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Tim Wilson
COW member since April 12th 2001 from Boston, MA
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• Is This Thing On? Oh, it's on!

System Details: BolDATA Dual Core AMD Opteron
2.61 GHz, 3.25 GB RAM
Windows XP

MacBook Pro, 15"
2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM
Running Windows Vista

Hobbies and Interests: I love television. As much time as I spend watching it, reading about it, talking about it, tweaking my system, it's definitely a hobby. At least.

It's not as cool to like TV as it is to like movies, but most of the time, I like TV better.

It's also not cool to like network TV, but I do. I'll go a little further and say that we're in the midst of television's true golden age.

Some current favorites: House, Life, Bones, Reaper, Dirty Sexy Money, Journeyman, Pushing Daisies, Lost.....

Love HD.

Love watching the Red Sox. Out of a 162 game season, Nora and I watch virtually all of 140 of 'em, chunks of another dozen. Highlights of the rest, of course, plus pre-game and (often) post-game coverage too.

All in HD, of course.

Favorite Books / Authors: Mark Twain

Favorite Bands / Musicians: The Beatles, Sufjan Stevens, Pinback, Joni Mitchell, Head Like A Kite, Brittle Stars, Miracle Fortress, Dream Syndicate, Yo La Tengo, The Incredible Moses Leroy, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, The Trolleyvox, Bob Dylan (the later the better), Simple Kid, Manual, The Notwist, Lali Puna, Tied & Tickled Trio, Alias, Songs of Green Pheasant, !!!, Couch, Malory, John Doe, The Sheila Divine, Boy in Static, Mission of Burma

Favorite Movies: Stranger Than Fiction (the current fave), Hard Day's Night, You Me and Everyone We Know, Grapes of Wrath, Fog of War, The Lord of the Rings (extended editions...actually, the extras are even better than the movies), Gross Pointe Blank, The Fifth Element, Night at the Opera, Jaws, What's Up Doc?

Favorite TV Shows: House, Life, Bones, Reaper, Dirty Sexy Money, Lost, The Closer, Battlestar Gallactica, Chuck, Pushing Daisies

Comments and Things Worth Noting:
Here's a quick tour through my YouTube videos:

1) Joseph Kosinski directed this amazing spot for the Xbox 360 game, World of Warcraft. The music is Gary Jules's cover of Mad World (originally Tears for Fears) that was used in the movie Donnie Darko. I get chills every time I watch this.

2) Don't like McDonald's, don't eat chicken, but this spot is a work of mad genius.

3) EDS, Herding Cats. One of my favorite commercials of all time.

4) Six of my favorite minutes from Fog of War, the Oscar-winning doc by Erroll Morris. Robert MacNamara, speaking straight into the cameara. Amazing.

5 - 8) Local promos from Fox Sports in LA. This, kids, is what rotoscoping looks like.

9) A Tribe Called Quest, "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo." Killer riff sampled from The Chambers Brothers' "Funky." Truly lightweight, but fun.

10) Ten minutes from "You, Me and Everyone We Know," a fantastic movie written, directed by and starring Miranda July. It'll take me longer to describe it than it will for you to watch the clip.

11) Chris Bliss juggling to the finale of Abbey Road. Turn it up loud.

My Recent Posts:

Re: Should have been great, bitter failure by Tim Wilson on Nov 5, 2009 at 5:51:02 pm
Re: Your thoughts on music libraries and commercials? by Tim Wilson on Nov 4, 2009 at 1:35:09 pm
Re: Your thoughts on music libraries and commercials? by Tim Wilson on Oct 31, 2009 at 3:44:23 pm
Re: Hammered by Tim Wilson on Oct 23, 2009 at 5:47:25 pm
Re: PLEASE -Suggest Best Editing Book (( No history-just the meat of where and when to cut )) by Tim Wilson on Oct 22, 2009 at 9:38:18 pm
Re: Avid Media Composer on Apple I-Mac Set Up by Tim Wilson on Oct 20, 2009 at 8:25:30 pm
Re: Pro bono vs "freebies" by Tim Wilson on Oct 16, 2009 at 11:23:02 am
Re: Post-production Case studies by Tim Wilson on Oct 14, 2009 at 5:06:03 pm
Re: Should I still charge a kill fee in this instance? by Tim Wilson on Oct 14, 2009 at 2:34:34 pm
Re: Should I still charge a kill fee in this instance? by Tim Wilson on Oct 13, 2009 at 4:58:54 am
Business as (un)usual (as possible) by Tim Wilson on Oct 12, 2009 at 1:20:09 pm
Re: I Want my DAVINCI LITE!!!! by Tim Wilson on Oct 8, 2009 at 1:08:51 pm
Re: Better Off Dead by Tim Wilson on Oct 7, 2009 at 9:30:37 pm
Re: Is this Avid worth selling? by Tim Wilson on Oct 7, 2009 at 8:47:35 pm
Re: Copycats by Tim Wilson on Oct 6, 2009 at 5:52:08 pm
Re: How to handle late charges? by Tim Wilson on Oct 6, 2009 at 1:01:36 pm
Re: Motion graphics Demo Reel by Tim Wilson on Oct 5, 2009 at 4:33:45 pm
Re: Career Advice by Tim Wilson on Oct 5, 2009 at 3:04:31 pm
Re: Showing other people's images and videos in my podcast? by Tim Wilson on Oct 5, 2009 at 2:54:35 pm
Re: Career Advice by Tim Wilson on Oct 4, 2009 at 7:37:47 pm

My Tagged Posts

Re: Hammered
by Tim Wilson on Oct 24, 2009 at 5:24:41 am
in the Business & Marketing Forum
I'm going to make some specific observations to speak to the general observation: the demographics are changing faster than you're watching. There's no hand biting here. Money talks. It's not just greed talking, either. Audiences grow when they get what...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Nick Griffin

Re: Should I still charge a kill fee in this instance?
by Tim Wilson on Oct 13, 2009 at 7:46:38 am
in the Business & Marketing Forum
I'll offer some alternative perspectives. None of this is intended as scolding, or any suggestion that you're doing the wrong thing. You're doing the best possible thing by asking. I just don't know that I'm the one to give you an...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Nick Griffin

Standardizing on standards, Re: LR format
by Tim Wilson on Oct 11, 2009 at 7:18:13 pm
in the Stereoscopic 3D Forum
[Chris Eller] "If anyone from SMPTE is reading these fora, please set the spec sooner rather than later. Thanks!" We have hundreds of SMPTE members who regularly visit these forums, including quite a few regular posters. This deserves an...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Chris Eller

Re: Career Advice
by Tim Wilson on Oct 5, 2009 at 5:04:17 am
in the Business & Marketing Forum
Best career advice EVER for 2010: keep your job. Don't sweat the rest. [David Roth Weiss] "there are only like two "Hollywood" directors who have control over the production process" I remember hearing Robert Altman say that he...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Nigel Beaumont

Starting in the mail room
by Tim Wilson on Sep 17, 2009 at 10:13:30 pm
in the Business & Marketing Forum
Y'know, I don't actually have a problem with this at all. It's one of the many ways how this industry and many others have been built. You want to become an agent? Start in the mailroom. Want to become a...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Jason Jenkins

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