Friday, May 23, 2008

the Story of W.M.Thing

This post isn't really here to give you any kind of background.
It's here to remind me of how W.M.Thing came to be.
I was doing a test. I was drawing rainbow letters for fun.
You know, orange overlapping into red, red to purple, purple to blue, blue to violet, violet to orange, etc.
I wanted my drawing to have one very long word. I didn't know any very long words.
The longest word I could spell was "Thing" and "Thing" wasn't long enough for all those colors.
So I put two letters in front of "Thing" to make it longer. "W. M. Thing" was a long enough word for me to be able to draw rainbow colors on. "W. M. Thing" would have never become a film company if my father hadn't walked into the room. "W. M. Thing," he said thoughtfully, "Is that a movie company?," I thought that "W. M. Thing" was a perfect name for a movie company.
So I lied through my teeth and said "Yes it is! There is also 'Artificial Black!'"
I said, making up another company on the fly.
It took a month or so to say that W.M.Thing made all the serious, normal, movies, and Artificial Black made the funny movies. I haven't made an Artificial Black movie in a good, long time.