Showing posts with label Artificial Black. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artificial Black. Show all posts

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.