Entries Categorized as 'Personal'

Name Change: Aaron Southpark

Date January 2, 2009

For our 2008 holiday card, my wife and I cracked on our family name. Click the image to see a bigger version. Daniela came up with the “Southparks” gag.

Interviewed at ActionScriptHero

Date January 2, 2009

I was recently interviewed over at ActionScriptHero.org. Truth be told, I know squat about ActionScript, but that site crosses over into my wheelhouse - Flash animation. A big thanks to Pablo “aSH” Parrado, the founder of ActionScripHero.org, for inviting me to blab about myself.

Simpson Meets His Maker

Date September 7, 2008

At this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego, I met a number of my friends and also a few of my heroes. But only one of these folks created the most famous Simpson family in the world, and I’m not talking about my parents. I was hanging out at the Spike and Mike booth [...]

Meeting Michael Eisner at the Webby Awards

Date March 3, 2008

I was at the Webby Awards in Laguna late last year, and I bumped into my pal and one-time boss, Dan Wolf, and the man we worked for back then - Michael Eisner. A photographer caught the moment and it wound up in the NYT today.

Judging at the Aniboom Awards

Date February 23, 2008

.I was invited this year to be a judge in the 2nd Annual Aniboom Awards. If you’re not already aware of Aniboom, it’s a rapidly growing user-gen animation site that’s operated out of Israel. It’s not unlike Newgrounds.com, except that they aren’t so Flash-focused.
Several Flash-animated shorts were included amongst the finalists, which I detailed [...]