts and I am still working on getting out a box of zines to Microcosm Publishing's new headquarters in Bloomington. Everything stopped because at the end of March my father died. He was an amazing man who did incrdible things with his life and his loves. He was a cinematographer, author and contractor. He provide footage for Walt Disney and Lassie, as did his father. As I was growing up their were all kinds of weird animals in our little track home in Southern California; otters, racoons, ring-tailed cats, bob cats, foxes, snakes, flying squirrels, kangaroo rats, owls, whatever Dad needed to film.





His heart attack was sudden and no one saw it coming. It has been very hard. I am working on getting his film out on dvd. He wrote a book and made a film about my grandfather and the golden eagle that he had for 16 years. You can read more about it here. It is only on video right now.